Discrimination category: 2581 books
Less Than Human
Why We Demean, Enslave, and Exterminate Others
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Winner of the 2012 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Nonfiction
A revelatory look at why we dehumanize each other, with stunning examples from world history as well as today's headlines
"Brute." "Cockroach." "Lice." "Vermin." "Dog." "Beast."...
Fatal Invention
How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
An incisive, groundbreaking book that examines how a biological concept of race is a myth that promotes inequality in a supposedly “post-racial” era.
Though the Human Genome Project proved that human beings are not naturally divided by race, the emerging fields of personalized medicine, reproductive...
by Cornel West
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2000
The fundamental litmus test for American democracy-its economy, government, criminal justice system, education, mass media, and culture-remains: how broad and intense are the arbitrary powers used and deployed against black people. In this sense, the problem of the twenty-first century remains the...
Dying of Whiteness
How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
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 are...
by Ibram X. Kendi
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2019
From the National Book Award–winning author of Stamped from the Beginning comes a bracingly original approach to understanding and uprooting racism and inequality in our society—and in ourselves.
“The only way to undo racism is to consistently identify and describe it—and then dismantle...
Black Power
Three Books from Exile: Black Power; The Color Curtain; and White Man, Listen!
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
Three extraordinary nonfiction works by Richard Wright, one of America's premier literary giants of the twentieth entry, together in one volume for the first time, with an introduction by Cornel West.
Originally published in 1954, Richard Wright′s Black Power is an impassioned chronicle...
There Will Be No Miracles Here
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
**NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2018 BY NPR AND THE NEW YORK TIMES
A PBS NEWSHOUR-NEW YORK TIMES BOOK CLUB PICK
"Somehow Casey Gerald has pulled off the most urgently political, most deeply personal, and most engagingly spiritual statement of our time by just looking outside his window and inside...
A Day in Prison
An Insider's Guide to Life Behind Bars
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
A rare glimpse at twenty-four hours in the life of an inmate—from doing laundry in “the hole” to surviving a fight—by an ex-con and professional prison coach.
No one is prepared for the reality of incarceration. In this fascinating and utterly candid guide, prison coach John “Doc”...
Viral Hate
Containing Its Spread on the Internet
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
Emboldened by anonymity, individuals and organizations from both left and right are freely spewing hateful vitriol on the Internet without worrying about repercussions.Lies, bullying, conspiracy theories, bigoted and racist rants, and calls for violence targeting the most vulnerable circulate openly...
Voices of Freedom
An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement from the 1950s Through the 1980s
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2011
In this monumental volume, Henry Hampton, creator and executive producer of the acclaimed PBS series Eyes on the Prize, and Steve Fayer, series writer, draw upon nearly one thousand interviews with civil rights activists, politicians, reporters, Justice Department officials, and hundreds of ordinary...
by Sojourner Truth
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1998
Narrative of Sojourner Truth is one of the most important documents of slavery ever written, as well as being a partial autobiography of the woman who became a pioneer in the struggles for racial and sexual equality. With an eloquence that resonates more than a century after its original publication...
Street Shadows
A Memoir of Race, Rebellion, and Redemption
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2010
Masterfully told, marked by irony and humor as well as outrage and a barely contained sadness, Jerald Walker’s Street Shadows is the story of a young man’s descent into the “thug life” and the wake-up call that led to his finding himself again.
Walker was born in a Chicago housing project...
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....
Behind the Scenes
Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
The revealing memoir of a woman who bought her freedom from slavery and became a White House dressmaker and confidant to Mary Todd Lincoln.
Born into slavery in Virginia, Elizabeth Keckley was whipped, sexually abused, and separated from her mother for long stretches of time. When her master...