47 Collage of Books in the Social Science / Essays Category — View a list.

Click for more detail about In Our Shoes: On Being a Young Black Woman in Not-So Post-Racial America by Brianna Holt
Click for more detail about Truth’s Table: Black Women’s Musings on Life, Love, and Liberation by Ekemini Uwan, Christina Edmondson, Michelle Higgins
Click for more detail about The Black Agenda by Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman
Click for more detail about The Strong Black Woman: How a Myth Endangers the Physical and Mental Health of Black Women by Marita Golden
Click for more detail about Nothing Personal by James Baldwin
Click for more detail about You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience by Tarana Burke and Brené Brown
Click for more detail about Dispatches from the Race War by Tim Wise
Click for more detail about Everything’s Trash, But It’s Okay by Phoebe Robinson
Click for more detail about My Mother. Barack Obama. Donald Trump. And the Last Stand of the Angry White Man.: An Autobiography of America by Kevin Powell
Click for more detail about Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom
Click for more detail about We Can’t Breathe: On Black Lives, White Lies, and the Art of Survival by Jabari Asim
Click for more detail about Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture by Roxane Gay
Click for more detail about The Universal Machine (consent not to be a single being) by Fred Moten
Click for more detail about This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America by Morgan Jerkins
Click for more detail about Black and Blur (consent not to be a single being) by Fred Moten
Click for more detail about Beyond the Messy Truth: How We Came Apart, How We Come Together by Van Jones
Click for more detail about We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Click for more detail about A Burst of Light: and Other Essays by Audre Lorde
Click for more detail about The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race by Jesmyn Ward
Click for more detail about Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Click for more detail about You Can’t Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain by Phoebe Robinson
Click for more detail about Writings on the Wall: Searching for a New Equality Beyond Black and White by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Click for more detail about The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation by Natalie Y. Moore
Click for more detail about We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Click for more detail about The Words & Wisdom of Charles Johnson by Charles Johnson
Click for more detail about Bad Feminist: Essays by Roxane Gay
Click for more detail about Failure to Quit: Reflections of an Optimistic Historian by Howard Zinn
Click for more detail about How To Slowly Kill Yourself And Others In America by Kiese Laymon
Click for more detail about Among the Bloodpeople: Politics and Flesh by Thomas Glave
Click for more detail about On Intellectual Activism by Patricia Hill Collins
Click for more detail about Going Too Far: Essays About America’s Nervous Breakdown by Ishmael Reed
Click for more detail about In Defense of Taboos by Stanley Crouch
Click for more detail about Color Me English: Migration And Belonging Before And After 9/11 by Caryl Phillips
Click for more detail about Howard Zinn on Race by Howard Zinn
Click for more detail about Razor by Amiri Baraka
Click for more detail about The Politics Of Black Women’s Hair by Althea Prince
Click for more detail about The Black Body by Meri Nana-Ama Danquah
Click for more detail about Can You Hear Me Now?: The Inspiration, Wisdom, And Insight Of Michael Eric Dyson by Michael Eric Dyson
Click for more detail about Home: Social Essays (Renegade Reprint Series) by Amiri Baraka
Click for more detail about Speaking Treason Fluently: Anti-Racist Reflections From An Angry White Male by Tim Wise
Click for more detail about Ever Wonder Why? And Other Controversial Essays by Thomas Sowell
Click for more detail about Why I Hate Abercrombie & Fitch: Essays On Race and Sexuality (Sexual Cultures) by Dwight McBride
Click for more detail about In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens: Womanist Prose by Alice Walker
Click for more detail about Controversial Essays (Hoover Institution Press Publication) by Thomas Sowell
Click for more detail about The Opportunity Reader: Stories, Poetry, and Essays from the Urban League’s Opportunity Magazine by Sondra Kathryn Wilson
Click for more detail about Multi-America: Essays on Cultural Wars and Cultural Peace by Ishmael Reed
Click for more detail about The Assassination of the Black Male Image by Earl Ofari Hutchinson