The Gospel of the Working Class: Labor's Southern Prophets in New Deal America (Working Class in American History)
By: Erik S. Gellman
4.25
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
In this exceptional dual biography and cultural history, Erik S. Gellman and Jarod Roll trace the i…
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1. 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
2. Orientalism
By: None , Edward W. Said
4.12
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the W… read more
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"Toda época y toda sociedad recrea sus «otros»."-None, Orientalism
"الإستشرق في جوهره مذهب سياسي فُرِضَ فَرْضاً على الشرق لأن الشرق كان أضعف من الغرب، وإنه تجاهل اختلاف الشرق الراجع إلى ضعفه."-None, Orientalism
"It seems a common human failing to prefer the schematic authority of a text to the disorientations of direct encounters with the human."-None, Orientalism
"إن مناقشات الشرق كانت تتسم بالغياب الكامل للشرق، لكن المرء يحس بأن المستشرق ومايقوله حاضران، ومع ذلك فيجب ألا ننسى أن الذي يمكِّن المستشرق من الحضور هو الغياب الفعلي للشرق."-None, Orientalism
3. Muslim Cool: Race, Religion, and Hip Hop in the United States
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3.84
Format: 135 pages, Paperback
Interviews with young, black Muslims in Chicago explore the complexity of those with identities for… read more
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4. Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression
By: Robin D.G. Kelley
5.00
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Between 1929 and 1941, the Communist Party organized and led a radical, militantly antiracist movem… read more
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5. Preaching Eugenics: Religious Leaders and the American Eugenics Movement
By: Christine Rosen
3.82
Format: None pages, Hardcover
With our success in mapping the human genome, the possibility of altering our genetic futures has g… read more
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6. Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity
By: None
3.62
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
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7. 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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8. From #blacklivesmatter To Black Liberation
By: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
4.80
Format: 360 pages,
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9. The Crucified God: The Cross of Christ as the Foundation and Criticism of Christian Theology
By: Jürgen Moltmann , John Bowden , None
3.81
Format: 329 pages, Paperback
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10. American Sutra: A Story of Faith and Freedom in the Second World War
By: Duncan Ryūken Williams
4.20
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
This groundbreaking history tells the little-known story of how, in one of our country’s darkest ho… read more
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11. Prosperity Gospel Latinos and Their American Dream (Where Religion Lives)
By: Tony Tian-Ren Lin
3.75
Format: 218 pages, Paperback
In this immersive ethnography, Tony Tian-Ren Lin explores the reasons that Latin American immigrant… read more
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12. The Gospel of the Working Class: Labor's Southern Prophets in New Deal America (Working Class in American History)
By: Erik S. Gellman
4.25
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
In this exceptional dual biography and cultural history, Erik S. Gellman and Jarod Roll trace the i… read more
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