8 Best social justice books like WITNESSING WHITENESS:FIRST STEPS TOWARD: First Steps Toward an Antiracist Practice and Culture by Shelly Tochluk

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WITNESSING WHITENESS:FIRST STEPS TOWARD: First Steps Toward an Antiracist Practice and Culture

By: Shelly Tochluk

3.91

Format: 356 pages, Paperback

Witnessing Whiteness invites educators to consider what it means to be white, describes and critiqu…

If you liked the social justice plot in WITNESSING WHITENESS:FIRST STEPS TOWARD: First Steps Toward an Antiracist Practice and Culture by Shelly Tochluk , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. Between the World and Me

By: Ta-Nehisi Coates

4.40

Format: 152 pages, Hardcover

“This is your country, this is your world, this is your body, and you must find some way to live wi… read more

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  • politics
  • race
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
"Soft or hard, love was an act of heroism."

-Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

"My work is to give you what I know of my own particular path while allowing you to walk your own."

-Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

"I would not have you descend into your own dream. I would have you be a conscious citizen of this terrible and beautiful world."

-Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

"You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable."

-Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

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2. Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman

By: Lindy West

2.62

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Coming of age in a culture that demands women be as small, quiet, and compliant as possible--like a… read more

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  • nonfiction
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3. Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker

By: Jennifer Chiaverini

3.47

Format: 185 pages, Hardcover

In Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker, novelist Jennifer Chiaverini presents a stunning account of the frien… read more

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4. "Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?": A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial Identity

By: Beverly Daniel Tatum

4.37

Format: None pages, Paperback

The classic, bestselling book on the psychology of racism-now fully revised and updated Walk into … read more

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5. The Quest for Cosmic Justice

By: Thomas Sowell

4.33

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

This is not a comforting book -- it is a book about disturbing issues that are urgently important t… read more

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6. Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War

By: Tony Horwitz

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A New York TimesNotable Book for 2011 A Library Journal Top Ten Best Books of 2011 A Boston GlobeBe… read more

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7. 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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  • race
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • anti racist
"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)

8. Sula

By: Toni Morrison

3.97

Format: None pages,

This rich and moving novel traces the lives of two black heroines from their close-knit childhood i… read more

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9. 10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works

By: Dan Harris

3.99

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

After having a nationally televised panic attack on Good Morning America, Dan Harris knew he had to… read more

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10. 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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11. Biography of X

By: Catherine Lacey

3.85

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From one of our fiercest stylists, a roaring epic chronicling the life, times, and secrets of a not… read more

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"One of the armed guards smiled and said, “God bless,"

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

"Who can say who I are, how many I are, which I is the most I of my I’s?"

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

"She could not hurt me. I had no more space, at the time, to hold any new hurts."

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

"She kept losing track of the people she loved, and losing track of herself along with them."

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

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12. Finding Me

By: Viola Davis

4.55

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In my book, you will meet a little girl named Viola who ran from her past until she made a life-cha… read more

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  • race
  • nonfiction
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13. All In: An Autobiography

By: Billie Jean King

4.32

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

An inspiring and intimate self-portrait of a champion of equality that encompasses her brilliant te… read more

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  • nonfiction
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14. Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic-and What We Can Do About It

By: Jennifer Breheny Wallace

4.17

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The definitive book on the rise of “toxic achievement cultu… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • education
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15. 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
"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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16. Concrete Rose (The Hate U Give, #0)

By: Angie Thomas

4.39

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

International phenomenon Angie Thomas revisits Garden Heights seventeen years before the events of … read more

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  • race
  • social justice
"So is Iesha."

-Angie Thomas, Concrete Rose (The Hate U Give, #0)

"Roses can bloom in the hardest conditions."

-Angie Thomas, Concrete Rose (The Hate U Give, #0)

"No matter where you come from, you're always worth more than you think,"

-Angie Thomas, Concrete Rose (The Hate U Give, #0)

"Living your life based off what other people think, ain’t living at all."

-Angie Thomas, Concrete Rose (The Hate U Give, #0)

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17. We Are Not Like Them

By: Christine Pride

4.07

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Told from alternating perspectives, this novel follows two women, one Black and one white, whose fr… read more

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  • race
  • social justice
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18. White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

By: Robin DiAngelo

4.17

Format: 7 pages, Audiobook

Referring to the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially, white fragility i… read more

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  • race
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • anti racist
"I am often asked if I think the younger generation is less racist. No, I don't. In some ways, racism's adaptations over time are more sinister than concrete rules such as Jim Crow."

-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

"For those of us who work to raise the racial consciousness of whites, simply getting whites to acknowledge that our race gives us advantages is a major effort. The defensiveness, denial, and resistan…"

-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

"How can I say that if you are white, your opinions on racism are most likely ignorant, when I don't even know you? I can say so because nothing in mainstream US culture gives us the information we ne…"

-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

"Habitus maintains our social comfort and helps us regain it when those around us do not act in familiar and acceptable ways. .... Thus, white fragility is a state in which even a minimum amount of ra…"

-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

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19. The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism

By: Jemar Tisby

4.49

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In August of 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech, calling on… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • race
  • anti racist
  • social justice
"Throughout the course of US history, when Christians had the opportunity to decisively oppose the racism in their midst, all too often, they chose silence. They chose passivity. The refusal to act…"

-Jemar Tisby, The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism

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20. Neurodiversity and the Myth of Normal

By: Kyler Shumway

3.77

Format: 4 pages, Audible Audio

We’ve all been told, at one point or another, to "just be yourself." Whether you are starting schoo… read more

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  • nonfiction
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21. WITNESSING WHITENESS:FIRST STEPS TOWARD: First Steps Toward an Antiracist Practice and Culture

By: Shelly Tochluk

3.91

Format: 356 pages, Paperback

Witnessing Whiteness invites educators to consider what it means to be white, describes and critiqu… read more

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  • politics
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  • anti racist

5 must-read politics books like WITNESSING WHITENESS:FIRST STEPS TOWARD: First Steps Toward an Antiracist Practice and Culture by Shelly Tochluk

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Between the World and Me

Ta-Nehisi Coates

4.40

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

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

4.37

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How to Be an Antiracist

Ibram X. Kendi

4.37

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White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

Robin DiAngelo

4.17

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Mona Awad

3.56

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Eliza Clark

3.90

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Miranda July

3.81

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Marie-Helene Bertino

4.15

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