28 Top nonfiction books like Not So Black and White: A History of Race from White Supremacy to Identity Politics by Kenan Malik

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Not So Black and White: A History of Race from White Supremacy to Identity Politics

By: Kenan Malik

4.30

Format: 486 pages, Kindle Edition

Is white privilege real? How racist is the working class? Why has left-wing antisemitism grown? Who…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Not So Black and White: A History of Race from White Supremacy to Identity Politics by Kenan Malik , here is a list of 28 books like this:

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1. Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn

By: Daniel Gordis

4.31

Format: 560 pages, ebook

Winner of the Jewish Book of the Year Award The first comprehensive yet accessible history of the … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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2. Orientalism

By: None , Edward W. Said

4.12

Format: 424 pages, Paperback

More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the W… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"Toda época y toda sociedad recrea sus «otros»."

-None, Orientalism

"الإستشرق في جوهره مذهب سياسي فُرِضَ فَرْضاً على الشرق لأن الشرق كان أضعف من الغرب، وإنه تجاهل اختلاف الشرق الراجع إلى ضعفه."

-None, Orientalism

"It seems a common human failing to prefer the schematic authority of a text to the disorientations of direct encounters with the human."

-None, Orientalism

"إن مناقشات الشرق كانت تتسم بالغياب الكامل للشرق، لكن المرء يحس بأن المستشرق ومايقوله حاضران، ومع ذلك فيجب ألا ننسى أن الذي يمكِّن المستشرق من الحضور هو الغياب الفعلي للشرق."

-None, Orientalism

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3. A Lover's Discourse: Fragments

By: Roland Barthes , Richard Howard , Wayne Koestenbaum

4.33

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A Lover's Discourse, at its 1978 publication, was revolutionary: Roland Barthes made unprecedented … read more

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  • nonfiction
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4. Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life

By: Barbara J. Fields , Karen E. Fields

4.27

Format: 359 pages, Hardcover

Most people assume that racism grows from a perception of human difference: the fact of race gives … read more

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  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology

5. Transit

By: Rachel Cusk

4.14

Format: 222 pages, Hardcover

The stunning second novel of a trilogy that began with Outline, one of The New York Times Book Revi… read more

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6. The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict

By: Martin Bunton

3.85

Format: 370 pages, Paperback

The conflict between Palestine and Israel is one of the most highly publicized and bitter struggles… read more

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7. Race Matters

By: Cornel West

3.88

Format: 383 pages, Paperback

In this essay collection, many of which have previously appeared in journals, West, the director of… read more

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8. The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time

By: Yascha Mounk

4.08

Format: 414 pages, Kindle Edition

One of our leading public intellectuals traces the origin of a set of ideas about identity and soci… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • sociology
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9. Immediacy: Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism

By: Anna Kornbluh

4.08

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Why speed, flow, and direct expression now dominate cultural style Contemporary cultural style boo… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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10. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

By: Naomi Klein

4.22

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

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11. Wilding

By: Isabella Tree

4.46

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Forced to accept that intensive farming on the heavy clay of their land at Knepp in West Sussex was… read more

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  • nonfiction
"People have a famously soft spot for pigs. Intelligent, inquisitive, imperious, myopic, sociable, gluttonous, grunting, ungainly, it is easy to recognize ourselves in them."

-Isabella Tree, Wilding

"The great concerns of our time – climate change, natural resources, food production, water control and conservation, and human health – all boil down to the condition of the soil."

-Isabella Tree, Wilding

"Over the years modern farming has reduced soil to....‘dirt’ – a sterile medium in which plants struggle to grow without artificial fertilizers. It is a self-perpetuating cycle of destruction and chem…"

-Isabella Tree, Wilding

"But the world of academia is a strange, sometimes counterproductive and often sluggish place. Where one may expect it to be open and responsive to new thinking, it can be oddly conservative and resis…"

-Isabella Tree, Wilding

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12. La crisis de la narración

By: Byung-Chul Han

3.90

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Las narraciones crean lazos. De ellas nace lo que nos conecta y vincula. De este modo, fundan comun… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"Nuevas narraciones hacen posible una nueva percepción. La "nueva valoración de todos los valores" de la que hablaba Nietzsche abre una nueva perspectiva al mundo."

-Byung-Chul Han, La crisis de la narración

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13. Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History

By: Nellie Bowles

4.05

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From former New York Times reporter Nellie Bowles, a look at how some of the most educated people i… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • sociology
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14. Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World

By: Mary Beard

4.11

Format: 493 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping account of the social and political world of the Roman emperors by “the world’s most fam… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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15. The Trading Game: A Confession

By: Gary Stevenson

4.26

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A vivid, blistering memoir that takes readers inside the high-stakes drama and hubris of the tradin… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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16. Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth

By: Natalie Haynes

4.05

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Natalie Haynes returns to the world of ancient Greek myth in thi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"The distinction that only sciences are useful and only arts are spirit-enhancing is a nonsensical one. I couldn't write much without scientists designing my computer. And some of them must want to re…"

-Natalie Haynes, Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth

"According to Hesiod's Theogony , Rhea gives birth to the following children in this order: Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, and Zeus. Kronos swallows each of the first five deities, and Rhea i…"

-Natalie Haynes, Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth

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17. Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents―and What They Mean for America's Future

By: Jean M. Twenge

4.05

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking, revelatory portrait of the six generations that currently live in the United Stat… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"John Della Volpe, the director of polling at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, spoke to hundreds of young people for his 2022 book, Fight: How Gen Z Is Channeling Their Fear and Passion to Sa…"

-Jean M. Twenge, Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents―and What They Mean for America's Future

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18. The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America

By: Coleman Hughes

4.46

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An exciting new voice makes the case for a colorblind approach to politics and culture, warning tha… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"Neoracists believe that we must indoctrinate children to cure them of racism. I say that children are racially innocent by nature, and we should protect that racial innocence for as long as possible."

-Coleman Hughes, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America

"The majority of effort channeled toward achieving racial equity hasn't been applied to the part of life that has the biggest influence on people's skills and mindsets: namely birth to eighteen years …"

-Coleman Hughes, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America

"By [college], many skills, attitudes, and habits have already been formed. We can have a much bigger impact on people at younger ages. Efforts to achieve true equity should focus instead on high-qual…"

-Coleman Hughes, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America

"The common humanity and anti-racism of the civil rights movement had strong ties to Christianity. And Christianity promoted the value of interracial harmony: unity in Christ. But the appeal of Christ…"

-Coleman Hughes, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America

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19. Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women

By: Kate Manne

4.21

Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition

An urgent exploration of men’s entitlement and how it serves to police and punish women, from the a… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"by] torture for the rest of their slutty lives."

-Kate Manne, Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women

"厌女症不应该被理解为一种对女性根深蒂固的强烈仇恨心理,而应该理解成父权制(patriarchy)在“执法"

-Kate Manne, Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women

"function. In my previous book, Down Girl, I argued that misogyny should not be understood as a monolithic, deep-seated psychological hatred of girls and women. Instead, it’s best conceptualized as th…"

-Kate Manne, Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women

"Studies show there is but one circumstance in which men’s and women’s household work will tend to approach parity: when she works full-time and he is unemployed. And even then, the operative word is …"

-Kate Manne, Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women

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20. White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color

By: Ruby Hamad

4.56

Format: 284 pages, Paperback

This explosive book of history and cultural criticism argues that white feminism has been a weapon … read more

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  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"This weaponization of White Womanhood continues to be the centerpiece of an arsenal used to maintain the status quo and punish anyone who dares challenge it."

-Ruby Hamad, White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color

"White women can oscillate between their gender and their race, between being the oppressed and the oppressor. Women of color are never permitted to exist outside of these constraints: we are both wom…"

-Ruby Hamad, White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color

"Yes, it is true women of color have been the targets of a setup of monumental proportions, something that amounts to nothing short of a covert war against us. But it is also true that these attacks a…"

-Ruby Hamad, White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color

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21. Left Is Not Woke

By: Susan Neiman

3.61

Format: None pages, ebook

If you're woke, you're left. If you're left, you're woke. We blur the terms, assuming that if you'r… read more

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  • society
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Identity politics not only contract the multiple components of our identities to one: they essentialize that component over which we have the least control."

-Susan Neiman, Left Is Not Woke

"Critical understanding can arise from powerlessness, but does it always do so? Few champions of standpoint epistemology would argue that it does. And, if not, can we allow the experience of powerless…"

-Susan Neiman, Left Is Not Woke

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22. How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference

By: Adam Rutherford

3.90

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Race is not a biological reality. Racism thrives on our not knowing this. Racist pseudoscience … read more

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  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"When you have only ever experienced privilege, equality feels like oppression."

-Adam Rutherford, How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference

"Race is a social construct. This does not mean that it is invalid or unimportant."

-Adam Rutherford, How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference

"For humans, there are no purebloods, only mongrels enriched by the blood of multitudes."

-Adam Rutherford, How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference

"Scientific racism’ or ‘race science’ are both misnomers. These are pseudoscientific domains."

-Adam Rutherford, How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference

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23. Superior: The Return of Race Science

By: Angela Saini

4.24

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Superior tells the disturbing story of the persistent thread of belief in biological racial differe… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"Nobody has ever found any genes linking ethnicity or race to school results. Like Henry Garrett half a century earlier, [Gerhard] Meisenberg chooses to skip over the social, historical, and economic …"

-Angela Saini, Superior: The Return of Race Science

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24. Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump

By: Asad Haider

3.92

Format: 144 pages, None

The phenomenon of "identity politics" represents one of the primary impasses of the contemporary le… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
Cover of On Love and Tyranny: The Life and Politics of Hannah Arendt by Ann Heberlein

25. On Love and Tyranny: The Life and Politics of Hannah Arendt

By: Ann Heberlein

3.91

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

In an utterly unique approach to biography, On Love and Tyranny traces the life and work of the ico… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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26. This Is Not America

By: Tomiwa Owolade

3.94

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

***Chosen as a non-fiction highlight of 2023 in The Times, Guardian, Observer, Irish Times and New … read more

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  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
Cover of Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America's Working Men and Women by Batya Ungar-Sargon

27. Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America's Working Men and Women

By: Batya Ungar-Sargon

3.92

Format: 226 pages, Kindle Edition

Second Class is the most important book you will read all year. A political realignment is comi… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • society
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28. 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.

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29. Truss at 10: How Not to Be Prime Minister

By: Anthony Seldon

4.36

Format: 403 pages, Kindle Edition

Liz Truss's disastrous premiership was the shortest and most chaotic in British history. In the spa… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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30. Not So Black and White: A History of Race from White Supremacy to Identity Politics

By: Kenan Malik

4.30

Format: 486 pages, Kindle Edition

Is white privilege real? How racist is the working class? Why has left-wing antisemitism grown? Who… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • social
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • sociology
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31. What Iranians Want: Women, Life, Freedom

By: Arash Azizi

3.99

Format: 197 pages, Kindle Edition

'A document of real optimism.' Guardian On Tuesday 13 September 2022, all Mahsa Amini has planned i… read more

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