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Slave Play by Jeremy O. Harris
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe old South lives on at the MacGregor Plantation--in the breeze, in the cotton fields...and in the crack of the whip. It's an antebellum fever-dream, where fear and desire entwine in the looming shadow of the Master's House... -
![Corregidora by Gayl Jones]()
Corregidora by Gayl Jones
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsOne of The New Yorker's "The Best Books We Read in 2020" picks"Jones's great achievement is to reckon with both history and interiority, and to collapse the boundary between them."--Anna Wiener, The New YorkerThe new edition of an American masterpiece, this is the harrowing story of Ursa Corregidora, a blues singer in the early 20th century forced to confront the inherited trauma of slavery... -
![Fellow Travelers by Thomas Mallon]()
Fellow Travelers by Thomas Mallon
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom the highly acclaimed author of Bandbox and Dewey Defeats Truman–a searing new historical novel about the competing claims of faith, love, and politics during the McCarthy era.Washington, D.C., in the early 1950s: a world of bare-knuckled ideology, hard drinking, and secret dossiers, dominated by such outsized characters as Richard Nixon, Drew Pearson, Perle Mesta, and Joe McCarthy... -
![Caste: The Lies That Divide Us by Isabel Wilkerson]()
Caste: The Lies That Divide Us by Isabel Wilkerson
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsIn this book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human rankings... -
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![The Fire Next Time (Hrw Library) by James Baldwin]()
The Fire Next Time (Hrw Library) by James Baldwin
Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsA national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin's early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice, the book is an intensely personal and provocative document...Categorized as:
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![The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander]()
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars · 40 ratings"Jarvious Cotton's great-great-grandfather could not vote as a slave. His great-grandfather was beaten to death by the Klu Klux Klan for attempting to vote. His grandfather was prevented from voting by Klan intimidation; his father was barred by poll taxes and literacy tests... -
![So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo]()
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsIn this breakout book, Ijeoma Oluo explores the complex reality of today's racial landscape--from white privilege and police brutality to systemic discrimination and the Black Lives Matter movement--offering straightforward clarity that readers need to contribute to the dismantling of the racial divideIn So You Want to Talk About Race, Editor at Large of The Establishment Ijeoma Oluo offers a...Categorized as:
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![The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee]()
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA powerful new exploration about the self-destructive bargain of white supremacy and its rising cost to all of us--including white people--from one of today's most insightful and influential thinkers.Heather C. McGhee's specialty is the American economy--and the mystery of why it so often fails the American public...Categorized as:
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![Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi]()
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsIn this deeply researched and fast-moving narrative, Kendi chronicles the entire story of anti–Black racist ideas and their staggering power over the course of American history. Stamped from the Beginning uses the lives of five major American intellectuals to offer a window into the contentious debates between assimilationists and segregationists and between racists and anti-racists...Categorized as:
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![Warmth of Other Suns, The: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson, Robin Miles]()
Warmth of Other Suns, The: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson, Robin Miles
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsIn this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America... -
![Warmth of Other Suns, The: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson, Robin Miles]()
Warmth of Other Suns, The: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson, Robin Miles
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsIn this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America... -
![Strength to Love by Martin Luther King Jr.]()
Strength to Love by Martin Luther King Jr.
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA collection of sermons by this martyred Black American leader which explains his convictions in terms of the conditions and problems of contemporary society... -
![The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution by Carl R. Trueman, Rod Dreher]()
The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution by Carl R. Trueman, Rod Dreher
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsModern culture is obsessed with identity.Since the landmark Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme Court decision in 2015, sexual identity has dominated both public discourse and cultural trends--and yet, no historical phenomenon is its own cause. From Augustine to Marx, various views and perspectives have contributed to the modern understanding of self...Categorized as:
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![Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks]()
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 24 ratings"Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism is among America's most influential works. Prolific, outspoken, and fearless."-The Village Voice "This book is a classic. It . . . should be read by anyone who takes feminism seriously."-Sojourner "[Ain't I a Woman]should be widely read, thoughtfully considered, discussed, and finally acclaimed for the real enlightenment it offers for social change... -
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![White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson]()
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFrom the Civil War to our combustible present, acclaimed historian Carol Anderson reframes our continuing conversation about race, chronicling the powerful forces opposed to black progress in America...Categorized as:
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![Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge]()
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsIn 2014, award-winning journalist Reni Eddo-Lodge wrote about her frustration with the way that discussions of race and racism in Britain were being led by those who weren't affected by it. She posted a piece on her blog, entitled: 'Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race' that led to this book...Categorized as:
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![Hood feminism: notes from the women that a movement forgot by Mikki Kendall]()
Hood feminism: notes from the women that a movement forgot by Mikki Kendall
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsToday's feminist movement has a glaring blind spot, and paradoxically, it is women. Mainstream feminists rarely talk about meeting basic needs as a feminist issue, argues Mikki Kendall, but food insecurity, access to quality education, safe neighborhoods, a living wage, and medical care are all feminist issues...Categorized as:
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![Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger by Rebecca Traister]()
Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger by Rebecca Traister
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn the year 2018, it seems as if women’s anger has suddenly erupted into the public conversation. But long before Pantsuit Nation, before the Women’s March, and before the #MeToo movement, women’s anger was not only politically catalytic—but politically problematic... -
![My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem]()
My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe consequences of racism can be found in our bodies - in skin and sinew, in bone and blood. In this ground-breaking work, therapist Resmaa Menakem examines the damage, the physical consequences of discrimination, from the perspective of body-centred psychology. He argues that until we learn to heal and overcome the generational anguish of white supremacy, we will all continue to bear its scars...Categorized as:
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![Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples by Linda Tuhiwai Smith]()
Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples by Linda Tuhiwai Smith
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom the vantage point of the colonized, the term 'research' is inextricably linked with European colonialism; the ways in which scientific research has been implicated in the worst excesses of imperialism remains a powerful remembered history for many of the world's colonized peoples. Here, an indigenous researcher issues a clarion call for the decolonization of research methods...Categorized as:
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![From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965-2000 by Lee Kuan Yew, Henry Kissinger]()
From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965-2000 by Lee Kuan Yew, Henry Kissinger
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFew gave tiny Singapore much chance of survival when it was granted independence in 1965... -
![Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America by Saidiya Hartman]()
Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America by Saidiya Hartman
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn this provocative and original exploration of racial subjugation during slavery and its aftermath, Saidiya Hartman illumines the forms of terror and resistance that shaped black identity... -
![The Law by Frédéric Bastiat]()
The Law by Frédéric Bastiat
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 24 ratings• This e-book publication is unique which includes detailed Biography, Footnotes and Index.. • A new table of contents has been included by a publisher. • This edition has been corrected for spelling and grammatical errors... -
![Black Rednecks and White Liberals by Thomas Sowell]()
Black Rednecks and White Liberals by Thomas Sowell
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThis book presents the kind of eye-opening insights into the history and culture of race for which Sowell has become famous. As late as the 1940s and 1950s, he argues, poor Southern rednecks were regarded by Northern employers and law enforcement officials as lazy, lawless, and sexually immoral. This pattern was repeated by blacks with whom they shared a subculture in the South...Categorized as:
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![The Path to Power by Robert A. Caro]()
The Path to Power by Robert A. Caro
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThis is the story of the rise to national power of a desperately poor young man from the Texas Hill Country. The Path to Power reveals in extraordinary detail the genesis of the almost superhuman drive, energy & ambition that set LBJ apart... -
![Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin]()
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsWinner of the Lincoln PrizeAcclaimed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin illuminates Lincoln's political genius in this highly original work, as the one-term congressman and prairie lawyer rises from obscurity to prevail over three gifted rivals of national reputation to become president.On May 18, 1860, William H. Seward, Salmon P... -
![The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois]()
The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsThis landmark book is a founding work in the literature of black protest. W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) played a key role in developing the strategy and program that dominated early 20th-century black protest in America... -
![Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing by Joy DeGruy]()
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing by Joy DeGruy
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhile African Americans managed to emerge from chattel slavery and the oppressive decades that followed with great strength and resiliency, they did not emerge unscathed. Slavery produced centuries of physical, psychological and spiritual injury... -
![Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation by Linda Villarosa]()
Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation by Linda Villarosa
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom an award-winning writer at the New York Times Magazine and a contributor to the 1619 Project comes a landmark book that tells the full story of racial health disparities in America, revealing the toll racism takes on individuals and the health of our nation... -
![The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs]()
The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, The Death and Life of Great American Cities has, since its first publication in 1961, become the standard against which all endeavors in that field are measured...Categorized as:
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