Books like 'As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock'
Readers who enjoyed As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock by Dina Gilio-Whitaker also liked the following books featuring the same tropes, story themes, relationship dynamics and character types.
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Kukum by Michel Jean
Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars · 18 ratings«C'est un de ces soirs où je trayais les vaches dans la lumière du soleil couchant que je l'ai vu pour la première fois. Un canot est apparu, descendant en silence la rivière. Un homme torse nu, à la peau cuivrée, ramait sans se presser, se laissant pousser par le courant. Il paraissait à peine plus âgé que moi. Nos regards se sont croisés. Il n'a pas souri. Et je n'ai pas eu peur... -
![An Undisturbed Peace by Mary Glickman]()
An Undisturbed Peace by Mary Glickman
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA Jewish immigrant, a Cherokee woman, and a black slave find love, friendship, and redemption in the midst of the tragedy of the Trail of Tears Abrahan Bento Sassaporta Naggar has traveled to America from the filthy, Jew-hating streets of East London in search of a better life... -
![They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom by Ahed Tamimi, Dena Takruri]()
They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom by Ahed Tamimi, Dena Takruri
Rated: 4.69 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA Palestinian activist jailed at sixteen after a confrontation with Israeli soldiers illuminates the daily struggles of life under occupation in this moving, deeply personal memoir.“What would you do if you grew up seeing your home repeatedly raided? Your parents arrested? Your mother shot? Your uncle killed? Try, for just a moment, to imagine that this was your life... -
![21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act: Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a Reality by Bob Joseph]()
21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act: Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a Reality by Bob Joseph
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsBased on a viral article, 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act is the essential guide to understanding the legal document and its repercussion on generations of Indigenous Peoples, written by a leading cultural sensitivity trainer...Categorized as:
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![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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![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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![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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![The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power by Desmond Cole]()
The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power by Desmond Cole
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsA bracing, provocative, and perspective-shifting book from one of Canada's most celebrated and uncompromising writers, Desmond Cole. The Skin We're In will spark a national conversation, influence policy, and inspire activists...Categorized as:
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![They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America by Ivan Van Sertima]()
They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America by Ivan Van Sertima
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThey Came Before Columbus reveals a compelling, dramatic, and superbly detailed documentation of the presence and legacy of Africans in ancient America... -
![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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![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... -
![Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance by Nick Estes]()
Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance by Nick Estes
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHow two centuries of Indigenous resistance created the movement proclaiming “Water is life”In 2016, a small protest encampment at the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, initially established to block construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, grew to be the largest Indigenous protest movement in the twenty-first century... -
![Up Ghost River: A Chief's Journey Through the Turbulent Waters of Native History by Edmund Metatawabin, Alexandra Shimo]()
Up Ghost River: A Chief's Journey Through the Turbulent Waters of Native History by Edmund Metatawabin, Alexandra Shimo
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA powerful, raw yet eloquent memoir from a residential school survivor and former First Nations Chief, Up Ghost River is a necessary step toward our collective healing. In the 1950s, 7-year-old Edmund Metatawabin was separated from his family and placed in one of Canada’s worst residential schools. St... -
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![Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada by Michelle Good]()
Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada by Michelle Good
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratings#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER FINALIST for the Writers’ Trust Balsillie Prize for Public Policy A bold, provocative collection of essays exploring the historical and contemporary Indigenous experience in Canada. With authority and insight, Truth Telling examines a wide range of Indigenous issues framed by Michelle Good’s personal experience and knowledge...Categorized as:
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![Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm's Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land by Leah Penniman]()
Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm's Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land by Leah Penniman
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsChoice Reviews , Outstanding Academic TitleIn 1920, 14 percent of all land-owning US farmers were black. Today less than 2 percent of farms are controlled by black people--a loss of over 14 million acres and the result of discrimination and dispossession...Categorized as:
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![Whereas by Layli Long Soldier]()
Whereas by Layli Long Soldier
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe astonishing, powerful debut by the winner of a 2016 Whiting Writers' AwardWHEREAS her birth signaled the responsibility as mother to teach what it is to be Lakota therein the question: What did I know about being Lakota? Signaled panic, blood rush my embarrassment...Categorized as:
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![Talking To My Country by Stan Grant]()
Talking To My Country by Stan Grant
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe acclaimed national bestseller - moving, passionate, deeply felt and powerful. In July 2015, as the debate over Adam Goodes being booed at AFL games raged and got ever more heated and ugly, Stan Grant wrote a short but powerful piece for The Guardian that went viral, not only in Australia but right around the world, shared over 100,000 times on social media...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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![The Fire Is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate Over Race in America by Nicholas Buccola]()
The Fire Is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate Over Race in America by Nicholas Buccola
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHow the clash between the civil rights firebrand and the father of modern conservatism continues to illuminate America's racial divideOn February 18, 1965, an overflowing crowd packed the Cambridge Union in Cambridge, England, to witness a historic televised debate between James Baldwin, the leading literary voice of the civil rights movement, and William F. Buckley Jr...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... -
![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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![Paying the Land by Joe Sacco]()
Paying the Land by Joe Sacco
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe Dene have lived in the vast Mackenzie River Valley since time immemorial, by their account. To the Dene, the land owns them and it is central to their livelihood and very way of being. But the subarctic Canadian Northwest Territories are home to valuable resources, including oil, gas, and diamonds... -
![The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017 by Rashid Khalidi]()
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017 by Rashid Khalidi
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the Middle East, told through pivotal events and family historyIn 1899, Yusuf Diya al-Khalidi, mayor of Jerusalem, alarmed by the Zionist call to create a Jewish national home in Palestine, wrote a letter aimed at Theodore Herzl: the country had an indigenous people who would not...Categorized as:
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![A Land With a People: Palestinians and Jews Confront Zionism by Esther Farmer]()
A Land With a People: Palestinians and Jews Confront Zionism by Esther Farmer
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA Land With a People is a book of stories, photographs and poetry which elevates rarely heard Palestinian and Jewish voices and visions...Categorized as:
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![The Traditional Bowyer's Bible, Volume 1 by Jim Hamm]()
The Traditional Bowyer's Bible, Volume 1 by Jim Hamm
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsThe Traditional Bowyer's Bible series includes three essential volumes filled with history, humor, and practical advice. Invaluable information for anyone interested in the age-old lure of archery... -
![Buses Are a Comin': Memoir of a Freedom Rider by Charles Person, Richard Rooker]()
Buses Are a Comin': Memoir of a Freedom Rider by Charles Person, Richard Rooker
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA firsthand exploration of the cost of boarding the bus of change to move America forward--written by one of the Civil Rights Movement's pioneers.At 18, Charles Person was the youngest of the original Freedom Riders, key figures in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement who left Washington, D.C. by bus in 1961, headed for New Orleans...Categorized as:
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![Kennedy and King: The President, the Pastor, and the Battle over Civil Rights by Steven Levingston]()
Kennedy and King: The President, the Pastor, and the Battle over Civil Rights by Steven Levingston
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsKennedy and King traces the emergence of two of the twentieth century's greatest leaders, their powerful impact on each other and on the shape of the civil rights battle between 1960 and 1963. These two men from starkly different worlds profoundly influenced each other's personal development...Categorized as:
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![Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality by Richard Kluger]()
Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality by Richard Kluger
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSimple Justice is generally regarded as the classic account of the U.S. Supreme Court’s epochal decision outlawing racial segregation and the centerpiece of African-Americans’ ongoing crusade for equal justice under law.The 1954 Supreme Court ruling in the case of Brown v. Board of Education brought centuries of legal segregation in this country to an end... -
![Flowers of Fire: The Inside Story of South Korea's Feminist Movement and What It Means for Women's Rights Worldwide by Hawon Jung]()
Flowers of Fire: The Inside Story of South Korea's Feminist Movement and What It Means for Women's Rights Worldwide by Hawon Jung
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn eye-opening firsthand account of the ongoing and trailblazing feminist movement in South Korea—one that the world should be watching...
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