Book Riot 2024 Read Harder Challenge - hosted by baechael

Read a history book by a BIPOC author
All books added
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
Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America by Michael Harriot

Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America

Michael Harriot

432 pages • first pub 2023 (editions) user-added

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative medium-paced
The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History by Ned Blackhawk

The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History

Ned Blackhawk

596 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

Isabel Wilkerson

476 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction history politics psychology race sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

Isabel Wilkerson

622 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history race challenging informative slow-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
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

ReVisioning American History

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

296 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Eyeliner: A Cultural History by Zahra Hankir

Eyeliner: A Cultural History

Zahra Hankir

272 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
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