How the Suburbs Were Segregated: Developers and the Business of Exclusionary Housing, 1890-1960
By: Paige Glotzer
4.14
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The story of the rise of the segregated suburb often begins during the New Deal and the Second Worl…
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1. The Bluest Eye
By: Toni Morrison
4.12
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison's first novel, a book heralded for its richness of language and bol… read more
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"Lonely was much better than alone."-Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
"Maybe that was love. Choking sounds and silence."-Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
"She missed -- without knowing what she missed-- paints and crayons"-Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
"Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do."-Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
2. The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World
By: Howard Zinn , Vijay Prashad
4.10
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A landmark study that offers an alternative history of the Cold War from the point of view of the w… read more
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- politics
- race
- history
- nonfiction
"[W]ho would have thought that by the mid-twentieth century the darker nations would gather in Cuba, once the playground of the plutocracy, to celebrate their will to struggle and their will to win? W…"-Howard Zinn, The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World
"Among the darker nations, Paris is famous for two betrayals. The first came in 1801, when Napoleon Bonaparte sent General Victor Leclerc to crush the Haitian Revolution, itself inspired by the French…"-Howard Zinn, The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World
3. The Buddha in the Attic
By: Julie Otsuka
3.70
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Julie Otsuka’s long-awaited follow-up to When the Emperor Was Divine is a tour de force of economy … read more
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"„Niekas nelaimi karo.Visi pralaimi"-Julie Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic
"We lost weight and grew thin. We stopped bleeding. We stopped dreaming. We stopped wanting."-Julie Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic
"Or was their guilt written plainly, and for all the world to see, across their face? Was it their face, in fact, for which they were guilty?"-Julie Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic
"Soon we could barely recognize them. They were taller than we were, and heavier. They were loud beyond belief. I feel like a duck that's hatched goose's eggs."-Julie Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic
4. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
By: Matthew Desmond
3.37
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From Harvard sociologist and MacArthur "Genius" Matthew Desmond, a landmark work of scholarship and… read more
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- politics
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- nonfiction
5. The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit
By: Thomas J. Sugrue
3.88
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
Once America's "arsenal of democracy, " Detroit has become the symbol of the American urban crisis.… read more
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- race
- history
- politics
- urban planning
- nonfiction
6. Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race
By: Matthew Frye Jacobson
4.07
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
America's racial odyssey is the subject of this remarkable work of historical imagination. Matthew … read more
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- american history
- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
7. Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
By: William Cronon
3.00
Format: 50 pages, Paperback
In this groundbreaking work, William Cronon gives us an environmental perspective on the history of… read more
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- american history
- urban planning
- history
- nonfiction
8. 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
- nonfiction
9. The Autobiography of Malcolm X
By: Alex Haley , Malcolm X
4.36
Format: 466 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Alternate cover for ISBN 9780345350688 Through a life of passion and struggle, Malcolm X became … read more
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"We all like chicken"-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
"كانت حياتي سلسة من التحولات"-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
"لا يدرك الناس أن كتابا واحدا قد يغير حياة انسان"-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
"I Used the Word 'Negro' and I was Firmly Corrected"-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
10. Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America
By: Beryl Satter
0.00
Format: 287 pages,
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11. White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism
By: Kevin M. Kruse
4.08
Format: None pages, Hardcover
During the civil rights era, Atlanta thought of itself as "The City Too Busy to Hate," a rare place… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
12. Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States
By: Kenneth T. Jackson
4.10
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
This first full-scale history of the development of the American suburb examines how -the good life… read more
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- american history
- urban planning
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- nonfiction
13. After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War
By: None
3.31
Format: 180 pages, Hardcover
On April 8, 1865, after four years of civil war, General Robert E. Lee wrote to General Ulysses S. … read more
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14. 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
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15. Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
By: James Forman Jr.
3.00
Format: None pages,
In recent years, America's criminal justice system has become the subject of an increasingly urgent… read more
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16. 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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17. Regarding the Pain of Others
By: Susan Sontag
3.28
Format: 5 pages, Paperback
Twenty-five years after her classic On Photography, Susan Sontag returns to the subject of visual r… read more
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18. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
By: Benedict Anderson
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
What makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? While many stud… read more
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19. Sula
By: Toni Morrison
3.97
Format: None pages,
This rich and moving novel traces the lives of two black heroines from their close-knit childhood i… read more
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20. The Price of Salt, or Carol
By: Patricia Highsmith , Claire Morgan
4.02
Format: 292 pages, Paperback
Patricia Highsmith's story of sexual obsession may be one of the most important, but still largely … read more
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"She hated cleaning up after making something."-Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt, or Carol
"Love was supposed to be a kind of blissful insanity."-Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt, or Carol
"It always gets late with you. - Is that a compliment?"-Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt, or Carol
"What else mattered except being with Carol, anywhere, anyhow?"-Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt, or Carol
21. 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
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22. Inside the Jihad: My Life with Al Qaeda
By: Gordon Corera , Omar Nasiri
3.78
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Between 1994 and 2000, Omar Nasiri worked as a secret agent for Europe's top foreign intelligence s… read more
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23. The Fall
By: Albert Camus , Justin O'Brien
4.01
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
Elegantly styled, Camus' profoundly disturbing novel of a Parisian lawyer's confessions is a searin… read more
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24. Severance
By: Ling Ma
3.91
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
Candace Chen, a millennial drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower, is devoted to routin… read more
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"New York has a way of forgetting you."-Ling Ma, Severance
"She says, Only in America do you have the luxury of being depressed."-Ling Ma, Severance
"Just because you're adequately good at something doesn't mean that's what you should do."-Ling Ma, Severance
"When other people are happy, I don't have to worry about them. There is room for my happiness."-Ling Ma, Severance
25. All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
By: Tiya Miles
3.95
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
In a display case in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture sits… read more
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"Though necessary to the work of uncovering the past, archives are nevertheless limited and misleading storehouses of information. While at times imposing and formal enough as to seem all-encompassing…"-Tiya Miles, All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
26. This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race
By: Nicole Perlroth
4.34
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
From The New York Times cybersecurity reporter Nicole Perlroth, the untold story of the cyberweapon… read more
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"Finding a zero day is a little like entering God mode in a video game. Once hackers have figured out the commands or written the code to exploit it, they can scamper through the world's computer netw…"-Nicole Perlroth, This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race
27. Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership (Justice, Power, and Politics)
By: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
4.27
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
By the late 1960s and early 1970s, reeling from a wave of urban uprisings, politicians finally work… read more
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28. A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida (Historical Studies of Urban America)
By: Nathan Daniel Beau Connolly
4.29
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
Many people characterize urban renewal projects and the power of eminent domain as two of the most … read more
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29. Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor
By: Kim Kelly
4.20
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A 2022 New Yorker Best Book of the Year A 2022 Esquire Best Nonfiction Book of the Year A 2022 Buzz… read more
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30. The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics
By: Mae M. Ngai
4.08
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
In roughly five decades, between 1848 and 1899, more gold was removed from the earth than had been … read more
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31. How the Suburbs Were Segregated: Developers and the Business of Exclusionary Housing, 1890-1960
By: Paige Glotzer
4.14
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The story of the rise of the segregated suburb often begins during the New Deal and the Second Worl… read more
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