5 must-read sociology books like Understanding Jim Crow: Using Racist Memorabilia to Teach Tolerance and Promote Social Justice by David Pilgrim

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Understanding Jim Crow: Using Racist Memorabilia to Teach Tolerance and Promote Social Justice

By: David Pilgrim

4.50

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

For many people, especially those who came of age after landmark civil rights legislation was passe…

If you liked the sociology plot in Understanding Jim Crow: Using Racist Memorabilia to Teach Tolerance and Promote Social Justice by David Pilgrim , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. March: Book Three (March, #3)

By: Nate Powell , John Lewis , Andrew Aydin

4.65

Format: 246 pages, Paperback

Welcome to the stunning conclusion of the award-winning and best-selling MARCH trilogy. Congressman… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
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2. Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism

By: Derrick A. Bell

4.35

Format: 222 pages, Paperback

The noted civil rights activist uses allegory and historical example to present a radical vision of… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • african american
  • sociology
"Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy. Empathy foreshadows reform."

-Derrick A. Bell, Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism

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3. Look at the Birdie: Unpublished Short Fiction

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

4.29

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Look at the Birdieis a collection of fourteen previously unpublished short stories from one of the … read more

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Cover of March: Book One (March, #1) by Nate Powell, John             Lewis, Andrew Aydin

4. March: Book One (March, #1)

By: Nate Powell , John Lewis , Andrew Aydin

4.00

Format: 162 pages, Paperback

Congressman John Lewis (GA-5) is an American icon, one of the key figures of the civil rights movem… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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5. Lies My Teacher Told Me

By: James W. Loewen

3.97

Format: 112 pages,

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  • politics
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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6. The Fire Next Time

By: James Baldwin

3.54

Format: None pages, Paperback

A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Timegalvanized the nation and g… read more

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  • politics
  • race
  • history
  • nonfiction

7. White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son

By: Tim Wise

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

In White Like Me,Tim Wise offers a highly personal examination of the ways in which racial privileg… read more

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8. Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving

By: Pete Walker

3.99

Format: 512 pages,

I have Complex PTSD [Cptsd] and wrote this book from the perspective of someone who has experienced… read more

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9. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

By: Michelle Alexander

3.77

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"As the United States celebrates the nation's 'triumph over race' with the election of Barack Obama… read more

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10. Valley of the Dolls

By: Jacqueline Susann

3.42

Format: 8 pages,

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11. More Happy Than Not

By: Adam Silvera

2.83

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Part Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, part Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Un… read more

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Cover of Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 1 - The Birth of Humankind by David Vandermeulen

12. Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 1 - The Birth of Humankind

By: David Vandermeulen

4.38

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

A hardcover edition of the first volume of the graphic adaptation of Yuval Noah Harari's smash #1 N… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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13. Time Is a Mother

By: Ocean Vuong

3.94

Format: 114 pages, Hardcover

In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershoc… read more

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14. The Last White Man

By: Mohsin Hamid

3.44

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times -bestselling author of Exit West , a story of love, loss, and rediscovery i… read more

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  • race
"…the way people act around you, it changes what you are, who you are."

-Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man

"If he stayed, it would not be for them--need not be for them--but for himself. And yet each day he did stay. Bored and tense, true, but he stayed. And he discovered thereby how badly he wanted to sta…"

-Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man

"Online you could form your own opinion of what was going on and your opinion was, likely as not, different from the next person's, and there was no real way to determine which of you was right, and t…"

-Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man

"Anders knew he would soon lose his father, and that impending loss seemed more concrete now, more real, not like air but like a door or a wall, something you could bang against, bang into, and of cou…"

-Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man

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15. No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

By: Greta Thunberg

3.86

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

The groundbreaking speeches of Greta Thunberg, the young climate activist who has become the voice … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
"The real power belongs to the people."

-Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

"...But it is the sufferings of the many which pay for the luxuries of a few."

-Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

"You say that you love your children above everything else. And yet you are stealing their future."

-Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

"Those of us who are still children can’t change what you do now once we’re old enough to do something about it."

-Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

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16. Study for Obedience

By: Sarah Bernstein

3.05

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A haunting, compressed masterwork from an extraordinary new voice in Canadian fiction. A young w… read more

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"I try always to be good."

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

"How, I wondered, might a person, a people, take root, roots and rootlessness, the preservation of what little remains of the past, such were thoughts that blew through me on any given morning, standi…"

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

"In taking a side, I thought uneasily, perhaps I ought to take the long view, the survival of the species as a whole. That was my problem, I thought, I was always thinking at the level of the individu…"

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

"I had hoped that here in the country I would experience the turn of the seasons differently, with less apprehension, I might come to see the form and plan of the world. Not to frame it within systems…"

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

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17. Hijab Butch Blues

By: Lamya H.

4.48

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from storie… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Sort of?"

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"Queer indispensability?"

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"I feel tired. Or reckless. Or maybe brave."

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"I want to figure her out, this girl, and I want to know everything about her."

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

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18. She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement

By: Jodi Kantor

4.35

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

For many years, reporters had tried to get to the truth about Harvey Weinstein’s treatment of women… read more

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  • politics
  • social justice
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Positive reputation management. I Googled your name, and a few obnoxious articles popu up. I work with the leading reputation management company that can backlink to the positive articles to make a "…"

-Jodi Kantor, She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement

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19. 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
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • african american
  • sociology
"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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20. Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally

By: Emily Ladau

4.41

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

An approachable guide to being a thoughtful, informed ally to disabled people, with actionable step… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • social justice
Cover of Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity by Devon  Price

21. Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

By: Devon Price

4.44

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A deep dive into the spectrum of Autistic experience and the phenomenon of masked Autism, giving in… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Therapy that is focused on battling “irrational beliefs,"

-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

"Refusing to perform neurotypicality is a revolutionary act of disability justice. It's also a radical act of self-love."

-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

"Much of what we call maturity is a silly pantomime of independence and unfeeling, not a real quality of unbreakable strength."

-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

"We have to keep other people at arm's length, because letting them see our hyperfixations, meltdowns, obsessions, and outbursts could mean losing their respect. But locking ourselves away means we ca…"

-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

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22. Be A Plant-Based Woman Warrior: Live Fierce, Stay Bold, Eat Delicious: A Cookbook

By: Jane Esselstyn

4.47

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The original “Julia Child of plant-based cooking” teams up with her daughter to offer a multigenera… read more

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  • nonfiction
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23. Postcolonial Love Poem

By: Natalie Díaz

4.33

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

Natalie Diaz’s highly anticipated follow-up to When My Brother Was an Aztec, winner of an American … read more

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  • race
  • nonfiction
"Unsoothable thirst is one kind of haunting"

-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

"In Mojave, our words for want and need are the same – because why would you want what you don’t need?"

-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

"Maybe death is a way to clean the self, of the body, to finally celebrate it. A celebration should leave a mess."

-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

"At the National Museum of the American Indian, 68 percent of the collection is from the United States. I am doing my best to not become a museum of myself. I am doing my best to breathe in and out."

-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

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24. Whale Day: And Other Poems

By: Billy Collins

4.08

Format: 111 pages, Hardcover

A collection of all-new poetry from former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins Billy Collins's thir… read more

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  • nonfiction
"But having sailed some time ago Into the quiet cardigan harbour of my life,"

-Billy Collins, Whale Day: And Other Poems

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25. Night Wherever We Go

By: Tracey Rose Peyton

3.85

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

A RECOMMENDED READ FROM: The Washington Post • Atlanta Journal-Constitution • CrimeReads • Library … read more

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  • race
  • african american
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26. Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom

By: Sylvia Plath

3.98

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more

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"«Pero ¿qué es el noveno reino?», le pregunta a una mujer de ojos azules y piel arrugada. «Es el reino de la negación, de la voluntad congelada -responde-. No hay retorno posible.»"

-Sylvia Plath, Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom

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27. Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space

By: Amanda Leduc

4.09

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

In fairy tales, happy endings are the norm—as long as you're beautiful and walk on two legs. After … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • sociology
"...I am struck by how these pitiers unknowingly give voice to the deepest of truths: they cannot imagine this kind of life."

-Amanda Leduc, Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space

" It's so good of you to love them. The Beast, Shrek, the Ugly Duckling and eventual swan. The woman in the wheel chair, the main who wears the mask. I could never do that. And if you do it, that mean…"

-Amanda Leduc, Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space

"Most importantly, it's a message that assumes absolute and unrealistic able-bodiedness. No one with glasses. No crutches, no wheelchairs, no visible differences from girl to girl apart from the colou…"

-Amanda Leduc, Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space

"If society is used to not seeing disabled people in stories, society becomes used to not seeing disabled people in real life. If society is used to not seeing disabled people in real life, society wi…"

-Amanda Leduc, Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space

Cover of Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts by Rebecca    Hall

28. Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts

By: Rebecca Hall

4.30

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Part graphic novel, part memoir, Wake is an imaginative tour-de-force that tells the story of women… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • race
  • history
"You think you are reading an accurate chronicle written at the time, but if we are and what we care about are deemed irrelevant, it won't be in there."

-Rebecca Hall, Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts

"History written by the victors always erases the resistance. And those of us who live in the wake/ruins learn that we're inferior and needed to be conquered and enslaved. This is the afterlife of sla…"

-Rebecca Hall, Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts

"Quantitative historians who use statistical tools to study big-picture historical trends, created a vast database of research on more than 36,000 slave ship voyages that took place over four hundred …"

-Rebecca Hall, Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts

Cover of This Is Ear Hustle: Unflinching Stories of Everyday Prison Life by Nigel Poor

29. This Is Ear Hustle: Unflinching Stories of Everyday Prison Life

By: Nigel Poor

4.31

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the co-creators and co-hosts of the Peabody- and Pulitzer-nominated podcast comes this unflinc… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • sociology
"If I could be any animal, I would be a wish dragon that would only appear when a kid needed it. Based on my experience with imaginary friends, they're needed. But dragons eat meat, and I couldn't do …"

-Nigel Poor, This Is Ear Hustle: Unflinching Stories of Everyday Prison Life

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30. Understanding Jim Crow: Using Racist Memorabilia to Teach Tolerance and Promote Social Justice

By: David Pilgrim

4.50

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

For many people, especially those who came of age after landmark civil rights legislation was passe… read more

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  • art
  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • united states
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • african american
  • sociology
Cover of The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House by Nancy Pelosi

31. The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House

By: Nancy Pelosi

4.10

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The most powerful woman in American political history tells the story of her transformation from ho… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction

12 best-selling history books like Understanding Jim Crow: Using Racist Memorabilia to Teach Tolerance and Promote Social Justice by David Pilgrim

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Nate Powell , John Lewis , Andrew Aydin

4.65

Transform Your Habits

Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism

Derrick A. Bell

4.35

Transform Your Habits

March: Book One (March, #1)

Nate Powell , John Lewis , Andrew Aydin

4.00

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Lies My Teacher Told Me

James W. Loewen

3.97

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Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally

Emily Ladau

4.41

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It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror

Joe Vallese

4.18

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Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space

Amanda Leduc

4.09

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Yaffa As

4.60

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