Migrating to Prison: America's Obsession With Locking Up Immigrants
By: César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández
4.16
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A leading scholar’s powerful, in-depth look at the imprisonment of immigrants addressing the inters…
Want to Read $ 9.40"If nightmares can become reality, why can't dreams?...I imagine a future where immigration prisons do not exist."-César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández, Migrating to Prison: America's Obsession With Locking Up Immigrants
"If nightmares can become reality, why can't dreams?...I imagine a future where immigration prisons do not exist."-César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández, Migrating to Prison: America's Obsession With Locking Up Immigrants
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1. The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail
By: Michael Wells , Jason De León
4.55
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
In his gripping and provocative debut, anthropologist and MacArthur "Genius" Fellow Jason De León s… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
2. Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape
By: Raja Shehadeh
4.23
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
“I often come to walk in these hills,” I said to the soldier…he was compact and short, not much tal… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Aku ada buku, aku tak perlukan pakaian atau sepatu khusus untuk berjalan ke perbukitan."-Raja Shehadeh, Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape
"Ini bukan pertama kali kita kalah, tapi kini pemimpin kita meraikannya seolah kita menang. (Tentang Perjanjian Damai Oslo antara Israel-Palestin)"-Raja Shehadeh, Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape
"Religious practice in the Land of the Bible tends to encourage exclusivity and discrimination rather than love and magnanimity. There is no place like the Holy Land to make one cynical about religion."-Raja Shehadeh, Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape
"Meskipun aku suka sekali pohon ru, kuakui mereka seperti penjajah. Merekalah bukti betapa manusia telah menelantarkan bukit ini pada kuasa alam. Warna mereka hijau gelap, tak seperti pohon zaitun yan…"-Raja Shehadeh, Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape
3. On Palestine
By: Noam Chomsky , Ilan Pappé
4.25
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
Operation Protective Edge, Israel's most recent assault on Gaza, left thousands of Palestinians dea… read more
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- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
"It's quite standard for those who hold the clubs to say: "Forget about everything that happened and let's just go on from here." In other words, "I've got what I want, and out forget about what your …"-Noam Chomsky, On Palestine
"How, then, does one become an activist? The easy answer would be to say that we do not become activists; we simply forget that we are. We are all born with compassion, generosity, and love for others…"-Noam Chomsky, On Palestine
4. The Case Against Sugar
By: Gary Taubes
4.05
Format: 144 pages, Audio CD
From the best-selling author of Why We Get Fat,a groundbreaking, eye-opening expose that makes the … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
5. Undocumented: How Immigration Became Illegal
By: Aviva Chomsky
2.00
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
Explores what it means to be undocumented in a legal, social, economic and historical context In th… read more
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- race
- history
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- nonfiction
- social justice
6. The Line Becomes A River
By: Francisco Cantú
3.87
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Every day, a ceaseless flow of men, women and children push their way north, in scorched summer hea… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
7. When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
By: Asha Bandele , Patrisse Khan-Cullors
3.67
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The emotional and powerful story of one of the co-founders of Black Lives Matter and how the moveme… read more
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8. Ten Myths about Israel
By: Ilan Pappé
4.03
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
What are the myths--and reality--behind the state of Israel? Ilan Pappe is one of the most outspoke… read more
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9. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
By: Cornel West , Angela Y. Davis , Frank Barat
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Ange… read more
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10. 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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- politics
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- audiobook
11. Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics
By: Marc Lamont Hill
4.21
Format: 227 pages, Hardcover
A bold call for the American Left to extend their politics to the issues of Israel-Palestine, from … read more
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- race
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- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
12. The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic
By: Stephen Vladeck
4.21
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An acclaimed legal scholar’s “essential” (Linda Greenhouse) exp… read more
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- history
- politics
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"But in order after order, the Supreme Court gave the Trump administration most of what it wanted without endorsing principles that the justices would be bound to apply to future presidents, so that t…"-Stephen Vladeck, The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic
13. A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
By: Nathan Thrall
4.35
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION Named a Best Book of the Year by The N… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
14. Plunder: Private Equity's Plan to Pillage America
By: Brendan Ballou
4.08
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The authoritative exposé of private what it is, how it kills businesses and jobs, how the governme… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
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
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
16. The Undocumented Americans
By: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
4.39
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
One of the first undocumented immigrants to graduate from Harvard reveals the hidden lives of her f… read more
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- race
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- social justice
- audiobook
"I am a one-trick pony, unable to comfort with anything other than grades."-Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, The Undocumented Americans
"I respect the role of God in the lives of people who suffer, but basically only in the lives of people who suffer."-Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, The Undocumented Americans
"I think every immigrant in this country knows that you can eat English and digest it so well that you shit it out, and to some people, you will still not speak English."-Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, The Undocumented Americans
"There are white moms who threw stones at the little girls in Little Rock and there are white moms who wish Andres and Omar and Elias and Greta's mom will be deported too."-Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, The Undocumented Americans
17. What We Kept to Ourselves
By: Nancy Jooyoun Kim
3.45
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of the Reese’s Book Club pick The Last Story of Mina Lee retu… read more
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- adult
- 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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- social justice
- social issues
- audiobook
19. Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
By: Jose Antonio Vargas
4.30
Format: 256 pages, ebook
Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, called “the most famous undocumented immigra… read more
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- social justice
- adult
- audiobook
"Home is not something I should have to earn."-Jose Antonio Vargas, Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
"Humanity is not some box I should have to check."-Jose Antonio Vargas, Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
"Here in America, the libraries were my church, and I was an acolyte."-Jose Antonio Vargas, Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
"Dear America, is this what you really want? Do you even know what is happening in your name?"-Jose Antonio Vargas, Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
20. The Name-Bearer (Flowers of Prophecy #1)
By: Natalia Hernandez
4.02
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
For her entire life, the Name-Bearer’s sole purpose has been to receive and deliver the names of th… read more
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- audiobook
21. Pollution Is Colonialism
By: Max Liboiron
4.50
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
In Pollution is Colonialism Max Liboiron presents a framework for understanding scientific research… read more
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22. Migrating to Prison: America's Obsession With Locking Up Immigrants
By: César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández
4.16
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A leading scholar’s powerful, in-depth look at the imprisonment of immigrants addressing the inters… read more
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- race
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- adult
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"If nightmares can become reality, why can't dreams?...I imagine a future where immigration prisons do not exist."-César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández, Migrating to Prison: America's Obsession With Locking Up Immigrants
23. Taking Children: A History of American Terror
By: Laura Briggs
4.14
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
"You have to take the children away."—Donald Trump Taking Children argues that for four hundred ye… read more
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- race
- history
- politics
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- social justice
24. Liars
By: Sarah Manguso
3.89
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars out of us… read more
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- adult
- audiobook
"I was in charge of everything and in control of nothing."-Sarah Manguso, Liars
"I needed my suffering to be acknowledged. After that, maybe I’d think about getting through it."-Sarah Manguso, Liars
25. Through the Night Like a Snake: Latin American Horror Stories
By: Sarah Coolidge
4.01
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
A boy explores the abandoned house of a dead fascist… A leaked sex tape pushes a woman to the brin… read more
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- adult
26. Children of the Land
By: Marcelo Hernández Castillo
3.99
Format: 384 pages, ebook
This unforgettable memoir from a prize-winning poet about growing up undocumented in the United Sta… read more
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- audiobook
"It was strange to see that the U.S. still feared the spread of communism. The legacy of that law is what persisted. It assumed that the U.S. was clean, not to be soiled by the ilk of the world."-Marcelo Hernández Castillo, Children of the Land
27. My Boy Will Die of Sorrow: A Memoir of Immigration From the Front Lines
By: Efrén C. Olivares
4.41
Format: 302 pages, Hardcover
This deeply personal perspective from a human rights lawyer—whose work on the front lines of the fi… read more
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- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
28. Cruelty as Citizenship: How Migrant Suffering Sustains White Democracy (Forerunners: Ideas First)
By: Cristina Beltrán
4.24
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
Why are immigrants from Mexico and Latin America such an affectively charged population for politic… read more
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- politics
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29. The Case for Open Borders
By: John Washington
4.26
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
A beautifully-written, broadly accessible, and forthright argument for a solution to the migration … read more
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- audiobook
30. We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders: A Memoir of Love and Resistance
By: Linda Sarsour
4.43
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Women's March organizer Linda Sarsour shares her intimate coming-of-age story of how growing up Mus… read more
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31. Let the People Pick the President: The Case for Abolishing the Electoral College
By: Jesse Wegman
4.27
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
"The Electoral College is a disaster for a democracy." —Donald TrumpThe framers of the Constitution… read more
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