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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

Ibram X. Kendi

592 pages • hardcover • 2016

nonfiction history politics race sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Clara at the Door with a Revolver: The Scandalous Black Suspect, the Exemplary White Son, and the Murder That Shocked Toronto by Carolyn Whitzman

Clara at the Door with a Revolver: The Scandalous Black Suspect, the Exemplary White Son, and the Murder That Shocked Toronto

Carolyn Whitzman

336 pages • paperback • 2023

nonfiction race true crime dark informative reflective medium-paced
Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science by Kim TallBear

Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science

Kim TallBear

10 hours, 9 minutes • audio • 2013

nonfiction history race science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers

They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South

Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers

10 hours, 26 minutes • audio • 2019

nonfiction history race challenging informative slow-paced
The Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave by William Wells Brown

The Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave

William Wells Brown

116 pages • 1847

nonfiction biography history adventurous medium-paced
Poems of Phillis Wheatley by Phillis Wheatley

Poems of Phillis Wheatley

Phillis Wheatley

108 pages • paperback • 1995

nonfiction classics poetry challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
The New Guys: The Historic Class of Astronauts That Broke Barriers and Changed the Face of Space Travel by Meredith Bagby

The New Guys: The Historic Class of Astronauts That Broke Barriers and Changed the Face of Space Travel

Meredith Bagby

16 hours, 50 minutes • audio • 2023

nonfiction history science informative medium-paced
The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games by Ebony Elizabeth Thomas

The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games

Ebony Elizabeth Thomas

7 hours, 13 minutes • audio • 2019

nonfiction art race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Dixie's Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture by Karen L. Cox

Dixie's Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture

New Perspectives on the History of the South

Karen L. Cox

6 hours, 50 minutes • audio • 2003 user-added

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge by Erica Armstrong Dunbar

Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge

Erica Armstrong Dunbar

6 hours, 45 minutes • audio • 2017

nonfiction biography history informative fast-paced