What to Read After Race Matters
Readers who loved Race Matters by Cornel West keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Race Matters is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Race Matters
Soul on Ice
The mis-education of the Negro
Malcolm X Speaks
The Souls of Black Folk
When and where I enter
The fire next time
killing rage
Black Power
How capitalism underdeveloped black America
Faces at the bottom of the well
Nigger
Democracy Matters
Manchild in the promised land
Up from Slavery
Before the Mayflower
Why We Can't Wait
Notes of a Native Son
They came before Columbus
"Why are all the Black kids sitting together in the cafeteria?" and other conversations about race
Black Feminist Thought
Racism without Racists
Racial formation in the United States
The Heart of Whiteness
Black Sexual Politics