13 Best nonfiction books like Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do by Jennifer L. Eberhardt

Cover of Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do by Jennifer L. Eberhardt

Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do

By: Jennifer L. Eberhardt

4.33

Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition

From one of the world's leading experts on unconscious racial bias, a personal examination of one o…

"The power of the gaze of others to define how you’re seen in the world; it can shape the scope of your life and influence how you see yourself."

-Jennifer L. Eberhardt, Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do

"The process of making these connections is called bias. It can happen unintentionally. It can happen unconsciously. It can happen effortlessly. And it can happen in a matter of milliseconds. These associations can take hold of us no matter our values, no matter our conscious beliefs, no matter what kind of person we wish to be in the world."

-Jennifer L. Eberhardt, Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do by Jennifer L. Eberhardt , here is a list of 13 books like this:

Cover of Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People by Mahzarin R. Banaji, Anthony G. Greenwald

1. Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People

By: Mahzarin R. Banaji , Anthony G. Greenwald

3.73

Format: 254 pages, Hardcover

“Accessible and authoritative . . . While we may not have much power to eradicate our own prejudice… read more

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  • race
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • anti racist
  • sociology
  • science
Cover of The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein

2. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

By: Richard Rothstein

2.89

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading auth… read more

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  • race
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • anti racist
Cover of You Are an Ironman: How Six Weekend Warriors Chased Their Dream of Finishing the World's Toughest Tr iathlon by Jacques Steinberg

3. You Are an Ironman: How Six Weekend Warriors Chased Their Dream of Finishing the World's Toughest Tr iathlon

By: Jacques Steinberg

4.50

Format: 290 pages,

As he did so masterfully in his New York Times bestseller The Gatekeepers, Jacques Steinberg create… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Can You Ever Forgive Me? Memoirs of a Literary Forger by Lee Israel

4. Can You Ever Forgive Me? Memoirs of a Literary Forger

By: Lee Israel

4.11

Format: 98 pages,

Before turning to the criminal life, running a onewoman forgery scam out of an Upper West Side stud… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

5. The Buffalo Creek Disaster: How the survivors of one of the worst disasters in coal-mining history brought suit against the coal company--and won

By: Gerald M. Stern

4.16

Format: 384 pages,

One Saturday morning in February 1972, an impoundment dam owned by the Pittston Coal Company burst,… read more

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6. They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement

By: Wesley Lowery

4.20

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A deeply reported book that brings alive the quest for justice in the deaths of Michael Brown, Tami… read more

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7. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

By: Michelle Alexander

3.77

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"As the United States celebrates the nation's 'triumph over race' with the election of Barack Obama… read more

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8. The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism

By: Edward E. Baptist

4.34

Format: 132 pages, Hardcover

Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution--the nation's original sin, perhaps, but… read more

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9. Born on Third Base: A One Percenter Makes the Case for Tackling Inequality, Bringing Wealth Home, and Committing to the Common Good

By: None

3.94

Format: 313 pages,

As inequality grabs headlines, steals the show in presidential debates, and drives deep divides bet… read more

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10. Poverty, by America

By: Matthew Desmond

4.27

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • social issues
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

Cover of The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather  McGhee

11. The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

By: Heather McGhee

4.63

Format: 415 pages, Hardcover

Heather McGhee's specialty is the American economy--and the mystery of why it so often fails the Am… read more

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  • race
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • anti racist
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"They have to make Americans afraid of one another. They're exploiting fear in America to sell guns."

-Heather McGhee, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

"Ultimately, an economy, the rules we abide by and set for what's fair and who merits what, is an expression of our moral understanding."

-Heather McGhee, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

"Instead of being blind to race, color blindness makes people blind to racism, unwilling to acknowledge where its effects have shaped opportunity or to use race-conscious solutions to address it."

-Heather McGhee, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

"It's often unconscious, but their perception of The Other as undeserving is so important to their perception of themselves as deserving that they'll tear apart the web that supports everyone, includi…"

-Heather McGhee, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

Cover of Quantum Energetics and Spirituality Volume 1: Aligning with Universal Consciousness by Kenneth Schmitt

12. Quantum Energetics and Spirituality Volume 1: Aligning with Universal Consciousness

By: Kenneth Schmitt

4.39

Format: 232 pages, Kindle Edition

Quantum physics has shown us the way to mastery of life in our recognition of universal consciousne… read more

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"What is real for us is what we observe and recognize. We create our own experiences by our recognition and imagination, and we modulate the energies with our emotions."

-Kenneth Schmitt, Quantum Energetics and Spirituality Volume 1: Aligning with Universal Consciousness

"The birth of quantum physics brought science and spirituality into alignment. It was the realization by physicists that photons have consciousness, and not just limited consciousness, but awareness o…"

-Kenneth Schmitt, Quantum Energetics and Spirituality Volume 1: Aligning with Universal Consciousness

"This is a quantum universe. Everything in it is part of quantum theory, and universal consciousness is the first cause of it all. Everything is electromagnetic energy, and all of the energy patterns …"

-Kenneth Schmitt, Quantum Energetics and Spirituality Volume 1: Aligning with Universal Consciousness

"When we hold health and abundance in our self-identity, we create experiences of that quality. If we choose to be attuned to the energy of our heart and feel love and compassion, we create experience…"

-Kenneth Schmitt, Quantum Energetics and Spirituality Volume 1: Aligning with Universal Consciousness

Cover of How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

13. How to Be an Antiracist

By: Ibram X. Kendi

4.37

Format: 305 pages, Hardcover

Ibram X. Kendi's concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justi… read more

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  • race
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • anti racist
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"Racist"

-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

"I use “anticapitalist"

-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

"Internalized racism is the real Black on Black crime."

-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

"But what was the difference between Ebonics and so-called “standard"

-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

Cover of White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo

14. White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

By: Robin DiAngelo

4.17

Format: 7 pages, Audiobook

Referring to the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially, white fragility i… read more

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  • race
  • politics
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • anti racist
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"I am often asked if I think the younger generation is less racist. No, I don't. In some ways, racism's adaptations over time are more sinister than concrete rules such as Jim Crow."

-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

"For those of us who work to raise the racial consciousness of whites, simply getting whites to acknowledge that our race gives us advantages is a major effort. The defensiveness, denial, and resistan…"

-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

"How can I say that if you are white, your opinions on racism are most likely ignorant, when I don't even know you? I can say so because nothing in mainstream US culture gives us the information we ne…"

-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

"Habitus maintains our social comfort and helps us regain it when those around us do not act in familiar and acceptable ways. .... Thus, white fragility is a state in which even a minimum amount of ra…"

-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

Cover of Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do by Jennifer L. Eberhardt

15. Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do

By: Jennifer L. Eberhardt

4.33

Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition

From one of the world's leading experts on unconscious racial bias, a personal examination of one o… read more

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  • science
  • race
  • politics
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • social issues
  • anti racist
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"The power of the gaze of others to define how you’re seen in the world; it can shape the scope of your life and influence how you see yourself."

-Jennifer L. Eberhardt, Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do

"The process of making these connections is called bias. It can happen unintentionally. It can happen unconsciously. It can happen effortlessly. And it can happen in a matter of milliseconds. These as…"

-Jennifer L. Eberhardt, Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do

Cover of Ready Set Connect: A Sensory Based Approach To Accelerate Communication in Autistic Children by Jessie Ginsburg

16. Ready Set Connect: A Sensory Based Approach To Accelerate Communication in Autistic Children

By: Jessie Ginsburg

4.35

Format: 170 pages, Paperback

Ready Set Connect offers you a comprehensive guide to transforming communication development in Aut… read more

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Cover of The End of Bias: A Beginning by Jessica Nordell

17. The End of Bias: A Beginning

By: Jessica Nordell

4.24

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The End of Bias is a transformative, groundbreaking exploration into how we can eradicate unintenti… read more

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  • science
  • race
  • politics
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"When we see beings as belonging to a particular group, for instance, we start to believe there's something fundamental and biological that unites all the creatures in that group, that there's some in…"

-Jessica Nordell, The End of Bias: A Beginning

Cover of Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera

18. Rakesfall

By: Vajra Chandrasekera

3.39

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Rakesfall is a groundbreaking, standalone science fiction epic about two souls bound together from … read more

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  • audiobook
"She asks the moon, who loves her, but the moon does not know."

-Vajra Chandrasekera, Rakesfall

Cover of The Joy of Work: 30 Ways to Fix Your Work Culture and Fall in Love With Your Job Again by Bruce Daisley

19. The Joy of Work: 30 Ways to Fix Your Work Culture and Fall in Love With Your Job Again

By: Bruce Daisley

3.83

Format: None pages, Hardcover

‘Bruce Daisley is on a mission to change the world of work.’ The Times For years we've been told… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • audiobook
Cover of The Warrior Heart Practice: A Simple Process to Transform Confusion into Clarity and Pain into Peace by HeatherAsh Amara

20. The Warrior Heart Practice: A Simple Process to Transform Confusion into Clarity and Pain into Peace

By: HeatherAsh Amara

4.04

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A revolutionary process based on the four chambers of the heart and rooted in Toltec wisdom that br… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
Cover of Well: What We Need to Talk About When We Talk About Health by Sandro Galea

21. Well: What We Need to Talk About When We Talk About Health

By: Sandro Galea

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In Well, physician Sandro Galea examines what Americans miss when they fixate on healthcare: health… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • social issues
  • sociology
  • science

10 must-read audiobook books like Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do by Jennifer L. Eberhardt

Transform Your Habits

You Are an Ironman: How Six Weekend Warriors Chased Their Dream of Finishing the World's Toughest Tr iathlon

Jacques Steinberg

4.50

Transform Your Habits

Can You Ever Forgive Me? Memoirs of a Literary Forger

Lee Israel

4.11

Transform Your Habits

Poverty, by America

Matthew Desmond

4.27

Transform Your Habits

The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

Heather McGhee

4.63

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Transform Your Habits

Between the World and Me

Ta-Nehisi Coates

4.40

Transform Your Habits

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

Matthew Desmond

3.37

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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

Ibram X. Kendi

4.54

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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

Isabel Wilkerson

4.53

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