Society & Culture
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Top books in Society & Culture

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Society & Culture
Society & Culture is a very compact label for a category that includes so much. This collection of Blinks aims to give you a broad-spectrum view of issues influencing our global culture and affecting societies all over the world, from education and sexism, to humanism and racism.

Top books in Society & Culture

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Beyond Culture
Beyond Culture
Edward T. Hall
Teaser: A Journey of self-discovery
15 min4.2
Enlightenment Now
Enlightenment Now
Steven Pinker
The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
24 min3.9
Educated
Educated
Tara Westover
A Memoir
32 min4.3
Frontier Justice
Frontier Justice
Andy Lamey
The Global Refugee Crisis and What To Do About It
15 min3.9
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
Reni Eddo-Lodge
Teaser: Understand racism and white privilege
25 min4.2
The New Jim Crow
The New Jim Crow
Michelle Alexander
Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
17 min4.6
Ain’t I a Woman
Ain’t I a Woman
bell hooks
Black Women and Feminism
20 min4.6
Orientalism
Orientalism
Edward Said
Western ConcePDions of the Orient
19 min3.9
The Second Sex*
The Second Sex*
Simone de Beauvoir
Teaser: The feminist classic about how woman has been shaped into the “other” sex
35 min4.4
The Souls of Black Folk
The Souls of Black Folk
W. E. B. Du Bois
Teaser: An account of the conditions of African Americans after the end of slavery
17 min4.4
Distinction
Distinction
Pierre Bourdieu
A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
46 min4.6
Stonewall
Stonewall
Martin Duberman
The Definitive Story of the LGBTQ Rights Uprising that Changed America
29 min3.5
In the Name of Identity*
In the Name of Identity*
Amin Maalouf
Violence and the Need to Belong
12 min3.9

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