Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power
By: Simon Balto
4.42
Format: 355 pages, Kindle Edition
In July 1919, an explosive race riot forever changed Chicago. For years, black southerners had been…
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By: Shea Ernshaw
3.87
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
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2. Ella Baker And The Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision (Gender & American Culture)
By: Barbara Ransby
4.33
Format: 470 pages, Paperback
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3. Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition
By: Cedric J. Robinson
4.04
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this ambitious work, first published in 1983, Cedric Robinson demonstrates that efforts to under… read more
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4. If Beale Street Could Talk
By: James Baldwin
3.38
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this honest and stunning novel, James Baldwin has given America a moving story of love in the fa… read more
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5. Space And Place: The Perspective of Experience
By: Yi-Fu Tuan , None
4.36
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
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6. The Fire Next Time
By: James Baldwin
3.54
Format: None pages, Paperback
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7. Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California
By: Ruth Wilson Gilmore
3.75
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
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8. There are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America
By: Alex Kotlowitz
4.00
Format: None pages,
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9. James Joyce
By: Richard Ellmann
4.00
Format: 64 pages,
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10. High Rise Stories: Voices from Chicago Public Housing
By: Peter Orner , Audrey Petty
3.53
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
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11. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
By: Michelle Alexander
3.77
Format: None pages, Hardcover
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12. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
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3.86
Format: 536 pages, Paperback
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13. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
By: Isabel Wilkerson
3.69
Format: 121 pages, Hardcover
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14. Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
By: bell hooks
3.46
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
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15. Long Live the Pumpkin Queen: Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas
By: Shea Ernshaw
3.85
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
Jack and Sally are "truly meant to be" ... or are they? Sally Skellington is the official, newl… read more
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16. Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
By: Jessica Bruder
4.03
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
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17. Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side
By: Eve L. Ewing
4.39
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
“Failing schools. Underprivileged schools. Just plain bad schools.” That’s how Eve L. Ewing ope… read more
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18. We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
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4.67
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19. Carceral Capitalism
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4.61
Format: 359 pages, Paperback
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20. Asian American Histories of the United States (ReVisioning History)
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3.99
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21. Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power
By: Simon Balto
4.42
Format: 355 pages, Kindle Edition
In July 1919, an explosive race riot forever changed Chicago. For years, black southerners had been… read more
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