11 Top history books like We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance by Kellie Carter Jackson

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We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance

By: Kellie Carter Jackson

4.49

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A radical reframing of the past and present of Black resistance—both nonviolent and violent—to whit…

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1. They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45

By: Milton Sanford Mayer

3.79

Format: 704 pages, Paperback

"What no one seemed to notice," said a colleague of mine, a philologist, "was the ever widening gap… read more

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2. Fire Exit

By: Morgan Talty

3.79

Format: 243 pages, Hardcover

The blood that came out of me was blood that ran through her veins. It’s strange: all blood looks t… read more

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  • audiobook
"...what's more sacred than laughter at the dinner table?"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"That's my life, though--not knowing, but wishing. [Charles Lamosway]"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"We are made of stories, and if we don't know them--the ones that make us--how can we ever be fully realized? How can we ever be who we really are?"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"...I was thinking and thinking about how, in just the past year, I had just started to know her, but then I began to unknow her, getting farther and farther away like watching a boat drift from the s…"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

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3. Whiskey Tender: A Memoir

By: Deborah Jackson Taffa

4.14

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An Oprah Daily "Best New Book" and "Riveting Nonfiction and Memoir You Need to Read" * A New York T… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"My Laguna grandmother, Esther, is the one who taught me that a deep intimacy with a homeland requires three things: sensory experiences of particular geographies, a storied history of the trails, and…"

-Deborah Jackson Taffa, Whiskey Tender: A Memoir

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4. The White Guy Dies First: 13 Scary Stories of Fear and Power

By: Terry J. Benton-Walker

3.89

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

13 SCARY STORIES. 13 AUTHORS OF COLOR. 13 TIMES WE SURVIVED THE FIRST KILL. The White Guy Dies Fir… read more

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  • audiobook
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5. Another Word for Love: A Memoir

By: Carvell Wallace

4.35

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A transformative memoir that reimagines the conventions of love and posits a radical vision for hea… read more

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  • race
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
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6. Undue Burden: Life and Death Decisions in Post-Roe America

By: Shefali Luthra

4.40

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

An urgent, intimate investigation into the experience of seeking an abortion after the fall of Roe … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
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7. Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People

By: Tiya Miles

4.10

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the National Book Award–winning author of All That She Carried, an intimate and revelatory rec… read more

Similar categories in Tiya Miles's Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People book and Kellie Carter Jackson's We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance

  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • african american
  • audiobook
Cover of Triumph of the Yuppies: America, the Eighties, and the Creation of an Unequal Nation by Tom McGrath

8. Triumph of the Yuppies: America, the Eighties, and the Creation of an Unequal Nation

By: Tom McGrath

3.91

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In Triumph of the Yuppies, Tom McGrath presents the first-ever book-length history of the Yuppie ph… read more

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  • cultural
  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. Where They Last Saw Her

By: Marcie R. Rendon

4.01

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

From the award-winning author of the Cash Blackbear series, a harrowing novel of a Native American … read more

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  • audiobook
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10. The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family

By: Jesselyn Cook

4.45

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The riveting story of five families shattered by pernicious, pervasive conspiracy theories, and how… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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11. The Devil Behind the Badge: The Horrifying Twelve Days of the Border Patrol Serial Killer

By: Rick Jervis

3.86

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The shocking true-crime story of a Texas border patrol agent turned serial killer, the four sex wor… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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12. This Great Hemisphere

By: Mateo Askaripour

3.65

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning and bestselling author of Black Buck : A speculative novel about a young wom… read more

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13. We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance

By: Kellie Carter Jackson

4.49

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A radical reframing of the past and present of Black resistance—both nonviolent and violent—to whit… read more

Similar categories in Kellie Carter Jackson's We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance book and Kellie Carter Jackson's We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance

  • cultural
  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • african american
  • audiobook
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14. The Weight of Nature: How a Changing Climate Changes Our Brains

By: Clayton Page Aldern

3.99

Format: None pages, Hardcover

For readers of Kolbert's Under a White Sky and Merlin Sheldrake’s Entangled Life , to all those who… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. Lovely One: A Memoir

By: Ketanji Brown Jackson

4.64

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In her inspiring, intimate memoir, the first Black woman to ever be … read more

Similar categories in Ketanji Brown Jackson's Lovely One: A Memoir book and Kellie Carter Jackson's We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. Rooted: The American Legacy of Land Theft and the Modern Movement for Black Land Ownership

By: Brea Baker

4.58

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A powerful history of the impact of land theft and violent displacement on Black communities in the… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • race
  • history
  • social justice
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17. This Cursed House

By: Del Sandeen

4.07

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In this Southern gothic horror debut, a young Black woman abandons her life in 1960s Chicago for a … read more

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  • historical
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18. By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land

By: Rebecca Nagle

4.60

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A powerful work of reportage and American history that braids the story of the forced removal of Na… read more

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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
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19. The Message

By: Ta-Nehisi Coates

4.58

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell’s cla… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • african american
  • audiobook
"My sense is that if I spend more time talking to you than I spend complaining about you, then something wonderful often happens and the enlightenment is mutual. So I don't really worry about the youn…"

-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message

Cover of Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde by Alexis Pauline Gumbs

20. Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde

By: Alexis Pauline Gumbs

4.48

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

A bold, innovative biography that offers a new understanding of the life, work, and enduring impact… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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21. Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Death

By: Susana Monsó

3.74

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

How animals conceive of death and dying—and what it can teach us about our own relationships with m… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

16 Best audiobook books like We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance by Kellie Carter Jackson

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Morgan Talty

3.79

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Deborah Jackson Taffa

4.14

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The White Guy Dies First: 13 Scary Stories of Fear and Power

Terry J. Benton-Walker

3.89

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4.35

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4.54

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Karen Valby

4.31

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Elizabeth O'Connor

3.87

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