Discrimination Race Relations category: 2480 books
How I Shed My Skin
Unlearning the Racist Lessons of a Southern Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
More than sixty years ago, the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that America’s schools could no longer be segregated by race. Critically acclaimed novelist Jim Grimsley was eleven years old in 1966 when federally mandated integration of schools went into effect in the state and...
by Tavis Smiley
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2008
From the man who catapulted the Covenant with Black America to number one on the New York Times bestseller list comes a searing memoir of poverty, ambition, pain and atonment.
Tavis Smiley grew up in a family of thirteen in rural Indian, where money was scarce and the sight of other black faces...
An Imperfect God
George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
An Imperfect God is a major new biography of Washington, and the first to explore his engagement with American slavery
When George Washington wrote his will, he made the startling decision to set his slaves free; earlier he had said that holding slaves was his "only unavoidable subject...
Breaking Hate
Confronting the New Culture of Extremism
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2020
A stunning exploration of how to heal a nation reeling from extremist violence from a viral TED speaker and onetime white-supremacist leader who now work as a peace activist disengaging hateful radicals.
At fourteen, Christian Picciolini was recruited by a now notorious skinhead leader and...
The Beast Side
Living (and Dying) While Black in America
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
A New York Times Best Seller!
To many, the past 8 years under President Obama were meant to usher in a new post-racial American political era, dissolving the divisions of the past. However, when seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin was shot by a wannabe cop in Florida; and then Ferguson, Missouri,...
Passing Strange
A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2009
Read Martha A. Sandweiss's posts on the Penguin Blog
The secret double life of the man who mapped the American West, and the woman he loved
Clarence King was a late nineteenth-century celebrity, a brilliant scientist and explorer once described by Secretary of State John Hay as "the...
Colour Bar
The Triumph of Seretse Khama and His Nation
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2007
Sir Seretse Khama, the first President of Botswana and heir apparent to the kingship of the Bangwato people, brought independence and great prosperity to his nation after colonial rule. But for six long years from 1950, Seretse had been forced into exile in England, banned from his own country. His...
The Person You Mean to Be
How Good People Fight Bias
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
"Favorite Books of 2018" The Greater Good Magazine
Foreword by Laszlo Bock, the bestselling author of Work Rules! and former Senior Vice President of People Operations at Google
An inspiring guide from Dolly Chugh, an award-winning social psychologist at the New York University...
by Frederick Douglass
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
This carefully crafted ebook: “The Collected Works: A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave + The Heroic Slave + My Bondage and My Freedom + Life and Times of Frederick Douglass + My Escape from Slavery + Self-Made Men + Speeches & Writings” contains 7 books in one...
by Booker T. Washington
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Up from Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of Booker T. Washington detailing his slow and steady rise from a slave child during the Civil War, to the difficulties and obstacles he overcame to get an education at the new Hampton University, to his work establishing vocational schools most notably the Tuskegee...
Salvage Work
U.S. and Caribbean Literatures amid the Debris of Legal Personhood
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Salvage Work examines contemporary literary responses to the law’s construction of personhood in the Americas. Tracking the extraordinary afterlives of the legal slave personality from the nineteenth century into the twenty-first, Angela Naimou shows the legal slave to be a fractured but generative...
by Frederick Douglass
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
“My Bondage and My Freedom,” writes John Stauffer in his Foreword, “[is] a deep meditation on the meaning of slavery, race, and freedom, and on the power of faith and literacy, as well as a portrait of an individual and a nation a few years before the Civil War.” As his narrative unfolds,...
"They Take Our Jobs!"
And 20 Other Myths about Immigration
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
Claims that immigrants take Americans' jobs, are a drain on the American economy, contribute to poverty and inequality, destroy the social fabric, challenge American identity, and contribute to a host of social ills by their very existence are openly discussed and debated at all levels of society....
White Fragility
Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
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.
In this “vital, necessary, and beautiful book” (Michael Eric Dyson), antiracist educator...