18 Nonfiction Reading Prompts - hosted by seaglass

Racism
Read a book about racism. 
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How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith

How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

Clint Smith

336 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance by Angela Y. Davis

If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance

Angela Y. Davis

10 hours, 13 minutes • first pub 1971 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history politics race challenging reflective slow-paced
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

Walter Rodney

13 hours, 21 minutes • first pub 1972 (editions)

nonfiction history politics informative reflective slow-paced
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Michelle Alexander

352 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Women, Race, & Class by Angela Y. Davis

Women, Race, & Class

Angela Y. Davis

271 pages • first pub 1981 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history politics race sociology challenging informative medium-paced
They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom by Dena Takruri, Ahed Tamimi

They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom

Dena Takruri, Ahed Tamimi

288 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction memoir emotional informative inspiring medium-paced
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

Richard Rothstein

368 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis

Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

Angela Y. Davis

180 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction essays feminism politics race informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin

Notes of a Native Son

James Baldwin

192 pages • first pub 1955 (editions) user-added

nonfiction classics essays race challenging reflective slow-paced
Don't Call Us Dead: Poems by Danez Smith

Don't Call Us Dead: Poems

Danez Smith

96 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction lgbtqia+ poetry race challenging emotional reflective medium-paced