Mormonism and White Supremacy: American Religion and The Problem of Racial Innocence
By: Joanna Brooks
4.29
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
To this day, churchgoing Mormons report that they hear from their fellow congregants in Sunday meet…
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1. Evolving in Monkey Town: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask the Questions
By: Rachel Held Evans
3.98
Format: None pages,
Eighty years after the Scopes Monkey Trial made a spectacle of Christian fundamentalism and brought… read more
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2. American Crucifixion: The Murder of Joseph Smith and the Fate of the Mormon Church
By: Alex Beam
3.46
Format: None pages, Hardcover
On June 27, 1844, a mob stormed the jail in the dusty frontier town of Carthage, Illinois. Clamorou… read more
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3. Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base
By: Annie Jacobsen
4.21
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Area 51 is the most famous military installation in the world--& it doesn't exist. Located 75 miles… read more
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4. American Zion: A New History of Mormonism
By: Benjamin E. Park
4.21
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
The first major history of Mormonism in a decade, drawing on newly available sources to reveal a pr… read more
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5. Keep Your Friends Close
By: Leah Konen
3.67
Format: 366 pages, Paperback
With friends like these, who needs enemies? Isolated and embroiled in a custody battle, Mary nee… read more
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6. Efrén Divided
By: Ernesto Cisneros
4.29
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the Pura Belpré Award! “We need books to break open our hearts, so that we might feel … read more
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7. Romney: A Reckoning
By: McKay Coppins
4.36
Format: 416 pages, ebook
A remarkably illuminating biography of the political maverick, filled with revelations and written … read more
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8. The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy
By: Philip S. Gorski
4.19
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A bracing examination of a force that imperils American democracy Most Americans were shocked by t… read more
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"White Christian nationalism is a “deep story"-Philip S. Gorski, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy
"For white Americans who affirm Christian nationalist ideology, “true Americans"-Philip S. Gorski, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy
"Even as it’s become riskier for mainstream politicians to use negative dog whistles like “thug"-Philip S. Gorski, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy
"It’s not that Christian nationalists have a different understanding of American history; it’s that they often have an incorrect understanding."-Philip S. Gorski, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy
9. Ejaculate Responsibly: A Whole New Way to Think About Abortion
By: Gabrielle Stanley Blair
4.51
Format: 137 pages, Paperback
In Ejaculate Responsibly, Gabrielle Blair offers a provocative reframing of the abortion issue in p… read more
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10. Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
By: Harsha Walia
4.59
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
In Border and Rule, one of North America's foremost thinkers and immigrant rights organizers delive… read more
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"Empires crumble, capitalism is not inevitable, gender is not biology, whiteness is not immutable, prisons are not inescapable, and borders are not natural law."-Harsha Walia, Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
"Right-wing nationalism is a bourgeois nationalism, and in our struggles against capitalist austerity we must emphasize that our enemy arrives in a limousine, and not on a boat."-Harsha Walia, Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
"Ensuring labor protections and citizenship status is the most ethical and effective counter to the far right's anti-migrant racism. Otherwise, attacks on migrant workers -- buttressed by ubiquitous a…"-Harsha Walia, Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
"Territorial diffusion relies on biometric surveillance and disciplinary practices within the state, as well as imperial outsourcing. Put another way, the border is elastic, and the magical line can e…"-Harsha Walia, Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
11. White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy
By: Thomas F. Schaller
3.82
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A searing portrait and damning takedown of America’s proudest citizens — who are also the least lik… read more
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12. We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
By: Mariame Kaba
4.67
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
"Organizing is both science and art. It is thinking through a vision, a strategy, and then figuring… read more
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"That does not mean, however, there should be no consequences. It means real consequences. Consequences that really matter. It means transforming the conditions that exist in the first place for this …"-Mariame Kaba, We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
13. American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church
By: Andrew L. Whitehead
4.20
Format: 215 pages, Hardcover
"Heartfelt, incisive, and worthy of thoughtful consideration."-- Library Journal Power. Fear. Viol… read more
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"Jesus calls us to be a light, not a wildfire."-Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church
"When it comes down to democracy or power, white Christian nationalism will choose power every time."-Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church
"Christian nationalism is not interested in a government for the people, by the people, but rather for a particular people, by a particular people."-Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church
"Our ability to love, serve, and act as salt and light in our communities is not dependent on various symbols of Christianity dominating the civic landscape."-Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church
14. Kingdom of Nauvoo: The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier
By: Benjamin E. Park
4.17
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Compared to the Puritans, Mormons have rarely gotten their due, often treated as fringe cultists or… read more
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15. Restoration: God's Call to the 21st Century World
By: Patrick Q. Mason
4.52
Format: 100 pages, Kindle Edition
The Restoration began in the spring of 1820, when Joseph Smith saw God the Father and Jesus Christ … read more
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16. Watchman on the Tower: Ezra Taft Benson and the Making of the Mormon Right
By: Matthew L Harris
4.34
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Ezra Taft Benson is perhaps the most controversial apostle-president in the history of the Church o… read more
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17. Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair
By: Danielle Sered
4.46
Format: 308 pages, Kindle Edition
The award-winning “radically original” (The Atlantic) restorative justice leader, whose work the Wa… read more
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"When we talk about people who commit violence as monsters (or “superpredators,"-Danielle Sered, Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair
"Survivors are often extraordinary at metabolizing just about anything into healing."-Danielle Sered, Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair
"If we act on the working definition of forgiveness as relinquishing a desire to see the other suffer, then forgiveness is deeply practical."-Danielle Sered, Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair
"I believe when we hurt someone, we incur an obligation. Period. Nothing changes that obligation— not our own history of pain, our unhealed trauma, nothing."-Danielle Sered, Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair
18. Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism
By: Laura E. Gómez
4.17
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An NPR Best Book of the Year, exploring the impact of Latinos' new collective racial identity on th… read more
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19. Beating Guns: Hope for People Who Are Weary of Violence
By: Shane Claiborne
4.31
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Parkland. Las Vegas. Dallas. Orlando. San Bernardino. Paris. Charleston. Sutherland Springs. Newtow… read more
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"Violence is often the instrument of those who are impatient, those who lack imagination, those who cannot wait on justice or freedom or redemption."-Shane Claiborne, Beating Guns: Hope for People Who Are Weary of Violence
"Idols are things we put our trust in. They are not God, but we treat then like they are. They take on a transcendent, magical character. We hold them with a sacred reverence that should only be given…"-Shane Claiborne, Beating Guns: Hope for People Who Are Weary of Violence
20. Mormonism and White Supremacy: American Religion and The Problem of Racial Innocence
By: Joanna Brooks
4.29
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
To this day, churchgoing Mormons report that they hear from their fellow congregants in Sunday meet… read more
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21. The Message
By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
4.58
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell’s cla… read more
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"My sense is that if I spend more time talking to you than I spend complaining about you, then something wonderful often happens and the enlightenment is mutual. So I don't really worry about the youn…"-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message
