Ybor City: Crucible of the Latina South (Justice, Power, and Politics)
By: Sarah McNamara
4.46
Format: 266 pages, Hardcover
Decades before Miami became Havana USA, a wave of leftist, radical, working-class women and men fro…
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1. Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women (Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History)
By: Brittney Cooper , None
4.43
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Beyond Respectability charts the development of African American women as public intellectuals and … read more
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2. Unbound Feet: A Social History of Chinese Women in San Francisco
By: Judy Yung
3.50
Format: 31 pages, Paperback
The crippling custom of footbinding is the thematic touchstone for Judy Yung's engrossing study of … read more
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3. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
By: Frederick Douglass
4.11
Format: 158 pages, Paperback
Born a slave circa 1818 (slaves weren't told when they were born) on a plantation in Maryland, Doug… read more
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"For my part, I should prefer death to hopeless bondage."-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
"You will be free as soon as you are twenty-one, but I am a slave for life! Have not I as good a right to be free as you have?"-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
"I say , this picture sometimes appalled us, and made us rather bear those ills we had. Than fly to others, that we knew not of."-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
"They attend with Pharisaical strictness to the outward forms of religion, and at the same time neglect the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith."-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
4. Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive
By: None , Marisa J. Fuentes
4.43
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
In the eighteenth century, Bridgetown, Barbados, was heavily populated by both enslaved and free wo… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
5. My Invented Country : A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile
By: Isabel Allende
4.13
Format: None pages,
Isabel Allende's first memory of Chile is of a house she never knew. The "large old house" on the C… read more
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6. Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters
By: None
1.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
While many transnational histories of the nuclear arms race have been written, Kate Brown provides … read more
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7. The Women's Fight: The Civil War's Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation
By: Thavolia Glymph
4.00
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Historians of the Civil War often speak of "wars within a war--the military fight, wartime struggle… read more
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- history
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8. Katrina: A History, 1915-2015
By: Andy Horowitz
4.26
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
The definitive history of Katrina: an epic of citymaking, revealing how engineers and oil executive… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
9. 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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- history
- nonfiction
"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
10. So You Want to Talk About Race
By: Ijeoma Oluo
4.49
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
In this breakout book, Ijeoma Oluo explores the complex reality of today's racial landscape--from w… read more
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- nonfiction
"Conversations on racism should never be about winning."-Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race
"Our humanity is worth a little discomfort, it's actually worth a lot of discomfort."-Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race
"Our police forces were created not to protect Americans of color, but to control Americans of color."-Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race
"When we say ‘Asian American’ we are talking about so much more than can be fit in a single stereotype."-Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race
11. The Tobacco Wives
By: Adele Myers
3.81
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
For the audience of Fiona Davis and Lisa Wingate, a vibrant historical debut set in 1946 North Caro… read more
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12. Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands
By: Kelly Lytle Hernández
4.19
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Bad Mexicans tells the dramatic story of the magonistas, the migrant rebels who sparked the 1910 Me… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
13. Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps (Civil War America)
By: Amy Murrell Taylor
4.43
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The Civil War was just days old when the first enslaved men, women, and children began fleeing thei… read more
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- history
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14. Ybor City: Crucible of the Latina South (Justice, Power, and Politics)
By: Sarah McNamara
4.46
Format: 266 pages, Hardcover
Decades before Miami became Havana USA, a wave of leftist, radical, working-class women and men fro… read more
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- nonfiction
15. The Souls of Womenfolk: The Religious Cultures of Enslaved Women in the Lower South
By: Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh
4.20
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
Beginning on the shores of West Africa in the sixteenth century and ending in the U.S. Lower South … read more
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16. Knocking on Labor's Door: Union Organizing in the 1970s and the Roots of a New Economic Divide (Justice, Power, and Politics)
By: Lane Windham
4.07
Format: 295 pages, Hardcover
The power of unions in workers' lives and in the American political system has declined dramaticall… read more
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- history
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17. Through the Groves: A Memoir
By: Anne Hull
3.86
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A richly evocative coming-of-age memoir set in the Florida orange groves of the 1960s by a Pulitzer… read more
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18. The Young Lords: A Radical History
By: Johanna Fernandez
4.61
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Against the backdrop of America's escalating urban rebellions in the 1960s, an unexpected cohort of… read more
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19. Detention Empire: Reagan's War on Immigrants and the Seeds of Resistance (Justice, Power, and Politics)
By: Kristina Shull
3.60
Format: 518 pages, Kindle Edition
The early 1980s marked a critical turning point for the rise of modern mass incarceration in the Un… read more
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20. Communist Pigs: An Animal History of East Germany's Rise and Fall (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)
By: Thomas Fleischman
4.27
Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition
The pig played a key role in the German Democratic Republic's attempts to create a modern, industri… read more
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21. A House Divided: Slavery and Emancipation in Delaware, 1638–1865 (Carter G. Woodson Institute Series: Black Studies at Work in the World)
By: Patience Essah
3.17
Format: 236 pages, Hardcover
Delaware stood outside the primary streams of New World emancipation. Despite slavery's virtual dem… read more
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