Kindred

Octavia E. Butler

Much of Butler’s fiction looks to the future. But Kindred is marked by a fascinating look back.

White Fragility

Robin DiAngelo

This is a necessary book for all white people.

An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

“This is a history of the United States.”

Superior

Angela Saini

The subtitle of Angela Saini’s Superior refers to the return of race science—but reading it, it’s abundantly clear that race science never went away.

A Strategy for Labor

André Gorz

“A system that makes people work like zombies to produce useless, destructive, or self-destructive things has outlived its usefulness.”