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.
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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 Southern Diaspora: How the Great Migrations of Black and White Southerners Transformed America
By: James N. Gregory
3.86
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Between 1900 and the 1970s, twenty million southerners migrated north and west. Weaving together fo… read more
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3. 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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4. Ar'n't I a Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South
By: Deborah Gray White
4.18
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Living with the dual burdens of racism and sexism, slave women in the plantation South assumed role… read more
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5. 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
6. Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America
By: Richard White
4.33
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The transcontinental railroads of the late nineteenth century were the first corporate behemoths. T… read more
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7. Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia
By: Kathleen M. Brown
3.50
Format: 218 pages, Paperback
Kathleen Brown examines the origins of racism and slavery in British North America from the perspec… read more
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8. Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression
By: Robin D.G. Kelley
5.00
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Between 1929 and 1941, the Communist Party organized and led a radical, militantly antiracist movem… read more
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9. 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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10. Living a Feminist Life
By: Sara Ahmed
4.10
Format: None pages, Hardcover
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11. Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad, 1876-1917
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4.00
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12. How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
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3.40
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The Combahee River Collective, a group of radical black feminists, was one of the most important or… read more
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13. The Awakening
By: Kate Chopin
3.68
Format: 195 pages, Paperback
When first published in 1899, The Awakening shocked readers with its honest treatment of female mar… read more
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14. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
By: Isabel Wilkerson
3.69
Format: 121 pages, Hardcover
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15. Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household
By: Thavolia Glymph
3.95
Format: None pages, Paperback
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16. Nothing But Freedom: Emancipation and Its Legacy
By: Eric Foner
4.26
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17. The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
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4.62
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18. All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
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3.95
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4.27
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20. Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America
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4.20
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21. Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps (Civil War America)
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4.43
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The Civil War was just days old when the first enslaved men, women, and children began fleeing thei… read more
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22. The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution
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4.30
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A remarkable intellectual history of the slave revolts that made the modern revolutionary era Th… read more
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23. No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity (Justice, Power, and Politics)
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4.45
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24. Gendered Strife and Confusion: The Political Culture of Reconstruction
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3.15
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25. 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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26. Slavery and Public History: The Tough Stuff of American Memory
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3.96
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27. West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America after the Civil War
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3.93
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28. Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion
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4.04
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Black Majority won the Albert J. Beveridge Award of the American Historical Association. read more
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29. In the Lion's Mouth: Black Populism in the New South, 1886-1900 (Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies)
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3.78
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
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30. Black Culture and the New Deal: The Quest for Civil Rights in the Roosevelt Era
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3.47
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31. The Hamlet Fire: A Tragic Story of Cheap Food, Cheap Government, and Cheap Lives
By: Bryant Simon
4.10
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