Racism & Discrimination

In 1950, we, the people of India, gave ourselves a constitution that promised justice, liberty and equality to all its citizens. Decades later, as a nation, we still struggle with inequality in various forms—religion, sex, caste, gender.

The books that make up the life and times of Maya Angelou are some of the best, most beautiful and haunting pieces of autobiography written....

An empowering memoir of courage and hope in the face of injustice, Marked for Life is the true story of Isaac Wright Jr.’s battle to win his freedom after being wrongfully imprisoned for crimes he didn’t commit, and a critical indictment of America’s judicial system....

The role of intellectuals in racial strife is here explored in an international context that puts the American experience in a wholly new light....

ఎండ్లూరి మానస కథలు చదువుతూ ఉంటే కుల వివక్ష సమకాలీన అవతారం అవగతమవుతుంది.

In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s history and current crisis....

These selections from the many writings of Thomas Sowell over a period of half a century cover social, economic, cultural, legal, educational, and political issues....

Some Americans cling desperately to the myth that we are living in a post-racial society....

In his own words, Muhammad Ali pulls no punches as he chronicles the battles he faced in and out of the ring in this fascinating memoir....

Raised to believe that dogs are evil, Manji overcame her fear of the "other" to adopt Lily. Defying her labels as an old, blind dog, Lily engages Manji in a taboo-busting conversation about identity, power, and politics....

Abandoned by their parents, Maya and her older brother, Bailey, are sent to live with their grandmother and uncle in the small Southern town of Stamps in Arkansas....

A powerful critique, We Have Never Been Woke reveals that only by challenging this elite’s self-serving narratives can we hope to address social and economic inequality effectively.

Misogyny is a hot topic, yet it's often misunderstood. Who deserves to be called a misogynist? How does misogyny contrast with sexism, and why is it prone to persist even when sexist gender roles are waning? This book is an exploration of misogyny in public life and politics....

In these eight piercing explorations on beauty, media, money, and more, Tressie McMillan Cottom embraces her venerated role as a purveyor of wit, wisdom, and Black Twitter snark about all that is right and much that is wrong with this thing we call society....

A revealing look at how negative biases against women of color are embedded in search engine results and algorithms....

A powerful history that shows anti-Judaism to be a central way of thinking in the Western tradition....

In this groundbreaking book, Elaine Pagels, Princeton's distinguished historian of religion, traces the evolution of Satan....

A current, constructive, and actionable exploration of today's racial landscape, offering straightforward clarity that listeners of all races need to contribute to the dismantling of the racial divide....

The Israel-Palestine "conflict" is typically understood to be a clash between two ethnic groups—Arabs and Jews—inhabiting the same land. Thomas Suárez digs deep below these preconceptions and their supporting "narratives" to expose something starkly different.

Throughout the book, powell shares personal reflections as well as practices to help you begin bridging wherever you are—in your community, friendships, family, workplace—even with those whom you might never have imagined you could find common ground.

The Color of Water touches listeners of all colors as a vivid portrait of growing up, a haunting meditation on race and identity, and a lyrical valentine to a mother from her son....

Dara Baldwin shares her journey to becoming a disability activist and policymaker in DC and calls out the systemic racism happening in disability rights and also ableism occurring in other justice movements.

The co-host of the Maintenance Phase podcast and creator of Your Fat Friend equips you with the facts to debunk common anti-fat myths and with tools to take action for fat justice....

A powerful indictment of the ways elites have co-opted radical critiques of racial capitalism to serve their own ends....

Women are standing up and #shoutingback....

Dismissed not only explains what so many people feel so profoundly—that the system is working against them. It also reveals what health-care practitioners, patients, and society in general can do to make it right.

When it comes to the history of the Jewish people, there is a national and global crisis of misunderstanding. This lack of knowledge feeds demons of ignorance, hatred, and violence. ANTISEMITISM IN AMERICA: A WARNING is an urgent work of nonfiction that illuminates the Jewish experience and the prejudices both hidden and overt that have led to the chronic persecution of the Jewish people.

"Du musst nicht gleich hysterisch werden! Lächle doch mal! Hast du deine Tage? Und wer passt auf die Kinder auf?“. Sätze wie diese lassen Frauen oft sprachlos zurück – doch damit ist jetzt Schluss! Dieses Hörbuch ist mehr als ein humorvoller Blick auf den verbalen Wahnsinn, der Frauen tagtäglich begegnet. Es ist ein leidenschaftlicher Aufruf für Gleichberechtigung und Veränderung. 31 Frauen aus dem "Ladies Mentoring"-Netzwerk teilen darin ihre persönlichen Geschichten und erzählen von Momenten, die sie sprachlos gemacht haben.

The courthouse is an important part of every story of mass incarceration in America and, too often, it is a place of powerlessness for those facing criminal charges, their families, and their communities. But the courthouse can also be an important site of resistance, a place where Americans affected by incarceration can become agents of change—even though they are not lawyers or judges.

In What's Real About Race?, sociologist Rina Bliss illuminates the truth about one of the most misunderstood, controversial concepts in our society and reveals why we cannot confuse race with genetic difference. Blending energizing prose with the latest in genetics research, this paradigm-shifting tour unmasks what's truly real about race: namely, racism's impact on our bodies and lives.

When Cops Are Criminals examines the widespread problem of police brutality and corruption from the perspectives of those who understand it in depth. Pulling together the accounts of survivors, campaigners and academics, it explores different forms of criminal behaviour by police, the factors that contribute to it, the impact it has on victims, and the challenges of holding perpetrators accountable.

What has happened to the dream of beloved community embraced by Martin Luther King, Jr. and the civil rights movement of the early 1960s—the vision of a just, humane, and colorblind America, a nation of "black and white together" animated by mutual respect and strengthened by the bonds of brotherly love? As Adam Gussow shows, the dream, although pressured on every front, remains alive. At the heart of My Family and I is Gussow's determination to live out the meaning of America's creed.

The 1918 lynching of Mary Turner by a white mob in Brooks County, Georgia, is remembered and studied mainly because of the horror of an allegedly pregnant woman's murder. In Mary Turner and the Mob, author Thomas Aiello asserts that the gruesome details of Turner's execution have distracted historians from investigating the larger context of these terrible events. Turner was murdered but not pregnant, the author contends, and Walter White, the NAACP investigator in the case, knew this but obscured the facts because of the story's effectiveness.

Going for Broke, edited by Alissa Quart, executive director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, and David Wallis, former managing director of EHRP, gives voice to a range of gifted writers for whom "economic precarity" is more than just another assignment. All illustrate what the late Barbara Ehrenreich, who conceived of EHRP, once described as "the real face of journalism today: not million dollar-a-year anchorpersons, but low-wage workers and downwardly spiraling professionals."

يحلل المفكر الإسلامي الكبير محمد عمارة ظاهر الإسلاموفوبيا، من الجذور. يتطرق إلى العلاقة بين الشرق والغرب، وأسباب تصاعد تلك الظاهرة في الفكر والإعلام.

"The Other America: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Call for Economic Justice and Unity" is a powerful exploration of one of Dr. King’s most urgent and socially critical speeches. Delivered at Stanford University in 1967, The Other America goes beyond the struggle for civil rights and exposes the deep economic and racial inequalities that persist in society. In this audiobook, Dr. King’s vision unfolds against the backdrop of a nation divided—one of prosperity and privilege, the other of poverty and neglect.

Historian Calvin Schermerhorn traces four hundred years of Black dispossession and decapitalization—what Frederick Douglass called plunder—through the stories of families who have strived to earn and keep the fruits of their toils. Their struggles reveal that the ever-evolving strategies to strip Black income and wealth have been critical to sustaining a structure of racialized disadvantage. These accounts also tell of the quiet heroism of those who worked to overcome obstacles and defy the plunder.

Why don’t our schools work? Eve L. Ewing tackles this question from a new angle: What if they’re actually doing what they were built to do? She argues that instead of being the great equalizer, America’s classrooms were designed to do the opposite: to maintain the nation’s inequalities. It’s a task at which they excel.

ఎండ్లూరి మానస కథలు చదువుతూ ఉంటే కుల వివక్ష సమకాలీన అవతారం అవగతమవుతుంది. మనుషుల ప్రవర్తన మీద హిందూ సంస్కృతి భావజాలాల పట్టు ఎంత బలంగా ఉందో కనిపిస్తుంది. టెక్నాలజీని తలదన్నుతున్న కులాలజీ అనుభవంలోకొస్తుంది. మన ఆర్థిక హోదాలతో నిమిత్తం లేని సాంఘీక హోదా మనల్ని ఉక్కిరి బిక్కిరి చేస్తుంది. దళిత క్రైస్తవ స్త్రీవాదం నుంచి జనరల్ స్త్రీవాదం వరకు పరచుకున్న బతుకు చిత్రాలు సెన్సిబుల్ చదువరుల్ని ఒకరకమయిన మానసిక పోటుకు గురిచేస్తాయి. చట్రాన్ని చ్ఛేదించుకునే శిల్పం స్వాగతిస్తుంది. మూసలో ఇమడని కథనం, మామూలుగా సాగిపోయే ప్రయోగాత్మక కథానిర్మాణం మానస కథల్ని అలాదు స్థానంలో నిలుపుతాయి.

In 1974, a federal judge ruled that Boston’s public schools were unconstitutionally segregated. The solution? A controversial experiment in desegregation known as “busing,” which would take children from majority-white schools and bus them to predominantly Black schools, and vice versa. In this dramatic audiobook full of surprising twists and fascinating characters, journalist Leon Neyfakh unpacks the history of busing in Boston and brings to life the human stories behind the headlines by talking to the people who saw what happened with their own eyes.