Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation
By: Kris Manjapra
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A revelatory historical indictment of the long afterlife of slavery in the Atlantic world To fully …
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1. Dust Tracks on a Road
By: Zora Neale Hurston
4.11
Format: 324 pages, Paperback
Dust Tracks on a Road is the bold, poignant, and funny autobiography of novelist, folklorist, and a… read more
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"Mystery is the essence of divinity"-Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road
"Lack of power and opportunity passes off too often for virtue."-Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road
"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."-Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road
"Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof."-Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road
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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"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. The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race
By: Daniel José Older , Edwidge Danticat , Jesmyn Ward , Honorée Fanonne Jeffers , Claudia Rankine , Kevin Young , Carol Anderson , Isabel Wilkerson , Mitchell S. Jackson , Kiese Laymon , Natasha Trethewey , Clint Smith , None , Garnette Cadogan , None , None , None
3.29
Format: None pages, Hardcover
National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward takes James Baldwin's 1963 examination of race in America, T… read more
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4. Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
By: James Forman Jr.
3.00
Format: None pages,
In recent years, America's criminal justice system has become the subject of an increasingly urgent… read more
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5. The Canal Builders: Making America's Empire at the Panama Canal
By: None
4.33
Format: 57 pages,
A groundbreaking history of the Panama Canal offers a revelatory workers-eye view of the momentous … read more
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6. The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation
By: Daina Ramey Berry
3.57
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Groundbreaking look at slaves as commodities through every phase of life, from birth to death and b… read more
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7. Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam
By: Nick Turse
4.21
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Americans have long been taught that events such as the notorious My Lai massacre were isolated inc… read more
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8. The Talk
By: Darrin Bell
4.65
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Darrin Bell was six years old when his mother told him he couldn’t have a realistic water gun. She … read more
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- race
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9. Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance
By: Mia Bay
4.29
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Critics' Top Book of the Year "This extraordinary book is a powerful addition t… read more
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- american history
- race
- history
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
10. Black Birds in the Sky: The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
By: Brandy Colbert
4.25
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A searing new work of nonfiction from award-winning author Brandy Colbert about the history and leg… read more
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- race
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- politics
- nonfiction
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11. The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center
By: Rhaina Cohen
3.95
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Why do we place romantic partnership on a pedestal? What do we lose when we expect one person to me… read more
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- nonfiction
- sociology
- audiobook
12. 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
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- nonfiction
- social justice
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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)
13. Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains
By: Alexa Hagerty
4.47
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An anthropologist working with forensic teams and victims' families to investigate crimes against h… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
14. Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
By: Serhii Plokhy
4.22
Format: 444 pages, Hardcover
Nearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, today’s world leaders are abandoning disarmament… read more
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- american history
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
15. By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners
By: Margaret A. Burnham
4.31
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A paradigm-shifting investigation of Jim Crow–era violence, the legal apparatus that sustained it, … read more
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- race
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- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
16. The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century
By: Gerald Horne
4.18
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
August 2019 saw numerous commemorations of the year 1619, when what was said to be the first arriva… read more
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- american history
- race
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- nonfiction
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17. Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
By: Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
4.39
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
We live, according to Eddie S. Glaude Jr., in a moment when the struggles of Black Lives Matter and… read more
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- race
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- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
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"[Trump] and his ideas are not exceptional. He and the people who support him are just the latest examples of the country's ongoing betrayal. . .When we make Trump exceptional, we let ourselves off th…"-Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
"Baldwin's words can sound harsh, as if he's throwing away millions of Americans and declaring them irrelevant to the life and future of our democracy. It's easy to read him that way, and sometimes, w…"-Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
18. The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church
By: Rachel L. Swarns
4.13
Format: 326 pages, Hardcover
“An absolutely essential addition to the history of the Catholic Church, whose involvement in New W… read more
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- american history
- race
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19. Hangman
By: Maya Binyam
3.59
Format: 194 pages, Hardcover
An enthralling and original first novel about exile, diaspora, and the impossibility of Black refug… read more
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- race
- audiobook
20. The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon
By: Adam Shatz
4.24
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A revelatory biography of the writer-activist who inspired today’s movements for social and racial … read more
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- politics
- race
- history
- nonfiction
21. The Apology
By: Jimin Han
3.47
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
This sweeping intergenerational saga tells the story of a pampered and defiant South Korean matriar… read more
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- historical
- audiobook
22. Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class
By: Blair L.M. Kelley
4.48
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning historian illuminates the adversities and joys of the Black working class in Ameri… read more
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23. The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
By: Henry Louis Gates Jr.
4.07
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times-bestselling author of Stony the Road and one of our most important voices o… read more
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- race
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- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"...the great blues musician W.C. Handy said, "I think these spirituals did more for our emancipation than all the guns of the Civil War."-Henry Louis Gates Jr., The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
"Estimates of the percentage of enslaved Africans who were Muslim arriving in North America vary widely...between 8 and 20 percent is a reasonable estimate..."-Henry Louis Gates Jr., The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
"...enslaved people "were conjuring out of nothing that manhood that has been stripped away from them for four hundred years, they used the spirituals as a catalyst."-Henry Louis Gates Jr., The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
"..we find some of the deepest traces of Islam and other traditional African religions in places like Sapelo Island, home of the Gullah Geechee people. Islam's strong roots persisted here in ways that…"-Henry Louis Gates Jr., The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
24. He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters
By: Schuyler Bailar
4.62
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Go‑to expert on gender identity, Schuyler Bailar, offers an essential, urgent guide that changes th… read more
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- audiobook
25. The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans—And How We Can Fix It
By: Dorothy A. Brown
4.28
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking exposé of racism in the American taxation system from a law professor and expert o… read more
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- race
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- nonfiction
- social justice
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"Once again, a single sentence would hold the key. I found it in The Economic Status of Black Women: An Exploratory Investigation, a 1990 staff report of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights: On averag…"-Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans—And How We Can Fix It
26. Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation
By: Kris Manjapra
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A revelatory historical indictment of the long afterlife of slavery in the Atlantic world To fully … read more
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- american history
- american
- history
- race
- historical
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- sociology
- audiobook
27. A History of Water: Being an Account of a Murder, an Epic and Two Visions of Global History
By: Edward Wilson-Lee
3.79
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning writer Edward Wilson-Lee, this is a thrilling true historical detective story se… read more
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- history
28. Homeward
By: Angela Jackson-Brown
4.04
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
The country is changing, and her own world is being turned upside down. Nothing—and no one—will eve… read more
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- race
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29. In Whose Ruins: Power, Possession, and the Landscapes of American Empire
By: Alicia Puglionesi
4.02
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In this “first-rate work of historical research and storytelling” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review),… read more
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- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
30. Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit
By: Mary-Frances Winters
4.43
Format: 236 pages, Paperback
This is the first book to define and explore Black fatigue, the intergenerational impact of systemi… read more
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- nonfiction
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31. The Third Reconstruction: America's Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century
By: Peniel E. Joseph
4.16
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
One of our preeminent historians of race and democracy argues that the period since 2008 has marked… read more
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