Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence
By: Kellie Carter Jackson
4.35
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From its origins in the 1750s, the white-led American abolitionist movement adhered to principles o…
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1. Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place (Kentucky Voices)
By: bell hooks
3.85
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Author, activist, feminist, teacher, and artist bell hooks is celebrated as one of the nation's lea… read more
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- african american
"When poetry stirs in my imagination it is almost always from an indirect place, where language is abstract, where the mood and energy is evocative of submerged emotional intelligence and experience."-bell hooks, Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place (Kentucky Voices)
"sometimes falling rain carries memories of betrayal there in the woods where she was not meant to be too young she believes in her right to be free in her body free from harm believing nature a wilde…"-bell hooks, Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place (Kentucky Voices)
2. In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose
By: Alice Walker
3.98
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
In this, her first collection of nonfiction, Alice Walker speaks out as a black woman, writer, moth… read more
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3. The American Revolution: A History
By: Gordon S. Wood
3.03
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "An elegant synthesis done by the leading scholar in the field, which nic… read more
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4. 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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5. Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household
By: Thavolia Glymph
3.95
Format: None pages, Paperback
This book views the plantation household as a site of production where competing visions of gender … read more
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6. Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
By: bell hooks
3.46
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks--writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual--writes ab… read more
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7. Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance
By: Mia Bay
4.29
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Critics' Top Book of the Year "This extraordinary book is a powerful addition t… read more
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8. Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World
By: Zahra Hankir
4.49
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
Nineteen Arab women journalists speak out about what it’s like to report on their changing homeland… read more
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- politics
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9. Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption
By: Rafia Zakaria
4.32
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Upper-middle-class white women have long been heralded as “experts” on feminism. They have presided… read more
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"Trickle-down feminism, everyone assumed, would miraculously fast forward the realization of a gender-equal, free market world created in the self image of America."-Rafia Zakaria, Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption
"White and western women are seen as participants in complex modern societies. Their problems cannot be solved with a single, neat gift. Women of color are imagined as existing in a much simpler world…"-Rafia Zakaria, Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption
"But American journalists, female journalists in particular, created a narrative for the war on terror that reaffirmed it as one fought by a feminist America, against anti-feminist, primitive, patriar…"-Rafia Zakaria, Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption
"Capitalist forces have looked to depoliticize as many spheres as possible. To create a feminist politics of solidarity, women have to recognize the forces that push them apart and push them into mean…"-Rafia Zakaria, Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption
10. Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
By: Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
4.00
Format: 157 pages, Paperback
A powerful indictment of the ways elites have co-opted radical critiques of racial capitalism to se… read more
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- audiobook
"A philosopher Briana Toole clarifies, by itself, one's social location only puts a person in a position to know; 'epistemic privilege' or advantage, on the other hand, is achieved only through delibe…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
"Elites do often make the environment worse and block solutions, but to blame the problem of elite capture entirely on their moral successes and failures is to confuse effect for cause. The true probl…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
"To opt for deference, rather than interdependence, may soothe short-term psychological wounds. But it does so at a steep cost: it may undermine the goals that motivated the project--and it entrenches…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
"As Carter G. Woodson realized, many of our decisions are shaped by decisions that someone with more power made before us. The whole social structure affects how institutional systems, like schools, f…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
11. The Scourge Between Stars
By: Ness Brown
3.59
Format: 165 pages, Paperback
Ness Brown's The Scourge Between Stars is a tense, claustrophobic sci-fi/horror blend set aboard a … read more
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12. Rez Ball
By: Byron Graves
4.16
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
This debut novel by Byron Graves tells the story of a young athlete determined to play like the her… read more
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13. Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care
By: Kelly Hayes
4.64
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Let T… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
14. Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence
By: Kellie Carter Jackson
4.35
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From its origins in the 1750s, the white-led American abolitionist movement adhered to principles o… read more
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- the united states of america
- historical
- politics
- united states
- nonfiction
- african american
- audiobook
15. Brooding over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women's Lethal Resistance
By: Nikki M. Taylor
4.47
Format: 250 pages, Hardcover
From the colonial through the antebellum era, enslaved women in the US used lethal force as the ult… read more
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- race
- history
- historical
- nonfiction
16. Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
By: Rebecca Hall
4.30
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Part graphic novel, part memoir, Wake is an imaginative tour-de-force that tells the story of women… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- race
- history
"You think you are reading an accurate chronicle written at the time, but if we are and what we care about are deemed irrelevant, it won't be in there."-Rebecca Hall, Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
"History written by the victors always erases the resistance. And those of us who live in the wake/ruins learn that we're inferior and needed to be conquered and enslaved. This is the afterlife of sla…"-Rebecca Hall, Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
"Quantitative historians who use statistical tools to study big-picture historical trends, created a vast database of research on more than 36,000 slave ship voyages that took place over four hundred …"-Rebecca Hall, Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
17. The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart
By: Alicia Garza
4.35
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An essential guide to building transformative movements to address the challenges of our time, from… read more
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- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Intersectionality asks us to examine the places where we are marginalized but it also demands that we examine how and why those of us who are marginalized can in turn exercise marginalization over ot…"-Alicia Garza, The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart
"Diversity is what happens when you have representation of various groups in one place. Representation is what happens when groups that haven’t previously been included, are included. Intersectionalit…"-Alicia Garza, The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart
18. Curvy Girl Summer (Curve, #1)
By: Danielle Allen
4.35
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Bridget Jones’s Diary meets Survival of the Thickest in Danielle Allen’s CURVY GIRL SUMMER, a smoki… read more
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19. West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America after the Civil War
By: Heather Cox Richardson
3.93
Format: 413 pages, Kindle Edition
The story of Reconstruction is not simply about the rebuilding of the South after the Civil War. I… read more
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- race
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20. Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People
By: Tiya Miles
4.10
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the National Book Award–winning author of All That She Carried, an intimate and revelatory rec… read more
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- race
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- african american
- audiobook
21. Little Rot
By: Akwaeke Emezi
3.67
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling new novel from the bestselling, award-winning Akwaeke Emezi, about five friends trying … read more
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