No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity (Justice, Power, and Politics)
By: Sarah Haley
4.45
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries imprisoned black women faced wrenching forms o…
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1. To 'joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors After the Civil War
By: Tera W. Hunter
4.18
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Tera Hunter follows African-American working women from their newfound optimism and hope at the end… read more
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2. The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America
By: Khalil Gibran Muhammad
4.21
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
Lynch mobs, chain gangs, and popular views of black southern criminals that defined the Jim Crow So… read more
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3. Race Against Empire: Black Americans and Anticolonialism, 1937-1957
By: Penny M. Von Eschen
3.95
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Marshaling evidence from a wide array of international sources, including the black presses of the … read more
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4. Ossuaries
By: Dionne Brand
3.79
Format: None pages, Paperback
Dionne Brand's hypnotic, urgent long poem - her first book of poetry in four years, is about the bo… read more
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5. Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression
By: Robin D.G. Kelley
5.00
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Between 1929 and 1941, the Communist Party organized and led a radical, militantly antiracist movem… read more
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6. 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
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7. Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore
By: Seth Rockman
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Enslaved mariners, white seamstresses, Irish dockhands, free black domestic servants, and native-bo… read more
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8. Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves & the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia
By: Woody Holton
3.87
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this provocative reinterpretation of one of the best-known events in American history, Woody Hol… read more
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9. Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California
By: Ruth Wilson Gilmore
3.75
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
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10. How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
By: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
3.40
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The Combahee River Collective, a group of radical black feminists, was one of the most important or… read more
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11. From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
By: Elizabeth Hinton
4.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In the United States today, one in every 31 adults is under some form of penal control, including o… read more
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12. Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World (Early American Studies)
By: Jessica Marie Johnson
4.27
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
The story of freedom pivots on the choices black women made to retain control over their bodies and… read more
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13. 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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14. Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America
By: Keisha N. Blain
4.20
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Explores the Black activist's ideas and political strategies highlighting their relevance for tackl… read more
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15. The Global Interior: Mineral Frontiers and American Power
By: Megan A. Black
4.25
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the George Perkins Marsh PrizeWinner of the Stuart L. Bernath PrizeWinner of the W. Turre… read more
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16. Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt
By: Orisanmi Burton
4.81
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
A radical reinterpretation of "Attica," the revolutionary 1970s uprising that galvanized abolitioni… read more
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17. No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity (Justice, Power, and Politics)
By: Sarah Haley
4.45
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
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18. Ambivalent Affinities: A Political History of Blackness and Homosexuality after World War II (Justice, Power, and Politics)
By: Jennifer Dominique Jones
3.80
Format: 298 pages, Hardcover
In the early twenty-first century, comparisons between the modern civil rights movement and the mov… read more
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19. Slavery and Public History: The Tough Stuff of American Memory
By: James Oliver Horton
3.96
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
America's slave past is being analyzed as never before, yet it remains one of the most contentious … read more
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20. Menace to Empire: Anticolonial Solidarities and the Transpacific Origins of the US Security State (Volume 63) (American Crossroads)
By: Moon-Ho Jung
4.06
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
One of Smithsonian Magazine 's Favorite Books of 2022 This history reveals how radical threats to … read more
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21. I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction
By: Kidada E. Williams
4.16
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From a groundbreaking scholar, a heart-wrenching reexamination of the struggle for survival in the … read more
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