What Blood Won't Tell: A History of Race on Trial in America
By: Ariela J. Gross
4.28
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Is race something we know when we see it? In 1857, Alexina Morrison, a slave in Louisiana, ran away…
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1. To 'joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors After the Civil War
By: Tera W. Hunter
4.18
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Tera Hunter follows African-American working women from their newfound optimism and hope at the end… read more
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2. The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America
By: Khalil Gibran Muhammad
4.21
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
Lynch mobs, chain gangs, and popular views of black southern criminals that defined the Jim Crow So… read more
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3. The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness
By: Paul Gilroy
4.03
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
Afrocentrism. Eurocentrism. Caribbean Studies. British Studies. To the forces of cultural national… read more
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4. Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America
By: Peniel E. Joseph
3.76
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A gripping narrative that brings to life a legendary moment in American history: the birth, life, a… read more
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5. Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia
By: Kathleen M. Brown
3.50
Format: 218 pages, Paperback
Kathleen Brown examines the origins of racism and slavery in British North America from the perspec… read more
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6. Dread Nation
By: Justina Ireland
3.78
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Jane McKeene was born two days before the dead began to walk the battlefields of Gettysburg and Cha… read more
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7. Witches, Wife Beaters, and Whores
By: Elaine Forman Crane
3.50
Format: 142 pages, Hardcover
The early American legal system permeated the lives of colonists and reflected their sense of what … read more
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8. Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
By: Silvia Federici
4.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
Literary Nonfiction. CALIBAN AND THE WITCH is a history of the body in the transition to capitalism… read more
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9. Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America
By: Daniel K. Richter
3.97
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
In the beginning, North America was Indian country. But only in the beginning. After the opening ac… read more
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10. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
By: Michelle Alexander
3.77
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"As the United States celebrates the nation's 'triumph over race' with the election of Barack Obama… read more
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11. Playing Indian
By: Philip J. Deloria
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Boston Tea Party, the Order of Red Men, Camp Fire Girls, Boy Scouts, Grateful Dead concerts are… read more
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12. Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household
By: Thavolia Glymph
3.95
Format: None pages, Paperback
This book views the plantation household as a site of production where competing visions of gender … read more
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13. Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
By: Ibram X. Kendi
4.54
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
In this deeply researched and fast-moving narrative, Kendi chronicles the entire story of anti-Blac… read more
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14. Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South
By: None
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
Recent scholarship on slavery has explored the lives of enslaved people beyond the watchful eye of … read more
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15. The Twisted Ones
By: T. Kingfisher
3.64
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
When a young woman clears out her deceased grandmother’s home in rural North Carolina, she finds lo… read more
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"Perhaps Welsh fairies stole children and confiscated their vowels."-T. Kingfisher, The Twisted Ones
"It's a long drive. It's pretty, actually, if you go through West Virginia, but of course then you're in West Virginia."-T. Kingfisher, The Twisted Ones
16. Little Eve
By: Catriona Ward
3.75
Format: 271 pages, Hardcover
A heart-pounding tale of faith and family, with a devastating twist“A great day is upon us. He is c… read more
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"It is a kind of privilege, to witness the darkness."-Catriona Ward, Little Eve
"I don't know which is worse - suffering or the memory of it. Memory, perhaps, because it does not end."-Catriona Ward, Little Eve
17. Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory
By: Claudio Saunt
4.23
Format: 396 pages, Hardcover
In May 1830, the United States formally launched a policy to expel Native Americans from the East t… read more
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18. Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World (Early American Studies)
By: Jessica Marie Johnson
4.27
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
The story of freedom pivots on the choices black women made to retain control over their bodies and… read more
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19. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
By: Rashid Khalidi
4.50
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more
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20. The United States of Cryptids: A Tour of American Myths and Monsters
By: J.W. Ocker
3.89
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Meet the monsters in our midst, from bigfoot to Mothman and beyond! Welcome to the United States… read more
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21. Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power
By: Jefferson R. Cowie
4.50
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
A prize-winning historian chronicles a sinister idea of freedom: white Americans’ freedom to oppres… read more
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"His body "was the corporeal archive of his pugnacious soul. The bullet [from a duel] caused him 'violent pain' on a regular basis, with bouts of blood gurgling into his mouth as well as probable pois…"-Jefferson R. Cowie, Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power
22. On Juneteenth
By: Annette Gordon-Reed
4.18
Format: 148 pages, Hardcover
Weaving together American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annet… read more
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"History is always being revised, as new information, comes to light and when different people see known documents and have their own responses to them, shaped by their individual experiences."-Annette Gordon-Reed, On Juneteenth
"Origin stories matter, for individuals, groups of people, and for nations. They inform our sense of self; telling us what kind of people we believe we are, what kind of nation we believe in. They usu…"-Annette Gordon-Reed, On Juneteenth
"Why would White Texans be more obstreperous than other White southerners? It has been suggested that this was because, unlike other Southern states, Texas had not been defeated militarily. They had w…"-Annette Gordon-Reed, On Juneteenth
23. Someone You Can Build a Nest In
By: John Wiswell
4.07
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
Discover this creepy, charming monster-slaying fantasy romance—from the perspective of the monster—… read more
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"No young woman of means has gone through her entire life without at least once surveying her opportunities and wishing for a dragon instead."-John Wiswell, Someone You Can Build a Nest In
"Homily professed her love by digging a second crossbow bolt of Shersheshin's body. It was so much clearer a declaration of affection than any of those speeches spun by poets or playwrights. And stuff…"-John Wiswell, Someone You Can Build a Nest In
24. 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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25. The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution
By: Julius S. Scott
4.30
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A remarkable intellectual history of the slave revolts that made the modern revolutionary era Th… read more
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26. Terror in the Heart of Freedom: Citizenship, Sexual Violence, and the Meaning of Race in the Postemancipation South (Gender & American Culture)
By: Hannah Rosen
4.12
Format: 407 pages, Paperback
The meaning of race in the antebellum southern United States was anchored in the racial exclusivity… read more
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27. What Blood Won't Tell: A History of Race on Trial in America
By: Ariela J. Gross
4.28
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Is race something we know when we see it? In 1857, Alexina Morrison, a slave in Louisiana, ran away… read more
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28. Troubled Refuge: Struggling for Freedom in the Civil War
By: Chandra Manning
4.12
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the author of What This Cruel War Was Over, a vivid portrait of the Union army’s escaped-slave… read more
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29. The Work of Reconstruction: From Slave to Wage Laborer in South Carolina 1860–1870
By: Julie Saville
3.68
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In their efforts to achieve freedom, ex-slaves mounted a dual struggle to elude the personal domina… read more
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30. Development Arrested: Race, Power and the Blues in the Mississippi Delta
By: Clyde Woods
4.67
Format: 342 pages, Hardcover
Development Arrested is a major reinterpretation of the two-centuries-old conflict between the Afri… read more
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31. Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age
By: Donna Zuckerberg
3.91
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A disturbing exposé of how today's alt-right men's groups use ancient sources to promote a new bran… read more
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"The self-evident danger of this view is that it encourages the reader to think of female consent as a foregone conclusion once the pickup artist becomes sufficiently skilled."-Donna Zuckerberg, Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age
"The Red Pill solution to the false allegation problem is to create a society in which female consent is virtually meaningless, so that when a woman asserts that she has not consented, few will care."-Donna Zuckerberg, Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age
"To the Red Pill Stoic, the feelings of anger and frustration experienced by these disempowered communities are actually moral failings, proof of their lack of internal fortitude, moral compass, and r…"-Donna Zuckerberg, Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age
"As colleges move to replace some of the dead white men of the literary canon with writers who are not dead, not white, and not men, the living white men of the Red Pill have appeared as the self-appo…"-Donna Zuckerberg, Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age
