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49 Books in the SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes Category

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A History of the World in Six Plagues: How Contagion, Class, and Captivity Shaped Us, from Cholera to Covid-19

A History of the World in Six Plagues: How Contagion, Class, and Captivity Shaped Us, from Cholera to Covid-19
Poverty, by America

Poverty, by America
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Of Blood and Sweat: Black Lives and the Making of White Power and Wealth

Of Blood and Sweat: Black Lives and the Making of White Power and Wealth
Of Blood and Sweat: Black Lives and the Genesis of White Power and Wealth

Of Blood and Sweat: Black Lives and the Genesis of White Power and Wealth
Black and White: Land, Labor, and Politics in the South (Reissue)

Black and White: Land, Labor, and Politics in the South (Reissue)
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City

Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal about Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power

The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal about Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
The New Noir: Race, Identity, and Diaspora in Black Suburbia

The New Noir: Race, Identity, and Diaspora in Black Suburbia
The Lies that Bind: Rethinking Identity

The Lies that Bind: Rethinking Identity
Flatlining: Race, Work, and Health Care in the New Economy

Flatlining: Race, Work, and Health Care in the New Economy
Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code

Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
Mothering While Black: Boundaries and Burdens of Middle-Class Parenthood

Mothering While Black: Boundaries and Burdens of Middle-Class Parenthood
Discrimination and Disparities

Discrimination and Disparities
It Was All a Dream: A New Generation Confronts the Broken Promise to Black America

It Was All a Dream: A New Generation Confronts the Broken Promise to Black America
America: The Farewell Tour

America: The Farewell Tour
Discrimination and Disparities

Discrimination and Disparities
Urban Trauma: A Legacy of Racism

Urban Trauma: A Legacy of Racism
Not Our President: New directions from the Pushed Out, The Others and the Clear Majority in Trump’s Stolen America

Not Our President: New directions from the Pushed Out, The Others and the Clear Majority in Trump’s Stolen America
The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap

The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
All Day: A Year of Love and Survival Teaching Incarcerated Kids at Rikers Island

All Day: A Year of Love and Survival Teaching Incarcerated Kids at Rikers Island
Sweat

Sweat
Writings on the Wall: Searching for a New Equality Beyond Black and White

Writings on the Wall: Searching for a New Equality Beyond Black and White
Nobody: Casualties of America’s War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond

Nobody: Casualties of America’s War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation

From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace (paperback): A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League

The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace (paperback): A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
Shame: How America’s Past Sins Have Polarized Our Country

Shame: How America’s Past Sins Have Polarized Our Country
Losing Our Way: An Intimate Portrait of a Troubled America

Losing Our Way: An Intimate Portrait of a Troubled America
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League

The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed

Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed
Disobedience and Democracy: Nine Fallacies on Law and Order

Disobedience and Democracy: Nine Fallacies on Law and Order
A Dream Foreclosed: Black America And The Fight For A Place To Call Home (Occupied Media Pamphlet Series)

A Dream Foreclosed: Black America And The Fight For A Place To Call Home (Occupied Media Pamphlet Series)
When Race Burns Class: Settlers Revisited. A Critical Assessment of the U.S. White Working Class

When Race Burns Class: Settlers Revisited. A Critical Assessment of the U.S. White Working Class
Black Reconstruction in America: Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860-1880

Black Reconstruction in America: Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860-1880
The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks and Changing American Institutions

The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks and Changing American Institutions
From Bourgeois to Boojie: Black Middle-Class Performances

From Bourgeois to Boojie: Black Middle-Class Performances
The Presumption Of Guilt: The Arrest Of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. And Race, Class And Crime In America

The Presumption Of Guilt: The Arrest Of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. And Race, Class And Crime In America
Searching for Whitopia: An Improbable Journey to the Heart of White America

Searching for Whitopia: An Improbable Journey to the Heart of White America
There Goes the Neighborhood: Racial, Ethnic, and Class Tensions in Four Chicago Neighborhoods and Their Meaning for America

There Goes the Neighborhood: Racial, Ethnic, and Class Tensions in Four Chicago Neighborhoods and Their Meaning for America
Leadbelly

Leadbelly
Social Crisis and Social Demoralization: The Dynamics of Status in American Race Relations

Social Crisis and Social Demoralization: The Dynamics of Status in American Race Relations
The Working Poor: Invisible in America

The Working Poor: Invisible in America
The Failures Of Integration: How Race and Class Are Undermining the American Dream

The Failures Of Integration: How Race and Class Are Undermining the American Dream
A Place On The Corner, Second Edition (Fieldwork Encounters And Discoveries)

A Place On The Corner, Second Edition (Fieldwork Encounters And Discoveries)
Always In Pursuit: Fresh American Perspectives

Always In Pursuit: Fresh American Perspectives
Our Kind of People: Inside America’s Black Upper Class

Our Kind of People: Inside America’s Black Upper Class
Black Bourgeoisie: The Book That Brought the Shock of Self-Revelation to Middle-Class Blacks in America

Black Bourgeoisie: The Book That Brought the Shock of Self-Revelation to Middle-Class Blacks in America