Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for our Own (Online) by
Mixes biography—drawn partially from newly uncovered Baldwin interviews—with history, memoir, and analysis of current American politics and discussions on race.
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 by
A one-volume "community" history of African Americans. The editors, Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain, have assembled ninety brilliant writers, each of whom takes on a five-year period of that four-hundred-year span. The writers explore their periods through a variety of techniques: historical essays, short stories, personal vignettes, and fiery polemics.
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How our Government Segregated America (Online) by
Argues that the American government systematically imposed residential segregation: with undisguised racial zoning; public housing that purposefully segregated previously mixed communities; subsidies for builders to create whites-only suburbs; tax exemptions for institutions that enforced segregation; and support for violent resistance to African Americans in white neighborhoods.
Making the World Over: Confronting Racism, Misogyny, and Xenophobia in U.S. History (Online) by
Examines the histories behind the issues at the root of our country's conflicts both past and present, from race and immigration to misogyny and reproductive rights.
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Online) by
Chronicles the entire story of anti-black racist ideas and their staggering power over the course of American history. Kendi uses the life stories of five major American intellectuals to drive this history: Puritan minister Cotton Mather, Thomas Jefferson, abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, W.E.B. Du Bois, and legendary activist Angela Davis.
White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America (Online) by
Argues that racism is at the core of conservative evangelical activism and power. Butler reveals how evangelical racism, propelled by the benefits of whiteness, has since the nation's founding played a provocative role in severely fracturing the electorate.
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