Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino”
By: Héctor Tobar
4.29
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A new book by the Pulitzer Prize – winning writer about the twenty-first-century Latino experience …
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1. Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America
By: None
3.74
Format: 70 pages, Paperback
Spanning 500 years of Hispanic history, from the first New World colonies to the 19th century westw… read more
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2. Let Us Descend
By: Jesmyn Ward
3.70
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From Jesmyn Ward—the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congres… read more
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- race
- audiobook
"You must leap. You must do as your people did. You must sink in order to rise."-Jesmyn Ward, Let Us Descend
3. A Living Remedy: A Memoir
By: Nicole Chung
4.01
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A searing memoir of family, class and grief—a daughter’s search to understand the lives her adoptiv… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
"How do you learn to cherish yourself, your life, when grief has made it unrecognizable? I am starting to feel that we do so not by trying to fill a void that can never be filled but by living as best…"-Nicole Chung, A Living Remedy: A Memoir
4. Creep: Accusations and Confessions
By: Myriam Gurba
4.37
Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition
A ruthless and razor-sharp essay collection that tackles the pervasive, creeping oppression and tox… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
- audiobook
"Embedded within these systems of family, friendship, and community, these creepy men may appear harmless, their evil obscured by a benign collective presence, a fog of sorts. This softness swaddles a…"-Myriam Gurba, Creep: Accusations and Confessions
5. Wandering Stars
By: Tommy Orange
3.89
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more
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- audiobook
"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars
6. 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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- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- sociology
- audiobook
"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
7. The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
By: Ned Blackhawk
4.18
Format: 596 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping and overdue retelling of U.S. history that recognizes that Native Americans are essentia… read more
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- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
8. Blackouts
By: Justin Torres
3.77
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of We the Animals, Blackouts mines lost histories--personal and collect… read more
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- audiobook
9. Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice
By: Cristina Rivera Garza
4.35
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A haunting, unforgettable memoir about a beloved younger sister and the painful memory of her murde… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
"Ahora sí es posible escribir lo inexpresable. Mejor dicho, ahora hay algo inexpresable y, luego entonces ahora es posible escribir."-Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice
"Éramos apenas unas niñas de dieciocho años, pero ahí íbamos junto con todos los demás, pidiendo lo imposible porque, ¿qué más se puede pedir a esa edad?"-Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice
"Somos ellas en el pasado, y somos ellas en el futuro, y somos otras a la vez. Somos otras y somos las mismas de siempre. Mujeres en busca de justicia. Mujeres exhaustas, y juntas. Hartas ya, pero con…"-Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice
"It is in the imperative, inescapable, overwhelming demand that the victim be blamed and that you blame yourself with her. It is in the imperative, inescapable, overwhelming demand to exonerate the mu…"-Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice
10. Family Lore
By: Elizabeth Acevedo
3.53
Format: 371 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling, National Book Award-winning author Elizabeth Acevedo comes her first novel for ad… read more
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- audiobook
11. How to Say Babylon
By: Safiya Sinclair
4.47
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
With echoes of Educated and Born a Crime, How to Say Babylon is the stunning story of the author’s … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
"As I grew older, I knew I would never be his perfect Rasta daughter. I was too headstrong, too curious. Too much of myself, and not enough of him."-Safiya Sinclair, How to Say Babylon
12. You Dreamed of Empires
By: Álvaro Enrigue
3.85
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From a visionary Mexican author, a hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story that reimagine… read more
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- audiobook
13. When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era
By: Donovan X. Ramsey
4.36
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A kaleidoscopic account of the crack cocaine era and a community’s ultimate resilience, told throug… read more
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- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- sociology
- audiobook
14. Rivermouth: A Chronicle of Language, Faith, and Migration
By: Alejandra Oliva
4.25
Format: 320 pages, None
The Undocumented Americans meets Tell Me How It Ends in this chronicle about translation, storytell… read more
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- history
- memoir
- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
15. Built from the Fire: The Epic Story of Tulsa's Greenwood District, America's Black Wall Street
By: Victor Luckerson
4.38
Format: 672 pages, Hardcover
A multigenerational saga of a family and a community in Tulsa’s Greenwood district, known as “Black… read more
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- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
"The newspaper encouraged displaced entrepreneurs to open businesses in South Tulsa and continue smashing color barriers. But it also spoke to a larger argument about how the definition of black succe…"-Victor Luckerson, Built from the Fire: The Epic Story of Tulsa's Greenwood District, America's Black Wall Street
16. First Gen: A Memoir
By: Alejandra Campoverdi
4.26
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An unflinching memoir about navigating social mobility as a first gen Latina — offering both a rive… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
17. Ordinary Notes
By: Christina Sharpe
4.55
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
A singular achievement, Ordinary Notes explores profound questions about loss and the shapes of Bla… read more
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- race
- history
- memoir
- politics
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
18. Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
By: Jonathan Blitzer
4.49
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
An epic, heartbreaking, and deeply reported history of the disastrous humanitarian crisis at the so… read more
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- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
19. You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingham That Changed America
By: Paul Kix
4.55
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From journalist Paul Kix, the riveting story, never before fully told, of the 1963 Birmingham Campa… read more
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- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- sociology
- audiobook
20. Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino”
By: Héctor Tobar
4.29
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A new book by the Pulitzer Prize – winning writer about the twenty-first-century Latino experience … read more
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- race
- history
- memoir
- politics
- latino
- nonfiction
- social justice
- essays
- sociology
- audiobook
21. Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America
By: Julia Lee
4.34
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
Julia Lee is angry. And she has questions. What does it mean to be Asian in America? What does it … read more
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- nonfiction
- social justice
- essays
- audiobook
22. A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, a History, a Memorial
By: Viet Thanh Nguyen
4.35
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
With insight, humor, formal invention, and lyricism, in A Man of Two Faces Viet Thanh Nguyen rewind… read more
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- nonfiction
- race
- history
- memoir
23. Promises of Gold
By: José Olivarez
4.39
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking collection of poems addressing how every kind of love—self, brotherly, romantic, f… read more
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- latino
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- audiobook
24. Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism
By: Laura E. Gómez
4.17
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An NPR Best Book of the Year, exploring the impact of Latinos' new collective racial identity on th… read more
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- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- sociology
- audiobook
25. Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire
By: Alice Wong
4.30
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
The much-anticipated follow up to the groundbreaking anthology Disability Visibility: another revol… read more
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- social justice
- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
26. America Redux: Visual Stories from Our Dynamic History
By: Ariel Aberg-Riger
4.48
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A critical, unflinching cultural history and fierce beacon of hope for a better future, America Red… read more
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- politics
- social justice
- history
- nonfiction
27. The Sons of El Rey
By: Alex Espinoza
3.90
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From the American Book Award–winning author comes a multi-generational epic spanning 1960s Mexico … read more
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- audiobook
28. Catalina
By: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
3.65
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A year in the life of the unforgettable Catalina Ituralde, a wickedly wry and heartbreakingly vulne… read more
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29. Hombrecito
By: Santiago Jose Sanchez
3.95
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A novel by a brilliant new voice, Hombrecito is a queer coming-of-age story about a young immigrant… read more
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30. LatinoLand: A Portrait of America's Largest and Least Understood Minority
By: Marie Arana
4.29
Format: 352 pages, ebook
A sweeping yet personal overview of the Latino population of America, drawn from hundreds of interv… read more
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- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- sociology
- audiobook
31. Sana, Sana: Latinx Pain and Radical Visions for Healing and Justice
By: David Luis Glisch-Sánchez
4.38
Format: 141 pages, Kindle Edition
A bridge that interrupts a legacy of pain with the honest sharing of stories. Sana, Sana is a witn… read more
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