You Are Not American: Citizenship Stripping from Dred Scott to the Dreamers
By: Amanda Frost
4.26
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
Citizenship is invaluable, yet our status as citizens is always at risk--even for those born on US …
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1. Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
By: William McDonough , Michael Braungart
4.09
Format: 193 pages, Paperback
"Reduce, reuse, recycle," urge environmentalists; in other words, do more with less in order to min… read more
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- nonfiction
"When you talk about “saving the planet"-William McDonough, Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
"Cradle to Cradle is like good gardening; it is not about “saving"-William McDonough, Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
"Here's where redesign begins in earnest, where we stop trying to be less bad and we start figuring out how to be good."-William McDonough, Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
"as a buyer you got the item or service you wanted, plus additives that you didn’t ask for and that may be harmful to you and your loved ones."-William McDonough, Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
2. Far from the Tree
By: Robin Benway , Sophie Lamotte d'Argy
3.56
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A contemporary novel about three adopted siblings who find each other at just the right moment. Bei… read more
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3. Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
By: Bryan Stevenson
3.93
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our bro… read more
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- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
4. 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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- race
- history
- politics
- law
- nonfiction
- social justice
5. Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
By: William Deresiewicz
4.06
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking manifesto for people searching for the kind of insight on leading, thinking, and l… read more
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6. American War
By: Omar El Akkad
3.62
Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition
An audacious and powerful debut novel: a second American Civil War, a devastating plague, and one f… read more
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7. Out of Darkness
By: Ashley Hope Pérez
4.04
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"This is East Texas, and there's lines. Lines you cross, lines you don't cross. That clear?" New Lo… read more
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8. A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
By: Timothy Egan
4.38
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A historical thriller by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author that tells the rivetin… read more
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- american history
- race
- history
- historical
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
"When hate was on the ballot, especially in the guise of virtue, a majority of voters knew exactly what to do."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"Stephenson had succeeded with an unusual formula for a mass movement: men were the muscle, women spread the poison, and ministers sanctified it all."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"The governor of Georgia, Clifford Walker, told a Klan rally in 1924 that the United States should 'build a wall of steel, a wall as high as heaven' against immigrants."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"There are millions who have never joined, but who think and feel and, when called on, will fight with us," Evans wrote. "This is our real strength, and no one who ignores it can hope to understand Am…"-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
9. Beautiful Country
By: Qian Julie Wang
4.18
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In Chinese, the word for America, Mei Guo, translates directly to “beautiful country.” Yet when sev… read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
"Words rolled out of my mouth one after another and I do not dare to interrupt them with a breath. They are new words, foreign words but familiar all the same because they have been sitting at my thro…"-Qian Julie Wang, Beautiful Country
10. 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
- history
- historical
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
11. The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
By: Nikole Hannah-Jones
4.62
Format: 590 pages, Hardcover
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a revealing vision of the American past and present. … read more
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- american history
- race
- history
- historical
- nonfiction
- social justice
12. Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption
By: Rafia Zakaria
4.32
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Upper-middle-class white women have long been heralded as “experts” on feminism. They have presided… read more
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- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
"Trickle-down feminism, everyone assumed, would miraculously fast forward the realization of a gender-equal, free market world created in the self image of America."-Rafia Zakaria, Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption
"White and western women are seen as participants in complex modern societies. Their problems cannot be solved with a single, neat gift. Women of color are imagined as existing in a much simpler world…"-Rafia Zakaria, Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption
"But American journalists, female journalists in particular, created a narrative for the war on terror that reaffirmed it as one fought by a feminist America, against anti-feminist, primitive, patriar…"-Rafia Zakaria, Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption
"Capitalist forces have looked to depoliticize as many spheres as possible. To create a feminist politics of solidarity, women have to recognize the forces that push them apart and push them into mean…"-Rafia Zakaria, Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption
13. Poverty, by America
By: Matthew Desmond
4.27
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more
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- politics
- social justice
- history
- nonfiction
"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
14. Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
By: Henry Grabar
4.20
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
An entertaining, enlightening, and utterly original investigation into one of the most quietly infl… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
15. Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
By: Jason Reynolds
4.48
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
A remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning for ages 12 and up. A time… read more
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- race
- history
- historical
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
"Science says the races are biologically equal so if they're not in society, the only reason why can be racism."-Jason Reynolds, Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
"...leads back to the question of whether you, reader, want to be a segregationist (a hater), an assimilationist (a coward), or an antiracist (someone who truly loves)."-Jason Reynolds, Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
"The first step to building an antiracist America is acknowledging America's racist past. By acknowledging America's racist past, we can acknowledge America's racist present. In acknowledging America'…"-Jason Reynolds, Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
"Brown v. Board of Education, 1954: I’m sure you’ve heard of this one. If you live in the South and go to a diverse school, this is why. This was the case that said racial segregation in public school…"-Jason Reynolds, Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
16. Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America
By: Ijeoma Oluo
4.41
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race, a history of white… read more
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- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
"It's the expectations that many white men have that they shouldn't have to climb, shouldn't have to struggle, as others do. It's the idea not only that they think they have less than others, but that…"-Ijeoma Oluo, Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America
17. Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto
By: Tricia Hersey
4.08
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Far too many of us have claimed productivity as the cornerstone of success. Brainwashed by capitali… read more
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- politics
- race
- nonfiction
- social justice
18. The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America
By: Eric Cervini
4.31
Format: 494 pages, Hardcover
The secret history of the fight for gay rights that began a generation before Stonewall. In 1957… read more
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- history
- historical
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
"What the hell ever happened to the concept of freedom and equality that we espouse?"-Eric Cervini, The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America
"And if society rejected him? ‘Why, society can,’ as he later described the realization. ‘They’ll lose more than I will."-Eric Cervini, The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America
19. They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
By: Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
4.29
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy Bri… read more
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- american history
- race
- history
- historical
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
"Historians who explore slavery's relationship to capitalism generally focus on the roles that men played in the development of both. But if we considered the very real possibility that some of the en…"-Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
20. On Critical Race Theory: Why It Matters & Why You Should Care
By: Victor Ray
4.35
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
What exactly is critical race theory? This concise and accessible exploration demystifies a crucial… read more
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- race
- history
- politics
- law
- nonfiction
- social justice
21. Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
By: Ilyon Woo
3.99
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
New York Times Bestseller | New York Times 10 Best Books of 2023 The remarkable true story of El… read more
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- american history
- race
- history
- historical
- nonfiction
- adult
22. Bellies
By: Nicola Dinan
4.07
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
I wore a dress on the night I first met Ming.It begins as your typical boy meets boy. While out wit… read more
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- adult
23. What This Comedian Said Will Shock You
By: Bill Maher
4.27
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The hilarious and controversial host of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher has written his funniest, m… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
24. Cleanness
By: Garth Greenwell
3.80
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
In the highly anticipated follow-up to his beloved debut, What Belongs to You, Garth Greenwell deep… read more
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- adult
"Anything I am you have use for is yours."-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness
"Even annoyance was part of the pleasure we took in each other, we were that early in love."-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness
"Finally he laid his head on my chest. Don’t be like that, he said again as I put my arms around him. Do you see? You don’t have to be like that, he said. You can be like this."-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness
"I wanted to root into him, even as the wind said all rootedness was a sham, there were only passing arrangements, makeshift shelters and poor harbors, I love you, I thought suddenly in that rush that…"-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness
25. American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress
By: Wesley Lowery
4.18
Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition
“American Whitelash is indispensable. Really. It is.” — Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Ant… read more
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- american history
- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
26. Dream Town: Shaker Heights and the Quest for Racial Equity
By: Laura Meckler
4.11
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Can a group of well-intentioned people fulfill the promise of racial integration in America? In th… read more
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- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- adult
27. Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino”
By: Héctor Tobar
4.29
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A new book by the Pulitzer Prize – winning writer about the twenty-first-century Latino experience … read more
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- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
28. And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories & Other Revenges
By: Amber Sparks
3.44
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Exciting fans of such writers as Kelly Link, Karen Russell, and Carmen Maria Machado with prose tha… read more
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- adult
"And what is history, anyway, but the chance to dig up our skeletons and give them new stories ?"-Amber Sparks, And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories & Other Revenges
"That human love is mostly failure. That failure may be very sad, but it is yours, and you hold on to it if you can."-Amber Sparks, And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories & Other Revenges
"The donkey skin - burn it. But not until you find true love. You'll lose your chance at love forever if you shed you skin too soon."-Amber Sparks, And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories & Other Revenges
"Lavoisier's wife's, let us repeat, translated a s***load of science books into another language just so her husband, audience of one, could understand what they said."-Amber Sparks, And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories & Other Revenges
29. 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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- american history
- race
- history
- politics
- law
- nonfiction
30. You Are Not American: Citizenship Stripping from Dred Scott to the Dreamers
By: Amanda Frost
4.26
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
Citizenship is invaluable, yet our status as citizens is always at risk--even for those born on US … read more
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- american history
- race
- history
- historical
- politics
- law
- nonfiction
- social justice
- adult
31. Let the People Pick the President: The Case for Abolishing the Electoral College
By: Jesse Wegman
4.27
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
"The Electoral College is a disaster for a democracy." —Donald TrumpThe framers of the Constitution… read more
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- american history
- history
- politics
- law
- nonfiction
- social justice
