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Books like Things That Make White People Uncomfortable

If you loved Things That Make White People Uncomfortable by Michael Bennett, this shelf of 24 books shares the same pull — rooted in Cultural & Social Aspects, Race & Ethnic Relations, Social Activists, and Football.

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Top related books to Things That Make White People Uncomfortable

A handpicked shelf of strong matches chosen for shared themes, literary overlap, and a broader spread of voices.

The John Carlos Story The Sports Moment that Changed the World

John Carlos

Themes: Cultural & Social Aspects • Race & Ethnic Relations • Football

Ali A Life

Jonathan Eig

Themes: Race & Ethnic Relations • Social Activists • African American & Black Studies

The Idealist Jack Trice and the Battle for a Forgotten Football Legacy

Jonathan Gelber

Themes: Cultural & Social Aspects • Football • African American & Black Studies

The Match: Althea Gibson & Angela Buxton How Two Outsiders–One Black, the Other Jewish–Forged a Friendship and Made Sports History

Bruce Schoenfeld

Themes: Cultural & Social Aspects • African American & Black Studies • Sports

Citizen Outlaw One Man’s Journey from Gangleader to Peacekeeper

Charles Barber

Themes: Race & Ethnic Relations • Social Activists • African American & Black Studies

Curt Flood in the Media Baseball, Race, and the Demise of the Activist-Athlete

Abraham Iqbal Khan

Themes: Cultural & Social Aspects • African American & Black Studies • Sports

Dear Black Girls How to Be True to You — A’ja Wilson

A'ja Wilson

Themes: Race & Ethnic Relations • African American & Black Studies • Sports

Coach Prime Deion Sanders and the Making of Men

Jean-Jacques Taylor

Themes: Football • African American & Black Studies • Sports

What Color Is a Conservative? My Life and My Politics

J. C. Watts, Jr.

Themes: Football • African American & Black Studies • Sports

#10

Showdown JFK and the Integration of the Washington Redskins

Thomas Gary Smith

Themes: Cultural & Social Aspects • Race & Ethnic Relations • Football

#11

I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness A Bestselling Reese’s Book Club Pick by ‘a Leading Voice on Racial Justice’ LAYLA SAAD, Author of ME and WHITE SUPREMACY

Austin Channing Brown

Themes: Race & Ethnic Relations • Social Activists • African American & Black Studies

#12

Let It Shine Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters

Andrea Davis Pinkney

Themes: Race & Ethnic Relations • Social Activists • African American & Black Studies

#13

Soledad Brother The Prison Letters of George Jackson

George Jackson

Themes: Race & Ethnic Relations • Social Activists • African American & Black Studies

#14

King: A Life

Jonathan Eig

Themes: Race & Ethnic Relations • Social Activists • African American & Black Studies

#15

Not for Long The Life and Career of the NFL Athlete

Robert W. Turner (II)

Themes: Cultural & Social Aspects • Football • African American & Black Studies

#16

The Making of Black Detroit in the Age of Henry Ford

Beth Tompkins Bates

Themes: Race & Ethnic Relations • African American & Black Studies • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

#17

Out of Bounds Racism and the Black Athlete

Lori Latrice Martin

Themes: Cultural & Social Aspects • African American & Black Studies • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

#18

Writing History from the Margins African Americans and the Quest for Freedom

Claire Parfait

Themes: Race & Ethnic Relations • African American & Black Studies • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

#19

Against Epistemic Apartheid

Rabaka, Reiland

Themes: Race & Ethnic Relations • African American & Black Studies • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

#20

King’s Dream

Eric J. Sundquist

Themes: Race & Ethnic Relations • African American & Black Studies • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

#21

The Survivors of the Clotilda The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the American Slave Trade

Hannah Durkin

Themes: Race & Ethnic Relations • African American & Black Studies • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

#22

(Re)Presenting Wilma Rudolph

Rita Liberti

Themes: African American & Black Studies • Sports • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

#23

The Autobiography of an American Ghetto Boy The 1950’s and 1960’s from the Projects to NAACP Image Award Winner

Tony Rose

Themes: Social Activists • African American & Black Studies • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

#24

I Came As a Shadow An Autobiography

John Thompson

Themes: African American & Black Studies • Sports • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with Things That Make White People Uncomfortable by Michael Bennett. Connected by Cultural & Social Aspects, Race & Ethnic Relations, Social Activists. Authors featured include John Carlos, Jonathan Eig, Jonathan Gelber, Bruce Schoenfeld, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.