Books about how systems of inequality are constructed and maintained.
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last updated August, 2025
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
Sabrina Strings
Human Nature: Nine Ways to Feel About Our Changing Planet
Kate Marvel
Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life
Eric Klinenberg
White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color
Ruby Hamad
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
Philip Gourevitch
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
Iris Chang
The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness
Jack El-Hai
The Conjuring of America: Mojos, Mermaids, Medicine, and 400 Years of Black Women’s Magic
Lindsey Stewart
The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry
Gary Greenberg
Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights
Molly Smith
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
Barbara Demick
Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
Roxane Gay
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
Adam Higginbotham
Hiroshima
John Hersey
Gone to Soldiers
Marge Piercy
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Michelle Alexander
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
Beverly Daniel Tatum
When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era
Donovan X. Ramsey
We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys
Erin Kimmerle
The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide
Robert Jay Lifton
The Famine Plot: England's Role in Ireland's Greatest Tragedy
Tim Pat Coogan
The End of Policing
Alex S. Vitale
Superior: The Return of Race Science
Angela Saini
Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control
Stephen Kinzer
Men Who Hate Women
Laura Bates
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
Harriet A. Washington
Laziness Does Not Exist
Devon Price
King Leopold's Ghost
Adam Hochschild
Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam (American Empire Project)
Nick Turse
Just Mercy
Bryan Stevenson
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