8 best-selling race books like City of Segregation: 100 Years of Struggle for Housing in Los Angeles by Andrea Gibbons

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City of Segregation: 100 Years of Struggle for Housing in Los Angeles

By: Andrea Gibbons

4.24

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

A majestic one-hundred-year study of segregation in Los Angeles Racism has been central to the way …

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1. The Wretched of the Earth

By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha

4.32

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Fr… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"إن لجوءك إلى لُغة تكنيكيَّة معناه أنّك قرَّرتَ أن تَعُدَّ الجماهير جاهلة"

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"إن المناضل ليدرك في كثير من الأحيان أن عمله لا أن يقاتل القوى العدوة فحسب، بل كذلك حبات اليأس المتبلورة في جسم المستعمَر."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

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2. Kitchen

By: Banana Yoshimoto , Megan Backus

3.66

Format: 296 pages,

Banana Yoshimoto's novels have made her a sensation in Japan and all over the world, and Kitchen, t… read more

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Cover of The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein

3. 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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  • politics
  • race
  • history
  • nonfiction
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4. The Girls

By: Emma Cline

3.48

Format: 93 pages, Hardcover

Northern California, during the violent end of the 1960s. At the start of summer, a lonely and thou… read more

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5. City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965

By: Kelly Lytle Hernández

4.80

Format: None pages,

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  • politics
  • race
  • history
  • nonfiction
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6. Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

By: Eduardo Galeano , Cedric Belfrage

4.31

Format: 317 pages, Paperback

Since its U.S. debut almost fifty years ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for histori… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Bolivians die with rotted lungs so that the world may consume cheap tin."

-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

"Whatever Latin America sells—raw materials or manufactures—its chief export product is really cheap labor."

-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

"Cuando el Estado se hace dueño de la principal riqueza de un país, corresponde preguntarse quién es el dueño del Estado."

-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

"Cuanto más codiciado por el mercado mundial, mayor es la desgracia que un producto trae consigo al pueblo latinoamericano que, con su sacrificio, lo crea."

-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

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7. El Llano en llamas

By: Juan Rulfo

4.47

Format: None pages,

'The Burning Plain and Other Stories consists of fifteen pieces ranging from brief anecdotes, casua… read more

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8. The Brothers Karamazov

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky

4.37

Format: 796 pages, Paperback

The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry… read more

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"How good life is when one does something good and just!"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

"Forgive me... for my love - for ruining you with my love."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

"Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

"What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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

By: Ruth Wilson Gilmore

3.75

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

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10. City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles

By: Mike Davis

3.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

The hidden story of L.A. Mike Davis shows us where the city's money comes from and who controls it … read more

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11. Erasure

By: Percival Everett

3.62

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

"Thelonious (Monk) Ellison has never allowed race to define his identity. But as both a writer and … read more

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12. Black Skin, White Masks

By: Frantz Fanon , None

2.56

Format: 201 pages, Paperback

A major influence on international civil rights, anticolonial, and black consciousness movement, Bl… read more

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13. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

By: Cornel West , Angela Y. Davis , Frank Barat

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Ange… read more

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14. A Girl's Story

By: Annie Ernaux

3.89

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Another masterpiece of remembering from Annie Ernau… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Un été immense comme ils le sont tous jusqu'à vingt-cinq ans"

-Annie Ernaux, A Girl's Story

"Everywhere on earth, with every day that dawns, a woman stands surrounded by men ready to throw stones at her."

-Annie Ernaux, A Girl's Story

"At this very moment, out in the streets, the open spaces, on the metro, in lecture halls, and inside millions of heads, millions of novels are being written chapter by chapter, erased and revised, an…"

-Annie Ernaux, A Girl's Story

"Aucun autre projet d’écriture ne me paraît, non pas lumineux, ni nouveau, encore moins heureux, mais vital, capable de me faire vivre au-dessus du temps. Juste « profiter de la vie » est une perspect…"

-Annie Ernaux, A Girl's Story

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15. If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

By: Vincent Bevins

4.28

Format: 337 pages, Hardcover

The story of the recent uprisings that sought to change the world - and what comes next   From 20… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"In the history of revolutions, a couple of truisms had already emerged. One is that they are only successful when security forces defect or are defeated in violent conflict. Even if Moa Zedong was be…"

-Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

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16. Monstrilio

By: Gerardo Sámano Córdova

4.14

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A literary horror debut about a boy who transforms into a monster, a monster who tries to be a man,… read more

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"The world was scary. Worse, I was scary in it."

-Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Monstrilio

"I wanted him to snap, to finally and absolutely lose it. To break. He was withering. To wither is not the same as to break; to break is to have pieces to put back together, and to wither is to dry up…"

-Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Monstrilio

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17. Wandering Stars

By: Tommy Orange

3.89

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more

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"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"

-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars

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18. Klara and the Sun

By: Kazuo Ishiguro

3.75

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

From her place in the store, Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, … read more

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19. Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World

By: Malcolm Harris

3.90

Format: 720 pages, Hardcover

The first comprehensive, global history of Silicon Valley, from railroad capitalists to microchip a… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
Cover of The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality by Amanda Montell

20. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

By: Amanda Montell

3.54

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blen… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"While magical thinking is an age-old quirk, overthinking feels distinct to the modern era—a product of our innate superstitions clashing with information overload, mass loneliness, and a capitalistic…"

-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

"Information transmission research suggests that folks with higher anxiety are quicker to engage with, and slower to disengage from, negative information; so "as a trait and state," anxiety itself per…"

-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

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21. Open Throat

By: Henry Hoke

4.01

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A lonely, lovable, queer mountain lion narrates this star-making fever dream of a novel. A quee… read more

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Cover of Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else) by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

22. 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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  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"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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23. Washington Bullets

By: Vijay Prashad

4.40

Format: 162 pages, Paperback

Washington Bullets is written in the best traditions of Marxist journalism and history-writing. It … read more

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  • politics
  • race
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib

24. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

By: Hanif Abdurraqib

4.40

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James—f… read more

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  • race
  • nonfiction
"Heartbreak itself is a primary color. Stagnant without a series of secondary colors to activate it. Longing is an activator."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

"With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

"It is a strange miracle to be able to trace your own aging, your own mortality through someone who's living alongside you, someone who has survived eras at the same time as you have in some of the sa…"

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

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25. Bad Cree

By: Jessica Johns

3.92

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover

In this gripping debut tinged with supernatural horror, a young Cree woman's dreams lead her on a p… read more

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"On cloudless days I swear the prairies are closer to the sun than anywhere else in the world. Not because of the heat. It's the size of the floating orb when nothing else is around it. Beating like a…"

-Jessica Johns, Bad Cree

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26. Death in Her Hands

By: Ottessa Moshfegh

3.24

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover

A novel of haunting metaphysical suspense about an elderly widow whose life is upturned when she fi… read more

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"When you die, leave not a trace. Sweep up any evidence of your existence."

-Ottessa Moshfegh, Death in Her Hands

"How did people go on with their lives as though death weren't all around them?"

-Ottessa Moshfegh, Death in Her Hands

"Suspicion invites danger, doesn't it? Keep the imagination soft and happy, and only good things will come."

-Ottessa Moshfegh, Death in Her Hands

"But people lied all the time. It was a part of what kept us whole as individuals. A little lying never hurt anybody. It kept the bounds of what one person was distinct from what another person was."

-Ottessa Moshfegh, Death in Her Hands

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27. Little Rot

By: Akwaeke Emezi

3.67

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling new novel from the bestselling, award-winning Akwaeke Emezi, about five friends trying … read more

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28. We Too: Essays on Sex Work and Survival

By: Natalie West

4.50

Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition

This collection of narrative essays by sex workers presents a crystal-clear rejoinder: there's neve… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Fire This Time: The Watts Uprising and the 1960s by Gerald Horne

29. Fire This Time: The Watts Uprising and the 1960s

By: Gerald Horne

4.05

Format: 452 pages, Paperback

In August 1965 the predominantly black neighborhood of Watts in Los Angeles erupted in flames and v… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
Cover of City of Segregation: 100 Years of Struggle for Housing in Los Angeles by Andrea Gibbons

30. City of Segregation: 100 Years of Struggle for Housing in Los Angeles

By: Andrea Gibbons

4.24

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

A majestic one-hundred-year study of segregation in Los Angeles Racism has been central to the way … read more

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  • race
  • history
  • class
  • politics
  • urban studies
  • urban planning
  • nonfiction
  • urban
  • cities
  • sociology
Cover of Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis by Tracy Rosenthal

31. Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis

By: Tracy Rosenthal

4.57

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Both a forceful polemic and a practical guide, Abolish Rent takes aim at one of the foremost engine… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction

10 Top history books like City of Segregation: 100 Years of Struggle for Housing in Los Angeles by Andrea Gibbons

Transform Your Habits

The Wretched of the Earth

Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha

4.32

Transform Your Habits

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

Richard Rothstein

2.89

City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965

Kelly Lytle Hernández

4.80

Transform Your Habits

Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

Eduardo Galeano , Cedric Belfrage

4.31

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The Stranger

Albert Camus , Matthew Ward , Stuart Gilbert , None

4.02

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Dead Souls

Nikolai Gogol , Robert A. Maguire

3.98

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The Plague

Albert Camus , Stuart Gilbert

4.02

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Don Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra , Roberto González Echevarría , John Rutherford

3.66

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