Line in the Sand: A History of the Western U.S.-Mexico Border (America in the World)
By: Rachel St. John
3.71
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
Line in the Sand details the dramatic transformation of the western U.S.-Mexico border from its cre…
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1. The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness
By: Paul Gilroy
4.03
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
Afrocentrism. Eurocentrism. Caribbean Studies. British Studies. To the forces of cultural national… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
2. Black Boy
By: Richard Wright , Jerry W. Ward Jr.
3.91
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
Black Boyis a classic of American autobiography, a subtly crafted narrative of Richard Wright's jou… read more
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- nonfiction
3. Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories
By: Sandra Cisneros
4.06
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
A collection of stories by Sandra Cisneros, the winner of the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievemen… read more
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4. The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
By: Robert Fagles , Aeschylus , William Bedell Stanford
4.01
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Alternate covers of this ISBN here, here, here, here. Most recent cover is here. In the Oresteia… read more
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"I cannot not grieve."-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
"Learning comes through pain."-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
"Do I not live? Badly, I know, but I live."-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
"Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain"-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
5. Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America
By: Mae M. Ngai
4.11
Format: 559 pages, Paperback
This book traces the origins of the "illegal alien" in American law and society, explaining why and… read more
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- politics
- american history
- history
- nonfiction
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
7. Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
By: Gloria E. Anzaldúa , Sonia Saldívar-Hull
4.33
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
Anzaldua, a Chicana native of Texas, explores in prose and poetry the murky, precarious existence o… read more
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- nonfiction
"I preferred the world of imagination to the death of sleep"-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
"This land was Mexican once, was Indian always and is. And will be again."-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
"Who is to say that robbing a people of its language is less violent than war?"-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
"Nothing happens in the "real" world unless it first happens in the images in our heads"-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
8. The Comanche Empire
By: Pekka Hämäläinen
3.75
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a Native American empire rose to dominate the fie… read more
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9. The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State
By: Lisa McGirr
4.50
Format: 144 pages,
Prohibition has long been portrayed as a "noble experiment" that failed, a newsreel story of glamor… read more
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10. 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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11. Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South
By: None
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
Recent scholarship on slavery has explored the lives of enslaved people beyond the watchful eye of … read more
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12. Fugitive Landscapes: The Forgotten History of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
By: None
3.35
Format: None pages, Hardcover
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13. America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States
By: Erika Lee
4.34
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
This definitive history of American xenophobia is "essential reading for anyone who wants to build … read more
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- politics
- american history
- history
- nonfiction
14. The Intimacies of Four Continents
By: Lisa Lowe
4.34
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
In this uniquely interdisciplinary work, Lisa Lowe examines the relationships between Europe, Afric… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
15. Line in the Sand: A History of the Western U.S.-Mexico Border (America in the World)
By: Rachel St. John
3.71
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
Line in the Sand details the dramatic transformation of the western U.S.-Mexico border from its cre… read more
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- american history
- history
- politics
- united states
- nonfiction
16. Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching
By: Jarvis R. Givens
4.57
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A fresh portrayal of one of the architects of the African American intellectual tradition, whose fa… read more
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17. The Deportation Machine: America's Long History of Expelling Immigrants (Politics and Society in Modern America)
By: Adam Goodman
4.22
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The unknown history of deportation and of the fear that shapes immigrants' lives Constant he… read more
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- politics
- american history
- history
- nonfiction
18. Border Land, Border Water: A History of Construction on the US-Mexico Divide
By: C.J. Alvarez
3.75
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
From the boundary surveys of the 1850s to the ever-expanding fences and highway networks of the twe… read more
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- nonfiction
19. Separated by the Border: A Birth Mother, a Foster Mother, and a Migrant Child's 3,000-Mile Journey
By: Gena Thomas
4.19
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
In 2017 five-year-old Julia traveled with her mother, Guadalupe, from Honduras to the United States… read more
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- nonfiction
20. Defectives in the Land: Disability and Immigration in the Age of Eugenics
By: Douglas C. Baynton
4.10
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Immigration history has largely focused on the restriction of immigrants by race and ethnicity, ove… read more
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- nonfiction
21. The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House
By: Nancy Pelosi
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The most powerful woman in American political history tells the story of her transformation from ho… read more
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