The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America
10 best books like The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America (Khalil Gibran Muhammad): How to Be an Antiracist, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches, How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power, Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II, Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States, Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement, Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
| Author | Ibram X. Kendi |
| ISBN | 0525509283 |
Ibram X. Kendi's concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice in America--but even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. In How to be an Antiracist, Kendi asks us to think about what an antiracist...
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
| Author | Audre Lorde |
| ISBN | 0895941414 |
A collection of fifteen essays written between 1976 and 1984 gives clear voice to Audre Lorde's literary and philosophical personae. These essays explore and illuminate the roots of Lorde's intellectual development and her deep-seated and longstanding concerns about ways of increasing empowerment...
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
| Author | Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor |
| ISBN | 1608468550 |
The Combahee River Collective, a group of radical black feminists, was one of the most important organizations to develop out of the anti-racist and women's liberation movements of the 1960s and 70s. In this collection, founding members of the organization and contemporary activists reflect on...
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
| Author | Shoshana Zuboff |
| ISBN | 1610395697 |
The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called "surveillance capitalism," and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control our behavior.
In this masterwork of original thinking and research,...
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
| Author | Douglas A. Blackmon |
| ISBN | 0385506252 |
In this groundbreaking historical exposé, Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history—an “Age of Neoslavery” that thrived from the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II.
Under laws enacted specifically to intimidate...
Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism
| Author | James W. Loewen |
| ISBN | 0743294483 |
Bestselling author of Lies My Teacher Told Me, James W. Loewen, exposes the secret communities and hotbeds of racial injustice that sprung up throughout the twentieth century unnoticed, forcing us to reexamine race relations in the United States.
In this groundbreaking work, bestselling...
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
| Author | Daniel Immerwahr |
| ISBN | 0374172145 |
A pathbreaking history of the United States' overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empire
We are familiar with maps that outline all fifty states. And we are also familiar with the idea that the United States is an "empire," exercising power around the world. But what about the actual...
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
| Author | Angela Y. Davis |
| ISBN | 1608465640 |
In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world.
Reflecting on the importance of black feminism,...
Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America
| Author | Peniel E. Joseph |
| ISBN | 0805075399 |
A gripping narrative that brings to life a legendary moment in American history: the birth, life, and death of the Black Power movement
With the rallying cry of "Black Power!" in 1966, a group of black activists, including Stokely Carmichael and Huey P. Newton, turned their backs on Martin...
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
| Author | Heather Ann Thompson |
| ISBN | 0375423222 |
The first definitive account of the infamous 1971 Attica prison uprising, the state’s violent response, and the victims' decades-long quest for justice including information never released to the public published to coincide with the forty-fifth anniversary of this historic event.
On...
They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
| Author | Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers |
| ISBN | 0300218664 |
A bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy
Bridging women’s history, the history of the South, and African American history, this book makes a bold argument about the role of white women in American slavery. Historian Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers...
When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America
| Author | Ira Katznelson |
| ISBN | 0393328511 |
In this "penetrating new analysis" (New York Times Book Review) Ira Katznelson fundamentally recasts our understanding of twentieth-century American history and demonstrates that all the key programs passed during the New Deal and Fair Deal era of the 1930s and 1940s were created in a deeply discriminatory...
The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism
| Author | Jemar Tisby |
| ISBN | 0310597269 |
In August of 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech, calling on all Americans to view others not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. Yet King included another powerful word, one that is often overlooked. Warning against the "tranquilizing...
Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War
| Author | Fred Kaplan |
| ISBN | 1476763259 |
The never-before-told story of the computer scientists and the NSA, Pentagon, and White House policymakers who invented and employ the wars of the present and future - the cyber wars where every country can be a major power player and every hacker a mass destroyer, as reported by a Pulitzer Prize-winning...
Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century
| Author | Dorothy Roberts |
| ISBN | 1595584951 |
A decade after the Human Genome Project proved that human beings are not naturally divided by race, the emerging fields of personalized medicine, reproductive technologies, genetic genealogy, and DNA databanks are attempting to resuscitate race as a biological category written in our genes. In...
Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
| Author | Jonathan M. Metzl |
| ISBN | 1541644980 |
A physician reveals how right-wing backlash policies have mortal consequences -- even for the white voters they promise to help
Named one of the most anticipated books of 2019 by Esquire and the Boston Globe
In the era of Donald Trump, many lower- and middle-class white Americans...
