The Warmth of Other Suns appears in 12 book lists

By Isabel Wilkerson,

The Warmth of Other Suns appears in 12 book lists on Shepherd.

The best books that explore history you didn’t know

Book cover of The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl Book cover of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration Book cover of Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II Book cover of The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear Book cover of The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

The best books about the experiences of Black people in the US that white people don’t know but should

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The best books to understand identity-driven wrongness in the United States

Book cover of Enchanted America: How Intuition and Reason Divide Our Politics Book cover of Uncivil Agreement: How Politics Became Our Identity Book cover of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration Book cover of Why We're Polarized Book cover of The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

The best books that recover lost histories

Book cover of Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class Book cover of Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin Book cover of South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation Book cover of All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake Book cover of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

The best books about race and racism in America during the time of the space program

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The best books to give human faces to history

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The best books about Black History and the reasons behind the enormous racial wealth gap

Book cover of Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II Book cover of Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America Book cover of The Juneteenth Story: Celebrating the End of Slavery in the United States Book cover of The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap Book cover of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

The best history books that read like novels

Book cover of The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary Book cover of The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York Book cover of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration Book cover of Seabiscuit: An American Legend Book cover of The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective

The best books on the great Black migration

Book cover of South Side Girls: Growing Up in the Great Migration Book cover of Black Detroit: A People's History of Self-Determination Book cover of Invisible Man Book cover of The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America Book cover of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

The best books by African American and Caribbean female writers

Book cover of Luminous Isle Book cover of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration Book cover of Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals Book cover of The Chosen Place, the Timeless People Book cover of Their Eyes Were Watching God

The best books that "tell about the South"

Book cover of Old South, New South: Revolutions in the Southern Economy Since the Civil War Book cover of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration Book cover of The Burden of Southern History Book cover of Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom Book cover of The Mind of the South

The best books on racism in the USA

Book cover of The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek Book cover of His Truth Is Marching on: John Lewis and the Power of Hope Book cover of A Shot in the Moonlight: How a Freed Slave and a Confederate Soldier Fought for Justice in the Jim Crow South Book cover of Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents Book cover of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

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