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Learning in Public: Lessons for a Racially Divided America from My Daughter's School by Courtney E. Martin

Learning in Public: Lessons for a Racially Divided America from My Daughter's School

Courtney E. Martin

320 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction biography education memoir sociology emotional reflective medium-paced
Africa Is Not A Country: Breaking Stereotypes of Modern Africa by Dipo Faloyin

Africa Is Not A Country: Breaking Stereotypes of Modern Africa

Dipo Faloyin

400 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction history race informative reflective medium-paced
City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways by Megan Kimble

City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways

Megan Kimble

352 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction politics science technology informative medium-paced
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Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin

Go Tell It on the Mountain

James Baldwin

245 pages • first pub 1953 (editions)

fiction classics literary challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
A Few Rules for Predicting the Future: An Essay by Octavia E. Butler

A Few Rules for Predicting the Future: An Essay

Octavia E. Butler

56 pages • first pub 2000 (editions) user-added

nonfiction essays science fiction
Loving Corrections by adrienne maree brown

Loving Corrections

Emergent Strategy #12

adrienne maree brown

200 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction feminism hopeful informative reflective medium-paced
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World by Henry Grabar

Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World

Henry Grabar

365 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction history politics sociology informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
The Accommodation: The Politics of Race in an American City by Jim Schutze

The Accommodation: The Politics of Race in an American City

Jim Schutze

199 pages • first pub 1987 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi

Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019

Ibram X. Kendi

512 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction essays history race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White by Daniel J. Sharfstein

The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White

Daniel J. Sharfstein

396 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction biography history race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
America's Urban Crisis and the Advent of Color-Blind Politics: Education, Incarceration, Segregation, and the Future of the U.S. Multiracial Democracy by Michael Omi, Joshua A. Bassett, Nell Irvin Painter, Manning Marable, Grace Lee Boggs, Lisa Thurau, Alvin F. Poussaint, Curtis L. Ivery, María Hinojosa, Johanna Wald, John Telford, Erica Frankenberg, Gary Howard, Lani Guinier, Benjamin DeMott, Cornel West, Arthur Levine, Colbert I. King, Bob Herbert, James J. Zogby, Trinh T. Minh-ha, John Powell, Andrew Grant-Thomas, Marc Mauer, Houston A. Baker Jr., Henry Louis Gates Jr.

America's Urban Crisis and the Advent of Color-Blind Politics: Education, Incarceration, Segregation, and the Future of the U.S. Multiracial Democracy

Curtis L. Ivery, María Hinojosa, Johanna Wald, John Telford, Erica Frankenberg, Gary Howard, Lani Guinier, Benjamin DeMott, Cornel West, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Joshua A. Bassett, Nell Irvin Painter, Manning Marable, Grace Lee Boggs, Lisa Thurau, Alvin F. Poussaint, Marc Mauer, Houston A. Baker Jr., Michael Omi, Arthur Levine, Colbert I. King, Bob Herbert, James J. Zogby, Trinh T. Minh-ha, John Powell, Andrew Grant-Thomas

168 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century by Grace Lee Boggs

The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century

Grace Lee Boggs

224 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction politics sociology informative reflective slow-paced
Detroit: An American Autopsy by Charlie LeDuff

Detroit: An American Autopsy

Charlie LeDuff

304 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir politics reflective medium-paced