The most popular racism books of 2020

Books about racism confront prejudice and its consequences. Novels show it at work in a single life or town, memoirs bear witness, and histories and essays explain how it was built and how people have fought it. They are challenging and necessary reading. This list shows the ones first published in 2020.

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Voter Suppression in U.S. Elections
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Voter Suppression in U.S. Elections

Jim Downs, Stacey Abrams, Carol Anderson, Kevin M. Kruse, Heather Cox Richardson

Published 2020

176 pages

Survivor’s Guilt
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Survivor’s Guilt

Artress Bethany White

2020 · 2022 edition

174 pages

Gabe Faces Ignorance
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Gabe Faces Ignorance

L. I. Forsete, Gemma Gould, Mark McCarthy, Bevin Roue

Published 2020

Fire on the Water
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Fire on the Water

Scott MacGregor, Gary Dumm, Paul Buhle

Published 2020

288 pages

Black Barbie
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Black Barbie

Comfort Arthur

Published 2020

24 pages

That Hair
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That Hair

Eric M. B. Becker, Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida

Published 2020

200 pages