18 Top race books like Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm by Robin DiAngelo

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Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm

By: Robin DiAngelo

3.96

Format: 220 pages, Kindle Edition

In Nice Racism, her follow-up work to White Fragility, the author draws on her background as a soci…

"…every moment that I spend in white space reinforces in me a particular (and limited) worldview and experience. But the deeper message being reinforced is that we lose nothing of value by living in segregation. In fact, the white the space is, the more likely it is to be perceived as “good"

-Robin DiAngelo, Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm

"…every moment that I spend in white space reinforces in me a particular (and limited) worldview and experience. But the deeper message being reinforced is that we lose nothing of value by living in segregation. In fact, the white the space is, the more likely it is to be perceived as “good"

-Robin DiAngelo, Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm

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1. Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America

By: Michael Eric Dyson

4.31

Format: 228 pages, Hardcover

Short, emotional, literary, powerful―Tears We Cannot Stop is the book that all Americans who care a… read more

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  • race
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • anti racist
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"Justice is what love sounds like when it speaks in public."

-Michael Eric Dyson, Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America

"The status quo always favors neutrality which in truth is never neutral at all but supports those who stand against change."

-Michael Eric Dyson, Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America

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

By: Ibram X. Kendi

4.54

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

In this deeply researched and fast-moving narrative, Kendi chronicles the entire story of anti-Blac… read more

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  • race
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • anti racist
  • sociology
  • audiobook
Cover of Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality by Tomiko Brown-Nagin

3. Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality

By: Tomiko Brown-Nagin

4.38

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

The first major biography of one of our most influential but least known judicial activists that pr… read more

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  • race
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
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4. The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story

By: Nikole Hannah-Jones

4.62

Format: 590 pages, Hardcover

The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a revealing vision of the American past and present. … read more

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  • race
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
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5. 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

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6. 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

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7. Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America

By: Ijeoma Oluo

4.41

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race, a history of white… read more

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  • race
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • anti racist
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"It's the expectations that many white men have that they shouldn't have to climb, shouldn't have to struggle, as others do. It's the idea not only that they think they have less than others, but that…"

-Ijeoma Oluo, Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America

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8. Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland

By: Jonathan M. Metzl

4.10

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

A physician reveals how right-wing backlash policies have mortal consequences—even for the white vo… read more

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  • race
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • anti racist
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"It's a narrative about how "whiteness" becomes a formation worth living and dying for, and how, in myriad ways and on multiple levels, white Americans bet their lives on particular sets of meanings a…"

-Jonathan M. Metzl, Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland

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9. Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor

By: Layla F. Saad

4.34

Format: 238 pages, Hardcover

Me and White Supremacy teaches readers how to dismantle the privilege within themselves so that the… read more

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  • race
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • activism
  • anti racist
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"You do not have to be the loudest voice. But you do need to use your voice."

-Layla F. Saad, Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor

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10. So You Want to Talk About Race

By: Ijeoma Oluo

4.49

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

In this breakout book, Ijeoma Oluo explores the complex reality of today's racial landscape--from w… read more

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  • race
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • adult
  • anti racist
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"Conversations on racism should never be about winning."

-Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race

"Our humanity is worth a little discomfort, it's actually worth a lot of discomfort."

-Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race

"Our police forces were created not to protect Americans of color, but to control Americans of color."

-Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race

"When we say ‘Asian American’ we are talking about so much more than can be fit in a single stereotype."

-Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race

Cover of The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America by Carol  Anderson

11. The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America

By: Carol Anderson

4.33

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of White Rage, an unflinching, critical new look at the … read more

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  • race
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • activism
  • anti racist
  • sociology
Cover of Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal by Bettina L. Love

12. Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal

By: Bettina L. Love

4.41

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

“I am an eighties baby who grew to hate school. I never fully understood why. Until now. Until Bett… read more

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  • race
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • adult
  • anti racist
  • audiobook
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13. How to Raise an Antiracist

By: Ibram X. Kendi

4.41

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The book that every parent, caregiver, and teacher needs to raise the next generation of antiracist… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • adult
  • anti racist
  • audiobook
"To raise an antiracist is to raise a critical thinker. And to raise a critical thinker is to raise an antiracist."

-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Raise an Antiracist

"Caregivers must model a critical home, a critical classroom, a critical community, for kids to defy and question everything that’s questionable."

-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Raise an Antiracist

"Literacy is not an end. Literacy should be taught as a means to critical thinking. Knowledge isn't an end. Knowledge is a means to critical thinking. The smartest student is not the student who is th…"

-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Raise an Antiracist

"Instead of calling these IB and AP courses "gifted" classes, I call them privileged classes. The students in the classes are privileged. Colleges give preferential treatment to students who take thes…"

-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Raise an Antiracist

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

14. 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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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • activism
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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15. The Patriarchs: The Origins of Inequality

By: Angela Saini

3.99

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking exploration of gendered oppression—its origins, its histories, our attempts to und… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
Cover of Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma, and Politicizing Your Practice by Jennifer Mullan

16. Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma, and Politicizing Your Practice

By: Jennifer Mullan

4.48

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

A call to action for therapists to politicize their practice through an emotional decolonial lens. … read more

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  • race
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • anti racist
  • audiobook
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17. Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm

By: Robin DiAngelo

3.96

Format: 220 pages, Kindle Edition

In Nice Racism, her follow-up work to White Fragility, the author draws on her background as a soci… read more

Similar categories in Robin DiAngelo's Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm book and Robin DiAngelo's Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm

  • race
  • politics
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • activism
  • adult
  • anti racist
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"…every moment that I spend in white space reinforces in me a particular (and limited) worldview and experience. But the deeper message being reinforced is that we lose nothing of value by living in s…"

-Robin DiAngelo, Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm

Cover of Those Who Saw the Sun: African American Oral Histories from the Jim Crow South by Jaha Nailah Avery

18. Those Who Saw the Sun: African American Oral Histories from the Jim Crow South

By: Jaha Nailah Avery

4.42

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The past is not past. We may think something ancient history, or something that doesn’t affect our … read more

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  • politics
  • race
  • nonfiction
"Jim Crow wasn't nothing but slavery, wrapped up in a nice little gift card." -Rev. John Kennard"

-Jaha Nailah Avery, Those Who Saw the Sun: African American Oral Histories from the Jim Crow South

Cover of How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide by Crystal Marie Fleming

19. How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide

By: Crystal Marie Fleming

4.29

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

How to Be Less Stupid About Race is your essential guide to breaking through the half-truths and ri… read more

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  • race
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • adult
  • anti racist
  • sociology
  • audiobook
Cover of Millie Fleur's Poison Garden by Christy Mandin

20. Millie Fleur's Poison Garden

By: Christy Mandin

4.46

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Wednesday Addams meets The Curious Garden in this delightfully peculiar story about finding joy in … read more

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21. The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy: and the Path to a Shared American Future

By: Robert P. Jones

4.55

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Taking the story of white supremacy in America back to 1493, and examining contemporary communities… read more

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5 Top adult books like Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm by Robin DiAngelo

Transform Your Habits

So You Want to Talk About Race

Ijeoma Oluo

4.49

Transform Your Habits

Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal

Bettina L. Love

4.41

Transform Your Habits

How to Raise an Antiracist

Ibram X. Kendi

4.41

Transform Your Habits

Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm

Robin DiAngelo

3.96

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5 Top essays books like So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

Transform Your Habits

Between the World and Me

Ta-Nehisi Coates

4.40

Transform Your Habits

Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower

Brittney Cooper

4.43

Transform Your Habits

The Fire Next Time

James Baldwin

3.54

Transform Your Habits

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

Mikki Kendall

4.37

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