Living for the City: Migration, Education, and the Rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)
By: Donna Murch
4.30
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
In this nuanced and groundbreaking history, Donna Murch argues that the Black Panther Party (BPP) s…
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1. Freshwater
By: Akwaeke Emezi
4.02
Format: 229 pages, Hardcover
An extraordinary debut novel, Freshwater explores the surreal experience of having a fractured self… read more
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"It wasn’t me,"-Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater
"The worst part of embodiment is being unseen."-Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater
"Sometimes, you recognize truth because it destroys you for a bit."-Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater
"The gods do not care. It is not them, after all, that will pay the cost."-Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater
2. 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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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. 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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5. 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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"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
6. I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle
By: Charles M. Payne
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
This momentous work offers a groundbreaking history of the early civil rights movement in the South… read more
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7. How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America
By: Kiese Laymon
4.03
Format: 453 pages, Paperback
Author and essayist Kiese Laymon is one of the most unique, stirring, and powerful new voices in Am… read more
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8. Sweetbitter
By: Stephanie Danler
3.49
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
A lush, raw, thrilling novel of the senses about a year in the life of a uniquely beguiling young w… read more
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9. 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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10. Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression
By: Robin D.G. Kelley
5.00
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Between 1929 and 1941, the Communist Party organized and led a radical, militantly antiracist movem… read more
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11. Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
By: Douglas A. Blackmon
4.40
Format: None pages,
In this groundbreaking historical expose, Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shame… read more
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12. No Longer at Ease (The African Trilogy, #2)
By: Chinua Achebe
3.82
Format: 295 pages, Paperback
Obi Okonkwo is an idealistic young man who has now returned to Nigeria for a job in the civil servi… read more
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13. Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples
By: Linda Tuhiwai Smith
4.25
Format: None pages,
From the vantage point of the colonized, the term 'research' is inextricably linked with European c… read more
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14. Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
By: Audre Lorde
3.88
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
ZAMI is a fast-moving chronicle. From the author's vivid childhood memories in Harlem to her coming… read more
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15. Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
By: Vladimir Lenin
4.23
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
'Globalisation' is the buzzword of the 1990s. VI Lenin's Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitali… read more
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"Crises of every kind — economic crises more frequently, but not only these — in their turn increase very considerably the tendency towards concentration and monopoly."-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
"At the basis of these swindles and manipulations lies socialised production; but the immense progress of humanity, which achieved this socialisation, goes to benefit the speculators."-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
"But suppose, for the sake of argument, free competition, without any sort of monopoly, would develop capitalism trade more rapidly. Is it not a fact that the more rapidly trade and capitalism develop…"-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
"As long as capitalism remains what it is, surplus capital will never be utilised for the purpose of raising the standard of living of the masses in a given country, for this would mean a decline in p…"-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
16. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
By: Charles C. Mann
4.23
Format: 11 pages, Paperback
A groundbreaking study that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival o… read more
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17. NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
By: Steve Silberman
3.99
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
A New York Timesbestseller Winner of the 2015 Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction A groundbreaking… read more
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18. Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir
By: Kai Cheng Thom
1.75
Format: 134 pages, Paperback
Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir by Kai Cheng Thom is… read more
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19. Record of a Spaceborn Few (Wayfarers, #3)
By: None , Becky Chambers
4.12
Format: 359 pages, Hardcover
Centuries after the last humans left Earth, the Exodus Fleet is a living relic, a place many are fr… read more
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"We're our own warning."-None, Record of a Spaceborn Few (Wayfarers, #3)
"I am seventy-nine years old. If I want dessert twice ... I get dessert twice."-None, Record of a Spaceborn Few (Wayfarers, #3)
"If you never leave, you'll always wonder. You'll wonder what your life could've been, if you did the right thing. Well... scratch that. You'll always wonder if you did the right thing, no matter wha…"-None, Record of a Spaceborn Few (Wayfarers, #3)
"We are the wealthiest species alive today. We want for nothing. Without us, there would be no tunnels, no ambi, no galactic map. But we achieved these things through subjugation. Violence. We destroy…"-None, Record of a Spaceborn Few (Wayfarers, #3)
20. Mean
By: Myriam Gurba
3.50
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
Myriam Gurba's debut is the bold and hilarious tale of her coming of age as a queer, mixed-race Chi… read more
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21. Light from Uncommon Stars
By: Ryka Aoki
4.06
Format: 372 pages, Hardcover
A defiantly joyful adventure set in California's San Gabriel Valley, with cursed violins, Faustian … read more
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"Lindsey Stirling?"-Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars
"I shall make you feel all the joy, the terror in loving who you are."-Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars
"A sandwich that is more than a sandwich. Coffee that is more than coffee."-Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars
"When you rush, all you are doing is practicing your mistakes at a faster pace."-Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars
22. The Death of Vivek Oji
By: Akwaeke Emezi
4.13
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
Raised by a distant father and an understanding but overprotective mother, Vivek suffers disorienti… read more
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"Love and guilt sometimes taste the same, you know"-Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji
"They burned down the market on the day Vivek Oji died."-Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji
"Somewhere, you see, in the river of time, I am already alive."-Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji
"He smelled like grass and wind and clothes that had been dried in the sun."-Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji
23. Diary of a Misfit: A Memoir and a Mystery
By: Casey Parks
4.10
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Part memoir, part sweeping journalistic saga: As Casey Parks follows the mystery of a stranger's pa… read more
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24. Women and Children First
By: Alina Grabowski
3.38
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A gripping literary puzzle that unwinds the private lives of ten women as they confront tragedy in … read more
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25. Outlawed
By: Anna North
3.51
Format: 261 pages, Hardcover
In the year of our Lord 1894, I became an outlaw. The day of her wedding, 17 year old Ada's life… read more
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"Knowledge can be very valuable, but only if people want it. If they don't, it can be worse than useless."-Anna North, Outlawed
"Everybody cheers the hanging of a witch," I said. Agnes Rose looked at her dainty watch. "Everybody but us," she said, and she took the matches from me and set one of the ledgers alight."-Anna North, Outlawed
"Mama says at every birth, death is in the room. You can try to ignore it, or you can acknowledge it, and greet it like a guest, and then you won't be so afraid anymore." Bee looked skeptical. "How do…"-Anna North, Outlawed
26. Living for the City: Migration, Education, and the Rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)
By: Donna Murch
4.30
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
In this nuanced and groundbreaking history, Donna Murch argues that the Black Panther Party (BPP) s… read more
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27. Chicago's New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban Life
By: Davarian L. Baldwin
3.75
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
As early-twentieth-century Chicago swelled with an influx of at least 250,000 new black urban migra… read more
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28. Liberated Threads: Black Women, Style, and the Global Politics of Soul (Gender and American Culture)
By: Tanisha C. Ford
4.21
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the civil rights and Black Power era of the 1960s through antiapartheid activism in the 1980s … read more
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29. Black Disability Politics
By: Sami Schalk
4.63
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In Black Disability Politics Sami Schalk explores how issues of disability have been and continue t… read more
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30. Righteous Discontent: The Women’s Movement in the Black Baptist Church, 1880–1920
By: Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
4.01
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
What Du Bois noted has gone largely unstudied until now. In this book, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham g… read more
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31. Empire's Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad (American Crossroads) (Volume 52)
By: Manu Karuka
3.92
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Empire’s Tracks boldly reframes the history of the transcontinental railroad from the perspectives… read more
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