Race

Bad Blood

James H. Jones

Escaping the Delta

Elijah Wald

I Never Had It Made

Jackie Robinson, Alfred Duckett

My Grandfather's Son

Clarence Thomas

A Testament of Hope

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Selected Poems

Gwendolyn Brooks

Jubilee

Toni Tipton-Martin

Token

Beverley Kendall, Jeanette Illidge

Sulwe

Lupita Nyong'o

Don't Ask Me Where I'm From

Jennifer De Leon, Elena Garnu

SLAY

Brittney Morris

The Black Friend: on Being a Better White Person

Frederick Joseph

God's Dream

Desmond Tutu, Douglas Carlton Abrams

Revolution in Our Time: the Black Panther Party’s Promise to the People

Kekla Magoon

Better Than We Found It: Conversations to Help Save the World

Frederick Joseph, Porsche Joseph

The Trouble of Color

Martha S. Jones

Punishment Without Crime

Alexandra Natapoff

Myth America

Kevin M. Kruse, Julian E. Zelizer

Freedom’s Dominion (winner of the Pulitzer Prize)

Jefferson Cowie, Jefferson R. Cowie

The Broken Heart of America

Walter Johnson

Bleeding Out

Thomas Abt, Brad Raymond

White Malice

Chanté McCormick, Susan Williams

Bed Stuy

Jerry McGill

We Are Not Yet Equal

Carol Anderson, Tonya Bolden

The Black Interior

Elizabeth Alexander

Lessons on Expulsion

Erika L. Sánchez

Don't Call US Dead

Danez Smith

Wade in the Water

Tracy K. Smith

The White Card

Claudia Rankine

The African Origin of Civilization

Cheikh Anta Diop, Mercer Cook