Books similar like A Sin by Any Other Name: Reckoning with Racism and the Heritage of the South

The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi

A shocking and revelatory account of the murder of Emmett Till that lays bare how forces from around the world converged on the Mississippi Delta in the long lead-up to the crime, and how the truth wa…

Buy this book on Amazon

American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America

Twenty-five years ago, when Pat Robertson and other radio and televangelists first spoke of the United States becoming a Christian nation that would build a global Christian empire, it was hard to tak…

Buy this book on Amazon

Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific

Now the inspiration behind the HBO series THE PACIFIC

Here is one of the most riveting first-person accounts to ever come out of the Second World War. Robert Leckie was 21 when he enlisted in the US Ma…

Buy this book on Amazon

Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine

Buy this book on Amazon

The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History

At the height of WWI, history’s most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide. It kille…

Buy this book on Amazon

You Didn't Hear This From Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip

A delightfully insightful exploration of our obsession with gossip that weaves together journalism, cultural criticism, and memoir, from the host of the massively popular Normal Gossip podcast.

Can yo…

Buy this book on Amazon

Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation

Separate is a myth-shattering narrative of one of the most consequential Supreme Court cases of the nineteenth century, Plessy v. Ferguson. The 1896 ruling embraced racial segregation, and its reverbe…

Buy this book on Amazon

The JFK Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Kennedy―and Why It Failed

From the New York Times bestselling authors of The Nazi Conspiracy and The Lincoln Conspiracy comes a true, little-known story about the first assassination attempt on John F. Kennedy, right before hi…

Buy this book on Amazon

Untethered Sky

From World Fantasy Award-winning author Fonda Lee comes Untethered Sky, an epic fantasy fable about the pursuit of obsession at all costs.

Ester’s family was torn apart when a manticore killed her moth…

Buy this book on Amazon

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

"Jarvious Cotton's great-great-grandfather could not vote as a slave. His great-grandfather was beaten to death by the Klu Klux Klan for attempting to vote. His grandfather was prevented from voting b…

Buy this book on Amazon

How We Learn to Be Brave: Decisive Moments in Life and Faith

An inspirational guide to the key junctures in life that, if navigated with faith and discernment, pave the way for us to become our most courageous selves, by the bishop of the famed Episcopal Dioces…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis

George Stephanopoulos, former senior advisor to President Clinton and for more than 20 years anchor of This Week and co-anchor of Good Morning America , recounts the crises that decided the course …

Buy this book on Amazon

After Oz

Gripping and emotionally riveting, this whimsical tale is an empowering and timely retelling of The Wizard of Oz where one little girl is forced to face head-on the prejudices of the Midwest in the la…

Buy this book on Amazon

Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?

Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see Black, White, and Latino youth clustered in their own groups. Is this self-segregation a problem to address or a coping strategy? Beverly Dani…

Buy this book on Amazon

Deaf Republic

Ilya Kaminsky's astonishing parable in poems asks us, What is silence?

Deaf Republic opens in an occupied country in a time of political unrest. When soldiers breaking up a protest kill a deaf boy, Pet…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Happiness Project

Gretchen Rubin had an epiphany one rainy afternoon in the unlikeliest of places: a city bus. “The days are long, but the years are short,” she realized. “Time is passing, and I’m not focusing enough o…

Buy this book on Amazon

Poverty, by America

Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it.

The United States, the richest country on earth, has more …

Buy this book on Amazon

Walking in My Joy: In These Streets

A new offering from the author of the hugely successful Mother of Black Hollywood. Walking in My Joy is a collection of electric stories by the one and only, super hilarious Jenifer Lewis. Her comment…

Buy this book on Amazon

Live Learn Love Well: Lessons from a Life of Progress Not Perfection

Buy this book on Amazon

I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris

When you’re a woman smack in so-called “middle age” you are not promised anything at all other than that everything will get worse. But what if everything you’ve been told is a lie.

Come to Paris, Augu…

Buy this book on Amazon

A Sin by Any Other Name: Reckoning with Racism and the Heritage of the South

Similar books (20)