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Racial Justice Books
An extensive, but incomplete list, skewed toward non-fiction books
and books published in the last five years.
Please buy from a black-owned bookstore (click here for a list),
your local independent bookstore, or at the Bookshop link provided.
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The Half Has Never Been
Told: Slavery and the Making
of American Capitalism
Edward E Baptist, 2014
Social Justice Parenting: How to Raise Compassionate,
Anti-Racist, Justice-Minded Kids in an Unjust World
Traci Baxley, 2021
Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration
Emily Bazelon,, 2019
Racism Without Racists:
Color-Blind Racism & the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, 2017
The Heritage: Black Athletes, a Divided America, and the Politics of Patriotism
Howard Bryant 2018
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Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America
Marcia Chatelain, 2020
The Essential Kerner Commission Report
Jelani Cobb, 2021
A Most Beautiful Thing: The True Story of America's First All-Black High School Rowing Team
Arshay Cooper, 2020
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What White People
Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition
Emma Dabiri 2021
The Little Book of Race
and Restorative Justice:
Black Lives, Healing, and Us Social Transformation
Fania Davis, 2019
Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering During the Civil War & Reconstruction
Jim Downs, 2015
Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
Erica A. Dunbar , 2017
Entertaining Race: Performing Blackness
in America
Michael Eric Dyson, 2021
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Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do
Jennifer Eberhardt, 2015
Surviving Justice: America's Wrongfully Convicted & Exonerated
Dave Eggers and 2 othersl (Editors), 2017
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Unexampled Courage: The Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the Awakening of President Harry S. Truman and Judge J. Waties Waring
Richard Gergel, 2019
On Account of Race: The Supreme Court, White Supremacy, and the Ravaging of African American Voting Rights
Lawrence Goldstone, 2020
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A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration
Steven Hahn, 2005
The 1619 Project:
A New Origin Story
Nikole Hannah-Jones (editor), 2021
The Hidden History of the War on Voting: Who Stole Your Vote and How to
Get It Back
Thom Hartmann, 2020
Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson
to Flint and Beyond
Marc Lamont Hill 2017
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
Elizabeth Hinton 2016
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