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The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

The Fire Next Time

James Baldwin

106 pages • first pub 1963 (editions)

5.0carlosmcknight's review
nonfiction classics essays memoir race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital by George Derek Musgrove, Chris Myers Asch

Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital

George Derek Musgrove, Chris Myers Asch

624 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

4.5carlosmcknight's review
nonfiction history race challenging informative slow-paced
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

The Vanishing Half

Brit Bennett

343 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

3.5carlosmcknight's review
fiction historical literary emotional reflective medium-paced
Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics by Marc Lamont Hill, Mitchell Plitnick

Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics

Marc Lamont Hill, Mitchell Plitnick

240 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

4.0carlosmcknight's review
nonfiction politics challenging informative medium-paced
The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America by Carol Anderson

The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America

Carol Anderson

272 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

4.0carlosmcknight's review
nonfiction politics challenging informative medium-paced
The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition by Linda Gordon

The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition

Linda Gordon

288 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

4.0carlosmcknight's review
nonfiction history politics informative reflective slow-paced
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo

White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

Robin DiAngelo

154 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

3.0carlosmcknight's review
nonfiction politics race sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto by Charles M. Blow

The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto

Charles M. Blow

256 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

4.0carlosmcknight's review
nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America by Ivan Van Sertima

They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America

Ivan Van Sertima

284 pages • first pub 1976 (editions)

2.0carlosmcknight's review
nonfiction history race informative reflective slow-paced
Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis

Are Prisons Obsolete?

Angela Y. Davis

128 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

4.0carlosmcknight's review
nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced