City of Segregation: 100 Years of Struggle for Housing in Los Angeles
By: Andrea Gibbons
4.24
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
A majestic one-hundred-year study of segregation in Los Angeles Racism has been central to the way …
Want to Read $ 9.99If you liked the nonfiction plot in City of Segregation: 100 Years of Struggle for Housing in Los Angeles by Andrea Gibbons , here is a list of 15 books like this:
1. The Wretched of the Earth
By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha
4.32
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Fr… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Jean-Paul Sartre's The Wretched of the Earth book and Andrea Gibbons's City of Segregation: 100 Years of Struggle for Housing in Los Angeles
- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- sociology
"إن لجوءك إلى لُغة تكنيكيَّة معناه أنّك قرَّرتَ أن تَعُدَّ الجماهير جاهلة"-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"إن المناضل ليدرك في كثير من الأحيان أن عمله لا أن يقاتل القوى العدوة فحسب، بل كذلك حبات اليأس المتبلورة في جسم المستعمَر."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
2. Kitchen
By: Banana Yoshimoto , Megan Backus
3.66
Format: 296 pages,
Banana Yoshimoto's novels have made her a sensation in Japan and all over the world, and Kitchen, t… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Banana Yoshimoto's Kitchen book and Andrea Gibbons's City of Segregation: 100 Years of Struggle for Housing in Los Angeles
3. 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
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Richard Rothstein's The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America book and Andrea Gibbons's City of Segregation: 100 Years of Struggle for Housing in Los Angeles
- politics
- race
- history
- nonfiction
4. The Girls
By: Emma Cline
3.48
Format: 93 pages, Hardcover
Northern California, during the violent end of the 1960s. At the start of summer, a lonely and thou… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Emma Cline's The Girls book and Andrea Gibbons's City of Segregation: 100 Years of Struggle for Housing in Los Angeles
5. 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,
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Kelly Lytle Hernández's City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965 book and Andrea Gibbons's City of Segregation: 100 Years of Struggle for Housing in Los Angeles
- politics
- race
- history
- nonfiction
6. Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
By: Eduardo Galeano , Cedric Belfrage
4.31
Format: 317 pages, Paperback
Since its U.S. debut almost fifty years ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for histori… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Eduardo Galeano's Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent book and Andrea Gibbons's City of Segregation: 100 Years of Struggle for Housing in Los Angeles
- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"Bolivians die with rotted lungs so that the world may consume cheap tin."-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
"Whatever Latin America sells—raw materials or manufactures—its chief export product is really cheap labor."-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
"Cuando el Estado se hace dueño de la principal riqueza de un país, corresponde preguntarse quién es el dueño del Estado."-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
"Cuanto más codiciado por el mercado mundial, mayor es la desgracia que un producto trae consigo al pueblo latinoamericano que, con su sacrificio, lo crea."-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
7. El Llano en llamas
By: Juan Rulfo
4.47
Format: None pages,
'The Burning Plain and Other Stories consists of fifteen pieces ranging from brief anecdotes, casua… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Juan Rulfo's El Llano en llamas book and Andrea Gibbons's City of Segregation: 100 Years of Struggle for Housing in Los Angeles
8. The Brothers Karamazov
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky
4.37
Format: 796 pages, Paperback
The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry… read more
Want to Read $ 3.79Similar categories in Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov book and Andrea Gibbons's City of Segregation: 100 Years of Struggle for Housing in Los Angeles
"How good life is when one does something good and just!"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"Forgive me... for my love - for ruining you with my love."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
9. Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California
By: Ruth Wilson Gilmore
3.75
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Ruth Wilson Gilmore's Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California book and Andrea Gibbons's City of Segregation: 100 Years of Struggle for Housing in Los Angeles
10. City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
By: Mike Davis
3.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
The hidden story of L.A. Mike Davis shows us where the city's money comes from and who controls it … read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Mike Davis's City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles book and Andrea Gibbons's City of Segregation: 100 Years of Struggle for Housing in Los Angeles
11. Erasure
By: Percival Everett
3.62
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
"Thelonious (Monk) Ellison has never allowed race to define his identity. But as both a writer and … read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Percival Everett's Erasure book and Andrea Gibbons's City of Segregation: 100 Years of Struggle for Housing in Los Angeles
12. Black Skin, White Masks
By: Frantz Fanon , None
2.56
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
A major influence on international civil rights, anticolonial, and black consciousness movement, Bl… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks book and Andrea Gibbons's City of Segregation: 100 Years of Struggle for Housing in Los Angeles
13. 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
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Cornel West's Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement book and Andrea Gibbons's City of Segregation: 100 Years of Struggle for Housing in Los Angeles
14. A Girl's Story
By: Annie Ernaux
3.89
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Another masterpiece of remembering from Annie Ernau… read more
Want to Read $ 8.99Similar categories in Annie Ernaux's A Girl's Story book and Andrea Gibbons's City of Segregation: 100 Years of Struggle for Housing in Los Angeles
- nonfiction
"Un été immense comme ils le sont tous jusqu'à vingt-cinq ans"-Annie Ernaux, A Girl's Story
"Everywhere on earth, with every day that dawns, a woman stands surrounded by men ready to throw stones at her."-Annie Ernaux, A Girl's Story
"At this very moment, out in the streets, the open spaces, on the metro, in lecture halls, and inside millions of heads, millions of novels are being written chapter by chapter, erased and revised, an…"-Annie Ernaux, A Girl's Story
"Aucun autre projet d’écriture ne me paraît, non pas lumineux, ni nouveau, encore moins heureux, mais vital, capable de me faire vivre au-dessus du temps. Juste « profiter de la vie » est une perspect…"-Annie Ernaux, A Girl's Story
15. 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
Want to Read $ 18.99Similar categories in Vincent Bevins's If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution book and Andrea Gibbons's City of Segregation: 100 Years of Struggle for Housing in Los Angeles
- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- sociology
"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
16. Monstrilio
By: Gerardo Sámano Córdova
4.14
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A literary horror debut about a boy who transforms into a monster, a monster who tries to be a man,… read more
Want to Read $ 8.99Similar categories in Gerardo Sámano Córdova's Monstrilio book and Andrea Gibbons's City of Segregation: 100 Years of Struggle for Housing in Los Angeles
"The world was scary. Worse, I was scary in it."-Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Monstrilio
"I wanted him to snap, to finally and absolutely lose it. To break. He was withering. To wither is not the same as to break; to break is to have pieces to put back together, and to wither is to dry up…"-Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Monstrilio
17. Wandering Stars
By: Tommy Orange
3.89
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Tommy Orange's Wandering Stars book and Andrea Gibbons's City of Segregation: 100 Years of Struggle for Housing in Los Angeles
"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars
18. Klara and the Sun
By: Kazuo Ishiguro
3.75
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
From her place in the store, Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, … read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun book and Andrea Gibbons's City of Segregation: 100 Years of Struggle for Housing in Los Angeles
19. Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
By: Malcolm Harris
3.90
Format: 720 pages, Hardcover
The first comprehensive, global history of Silicon Valley, from railroad capitalists to microchip a… read more
Want to Read $ 11.99Similar categories in Malcolm Harris's Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World book and Andrea Gibbons's City of Segregation: 100 Years of Struggle for Housing in Los Angeles
- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- sociology
20. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
By: Amanda Montell
3.54
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blen… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Amanda Montell's The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality book and Andrea Gibbons's City of Segregation: 100 Years of Struggle for Housing in Los Angeles
- nonfiction
- sociology
"While magical thinking is an age-old quirk, overthinking feels distinct to the modern era—a product of our innate superstitions clashing with information overload, mass loneliness, and a capitalistic…"-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
"Information transmission research suggests that folks with higher anxiety are quicker to engage with, and slower to disengage from, negative information; so "as a trait and state," anxiety itself per…"-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
21. Open Throat
By: Henry Hoke
4.01
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A lonely, lovable, queer mountain lion narrates this star-making fever dream of a novel. A quee… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Henry Hoke's Open Throat book and Andrea Gibbons's City of Segregation: 100 Years of Struggle for Housing in Los Angeles
22. Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
By: Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
4.00
Format: 157 pages, Paperback
A powerful indictment of the ways elites have co-opted radical critiques of racial capitalism to se… read more
Want to Read $ 11.30Similar categories in Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò's Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else) book and Andrea Gibbons's City of Segregation: 100 Years of Struggle for Housing in Los Angeles
- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- sociology
"A philosopher Briana Toole clarifies, by itself, one's social location only puts a person in a position to know; 'epistemic privilege' or advantage, on the other hand, is achieved only through delibe…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
"Elites do often make the environment worse and block solutions, but to blame the problem of elite capture entirely on their moral successes and failures is to confuse effect for cause. The true probl…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
"To opt for deference, rather than interdependence, may soothe short-term psychological wounds. But it does so at a steep cost: it may undermine the goals that motivated the project--and it entrenches…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
"As Carter G. Woodson realized, many of our decisions are shaped by decisions that someone with more power made before us. The whole social structure affects how institutional systems, like schools, f…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
23. Washington Bullets
By: Vijay Prashad
4.40
Format: 162 pages, Paperback
Washington Bullets is written in the best traditions of Marxist journalism and history-writing. It … read more
Want to Read $ 8.99Similar categories in Vijay Prashad's Washington Bullets book and Andrea Gibbons's City of Segregation: 100 Years of Struggle for Housing in Los Angeles
- politics
- race
- history
- nonfiction
24. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
4.40
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James—f… read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Hanif Abdurraqib's There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension book and Andrea Gibbons's City of Segregation: 100 Years of Struggle for Housing in Los Angeles
- race
- nonfiction
"Heartbreak itself is a primary color. Stagnant without a series of secondary colors to activate it. Longing is an activator."-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
"With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns."-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
"It is a strange miracle to be able to trace your own aging, your own mortality through someone who's living alongside you, someone who has survived eras at the same time as you have in some of the sa…"-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
25. Bad Cree
By: Jessica Johns
3.92
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
In this gripping debut tinged with supernatural horror, a young Cree woman's dreams lead her on a p… read more
Want to Read $ 4.99Similar categories in Jessica Johns's Bad Cree book and Andrea Gibbons's City of Segregation: 100 Years of Struggle for Housing in Los Angeles
"On cloudless days I swear the prairies are closer to the sun than anywhere else in the world. Not because of the heat. It's the size of the floating orb when nothing else is around it. Beating like a…"-Jessica Johns, Bad Cree
26. Death in Her Hands
By: Ottessa Moshfegh
3.24
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
A novel of haunting metaphysical suspense about an elderly widow whose life is upturned when she fi… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Ottessa Moshfegh's Death in Her Hands book and Andrea Gibbons's City of Segregation: 100 Years of Struggle for Housing in Los Angeles
"When you die, leave not a trace. Sweep up any evidence of your existence."-Ottessa Moshfegh, Death in Her Hands
"How did people go on with their lives as though death weren't all around them?"-Ottessa Moshfegh, Death in Her Hands
"Suspicion invites danger, doesn't it? Keep the imagination soft and happy, and only good things will come."-Ottessa Moshfegh, Death in Her Hands
"But people lied all the time. It was a part of what kept us whole as individuals. A little lying never hurt anybody. It kept the bounds of what one person was distinct from what another person was."-Ottessa Moshfegh, Death in Her Hands
27. Little Rot
By: Akwaeke Emezi
3.67
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling new novel from the bestselling, award-winning Akwaeke Emezi, about five friends trying … read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Akwaeke Emezi's Little Rot book and Andrea Gibbons's City of Segregation: 100 Years of Struggle for Housing in Los Angeles
28. We Too: Essays on Sex Work and Survival
By: Natalie West
4.50
Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition
This collection of narrative essays by sex workers presents a crystal-clear rejoinder: there's neve… read more
Want to Read $ 11.99Similar categories in Natalie West's We Too: Essays on Sex Work and Survival book and Andrea Gibbons's City of Segregation: 100 Years of Struggle for Housing in Los Angeles
- politics
- nonfiction
29. Fire This Time: The Watts Uprising and the 1960s
By: Gerald Horne
4.05
Format: 452 pages, Paperback
In August 1965 the predominantly black neighborhood of Watts in Los Angeles erupted in flames and v… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Gerald Horne's Fire This Time: The Watts Uprising and the 1960s book and Andrea Gibbons's City of Segregation: 100 Years of Struggle for Housing in Los Angeles
- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- sociology
30. City of Segregation: 100 Years of Struggle for Housing in Los Angeles
By: Andrea Gibbons
4.24
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
A majestic one-hundred-year study of segregation in Los Angeles Racism has been central to the way … read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Andrea Gibbons's City of Segregation: 100 Years of Struggle for Housing in Los Angeles book and Andrea Gibbons's City of Segregation: 100 Years of Struggle for Housing in Los Angeles
- race
- history
- class
- politics
- urban studies
- urban planning
- nonfiction
- urban
- cities
- sociology
31. Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis
By: Tracy Rosenthal
4.57
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Both a forceful polemic and a practical guide, Abolish Rent takes aim at one of the foremost engine… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Tracy Rosenthal's Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis book and Andrea Gibbons's City of Segregation: 100 Years of Struggle for Housing in Los Angeles
- politics
- nonfiction
