Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America
By: Laila Lalami
4.27
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
What does it mean to be American? In this starkly illuminating and impassioned book, Pulitzer Prize…
Want to Read $ 11.99"Humanity is fundamentally a story of migration."-Laila Lalami, Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America
"White" is seen as the default, the absence of race. ...Whiteness, then, is shrouded in silence. To speak about it openly is to break a taboo."-Laila Lalami, Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America
"From my mother and grandmother, I learned about faith as a private relationship with the cosmic, which did not need to be measured by adherence to strict rules and rituals."-Laila Lalami, Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America
"All immigrants walk around with a scar left behind by their crossing into a new country, an invisible mark of the exile that became their condition when they were uprooted."-Laila Lalami, Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America
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1. Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism
By: Derrick A. Bell
4.35
Format: 222 pages, Paperback
The noted civil rights activist uses allegory and historical example to present a radical vision of… read more
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"Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy. Empathy foreshadows reform."-Derrick A. Bell, Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism
2. Salt Houses
By: Hala Alyan
3.40
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
On the eve of her daughter Alia's wedding, Salma reads the girl's future in a cup of coffee dregs. … read more
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3. The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration
By: Jake Bittle
4.28
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
“The Great Displacement is closely observed, compassionate, and far-sighted.” —Elizabeth Kolbert, P… read more
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4. 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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"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
5. Real Americans
By: Rachel Khong
4.04
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of Goodbye, Vitamin: How far would you go to shape your own destiny?… read more
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"She wasn't normal and so I wasn't either. I resented that part the most."-Rachel Khong, Real Americans
"It was a habit, with my parents: omitting information, not wanting to worry them unnecessarily. Though they’d raised me so American, I could never manage the sorts of American relationships my friend…"-Rachel Khong, Real Americans
"With each other they spoke loudly: Their voices periodically rose to excited shouts, and they laughed raucously. In English they were milder mannered, polite. My mother had always spoken English to m…"-Rachel Khong, Real Americans
6. 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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7. 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
8. I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
By: Lucy Sante
3.70
Format: 235 pages, Kindle Edition
“Reading this book is a joy... much to say about the trans journey and will undoubtedly become a st… read more
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"(Although it is extremely exciting to have tits.)"-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
"I wanted to so badly to be a woman that I could not really understand anyone wanting anything else"-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
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9. We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I
By: Raja Shehadeh
4.19
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Aziz Shehadeh was many things: lawyer, activist, and political detainee, he was also the father of … read more
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10. Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land
By: Toni Jensen
4.25
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
A powerful, poetic memoir about what it means to exist as an indigenous woman in America, told in s… read more
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"When we police a woman's affect, when we privilege it or equate it with her actions, with what she actually does, we're engaging in our most pervasive and yet our most quiet form of sexism, our most …"-Toni Jensen, Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land
11. Against the Loveless World
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4.50
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
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By: Kevin Fedarko
4.36
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
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"You were made and set here to give voice to this, your own astonishment. -Annie Dillard"-Kevin Fedarko, A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
13. Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America
By: Laila Lalami
4.27
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
What does it mean to be American? In this starkly illuminating and impassioned book, Pulitzer Prize… read more
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"Humanity is fundamentally a story of migration."-Laila Lalami, Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America
"White" is seen as the default, the absence of race. ...Whiteness, then, is shrouded in silence. To speak about it openly is to break a taboo."-Laila Lalami, Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America
"All immigrants walk around with a scar left behind by their crossing into a new country, an invisible mark of the exile that became their condition when they were uprooted."-Laila Lalami, Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America
"From my mother and grandmother, I learned about faith as a private relationship with the cosmic, which did not need to be measured by adherence to strict rules and rituals."-Laila Lalami, Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America
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3.62
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
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"Westerns began to make sense. The hubris of white men began to make sense. For what was this landscape but a canvas to swing a dick around in?"-Randa Jarrar, Love Is an Ex-Country
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4.76
Format: 230 pages, Kindle Edition
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4.56
Format: 164 pages, Kindle Edition
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19. More, Please: On Food, Fat, Bingeing, Longing, and the Lust for "Enough"
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3.65
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20. Autocracy, Inc.
By: Anne Applebaum
4.28
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21. The Lucky Ones
By: Zara Chowdhary
4.37
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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