24 Best nonfiction books like The Young Lords: A Radical History by Johanna Fernandez

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The Young Lords: A Radical History

By: Johanna Fernandez

4.61

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Against the backdrop of America's escalating urban rebellions in the 1960s, an unexpected cohort of…

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1. The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America

By: Margot Canaday

4.10

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

The Straight State is the most expansive study of the federal regulation of homosexuality yet writt… read more

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  • politics
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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2. War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America's Colony

By: Nelson A. Denis

4.55

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In 1950, after over fifty years of military occupation and colonial rule, the Nationalist Party of … read more

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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
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3. Women, Race & Class

By: Angela Y. Davis

4.58

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

From one of our most important scholars and civil rights activist icon, a powerful study of the wom… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • sociology
"White women—feminists included—have revealed a historical reluctance to acknowledge the struggles of household workers. They have rarely been involved in the Sisyphean task of ameliorating the condit…"

-Angela Y. Davis, Women, Race & Class

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4. 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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  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • sociology
"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

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5. Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition

By: Cedric J. Robinson

4.04

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this ambitious work, first published in 1983, Cedric Robinson demonstrates that efforts to under… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • anti racist
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6. Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life

By: Barbara J. Fields , Karen E. Fields

4.27

Format: 359 pages, Hardcover

Most people assume that racism grows from a perception of human difference: the fact of race gives … read more

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  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • sociology
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7. 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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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction

8. City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965

By: Kelly Lytle Hernández

4.80

Format: None pages,

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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
Cover of Assata: An Autobiography by Angela Y. Davis, Assata Shakur, Lennox S. Hinds

9. Assata: An Autobiography

By: Angela Y. Davis , Assata Shakur , Lennox S. Hinds

4.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

On May 2, 1973, Black Panther Assata Shakur (aka JoAnne Chesimard) lay in a hospital, close to deat… read more

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  • politics
  • race
  • history
  • nonfiction

10. Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California

By: Ruth Wilson Gilmore

3.75

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

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11. Are Prisons Obsolete?

By: Angela Y. Davis

4.15

Format: None pages,

With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case fo… read more

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12. An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)

By: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

4.37

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples Today in… read more

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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • anti racist
"Of a thousand Red Stick and allied insurgents, eight hundred were killed. [Andrew] Jackson lost forty-nine men."

-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)

"Once elected president, Jackson lost no time in initiating the removal of all Indigenous farmers and the destruction of all their towns in the South."

-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)

"[Theodore] Roosevelt referred to [Emilio] Aguinaldo as a "renegade Pawnee" and observed that Filipinos did not have the right to govern their country just because they happened to occupy it."

-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)

"The establishment of the missions and presidios from San Diego and Los Angeles and Santa Barbara to Carmel, San Francisco, and Sonoma, traces the colonization of California's Indigenous nations. The …"

-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)

13. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism

By: Benedict Anderson

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

What makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? While many stud… read more

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14. Bonsai

By: Alejandro Zambra

3.49

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Winner of Chile's Literary Critics' Award for Best Novel" Now a Major Motion Picture Hailed as a g… read more

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15. Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.

By: Noor Hindi

4.52

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

What is political poetry? How does history become lived experience? What does it mean to bear witne… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
"Reporting is an act of violence—poetry one of warmth."

-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.

"I want to believe language matters, that words create meaning, that a person can breathe a thing into existence."

-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.

"Colonizers write about flowers. I tell you about children throwing rocks at Israeli tanks seconds before becoming daisies."

-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.

"The homeland is stuck in our teeth. It’s filling our cavities. It rests on our tongues. My God. How we yearn for its olive trees. How it haunts our dreams."

-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.

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16. Thirteen Clocks: How Race United the Colonies and Made the Declaration of Independence

By: Robert G. Parkinson

4.06

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

In his celebrated account of the origins of American unity, John Adams described July 1776 as the m… read more

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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017 by Rashid Khalidi

17. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017

By: Rashid Khalidi

4.50

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more

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  • politics
  • social justice
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century by Beverly Gage

18. G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century

By: Beverly Gage

4.37

Format: 864 pages, Hardcover

A major new biography of J. Edgar Hoover that draws from never-before-seen sources to create a grou… read more

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  • politics
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Cuba: An American History by Ada Ferrer

19. Cuba: An American History

By: Ada Ferrer

4.45

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

Winner of The L. A. Times Book Prize (2021) in History ​“Full of…lively insights and lucid prose” (… read more

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  • politics
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else) by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

20. 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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  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • sociology
"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)

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21. Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America

By: Kathleen Belew

4.22

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

"Belew's book helps explain how we got to today's alt right."―Terry Gross, Fresh Air The white p… read more

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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • the united states of america
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"The story of white power as a social movement exposes something broader about the enduring impact of state violence in America. It reveals one catastrophic ricochet of the Vietnam War, in the form of…"

-Kathleen Belew, Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America

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22. The Free People's Village

By: Sim Kern

4.13

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In an alternate 2020 timeline, Al Gore won the 2000 election and declared a War on Climate Change r… read more

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  • politics
  • social justice
Cover of Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands by Kelly Lytle Hernández

23. Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands

By: Kelly Lytle Hernández

4.19

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Bad Mexicans tells the dramatic story of the magonistas, the migrant rebels who sparked the 1910 Me… read more

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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Battle for Paradise: Puerto Rico Takes on the Disaster Capitalists by Naomi Klein

24. The Battle for Paradise: Puerto Rico Takes on the Disaster Capitalists

By: Naomi Klein

4.23

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Fearless necessary reporting . . . Klein exposes the 'battle of utopias' that is currently unfoldin… read more

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  • politics
  • social justice
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom by Derecka Purnell

25. Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom

By: Derecka Purnell

4.44

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

For more than a century, activists in the United States have tried to reform the police. From commu… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • anti racist
  • sociology
"The systems responsible for our oppression cannot be the same systems responsible for our liberation."

-Derecka Purnell, Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom

"Campus police and street police are different strands of the same supremacy that plague our resistance."

-Derecka Purnell, Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom

Cover of Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction by Kate Masur

26. Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction

By: Kate Masur

4.20

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

The half-century before the Civil War was beset with conflict over equality as well as freedom. Beg… read more

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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • united states
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
Cover of Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072 by M.E. O'Brien

27. Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072

By: M.E. O'Brien

4.15

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

By the middle of the twenty-first century, war, famine, economic collapse, and climate catastrophe … read more

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  • politics
Cover of Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead) (Teaching and Learning in Higher Education) by Alfie Kohn

28. Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead) (Teaching and Learning in Higher Education)

By: Alfie Kohn

4.10

Format: 269 pages, Paperback

The moment is right for critical reflection on what has been assumed to be a core part of schooling… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • social justice
Cover of When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s by John Ganz

29. When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s

By: John Ganz

4.23

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A lively, revelatory look back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era―and their dark legac… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • the united states of america
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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30. The Young Lords: A Radical History

By: Johanna Fernandez

4.61

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Against the backdrop of America's escalating urban rebellions in the 1960s, an unexpected cohort of… read more

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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • the united states of america
  • politics
  • united states
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • anti racist
  • sociology
Cover of Dreamland: America's Immigration Lottery in an Age of Restriction by Carly Goodman

31. Dreamland: America's Immigration Lottery in an Age of Restriction

By: Carly Goodman

4.24

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In a world of border walls and obstacles to migration, a lottery where winners can gain permanent r… read more

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  • politics
  • history

23 best-selling history books like The Young Lords: A Radical History by Johanna Fernandez

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Margot Canaday

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4.58

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4.42

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4.24

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