📚 Race Relations

30 works · ordered by editions in print

Books with race relations on their catalogue record, first published between 1924 and 2020, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject race relations in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 33,287 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
Notes of a Native Son	James Baldwin	1955	36
Nobody Knows My Name	James Baldwin	1961	32
Let My People Go	Albert John Luthuli	1960	30
Why We Can't Wait	Martin Luther King Jr.	1963	29
Assata	Assata Shakur	1987	27
The gift of black folk	W. E. B. Du Bois	1924	26
Negroes with Guns	Robert F. Williams	1962	22
Between the World and Me	Ta-Nehisi Coates	2015	19
The Struggle Is My Life	Nelson Mandela	1978	18
Racism without Racists	Eduardo Bonilla-Silva	2003	18
Caste	Isabel Wilkerson	2020	17
How to Be an Antiracist	Ibram X. Kendi	2019	16
Nature knows no color-line	J. A. Rogers	1952	15
A rap on race	Margaret Mead	1971	13
Uprooting racism	Paul Kivel	1995	13
Stamped from the Beginning	Ibram X. Kendi	2016	13
The Race War	Ronald Segal	1966	11
Where do we go from here	Martin Luther King Jr.	1967	11
Strangers to these shores	Vincent N. Parrillo	1985	11
White guilt	Shelby Steele	2006	11
"Master Harold"-- and the boys	Athol Fugard	1982	10
Race Matters	Cornel West	1993	9
Race in America	Matthew Desmond	2015	9
Race and ethnic relations	Martin Marger	1985	8
All God's children	Fox Butterfield	1995	8
Black Rednecks And White Liberals	Thomas Sowell	2005	8
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome	Joy DeGruy	2005	8
Caribbean history	Martin, Tony	2011	8
The Nigger Bible	Robert H. DeCoy	1967	7
The Color of Law	Richard Rothstein	2017	7

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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