David Sadzin

17 books

The Accident of Color: A Story of Race in Reconstruction by Daniel Brook

The Accident of Color: A Story of Race in Reconstruction

Daniel Brook

336 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history race challenging informative slow-paced
Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition by Cedric J. Robinson

Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition

Cedric J. Robinson

493 pages • first pub 1983 (editions)

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative slow-paced
Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital by George Derek Musgrove, Chris Myers Asch

Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital

George Derek Musgrove, Chris Myers Asch

624 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history race challenging informative slow-paced
Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks by Jason Reynolds

Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks

Jason Reynolds

231 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

fiction middle grade short stories emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced
Not Light, but Fire: How to Lead Meaningful Race Conversations in the Classroom by Matthew R. Kay

Not Light, but Fire: How to Lead Meaningful Race Conversations in the Classroom

Matthew R. Kay

278 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction education race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Tuskegee Syphilis Study: An Insiders' Account of the Shocking Medical Experiment Conducted by Government Doctors Against African American Men by Fred D. Gray

The Tuskegee Syphilis Study: An Insiders' Account of the Shocking Medical Experiment Conducted by Government Doctors Against African American Men

Fred D. Gray

176 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction health history sociology informative medium-paced
We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement by Akinyele Omowale Umoja

We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement

Akinyele Omowale Umoja

339 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Better Days Will Come Again: The Life of Arthur Briggs, Jazz Genius of Harlem, Paris, and a Nazi Prison Camp by Travis Atria

Better Days Will Come Again: The Life of Arthur Briggs, Jazz Genius of Harlem, Paris, and a Nazi Prison Camp

Travis Atria

missing duration info • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction autobiography biography history music informative reflective medium-paced
Boss of the Grips: The Life of James H. Williams and the Red Caps of Grand Central Terminal by Eric K. Washington

Boss of the Grips: The Life of James H. Williams and the Red Caps of Grand Central Terminal

Eric K. Washington

352 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative reflective sad slow-paced
Caretaker by Tananarive Due

Caretaker

Tananarive Due

20 minutes • first pub 2019 (editions) user-added

fiction fantasy horror short stories