David Sadzin

23 books

The Accident of Color: A Story of Race in Reconstruction by Daniel Brook

The Accident of Color: A Story of Race in Reconstruction

Daniel Brook

336 pages • 2019

nonfiction history race challenging informative slow-paced
Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition by Cedric J. Robinson

Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition

Cedric J. Robinson

493 pages • paperback • 1983

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative slow-paced
Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital by Chris Myers Asch, George Derek Musgrove

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

Chris Myers Asch, George Derek Musgrove

624 pages • digital • 2017

nonfiction history race challenging informative slow-paced
Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks by Jason Reynolds

Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks

Jason Reynolds

231 pages • hardcover • 2019

fiction middle grade short stories emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced
The Man No One Believed: The Untold Story of the Georgia Church Murders by Joshua Sharpe

The Man No One Believed: The Untold Story of the Georgia Church Murders

Joshua Sharpe

272 pages • hardcover • 2025

nonfiction true crime dark emotional sad medium-paced
No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice by Karen L. Cox

No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice

A Ferris and Ferris Book

Karen L. Cox

224 pages • hardcover

nonfiction history emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Not Light, but Fire: How to Lead Meaningful Race Conversations in the Classroom by Matthew R. Kay

Not Light, but Fire: How to Lead Meaningful Race Conversations in the Classroom

Matthew R. Kay

278 pages • 2018

nonfiction education race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Tuskegee Syphilis Study: An Insiders' Account of the Shocking Medical Experiment Conducted by Government Doctors Against African American Men by Fred D. Gray

The Tuskegee Syphilis Study: An Insiders' Account of the Shocking Medical Experiment Conducted by Government Doctors Against African American Men

Fred D. Gray

176 pages • paperback

nonfiction health history sociology informative medium-paced
We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement by Akinyele Omowale Umoja

We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement

Akinyele Omowale Umoja

339 pages • 2013

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence by Michele Filgate

What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence

Michele Filgate

288 pages • digital • 2019

nonfiction essays memoir emotional reflective medium-paced