How to learn about the society you live in

As I was thinking about recommendations for #RecommendARadicalBook, I got to thinking that most of the things I've learned about how the world we live in actually works have been from people of color. The two books I thought of to recommend were Vine Deloria Jr.'s Custer Died for Your Sins and Franz Fanon's Wretched of the Earth, two good examples. Of course I've learned lots more from the people of color I've known in my life than I have from reading, especially about the everyday experience of living in our society. Anyway the though that all of this put in my head was this: if you want to learn about how our society works, you need to talk to people that it's not working for.