75 Books in the “History / Social History” Category (collage)

Gray Areas: How the Way We Work Perpetuates Racism and What We Can Do to Fix It

by Adia Harvey Wingfield
Amistad (Oct 17, 2023)
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The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from the New Yorker

by William Jelani Cobb and David Remnick
Ecco (Sep 28, 2021)
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Make Good the Promises: Reclaiming Reconstruction and Its Legacies

by Kinshasha Holman Conwill and Paul Gardullo
Amistad (Sep 14, 2021)
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America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s

by Elizabeth Hinton
Liveright Publishing Corporation (May 18, 2021)
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White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color

by Ruby Hamad
Catapult (Oct 06, 2020)
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Who Stole the Soul? the Weaponization of Hip Hop: A Historical & Sociological Perspective

by Bernard O. Creamer
Independently Published (Sep 05, 2020)
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Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots

by Morgan Jerkins
Harper (Aug 04, 2020)
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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

by Isabel Wilkerson
Random House (Aug 04, 2020)
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Democracy, If We Can Keep It: The Aclu’s 100-Year Fight for Rights in America

by Ellis Cose
The New Press (Jul 07, 2020)
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The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal about Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power

by Deirdre Mask
St. Martin’s Press (Apr 14, 2020)
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Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals

by Saidiya Hartman
W. W. Norton & Company (Jan 14, 2020)
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Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America

by Marcia Chatelain
Liveright Publishing Corporation (Jan 07, 2020)
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Virginia Slavery and King Salt in Booker T. Washington’s Boyhood Home

by Larry Linwell Rowe
Old Malden Press (Oct 26, 2019)
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Tulsa, 1921: Reporting a Massacre

by Randy Krehbiel
University of Oklahoma Press (Sep 19, 2019)
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Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don’t Know

by Malcolm Gladwell
Little, Brown and Company (Sep 10, 2019)
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Solving The Race Issue In America

by H. J. Harris
New Paradigm Publishing (Aug 27, 2019)
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The Lies that Bind: Rethinking Identity

by Kwame Anthony Appiah
Liveright (Aug 20, 2019)
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American Founders: How People of African Descent Established Freedom in the New World

by Christina Proenza-Coles
NewSouth Books (Mar 15, 2019)
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The Best of Enemies: Race and Redemption in the New South

by Osha Gray Davidson
The University of North Carolina Press (Feb 01, 2019)
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Victory City: A History of New York and New Yorkers during World War II

by John Strausbaugh
Twelve (Dec 04, 2018)
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Hollywood Black

by Donald Bogle
Running Press (Oct 24, 2018)
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Memphis 68: The Tragedy of Southern Soul

by Stuart Cosgrove
Polygon (Jun 12, 2018)
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Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo”

by Zora Neale Hurston and Deborah G. Plant
Amistad (May 08, 2018)
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The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels

by Jon Meacham
Random House (May 08, 2018)
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Smoketown: The Untold Story of the Other Great Black Renaissance

by Mark Whitaker
Simon & Schuster (Feb 06, 2018)
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The Original Black Elite: Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era

by Elizabeth Dowling Taylor
Amistad (Jan 30, 2018)
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Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era

by Ashley D. Farmer
The University of North Carolina Press (Dec 18, 2017)
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Defining Moments in Black History: Reading Between the Lies

by Dick Gregory
Amistad (Sep 19, 2017)
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Rise of the Phoenix: Voices from Chicago’s Black Struggle 1960-1975

by Useni Eugene Perkins
Third World Press (Sep 15, 2017)
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White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide

by Carol Anderson
Bloomsbury USA (Sep 05, 2017)
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Black Detroit: A People’s History of Self-Determination

by Herb Boyd
Amistad (Jun 06, 2017)
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Remember the Ladies: Celebrating Those Who Fought for Freedom at the Ballot Box

by Angela P. Dodson
Center Street (May 23, 2017)
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Whose Harlem Is This, Anyway?: Community Politics and Grassroots Activism during the New Negro Era

by Shannon King
New York University Press (Apr 01, 2017)
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The Birth of a Movement: How Birth of a Nation Ignited the Battle for Civil Rights

by Dick Lehr
PublicAffairs (Jan 10, 2017)
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Leadership Under Fire: Advancing Progress, Communicating, Teaching and Setting Communities at Liberty

by Roland C. Barksdale-Hall
Amber Communications Group (Nov 05, 2016)
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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism

by Edward E. Baptist
Basic Books (Oct 25, 2016)
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Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party

by Joshua Bloom and Waldo E. Martin, Jr.
University of California Press (Oct 25, 2016)
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Detroit 67: The Year That Changed Soul

by Stuart Cosgrove
Polygon (Oct 03, 2016)
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Harlem: The Crucible of Modern African American Culture

by Lionel C. Bascom
Praeger Publishers (Jun 30, 2016)
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The Fluid Boundaries of Suffrage and Jim Crow: Staking Claims in the American Heartland

by Damaris B. Hill
Lexington Books (Jun 03, 2016)
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Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation

by Nicholas Guyatt
Basic Books (Apr 26, 2016)
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I Am Because We Are: Readings in Africana Philosophy

by Fred Lee Hord
University of Massachusetts Press (Apr 08, 2016)
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Letters from Langston: From the Harlem Renaissance to the Red Scare and Beyond

by Langston Hughes
University of California Press (Feb 01, 2016)
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Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape

by Lauret Savoy
Counterpoint (Nov 10, 2015)
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Stamped from the Beginning (Revised): The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

by Ibram X. Kendi
Bold Type Books (Aug 15, 2015)
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Firefight: The Century-Long Battle to Integrate New York’s Bravest

by Ginger Adams Otis
St. Martin’s Press (May 26, 2015)
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America The Black Point Of View

by Tony Rose
Amber Books (Apr 28, 2015)
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George Padmore and Decolonization from Below: Pan-Africanism, the Cold War, and the End of Empire

by Leslie James
Palgrave Macmillan (Jan 01, 2015)
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1919, The Year of Racial Violence

by David F. Krugler
Cambridge University Press (Dec 31, 2014)
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Voices of a People’s History of the United States, 10th Anniversary Edition

by Howard Zinn
Seven Stories Press (Nov 11, 2014)
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Stop Being Niggardly: And Nine Other Things Black People Need to Stop Doing

by Karen Hunter
Karen Hunter Publishing (May 03, 2014)
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SNCC: The New Abolitionists

by Howard Zinn
Haymarket Books (Dec 10, 2013)
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Blood: The Stuff Of Life (Cbc Massey Lecture)

by Lawrence Hill
House of Anansi Press (Oct 26, 2013)
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Howard Zinn Speaks: Collected Speeches 1963-2009

by Howard Zinn
Haymarket Books (Nov 27, 2012)
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American Lynching

by Ashraf H. A. Rushdy
Yale University Press (Oct 30, 2012)
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The Black Chicago Renaissance (New Black Studies Series)

by Darlene Clark Hine and John McCluskey Jr.
University of Illinois Press (Jun 25, 2012)
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Help Me To Find My People: The African American Search For Family Lost In Slavery

by Heather Andrea Williams
The University of North Carolina Press (Jun 01, 2012)
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The Black Campus Movement: Black Students and the Racial Reconstitution of Higher Education, 1965-1972

by Ibram H. Rogers
Palgrave Macmillan (Mar 13, 2012)
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Black Gotham: A Family History Of African-Americans In Nineteenth Century New York City

by Carla L. Peterson
Yale University Press (Feb 07, 2012)
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Fraternity: In 1968, a visionary priest recruited 20 black men to the College of the Holy Cross and changed their lives and the course of history.

by Diane Brady
Spiegel & Grau (Jan 03, 2012)
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In Defense of Taboos

by Stanley Crouch
Basic Civitas Books (Nov 30, 2011)
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration

by Isabel Wilkerson
Knopf (Oct 04, 2011)
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Women in Grenadian History, 1783-1983

by Nicole Laurine Phillip
University of the West Indies Press (May 03, 2010)
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Black Wall Street: From Riot to Renaissance in Tulsa’s Historic Greenwood District

by Hannibal B. Johnson
Eakins Press Foundation (Aug 01, 2007)
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On The Shoulders Of Giants: My Journey Through The Harlem Renaissance

by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Simon & Schuster (Jan 30, 2007)
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Riot and Remembrance: The Tulsa Race War and Its Legacy

by James S. Hirsch
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (Jun 06, 2003)
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The Cruel Years: American Voices at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century

by William L. Katz
Beacon Press (Apr 15, 2003)
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Southern History Across the Color Line

by Nell Irvin Painter
The University of North Carolina Press (Apr 29, 2002)
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The Quest for Cosmic Justice

by Thomas Sowell
Free Press (Oct 11, 1999)
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Black Reconstruction In America, 1860-1880

by W.E.B. Du Bois
Free Press (Jan 01, 1998)
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The Origin of Races and Color

by Martin R. Delany
Black Classic Press (Jan 10, 1997)
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The Souls of Black Folk: Includes “The Talented Tenth” and ”The Souls of White Folk”

by W.E.B. Du Bois
Penguin Classics (Apr 01, 1996)
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Black Writers Redefine the Struggle: A Tribute to James Baldwin

by James Baldwin
University of Massachusetts Press (Apr 19, 1989)
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From Columbus To Castro: The History Of The Caribbean 1492-1969

by Eric Williams
Vintage (Apr 12, 1984)
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Pioneers in Protest

by Lerone Bennett
Johnson Publishing Company, Inc. (Jun 01, 1968)
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