- Amy Hill Hearth, A. Elizabeth Delany, Sarah L. Delany
- Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years - African-American family life crossed with social issues spanning a fuckin' century
- Christine Fletcher
- Ten Cents a Dance - meatpacking, 1940s taxi dance halls, prostitution, racism
- Danzy Senna
- Caucasia - being biracial in the 1970s (btw the term Caucasian is itself a remnant of a really old-timey racist "classification" system that classified different skin colors/ethnicities based on how "beautiful" they were?! omgstopit)
- E.B. White
- Here is New York - Cold War era Manhattan
- Fareed Zakaria
- The Post-American World - "This is not a book about the decline of America, but rather about the rise of everyone else."
- Harper Lee
- To Kill a Mockingbird - racism, rape, sexuality, law
- Henry Louis Gates Jr.
- Colored People: A Memoir - personal recollections of African-Americans as human beings, linguistics
- Howard Zinn
- Jerald F. Dirks
- Muslims in American History: A Forgotten Legacy - Islam in North America before the arrival of Christopher Columbus, history through today
- John Steinbeck
- The Grapes of Wrath - the Great Depression
- Karl Marx
- The Communist Manifesto - ;aehig;oaeg I cannot say enough, if you haven't read it, dooooo
- Katherine Paterson
- Bread and Roses Too - the Industrial Revolution and subsequent labor movements, textile strikes, immigration
- Laurie Halse Anderson
- Fever 1793 - Philadelphia's yellow fever epidemic
- Lawrence Gonzalez
- Lucy - evolutionary biology, the history of human evolution, genetic modification, religion
- Loukia K. Sarroub
- All American Yemeni Girls: Being Muslim in a Public School - girls trying to make sense of their identities as "Yemenis, Muslims, Americans, daughters of immigrants, teenagers, and high school students" in Michigan
- Margaret Peterson Haddix
- Uprising - the Industrial Revolution and subsequent labor movements, the Socialist Party, textile strikes, immigration
- Moustafa Bayoumi
- How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America - workplace discrimination, government surveillance, deportation
- Omar Ibn Said
- A Muslim American Slave: The Life of Omar Ibn Said - the life of a West African Muslim slave
- Roy De Carava and Langston Hughes
- The Sweet Flypaper of Life - history of Harlem in photography/poetry
- Stacey J. Lee
- Up Against Whiteness: Race, School and Immigrant Youth - first and second generation Asian American experiences
- Toni Morrison
- The Bluest Eye - racism, the beauty myth
- Upton Sinclair
- The Jungle - the Industrial Revolution and subsequent labor movements, the Socialist Party, immigration, the meat industry
- Oil! - the California oil industry, religious corruption
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