Gendered Strife and Confusion: The Political Culture of Reconstruction
By: Laura F. Edwards
3.15
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Exploring the gendered dimension of political conflicts, Laura Edwards links transformations in pri…
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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. At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power
By: Danielle L. McGuire
4.47
Format: 346 pages, Hardcover
Groundbreaking, controversial, and courageous, here is the story of Rosa Parks and Recy Taylor—a st… read more
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"Often ignored by civil rights historians, a number of campaigns led to trials and even convictions throughout the South. These cases, many virtually unknown, broke with Southern tradition and fractur…"-Danielle L. McGuire, At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power
"Judge Carter sat in stony silence, completely unmoved. At the end of the trial, he pronounced King guilty of conspiracy to violate the 1921 law and ordered him to pay a five-hundred-dollar fine or se…"-Danielle L. McGuire, At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power
3. Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
By: Michel-Rolph Trouillot
4.36
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Placing the West's failure to acknowledge the most successful slave revolt in history alongside den… read more
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"I find it hard to harness respect for those who genuinely believe that postmodernity, whatever it may be, allows us to claim no roots."-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
"We are never as steeped in history as when we pretend not to be, but if we stop pretending we may gain in understanding what we lose in false innocence. Naiveté is often an excuse for those who exerc…"-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
". . . But the past does not exist independently from the present. Indeed, the past is only past because there is a present, just as I can point to something over there only because I am here. But not…"-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
4. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
By: Anne Brontë , Stevie Davies
3.52
Format: None pages, Paperback
Note: Editions of The Tenant that start with: "You must go back with me..." are incomplete. Actual … 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. Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery
By: Jennifer L. Morgan
3.69
Format: 98 pages, Paperback
When black women were brought from Africa to the New World as slave laborers, their value was deter… read more
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8. 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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9. Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1917
By: None , None
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
When former heavyweight champion Jim Jeffries came out of retirement on the fourth of July, 1910 to… read more
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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. Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835
By: Theda Perdue
3.76
Format: 85 pages, Paperback
Theda Perdue examines the roles and responsibilities of Cherokee women during the eighteenth and ni… read more
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12. Nothing But Freedom: Emancipation and Its Legacy
By: Eric Foner
4.26
Format: None pages, Paperback
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13. Southern Horrors: Women and the Politics of Rape and Lynching
By: None
5.00
Format: 298 pages, Hardcover
Between 1880 and 1930, close to 200 women were murdered by lynch mobs in the American South. Many m… read more
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14. Nestlings
By: Nat Cassidy
3.86
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
Nat Cassidy is at his razor-sharp best again with his horror novel Nestlings, which harnesses the c… read more
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"Grief is the space between two states of being: who you were and who you are. It’s an excruciatingly long, unlit hallway. A staircase you have to crawl down, one interminable flight at a time."-Nat Cassidy, Nestlings
15. Men Who Hate Women
By: Laura Bates
4.34
Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition
The first comprehensive undercover look at the terrorist movement no one is talking about. Men W… read more
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"Incels use the metaphor of the red pill to describe the moment a man's blinkers fall away and he suddenly realizes that he has been lied to his whole life. The world that he has been forced to believ…"-Laura Bates, Men Who Hate Women
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16. Diavola
By: Jennifer Marie Thorne
3.95
Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition
Jennifer Thorne skewers all-too-familiar family dynamics in this sly, wickedly funny vacation-Gothi… read more
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17. The Women's Fight: The Civil War's Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation
By: Thavolia Glymph
4.00
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Historians of the Civil War often speak of "wars within a war--the military fight, wartime struggle… read more
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18. 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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19. 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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20. Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic
By: Jennifer L. Morgan
4.37
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
In Reckoning with Slavery Jennifer L. Morgan draws on the lived experiences of enslaved African wom… read more
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21. 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… read more
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22. Gendered Strife and Confusion: The Political Culture of Reconstruction
By: Laura F. Edwards
3.15
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Exploring the gendered dimension of political conflicts, Laura Edwards links transformations in pri… read more
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23. Exodusters: Black Migration to Kansas After Reconstruction
By: Nell Irvin Painter
3.83
Format: 318 pages, Paperback
The first major migration to the North of ex-slaves. read more
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24. 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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25. Terror in the Heart of Freedom: Citizenship, Sexual Violence, and the Meaning of Race in the Postemancipation South (Gender & American Culture)
By: Hannah Rosen
4.12
Format: 407 pages, Paperback
The meaning of race in the antebellum southern United States was anchored in the racial exclusivity… read more
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26. Surviving Southampton: African American Women and Resistance in Nat Turner's Community (Volume 1) (Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History)
By: Vanessa M. Holden
4.24
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
The local community around the Nat Turner rebellion The 1831 Southampton Rebellion led by Nat Turn… read more
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27. The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics
By: Mae M. Ngai
4.08
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
In roughly five decades, between 1848 and 1899, more gold was removed from the earth than had been … read more
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28. Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America (Studies in Legal History)
By: Martha S. Jones
4.05
Format: 266 pages, Hardcover
Birthright Citizens tells how African American activists radically transformed the terms of citizen… read more
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29. Proving Pregnancy: Gender, Law, and Medical Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century America
By: Felicity M. Turner
4.00
Format: 246 pages, Paperback
Examining infanticide cases in the United States from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth ce… read more
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30. From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America
By: Vicki L. Ruiz
3.83
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
For centuries, Mexican-American women have been creative, innovative forces shaping the cultural an… read more
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31. A Hard Fight for We: Women's Transition from Slavery to Freedom in South Carolina (Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History)
By: Leslie A. Schwalm
3.83
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
African-American women fought for their freedom with courage and vigor during and after the Civil W… read more
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