17 Top nonfiction books like Brooding over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women's Lethal Resistance by Nikki M. Taylor

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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…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Brooding over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women's Lethal Resistance by Nikki M. Taylor , here is a list of 17 books like this:

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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

Similar categories in Brittney Cooper's Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women (Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History) book and Nikki M. Taylor's Brooding over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women's Lethal Resistance

  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • womens
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2. 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

Similar categories in Michael Harriot's Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America book and Nikki M. Taylor's Brooding over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women's Lethal Resistance

  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
Cover of Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum by Antonia Hylton

3. 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

Similar categories in Antonia Hylton's Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum book and Nikki M. Taylor's Brooding over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women's Lethal Resistance

  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • race
  • history
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4. Out There Screaming

By: Jordan Peele

3.79

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

The visionary writer and director of Get Out, Us, and Nope, and founder of Monkeypaw Productions, c… read more

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"Jesus better keep his little bitch mouth shut"

-Jordan Peele, Out There Screaming

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5. The Thing About Home

By: Rhonda McKnight

4.28

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Home is not a place—it’s a feeling. Casey Black needs an escape. When her picture-perfect vow renew… read more

Similar categories in Rhonda McKnight's The Thing About Home book and Nikki M. Taylor's Brooding over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women's Lethal Resistance

  • historical
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6. Ours

By: Phillip B. Williams

3.84

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

An epic novel set in mid-nineteenth-century America about the spiritual costs of a freedom that dem… read more

Similar categories in Phillip B. Williams's Ours book and Nikki M. Taylor's Brooding over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women's Lethal Resistance

  • historical
  • race
"In Ours, the grass that grows is sharp. It gleams at its edges, such that when the buttery light of spring falls into it, the light cries out and yellow pours slowly over the earth."

-Phillip B. Williams, Ours

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7. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

By: Hanif Abdurraqib

4.40

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James—f… read more

Similar categories in Hanif Abdurraqib's There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension book and Nikki M. Taylor's Brooding over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women's Lethal Resistance

  • race
  • nonfiction
"Heartbreak itself is a primary color. Stagnant without a series of secondary colors to activate it. Longing is an activator."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

"With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

"It is a strange miracle to be able to trace your own aging, your own mortality through someone who's living alongside you, someone who has survived eras at the same time as you have in some of the sa…"

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

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8. A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire

By: Emma Southon

4.23

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum comes a wildly entertai… read more

Similar categories in Emma Southon's A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire book and Nikki M. Taylor's Brooding over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women's Lethal Resistance

  • history
  • historical
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • womens
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9. Coming Home

By: Brittney Griner

4.43

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the nine-time women’s basketball icon and two-time Olympic gold medalist—a raw, revelatory acc… read more

Similar categories in Brittney Griner's Coming Home book and Nikki M. Taylor's Brooding over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women's Lethal Resistance

  • nonfiction
"When your world is violently upended, you don't just mourn your immediate losses. You also grieve a future that no longer feels possible, the peace that might've been."

-Brittney Griner, Coming Home

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10. Medgar & Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story that Awakened America

By: Joy-Ann Reid

4.57

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The host of MSNBC’s  The ReidOut  and  New York Times  bestselling author of  The Man Who Sold Amer… read more

Similar categories in Joy-Ann Reid's Medgar & Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story that Awakened America book and Nikki M. Taylor's Brooding over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women's Lethal Resistance

  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
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11. Up Home: One Girl's Journey

By: Ruth J. Simmons

4.03

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An inspiring, indelible memoir from the daughter of sharecroppers in East Texas who became the firs… read more

Similar categories in Ruth J. Simmons's Up Home: One Girl's Journey book and Nikki M. Taylor's Brooding over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women's Lethal Resistance

  • nonfiction
  • race
  • history
"I was born at a crossroads: a crossroads in history, a crossroads in culture, and a geographical crossroads in North Houston County in East Texas."

-Ruth J. Simmons, Up Home: One Girl's Journey

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12. 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

Similar categories in Kellie Carter Jackson's Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence book and Nikki M. Taylor's Brooding over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women's Lethal Resistance

  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
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13. 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

Similar categories in Nikki M. Taylor's Brooding over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women's Lethal Resistance book and Nikki M. Taylor's Brooding over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women's Lethal Resistance

  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • historical
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • womens
Cover of Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic by Jennifer L. Morgan

14. Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic

By: Jennifer L. Morgan

4.37

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

In Reckoning with Slavery Jennifer L. Morgan draws on the lived experiences of enslaved African wom… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer L. Morgan's Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic book and Nikki M. Taylor's Brooding over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women's Lethal Resistance

  • american history
  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • womens
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15. Autisterna: om kvinnor på spektrat

By: Clara Törnvall

4.02

Format: 220 pages, Hardcover

Varför skrev poeten Emily Dickinson dikter om havet utan att någonsin ha sett det, varför är Underl… read more

Similar categories in Clara Törnvall's Autisterna: om kvinnor på spektrat book and Nikki M. Taylor's Brooding over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women's Lethal Resistance

  • feminism
  • womens
  • nonfiction
"But deficits and disabilities only exist in relation to an environment where some other way of functioning has been chosen as the yardstick. An autistic person - or one with any form of otherness - o…"

-Clara Törnvall, Autisterna: om kvinnor på spektrat

"Yet the autistic woman is not masking with the intention of being deceitful. Her true self is invisible even to her own person. She is masking to fit in, and doing so unconsciously. Often, she doesn'…"

-Clara Törnvall, Autisterna: om kvinnor på spektrat

Cover of Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts by Rebecca    Hall

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

Similar categories in Rebecca Hall's Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts book and Nikki M. Taylor's Brooding over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women's Lethal Resistance

  • race
  • history
  • historical
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
"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

Cover of Another Word for Love: A Memoir by Carvell Wallace

17. Another Word for Love: A Memoir

By: Carvell Wallace

4.35

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A transformative memoir that reimagines the conventions of love and posits a radical vision for hea… read more

Similar categories in Carvell Wallace's Another Word for Love: A Memoir book and Nikki M. Taylor's Brooding over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women's Lethal Resistance

  • race
  • nonfiction
Cover of Teaching White Supremacy: America's Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of Our National Identity by Donald Yacovone

18. Teaching White Supremacy: America's Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of Our National Identity

By: Donald Yacovone

4.09

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A powerful exploration of the past and present arc of America’s white supremacy—from the country’s … read more

Similar categories in Donald Yacovone's Teaching White Supremacy: America's Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of Our National Identity book and Nikki M. Taylor's Brooding over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women's Lethal Resistance

  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • nonfiction
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19. The Other Princess

By: Denny S. Bryce

3.99

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

A stunning portrait of an African princess raised in Queen Victoria’s court and adapting to life in… read more

Similar categories in Denny S. Bryce's The Other Princess book and Nikki M. Taylor's Brooding over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women's Lethal Resistance

  • historical
Cover of Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People by Tiya Miles

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

Similar categories in Tiya Miles's Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People book and Nikki M. Taylor's Brooding over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women's Lethal Resistance

  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • womens
Cover of As If She Were Free: A Collective Biography of Women and Emancipation in the Americas by Erica L. Ball

21. As If She Were Free: A Collective Biography of Women and Emancipation in the Americas

By: Erica L. Ball

4.33

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

As If She Were Free brings together the biographies of twenty-four women of African descent to reve… read more

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  • history
  • race
  • nonfiction

6 must-read womens books like Brooding over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women's Lethal Resistance by Nikki M. Taylor

Transform Your Habits

Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women (Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History)

Brittney Cooper , None

4.43

Transform Your Habits

A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire

Emma Southon

4.23

Transform Your Habits

Brooding over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women's Lethal Resistance

Nikki M. Taylor

4.47

Transform Your Habits

Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic

Jennifer L. Morgan

4.37

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7 must-read race books like Medgar & Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story that Awakened America by Joy-Ann Reid

Transform Your Habits

James

Percival Everett

4.54

Transform Your Habits

Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

Antonia Hylton

4.27

Transform Your Habits

Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine

Uché Blackstock

4.46

Transform Your Habits

Medgar & Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story that Awakened America

Joy-Ann Reid

4.57

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