Social Science - Race & Ethnic Relations

From bestselling author of the Misewa Saga series David A. Robertson, this is the essential guide for all Canadians to understand how small and attainable acts towards reconciliation can make an enormous difference in our collective efforts to build a reconciled country. 52 Ways...

WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, The Economist, Time, The New Republic, and the Financial Times. Immersive and gripping, an intimate story of a deadly accident outside Jerusalem that unravels...

WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, The Economist, Time, The New Republic, and the Financial Times. Immersive and gripping, an intimate story of a deadly accident outside Jerusalem that unravels...

The author and director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Library Publishing Project gives voice to long silent African Americans from the past, allowing them to tell their own stories that shed new light on critical moments in the Black Freedom Struggle, challenging what...

Michael Mebruer was born in 1994 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He is the fourth born out of his father's five kids. From an early age, he found role models in his brother Mark and his adopted mother Helen. These are two people who have...

On the approaching 250th birthday of the United States, a double-edged moment in the history of America unlike anything they could remember, Southern journalists Frye Gaillard and Cythia Tucker, one white, one black, who came of age during the civil rights years, paused to...

Two heartbreaking tales of small-town injustice revealing America's struggles with AIDS and racial bias in the 1980sIn the 1980s, the tiny town of Arcadia, Florida, was "fifty miles and fifty years from Sarasota." With its cowboy roots, low-wage agricultural industries, and violent frontier history,...

Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medals of Excellence This witty personal and cultural history of travel from the perspective of a Third World-raised woman of color, Airplane Mode, asks: what does it mean to be a joyous traveler when we live in the ruins...

What began in spring 2020 as local protests in response to the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police quickly exploded into a massive nationwide movement. Millions of mostly young people defiantly flooded into the nation's streets, demanding an end to police brutality and...

A prize-winning historian details his intellectual and political evolution Written by the author of the landmark book The Wages of Whiteness and one of the key figures in the critical study of race and racism in America, An Ordinary White is the life story...

Antiracism and Universal Design for Learning is the silver winner of the 2021 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award in Education!Andratesha Fritzgerald presents Universal Design for Learning (UDL) in a new light: As an effective framework to teach Black and Brown students. Drawing vivid portraits of...

Longlisted for the 2026 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction - Finalist for the 2025 Governor General's Literary Award in Translation - Finalist for the 2025 John Glassco Translation PrizeAn unlikely literary friendship from the past sheds light on the radicalization of public...

From an award-winning scholar of the political right comes an immersive and revelatory journey through the world of gun schools and the curriculum of fear they teach. "At once page-turning and deeply disquieting, Harel Shapira's Basic Pistol is a must read."--Heather Ann Thompson, author...

A deeply researched journey through gun culture and the people for whom guns are a way of life To understand how people die by the gun, we must first understand how people live by the gun. This is the realization that led sociologist Harel...

NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of So You Want to Talk About Race and Mediocre, an eye-opening and galvanizing look at the current state of anti-racist activism across America.In the #1 New York Times bestseller So You Want To Talk About...

NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of So You Want to Talk About Race and Mediocre, an eye-opening and galvanizing look at the current state of anti-racist activism across America.In the #1 New York Times bestseller So You Want To Talk About...

During a time of high racial tension, Being Human Being seeks to dispel divisiveness and instead present a vision of a united humanity. With scientific basis established from the Human Genome Project, the authors explore what it means to be human, the myth of...

"Bet on Black is an illuminating account of overcoming adversity... an inspiring and hopeful narrative on Blackness." --Bakari Sellers, New York Times bestselling author of My Vanishing Country Bet on Black is a call to action for Black people all over the world to...

Named a Best Book of 2021 by NPR This inspirational memoir serves as a call to action from prison reform activist Yusef Salaam, of the Exonerated Five, that will inspire us all to turn our stories into tools for change in the pursuit of...

What would happen if policing disappeared? Would we be safe? This book imagines a world without police. It's evident that policing is a problem. But what is the best way forward? In Beyond Policing, distinguished scholar and writer Philip V. McHarris reimagines the world...