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All awards · Topic: Civil Rights & Racial Justice · Sorted by score · 155 books · filtered
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The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm XLes Payne, Tamara Payne202134 pts2 wins7 listsLiverightBiographyAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
Caste: The Origins of Our DiscontentsIsabel Wilkerson202026 pts1 wins7 listsRandom HouseRace & EthnicityBlack History & Culture+2
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and RedemptionBryan Stevenson201422 pts2 wins4 listsSpiegel & GrauTrue Crime & JusticeCivil Rights & Racial Justice+1
Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race Civil Rights and Murder in the Jazz AgeKevin Boyle200422 pts2 wins4 listsHenry Holt and CompanyRace & EthnicityBlack History & Culture+2
A Civil ActionJonathan Harr199522 pts2 wins4 listsRandom HouseTrue Crime & JusticeCrime, Policing & Violence+3
Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Non-FictionMelissa Fay Greene199120 pts3 wins5 listsSecker & WarburgRace & EthnicityBlack History & Culture+3
Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights RevolutionDiane McWhorter200118 pts3 wins3 listsSimon & SchusterRace & EthnicityBlack History & Culture+2
Negroland: A MemoirMargo Jefferson201518 pts2 wins3 listsVintage BooksMemoir & AutobiographyCivil Rights & Racial Justice+1
China MenMaxine Hong Kingston197718 pts1 wins3 listsKnopfRace & EthnicityCivil Rights & Racial Justice+2
Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for EqualityRichard Kluger197516 pts2 wins4 listsKnopfRace & EthnicityBlack History & Culture+2
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper TogetherHeather McGhee202116 pts2 wins5 listsProfile BooksRace & EthnicityAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our TimeIra Katznelson201314 pts2 wins2 listsLiverightHistoryBusiness, Capitalism & Corporations+3
Sons of Mississippi: A Story of Race and Its LegacyPaul Hendrickson200314 pts2 wins2 listsVintage BooksRace & EthnicityCivil Rights & Racial Justice+1
Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American MemoryDavid W. Blight200214 pts2 wins2 listsHarvard University PressHistoryCivil Rights & Racial Justice+3
The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in AmericaShelby Steele199014 pts1 wins2 listsSt. Martin's PressRace & EthnicityAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New AmericaGilbert King201214 pts1 wins3 listsHarperRace & EthnicityCivil Rights & Racial Justice+2
By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal ExecutionersMargaret A. Burnham202214 pts2 wins4 listsW. W. NortonRace & EthnicityCrime, Policing & Violence+3
The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a NationGene Roberts, Hank Klibanoff200812 pts1 wins2 listsKnopfRace & EthnicityCivil Rights & Racial Justice+2
John Doe Chinaman: A Forgotten History of Chinese Life Under American Racial LawBeth Lew-Williams202510 pts1 wins1 listsHarvard University PressHistoryImmigration, Refugees & Borderlands+3
No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston's Black Workers in the Civil War EraJacqueline Jones202410 pts1 wins1 listsBasic BooksHistoryCivil Rights & Racial Justice+2
Deadpan: The Aesthetics of Black InexpressionTina Post202310 pts1 wins1 listsNew York University PressArts & CriticismAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black AmericaMarcia Chatelain202110 pts1 wins1 listsLiverightHistoryAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
Punch Me Up to the Gods: A MemoirBrian Broome202110 pts1 wins1 listsHoughton Mifflin HarcourtMemoir & AutobiographyCivil Rights & Racial Justice
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial DivideCarol Anderson201610 pts1 wins1 listsBloomsburyRace & EthnicityBlack History & Culture+2
Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights MovementTomiko Brown-Nagin201210 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressRace & EthnicityBlack History & Culture+3
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans From Colonial Times to the PresentHarriet A. Washington200610 pts1 wins1 listsDoubledayRace & EthnicityAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial EqualityMichael J. Klarman200410 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressRace & EthnicityCivil Rights & Racial Justice+3
Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was BlackGregory Howard Williams199510 pts1 wins1 listsPenguin PressMemoir & AutobiographyAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in MississippiJohn Dittmer199410 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of Illinois PressRace & EthnicityCivil Rights & Racial Justice+3
Dark Journey: Black Mississippians in the Age of Jim CrowNeil R. McMillen199010 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of Illinois PressHistoryBlack History & Culture+3
Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil RightsDylan C. Penningroth202410 pts1 wins3 listsLiverightRace & EthnicityBlack History & Culture+2
Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our NationLinda Villarosa202210 pts1 wins3 listsDoubledayRace & EthnicityCivil Rights & Racial Justice+2
Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for AllMartha S. Jones202110 pts1 wins3 listsBasic BooksHistoryCivil Rights & Racial Justice+2
Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe TrotterKerri K. Greenidge20208 pts1 wins2 listsLiverightBiographyAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. HistoryRogers M. Smith19978 pts1 wins2 listsYale University PressRace & EthnicityDemocracy & Elections+3
Parallel Time: Growing Up in Black and WhiteBrent Staples19948 pts1 wins2 listsAvon BooksMemoir & AutobiographyAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil RightsAdam Winkler20188 pts0 wins2 listsLiverightBusiness & EconomicsCivil Rights & Racial Justice
Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working ClassBlair L.M. Kelley20236 pts1 wins2 listsLiverightHistoryAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli MurrayRosalind Rosenberg20176 pts1 wins2 listsOxford University PressBiographyLgbtq History & Life+3
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated AmericaRichard Rothstein20176 pts1 wins2 listsLiverightRace & EthnicityBlack History & Culture+2
Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the SouthJohn Egerton19946 pts1 wins2 listsKnopfHistoryBlack History & Culture+2
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space RaceMargot Lee Shetterly20166 pts1 wins2 listsHarperCollinsRace & EthnicityCivil Rights & Racial Justice+3
Mother Emanuel: Two Centuries of Race, Resistance, and Forgiveness in One Charleston ChurchKevin Sack20256 pts0 wins2 listsCrownRace & EthnicityCivil Rights & Racial Justice+1
The Invention of Miracles: Language, Power, and Alexander Graham Bell's Quest to End DeafnessKatie Booth20226 pts0 wins2 listsAvid Reader PressBiographyDisability & Difference+3
All Our Relations: Indigenous Trauma in the Shadow of ColonialismTanya Talaga20206 pts0 wins2 listsScribe PublicationsRace & EthnicityIndigenous History+3
Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian CountrySierra Crane Murdoch20206 pts0 wins2 listsRandom HouseTrue Crime & JusticeBlack History & Culture+2
Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in AmericaPatrick Phillips20176 pts0 wins2 listsW. W. NortonRace & EthnicityBlack History & Culture+2
At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black AmericaPhilip Dray20026 pts0 wins2 listsRandom HouseRace & EthnicityBlack History & Culture+2
The Containment: Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the NorthMichelle Adams20254 pts1 wins1 listsFarrar, Straus and GirouxRace & EthnicityBlack History & Culture+3
Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: The Politics of Food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to School LunchAndrea Freeman20244 pts1 wins1 listsMetropolitan BooksScienceImmigration, Refugees & Borderlands+3
Into the Bright Sunshine: Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil RightsSamuel G. Freedman20234 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressBiographyOceans, Rivers & Water+3
Critical Race Judgments: Rewritten U.S. Court Opinions on Race and the LawBennett Capers, Devon W. Carbado, R. A. Lenhardt, Angela Onwuachi-Willig20224 pts1 wins1 listsCambridge University PressRace & EthnicityImmigration, Refugees & Borderlands+3
Eunice Hunton Carter: A Lifelong Fight for Social JusticeMarilyn S. Greenwald, Yun Li20214 pts1 wins1 listsFordham University PressBiographyIndigenous History+3
Cigarettes, Inc.: An Intimate History of Corporate ImperialismNan C. Enstad20184 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of Chicago PressHistoryCivil Rights & Racial Justice+3
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in AmericaElizabeth Hinton20164 pts1 wins1 listsHarvard University PressTrue Crime & JusticeDisease, Epidemics & Drugs+3
The Devil is Here in These HillsJames Green20154 pts1 wins1 listsGrove AtlanticHistoryCivil Rights & Racial Justice+3
Stuck in Place: Urban Neighborhoods and the End of Progress Toward Racial Equality Ambiguous DangerPatrick Sharkey20134 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of Chicago PressRace & EthnicityBlack History & Culture+3
The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme CourtJeffrey Toobin20074 pts1 wins1 listsDoubledayPolitics & GovernmentReproductive Rights & Family Policy+3
American Law in the Twentieth CenturyLawrence Friedman20024 pts1 wins1 listsYale University PressPolitics & GovernmentImmigration, Refugees & Borderlands+3
Pillar of FireTaylor Branch19984 pts1 wins1 listsSimon & SchusterRace & EthnicityClimate, Weather & Disaster+3
At the Hands of a Person Unknown: The Lynching of Black AmericaPhilip Dray20034 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintRace & EthnicityCivil Rights & Racial Justice+1
Black and British: A Forgotten HistoryDavid Olusoga20174 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintRace & EthnicityCivil Rights & Racial Justice+1
Black FreedomCarleton Mabee19714 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintRace & EthnicityCivil Rights & Racial Justice+1
Black Like MeJohn Howard Griffin19624 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintRace & EthnicityCivil Rights & Racial Justice+1
Black MetropolisSt. Clair Drake19464 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintRace & EthnicityCivil Rights & Racial Justice+1
Brotherhoods of Color: Black Railroad Workers and the Struggle for EqualityEric Arnesen20024 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintRace & EthnicityLabor, Work & Organizing+2
Civilities and Civil RightsWilliam H. Chafe19814 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintRace & EthnicityLaw & Legal Change+1
Evangelist of RaceGeoffrey G. Field19824 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintRace & EthnicityCivil Rights & Racial Justice
Finding the TrapdoorAdam Hochschild19984 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintJournalism & ReportageCivil Rights & Racial Justice+3
Handbook on Race RelationsSouth African Institute of Race Relations19584 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintRace & EthnicityCivil Rights & Racial Justice
Race RelationsBrewton Berry19524 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintRace & EthnicityCivil Rights & Racial Justice
Racial and Cultural MinoritiesGeorge Eaton Simpson19594 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintRace & EthnicityCivil Rights & Racial Justice
Reaping the Whirlwind: The Civil Rights Movement in TuskegeeRobert Norrell19864 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintRace & EthnicitySocial Movements & Activism+2
Strong Inside: Perry Wallace and the Collision of Race and Sports in the SouthAndrew Maraniss20154 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintRace & EthnicityCivil Rights & Racial Justice
Taming the Storm: The Life and Times of Judge Frank M. Johnson, Jr. and the South’s Fight Over Civil RightsJack Bass19944 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyPresidential Biography+3
That Wilder Image: The Painting of America's Native School from Thomas Cole to Winslow HomerJames Thomas Flexner19634 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintRace & EthnicityEducation & Universities+2
The Black Image in the White MindGeorge M. Fredrickson19724 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintRace & EthnicityCivil Rights & Racial Justice+1
The Black NotebooksToi Derricotte19984 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintRace & EthnicityCivil Rights & Racial Justice+1
The Third Reconstruction: America’s Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First CenturyPeniel E. Joseph20234 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintRace & EthnicityReconstruction+3
Who’s Black and Why? A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of RaceHenry Louis Gates, Jr., Andrew S. Curran20234 pts1 wins1 listsHarvard University PressRace & EthnicityCivil Rights & Racial Justice+1
Worse Than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow JusticeDavid M. Oshinsky19974 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintHistorySlavery & Emancipation+3
Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My PeopleImani Perry20254 pts0 wins1 listsEccoRace & EthnicityAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We HealBettina L. Love20234 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintRace & EthnicityBlack History & Culture+2
Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for EqualityTomiko Brown-Nagin20224 pts0 wins1 listsKnopf Doubleday Publishing GroupBiographyActivist Biography+2
Four Hundred SoulsIbram X. Kendi, Keisha N. Blain, eds.20224 pts0 wins1 listsOne WorldRace & EthnicityReconstruction+2
Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to ReconstructionKate Masur20224 pts0 wins1 listsW. W. NortonRace & EthnicityReconstruction+2
Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black HomeownershipKeeanga-Yamahtta Taylor20204 pts0 wins1 listsUniversity of North Carolina PressRace & EthnicityReconstruction+2
The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and PowerDeirdre Mask20204 pts0 wins1 listsSt. Martin's PressSociety & CultureCivil Rights & Racial Justice+1
The Reinvention of Humanity: A Story of Race, Sex, Gender and the Discovery of CultureCharles King20194 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintRace & EthnicityLgbtq History & Life+3
The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old SouthMichael W. Twitty20174 pts0 wins1 listsAmistadMemoir & AutobiographyAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
American Beach: A Saga of Race, Wealth, and MemoryRuss Rymer19984 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintRace & EthnicityCivil Rights & Racial Justice+3
Stories of ScottsboroJames Goodman19954 pts0 wins1 listsVintage BooksHistoryCivil Rights & Racial Justice+2
Looking for a ShipJohn McPhee19914 pts0 wins1 listsFarrar, Straus and GirouxTravel & PlaceBlack History & Culture+2
The Civil Rights Era: Origins and Development of National PolicyHugh Davis Graham19904 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintHistoryAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
Habits and the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American LifeRobert N. Bellah19864 pts0 wins1 listsUniversity of California PressSociety & CultureCivil Rights & Racial Justice+2
Awakening from the American DreamRufus E. Miles, Jr.19774 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintPolitics & GovernmentCivil Rights & Racial Justice+2
Blue Dreams: Korean Americans and the Los Angeles RiotsNancy Abelmann, John Lie19954 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintRace & EthnicityBlack History & Culture+2
Detroit: An American AutopsyCharlie LeDuff20134 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintJournalism & ReportageAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
Neither Settler Nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent MinoritiesProfessor Mahmood Mamdani FBA20214 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintRace & EthnicitySettler Colonialism+2
The 1619 ProjectNikole Hannah-Jones, Caitlin Roper, Ilena Silverman, Jake Silverstein20224 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintHistoryBlack History & Culture+3
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All awards · Topic: Civil Rights & Racial Justice · Sorted by score · 155 books · filtered