10 must-read social justice books like Power Hungry: Women of the Black Panther Party and Freedom Summer and Their Fight to Feed a Movement by Suzanne Cope

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Power Hungry: Women of the Black Panther Party and Freedom Summer and Their Fight to Feed a Movement

By: Suzanne Cope

3.84

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Two unsung women whose power using food as a political weapon during the civil rights movement was …

If you liked the social justice plot in Power Hungry: Women of the Black Panther Party and Freedom Summer and Their Fight to Feed a Movement by Suzanne Cope , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. 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
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
"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

2. Economic Facts and Fallacies

By: Thomas Sowell

3.81

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Economic Facts and Fallaciesexposes some of the most popular fallacies about economic issues-and do… read more

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3. Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus

By: Rick Perlstein

3.00

Format: 108 pages, Paperback

A bold and astute narrative history of conservatism's climb and one of the best-reviewed books of 2… read more

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4. 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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5. Long Division

By: Kiese Laymon

3.96

Format: 433 pages, Paperback

Kiese Laymon's debut novel is a Twain-esque exploration of celebrity, authorship, violence, religio… read more

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6. The Souls of Black Folk

By: W.E.B. Du Bois , None , None

3.62

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) is the greatest of African American intellectuals--a s… read more

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7. The Night of the Gun

By: David Carr

3.75

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Do we remember only the stories we can live with?The ones that make us look good in the rearview mi… read more

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8. If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

By: Vincent Bevins

4.28

Format: 337 pages, Hardcover

The story of the recent uprisings that sought to change the world - and what comes next   From 20… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • social justice
"In the history of revolutions, a couple of truisms had already emerged. One is that they are only successful when security forces defect or are defeated in violent conflict. Even if Moa Zedong was be…"

-Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

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9. Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

By: Kathleen Hanna

4.46

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
"She was the only woman on the whole record and hearing her gave me the first thought that someday I could be in a band."

-Kathleen Hanna, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

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10. Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire

By: Jehad Abusalim

4.70

Format: 279 pages, Paperback

Imagining the future of Gaza beyond the cruelties of occupation and Apartheid, Light in Gaza is a p… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • social justice
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11. Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics

By: Marc Lamont Hill

4.21

Format: 227 pages, Hardcover

A bold call for the American Left to extend their politics to the issues of Israel-Palestine, from … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • race
  • history
  • social justice
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12. The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World

By: Vincent Bevins

4.61

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The hidden story of the wanton slaughter -- in Indonesia, Latin America, and around the world -- ba… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • the united states of america
"locals came to him, time and time again, and asked, with genuine mystification: 'We just don't understand America. You were once a colony. You know what colonialism is. You fought and bled and died f…"

-Vincent Bevins, The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World

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13. Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer

By: Rax King

3.47

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

An irreverent and charming collection of deeply personal essays about the joys of low pop culture a… read more

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  • nonfiction
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14. Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir

By: Rachel Louise Snyder

3.94

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

For decades, Rachel Louise Snyder has been a fierce advocate reporting on the darkest social issues… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
"I didn't intentionally gravitate towards stories of women. I was interested in human rights, which often boiled down to this question: who was winning and who was losing? And over and over again, cou…"

-Rachel Louise Snyder, Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir

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15. 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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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
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16. Brainwyrms

By: Alison Rumfitt

3.66

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

From Alison Rumfitt, the author of Tell Me I’m Worthless — “a triumph of transgressive queer horror… read more

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17. Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done?

By: Harold Schechter

4.24

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

One of the greats in the field of true-crime literature, Harold Schechter (Deviant, The Serial Kill… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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18. Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

By: Christian Cooper

4.25

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Central Park birder Christian Cooper takes us beyond the viral video th… read more

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  • race
  • nonfiction
"Nor did I know back then that McCartney had written the song as an ode to Black women ("bird" being British slang for a pretty girl) at the pivotal moment of the civil rights struggle. That would onl…"

-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

"Writing a memoir is akin to taking off one's clothes in public, and as I learned years ago in the amateur strip contest as Darren and the go-go boys cheered me on, success at such an endeavor can onl…"

-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

"Beginning around 1910, The Great Migration saw some 6 million black people surge Northward, out of the states of the former Confederacy, spurred by the same thing that lies behind the yearly migratio…"

-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

"What makes birding such a phenomenon? Why not "mammaling" or insecting? Certainly those pursuits have their adherents, as the thousands who visit Africa on safari or who catalog butterflies can attes…"

-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

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19. A Good Happy Girl

By: Marissa Higgins

3.01

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A poignant, surprising, and immersive read about a young professional woman pursuing an emotionally… read more

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20. Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism

By: Jeffrey Toobin

4.16

Format: 426 pages, Kindle Edition

The definitive account of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the enduring legacy of Timothy McVeigh… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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21. Whiskey Tender: A Memoir

By: Deborah Jackson Taffa

4.14

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An Oprah Daily "Best New Book" and "Riveting Nonfiction and Memoir You Need to Read" * A New York T… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • race
  • history
"My Laguna grandmother, Esther, is the one who taught me that a deep intimacy with a homeland requires three things: sensory experiences of particular geographies, a storied history of the trails, and…"

-Deborah Jackson Taffa, Whiskey Tender: A Memoir

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22. Theme Music

By: T. Marie Vandelly

3.76

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

An utterly propulsive and unpredictable psychological thriller from stunning new talent T. Marie Va… read more

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23. Bitter (Pet, #0.5)

By: Akwaeke Emezi

4.12

Format: 272 pages, ebook

Bitter is thrilled to have been chosen to attend Eucalyptus, a special school where she can focus o… read more

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"Miss Virtue looked amused. "How do you know your way is the right way?" "I don't. But we moving with love, and I figure that can't be wrong."

-Akwaeke Emezi, Bitter (Pet, #0.5)

"The foster parents had said that she would end up nowhere, then you could make up wherever you wanted to be, you could make it real. You could, for example, paint it into existence."

-Akwaeke Emezi, Bitter (Pet, #0.5)

"Bitter had no interest in the revolution. She was seventeen and she thought it was ridiculous that adults wanted young people to be the ones saving the world, as if her generation was the one that ha…"

-Akwaeke Emezi, Bitter (Pet, #0.5)

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24. When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era

By: Donovan X. Ramsey

4.36

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A kaleidoscopic account of the crack cocaine era and a community’s ultimate resilience, told throug… read more

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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
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25. We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies

By: Tsering Yangzom Lama

4.08

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In the wake of China's invasion of Tibet throughout the 1950s, Lhamo and her younger sister, Tenkyi… read more

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26. They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom

By: Ahed Tamimi

4.69

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A Palestinian activist jailed at sixteen after a confrontation with Israeli soldiers illuminates th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • social justice
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27. Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993

By: Sarah Schulman

4.52

Format: 736 pages, Hardcover

Twenty years in the making, Sarah Schulman's Let the Record Show is the most comprehensive politica… read more

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  • american history
  • social justice
  • history
  • nonfiction
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28. Sisters of the Lost Nation

By: Nick Medina

3.88

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

A young Native girl's hunt for answers about the women mysteriously disappearing from her tribe's r… read more

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"What am I supposed to do? Listen, Anna, we all try to get noticed. All the time. Everywhere. That’s lige. Especially for people like us. If the others, don’t notice us, we disappear."

-Nick Medina, Sisters of the Lost Nation

"We all reach for something… Sometimes what we long for is so out of reach that we get stuck or lost in our pursuit of it. The point is not to lose sight of what you already have because if you try to…"

-Nick Medina, Sisters of the Lost Nation

"She said Frog eximplified transformation. He entered life in one form and left it in another. From egg to tadpole, to tadpole with legs, to amphibian with tail, to tailless frog, he was never the sam…"

-Nick Medina, Sisters of the Lost Nation

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29. Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life

By: Alice Wong

4.25

Format: 376 pages, Paperback

From the founder and director of the Disability Visibility Project, and the editor of the acclaimed… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
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30. Good Women

By: Halle Hill

3.96

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

In her dynamic debut, Halle Hill’s Good Women delves into the lives of twelve Black women across th… read more

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31. Power Hungry: Women of the Black Panther Party and Freedom Summer and Their Fight to Feed a Movement

By: Suzanne Cope

3.84

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Two unsung women whose power using food as a political weapon during the civil rights movement was … read more

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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • the united states of america
  • feminism
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • social justice

13 Top history books like Power Hungry: Women of the Black Panther Party and Freedom Summer and Their Fight to Feed a Movement by Suzanne Cope

Transform Your Habits

Women, Race & Class

Angela Y. Davis

4.58

Transform Your Habits

If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

Vincent Bevins

4.28

Transform Your Habits

Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire

Jehad Abusalim

4.70

Transform Your Habits

Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics

Marc Lamont Hill

4.21

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Transform Your Habits

A Living Remedy: A Memoir

Nicole Chung

4.01

Transform Your Habits

How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

Sabrina Imbler

4.12

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Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement

Ashley Shew

4.30

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Stay True

Hua Hsu

4.03

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