Discrimination Race Relations category: 2480 books
The Color of Love
Racial Features, Stigma, and Socialization in Black Brazilian Families
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
The Color Of Love reveals the power of racial hierarchies to infiltrate our most intimate relationships. Delving far deeper than previous sociologists have into the black Brazilian experience, Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman examines the relationship between racialization and the emotional life of a family....
Beyond Freedom
Disrupting the History of Emancipation
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
This collection of eleven original essays interrogates the concept of freedom and recenters our understanding of the process of emancipation. Who defined freedom, and what did freedom mean to nineteenth-century African Americans, both during and after slavery? Did freedom just mean the absence of...
We Were Eight Years in Power
An American Tragedy
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
**In this “urgently relevant”* collection featuring the landmark essay “The Case for Reparations,” the National Book Award–winning author of Between the World and Me “reflects on race, Barack Obama’s presidency and its jarring aftermath”*—including the election of Donald Trump.
New...
I Am Not Your Negro
A Companion Edition to the Documentary Film Directed by Raoul Peck
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
**National Bestseller
Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary**
To compose his stunning documentary film I Am Not Your Negro, acclaimed filmmaker Raoul Peck mined James Baldwin’s published and unpublished oeuvre, selecting passages from his books, essays, letters, notes,...
Locking Up Our Own
Crime and Punishment in Black America
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
In recent years, America’s criminal justice system has become the subject of an increasingly urgent debate. Critics have assailed the rise of mass incarceration, emphasizing its disproportionate impact on people of color. As James Forman, Jr., points out, however, the war on crime that began in...
A Massacre in Memphis
The Race Riot That Shook the Nation One Year After the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
An unprecedented account of one of the bloodiest and most significant racial clashes in American history
In May 1866, just a year after the Civil War ended, Memphis erupted in a three-day spasm of racial violence that saw whites rampage through the city's black neighborhoods. By the time the...
Lead from the Outside
How to Build Your Future and Make Real Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
A personal and empowering blueprint—from one of America’s rising Democratic stars—for outsiders who seek to become the ones in charge
Leadership is hard. Convincing others—and often yourself—that you possess the answers and are capable of world-affecting change requires confidence,...
Real American
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
“Courageous, achingly honest."
—Michelle Alexander, New York Times bestselling author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorb**lindness
“A compelling, incisive and thoughtful examination of race, origin and what it means to be called an American. Engaging, heartfelt...
The Shooting of Rabbit Wells
A White Cop, a Young Man of Color, and an American Tragedy
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
An award-winning author recounts the true, tragic confrontation between a young black man and a white cop in “a page-turner that reads like a novel” (San Francisco Chronicle).
On a frigid winter’s night in 1973, William “Rabbit” Wells, a young man of mixed race, was shot and killed by...
Blacklisted
The Secret War between Big Business and Union Activists
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2015
This is a story of a bitter struggle, in which collusion with the UK police and security services resulted in victimization, violence and unemployment, with terrible effects on families and communities. Drawing on first-hand accounts of the workers, Blacklisted reveals how, when major construction projects...
Bound for the Promised Land
Harriet Tubman: Portrait of an American Hero
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2009
The essential, “richly researched”* biography of Harriet Tubman, revealing a complex woman who “led a remarkable life, one that her race, her sex, and her origins make all the more extraordinary” (*The New York Times Book Review).
Harriet Tubman is one of the giants of American history—a...
by Edward Ball
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Fifteen years after its hardcover debut, the FSG Classics reissue of the celebrated work of narrative nonfiction that won the National Book Award and changed the American conversation about race, with a new preface by the author
The Ball family hails from South Carolina—Charleston and thereabouts....
Someplace Like America
Tales from the New Great Depression
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
In Someplace Like America, writer Dale Maharidge and photographer Michael S. Williamson take us to the working-class heart of America, bringing to life—through shoe leather reporting, memoir, vivid stories, stunning photographs, and thoughtful analysis—the deepening crises of poverty and homelessness....
Black Klansman
Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigation of a Lifetime
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
The #1 New York Times Bestseller!
The extraordinary true story and basis for the Academy Award winning film BlacKkKlansman, written and directed by Spike Lee, produced by Jordan Peele, and starring John David Washington and Adam Driver.
When detective Ron Stallworth, the first black...