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Native Son by Richard Wright

Native Son

Richard Wright

367 pages • first pub 1940 (editions) user-added

fiction classics race challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
Resisting Borders and Technologies of Violence by Coline Schupfer, Matt Mahmoudi, Mizue Aizeki

Resisting Borders and Technologies of Violence

Coline Schupfer, Matt Mahmoudi, Mizue Aizeki

300 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction politics technology
No More Police: A Case for Abolition by Mariame Kaba, Andrea J. Ritchie

No More Police: A Case for Abolition

Mariame Kaba, Andrea J. Ritchie

382 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction essays feminism politics sociology challenging hopeful informative medium-paced
Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire by Akala

Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire

Akala

342 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir politics race challenging informative reflective medium-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
Burial Rites by Hannah Kent

Burial Rites

Hannah Kent

336 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

fiction historical literary dark emotional sad slow-paced
The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner

The Mars Room

Rachel Kushner

352 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

fiction contemporary literary dark medium-paced
Insurgent Love: Abolition and Domestic Homicide by Ardath Whynacht

Insurgent Love: Abolition and Domestic Homicide

Ardath Whynacht

144 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction gender politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Disarm, Defund, Dismantle: Police Abolition in Canada by Kevin Walby, Abby Stadnyk, Shiri Pasternak

Disarm, Defund, Dismantle: Police Abolition in Canada

Kevin Walby, Abby Stadnyk, Shiri Pasternak

176 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

challenging informative reflective medium-paced
A Kick in the Belly: Women, Slavery and Resistance by Stella Dadzie

A Kick in the Belly: Women, Slavery and Resistance

Stella Dadzie

209 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction history politics race challenging dark informative medium-paced