8 must-read social justice books like The White Bonus: Five Families and the Cash Value of Racism in America by Tracie McMillan

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The White Bonus: Five Families and the Cash Value of Racism in America

By: Tracie McMillan

3.72

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A genre-bending work of journalism and memoir by award-winning writer Tracie McMillan tallies the c…

If you liked the social justice plot in The White Bonus: Five Families and the Cash Value of Racism in America by Tracie McMillan , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life

By: Lyz Lenz

3.99

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A manifesto on the gender politics of marriage (bad) and divorce (actually pretty good!) in America… read more

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  • nonfiction
"So much of our culture depicts young girls dreaming about their weddings. But every middle-aged woman I know dreams about living alone in the woods, maybe with a dog."

-Lyz Lenz, This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life

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2. The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church

By: Sarah McCammon

4.21

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

The first definitive book that names the massive social movement of people leaving the white evange… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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3. Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos

By: Lisa Kaltenegger

4.08

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Riveting and timely, a look at the research that is transforming our understanding of the cosmos in… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Kaltenegger's Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos book and Tracie McMillan's The White Bonus: Five Families and the Cash Value of Racism in America

  • nonfiction
  • history
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4. 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

Similar categories in Thomas F. Schaller's White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy book and Tracie McMillan's The White Bonus: Five Families and the Cash Value of Racism in America

  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • economics
  • sociology
Cover of Selling the Dream: The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans by Jane Marie

5. Selling the Dream: The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans

By: Jane Marie

3.78

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Peabody and Emmy Award–winning journalist Jane Marie expands on her popular podcast The Dream to ex… read more

Similar categories in Jane Marie's Selling the Dream: The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans book and Tracie McMillan's The White Bonus: Five Families and the Cash Value of Racism in America

  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • history
  • sociology
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6. Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America

By: Barbara McQuade

4.15

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An urgent, comprehensive explanation of the ways disinformation is impacting democracy, and practic… read more

Similar categories in Barbara McQuade's Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America book and Tracie McMillan's The White Bonus: Five Families and the Cash Value of Racism in America

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • sociology
Cover of When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day by Garrett M. Graff

7. When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day

By: Garrett M. Graff

4.59

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Plane in the Sky and Pulitzer Prize finalist… read more

Similar categories in Garrett M. Graff's When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day book and Tracie McMillan's The White Bonus: Five Families and the Cash Value of Racism in America

  • nonfiction
  • history
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8. Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Really Think About Race and Identity

By: Michele Norris

4.62

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

Peabody Award–winning journalist Michele Norris offers a transformative dialogue on race and identi… read more

Similar categories in Michele Norris's Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Really Think About Race and Identity book and Tracie McMillan's The White Bonus: Five Families and the Cash Value of Racism in America

  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • sociology
"Racism is a shape-shifter. It is not the same thing today as it was yesterday, and it will not be the same tomorrow or ten years from now. That’s shorthand for the academic definition that describes …"

-Michele Norris, Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Really Think About Race and Identity

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9. The Uptown Local: Joy, Death, and Joan Didion: A Memoir

By: Cory Leadbeater

3.70

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant debut memoir about a young writer—struggling with depression, family issues, and addict… read more

Similar categories in Cory Leadbeater's The Uptown Local: Joy, Death, and Joan Didion: A Memoir book and Tracie McMillan's The White Bonus: Five Families and the Cash Value of Racism in America

  • nonfiction
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10. The White Bonus: Five Families and the Cash Value of Racism in America

By: Tracie McMillan

3.72

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A genre-bending work of journalism and memoir by award-winning writer Tracie McMillan tallies the c… read more

Similar categories in Tracie McMillan's The White Bonus: Five Families and the Cash Value of Racism in America book and Tracie McMillan's The White Bonus: Five Families and the Cash Value of Racism in America

  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • economics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • anti racist
  • sociology
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11. Another Word for Love: A Memoir

By: Carvell Wallace

4.35

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A transformative memoir that reimagines the conventions of love and posits a radical vision for hea… read more

Similar categories in Carvell Wallace's Another Word for Love: A Memoir book and Tracie McMillan's The White Bonus: Five Families and the Cash Value of Racism in America

  • race
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
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12. Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against "The Apocalypse"

By: Emily Raboteau

4.15

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author and critic Emily Raboteau uses the lens of motherhood to craft a powerfully mo… read more

Similar categories in Emily Raboteau's Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against "The Apocalypse" book and Tracie McMillan's The White Bonus: Five Families and the Cash Value of Racism in America

  • politics
  • race
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
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13. The Klansman’s Son: My Journey from White Nationalism to Antiracism

By: R. Derek Black

4.11

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the former heir-apparent to white nationalism, The Klansman’s Son is an astonishing memoir of … read more

Similar categories in R. Derek Black's The Klansman’s Son: My Journey from White Nationalism to Antiracism book and Tracie McMillan's The White Bonus: Five Families and the Cash Value of Racism in America

  • politics
  • race
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Rift: A Memoir of Breaking Away from Christian Patriarchy by Cait West

14. Rift: A Memoir of Breaking Away from Christian Patriarchy

By: Cait West

4.14

Format: 252 pages, Hardcover

A gripping memoir about coming of age in the stay-at-home daughter movement and the quest to piece … read more

Similar categories in Cait West's Rift: A Memoir of Breaking Away from Christian Patriarchy book and Tracie McMillan's The White Bonus: Five Families and the Cash Value of Racism in America

  • nonfiction
Cover of The Fall of Roe: The Rise of a New America by Elizabeth Dias

15. The Fall of Roe: The Rise of a New America

By: Elizabeth Dias

4.53

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

From two top New York Times journalists, the breathtaking untold story of the plan to overturn Roe … read more

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  • politics
  • social justice
  • history
  • nonfiction
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16. I Finally Bought Some Jordans: Essays

By: Michael Arceneaux

3.81

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

New York Times bestselling author Michael Arceneaux returns with a hilarious collection of essays a… read more

Similar categories in Michael Arceneaux's I Finally Bought Some Jordans: Essays book and Tracie McMillan's The White Bonus: Five Families and the Cash Value of Racism in America

  • nonfiction
Cover of Colored Television by Danzy Senna

17. Colored Television

By: Danzy Senna

3.83

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A dark comedy about second acts, creative appropriation, and the racial identity–industrial complex… read more

Similar categories in Danzy Senna's Colored Television book and Tracie McMillan's The White Bonus: Five Families and the Cash Value of Racism in America

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

18. 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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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19. Autocracy, Inc.

By: Anne Applebaum

4.28

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

Cover of Wanted: Toddler's Personal Assistant by Stephanie Kiser

20. Wanted: Toddler's Personal Assistant

By: Stephanie Kiser

3.95

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

What are the lives of America's richest families really like? Their nannies see it all… When S… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • social justice
Cover of Lovely One: A Memoir by Ketanji Brown Jackson

21. Lovely One: A Memoir

By: Ketanji Brown Jackson

4.64

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In her inspiring, intimate memoir, the first Black woman to ever be … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction

13 must-read history books like The White Bonus: Five Families and the Cash Value of Racism in America by Tracie McMillan

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The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church

Sarah McCammon

4.21

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Lisa Kaltenegger

4.08

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White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy

Thomas F. Schaller

3.82

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Selling the Dream: The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans

Jane Marie

3.78

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The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

Amanda Montell

3.54

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Sociopath: A Memoir

Patric Gagne

3.84

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Hey, Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and the Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing

Emily Lynn Paulson

3.62

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One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In

Kate Kennedy

3.78

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