Race in America: Nonfiction

Beverly Daniel Tatum, a renowned authority on the psychology of racism, argues that straight talk about our racial identities is essential in Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race. In Kent Spriggs’s, Voices of Civil Rights Lawyers: Reflections from the Deep South, 1964-1980, twenty-six lawyers reveal the abuses they endured and the barriers they broke as they fought for civil rights.