Shapeshifters: Black Girls and the Choreography of Citizenship
By: Aimee Meredith Cox
4.41
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
In Shapeshifters Aimee Meredith Cox explores how young Black women in a Detroit homeless shelter co…
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1. The Racial Contract
By: Charles W. Mills
4.38
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
The Racial Contract puts classic Western social contract theory to extraordinary radical use. Wi… read more
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- race
- theory
- academic
- nonfiction
- sociology
2. Song of Solomon
By: Toni Morrison
4.14
Format: 338 pages, Paperback
Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain… read more
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- school
"Her passions were narrow but deep."-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
"He can't value you more than you value yourself."-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
"If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it."-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
"You got a life? Live it! Live the motherfuckin' life!"-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
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
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- race
- nonfiction
4. Palo Alto
By: James Franco
3.24
Format: 0 pages,
A fiercely vivid collection of stories about troubled California teenagers and misfits--violent and… read more
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5. Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman
By: Marjorie Shostak , None
4.33
Format: 308 pages, Paperback
This classic paperback is available once again--and exclusively--from Harvard University Press. Thi… read more
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- nonfiction
- ethnography
- anthropology
6. The Second Sex
By: Simone de Beauvoir , Deirdre Bair , H.M. Parshley
3.60
Format: 253 pages, Paperback
Newly translated and unabridged in English for the first time, Simone de Beauvoir's masterwork is a… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
7. Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City
By: Tanya Talaga
4.52
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
In 1966, twelve-year-old Chanie Wenjack froze to death on the railway tracks after running away fro… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
"Rebuilding an inequitable and harmful relationship is not easy. But for the good of all our children – Indigenous and not – the hard work must begin."-Tanya Talaga, Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City
8. The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
By: Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
4.58
Format: 226 pages, Hardcover
Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world--and a weed that grows in human-disturbed fore… read more
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9. Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
By: Roxane Gay
5.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Bad Feminist: a searingly honest memoir of food, weight, self-image,… read more
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10. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
By: Judith Butler
3.81
Format: None pages,
Since its publication in 1990, Gender Troublehas become one of the key works of contemporary femini… read more
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11. The Souls of Black Folk
By: W.E.B. Du Bois , None , None
3.62
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) is the greatest of African American intellectuals--a s… read more
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12. The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America
By: Thomas King
4.65
Format: None pages, ebook
WINNER of the 2014 RBC Taylor Prize The Inconvenient Indianis at once a "history" and the complete … read more
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13. Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight
By: M.E. Thomas
3.92
Format: 314 pages, Hardcover
The first memoir of its kind, Confessions of a Sociopathis an engrossing, highly captivating narrat… read more
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14. Bliss Montage
By: Ling Ma
3.91
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
A new creation by the author of Severance, the stories in Bliss Montage crash through our carefully… read more
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"To live is to exist within time. To remember is to negate time."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
"It doesn't take much to come into your own; all it takes is someone's gaze."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
"Maybe you don't know that you're wounded until you receive the salve. The salve that makes everything come back."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
"It was a time when the future could have been anything, been anywhere. It was so open that it could actually crush her."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
15. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
By: Saidiya Hartman
4.46
Format: 441 pages, Paperback
A breathtaking exploration of the lives of young black women in the early twentieth century. In … read more
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- feminism
- race
- nonfiction
"No, Kropotkin never described black women's mutual aid societies or the chorus in Mutual Aid, although he imagined animal society in its rich varieties & the forms of cooperation & mutuality found am…"-Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
16. 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
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17. The Death of Vivek Oji
By: Akwaeke Emezi
4.13
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
Raised by a distant father and an understanding but overprotective mother, Vivek suffers disorienti… read more
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"Love and guilt sometimes taste the same, you know"-Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji
"They burned down the market on the day Vivek Oji died."-Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji
"Somewhere, you see, in the river of time, I am already alive."-Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji
"He smelled like grass and wind and clothes that had been dried in the sun."-Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji
18. 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
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- theory
- race
- 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)
19. Luster
By: Raven Leilani
3.52
Format: 227 pages, Hardcover
Edie is just trying to survive. She’s messing up in her dead-end admin job in her all-white office,… read more
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- race
"Based on his liberal use of the semicolon, I just assumed this date would go well."-Raven Leilani, Luster
"I think of how keenly I've been wrong. I think of all the gods I have made out of feeble men."-Raven Leilani, Luster
"The first time we have sex, we are both fully clothed, at our desks during working hours, bathed in blue computer light."-Raven Leilani, Luster
"I am inclined to pray, but on principle, I don't. God is not for women. He is for the fruit. He makes you want and he makes you wicked, and while you sleep, he plants a seed in your womb that will be…"-Raven Leilani, Luster
20. In the Time of the Butterflies
By: Julia Alvarez
4.15
Format: 337 pages, Paperback
Librarian's Note: an alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here. Set during the waning days… read more
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- school
21. Tokyo Ueno Station
By: Yū Miri
3.47
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Born in Fukushima in 1933, the same year as the Emperor, Kazu’s life is tied by a series of coincid… read more
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"There’s that sound again."-Yū Miri, Tokyo Ueno Station
"To speak is to stumble, to hesitate, to detour and hit dead ends. To listen is straightforward. You can always just listen."-Yū Miri, Tokyo Ueno Station
"I was always tired. There was never a time I was not tired. Not when life had its claws in me, and not when I escaped from it. I did not live with intent, I only lived. But that’s all over now."-Yū Miri, Tokyo Ueno Station
"I used to think life was like a book: you turn the first page, and there’s the next, and as you go on turning page after page, eventually you reach the last one. But life is nothing like a story in a…"-Yū Miri, Tokyo Ueno Station
22. 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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- race
- nonfiction
- sociology
23. The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs
By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
4.46
Format: 333 pages, Paperback
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha follows up their incredible book Care Work with The Future Is Disa… read more
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- nonfiction
"There is no one disabled future. But in mine, there is guaranteed income, housing, access, food, water, and education for all—or money has been abolished. I get paid to write from my bed. The births …"-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs
"Sometimes I feel impatient about how much ableism has forced us to emphasize accessibility to get people to pay even a modicum of attention to it. Collective access is revolutionary because disabled …"-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs
"A future where disability justice won looks like queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, folks of colour, and women, girls, and nonbinary humans are living in a world where disability is the norm, and where…"-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs
24. Queerly Beloved
By: Susie Dumond
3.50
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
A people-pleasing baker tries to find her place as a bridesmaid-for-hire . Will she finally find he… read more
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25. In Defense of Housing: The Politics of Crisis
By: Peter Marcuse
4.06
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In every major city in the world there is a housing crisis. How did this happen and what can we do … read more
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- nonfiction
- sociology
26. Never Been Kissed (Boy Meets Boy, #1)
By: Timothy Janovsky
3.67
Format: 279 pages, Paperback
Dear (never-been-quite-over-you) Crush, It's been a few years since we were together, but I can't … read more
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"With only the stars as my witness, I kiss him again, deeper, and to my surprise, it doesn’t feel like scratching an act off a list or completing a quest: it feels like coming home."-Timothy Janovsky, Never Been Kissed (Boy Meets Boy, #1)
"Because I know for certain the cardboard version of himself he’s been asked for years to display in the storefront of his family life has been incinerated for good. He’s flesh and blood right now, fl…"-Timothy Janovsky, Never Been Kissed (Boy Meets Boy, #1)
"It’s nice to hear him so self-aware. To know that the seismic waves of coming out are still rippling through him too. I thought I was alone in that. Everyone makes it seem like coming out is crossing…"-Timothy Janovsky, Never Been Kissed (Boy Meets Boy, #1)
27. Progressive Dystopia: Abolition, Antiblackness, and Schooling in San Francisco
By: Savannah Shange
4.55
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
San Francisco is the endgame of gentrification, where racialized displacement means that the Black … read more
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- race
- school
- ethnography
- nonfiction
- sociology
- anthropology
28. Animal Intimacies: Interspecies Relatedness in India's Central Himalayas (Animal Lives)
By: Radhika Govindrajan
4.26
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
What does it mean to live and die in relation to other animals? Animal Intimacies posits this cen… read more
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- school
- ethnography
- academic
- nonfiction
- anthropology
29. Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique
By: Sa'ed Atshan
4.44
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From Ramallah to New York, Tel Aviv to Porto Alegre, people around the world celebrate a formidable… read more
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- theory
- nonfiction
- sociology
- academic
30. Shapeshifters: Black Girls and the Choreography of Citizenship
By: Aimee Meredith Cox
4.41
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
In Shapeshifters Aimee Meredith Cox explores how young Black women in a Detroit homeless shelter co… read more
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- school
- ethnography
- theory
- feminism
- research
- academic
- nonfiction
- sociology
- anthropology
31. Carrier-Moisan: Gringo Love (Ethnographic)
By: Marie-Eve Carrier-Moisan
3.76
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
In the city of Natal in northeastern Brazil, several local women negotiate the terms of their intim… read more
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- nonfiction
