Find Similar Books | Similar Books Like Find Similar Books

Books like Policing the Black Man by Angela J. Davis


First publish date: 2017
Genre: History/Modern History
Authors: Angela J. Davis
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 (1 community ratings)

All books by Angela J. Davis
Policing the Black Man by Angela J. Davis

How are these books recommended?

The books recommended for Policing the Black Man by Angela J. Davis are shaped by reader interaction. Votes on how closely books relate, user ratings, and community comments all help refine these recommendations and highlight books readers genuinely find similar in theme, ideas, and overall reading experience.

Have you read any of these books?
Your votes, ratings, and comments help improve recommendations and make it easier for other readers to discover books they’ll enjoy.

Books similar to Policing the Black Man (12 similar books)

Between the World and Me by 7695610|Ta-Nehisi Coates book cover

📘 Between the World and Me
 by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Between the World and Me is a memoir‑essay in letter form, where Ta‑Nehisi Coates addresses his teenage son about the history, violence, and ongoing reality of being Black in America.

★★★★★★★★★★ 4.2 (42 ratings)
Similar? ✓ Yes 0 ✗ No 0
Books like Between the World and Me
The New Jim Crow by 11061674|Michelle Alexander book cover

📘 The New Jim Crow
 by Michelle Alexander

Michelle Alexander argues that mass incarceration has become a contemporary system of racial control, striking disproportionately at African‑American men and other disadvantaged groups while perpetuating a new form of Jim Crow.

★★★★★★★★★★ 3.4 (14 ratings)
Similar? ✓ Yes 0 ✗ No 0
Books like The New Jim Crow
Are Prisons Obsolete? by 8314612|Angela Y. Davis book cover

📘 Are Prisons Obsolete?
 by Angela Y. Davis

A call to abolish the prison system as the dominant way of responding to America's social ills.

★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 (10 ratings)
Similar? ✓ Yes 0 ✗ No 0
Books like Are Prisons Obsolete?
Thick and Other Essays by 11748224|Tressie McMillan Cottom book cover

📘 Thick and Other Essays
 by Tressie McMillan Cottom

A sharp, humorous collection of essays by sociologist Tressie McMillan Cottom that interrogates black womanhood, body politics, and the lived experience of a Southern Black academic.

★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 (4 ratings)
Similar? ✓ Yes 0 ✗ No 0
Books like Thick and Other Essays
The End of Policing by 9294918|Alex S. Vitale book cover

📘 The End of Policing
 by Alex S. Vitale

A critique of policing that examines its historical expansion and proposes alternatives such as drug legalization and harm reduction to reduce crime and injustice.

★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 (4 ratings)
Similar? ✓ Yes 0 ✗ No 0
Books like The End of Policing
Slavery by another name by 7695600|Douglas A. Blackmon book cover

📘 Slavery by another name
 by Douglas A. Blackmon

Douglas A. Blackmon exposes a hidden chapter of American history—an "Age of Neoslavery" that subjected African Americans to forced labor and debt slavery from the late 19th century through the 1940s.

★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 (3 ratings)
Similar? ✓ Yes 0 ✗ No 0
Books like Slavery by another name
End of Policing by 14055872|Alex Vitale book cover

📘 End of Policing
 by Alex Vitale


★★★★★★★★★★ 4.0 (1 rating)
Similar? ✓ Yes 0 ✗ No 0
Books like End of Policing
The condemnation of blackness by 10978363|Khalil Gibran Muhammad book cover

📘 The condemnation of blackness
 by Khalil Gibran Muhammad


★★★★★★★★★★ 4.0 (1 rating)
Similar? ✓ Yes 0 ✗ No 0
Books like The condemnation of blackness
Democracy in Black by 11956347|Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. book cover

📘 Democracy in Black
 by Eddie S. Glaude, Jr.

Eddie S. Glaude Jr. challenges the myth of a post‑racial America, arguing that structural inequities and a ‘value gap’ still distort politics and livelihoods for black Americans.

★★★★★★★★★★ 0.0 (0 ratings)
Similar? ✓ Yes 0 ✗ No 0
Books like Democracy in Black
In black and white by 6354126|Lily Hardy Hammond book cover

📘 In black and white
 by Lily Hardy Hammond


★★★★★★★★★★ 0.0 (0 ratings)
Similar? ✓ Yes 0 ✗ No 0
Books like In black and white
How the Word Is Passed by 13057565|Clint Smith III book cover

📘 How the Word Is Passed
 by Clint Smith III


★★★★★★★★★★ 0.0 (0 ratings)
Similar? ✓ Yes 0 ✗ No 0
Books like How the Word Is Passed
Why Didn't We Riot? by 11885414|Issac J. Bailey book cover

📘 Why Didn't We Riot?
 by Issac J. Bailey


★★★★★★★★★★ 0.0 (0 ratings)
Similar? ✓ Yes 0 ✗ No 0
Books like Why Didn't We Riot?

Some Other Similar Books

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color by Andrea Ritchie
Mutuality: Building a Just and Equitable Society by Bryan Stephenson
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
The Prophetic Voice of Angela Davis: Critical Perspectives by Various Authors
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America by James Forman Jr.
Chokehold: Policing Black Men by Paul Butler

Have a similar book in mind? Let others know!

Please login to submit books!