Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black Women in New York City's Underground Economy (New Black Studies Series)
By: LaShawn Harris
4.27
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
During the early twentieth century, a diverse group of African American women carved out unique nic…
Want to Read $ 9.99"I had to live, had no money, and therefore resorted to commercial prostitution.' Smith was introduced to the urban sex trade by a middle-aged black woman who seemed genuinely concerned for her well-being."-LaShawn Harris, Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black Women in New York City's Underground Economy (New Black Studies Series)
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1. Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South (Justice, Power, and Politics)
By: Talitha L Leflouria , Talitha L. LeFlouria
4.25
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
In 1868, the state of Georgia began to make its rapidly growing population of prisoners available f… read more
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- american history
- race
- history
- feminism
- nonfiction
- african american
2. Race Rebels : Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class
By: Robin D.G. Kelley , George Lipsitz
4.28
Format: 357 pages, Paperback
Many black strategies of daily resistance have been obscured--until now. Race rebels, argues Kelley… read more
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- american history
- race
- history
- nonfiction
- african american
3. Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market
By: Walter Johnson
4.11
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Soul by Soul tells the story of slavery in antebellum America by moving away from the cotton planta… read more
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- american history
- race
- history
- nonfiction
- african american
4. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
By: Audre Lorde
3.63
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
A collection of fifteen essays written between 1976 and 1984 gives clear voice to Audre Lorde's lit… read more
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- feminism
- race
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5. 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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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
6. I Am Not Your Negro
By: James Baldwin , Raoul Peck
3.99
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
To compose his stunning documentary film I Am Not Your Negro, acclaimed filmmaker Raoul Peck mined … read more
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- nonfiction
- race
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- african american
7. Addicted
By: Zane
3.67
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
For successful African-American businesswoman Zoe Reynard, finding the pleasure she wants, the way … read more
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- african american
8. Confessions of a Video Vixen
By: Karen Hunter , Karrine Steffans
3.79
Format: None pages, Paperback
Part tell-all, part cautionary tale, this emotionally charged memoir from a former video vixen nick… read more
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- nonfiction
9. A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
By: Karen Armstrong
4.40
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Armstrong, a British journalist and former nun, guides us along one of the most elusive and fascina… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
10. March: Book Two (March, #2)
By: Nate Powell , John Lewis , Andrew Aydin
4.48
Format: 334 pages, Paperback
The #1 New York Times bestselling series continues! Congressman John Lewis, an American icon and on… read more
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11. The Return of Martin Guerre
By: Natalie Zemon Davis
4.11
Format: 500 pages, Paperback
The clever peasant Arnaud du Tilh had almost won his case, when a man with a wooden leg swaggered i… read more
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12. The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation
By: Daina Ramey Berry
3.57
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Groundbreaking look at slaves as commodities through every phase of life, from birth to death and b… read more
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13. How the Other Half Lives
By: Jacob A. Riis , None
4.25
Format: None pages, Paperback
First published in 1890, Jacob Riis's remarkable study of the horrendous living conditions of the p… read more
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14. Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War
By: Eric Foner
3.67
Format: 208 pages,
Since its publication twenty-five years ago, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Menhas been recognized as … read more
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15. Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
By: Sarah Smarsh
3.76
Format: 290 pages, Hardcover
During Sarah Smarsh’s turbulent childhood in Kansas in the 1980s and 1990s, the forces of cyclical … read more
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- nonfiction
- sociology
"When I found your name, in my early adulthood, I don't think I'd ever heard the term "white working class". The experience it describes contains both racial privilege and economic disadvantage, which…"-Sarah Smarsh, Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
16. Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
By: Megan Rosenbloom
4.01
Format: 275 pages, Hardcover
On bookshelves around the world, surrounded by ordinary books bound in paper and leather, rest othe… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Human skin books—mostly made by nineteenth-century doctor bibliophiles—are the only books that are controversial not for the ideas they contain but for the physical makeup of the object itself."-Megan Rosenbloom, Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
"Anthropodermic books tell a complicated and uncomfortable take about the development of clinical medicine and the doctoring class, and the worst of what can come from the collision of acquisitiveness…"-Megan Rosenbloom, Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
"Many confirmed human skin books didn’t begin their print life in this controversial binding but were rebound by collectors, usually doctors who took the oldest or rarest texts in their private collec…"-Megan Rosenbloom, Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
"No wonder the public persists in connecting the idea of human skin books with Nazis. It's easier to believe that objects of human skin are made by monsters like Nazis and serial killers, and not the …"-Megan Rosenbloom, Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
17. Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
By: Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
4.39
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
We live, according to Eddie S. Glaude Jr., in a moment when the struggles of Black Lives Matter and… read more
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- american history
- race
- history
- nonfiction
- african american
"[Trump] and his ideas are not exceptional. He and the people who support him are just the latest examples of the country's ongoing betrayal. . .When we make Trump exceptional, we let ourselves off th…"-Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
"Baldwin's words can sound harsh, as if he's throwing away millions of Americans and declaring them irrelevant to the life and future of our democracy. It's easy to read him that way, and sometimes, w…"-Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
18. Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America
By: Marcia Chatelain
3.85
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Often blamed for the rising rates of obesity and diabetes among black Americans, fast food restaura… read more
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- nonfiction
19. You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays
By: Zora Neale Hurston
4.04
Format: 465 pages, Hardcover
Spanning more than 35 years of work, the first comprehensive collection of essays, criticism, and a… read more
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- race
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- african american
20. Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black Women in New York City's Underground Economy (New Black Studies Series)
By: LaShawn Harris
4.27
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
During the early twentieth century, a diverse group of African American women carved out unique nic… read more
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- american history
- race
- history
- the united states of america
- feminism
- nonfiction
- womens
- african american
- gender and sexuality
- sociology
"I had to live, had no money, and therefore resorted to commercial prostitution.' Smith was introduced to the urban sex trade by a middle-aged black woman who seemed genuinely concerned for her well-b…"-LaShawn Harris, Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black Women in New York City's Underground Economy (New Black Studies Series)
21. Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America
By: Margot Canaday
4.18
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
A masterful history of the LGBT workforce in America Workplaces have traditionally been viewed as … read more
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