The Rainy Season

9 best books like The Rainy Season (Amy Wilentz): White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa, Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow, Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief, American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment, The Dinner List, I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness, Congo: een geschiedenis, Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII

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

Author

Robin DiAngelo

The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality.

Referring to the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially,...

Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa

Author	Jason Stearns
ISBN	1586489291

At the heart of Africa is Congo, a country the size of Western Europe, bordering nine other nations, that since 1996 has been wracked by a brutal and unstaunchable war in which millions have died. And yet, despite its epic proportions, it has received little sustained media attention. In this deeply...

Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow

Author	Henry Louis Gates Jr.
ISBN	0525559531

The New York Times bestseller.

A profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans for equality after the Civil War and the violent counter-revolution that resubjugated them, as seen through the prism of the war of images and ideas that have left an enduring racist stain on the American...

Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief

Author	Lawrence Wright
ISBN	0307700666

A clear-sighted revelation, a deep penetration into the world of Scientology by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the now-classic study of al-Qaeda's 9/11 attack, the Looming Tower. Based on more than two hundred personal interviews with both current and former Scientologists--both famous...

American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment

Author	Shane Bauer
ISBN	0735223580

A groundbreaking and brave inside reckoning with the nexus of prison and profit in America in one Louisiana prison and over the course of our country's history.

In 2014, Shane Bauer was hired for $9 an hour to work as an entry-level prison guard at a private prison in Winnfield, Louisiana. An...

The Dinner List

Author

Rebecca Serle

We’ve been waiting for an hour. That’s what Audrey says. She states it with a little bit of an edge, her words just bordering on cursive. That’s the thing I think first. Not: Audrey Hepburn is at my birthday dinner, but Audrey Hepburn is annoyed.

At one point or another, we’ve all been...

I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

Author	Austin Channing Brown
ISBN	1524760854

From a powerful new voice on racial justice, an eye-opening account of growing up Black, Christian, and female in middle-class white America.

Austin Channing Brown's first encounter with a racialized America came at age 7, when she discovered her parents named her Austin to deceive future...

Congo: een geschiedenis

Author	David Van Reybrouck
ISBN	9023456637

Er is aan het begin van de eenentwintigste eeuw nauwelijks een roeriger natie dan Congo, het reusachtige land in het hart van Afrika, dat barst van de grondstoffen die onontbeerlijk zijn in onze moderne tijd – én van de gruwelijke conflicten. Hoe kon de vroegere, relatief rustige kolonie van België,...

Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII

Author

John Cornwell

Backed by a wealth of new research, John Cornwell tells for the first time the story of the World War II career of Eugenio Pacelli, the man who was Pope Pius XII, arguably the most dangerous churchman in modern history. In the first decade of the century, as a brilliant young Vatican lawyer, Pacelli helped...