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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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![King: A Life by Jonathan Eig]()
King: A Life by Jonathan Eig
Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe first full biography in decades, King mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk and accessible storytelling to forge the definitive life for our times. Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig’s A Life is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.―and the first to include recently declassified FBI files...Categorized as:
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![The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism by Jemar Tisby, Lecrae Moore]()
The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism by Jemar Tisby, Lecrae Moore
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsAn acclaimed, timely narrative of how people of faith have historically--up to the present day--worked against racial justice. And a call for urgent action by all Christians today in response. The Color of Compromise is both enlightening and compelling, telling a history we either ignore or just don't know... -
![Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement by John Lewis, Michael D'Orso]()
Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement by John Lewis, Michael D'Orso
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAn eloquent, epic firsthand account of the civil rights movement by a man who lived it-an American hero whose courage, vision, and dedication helped change history. The son of an Alabama sharecropper, and now a sixth-term United States Congressman, John Lewis has led an extraordinary life, one that found him at the epicenter of the civil rights movement in the late '50s and '60s... -
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![Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could by Adam Schiff]()
Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could by Adam Schiff
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFrom the congressman who led the first impeachment of Donald J. Trump, the vital inside account of American democracy in its darkest hour, and a warning that the forces of autocracy unleashed by Trump remain as potent as ever... -
![Black and British: A Forgotten History by David Olusoga]()
Black and British: A Forgotten History by David Olusoga
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn Black and British, award-winning historian and broadcaster David Olusoga offers readers a rich and revealing exploration of the extraordinarily long relationship between the British Isles and the people of Africa...Categorized as:
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![Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? by Martin Luther King Jr.]()
Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? by Martin Luther King Jr.
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., isolated himself from the demands of the civil rights movement, rented a house in Jamaica with no telephone, and labored over his final manuscript...Categorized as:
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![Rifqa by Mohammed El-Kurd]()
Rifqa by Mohammed El-Kurd
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsRifqa is Mohammed El-Kurd’s debut collection of poetry, written in the tradition of Ghassan Kanfani’s Palestinian Resistance Literature...Categorized as:
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![His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope by Jon Meacham, John Lewis]()
His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope by Jon Meacham, John Lewis
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAn intimate and inspiring portrait of civil rights icon and longtime U.S. congressman John Lewis, linking his life to the quest for justice in America from the 1950s to the present--from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Soul of America John Lewis, who at age twenty-five marched in Selma, Alabama, and was beaten on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, is a visionary and a man of faith... -
![The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth by Beth Allison Barr]()
The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth by Beth Allison Barr
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsBiblical womanhood--the belief that God designed women to be submissive wives, virtuous mothers, and joyful homemakers--pervades North American Christianity. From choices about careers to roles in local churches to relationship dynamics, this belief shapes the everyday lives of evangelical women. Yet biblical womanhood isn't biblical, says Baylor University historian Beth Allison Barr...Categorized as:
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![Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future by Patty Krawec, Nick Estes]()
Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future by Patty Krawec, Nick Estes
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWe find our way forward by going back. The invented history of the Western world is crumbling fast, Anishinaabe writer Patty Krawec says, but we can still honor the bonds between us. Settlers dominated and divided, but Indigenous peoples won't just send them all "home...Categorized as:
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![Discrimination and Disparities by Thomas Sowell]()
Discrimination and Disparities by Thomas Sowell
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA searching re-examination of the assumptions, and the evidence for and against, current approaches to issues of economic and other disparities Discrimination and Disparities challenges believers in such one-factor explanations of economic outcome differences as discrimination, exploitation or genetics. It is readable enough for people with no prior knowledge of economics...Categorized as:
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![The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap by Mehrsa Baradaran]()
The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap by Mehrsa Baradaran
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratings“Read this book. It explains so much about the moment…Beautiful, heartbreaking work.”―Ta-Nehisi CoatesWhen the Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1863, the black community owned less than one percent of the United States’ total wealth. More than 150 years later, that number has barely budged... -
![Destruction of Black Civilization: Great Issues of a Race From 4500 B.C. To 2000 A.D. by Chancellor Williams]()
Destruction of Black Civilization: Great Issues of a Race From 4500 B.C. To 2000 A.D. by Chancellor Williams
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA widely read classic exposition of the history of Africans on the continent—and the people of African descent in the United States and in the diaspora—this well researched analysis details the development of...Categorized as:
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![One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad]()
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad
Rated: 4.68 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsFrom award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it means to live in the heart of an Empire which doesn’t consider you fully human... -
![Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point by Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt]()
Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point by Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn this incisive and razor-sharp analysis of one of the most important issues facing us today, leading Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt draw on their combined expertise of over 40 years to examine how dictators come to power, and how they help to foster a poisonous culture of polarisation, fear and suspicion that persists even after their time in power is over... -
![Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital by Chris Myers Asch, George Derek Musgrove]()
Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital by Chris Myers Asch, George Derek Musgrove
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMonumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City tells the tumultuous, four-century story of race and democracy in our nation's capital... -
![Unreconciled: Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance by Jesse Wente]()
Unreconciled: Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance by Jesse Wente
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsNATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER of the 2022 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Non-FictionSHORTLISTED for the 2023 Speaker's Book AwardA GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR" Unreconciled is one hell of a good book. Jesse Wente’s narrative moves effortlessly from the personal to the historical to the contemporary. Very powerful, and a joy to read...Categorized as:
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![I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World by Martin Luther King Jr., Coretta Scott King]()
I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World by Martin Luther King Jr., Coretta Scott King
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOn August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. stood in front of the Lincoln Memorial looking out over thousands of troubled Americans who had gathered in the name of civil rights and uttered his now famous words, "I have a dream . . ." It was a speech that changed the course of history.This fortieth-anniversary edition honors Martin Luther King Jr... -
![The Children by David Halberstam]()
The Children by David Halberstam
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Children is Halberstam's moving evocation of the early days of the civil rights movement, as seen thru the story of the young people--the Children--who met in the 60s & went on to lead the revolution... -
![Nuestra Senora de Kibeho: Un mensaje del cielo al mundo desde el corazon de Africa by Immaculée Ilibagiza]()
Nuestra Senora de Kibeho: Un mensaje del cielo al mundo desde el corazon de Africa by Immaculée Ilibagiza
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThirteen years before the bloody 1994 genocide that swept across Rwanda and left more than a million people dead, the Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ appeared to eight young people in the remote village of Kibeho. Through these visionaries, Mary and Jesus warned of the looming holocaust, which they assured could be averted if Rwandans opened their hearts to God and embraced His love... -
![Parting the Waters: Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement 1954-63 by Taylor Branch]()
Parting the Waters: Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement 1954-63 by Taylor Branch
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsFirst of a 3-volume social history, Parting the Waters is more than a biography of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. during the decade preceding his emergence as a national figure... -
![The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American by Andrew L. Seidel, Susan Jacoby]()
The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American by Andrew L. Seidel, Susan Jacoby
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWas America founded on Judeo-Christian principles? Are the Ten Commandments the basis for American law? In the paperback edition of this critically acclaimed book, a constitutional attorney settles the debate about religion’s role in America’s founding.In today’s contentious political climate, understanding religion’s role in American government is more important than ever...Categorized as:
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![One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy by Carol Anderson, Dick Durbin]()
One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy by Carol Anderson, Dick Durbin
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAs featured in the documentary All The Fight for DemocracyPEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award Finalist, Longlisted for the National Book Award, NPR Politics Podcast Book Club ChoiceBest Books of the Year-- Washington Post, Boston Globe, NPR, Bustle, NYPLFrom the award-winning, NYT bestselling author of White Rage , the startling--and timely--history of voter suppression in America, with a foreword... -
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![Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobes Du Mez]()
Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobes Du Mez
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsA scholar of American Christianity presents a seventy-five-year history of evangelicalism that identifies the forces that have turned Donald Trump into a hero of the Religious Right...Categorized as:
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![Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging by Afua Hirsch]()
Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging by Afua Hirsch
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe Sunday Times bestseller that reveals the uncomfortable truth about race and identity in Britain todayYou’re British.Your parents are British.Your partner, your children and most of your friends are British.So why do people keep asking where you’re from?We are a nation in denial about our imperial past and the racism that plagues our present...Categorized as:
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![You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingham That Changed America by Paul Kix]()
You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingham That Changed America by Paul Kix
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom journalist Paul Kix, the riveting story, never before fully told, of the 1963 Birmingham Campaign―ten weeks that would shape the course of the Civil Rights Movement and the future of America.It’s one of the iconic photographs of American A Black teenager, a policeman and his lunging German Shepherd. Birmingham, Alabama, May of 1963... -
![The Holy Bible: New Revised Standard Version with the Apocrypha by Anonymous, NRSV Bible Translation Committee]()
The Holy Bible: New Revised Standard Version with the Apocrypha by Anonymous, NRSV Bible Translation Committee
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Oxford NRSV Bible offers readers an unbeatable combination of quality construction, affordability, and the most accurate translation of the Bible available today. Churches and homes across America overwhelmingly choose the NRSV for its easy-to-understand translation and its sensitivity to inclusive language... -
![Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America by Dahlia Lithwick]()
Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America by Dahlia Lithwick
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsDahlia Lithwick, Slate Senior Editor and one of the nation's foremost legal commentators, tells the gripping and heroic story of the women lawyers who fought the racism, sexism, and xenophobia of Donald Trump's presidency--and won After the sudden shock of Donald Trump's victory over Hillary Clinton in 2016, many Americans felt lost and uncertain... -
![Let the Trumpet Sound: A Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Stephen B. Oates]()
Let the Trumpet Sound: A Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Stephen B. Oates
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWinner of the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Book AwardWinner of the Christopher AwardA New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the YearBy the acclaimed biographer of Abraham Lincoln, Nat Turner, and John Brown, Stephen B. Oates's prizewinning Let the Trumpet Sound is the definitive one-volume life of Martin Luther King, Jr...Categorized as:
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