Books – Civil Rights/Race

Most of this list from #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation By Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

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A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America By Ronald Takaki

A Perilous Path: Talking Race, Inequality, and the Law By Sherrilyn Ifill, Loretta Lynch, Bryan Stevenson, Anthony C. Thompson

Abraham Lincoln and the Road to Emancipation, 1861-1865 By William K. Klingaman

Allies For Freedom & Blacks On By John Brown Benjamin Quarles

Black Judas: William Hannibal Thomas and the American Negro By John David Smith

Black Liberation in Conservative America By Manning Marable

By the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.. 1964

Civil Rights Policymaking in the United States By Francine Sanders Romero

Between the World and Me By Ta-Nehisi Coates

Chokehold: Policing Black Men By Paul Butler

Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class By Ian Haney López

Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965 By Juan Williams

Freedom Days: 365 Inspired Moments in Civil Rights History By Janus Adams

Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination By Robin D.G. Kelley

Harry Truman and Civil Rights By Michael R. Gardner

I Can’t Breathe: A Killing on Bay Street By Matt Taibbi

In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens By Alice Walker

In the Spirit of Crazy Horse By Peter Matthiessen

Inheritors of the Spirit: Mary White Ovington and the Founding of the NAACP By Carolyn Wedin

Is Apartheid Really Dead? By Julian Kunnie

I’ve Got the Light of Freedom By Charles M. Payne

Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America By James Forman

Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America By  Michael Eric Dyson 

Nitsitapiisinni: The Story of the Blackfoot People By The Blackfoot Gallery Committee

On Lynchings By Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Orientalism By Edward Said

Pullman Porters & the Rise of Protest Politics in Black America, 1925-1945 By Beth Tompkins Bates

Race by Studs Terkel

Race Manners: Navigating the Minefield Between Black and White Americans By Bruce A. Jacobs

Race Matters By Cornel West

Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life By Karen E. Fields

Racial Redlining: A study on Bank Discrimination By Jonathan Brown and Charles Benington

Sending Money Home: Hispanic Remittances and Community Development By Rodolfo O. de la Garza & Briant Lindsay Lowell

The Black New Yorkers

The Color of Law : The Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America By Richard Rothstein

The Cornel West Reader By Cornel West

The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks By Randall Robinson

The Half Has Never Been Told : Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism By Edward E. Baptist

The Hip Hop Generation By Bakari Kitwana

The Native American World By Donna Hightower-Langston

The Negro By W.E.B. DuBois

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Color Blindness By Michelle Alexander

The New Politics of Race By Marlese Durr

The Schomburg Illustrated Chronology, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

Unequal Protection By Bob Bullard

Why We Can’t Wait

Workforce Education for Latinos By Ana G. Huertas-Macias

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Books by the Issues

Specific Issues Index

from Creating Better World

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