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#1 WHITE FRAGILITY
Robin DiAngelo
Historical and cultural analyses on what causes defensive moves by white people and how this inhibits cross-racial dialogue.
On the bestsellers list for 95 weeks
#2 STAMPED FROM THE BEGINNING
Ibram X Kendi
Winner of the 2016 National Book Award for nonfiction. A look at anti-Black racist ideas and their effect on the course of American history.
On the bestsellers list for 6 weeks
#3 SO YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT RACE
Ijeoma Oluo
A look at the contemporary racial landscape of the United States.
On the bestsellers list for 6 weeks
#4 THE COLOR OF LAW
Richard Rothstein
A case for how the American government abetted racial segregation in metropolitan areas across the country.
On the bestsellers list for 9 weeks
#5 JUST MERCY
Bryan Stevenson
A civil rights lawyer and MacArthur grant recipient’s memoir of his decades of work to free innocent people condemned to death.
On the bestsellers list for 211 weeks
#6 THE NEW JIM CROW
Michelle Alexander
A law professor on the “war on drugs” and its role in the disproportionate incarceration of Black men.
On the bestsellers list for 192 weeks
#7 WHY ARE ALL THE BLACK KIDS SITTING TOGETHER IN THE CAFETERIA?
Beverly Daniel Tatum
The president emerita of Spelman College examines whether self-segregation is a problem or a coping strategy.
On the bestsellers list for 4 weeks
#8 THE WARMTH OF OTHER SUNS
Isabel Wilkerson
An account of the Great Migration of 1915-70, in which six million African-Americans abandoned the South.
On the bestsellers list for 27 weeks
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#9 BORN A CRIME
Trevor Noah
A memoir about growing up biracial in apartheid South Africa by the host of “The Daily Show.”
On the bestsellers list for 72 weeks
#10 WHITE RAGE
Carol Anderson
A historian documents a long timeline and pattern in which social, legal and economic advances for African-Americans have been countered with systemic and deliberate opposition.
On the bestsellers list for 5 weeks
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#11 THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE
Bessel van der Kolk
How trauma affects the body and mind, and innovative treatments for recovery.
On the bestsellers list for 88 weeks
#12 MY GRANDMOTHER'S HANDS
Resmaa Menakem
A therapist who specializes in trauma, body-centered psychotherapy and violence prevention explains racism's effect on the body.
On the bestsellers list for 2 weeks
#13 THE COLOR OF COMPROMISE
Jemar Tis
A history of race from America's early colonial days through to the Black Lives Matter movement and a call for a more racially unified church.
On the bestsellers list for 3 weeks
#14 SAPIENS
Yuval Noah Harari
How Homo sapiens became Earth’s dominant species.
On the bestsellers list for 108 weeks
#15 BRAIDING SWEETGRASS
Robin Wall Kimmerer
A botanist and member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation espouses having an understanding and appreciation of plants and animals.
On the bestsellers list for 15 weeks
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