The Persecuted and The Persecutors

This is an alphabetical version.  For a subjective ranked version see: Ranked: The Persecuted and The Persecutors

Certain groups tend to be persecuted for various reason.  There are those who persecute others for various reason.  Understanding why people get persecuted and why persecutors persecute can facilitate the creation of solutions to the problem of persecution. 

The Persecuted

Age

• The Inner Work of Age: Shifting from Role to Soul by Connie Zweig

Education

• Elevating Equity and Justice: 10 U.S. Supreme Court Cases Every Teacher Should Know by Robert Kim

Ideas

• In Defense of Troublemakers: The Power of Dissent in Life and Business by Charlan Jeanne Nemeth
• On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
• Why Societies Need Dissent by Cass R. Sunstein

Ethnicity/Race

• Black Boy by Richard Wright
• Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
• The Gifts of Africa: How a Continent and Its People Changed the World by Jeff Pearce
• Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
• The Mandela Revolution: A British Soldier's Inside View of His Rise to Power by Huw Lawford
• Nelson Mandela: A History From Beginning to End by Henry Freeman
• The Native American Experience: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, The Fetterman Massacre, and Creek Mary's Blood by Dee Brown
• Tibet on Fire: Self-Immolations Against Chinese Rule by Tsering Woeser
• Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
• The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson

Economic Status

• October: The Story of the Russian Revolution by China Miéville
• On Pauperism in Present and Past by Jan Breman

Religion

• The Dream of Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Philosophy by Anthony Gottlieb
• Kepler's Witch: An Astronomer's Discovery of Cosmic Order Amid Religious War, Political Intrigue, and the Heresy Trial of His Mother by James A. Connor
  

Sex

• Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Pérez
• The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
• Uncontrollable Women: Radicals, Reformers and Revolutionaries by Nan Sloane
• Women Writing Resistance: Essays on Latin America and the Caribbean by Jennifer Browdy De Hernandez

The Persecutors

Religion

• Inquisition by Edward Peters

General

• The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro

The Persecuted and The Persecutors

Ethnicity / Race

• Black Sea by Neal Ascherson
• Sons of the Conquerors: The Rise of the Turkic World by Hugh Pope

Religion

• The Evolution of God by Robert Wright

General

• Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World by Bruce Schneier
• Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason by Michel Foucault
• A Philosophy of Evil by Lars Svendsen
• Race And Culture: A World View by Thomas Sowell