Social Death: Racialized Rightlessness and the Criminalization of the Unprotected (Nation of Nations, 7)
By: Lisa Marie Cacho
4.53
Format: 236 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2013 John Hope Franklin Book Prize presented by the American Studies Association A n…
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1. An Autobiography
By: Angela Y. Davis
4.44
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Her own powerful story up to 1972, told with warmth, brilliance, humor and conviction. With an intr… read more
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"I sank deep into the moment, husbanding this delight, hoarding it. For I knew it would be short-lived. Work. Struggle. Confrontation lay before us like a rock-strewn road. We would walk it ... But fi…"-Angela Y. Davis, An Autobiography
"This Booker T. Washington syndrome permeated every aspect of the education I received in Birmingham. Work hard and you will be rewarded. A corollary of this principle was that the road would be harde…"-Angela Y. Davis, An Autobiography
2. 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
3. The Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism
By: Jodi A. Byrd
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
In 1761 and again in 1768, European scientists raced around the world to observe the transit of Ven… read more
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4. Their Eyes Were Watching God
By: Zora Neale Hurston
4.43
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
When Janie, at sixteen, is caught kissing shiftless Johnny Taylor, her grandmother swiftly marries … read more
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5. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
By: Richard Rothstein
2.89
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading auth… read more
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6. Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America
By: Mae M. Ngai
4.11
Format: 559 pages, Paperback
This book traces the origins of the "illegal alien" in American law and society, explaining why and… read more
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7. The Joy Luck Club
By: Amy Tan
3.64
Format: 24 pages,
In 1949, four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play… read more
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8. Socialism . . . Seriously: A Brief Guide to Human Liberation
By: Danny Katch
3.45
Format: None pages, Paperback
Opinion polls show that many people in the U.S. prefer socialism to capitalism. But after being dec… read more
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9. Discourse on Colonialism
By: Robin D.G. Kelley , Aimé Césaire , Joan Pinkham
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Cesaire's essay stands as an important document in the development of third world consciousness--a… read more
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10. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
By: Alison Bechdel
4.08
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
In this graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her late father.Distant… read more
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"Who embalms the Undertaker when he dies?"-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
"Feminism is the theory. Lesbianism is the practice."-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
"Mom, how come you never go outside?" "I told you, I'm a vampire."-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
"It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone."-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
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. More than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City
By: William Julius Wilson
3.99
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
In this provocative contribution to the American discourse on race, the newest book of the Issues o… read more
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13. Silent Spring
By: Edward O. Wilson , Rachel Carson , Linda Lear
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring was first published in three serialized excerpts in the New Yorker in… read more
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14. Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition
By: None
1.75
Format: 134 pages, Paperback
Over the past forty years, recognition has become the dominant mode of negotiation and decolonizati… read more
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15. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
By: Cornel West , Angela Y. Davis , Frank Barat
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Ange… read more
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16. Paradise Lost
By: John Milton , John Leonard
3.84
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the… read more
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"What hath night to do with sleep?"-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Solitude sometimes is best society."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
17. 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
18. How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
By: Jenny Odell
3.68
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
When the technologies we use every day collapse our experiences into 24/7 availability, platforms f… read more
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19. The Undocumented Americans
By: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
4.39
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
One of the first undocumented immigrants to graduate from Harvard reveals the hidden lives of her f… read more
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"I am a one-trick pony, unable to comfort with anything other than grades."-Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, The Undocumented Americans
"I respect the role of God in the lives of people who suffer, but basically only in the lives of people who suffer."-Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, The Undocumented Americans
"I think every immigrant in this country knows that you can eat English and digest it so well that you shit it out, and to some people, you will still not speak English."-Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, The Undocumented Americans
"There are white moms who threw stones at the little girls in Little Rock and there are white moms who wish Andres and Omar and Elias and Greta's mom will be deported too."-Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, The Undocumented Americans
20. All This Could Be Different
By: Sarah Thankam Mathews
3.85
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Graduating into the long maw of an American recession, Sneha is one of the fortunate ones. She's mo… read more
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"The world has ended a thousand times and my name called in each new book of it."-Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different
"The world we knew has always been half-terrible, made as it is by the powerful, for the powerful. We were crowning a different one. Its birth would not be easy; no birth was."-Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different
"This is my tragedy and my great good fortune, to be the recipient of this bond, to be kept alive under its crushing warmth and weight, to be given it so freely, so much more than I have ever deserved."-Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different
"I use the present tense, but I mean, that’s the way I remember it, and these are the things I learned about it, later, and the two combined have formed my truth of a place. We all have our truth of a…"-Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different
21. Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
By: Harsha Walia
4.59
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
In Border and Rule, one of North America's foremost thinkers and immigrant rights organizers delive… read more
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"Empires crumble, capitalism is not inevitable, gender is not biology, whiteness is not immutable, prisons are not inescapable, and borders are not natural law."-Harsha Walia, Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
"Right-wing nationalism is a bourgeois nationalism, and in our struggles against capitalist austerity we must emphasize that our enemy arrives in a limousine, and not on a boat."-Harsha Walia, Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
"Ensuring labor protections and citizenship status is the most ethical and effective counter to the far right's anti-migrant racism. Otherwise, attacks on migrant workers -- buttressed by ubiquitous a…"-Harsha Walia, Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
"Territorial diffusion relies on biometric surveillance and disciplinary practices within the state, as well as imperial outsourcing. Put another way, the border is elastic, and the magical line can e…"-Harsha Walia, Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
22. Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care
By: Kelly Hayes
4.64
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Let T… read more
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23. Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure
By: Eli Clare
4.49
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In Brilliant Imperfection Eli Clare uses memoir, history, and critical analysis to explore cure—the… read more
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"But in today’s world, being seen as intellectually, cognitively, or developmentally disabled is dangerous because intelligence and verbal communication are entrenched markers of personhood."-Eli Clare, Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure
"Simply put, the DSM is a highly constructed projection placed on top of particular body-mind experiences in order to label, organize, and make meanings of them from within a specific worldview."-Eli Clare, Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure
"Simply put, diagnosis wields immense power. It can provide us access to vital medical technology or shame us, reveal a path toward less pain or get us locked up. It opens doors and slams them shut."-Eli Clare, Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure
"Our body-minds tumble, shift, ease their way through space and time, never static. Gender transition in its many forms is simply another kind of motion. I lived in a body-mind assigned female at birt…"-Eli Clare, Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure
24. Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science
By: Jessica Hernandez
3.81
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
An Indigenous environmental scientist breaks down why western conservationism isn’t working–and off… read more
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25. Fit to Be Citizens?: Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939
By: Natalia Molina
4.08
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
Meticulously researched and beautifully written, Fit to Be Citizens? demonstrates how both science … read more
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26. Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World
By: Dorothy Roberts
4.55
Format: 384 pages, Audiobook
An award-winning scholar exposes the foundational racism of the child welfare system and calls for … read more
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27. Social Death: Racialized Rightlessness and the Criminalization of the Unprotected (Nation of Nations, 7)
By: Lisa Marie Cacho
4.53
Format: 236 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2013 John Hope Franklin Book Prize presented by the American Studies Association A n… read more
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28. Contesting Race and Citizenship: Youth Politics in the Black Mediterranean
By: Camilla Hawthorne
4.33
Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition
"Drawing on ethnographic and archival research, this book explores the political mobilizations of B… read more
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29. American Studies: A User's Guide
By: Philip J. Deloria
3.98
Format: 457 pages, Kindle Edition
-American Studies has long been a welcoming home for adventurous intellectuals. Whether blurring di… read more
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30. Colonial Racial Capitalism
By: Susan Koshy
3.79
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The contributors to Colonial Racial Capitalism consider anti-Blackness, human commodification, and … read more
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