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What to read after Because They’re Black by Gus John: 24 titles sharing themes of Black Studies (Global), Minority Studies, Race & Ethnic Relations, and Social Science, chosen for mood and literary overlap.

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Strong read-alikes chosen for how closely they echo the themes and feel of Because They’re Black.

In Black and White Race and Sports in America — Kenneth L. Shropshire

In Black and White Race and Sports in America

Kenneth L. Shropshire

Themes: Black Studies (Global) • Minority Studies • Race & Ethnic Relations

Brown Baby A Memoir of Race, Family and Home — Nikesh Shukla

Brown Baby A Memoir of Race, Family and Home

Themes: Black Studies (Global) • Minority Studies • Race & Ethnic Relations

Black Americans in the 21st Century Integrating Or Segregating — Doug Saint Carter

Black Americans in the 21st Century Integrating Or Segregating

Doug Saint Carter

Themes: Black Studies (Global) • Minority Studies • Race & Ethnic Relations

Pageants, Parlors, & Pretty Women Race and Beauty in the Twentieth-century South — Blain Roberts

Pageants, Parlors, & Pretty Women Race and Beauty in the Twentieth-century South

Themes: Black Studies (Global) • Minority Studies • Race & Ethnic Relations

The Hounding of David Oluwale — Kester Aspden

The Hounding of David Oluwale

Themes: Black Studies (Global) • Minority Studies • Race & Ethnic Relations

Reyita The Life of a Black Cuban Woman in the Twentieth Century — María de los Reyes Castillo Bueno

Reyita The Life of a Black Cuban Woman in the Twentieth Century

María de los Reyes Castillo Bueno

Themes: Black Studies (Global) • Minority Studies • Race & Ethnic Relations

Reading Rodney King/reading Urban Uprising — Robert Gooding-Williams

Reading Rodney King/reading Urban Uprising

Robert Gooding-Williams

Themes: Black Studies (Global) • Minority Studies • Race & Ethnic Relations

Keeping Faith Philosophy and Race in America — Cornel West

Keeping Faith Philosophy and Race in America

Themes: Black Studies (Global) • Minority Studies • Race & Ethnic Relations

The Color of Our Shame Race and Justice in Our Time — Christopher J. Lebron

The Color of Our Shame Race and Justice in Our Time

Christopher J. Lebron

Themes: Black Studies (Global) • Minority Studies • Race & Ethnic Relations

Notes of a Racial Caste Baby Color Blindness and the End of Affirmative Action — Bryan K. Fair

Notes of a Racial Caste Baby Color Blindness and the End of Affirmative Action

Themes: Black Studies (Global) • Minority Studies • Race & Ethnic Relations

Tulsa, 1921 Reporting a Massacre — Randy Krehbiel

Tulsa, 1921 Reporting a Massacre

Themes: Black Studies (Global) • Minority Studies • Race & Ethnic Relations

Why are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations about Race — Beverly Daniel Tatum

Why are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations about Race

Beverly Daniel Tatum

Themes: Black Studies (Global) • Minority Studies • Race & Ethnic Relations

Anarchism and the Black Revolution The Definitive Edition — Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin

Anarchism and the Black Revolution The Definitive Edition — Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin

Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin

Themes: Black Studies (Global) • Minority Studies • Race & Ethnic Relations

How the Irish Became White — Noel Ignatiev

How the Irish Became White

Themes: Black Studies (Global) • Minority Studies • Race & Ethnic Relations

The Hispanic Republican The Shaping of an American Political Identity, from Nixon to Trump — Geraldo Cadava

The Hispanic Republican The Shaping of an American Political Identity, from Nixon to Trump

Themes: Black Studies (Global) • Minority Studies • Race & Ethnic Relations

Racial Innocence Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights — Robin Bernstein

Racial Innocence Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights

Robin Bernstein

Themes: Black Studies (Global) • Minority Studies • Race & Ethnic Relations

African American Families Today Myths and Realities — Angela J. Hattery

African American Families Today Myths and Realities

Angela J. Hattery

Themes: Black Studies (Global) • Minority Studies • Race & Ethnic Relations

Of Greed and Glory In Pursuit of Freedom for All — Deborah G. Plant

Of Greed and Glory In Pursuit of Freedom for All

Deborah G. Plant

Themes: Black Studies (Global) • Race & Ethnic Relations • Social Science

Racial and Ethnic Groups — Richard T. Schaefer

Racial and Ethnic Groups

Richard T. Schaefer

Themes: Minority Studies • Race & Ethnic Relations • Social Science

Twenty Dollars and Change Harriet Tubman and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice and Democracy — Clarence Lusane

Twenty Dollars and Change Harriet Tubman and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice and Democracy

Clarence Lusane

Themes: Black Studies (Global) • Race & Ethnic Relations • Social Science

Jim Crow A Historical Encyclopedia of the American Mosaic — Nikki Brown

Jim Crow A Historical Encyclopedia of the American Mosaic

Themes: Black Studies (Global) • Race & Ethnic Relations • Social Science

Driven Out The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans — Jean Pfaelzer

Driven Out The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans

Themes: Minority Studies • Race & Ethnic Relations • Social Science

Double Burden Black Women and Everyday Racism — Yanick St. Jean

Double Burden Black Women and Everyday Racism

Yanick St. Jean

Themes: Black Studies (Global) • Minority Studies • Social Science

The Organ Thieves The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in the Segregated South — Chip Jones

The Organ Thieves The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in the Segregated South

Themes: Black Studies (Global) • Race & Ethnic Relations • Social Science

A curated shelf of 24 read-alikes for Because They’re Black by Gus John — spanning Black Studies (Global), Minority Studies, Race & Ethnic Relations and featuring authors such as Kenneth L. Shropshire, Nikesh Shukla, Doug Saint Carter, Blain Roberts, and others.

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