Between The World and Me (book by Ta-Nehisi Coates)
This book is written as a letter to the Coates' teenage son about the feelings, symbolism, and realities inherent with being a black person in the United States. Coates draws from anecdotes, American History, and various other literature-- detailing the ways in which institutions like the education system, law enforcement, and even "the streets" discipline, endanger, and threaten to "disembody" black men and women. While I think this is a particularly valuable book for people of color, I think it's a book that everyone should read regardless of ideological leanings. Even if you disagree with the author's perspective, conclusions, ideology, etc.-- I think it's an invaluable learning experience to practice understanding and viewing the world through the eyes of someone from a completely different epistemological standpoint than you and your particular societal spheres.
