Possessing Polynesians: The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawai`i and Oceania
By: Maile Arvin
4.40
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
From their earliest encounters with Indigenous Pacific Islanders, white Europeans and Americans ass…
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1. Slouching Towards Bethlehem
By: Joan Didion
4.19
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
The first nonfiction work by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era, Joan Didion's S… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Happiness is,' after all, a consumption ethic."-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
"There is a common superstition that “self-respect"-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
"The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language."-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
"The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past."-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
2. Stranger Intimacy: Contesting Race, Sexuality and the Law in the North American West (Volume 31) (American Crossroads)
By: Nayan Shah
3.85
Format: 358 pages, Paperback
In exploring an array of intimacies between global migrants Nayan Shah illuminates a stunning, tran… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- academic
3. The Wretched of the Earth
By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha
4.32
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Fr… read more
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- politics
- race
- history
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"إن لجوءك إلى لُغة تكنيكيَّة معناه أنّك قرَّرتَ أن تَعُدَّ الجماهير جاهلة"-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"إن المناضل ليدرك في كثير من الأحيان أن عمله لا أن يقاتل القوى العدوة فحسب، بل كذلك حبات اليأس المتبلورة في جسم المستعمَر."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
4. Ms Ice Sandwich
By: Mieko Kawakami , Louise Heal Kawai
3.78
Format: 92 pages, Paperback
A quixotic and funny tale about first love – from the Akutagawa Prize-winning author. Ms Ice San… read more
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5. The True Story of Kaluaikoolau: As Told by His Wife, Piilani
By: None , Frances N. Frazier
3.95
Format: 254 pages, Paperback
The story of Kaluaikoolau (or Koolau) is one of Kauai's great legends. In 1892, after learning that… read more
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6. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
By: Michel Foucault , Alan Sheridan , None , None , None
3.35
Format: 520 pages, Paperback
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . In this brilliant work, the mos… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
7. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
By: C.L.R. James
4.55
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A classic and impassioned account of the first revolution in the Third World. This powerful, intens… read more
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- politics
- race
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- nonfiction
8. The Woman Warrior
By: Maxine Hong Kingston
3.52
Format: 257 pages,
A Chinese American woman tells of the Chinese myths, family stories and events of her California ch… read more
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9. Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others
By: Sara Ahmed
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this groundbreaking work, Sara Ahmed demonstrates how queer studies can put phenomenology to pro… read more
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10. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)
By: Jules Verne , Anthony Bonner
3.89
Format: 269 pages, Hardcover
When an unidentified “monster” threatens international shipping, French oceanographer Pierre Aronna… read more
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"We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones."-Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)
"Aures habent et non audient` - `They have ears but hear not"-Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)
"Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors."-Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)
"If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning."-Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)
11. Black Skin, White Masks
By: Frantz Fanon , None
2.56
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
A major influence on international civil rights, anticolonial, and black consciousness movement, Bl… read more
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12. Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition
By: None
1.75
Format: 134 pages, Paperback
Over the past forty years, recognition has become the dominant mode of negotiation and decolonizati… read more
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13. Ceremony
By: Leslie Marmon Silko
3.82
Format: 160 pages,
Tayo, a young Native American, has been a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II, and the hor… read more
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14. The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
By: Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
4.52
Format: 816 pages, Hardcover
A magisterial epic—an intimate yet sweeping novel with all the luminescence and force of Homegoing;… read more
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- race
"These are the incongruities of memory. It is hard to hold on to the entirety of something, but pieces may be held up to light."-Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
15. As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock
By: Dina Gilio-Whitaker
4.36
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The story of Native peoples' resistance to environmental injustice and land incursions, and a call … read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- indigenous
16. No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison
By: Behrouz Boochani
3.91
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Winner of The Victorian Prize for Literature, and the Prize for Non-Fiction, Victorian Premier's Li… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
"At times the cooks express a small amount of generosity and pour half a glass of milk for every prisoner."-Behrouz Boochani, No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison
17. 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
- academic
- indigenous
18. Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism
By: Elizabeth A. Povinelli
3.99
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
In Geontologies Elizabeth A. Povinelli continues her project of mapping the current conditions of l… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- indigenous
"contemporary states make live, let die, and kill"-Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism
19. The Clay We Are Made Of: Haudenosaunee Land Tenure on the Grand River (Critical Studies in Native History, 20)
By: Susan M. Hill
4.30
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
If one seeks to understand Haudenosaunee (Six Nations) history, one must consider the history of Ha… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- academic
- indigenous
20. Possessing Polynesians: The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawai`i and Oceania
By: Maile Arvin
4.40
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
From their earliest encounters with Indigenous Pacific Islanders, white Europeans and Americans ass… read more
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- history
- politics
- academic
- indigenous
- nonfiction
21. Dammed: The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory (Critical Studies in Native History, 21)
By: Brittany Luby
4.36
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
" The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory" explores Canada’s hydroelectric boom … read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- indigenous
22. Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States
By: Audra Simpson
4.36
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
Mohawk Interruptus is a bold challenge to dominant thinking in the fields of Native studies and ant… read more
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- academic
- indigenous
- nonfiction
23. The White Possessive: Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty (Indigenous Americas)
By: Aileen Moreton-Robinson
4.32
Format: 239 pages, Paperback
How whiteness operationalizes race to colonize and displace Indigenous sovereignty The White Pos… read more
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- race
- history
- politics
- indigenous
- nonfiction
24. The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives (Dissident Acts)
By: Macarena Gómez-Barris
3.92
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
In The Extractive Zone Macarena Gómez-Barris traces the political, aesthetic, and performative prac… read more
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- politics
- academic
- indigenous
- nonfiction
25. The Salt-Wind: Ka Makani Pa‘akai
By: Brandy Nālani McDougall
4.30
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
This postcolonial collection of poetry is the first by Native Hawaiian poet, Brandy Nalani McDougal… read more
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- indigenous
26. Aina Hanau / Birth Land (Volume 92) (Sun Tracks)
By: Brandy Nālani McDougall
4.63
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
‘Āina Hānau / Birth Land is a powerful collection of new poems by Kanaka ʻŌiwi (Native Hawaiian) po… read more
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- indigenous
27. Reclaiming Kalākaua: Nineteenth-Century Perspectives on a Hawaiian Sovereign
By: Tiffany Lani Ing
4.08
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
Reclaiming Kalā Nineteenth-Century Perspectives on a Hawaiian Sovereign examines the American, inte… read more
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28. Earthworks Rising: Mound Building in Native Literature and Arts (Indigenous Americas)
By: Chadwick Allen
3.83
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
A necessary reexamination of Indigenous mounds, demonstrating their sustained vitality and vibrant … read more
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29. Local Story: The Massie-Kahahawai Case and the Culture of History
By: John P. Rosa
3.81
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
The Massie-Kahahawai case of 1931–1932 shook the Territory of Hawai‘i to its very core. Thalia Mass… read more
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- nonfiction
30. Hungry Listening: Resonant Theory for Indigenous Sound Studies
By: Dylan Robinson
4.67
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Reimagining how we understand and write about the Indigenous listening experienceHungry Listening i… read more
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- academic
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31. Return to Kahiki: Native Hawaiians in Oceania
By: Kealani Cook
4.25
Format: 266 pages, Kindle Edition
Between 1850 and 1907, Native Hawaiians sought to develop relationships with other Pacific Islander… read more
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