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…
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1. Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
By: Heather Ann Thompson
4.45
Format: 752 pages, Hardcover
The first definitive account of the infamous 1971 Attica prison uprising, the state’s violent respo… read more
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- american history
- race
- history
- nonfiction
- sociology
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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- american history
- race
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- grad school
- nonfiction
3. Men We Reaped: A Memoir
By: Jesmyn Ward
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
'...And then we heard the rain falling, and that was the drops of blood falling; and when we came t… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
"But this grief, for all its awful weight, insists that he matters."-Jesmyn Ward, Men We Reaped: A Memoir
"But my father could be dark too. He was attracted to violence, to the basic beauty of fighting, the way it turned his body and those he fought into meticulously constructed machines."-Jesmyn Ward, Men We Reaped: A Memoir
"Men’s bodies litter my family history. The pain of the women they left behind pulls them from the beyond, makes them appear as ghosts. In death, they transcend he circumstances of this place that I l…"-Jesmyn Ward, Men We Reaped: A Memoir
"Some of them were my friends, and they never took up for me, for Black people, when I was in the room. And according to what some of them told me in private conversation, they didn't when I wasn't in…"-Jesmyn Ward, Men We Reaped: A Memoir
4. 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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- american history
- race
- history
- nonfiction
- sociology
5. Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
By: Neil Postman , Andrew Postman
4.15
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
Television has conditioned us to tolerate visually entertaining material measured out in spoonfuls … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
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"The written word endures, the spoken word disappears"-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
"We rarely talk about television, only about what’s on television"-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
"Writing is defined as "a conversation with no one and yet with everyone."-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
"With television, we vault ourselves into a continuous, incoherent present."-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
6. 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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- american history
- race
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- nonfiction
7. Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
By: Michel-Rolph Trouillot
4.36
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Placing the West's failure to acknowledge the most successful slave revolt in history alongside den… read more
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"I find it hard to harness respect for those who genuinely believe that postmodernity, whatever it may be, allows us to claim no roots."-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
"We are never as steeped in history as when we pretend not to be, but if we stop pretending we may gain in understanding what we lose in false innocence. Naiveté is often an excuse for those who exerc…"-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
". . . But the past does not exist independently from the present. Indeed, the past is only past because there is a present, just as I can point to something over there only because I am here. But not…"-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
8. Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market
By: Walter Johnson
4.11
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Soul by Soul tells the story of slavery in antebellum America by moving away from the cotton planta… read more
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- race
- history
- grad school
- nonfiction
9. 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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- american history
- race
- history
- nonfiction
10. Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940
By: George Chauncey
3.84
Format: None pages, Paperback
Gay New Yorkbrilliantly shatters the myth that before the 1960s gay life existed only in the closet… read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
11. Foul Bodies: Cleanliness in Early America
By: Kathleen M. Brown
3.16
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A nation's standards of private cleanliness reveal much about its ideals of civilization, fears of … read more
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- american history
- race
- history
- grad school
- nonfiction
12. The Common Pot: The Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast
By: Lisa Brooks
3.16
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Literary critics frequently portray early Native American writers either as individuals caught betw… read more
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- grad school
- american history
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- nonfiction
13. 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
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- nonfiction
14. 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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- american history
- race
- history
- nonfiction
15. The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West
By: Patricia Nelson Limerick
3.86
Format: 302 pages, Paperback
The 'settling' of the American West has been perceived throughout the world as a series of quaint, … read more
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- grad school
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- nonfiction
16. An Echo in the Bone (Outlander, #7)
By: Diana Gabaldon
3.60
Format: 253 pages, Hardcover
The Seventh Outlander novel from #1 National Bestselling author Diana Gabaldon. Jamie Fraser, erstw… read more
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17. A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling Over the Memory of Sand Creek
By: Ari Kelman
3.66
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In the early morning of November 29, 1864, with the fate of the Union still uncertain, part of the … read more
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18. Written in My Own Heart's Blood (Outlander, #8)
By: Diana Gabaldon
3.67
Format: 117 pages, Hardcover
It is June 1778, and the world seems to be turning upside-down. The British Army is withdrawing fro… read more
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19. Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939
By: Lizabeth Cohen
3.95
Format: 145 pages, Paperback
The lives of Chicago workers are traced in the mid thirties to reveal how their experiences as citi… read more
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20. The War of the Worlds
By: H.G. Wells , Arthur C. Clarke
3.83
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
When an army of invading Martians lands in England, panic and terror seize the population. As the a… read more
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"We will peck them to death tomorrow, my dear."-H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds
"The chances of anything man-like on Mars are a million to one"-H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds
"Suddenly, like a thing falling upon me from without, came fear."-H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds
"That's what we are now—just ants. Only——" "Yes," I said. "We're eatable ants."-H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds
21. Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class
By: Jefferson R. Cowie
3.36
Format: None pages, Hardcover
An epic account of how middle-class America hit the rocks in the political and economic upheavals o… read more
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22. 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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- nonfiction
- race
- history
"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
23. Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy
By: Elizabeth Gillespie McRae
4.08
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Why does white supremacist politics in America remain so powerful? Elizabeth Gillespie McRae argues… read more
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- race
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- nonfiction
24. Thinking About History
By: Sarah C. Maza
4.09
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
What distinguishes history as a discipline from other fields of study? That's the animating questio… read more
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- nonfiction
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25. American History Now (Critical Perspectives On The P)
By: Eric Foner
3.89
Format: 440 pages, Paperback
American History Now collects eighteen original historiographic essays that survey recent scholarsh… read more
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- american history
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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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- american history
- race
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- nonfiction
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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- grad school
- nonfiction
- sociology
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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- race
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29. I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land
By: Alaina E. Roberts
4.04
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Perhaps no other symbol has more resonance in African American history than that of “40 acres and a… read more
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- american history
- race
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- nonfiction
"Though Oklahoma is known in African American history circles for its all-Black spaces, like the famed ‘Black Wall Street’ of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, the first Black inhabitants of Indian Territor…"-Alaina E. Roberts, I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land
"Apart from Cherokee freedpeople, Cherokee citizens also spoke out against the present of African Americans from the United States. In 1894, the editor of the Cherokee Advocate incited his fellow trib…"-Alaina E. Roberts, I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land
30. The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941-1947
By: John Lewis Gaddis
3.90
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
John Lewis Gaddis' acclaimed history of U.S. policy toward the Soviet Union during and immediately … read more
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31. 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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