The Deportation Machine: America's Long History of Expelling Immigrants (Politics and Society in Modern America)
By: Adam Goodman
4.22
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The unknown history of deportation and of the fear that shapes immigrants' lives Constant he…
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1. 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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- american history
- race
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- politics
- nonfiction
2. 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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- american history
- race
- history
- politics
- law
- nonfiction
3. 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
4. Runaway
By: Alice Munro
4.20
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Here are the infinite betrayals and surprises of love-between men and women, between friends, betwe… read more
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5. Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945
By: David M. Kennedy
4.43
Format: 230 pages, Paperback
Between 1929 and 1945, two great travails were visited upon the American people: the Great Depressi… read more
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- politics
- american history
- history
- nonfiction
6. The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic
By: R.K. Narayan , Pankaj Mishra , John Lee
4.21
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
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7. The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time
By: John Kelly
4.25
Format: 151 pages, Paperback
La moria grandissimabegan its terrible journey across the European and Asian continents in 1347, le… read more
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8. Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California
By: Ruth Wilson Gilmore
3.75
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
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9. Housekeeping
By: Marilynne Robinson
3.94
Format: 450 pages,
A modern classic, Housekeepingis the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up hap… read more
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10. Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household
By: Thavolia Glymph
3.95
Format: None pages, Paperback
This book views the plantation household as a site of production where competing visions of gender … read more
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11. Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South
By: None
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
Recent scholarship on slavery has explored the lives of enslaved people beyond the watchful eye of … read more
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12. The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority
By: None
4.01
Format: 448 pages, ebook
The Color of Successtells of the astonishing transformation of Asians in the United States from the… read more
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13. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
By: Siddharth Kara
4.37
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times… read more
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- politics
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"Now you understand how people like us work?"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Nothing looks the same after a trip to the Congo. The world back home no longer makes sense. It is difficult to reconcile how it even inhabits the same planet. Neatly arranged mountains of vegetables…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Cobalt mining is the slave farm perfected. The cost of labor has been nullified through the degradation of Africans at the bottom of an economic chain that purports to exonerate all participants of a…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
14. Wednesday's Child: Stories
By: Yiyun Li
3.75
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A new collection—about loss, alienation, aging, and the strangeness of contemporary life—by the awa… read more
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- audiobook
15. Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America
By: Michael Harriot
4.59
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
From acclaimed columnist and political commentator Michael Harriot, a searingly smart and bitingly… read more
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- american history
- race
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- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
16. 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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- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"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
17. 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
- audiobook
18. Line in the Sand: A History of the Western U.S.-Mexico Border (America in the World)
By: Rachel St. John
3.71
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
Line in the Sand details the dramatic transformation of the western U.S.-Mexico border from its cre… read more
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- politics
- american history
- history
- nonfiction
19. The Deportation Machine: America's Long History of Expelling Immigrants (Politics and Society in Modern America)
By: Adam Goodman
4.22
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The unknown history of deportation and of the fear that shapes immigrants' lives Constant he… read more
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- race
- history
- politics
- law
- nonfiction
- ethnic studies
- audiobook
20. The Good Immigrants: How the Yellow Peril Became the Model Minority (Politics and Society in Modern America)
By: Madeline Y. Hsu
4.15
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Conventionally, US immigration history has been understood through the lens of restriction and thos… read more
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- american history
- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
21. Migra!: A History of the U.S. Border Patrol (American Crossroads) (Volume 29)
By: Kelly Lytle Hernández
3.89
Format: 334 pages, Paperback
This is the untold history of the United States Border Patrol from its beginnings in 1924 as a smal… read more
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- american history
- race
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