Find Similar Books

Books like An American dilemma by Gunnar Myrdal

Name: An American dilemma
Author: Gunnar Myrdal

📘 An American dilemma by Gunnar Myrdal

First publish date: 1944

Genre: Science/Biology

Authors: Gunnar Myrdal

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 0.0 (0 community ratings)

All books by Gunnar Myrdal

How are these books recommended?

The books recommended for An American dilemma by Gunnar Myrdal 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 An American dilemma (10 similar books)

📘 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

📘 How to Be an Antiracist

by Ibram X. Kendi

Ibram X. Kendi’s *How to Be an Antiracist* explains racism as a powerful system that creates false hierarchies and offers a guide—drawing on ethics, history, law, and science—to help readers confront and dismantle racial injustice in society and themselves.

★★★★★★★★★★ 4.3 (28 ratings)

Similar?
✓ Yes 0 ✗ No 0

Books like How to Be an Antiracist

📘 The racial contract

by Charles W. Mills

★★★★★★★★★★ 3.5 (2 ratings)

Similar?
✓ Yes 0 ✗ No 0

Books like The racial contract

📘 Black looks

by Bell Hooks

bell hooks’ essays in Black Looks critique traditional narratives, interrogating how blackness, race, and gender are represented in media and culture, urging readers to rethink spectatorship and the politics of representation.

★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 (1 rating)

Similar?
✓ Yes 0 ✗ No 0

Books like Black looks

📘 Dark princess

by W. E. B. Du Bois

29, 311 p. 24 cm

★★★★★★★★★★ 4.0 (1 rating)

Similar?
✓ Yes 0 ✗ No 0

Books like Dark princess

📘 The strange career of Jim Crow

by C. Vann Woodward

C. Vann Woodward’s classic 1955 study argues that Jim Crow segregation emerged only in the 1890s, showing the South’s racial relations were more mixed during slavery and Reconstruction.

★★★★★★★★★★ 3.0 (1 rating)

Similar?
✓ Yes 0 ✗ No 0

Books like The strange career of Jim Crow

📘 Homegrown

by Bell Hooks

Two scholars, bell hooks and Amalia Mesa‑Bains, examine how mainstream media polarizes African American and Latino communities—and outline a shared oppositional politics rooted in cross‑cultural cooperation.

★★★★★★★★★★ 0.0 (0 ratings)

Similar?
✓ Yes 0 ✗ No 0

Books like Homegrown

📘 Yearning

by Bell Hooks

A collection of bell hooks’s essays from the 1980s that intertwine cultural criticism, pedagogy, and politics to challenge oppression and explore race, gender, and identity.

★★★★★★★★★★ 0.0 (0 ratings)

Similar?
✓ Yes 0 ✗ No 0

Books like Yearning

📘 Color conscious

by Anthony Appiah

K. Anthony Appiah and Amy Gutmann examine race in politics and morality, arguing that race is a social construct and that fairness—not color‑blindness—should guide policy. They explore university admissions, hiring, representation, and offer principled starting points for national dialogue.

★★★★★★★★★★ 0.0 (0 ratings)

Similar?
✓ Yes 0 ✗ No 0

Books like Color conscious

📘 Racist America

by Joe R. Feagin

An in‑depth examination of how racism permeates everyday life in the United States, blending contemporary case studies with historical analysis to explain the economic, ideological, and political foundations of American racial discrimination.

★★★★★★★★★★ 0.0 (0 ratings)

Similar?
✓ Yes 0 ✗ No 0

Books like Racist America

Some Other Similar Books

The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois
Race, Rights, and the Law in the South: The Fight for Equality by W. Burlette Carter
The Affirmative Action Debate by Gary Orfield
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare by The Institute of Medicine (US) Committee on Understanding and Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care
The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit by Thomas J. Sugrue
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass by Douglas S. Massey and Nancy A. Denton

Have a similar book in mind? Let others know!

Please login to submit books!