Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class
By: Blair L.M. Kelley
4.48
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning historian illuminates the adversities and joys of the Black working class in Ameri…
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1. Native Speaker
By: Chang-rae Lee
3.60
Format: 404 pages, Paperback
In Native Speaker, author Chang-rae Lee introduces readers to Henry Park. Park has spent his entire… read more
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2. Let Us Descend
By: Jesmyn Ward
3.70
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From Jesmyn Ward—the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congres… read more
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- historical
- race
- audiobook
"You must leap. You must do as your people did. You must sink in order to rise."-Jesmyn Ward, Let Us Descend
3. King: A Life
By: Jonathan Eig
4.67
Format: 688 pages, Hardcover
The first full biography in decades, King mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk a… read more
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- american history
- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
4. Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America
By: Michael Harriot
4.59
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
From acclaimed columnist and political commentator Michael Harriot, a searingly smart and bitingly… read more
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- american history
- race
- history
- historical
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
5. The Blueprint
By: Rae Giana Rashad
3.88
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A captivating debut exploring power imbalances, bodily autonomy, love, and the generational legacy … read more
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- historical
- race
- audiobook
6. Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance
By: Mia Bay
4.29
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Critics' Top Book of the Year "This extraordinary book is a powerful addition t… read more
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- american history
- race
- history
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
7. Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
By: Antonia Hylton
4.27
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crowns… read more
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- race
- history
- historical
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
8. Ours
By: Phillip B. Williams
3.84
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
An epic novel set in mid-nineteenth-century America about the spiritual costs of a freedom that dem… read more
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- historical
- race
- audiobook
"In Ours, the grass that grows is sharp. It gleams at its edges, such that when the buttery light of spring falls into it, the light cries out and yellow pours slowly over the earth."-Phillip B. Williams, Ours
9. By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners
By: Margaret A. Burnham
4.31
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A paradigm-shifting investigation of Jim Crow–era violence, the legal apparatus that sustained it, … read more
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- american history
- race
- history
- historical
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
10. Medgar & Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story that Awakened America
By: Joy-Ann Reid
4.57
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The host of MSNBC’s The ReidOut and New York Times bestselling author of The Man Who Sold Amer… read more
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- american history
- race
- history
- historical
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
11. When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era
By: Donovan X. Ramsey
4.36
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A kaleidoscopic account of the crack cocaine era and a community’s ultimate resilience, told throug… read more
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- american history
- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- sociology
- audiobook
12. White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy
By: Thomas F. Schaller
3.82
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A searing portrait and damning takedown of America’s proudest citizens — who are also the least lik… read more
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- american history
- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- sociology
- audiobook
13. What a Fool Believes: A Memoir
By: Michael McDonald
4.09
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping and evocative memoir from the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer, Grammy Award–winning, platinum … read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
14. Neighbors and Other Stories
By: Diane Oliver
4.04
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A bold and haunting debut story collection that follows various characters as they navigate the day… read more
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- historical
- race
- audiobook
"Sometimes I wonder why more of us ain't dead."-Diane Oliver, Neighbors and Other Stories
"He loved them, he had to. After all, they were his, but sometimes loving became a burden. And if he had met them at the bus station, perhaps they would have become that to him."-Diane Oliver, Neighbors and Other Stories
"By giving woman the exalted position, the man takes away her freedom. By treating her like a goddess, he forces her to act like a goddess... but the man is then free to act like a human being."-Diane Oliver, Neighbors and Other Stories
"He's going to wonder why, and how are we going to tell him we're afraid of them?" Her father's hand clutched the coffee cup. "He's going to be fighting them the rest of his life. He's got to start so…"-Diane Oliver, Neighbors and Other Stories
15. 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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- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- sociology
- audiobook
16. How to Live Free in a Dangerous World: A Decolonial Memoir
By: Shayla Lawson
4.16
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
“Phenomenal.... A memoir that opens into the world, with brilliance, courage, and elegant prose....… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
17. Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class
By: Blair L.M. Kelley
4.48
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning historian illuminates the adversities and joys of the Black working class in Ameri… read more
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- american history
- race
- history
- historical
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- labor
- sociology
- audiobook
18. Ascent to Power: How Truman Emerged from Roosevelt's Shadow and Remade the World
By: David L. Roll
4.44
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
The fascinating story behind the most consequential presidential transition in US history, from Fra… read more
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- politics
- american history
- history
- nonfiction
19. Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming
By: Ava Chin
3.98
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping narrative history of the Chinese Exclusion Act through an intimate portrayal of one fami… read more
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- race
- history
- historical
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"I am trying to keep it all together -- not lashing out in anger, not bursting into tears, because what is anger, but pain masquerading as bravado?"-Ava Chin, Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming
20. Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation
By: Kris Manjapra
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A revelatory historical indictment of the long afterlife of slavery in the Atlantic world To fully … read more
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- race
- history
- historical
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- sociology
- audiobook
21. The Moment: Thoughts on the Race Reckoning That Wasn't and How We All Can Move Forward Now
By: Bakari Sellers
4.12
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of My Vanishing Country examines the modern political landsca… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
- social justice
