Empire's Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad (American Crossroads) (Volume 52)
By: Manu Karuka
3.92
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Empire’s Tracks boldly reframes the history of the transcontinental railroad from the perspectives…
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1. Pedagogy of the Oppressed
By: Paulo Freire , Donaldo Macedo , Myra Bergman Ramos , None
4.30
Format: 183 pages, Paperback
First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in En… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Critical consciousness, they say, is anarchic."-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
"Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle."-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
"People educate each other through the mediation of the world."-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
"Word is not the privilege of some few persons but the right of everyone"-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
2. Das Kapital
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
3. The Queer Art of Failure
By: J. Jack Halberstam
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The Queer Art of Failureis about finding alternatives--to conventional understandings of success in… read more
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- nonfiction
4. 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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- 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
5. The Canal Builders: Making America's Empire at the Panama Canal
By: None
4.33
Format: 57 pages,
A groundbreaking history of the Panama Canal offers a revelatory workers-eye view of the momentous … read more
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6. 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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7. King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
By: Adam Hochschild
4.18
Format: 442 pages, Kindle Edition
In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for … read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- race
- history
"Most striking about the traditional societies of the Congo was their remarkable artwork: baskets, mats, pottery, copper and ironwork, and above all, woodcarving. It would be two decades before Europe…"-Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
"Today we are less likely to speak of humanitarianism, with its overtones of paternalistic generosity, and more likely to speak of human rights. The basic freedoms in life are not seen as gifts to be …"-Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
"Most striking about the traditional societies of the Congo was their remarkable artwork: baskets, mats, pottery, copper and ironwork, and, above all, woodcarving. It would be two decades before Europ…"-Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
8. Hijab Butch Blues
By: Lamya H.
4.48
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from storie… read more
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- nonfiction
"Sort of?"-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
"Queer indispensability?"-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
"I feel tired. Or reckless. Or maybe brave."-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
"I want to figure her out, this girl, and I want to know everything about her."-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
9. 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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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
10. 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
11. We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom
By: Bettina L. Love
4.54
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
Drawing on personal stories, research, and historical events, an esteemed educator offers a vision … read more
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- nonfiction
- race
- history
"When you understand how these theories function, when they become your North Star, you understand why progress is so hard and why survival is a constant struggle. Theories are more than just academic…"-Bettina L. Love, We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom
"The four major testing companies—Pearson Education, Educational Testing Service, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and McGraw Hill—make $2 billion a year in revenue while spending $20 million a year lobbyin…"-Bettina L. Love, We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom
12. 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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- american history
- race
- history
- historical
- nonfiction
13. The Night Parade
By: Jami Nakamura Lin
4.28
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In the groundbreaking tradition of In the Dream House and The Collected Schizophrenias, a gorgeousl… read more
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- nonfiction
14. Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation
By: Kris Manjapra
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A revelatory historical indictment of the long afterlife of slavery in the Atlantic world To fully … read more
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- american history
- race
- history
- historical
- nonfiction
15. Be the Refuge: Raising the Voices of Asian American Buddhists
By: Chenxing Han
4.33
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A must-read for modern sanghas—Asian American Buddhists in their own words, on their own terms. … read more
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- nonfiction
16. The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S. Culture
By: Amy Kaplan
3.85
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
The United States has always imagined that its identity as a nation is insulated from violent inter… read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
17. Hella Town: Oakland's History of Development and Disruption
By: Mitchell Schwarzer
3.84
Format: 424 pages, ebook
Hella Town reveals the profound impact of transportation improvements, systemic racism, and regiona… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
18. Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America
By: Margot Canaday
4.18
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
A masterful history of the LGBT workforce in America Workplaces have traditionally been viewed as … read more
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- history
- research
19. Empire's Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad (American Crossroads) (Volume 52)
By: Manu Karuka
3.92
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Empire’s Tracks boldly reframes the history of the transcontinental railroad from the perspectives… read more
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- american history
- race
- history
- the united states of america
- westerns
- historical
- asia
- research
- indigenous
- nonfiction
20. Securing Paradise: Tourism and Militarism in Hawai'i and the Philippines (Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies)
By: Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez
4.29
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
In Securing Paradise , Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez shows how tourism and militarism have functioned … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
21. Archipelago of Resettlement: Vietnamese Refugee Settlers and Decolonization across Guam and Israel-Palestine (American Crossroads) (Volume 65)
By: Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi
4.14
Format: 284 pages, Paperback
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at . What happens when refugees… read more
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