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Race & Culture

Last Updated: July 19, 2024

Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Really Think About Race and Identity by Michele Norris

A unique compilation of stories, richly reported essays, and photographs providing a window into America during a tumultuous era. This powerful book offers an honest, if sometimes uncomfortable, conversation about race and identity, permitting us to eavesdrop on deep-seated thoughts, private discussions, and long submerged memories.

Metaracism: How Systemic Racism Devastates Black Lives- And How We Break Free by Tricia Rose

A pioneering scholar offers this new account of what systemic racism actually is, how it works and how we can fight back, revealing how hard-to-see systemic connections function to disproportionately contain, exploit and punish Black people and showing us how to create a more just America for us all.

We Need to Talk About Antisemitism by Rabbi Diana Fersko

We Need to Talk About Antisemitism
by Rabbi Diana Fersko

Provides a comprehensive overview of modern antisemitism in all its forms, galvanizing readers to fight for social justice. Drawing on historical research and current events, Fersko takes us through the roots of some of the most pernicious and damaging myths about Jewish people. She unpacks the microaggressions, identity denial, and Christian privilege that many Jews have to contend with, and examines the current American political landscape to condemn the antisemitism of both the far right and the far left.

The Black Box: Writing the Race by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

The Black Box: Writing the Race
by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

A magnificent, foundational reckoning with how Black Americans have used the written word to define and redefine themselves, in resistance to the lies of racism and often in heated disagreement with each other, over the course of the country’s history.

Latinoland: a Portrait of America’s Largest and Least Understood Minority by Marie Arana

This wide-ranging overview of the turbulent and little-known history of the diverse Latino experience in America is based on hundreds of interviews and research about the fastest-growing minority in America.

Be a Revolution: How Everyday People are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World- and How You Can, Too by Ijeoma Oluo

Looking at many of our most powerful systems–like education, media, labor, health, housing, policing, and more–Oluo highlights what people are doing to create change for intersectional racial equity.