Alien Capital: Asian Racialization and the Logic of Settler Colonial Capitalism
By: Iyko Day
4.07
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In Alien Capital Iyko Day retheorizes the history and logic of settler colonialism by examining its…
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1. America Is in the Heart: A Personal History
By: Carlos Bulosan , Carey McWilliams
3.91
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
First published in 1946, this autobiography of the well known Filipino poet describes his boyhood i… read more
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- nonfiction
- race
- history
2. The Making of Asian America: A History
By: Erika Lee , Erika Lee
4.33
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
The definitive history of Asian Americans by one of the nation’s preeminent scholars on the subject… read more
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- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
3. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
By: Junot Díaz
3.89
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghet… read more
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"You can't regret the life you didn't lead."-Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
"Like they say: los que menos corren, vuelan."-Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
"It's never the changes we want that change everything."-Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
"I might have no one in the world, but at least I’m free."-Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
4. The Sympathizer
By: Viet Thanh Nguyen
3.83
Format: 28 pages, Hardcover
The winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, as well as five other awards, The Sympathizeris … read more
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5. The Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism
By: Jodi A. Byrd
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
In 1761 and again in 1768, European scientists raced around the world to observe the transit of Ven… read more
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- race
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- theory
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- academic
- nonfiction
6. 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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- race
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- nonfiction
7. Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
By: Gloria E. Anzaldúa , Sonia Saldívar-Hull
4.33
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
Anzaldua, a Chicana native of Texas, explores in prose and poetry the murky, precarious existence o… read more
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- theory
- race
- nonfiction
"I preferred the world of imagination to the death of sleep"-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
"This land was Mexican once, was Indian always and is. And will be again."-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
"Who is to say that robbing a people of its language is less violent than war?"-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
"Nothing happens in the "real" world unless it first happens in the images in our heads"-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
8. Interpreter of Maladies
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
4.17
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here Navigating between the Indian tra… read more
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"Sexy means loving someone you do not know."-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
"A woman who had fallen out of love with her life"-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
"You got cats at home?" "No cats. Only a husband."-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
"In those six weeks I regarded her arrival as I would the arrival of a coming month, or season - something inevitable, but meaningless at the same time."-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
9. Mary Barton
By: Elizabeth Gaskell , Shirley Foster
3.91
Format: 241 pages, Paperback
This is Elizabeth Gaskell's first novel, a widely acclaimed work based on the actual murder, in 183… read more
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10. Mules and Men
By: Zora Neale Hurston
4.12
Format: 206 pages,
Mules and Menis a treasury of black America's folklore as collected by a famous storyteller and ant… read more
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11. Bitterblue (Graceling Realm, #3)
By: Kristin Cashore
4.71
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Eight years have passed since the young Princess Bitterblue, and her country, were saved from the v… read more
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12. Fire (Graceling Realm, #2)
By: Kristin Cashore
4.40
Format: 205 pages,
It is not a peaceful time in the Dells. The young King Nash clings to his throne while rebel lords … read more
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13. Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America
By: Saidiya Hartman
2.56
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
In this provocative and original exploration of racial subjugation during slavery and its aftermath… read more
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14. 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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15. Passing
By: Nella Larsen
3.93
Format: 141 pages, Paperback
Nella Larsen's fascinating exploration of race and identity--the inspiration for the upcoming Netfl… read more
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- race
"Well, what of it? If sex isn’t a joke, what is it"-Nella Larsen, Passing
"Everything can't be explained by some general biological phrase."-Nella Larsen, Passing
"I think that being a mother is the cruellest thing in the world."-Nella Larsen, Passing
"It hurt. It hurt like hell. But it didn’t matter, if no one knew."-Nella Larsen, Passing
16. Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #3)
By: Tamsyn Muir
4.35
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Her city is under siege. The zombies are coming back. And all Nona wants is a birthday party.… read more
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"Love and freedom don't coexist."-Tamsyn Muir, Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #3)
"This is all there is to love? Simply by being in your life, I have added indelibly to its weight?"-Tamsyn Muir, Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #3)
"Have you been eating sand again?' [Cam asked] 'I haven't eaten sand in months', Nona protested, then more truthfully: 'Weeks,' and more truthfully than that: 'one week."-Tamsyn Muir, Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #3)
17. Pet (Pet, #1)
By: Akwaeke Emezi
4.16
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A thought-provoking and haunting novel about a creature that escapes from an artist's canvas, whose… read more
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"Monsters don't look like anything, That's the whole point. That's the whole problem."-Akwaeke Emezi, Pet (Pet, #1)
"It's hard to build a new world without making people angry. You try your best, you move with compassion, you think about the big structures. No revolution is perfect."-Akwaeke Emezi, Pet (Pet, #1)
" What does a monster look like? Jam asked. Her mother focused on her, cupping her cheek in a chalky hand. "Monsters don't look like anything, doux-doux. That's the whole point. That's the whole probl…"-Akwaeke Emezi, Pet (Pet, #1)
"Bitter knew her name was heavy but she hadn't minded because it was honest. That was something she'd taught Jam - that a lot of things were manageable as long as they were honest. You could see thing…"-Akwaeke Emezi, Pet (Pet, #1)
18. A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)
By: Arkady Martine
4.32
Format: 496 pages, Kindle Edition
An alien armada lurks on the edges of Teixcalaanli space. No one can communicate with it, no one ca… read more
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"I thought you hated them,"-Arkady Martine, A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)
"On the flagship Weight of the Wheel : “You’d have to ask medical,"-Arkady Martine, A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)
"exile happened in the heart and the mind long before it happened to the body"-Arkady Martine, A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)
"Mahit couldn't decide if she was horrified, proud, or simply, deliciously, hideously intrigued."-Arkady Martine, A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)
19. Stay True
By: Hua Hsu
4.03
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
From the New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu, a gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for se… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
"My parents are great, I said. Unbelievably non-stereotypical."-Hua Hsu, Stay True
"The first generation thinks about survival; the ones that follow tell the stories."-Hua Hsu, Stay True
"You were describing people we had not yet met, maybe people we ourselves would become."-Hua Hsu, Stay True
"It was a sign of personal growth, I thought to myself, that I could be friends with someone who liked Pearl Jam this much."-Hua Hsu, Stay True
20. Rehearsals for Living
By: Robyn Maynard
4.48
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A revolutionary collaboration about the world we're living in now, between two of our most importan… read more
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- history
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- nonfiction
- social justice
21. Tastes Like War
By: Grace M. Cho
3.92
Format: 289 pages, Paperback
Grace M. Cho grew up as the daughter of a white American merchant marine and the Korean bar hostess… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
22. Leave Society
By: Tao Lin
3.97
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
A bold portrait of a writer working to balance all his lives—as an artist, a son, and a loner. A VI… read more
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- 21st century
"Patched-together or hard-won coverings of positivity flew away with ridiculous suddenness, like hats, or else gradually and unceremoniously, over days, like paint."-Tao Lin, Leave Society
23. 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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- race
- theory
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
"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
24. Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands
By: Kelly Lytle Hernández
4.19
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Bad Mexicans tells the dramatic story of the magonistas, the migrant rebels who sparked the 1910 Me… read more
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- politics
- race
- history
- nonfiction
25. A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, a History, a Memorial
By: Viet Thanh Nguyen
4.35
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
With insight, humor, formal invention, and lyricism, in A Man of Two Faces Viet Thanh Nguyen rewind… read more
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- nonfiction
- race
- history
26. The Intimacies of Four Continents
By: Lisa Lowe
4.34
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
In this uniquely interdisciplinary work, Lisa Lowe examines the relationships between Europe, Afric… read more
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- race
- history
- theory
- politics
- academic
- nonfiction
27. Which Side Are You On
By: Ryan Lee Wong
3.60
Format: 175 pages, Hardcover
How can we live with integrity and pleasure in this world of police brutality and racism? An Asian … read more
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- politics
- race
- social justice
28. Speak, Okinawa: A Memoir
By: Elizabeth Miki Brina
4.21
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A “hauntingly beautiful memoir about family and identity” (NPR) and a young woman's journey to unde… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"My mother and I speak different languages. Her native language is Japanese. My native language is English. This might seem like a mundane fact about us. It's not. It dictates everything. Because even…"-Elizabeth Miki Brina, Speak, Okinawa: A Memoir
"My mother and I speak different languages. Her native language is Japanese. My native language is English. This might seem like a mundane fact about us. It’s not. It dictates everything. Because even…"-Elizabeth Miki Brina, Speak, Okinawa: A Memoir
29. Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States
By: Audra Simpson
4.36
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
Mohawk Interruptus is a bold challenge to dominant thinking in the fields of Native studies and ant… read more
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- race
- history
- theory
- politics
- academic
- nonfiction
30. Alien Capital: Asian Racialization and the Logic of Settler Colonial Capitalism
By: Iyko Day
4.07
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In Alien Capital Iyko Day retheorizes the history and logic of settler colonialism by examining its… read more
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- history
- theory
- politics
- academic
- nonfiction
- social justice
- 21st century
- labor
- economics
31. Reconsidering Reparations (Philosophy of Race)
By: Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
4.53
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
Reparations for slavery have become a reinvigorated topic for public debate over the last decade. M… read more
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- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
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