How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts
By: Natalia Molina
4.00
Format: 213 pages, Kindle Edition
How Race Is Made in America examines Mexican Americans--from 1924, when American law drastically re…
Want to Read $ 13.99If you liked the race plot in How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts by Natalia Molina , here is a list of 15 books like this:
1. Bleak House
By: Charles Dickens , Hablot Knight Browne , Nicola Bradbury
4.02
Format: 1017 pages, Paperback
The complex story of a notorious law-suit in which love and inheritance are set against the classic… read more
Want to Read $ 4.99Similar categories in Charles Dickens's Bleak House book and Natalia Molina's How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts
"You can be nothing better than yourself; be that [...]"-Charles Dickens, Bleak House
"I find the nights long, for I sleep but little, and think much."-Charles Dickens, Bleak House
"I am not at all respectable, and I don't want to be. Odd perhaps, but so it is!"-Charles Dickens, Bleak House
"if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right."-Charles Dickens, Bleak House
2. Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
By: Saidiya Hartman
4.28
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In Lose Your Mother, Saidiya Hartman journeys along a slave route in Ghana, following the trail of … read more
Want to Read $ 11.99Similar categories in Saidiya Hartman's Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route book and Natalia Molina's How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts
- nonfiction
- race
- history
- school
"To remember what they had lost and what they became, what had been torn apart and what had come together, the fugitives and refugees and multitudes in flight were called the Sisala, which means ‘to c…"-Saidiya Hartman, Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
"Why was it I sometimes felt as weary of America as if I too had landed in what was now South Carolina in 1526 or in Jamestown in 1619? Was it the tug of all the lost mothers and orphaned children? Or…"-Saidiya Hartman, Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
"If slavery persists as an issue in the political life of black America, it is not because of an antiquarian obsession with bygone days or the burden of a too-long memory, but because black lives are …"-Saidiya Hartman, Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
3. A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America
By: Lizabeth Cohen
3.86
Format: 576 pages, Paperback
In this signal work of history, Bancroft Prize winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Lizabeth Cohen sh… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Lizabeth Cohen's A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America book and Natalia Molina's How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts
- american history
- history
- politics
- academic
- nonfiction
- sociology
4. In the Wake: On Blackness and Being
By: Christina Sharpe
3.39
Format: 440 pages, Paperback
In this original and trenchant work, Christina Sharpe interrogates literary, visual, cinematic, and… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Christina Sharpe's In the Wake: On Blackness and Being book and Natalia Molina's How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts
- race
- history
- theory
- politics
- nonfiction
5. Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America
By: Mae M. Ngai
4.11
Format: 559 pages, Paperback
This book traces the origins of the "illegal alien" in American law and society, explaining why and… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Mae M. Ngai's Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America book and Natalia Molina's How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts
- american history
- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
6. City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965
By: Kelly Lytle Hernández
4.80
Format: None pages,
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Kelly Lytle Hernández's City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965 book and Natalia Molina's How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts
- american history
- race
- history
- school
- politics
- nonfiction
7. Living a Feminist Life
By: Sara Ahmed
4.10
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In Living a Feminist LifeSara Ahmed shows how feminist theory is generated from everyday life and t… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Sara Ahmed's Living a Feminist Life book and Natalia Molina's How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts
- theory
- politics
- nonfiction
- academic
8. City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
By: Mike Davis
3.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
The hidden story of L.A. Mike Davis shows us where the city's money comes from and who controls it … read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Mike Davis's City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles book and Natalia Molina's How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts
9. Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan
By: Kim Phillips-Fein
3.49
Format: 465 pages,
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Kim Phillips-Fein's Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan book and Natalia Molina's How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts
10. American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900
By: H.W. Brands
3.53
Format: 320 pages,
Want to ReadSimilar categories in H.W. Brands's American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900 book and Natalia Molina's How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts
11. Standing at Armageddon: The United States, 1877-1919
By: Nell Irvin Painter
3.80
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Letitia Brown Memorial Publication Prize. read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Nell Irvin Painter's Standing at Armageddon: The United States, 1877-1919 book and Natalia Molina's How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts
12. The Blonde Identity
By: Ally Carter
3.76
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A fast-paced, hilarious road trip rom-com about a woman with amnesia who discovers she's the identi… read more
Want to Read $ 10.99Similar categories in Ally Carter's The Blonde Identity book and Natalia Molina's How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts
13. “You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People
By: Aubrey Gordon
4.33
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
The co-host of the Maintenance Phase podcast and creator of Your Fat Friend equips you with the fac… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Aubrey Gordon's “You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People book and Natalia Molina's How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts
- politics
- nonfiction
14. All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
By: Tiya Miles
3.95
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
In a display case in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture sits… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Tiya Miles's All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake book and Natalia Molina's How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts
- american history
- race
- history
- nonfiction
"Though necessary to the work of uncovering the past, archives are nevertheless limited and misleading storehouses of information. While at times imposing and formal enough as to seem all-encompassing…"-Tiya Miles, All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
15. 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
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Raja Shehadeh's We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I book and Natalia Molina's How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts
- politics
- history
- nonfiction
16. 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
Want to Read $ 13.84Similar categories in Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers's They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South book and Natalia Molina's How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts
- american history
- race
- history
- politics
- 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
17. We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
By: Mariame Kaba
4.67
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
"Organizing is both science and art. It is thinking through a vision, a strategy, and then figuring… read more
Want to Read $ 12.13Similar categories in Mariame Kaba's We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice book and Natalia Molina's How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts
- theory
- politics
- race
- nonfiction
"That does not mean, however, there should be no consequences. It means real consequences. Consequences that really matter. It means transforming the conditions that exist in the first place for this …"-Mariame Kaba, We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
18. 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
Want to Read $ 2.99Similar categories in Kelly Lytle Hernández's Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands book and Natalia Molina's How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts
- american history
- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
19. What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat
By: Aubrey Gordon
4.41
Format: 197 pages, Hardcover
From the creator of Your Fat Friend, an explosive indictment of the systemic and cultural bias faci… read more
Want to Read $ 11.99Similar categories in Aubrey Gordon's What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat book and Natalia Molina's How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts
- politics
- nonfiction
- sociology
20. 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
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in José Olivarez's Promises of Gold book and Natalia Molina's How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts
- race
- nonfiction
21. How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts
By: Natalia Molina
4.00
Format: 213 pages, Kindle Edition
How Race Is Made in America examines Mexican Americans--from 1924, when American law drastically re… read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Natalia Molina's How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts book and Natalia Molina's How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts
- american history
- race
- history
- school
- theory
- politics
- research
- academic
- nonfiction
- sociology
22. 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
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Rebecca Hall's Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts book and Natalia Molina's How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts
- 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
23. Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World
By: Dorothy Roberts
4.55
Format: 384 pages, Audiobook
An award-winning scholar exposes the foundational racism of the child welfare system and calls for … read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Dorothy Roberts's Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World book and Natalia Molina's How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts
- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- sociology
24. Undocumented Lives: The Untold Story of Mexican Migration
By: Ana Raquel Minian
4.28
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In the 1970s the Mexican government acted to alleviate rural unemployment by supporting the migrati… read more
Want to Read $ 19.80Similar categories in Ana Raquel Minian's Undocumented Lives: The Untold Story of Mexican Migration book and Natalia Molina's How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts
- american history
- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
25. Our History Has Always Been Contraband: In Defense of Black Studies
By: Colin Kaepernick
4.44
Format: 191 pages, Paperback
"The centuries-long attack on Black history represents a strike against our very worth, brilliance,… read more
Want to Read $ 0.99Similar categories in Colin Kaepernick's Our History Has Always Been Contraband: In Defense of Black Studies book and Natalia Molina's How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts
- race
- history
- theory
- politics
- nonfiction
26. The Great Exception: The New Deal and the Limits of American Politics (Politics and Society in Modern America)
By: Jefferson R. Cowie
3.92
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The New Deal: where does it fit in the big picture of American history? What does it mean for us to… read more
Want to Read $ 13.17Similar categories in Jefferson R. Cowie's The Great Exception: The New Deal and the Limits of American Politics (Politics and Society in Modern America) book and Natalia Molina's How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts
- american history
- history
- school
- politics
- nonfiction
27. The Deportation Machine: America's Long History of Expelling Immigrants (Politics and Society in Modern America)
By: Adam Goodman
4.22
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The unknown history of deportation and of the fear that shapes immigrants' lives Constant he… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Adam Goodman's The Deportation Machine: America's Long History of Expelling Immigrants (Politics and Society in Modern America) book and Natalia Molina's How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts
- american history
- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
28. Inventing the Immigration Problem: The Dillingham Commission and Its Legacy
By: Katherine Benton-Cohen
4.00
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In 1907 the U.S. Congress created a joint commission to investigate what many Americans saw as a na… read more
Want to Read $ 20.90Similar categories in Katherine Benton-Cohen's Inventing the Immigration Problem: The Dillingham Commission and Its Legacy book and Natalia Molina's How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts
- history
- nonfiction
- american history
29. America's Uncivil Wars: The Sixties Era from Elvis to the Fall of Richard Nixon
By: Mark H. Lytle
3.77
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
In contrast with most histories of this period, America's Uncivil The Sixties Era from Elvis to th… read more
Want to Read $ 38.99Similar categories in Mark H. Lytle's America's Uncivil Wars: The Sixties Era from Elvis to the Fall of Richard Nixon book and Natalia Molina's How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts
- american history
- history
- nonfiction
- school
30. From Angel to Office Worker: Middle-Class Identity and Female Consciousness in Mexico, 1890–1950 (The Mexican Experience)
By: Susie S. Porter
4.30
Format: 372 pages, Hardcover
2019 Thomas McGann Award for best publication in Latin American Studies In late nineteenth-century… read more
Want to Read $ 35.00Similar categories in Susie S. Porter's From Angel to Office Worker: Middle-Class Identity and Female Consciousness in Mexico, 1890–1950 (The Mexican Experience) book and Natalia Molina's How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts
31. When the World Broke in Two: The Roaring Twenties and the Dawn of America's Culture Wars
By: Erica J Ryan
3.89
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
This comprehensive history of America in the 1920s presents the decade's most compelling controvers… read more
Want to Read $ 40.50Similar categories in Erica J Ryan's When the World Broke in Two: The Roaring Twenties and the Dawn of America's Culture Wars book and Natalia Molina's How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts
