18 must-read social justice books like Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership (Justice, Power, and Politics) by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

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Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership (Justice, Power, and Politics)

By: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

4.27

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

By the late 1960s and early 1970s, reeling from a wave of urban uprisings, politicians finally work…

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1. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

By: Walter Rodney , Vincent Harding

4.42

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

The decisiveness of the short period of colonialism and its negative consequences for Africa spring… read more

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"It was economics that Europe should invest in Africa and control the continent's raw materials and labour. It was racism which confirmed the decision that form of control should be direct colonial ru…"

-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

"On any basic figure of the Africans landed alive in the Americas, one would have to make several extensions- starting with a calculation to cover mortality in transshipment. The Atlantic crossing, or…"

-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

"There was a period when the capitalist system increased the well-being of significant numbers of people as a by-product of seeking out profits for a few, but today the quests for profits comes into s…"

-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

"Governor Cameroon of Tanganyika in the 1920s was known as a "progressive" governor. But when he was attacked for trying to preserve the African personality in the educational system, he denied the ch…"

-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

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2. Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party

By: Joshua Bloom , Waldo E. Martin Jr.

4.46

Format: 552 pages, Hardcover

In Oakland, California, in 1966, community college students Bobby Seale and Huey Newton armed thems… read more

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3. Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics

By: Kim Phillips-Fein

4.21

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST An epic, riveting history of New York City on the edge of disaster―and an … read more

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4. 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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5. Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California

By: Ruth Wilson Gilmore

3.75

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

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6. Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present

By: Harriet A. Washington

0.00

Format: 126 pages, Hardcover

From the era of slavery to the present day, the first full history of black America's shocking mist… read more

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7. Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law

By: None

4.67

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

Nazism triumphed in Germany during the high era of Jim Crow laws in the United States. Did the Amer… read more

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8. An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)

By: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

4.37

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples Today in… read more

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"Of a thousand Red Stick and allied insurgents, eight hundred were killed. [Andrew] Jackson lost forty-nine men."

-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)

"Once elected president, Jackson lost no time in initiating the removal of all Indigenous farmers and the destruction of all their towns in the South."

-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)

"[Theodore] Roosevelt referred to [Emilio] Aguinaldo as a "renegade Pawnee" and observed that Filipinos did not have the right to govern their country just because they happened to occupy it."

-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)

"The establishment of the missions and presidios from San Diego and Los Angeles and Santa Barbara to Carmel, San Francisco, and Sonoma, traces the colonization of California's Indigenous nations. The …"

-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)

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9. White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America

By: Anthea Butler

4.27

Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition

The American political scene today is poisonously divided, and the vast majority of white evangelic… read more

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10. The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide

By: Steven W. Thrasher

4.22

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From preeminent LGBTQ scholar, social critic, and journalist Steven W. Thrasher comes a powerful an… read more

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11. 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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"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

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12. The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America

By: Greg Grandin

4.29

Format: 369 pages, Hardcover

From a Pulitzer Prize winner, a new and eye-opening interpretation of the meaning of the frontier, … read more

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"Having been born into a large litter and raised, as one republican put it, in a shared New World household, Spanish American nations were socialized at an early age. The United States, in contrast, w…"

-Greg Grandin, The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America

"Taking Texas, Adams feared, would lock in the worldview that Jackson represented. The country was already fighting what Adams considered a perpetual war on Native Americans, a crusade that Jacksonian…"

-Greg Grandin, The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America

"In other words, the United States won independence from Great Britain in a revolutionary war that was, among other reasons, fought to deny Great Britain the right to establish a western border; then,…"

-Greg Grandin, The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America

"The Confederate flag stopped flying as the pennant of reconciliation, the joining of the southern military tradition to northern establishment might to spread Americanism abroad. It now was the banne…"

-Greg Grandin, The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America

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13. Plunder: Private Equity's Plan to Pillage America

By: Brendan Ballou

4.08

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The authoritative exposé of private what it is, how it kills businesses and jobs, how the governme… read more

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14. Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

By: Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

4.00

Format: 157 pages, Paperback

A powerful indictment of the ways elites have co-opted radical critiques of racial capitalism to se… read more

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"A philosopher Briana Toole clarifies, by itself, one's social location only puts a person in a position to know; 'epistemic privilege' or advantage, on the other hand, is achieved only through delibe…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"Elites do often make the environment worse and block solutions, but to blame the problem of elite capture entirely on their moral successes and failures is to confuse effect for cause. The true probl…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"To opt for deference, rather than interdependence, may soothe short-term psychological wounds. But it does so at a steep cost: it may undermine the goals that motivated the project--and it entrenches…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"As Carter G. Woodson realized, many of our decisions are shaped by decisions that someone with more power made before us. The whole social structure affects how institutional systems, like schools, f…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

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15. Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains

By: Alexa Hagerty

4.47

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An anthropologist working with forensic teams and victims' families to investigate crimes against h… read more

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Cover of The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves by J.B. MacKinnon

16. The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves

By: J.B. MacKinnon

4.20

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Consuming less is our best strategy for saving the planet—but can we do it? In this thoughtful and … read more

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"We can't stop shopping, we must stop shopping. It isn't only that consumption is distorting the climate, felling the forests, cluttering out lives, filling our heads with a throwaway mindset, even st…"

-J.B. MacKinnon, The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves

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17. The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap

By: Mehrsa Baradaran

4.47

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

“Read this book. It explains so much about the moment…Beautiful, heartbreaking work.” ―Ta-Nehisi Co… read more

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"Perhaps because the bank was identified with the endeavors of the newly freed negro, wrote historians Kindsor and Sagarin, anyone who dared to raise a cry against the mismanagement was charged with b…"

-Mehrsa Baradaran, The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap

"The scheme began to unravel following the Panic of 1873 when railroad investments failed. The bank experienced several runs at the height of the panic. The panic would not have affected the bank if i…"

-Mehrsa Baradaran, The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap

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18. Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)

By: Dean Spade

4.38

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

Mutual aid is the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world. Around… read more

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"In the context of professionalized nonprofit organizations, groups are urged to be single-issue oriented, framing their message around "deserving" people within the population they serve, and using t…"

-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)

"When we feel bad, we often automatically decide that either we are bad or another person is bad. Both of these moves cause damage and distort the truth, which is that we are all navigating difficult …"

-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)

"Burnout is the combination of resentment, exhaustion, shame, and frustration that make us lose connection to pleasure and passion in the work, and instead encounter difficult feelings like avoidance,…"

-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)

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19. Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet

By: Taylor Lorenz

3.62

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Acclaimed Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz presents a groundbreaking social history of the in… read more

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Cover of Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care by Kelly Hayes

20. Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care

By: Kelly Hayes

4.64

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Let T… read more

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21. Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership (Justice, Power, and Politics)

By: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

4.27

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

By the late 1960s and early 1970s, reeling from a wave of urban uprisings, politicians finally work… read more

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Cover of A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida (Historical Studies of Urban America) by Nathan Daniel Beau Connolly

22. A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida (Historical Studies of Urban America)

By: Nathan Daniel Beau Connolly

4.29

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

Many people characterize urban renewal projects and the power of eminent domain as two of the most … read more

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Cover of Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions: A Novel in Interlocking Stories by Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi

23. Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions: A Novel in Interlocking Stories

By: Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi

3.99

Format: 238 pages, Hardcover

6 hrs. 10 min. Nigerian author Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi makes her American debut with this dazzling… read more

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Cover of The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans—And How We Can Fix It by Dorothy A. Brown

24. The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans—And How We Can Fix It

By: Dorothy A. Brown

4.28

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking exposé of racism in the American taxation system from a law professor and expert o… read more

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"Once again, a single sentence would hold the key. I found it in The Economic Status of Black Women: An Exploratory Investigation, a 1990 staff report of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights: On averag…"

-Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans—And How We Can Fix It

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25. Decolonial Marxism: Essays from the Pan-African Revolution

By: Walter Rodney

4.52

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A previously unpublished collection of Rodney's essays on Marxism, spanning his engagement with of … read more

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Cover of America On Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s by Elizabeth Hinton

26. America On Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s

By: Elizabeth Hinton

4.22

Format: 396 pages, Hardcover

What began in spring 2020 as local protests in response to the killing of George Floyd by Minneapol… read more

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Cover of Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns by Gregg Colburn

27. Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns

By: Gregg Colburn

4.23

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

Using rich and detailed data, this groundbreaking book explains why homelessness has become a crisi… read more

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28. Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor

By: Kim Kelly

4.20

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A 2022 New Yorker Best Book of the Year A 2022 Esquire Best Nonfiction Book of the Year A 2022 Buzz… read more

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29. Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America

By: Conor Dougherty

4.07

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A stunning, deeply reported investigation into the housing crisis Spacious and affordable homes… read more

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30. How the Suburbs Were Segregated: Developers and the Business of Exclusionary Housing, 1890-1960

By: Paige Glotzer

4.14

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The story of the rise of the segregated suburb often begins during the New Deal and the Second Worl… read more

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Cover of Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People―and the Fight to Resist It by Ari Berman

31. Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People―and the Fight to Resist It

By: Ari Berman

4.37

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A riveting account of the decades-long effort by reactionary white conservatives to undermine democ… read more

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