6 must-read nonfiction books like Development Drowned and Reborn: The Blues and Bourbon Restorations in Post-Katrina New Orleans (Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation Ser.) by Clyde Woods

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Development Drowned and Reborn: The Blues and Bourbon Restorations in Post-Katrina New Orleans (Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation Ser.)

By: Clyde Woods

4.55

Format: 396 pages, Paperback

Development Drowned and Reborn is a “Blues geography” of New Orleans, one that compels readers to r…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Development Drowned and Reborn: The Blues and Bourbon Restorations in Post-Katrina New Orleans (Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation Ser.) by Clyde Woods , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. All About Love: New Visions

By: bell hooks

4.05

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

All About Love offers radical new ways to think about love by showing its interconnectedness in our… read more

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  • nonfiction
"All awakening to love is spiritual awakening"

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

"Couples who rarely or never have sex can know lifelong love. "

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

"Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue."

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

"Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair."

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

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2. Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)

By: Octavia E. Butler

3.82

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

In 2025, with the world descending into madness and anarchy, one woman begins a fateful journey tow… read more

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3. Brown Girl in the Ring

By: Nalo Hopkinson

4.25

Format: None pages, Paperback

"She's a powerful writer with an imagination that most of us would kill for. I have read everything… read more

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4. City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles

By: Mike Davis

3.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

The hidden story of L.A. Mike Davis shows us where the city's money comes from and who controls it … read more

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5. Magic City

By: Jewell Parker Rhodes

3.70

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1921. A white woman and a black man are alone in an elevator. Suddenly, the woman … read more

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6. South Side Girls: Growing Up in the Great Migration

By: Marcia Chatelain

3.81

Format: None pages, Paperback

In South Side GirlsMarcia Chatelain recasts Chicago's Great Migration through the lens of black gir… read more

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7. Last Summer on State Street

By: Toya Wolfe

4.22

Format: 212 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Jacqueline Woodson and Brit Bennett, a striking coming-of-age debut about friendship, c… read more

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8. The Yellow House

By: Sarah M. Broom

3.90

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

In 1961, Sarah M. Broom's mother Ivory Mae bought a shotgun house in the then-promising neighborhoo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"We own what belongs to us whether we claim it or not."

-Sarah M. Broom, The Yellow House

"Absences allow us one power over them. They do not speak a word. We say of them what we want. Still, they hover, pointing fingers at our backs."

-Sarah M. Broom, The Yellow House

"...the house was not tethered to its foundation, that what held the house to its foundation of sill on piers, wood on bricks, was the weight of us all in the house, the weight of the house itself, th…"

-Sarah M. Broom, The Yellow House

"When the house fell down, it can be said, something in me opened up. Cracks help a house resolve internally its pressures and stresses, my engineer friend had said. Houses provide a frame that bears …"

-Sarah M. Broom, The Yellow House

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9. Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present

By: Robyn Maynard

4.57

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

Delving behind Canada's veneer of multiculturalism and tolerance, Policing Black Lives traces the v… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"In the abolitionist journal Voice of the Fugitive, Shadd Cary neatly summed up the Canadian contradiction, calling the white Canadian an “anti-slavery Negro hater"

-Robyn Maynard, Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present

"slavery never took the form of the large-scale plantations found in the American South, the Caribbean or South America. Plantations, though their establishment was desired by some colonists, were fou…"

-Robyn Maynard, Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present

Cover of Let It Burn: MOVE, the Philadelphia Police Department, and the Confrontation that Changed a City by Michael Boyette

10. Let It Burn: MOVE, the Philadelphia Police Department, and the Confrontation that Changed a City

By: Michael Boyette

4.15

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

"A balanced, well-written account which provides the best overall understanding of these events.—Li… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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11. Black Towns, Black Futures: The Enduring Allure of a Black Place in the American West

By: Karla Slocum

4.00

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Some know Oklahoma's Black towns as historic communities that thrived during the Jim Crow era—this … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Development Drowned and Reborn: The Blues and Bourbon Restorations in Post-Katrina New Orleans (Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation Ser.) by Clyde Woods

12. Development Drowned and Reborn: The Blues and Bourbon Restorations in Post-Katrina New Orleans (Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation Ser.)

By: Clyde Woods

4.55

Format: 396 pages, Paperback

Development Drowned and Reborn is a “Blues geography” of New Orleans, one that compels readers to r… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • urban planning
  • nonfiction
  • geography
  • environment

5 Best history books like Development Drowned and Reborn: The Blues and Bourbon Restorations in Post-Katrina New Orleans (Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation Ser.) by Clyde Woods

Transform Your Habits

The Yellow House

Sarah M. Broom

3.90

Transform Your Habits

Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present

Robyn Maynard

4.57

Transform Your Habits

Let It Burn: MOVE, the Philadelphia Police Department, and the Confrontation that Changed a City

Michael Boyette

4.15

Transform Your Habits

Black Towns, Black Futures: The Enduring Allure of a Black Place in the American West

Karla Slocum

4.00

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7 Top book club books like The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom

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Trust

Hernan Diaz

3.83

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Tom Lake

Ann Patchett

3.99

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The Covenant of Water

Abraham Verghese

4.45

Transform Your Habits

The Yellow House

Sarah M. Broom

3.90

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