Race Relations

This list contains books on race relations in America, particularly highlighting the Black experience.

Conversations in Black: On Power, Politics, and Leadership Cover Image

Conversations in Black: On Power, Politics, and Leadership (Hardcover)

By Ed Gordon
$28.00
ISBN: 9780316532860
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Published: Hachette Books - January 14th, 2020

An award-winning journalist envisions the future of leadership, excellence, and prosperity in Black America with this "urgent and pathbreaking" work (Marc Lamont Hill).

Hard-hitting, thought-provoking, and inspiring, Conversations in Black offers sage wisdom for navigating race in a radically divisive America, and, with help from his mighty team of bla

What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays Cover Image

What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays (Paperback)

By Damon Young
$17.99
ISBN: 9780062684318
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Published: Ecco - January 14th, 2020

A Finalist for the NAACP Image Award

A Finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Nonfiction

A Finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor

Longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay

An NPR Best Book of the Year

Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race Cover Image

Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Paperback)

By Reni Eddo-Lodge
$18.00
ISBN: 9781635572957
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Published: Bloomsbury Publishing - March 5th, 2019

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

"This is a book that was begging to be written. This is the kind of book that demands a future where well no longer need such a book. Essential." --Marlon James

The most important book for me this year. --Emma Watson

Selected by Emma Watson as the Our Shared Shelf Book Club Pick for January/February 2018

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

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

By Austin Channing Brown
$25.00
ISBN: 9781524760854
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Published: Convergent Books - May 15th, 2018

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • REESE’S BOOK CLUB X HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK PICK • From a leading voice on racial justice, an eye-opening account of growing up Black, Christian, and female that exposes how white America’s love affair with “diversity” so often falls short of its ideals.
 

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot Cover Image

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)

By Mikki Kendall
$26.00
ISBN: 9780525560548
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Published: Viking - February 25th, 2020

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

“One of the most important books of the current moment.”—Time
 
“A rousing call to action... It should be required reading for everyone.”—Gabrielle Union, author of We’re Going to Need More Wine
 

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America Cover Image

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Paperback)

By Richard Rothstein
$17.95
ISBN: 9781631494536
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Published: Liveright - May 1st, 2018

New York Times Bestseller • Notable Book of the Year • Editors' Choice Selection
One of Bill Gates’ “Amazing Books” of the Year
One of Publishers Weekly’s 10 Best Books of the Year
Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction
An NPR Best Book of the Year
Winner of the Hillman Prize for Nonfiction
Gold Winner • California Book Award (Nonfi

Between the World and Me Cover Image

Between the World and Me (Hardcover)

By Ta-Nehisi Coates
$26.00
ISBN: 9780812993547
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Published: One World - July 14th, 2015

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • ONE OF OPRAH’S “BOOKS THAT HELP ME THROUGH” • NOW AN HBO ORIGINAL SPECIAL EVENT

Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of an American City Cover Image

Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of an American City (Hardcover)

By Wes Moore, Erica L. Green
$28.00
ISBN: 9780525512363
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Published: One World - June 23rd, 2020

“An illuminating portrait of Baltimore in the aftermath of the April 2015 death of Freddie Gray . . . Readers will be enthralled by this propulsive account.”—Publishers Weekly
 
LONGLISTED FOR THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY LIBRARY JOURNAL

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