Whiteness Studies

White Women

Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better

By: Regina Jackson & Saira Rao
Narrated by: Regina Jackson, Saira Rao & Deanna Anthony
Length: 6 hours 33 minutes

An instant New York Times Bestseller!

A no-holds-barred guidebook aimed at white women who want to stop being nice and start dismantling white supremacy from the team behind Race2Dinner and the documentary film, Deconstructing Karen

It's no secret that white women are conditioned to be "nice," but did you know that the desire to be perfect and to... Read more

What's Up with White Women?

Unpacking Sexism and White Privilege in Pursuit of Racial Justice

By: Ilsa Govan & Tilman Smith
Narrated by: Lisa Bunting
Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

As a white woman, ask yourself: are you upholding or fighting racism? What's Up with White Women? is a practical guide for white women who are interested in becoming more effective in their cross-cultural, anti-racist practices. Blending real-life stories, theory, and anti-racism practices from decades of on-the-ground work, the authors... Read more

The Trouble with White Women

A Counterhistory of Feminism

By: Kyla Schuller
Narrated by: Christine Lakin & Mela Lee
Length: 11 hours 34 minutes

An incisive history of self-serving white feminists and the inspiring women who’ve continually defied them

Women including Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Margaret Sanger, and Sheryl Sandberg are commonly celebrated as leaders of feminism. Yet they have fought for the few, not the many. As award-winning scholar Kyla Schuller argues, their white feminist... Read more

White Feminism

From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who They Leave Behind

By: Koa Beck
Narrated by: Koa Beck
Length: 11 hours 44 minutes

Written “with passion and insight about the knotted history of racism within women’s movements and feminist culture” (Rebecca Traister, New York Times bestselling author), this whip-smart, timely, and impassioned call for change is perfect for fans of Good and Mad and Hood Feminism.

Addressing today’s conversation about race, empowerment, and... Read more

Nice White Ladies

The Truth about White Supremacy, Our Role in It, and How We Can Help Dismantle It

By: Jessie Daniels
Narrated by: Jessie Daniels
Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

An acclaimed expert illuminates the distinctive role that white women play in perpetuating racism, and how they can work to fight it 

In a nation deeply divided by race, the “Karens” of the world are easy to villainize. But in Nice White Ladies, Jessie Daniels addresses the unintended complicity of even well-meaning white women. She reveals how... Read more

Nice Racism

How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm

By: Dr. Robin DiAngelo
Narrated by: Dr. Robin DiAngelo
Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Building on the groundwork laid in the New York Times bestseller White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo explores how a culture of niceness inadvertently promotes racism.

In White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo explained how racism is a system into which all white people are socialized and challenged the belief that racism is a simple... Read more

White Fragility

Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

By: Dr. Robin DiAngelo
Narrated by: Amy Landon
Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality.

In this “vital, necessary, and beautiful book” (Michael Eric Dyson), antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white... Read more

They Were Her Property

White Women as Slave Owners in the American South

By: Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
Length: 10 hours 26 minutes

A bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy.



Bridging women's history, the history of the South, and African American history, this book makes a bold argument about the role of white women in American slavery. Historian Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers draws on a variety of sources to show that... Read more

Mothers of Massive Resistance

White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy

By: Elizabeth Gillespie McRae
Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
Length: 11 hours 43 minutes

Why do white supremacist politics in America remain so powerful? Elizabeth Gillespie McRae argues that the answer lies with white women.



Examining racial segregation from 1920s to the 1970s, Mothers of Massive Resistance explores the grassroots workers who maintained the system of racial segregation and Jim Crow. For decades in rural... Read more

Me and White Supremacy

Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor

By: Layla F. Saad
Narrated by: Layla F. Saad
Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

“Want to learn how to be a good ancestor? Need to address your privilege and feel uncomfortable about talking about racism? You need to read and work through Me and White Supremacy. Read more

Angry White Men

American Masculinity at the End of an Era

By: Michael Kimmel
Narrated by: Aaron Williamson
Length: 12 hours 46 minutes

One of the enduring legacies of the 2012 Presidential campaign was the demise of the white American male voter as a dominant force in the political landscape. On election night, after Obama was announced the winner, a distressed Bill O'Reilly lamented that he didn't live in "a traditional America anymore." He was joined by others who bellowed... Read more

Rich White Men

What It Takes to Uproot the Old Boys' Club and Transform America

By: Garrett Neiman
Narrated by: Greg Littlefield, Robin DiAngelo & Cary Hite
Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

With a foreword by New York Times bestselling author Robin DiAngelo, this provocative book investigates major corporate boardrooms and presents a data-driven analysis of how rich white men have preserved their monopoly on power—and what we can do to stop them.
 
It’s no secret that our country has a serious problem when it comes to wealth... Read more

Mediocre

The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America

By: Ijeoma Oluo
Narrated by: Ijeoma Oluo
Length: 10 hours

From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race, an  “illuminating” (New York Times Book Review) history of white male identity.

What happens to a country that tells generation after generation of white men that they deserve power? What happens when success is defined by status over women and people of color,... Read more

White Rural Rage

The Threat to American Democracy

By: Tom Schaller & Paul Waldman
Narrated by: Ray Porter
Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A searing portrait and damning takedown of America’s proudest citizens—who are also the least likely to defend its core principles

“This is an important book that ought to be read by anyone who wants to understand politics in the perilous Age of Trump.”—David Corn, New York Times bestselling author of American... Read more

Dying of Whiteness

How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland

By: Jonathan M. Metzl
Narrated by: Jamie Renell
Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

A physician reveals how right-wing backlash policies have mortal consequences -- even for the white voters they promise to help

Named one of the most anticipated books of 2019 by Esquire and the Boston Globe

In the era of Donald Trump, many lower- and middle-class white Americans are drawn to politicians who pledge to make their lives great again.... Read more

What We've Become

Living and Dying in a Country of Arms

By: Jonathan M. Metzl
Narrated by: Bob Johnson
Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

Long at the forefront of a movement advocating for gun reform as a matter of public health, Dr. Jonathan M. Metzl has been on constant media call in the aftermath of fatal shootings. But the 2018 Nashville killings led him on a path toward recognizing the limitations of biomedical frameworks for fully diagnosing or treating the impassioned... Read more

White Identity Politics

By: Ashley Jardina
Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
Length: 10 hours 4 minutes

Amidst discontent over America's growing diversity, many white Americans now view the political world through the lens of a racial identity. Whiteness was once thought to be invisible because of whites' dominant position and ability to claim the mainstream, but today a large portion of whites actively identify with their racial group and support... Read more

American Whitelash

A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress

By: Wesley Lowery
Narrated by: Wesley Lowery
Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAn NPR Best Book of the Year • Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the YearLonglisted for the 2024 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence“American Whitelash is indispensable. Really. It is.” – Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an AntiracistPulitzer Prize–winning journalist Wesley Lowery confronts the sickness at the heart of... Read more

They Want to Kill Americans

The Militias, Terrorists, and Deranged Ideology of the Trump Insurgency

By: Malcolm Nance
Narrated by: Ari Fliakos
Length: 10 hours 29 minutes

This program includes a bonus epilogue from the author.

New York Times bestselling author, Malcolm Nance, offers a chilling warning on a clear, present and existential threat to our democracy… our fellow Americans

To varying degrees, as many as 74 million Americans have expressed hostility towards American democracy. Their radicalization is... Read more

How We Win the Civil War

Securing a Multiracial Democracy and Ending White Supremacy for Good

By: Steve Phillips
Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
Length: 13 hours 15 minutes

Steve Phillips's first book, Brown Is the New White, helped shift the national conversation around race and electoral politics, earning a spot on the New York Times and Washington Post bestseller lists and launching Phillips into the upper ranks of trusted observers of the nation's changing demographics and their implications for our political... Read more