They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
By: Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
4.29
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy Bri…
Want to Read $ 13.84"Historians who explore slavery's relationship to capitalism generally focus on the roles that men played in the development of both. But if we considered the very real possibility that some of the enslaved people these men compelled to work in southern cotton fields actually belonged to their wives, the narrative about American slavery and capitalism would be strikingly different. And when we consider that the enslaved people women owned before they married or acquired afterward helped make the nineteenth-century scale of southern cotton cultivation possible, the narrative of slavery, nineteenth-century markets, and capitalism as the domain of men becomes untenable."-Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
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1. Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
By: bell hooks
3.91
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
A groundbreaking work of feminist history and theory analyzing the complex relations between variou… read more
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2. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
By: Richard Rothstein
2.89
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading auth… read more
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3. The Myth of Seneca Falls: Memory and the Women's Suffrage Movement, 1848-1898
By: None
4.30
Format: 503 pages, Hardcover
The story of how the women's rights movement began at the Seneca Falls convention of 1848 is a cher… read more
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4. Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
By: Harriet A. Washington
0.00
Format: 126 pages, Hardcover
From the era of slavery to the present day, the first full history of black America's shocking mist… read more
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5. The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation
By: Daina Ramey Berry
3.57
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Groundbreaking look at slaves as commodities through every phase of life, from birth to death and b… read more
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6. The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
By: Edward E. Baptist
4.34
Format: 132 pages, Hardcover
Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution--the nation's original sin, perhaps, but… read more
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7. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
By: Siddharth Kara
4.37
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times… read more
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"Now you understand how people like us work?"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Nothing looks the same after a trip to the Congo. The world back home no longer makes sense. It is difficult to reconcile how it even inhabits the same planet. Neatly arranged mountains of vegetables…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Cobalt mining is the slave farm perfected. The cost of labor has been nullified through the degradation of Africans at the bottom of an economic chain that purports to exonerate all participants of a…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
8. The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide
By: Steven W. Thrasher
4.22
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From preeminent LGBTQ scholar, social critic, and journalist Steven W. Thrasher comes a powerful an… read more
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9. Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America
By: Michael Harriot
4.59
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
From acclaimed columnist and political commentator Michael Harriot, a searingly smart and bitingly… read more
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10. Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory
By: Claudio Saunt
4.23
Format: 396 pages, Hardcover
In May 1830, the United States formally launched a policy to expel Native Americans from the East t… read more
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11. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
By: Rashid Khalidi
4.50
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more
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12. Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
By: Deirdre Cooper Owens
4.14
Format: 182 pages, Kindle Edition
The accomplishments of pioneering doctors such as John Peter Mettauer, James Marion Sims, and Natha… read more
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13. They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
By: Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
4.29
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy Bri… read more
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"Historians who explore slavery's relationship to capitalism generally focus on the roles that men played in the development of both. But if we considered the very real possibility that some of the en…"-Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
14. The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
By: Mehrsa Baradaran
4.47
Format: 371 pages, Hardcover
“Read this book. It explains so much about the moment…Beautiful, heartbreaking work.” ―Ta-Nehisi Co… read more
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"Perhaps because the bank was identified with the endeavors of the newly freed negro, wrote historians Kindsor and Sagarin, anyone who dared to raise a cry against the mismanagement was charged with b…"-Mehrsa Baradaran, The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
"The scheme began to unravel following the Panic of 1873 when railroad investments failed. The bank experienced several runs at the height of the panic. The panic would not have affected the bank if i…"-Mehrsa Baradaran, The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
15. A Black Women's History of the United States (ReVisioning History)
By: Daina Ramey Berry
4.30
Format: 273 pages, Hardcover
A vibrant and empowering history that emphasizes the perspectives and stories of African American w… read more
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16. Daughter of the Merciful Deep
By: Leslye Penelope
4.01
Format: 398 pages, Paperback
A woman journeys into a submerged world of gods and myth to save her home in this powerful historic… read more
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17. White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color
By: Ruby Hamad
4.56
Format: 284 pages, Paperback
This explosive book of history and cultural criticism argues that white feminism has been a weapon … read more
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"This weaponization of White Womanhood continues to be the centerpiece of an arsenal used to maintain the status quo and punish anyone who dares challenge it."-Ruby Hamad, White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color
"White women can oscillate between their gender and their race, between being the oppressed and the oppressor. Women of color are never permitted to exist outside of these constraints: we are both wom…"-Ruby Hamad, White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color
"Yes, it is true women of color have been the targets of a setup of monumental proportions, something that amounts to nothing short of a covert war against us. But it is also true that these attacks a…"-Ruby Hamad, White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color
18. Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
By: Sabrina Strings
4.25
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
In her first book, sociologist Strings (sociology, Univ. of California, Irvine) explores the histor… read more
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"...the current anti-fat bias in the United States and in much of the West was not born in the medical field. Racial scientific literature since at least the eighteenth century has claimed that fatnes…"-Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
"Together, the two traveled to the south of France, where Bernier earned a medical degree in just three months. The degree, however, carried the somewhat suspect stipulation that his fast-tracked medi…"-Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
"...racial discourse was deployed by elite Europeans and white Americans to create social distinctions between themselves and fat racial Others. Black people, as well as so-called degraded or hybrid w…"-Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
"The legacy of Protestant moralism and race science as it related to fat and thin persons loomed large. Indeed, many early to mid-twentieth-century physicians relied on moral and racial logics to rail…"-Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
19. At 30, I Realized I Had No Gender: Life Lessons From a 50-Year-Old After Two Decades of Self-Discovery
By: Shou Arai
3.39
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
At age 30, Shou Arai came to a realization; they had no gender. Now they were faced with a question… read more
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20. The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within U.S. Slave Culture
By: Vincent Woodard
4.19
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2015 LGBT Studies Award presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation Unearths connect… read more
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21. Your Body is Not Your Body
By: Alex Woodroe
4.10
Format: 263 pages, Kindle Edition
EXTREME CONDITIONS DEMAND EXTREME RESPONSES. Over thirty creators from the Trans/Gender Nonconform… read more
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