6 must-read race books like The Baptism of Early Virginia: How Christianity Created Race (Early America: History, Context, Culture) by Rebecca Anne Goetz

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The Baptism of Early Virginia: How Christianity Created Race (Early America: History, Context, Culture)

By: Rebecca Anne Goetz

4.05

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Christianity's role in furthering racism in early America. In The Baptism of Early Virginia , Rebec…

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1. The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II, Volume I

By: Fernand Braudel , Siân Reynolds

4.32

Format: 642 pages, Paperback

The focus of Fernand Braudel's great work is the Mediterranean world in the second half of the sixt… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • academic
"Semper versans, semper in motu. (mereu ratacind, mereu in miscare)"

-Fernand Braudel, The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II, Volume I

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2. Women, Race & Class

By: Angela Y. Davis

4.58

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

From one of our most important scholars and civil rights activist icon, a powerful study of the wom… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • race
  • history
"White women—feminists included—have revealed a historical reluctance to acknowledge the struggles of household workers. They have rarely been involved in the Sisyphean task of ameliorating the condit…"

-Angela Y. Davis, Women, Race & Class

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3. Homeward Bound: American Families In The Cold War Era

By: Elaine Tyler May

4.05

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In the 1950s, the term "containment" referred to the foreign policy-driven containment of Communism… read more

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  • grad school
  • nonfiction
  • history
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4. The Song of Roland

By: Unknown , Dorothy L. Sayers

3.51

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

On 15 August 778, Charlemagne’s army was returning from a successful expedition against Saracen Spa… read more

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5. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

By: Michel Foucault , Alan Sheridan , None , None , None

3.35

Format: 520 pages, Paperback

Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . In this brilliant work, the mos… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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6. Slave Religion: The "Invisible Institution" in the Antebellum South

By: Albert J. Raboteau

4.23

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Twenty-five years after its original publication, Slave Religionremains a classic in the study of A… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • race
  • history
  • religion
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7. Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery

By: Jennifer L. Morgan

3.69

Format: 98 pages, Paperback

When black women were brought from Africa to the New World as slave laborers, their value was deter… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • race
  • history
  • academic
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8. The Democratization of American Christianity

By: Nathan O. Hatch

4.14

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

In this prize-winning book Nathan O. Hatch offers a provocative reassessment of religion and cultur… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • religion
  • history
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9. Hollow City (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #2)

By: Ransom Riggs

4.06

Format: 412 pages, Paperback

September 3, 1940. Ten peculiar children flee an army of deadly monsters. And only one person can h… read more

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"Everything happens for a reason."

-Ransom Riggs, Hollow City (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #2)

"At the heart of nature’s mystery lies another mystery."

-Ransom Riggs, Hollow City (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #2)

"I'll never understand ninety-nine percent of humanity. - Enoch"

-Ransom Riggs, Hollow City (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #2)

"Ardet nec consumitur," Melina said. "Burned but not destroyed."

-Ransom Riggs, Hollow City (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #2)

10. Between Heaven and Earth: The Religious Worlds People Make and the Scholars Who Study Them

By: Robert A. Orsi

3.47

Format: 1 pages, Paperback

Between Heaven and Earthexplores the relationships men, women, and children have formed with the Vi… read more

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11. A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870

By: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

3.61

Format: 8 pages, Audio CD

A stunning and sure-to-be controversial book that pieces together, through more than two dozen nine… read more

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12. Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment: Popular Religious Belief in Early New England

By: David D. Hall

3.99

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

This book tells an extraordinary story of the people of early New England and their spiritual lives… read more

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13. Mohawk Saint: Catherine Tekakwitha and the Jesuits

By: Allan Greer

3.36

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

On October 21, 2012, Pope Benedict XVI canonized Saint Kateri Tekakwitha as the first Native North … read more

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14. Strangers and Pilgrims: Female Preaching in America, 1740-1845

By: Catherine A. Brekus

4.00

Format: 274 pages, Paperback

Catherine Brekus tells the story of several generations of women - both white and African American … read more

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15. Empire of Cotton: A Global History

By: Sven Beckert

3.67

Format: 363 pages, Hardcover

The epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality to the world economy, a… read more

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16. Capitalism & Slavery

By: Eric Williams , None

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and m… read more

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17. Rhythm of War (The Stormlight Archive, #4)

By: Brandon Sanderson

4.62

Format: 1219 pages, Hardcover

The eagerly awaited sequel to the #1 New York Times bestselling Oathbringer, from epic fantasy auth… read more

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18. The Nickel Boys

By: Colson Whitehead

4.26

Format: 213 pages, Kindle Edition

Author of The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of Ameri… read more

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  • race
"Even in death the boys were trouble."

-Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys

"Violence is the only lever big enough to move the world"

-Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys

"People get rid of plenty when they move--sometimes they're changing not just places but personalities."

-Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys

"The encyclopedias are empty. There are people who trick you and deliver emptiness with a smile, while others rob you of your self-respect. You need to remember who you are."

-Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys

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19. The Souls of Womenfolk: The Religious Cultures of Enslaved Women in the Lower South

By: Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh

4.20

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

Beginning on the shores of West Africa in the sixteenth century and ending in the U.S. Lower South … read more

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  • history
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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20. On Revision: The Only Writing That Counts (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)

By: William Germano

4.02

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

A trusted editor turns his attention to the most important part of revision. So you’ve just finis… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • academic
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21. Heathen: Religion and Race in American History

By: Kathryn Gin Lum

4.32

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

An innovative history that shows how the religious idea of the heathen in need of salvation undergi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • race
  • history
  • religion
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22. The Baptism of Early Virginia: How Christianity Created Race (Early America: History, Context, Culture)

By: Rebecca Anne Goetz

4.05

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Christianity's role in furthering racism in early America. In The Baptism of Early Virginia , Rebec… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Anne Goetz's The Baptism of Early Virginia: How Christianity Created Race (Early America: History, Context, Culture) book and Rebecca Anne Goetz's The Baptism of Early Virginia: How Christianity Created Race (Early America: History, Context, Culture)

  • race
  • history
  • academic
  • grad school
  • religion
  • nonfiction

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Paul Gilroy

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