America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States
By: Erika Lee
4.34
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
This definitive history of American xenophobia is "essential reading for anyone who wants to build …
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1. Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans
By: Ronald Takaki
4.17
Format: 640 pages, Paperback
In an extraordinary blend of eloquent narrative history, vivid personal recollection, and oral test… read more
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2. Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism
By: Rachel Maddow
4.45
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful … read more
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"One big appeal of fascism, if nothing else, was its unapologetic embrace of cruelty. Cruelty towards others, coupled with hypersensitivity towards any slight to oneself."-Rachel Maddow, Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism
3. Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother
By: Peggy O'Donnell Heffington
3.77
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A historian explores the complicated relationship between womanhood and motherhood in this “timely… read more
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"Even after becoming a mother, fulfilling the role society demands of you, you still can't win."-Peggy O'Donnell Heffington, Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother
"Parenthood is demanded of us, but we are asked to parent in isolated bubbles, supported--to put it crudely--by our bank accounts and little else."-Peggy O'Donnell Heffington, Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother
"COVID-19 exposed what women with children and without both already knew: that despite the expectation we all become mothers, we receive little support once we do."-Peggy O'Donnell Heffington, Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother
"In light of our failure to account for the pressures, anxieties, and dangers of modern life, it's possible to argue that the decision to opt out of parenthood is perfectly rational. The decision to h…"-Peggy O'Donnell Heffington, Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother
4. Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
By: Antonia Hylton
4.27
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crowns… read more
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5. Poverty, by America
By: Matthew Desmond
4.27
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more
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"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
6. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
By: Tim Alberta
4.45
Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition
Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in Americ… read more
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- audiobook
7. 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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8. America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States
By: Erika Lee
4.34
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
This definitive history of American xenophobia is "essential reading for anyone who wants to build … read more
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- anti racist
- sociology
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9. Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point
By: Steven Levitsky
4.43
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A call to reform our antiquated political institutions before it’s too late—from the New York Times… read more
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10. Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America
By: Kathleen Belew
4.22
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
"Belew's book helps explain how we got to today's alt right."―Terry Gross, Fresh Air The white p… read more
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"The story of white power as a social movement exposes something broader about the enduring impact of state violence in America. It reveals one catastrophic ricochet of the Vietnam War, in the form of…"-Kathleen Belew, Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America
11. They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent
By: Sarah Kendzior
3.94
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE “Every sentence delivered. The pathos of truth-see… read more
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"The word “conspire"-Sarah Kendzior, They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent
"The desire to forget is as overwhelming as the obligation not to."-Sarah Kendzior, They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent
"History was a feedback loop of unlearned lessons and reverberating lies."-Sarah Kendzior, They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent
"There is no such thing as paranoia; your worst fears can come true at any moment,"-Sarah Kendzior, They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent
12. How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America
By: Heather Cox Richardson
4.31
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
While the North prevailed in the Civil War, ending slavery and giving the country a "new birth of f… read more
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13. White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy
By: Thomas F. Schaller
3.82
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A searing portrait and damning takedown of America’s proudest citizens — who are also the least lik… read more
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14. Who's Afraid of Gender?
By: Judith Butler
4.02
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fueling reactionary politi… read more
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"Imagine if you were Jewish and someone tells you that you are not. Imagine if you are lesbian and someone laughs in your face and says you are confused since you are really heterosexual. Imagine if y…"-Judith Butler, Who's Afraid of Gender?
15. American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress
By: Wesley Lowery
4.18
Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition
“American Whitelash is indispensable. Really. It is.” — Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Ant… read more
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16. The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States
By: Walter Johnson
4.38
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
A searing portrait of the racial dynamics that lie inescapably at the heart of our nation, told thr… read more
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"One of the things about people who have little left to lose, of course, is that they have everything to gain. On August 9, 2014, the disinherited of St. Louis rose again to take control of their hist…"-Walter Johnson, The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States
"Viewed from St. Louis, the history of capitalism in the United States seems to have as much to do with eviction and extraction as with exploitation and production. History in St. Louis unfolded at th…"-Walter Johnson, The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States
17. America On Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s
By: Elizabeth Hinton
4.22
Format: 396 pages, Hardcover
What began in spring 2020 as local protests in response to the killing of George Floyd by Minneapol… read more
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18. Anatomy of a Breakthrough: How to Get Unstuck When It Matters Most
By: Adam Alter
3.96
Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition
A groundbreaking guide to breaking free from the thoughts, habits, jobs, relationships, and even bu… read more
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19. Learning to Pray: A Guide for Everyone
By: James Martin
4.30
Format: 386 pages, Hardcover
One of America’s most beloved spiritual leaders and the New York Times bestselling author of The Je… read more
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20. Sisters in Hate: American Women on the Front Lines of White Nationalism
By: Seyward Darby
4.19
Format: 11 pages, Audio CD
A revealing, unsettling portrait of white nationalism, told through the lives of three women whose … read more
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"Hate can be understood as a social bond, a complex phenomenon that occurs among people as a means of mattering and belonging."-Seyward Darby, Sisters in Hate: American Women on the Front Lines of White Nationalism
21. Union: The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhood
By: Colin Woodard
4.18
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
By the bestselling author of American Nations, the story of how the myth of U.S. national unity was… read more
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