Race for Revival: How Cold War South Korea Shaped the American Evangelical Empire
By: Helen Jin Kim
4.04
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In 1973, Billy Graham, America's Pastor, held his largest ever crusade. But he was not, as one migh…
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1. Sisters in the Wilderness: The Challenge of Womanist God-Talk
By: Delores S. Williams
4.33
Format: 297 pages, Paperback
In this landmark work of emerging African American womanist theology, Delores Williams finds in the… read more
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3. The Sympathizer
By: Viet Thanh Nguyen
3.83
Format: 28 pages, Hardcover
The winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, as well as five other awards, The Sympathizeris … read more
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4. Damned Nation: Hell in America from the Revolution to Reconstruction
By: Kathryn Gin Lum
2.89
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Among the pressing concerns of Americans in the first century of nationhood were day-to-day surviva… read more
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5. Fundamentalism and American Culture
By: George M. Marsden
4.73
Format: None pages, Paperback
Many American's today are taking note of the surprisingly strong political force that is the religi… read more
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6. The Foreign Student
By: Susan Choi
4.17
Format: 78 pages, Paperback
Highly acclaimed by critics, The Foreign Studentis the story of a young Korean man, scarred by war,… read more
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7. Bird by Bird
By: Anne Lamott
4.24
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
A newer edition of this title can be found here. "Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten… read more
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"Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird."-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
"A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way."-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
"If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door."-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
"You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too."-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
8. Why We Can't Wait
By: Martin Luther King Jr. , Jesse Jackson
4.50
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963 "Perhaps it is easy for those who have never felt the s… read more
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9. The Book of Jerry Falwell: Fundamentalist Language and Politics
By: None
4.00
Format: 191 pages, Paperback
National polls show that approximately 50 million adult Americans are born-again Christians. Yet mo… read more
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10. The Park Chung Hee Era: The Transformation of South Korea
By: Ezra F. Vogel , Jorge I. Domínguez , None , None , None , None , Paul D. Hutchcroft , None , None , None , None , None , None , None , None , None , None
4.02
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In 1961 South Korea was mired in poverty. By 1979 it had a powerful industrial economy and a vibran… read more
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11. Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope
By: Esau McCaulley
4.43
Format: 200 pages, Kindle Edition
Growing up in the American South, Esau McCaulley knew firsthand the ongoing struggle between despai… read more
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"Prayer for leaders and criticism of their practices are not mutually exclusive ideas. Both have biblical warrant in the same letter."-Esau McCaulley, Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope
"While I was at home with much of the theology in evangelicalism, there were real disconnects. First, there was the portrayal of the Black church in these circles. I was told that the social gospel ha…"-Esau McCaulley, Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope
12. White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America
By: Anthea Butler
4.27
Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition
The American political scene today is poisonously divided, and the vast majority of white evangelic… read more
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13. The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy
By: Philip S. Gorski
4.19
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A bracing examination of a force that imperils American democracy Most Americans were shocked by t… read more
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"White Christian nationalism is a “deep story"-Philip S. Gorski, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy
"For white Americans who affirm Christian nationalist ideology, “true Americans"-Philip S. Gorski, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy
"Even as it’s become riskier for mainstream politicians to use negative dog whistles like “thug"-Philip S. Gorski, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy
"It’s not that Christian nationalists have a different understanding of American history; it’s that they often have an incorrect understanding."-Philip S. Gorski, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy
14. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
By: Kristin Kobes Du Mez
4.30
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
A scholar of American Christianity presents a seventy-five-year history of evangelicalism that iden… read more
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15. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
By: Saidiya Hartman
4.46
Format: 441 pages, Paperback
A breathtaking exploration of the lives of young black women in the early twentieth century. In … read more
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"No, Kropotkin never described black women's mutual aid societies or the chorus in Mutual Aid, although he imagined animal society in its rich varieties & the forms of cooperation & mutuality found am…"-Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
16. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
By: Tim Alberta
4.45
Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition
Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in Americ… read more
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17. From From: Poems
By: Monica Youn
4.18
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
A major achievement by Monica Youn, “one of the most consistently innovative poets working today” (… read more
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18. Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth
By: Bryan Burrough
4.26
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Three noted Texan writers combine forces to tell the real story of the Alamo, dispelling the myths,… read more
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19. Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
By: Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
4.00
Format: 157 pages, Paperback
A powerful indictment of the ways elites have co-opted radical critiques of racial capitalism to se… read more
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"A philosopher Briana Toole clarifies, by itself, one's social location only puts a person in a position to know; 'epistemic privilege' or advantage, on the other hand, is achieved only through delibe…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
"Elites do often make the environment worse and block solutions, but to blame the problem of elite capture entirely on their moral successes and failures is to confuse effect for cause. The true probl…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
"To opt for deference, rather than interdependence, may soothe short-term psychological wounds. But it does so at a steep cost: it may undermine the goals that motivated the project--and it entrenches…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
"As Carter G. Woodson realized, many of our decisions are shaped by decisions that someone with more power made before us. The whole social structure affects how institutional systems, like schools, f…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
20. Shrimp to Whale: South Korea from the Forgotten War to K-Pop
By: Ramon Pacheco Pardo
4.30
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
South Korea has the most remarkable of histories. Born from the ashes of colonialism, partition and… read more
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21. Scripture, Ethics, and the Possibility of Same-Sex Relationships
By: Karen R. Keen
4.37
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
WHEN IT COMES TO SAME-SEX RELATIONSHIPS, this book by Karen Keen contains the most thoughtful, bala… read more
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22. The Martyred
By: Richard E. Kim
3.81
Format: 228 pages, Mass Market Paperback
"Written in a mood of total austerity; and yet the passion of the book is perpetually beating up ag… read more
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23. Community as Rebellion: A Syllabus for Surviving Academia as a Woman of Color
By: Lorgia García Peña
4.66
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
An inspiring personal testimonial woven with political analysis, Community as Rebellion offers a me… read more
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24. The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover: How the FBI Aided and Abetted the Rise of White Christian Nationalism
By: Lerone A. Martin
3.94
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The shocking untold story of how the FBI partnered with white evangelicals to champion a vision of … read more
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25. Race for Revival: How Cold War South Korea Shaped the American Evangelical Empire
By: Helen Jin Kim
4.04
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In 1973, Billy Graham, America's Pastor, held his largest ever crusade. But he was not, as one migh… read more
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26. The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability (ANIMA: Critical Race Studies Otherwise)
By: Jasbir K. Puar
4.36
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
In The Right to Maim Jasbir K. Puar brings her pathbreaking work on the liberal state, sexuality, a… read more
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27. South Korea: The Price of Efficiency and Success
By: John Gonzalez
3.38
Format: None pages, Paperback
South Korea's extraordinary economic and technological transformation after the Korean War (1950-19… read more
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28. Heathen: Religion and Race in American History
By: Kathryn Gin Lum
4.32
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
An innovative history that shows how the religious idea of the heathen in need of salvation undergi… read more
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29. The Kingdom of God Has No Borders: A Global History of American Evangelicals
By: Melani McAlister
4.31
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
Award of Merit, 2019 Christianity Today Book Awards (History/Biography) More than forty years ago,… read more
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30. Electric Santería: Racial and Sexual Assemblages of Transnational Religion
By: Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús
3.93
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Santería is an African-inspired, Cuban diaspora religion long stigmatized as witchcraft and often d… read more
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31. Faking Liberties: Religious Freedom in American-Occupied Japan (Class 200: New Studies in Religion)
By: Jolyon Baraka Thomas
4.64
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Religious freedom is a founding tenet of the United States, and it has frequently been used to just… read more
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