Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands
By: Hazel V. Carby
4.34
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A haunting, evocative history of British Empire, told through one woman’s family story“Where are yo…
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1. Bonds of Alliance: Indigenous and Atlantic Slaveries in New France (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press)
By: Brett Rushforth
4.05
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, French colonists and their Native allies participated … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
2. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
By: Walter Rodney , Vincent Harding
4.42
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
The decisiveness of the short period of colonialism and its negative consequences for Africa spring… read more
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- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
"It was economics that Europe should invest in Africa and control the continent's raw materials and labour. It was racism which confirmed the decision that form of control should be direct colonial ru…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
"On any basic figure of the Africans landed alive in the Americas, one would have to make several extensions- starting with a calculation to cover mortality in transshipment. The Atlantic crossing, or…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
"There was a period when the capitalist system increased the well-being of significant numbers of people as a by-product of seeking out profits for a few, but today the quests for profits comes into s…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
"Governor Cameroon of Tanganyika in the 1920s was known as a "progressive" governor. But when he was attacked for trying to preserve the African personality in the educational system, he denied the ch…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
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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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"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. Zone One
By: Colson Whitehead
3.26
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
In this wry take on the post-apocalyptic horror novel, a pandemic has devastated the planet. The pl… read more
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"A society manufactures the heroes it requires."-Colson Whitehead, Zone One
"He told himself: Hope is a gateway drug, don't do it."-Colson Whitehead, Zone One
"We never see other people anyway, only the monsters we make of them."-Colson Whitehead, Zone One
"Pain could be killed. Sadness could not, but the drugs did shut its mouth for a time."-Colson Whitehead, Zone One
5. In the Wake: On Blackness and Being
By: Christina Sharpe
3.39
Format: 440 pages, Paperback
In this original and trenchant work, Christina Sharpe interrogates literary, visual, cinematic, and… read more
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- race
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- feminism
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- nonfiction
6. 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
- nonfiction
- social justice
7. Adiós Niño: The Gangs of Guatemala City and the Politics of Death
By: Deborah T. Levenson
4.75
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
In Adios Nino: The Gangs of Guatemala City and the Politics of Death, Deborah T. Levenson examines … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
8. Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science, and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico
By: Laura Briggs
4.15
Format: 399 pages, Paperback
Original and compelling, Laura Briggs's Reproducing Empire shows how, for both Puerto Ricans and No… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- race
- history
9. A Small Place
By: Jamaica Kincaid
4.02
Format: None pages,
Lyrical, sardonic, and forthright, A Small Placemagnifies our vision of one small place with Swifti… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- memoir
10. 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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11. Voyage in the Dark
By: Jean Rhys , Carole Angier
3.78
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
'It was as if a curtain had fallen, hiding everything I had ever known,' says Anna Morgan, eighteen… read more
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- british literature
"Something came out from my heart into my throat and then into my eyes."-Jean Rhys, Voyage in the Dark
"It's funny, he said, have you ever thought that a girl's clothes cost more than the girl inside them?"-Jean Rhys, Voyage in the Dark
"I was thinking it was funny I could giggle like that because in my heart I was always sad, with the same sort of hurt that the cold gave me in my chest."-Jean Rhys, Voyage in the Dark
"But in the daytime it was all right. And when you'd had a drink you knew it was the best way to live in the world because anything might happen. I don't know how people live when they know exactly wh…"-Jean Rhys, Voyage in the Dark
12. Familiar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands
By: Stuart Hall , None
3.80
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"Sometimes I feel myself to have been the last colonial." This, in his own words, is the extraordin… read more
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13. One Native Life
By: Richard Wagamese
4.00
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
One Native Lifeis a look back down the road Richard Wagamese has traveled -- from childhood abuse t… read more
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14. Masters of Empire: Great Lakes Indians and the Making of America
By: Michael McDonnell
4.62
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In Masters of Empire, the historian Michael A. McDonnell reveals the pivotal role played by the nat… read more
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15. The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
By: Michel Foucault , Robert Hurley
4.00
Format: 201 pages,
Michel Foucault offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze … read more
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16. 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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17. Nervous Conditions
By: Tsitsi Dangarembga
4.54
Format: 253 pages,
A modern classic in the African literary canon and voted in the Top Ten Africa's 100 Best Books of … read more
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18. Mr Loverman
By: Bernardine Evaristo
3.20
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Barrington Jedidiah Walker. Barry to his friends. Trouble to his wife. Seventy-four years old, Anti… read more
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19. Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
By: David Graeber
4.03
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling writer David Graeber, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfi… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
"Economies around the world have, increasingly, become vast engines for producing nonsense."-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"Bullshit jobs regularly induce feelings of hopelessness, depression, and self-loathing. They are forms of spiritual violence directed at the essence of what it means to be a human being."-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"What we are witnessing is the rise of those forms of popular culture that office workers can produce and consume during the scattered, furtive shards of time they have at their disposal in workplaces…"-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"A fact-finding commission is a way of telling the public that the government is doing something it is not. But a large corporations will behave exactly the same way, if, say, there are revealed to be…"-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
20. Heart Berries
By: Terese Marie Mailhot
3.84
Format: 143 pages, Hardcover
Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian … read more
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- memoir
"Pain expanded my heart."-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries
"You are such a home to me."-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries
"Romanticism requires bravery and risk."-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries
"Sometimes suicidality doesn’t seem dark; it seems fair."-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries
21. Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation
By: Sophie Lewis
3.70
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
What if everyone was family? We need to talk about the family. For those who are lucky, families… read more
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- feminism
- politics
- nonfiction
22. Falling for the Amish Bad Boy (Seven Amish Sisters #2)
By: Emma Miller
4.35
Format: 224 pages, Mass Market Paperback
She knows all about his reputation… But is she ready to know the truth? When Beth Koffman finds o… read more
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23. Ordinary Notes
By: Christina Sharpe
4.55
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
A singular achievement, Ordinary Notes explores profound questions about loss and the shapes of Bla… read more
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- history
- memoir
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
24. The World and All the Things upon It: Native Hawaiian Geographies of Exploration
By: David A. Chang
4.46
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Modern Language Association’s Prize for Studies in Native American Literatures, Cultu… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
25. A frog in the fall (and later on)
By: Linnea Sterte
4.59
Format: 338 pages, ebook
A young frog (hatched this spring) encounters two toads, who have captured the ghost of a Shungiku … read more
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26. Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands
By: Hazel V. Carby
4.34
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A haunting, evocative history of British Empire, told through one woman’s family story“Where are yo… read more
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- memoir
- class
- british literature
- feminism
- politics
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- social justice
27. Homelands and Empires: Indigenous Spaces, Imperial Fictions, and Competition for Territory in Northeastern North America, 1690-1763
By: Jeffers Lennox
3.82
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
The period from 1690 to 1763 was a time of intense territorial competition during which Indigenous … read more
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- history
28. Pacific Confluence: Fighting over the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Hawai'i (Volume 69) (American Crossroads)
By: Christen T. Sasaki
4.40
Format: 266 pages, Hardcover
The 1898 annexation of Hawaiʻi to the US is often framed as an inevitable step in American expansio… read more
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29. Mapping Abundance for a Planetary Future: Kanaka Maoli and Critical Settler Cartographies in Hawai'i
By: Candace Fujikane
4.36
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In Mapping Abundance for a Planetary Future, Candace Fujikane contends that the practice of mapping… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
30. Amish Violet (Amish Love Blooms #5)
By: Samantha Price
4.58
Format: 214 pages, Kindle Edition
Nancy is delighted when her sister Nerida asks for help in finding a husband for her oldest daughte… read more
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31. The Untranslatable Image: A Mestizo History of the Arts in New Spain, 1500–1600 (Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture)
By: Alessandra Russo
4.17
Format: 374 pages, Hardcover
From the first contacts between European conquerors and the peoples of the Americas, objects were e… read more
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