100 Years of Lynchings
10 best books like 100 Years of Lynchings (Ralph Ginzburg): So You Want to Talk About Race, Women Talking, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, The Souls of Black Folk, "Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?": A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial Identity, White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide, Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America, How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide, What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays, Waking Up White: And Finding Myself in the Story of Race
So You Want to Talk About Race
| Author | Ijeoma Oluo |
| ISBN | 1580056776 |
In this breakout book, Ijeoma Oluo explores the complex reality of today's racial landscape--from white privilege and police brutality to systemic discrimination and the Black Lives Matter movement--offering straightforward clarity that readers need to contribute to the dismantling of the...
| Author | Miriam Toews |
| ISBN | 1635572584 |
One evening, eight Mennonite women climb into a hay loft to conduct a secret meeting. For the past two years, each of these women, and more than a hundred other girls in their colony, has been repeatedly violated in the night by demons coming to punish them for their sins. Now that the women have learned...
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
| Author | Michelle Alexander |
| ISBN | 1595581030 |
"Jarvious Cotton's great-great-grandfather could not vote as a slave. His great-grandfather was beaten to death by the Klu Klux Klan for attempting to vote. His grandfather was prevented from voting by Klan intimidation; his father was barred by poll taxes and literacy tests. Today, Cotton cannot...
This landmark book is a founding work in the literature of black protest. W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) played a key role in developing the strategy and program that dominated early 20th-century black protest in America. In this collection of essays, first published together in 1903, he eloquently...
"Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?": A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial Identity
| Author | Beverly Daniel Tatum |
| ISBN | 0465083617 |
The classic, bestselling book on the psychology of racism-now fully revised and updated
Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see Black, White, and Latino youth clustered in their own groups. Is this self-segregation a problem to address or a coping strategy? Beverly...
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
| Author | Carol Anderson |
| ISBN | 1632864126 |
From the Civil War to our combustible present, acclaimed historian Carol Anderson reframes our continuing conversation about race, chronicling the powerful forces opposed to black progress in America.
As Ferguson, Missouri, erupted in August 2014, and media commentators across the...
Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America
| Author | Michael Eric Dyson |
| ISBN | 1250135990 |
Short, emotional, literary, powerful―Tears We Cannot Stop is the book that all Americans who care about the current and long-burning crisis in race relations will want to read.
As the country grapples with racist division at a level not seen since the 1960s, one man's voice soars above the...
How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide
| Author | Crystal Marie Fleming |
| ISBN | 0807050776 |
How to Be Less Stupid About Race is your essential guide to breaking through the half-truths and ridiculous misconceptions that have thoroughly corrupted the way race is represented in the classroom, pop culture, media, and politics. Centuries after our nation was founded on genocide, settler colonialism,...
What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays
| Author | Damon Young |
| ISBN | 0062898221 |
From the cofounder of VerySmartBrothas.com, and one of the most read writers on race and culture at work today, a provocative and humorous memoir-in-essays that explores the ever-shifting definitions of what it means to be Black (and male) in America.
For Damon Young, existing while...
Waking Up White: And Finding Myself in the Story of Race
| Author | Debby Irving |
| ISBN | 0991331311 |
Waking Up White is the book Irving wishes someone had handed her decades ago. By sharing her sometimes cringe-worthy struggle to understand racism and racial tensions, she offers a fresh perspective on bias, stereotypes, manners, and tolerance. As Irving unpacks her own long-held beliefs about...
