>Home Girls is full of stories and
>conversations about what it's like to *be* black, female, lesbian,
>poor. Books like this put flesh on statistics and I don't think
>conversations about race will ever get very far without reading
>things like this.
Similarly personal accounts of white privilege are important too. I've heard you can't go wrong with Tim Wise:
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>In White Like Me, Tim Wise offers a highly personal examination of
>the ways in which racial privilege shapes the lives of most white
>Americans, overtly racist or not, to the detriment of people of
>color, themselves, and society. The book shows the breadth and depth
>of the phenomenon within institutions such as education, employment,
>housing, criminal justice, and healthcare. By critically assessing
>the magnitude of racial privilege and its enormous costs, Wise
>provides a rich memoir that will inspire activists, educators, or
>anyone interested in understanding the way that race continues to
>shape the experiences of people in the U.S. Using stories instead of
>stale statistics, Wise weaves a narrative that is at once readable
>and scholarly, analytical and accessible.