17 must-read nonfiction books like Terrorism in American Memory: Memorials, Museums, and Architecture in the Post-9/11 Era by Marita Sturken

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Similar categories in None's Orientalism book and Marita Sturken's Terrorism in American Memory: Memorials, Museums, and Architecture in the Post-9/11 Era

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"Toda época y toda sociedad recrea sus «otros»."

-None, Orientalism

"الإستشرق في جوهره مذهب سياسي فُرِضَ فَرْضاً على الشرق لأن الشرق كان أضعف من الغرب، وإنه تجاهل اختلاف الشرق الراجع إلى ضعفه."

-None, Orientalism

"It seems a common human failing to prefer the schematic authority of a text to the disorientations of direct encounters with the human."

-None, Orientalism

"إن مناقشات الشرق كانت تتسم بالغياب الكامل للشرق، لكن المرء يحس بأن المستشرق ومايقوله حاضران، ومع ذلك فيجب ألا ننسى أن الذي يمكِّن المستشرق من الحضور هو الغياب الفعلي للشرق."

-None, Orientalism

Similar categories in Ta-Nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me book and Marita Sturken's Terrorism in American Memory: Memorials, Museums, and Architecture in the Post-9/11 Era

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"Soft or hard, love was an act of heroism."

-Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

"My work is to give you what I know of my own particular path while allowing you to walk your own."

-Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

"I would not have you descend into your own dream. I would have you be a conscious citizen of this terrible and beautiful world."

-Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

"You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable."

-Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

Similar categories in Margaret MacMillan's The Uses and Abuses of History book and Marita Sturken's Terrorism in American Memory: Memorials, Museums, and Architecture in the Post-9/11 Era

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Similar categories in J. Jack Halberstam's The Queer Art of Failure book and Marita Sturken's Terrorism in American Memory: Memorials, Museums, and Architecture in the Post-9/11 Era

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Similar categories in Judith Butler's Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable? book and Marita Sturken's Terrorism in American Memory: Memorials, Museums, and Architecture in the Post-9/11 Era

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Similar categories in Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness book and Marita Sturken's Terrorism in American Memory: Memorials, Museums, and Architecture in the Post-9/11 Era

Similar categories in Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism book and Marita Sturken's Terrorism in American Memory: Memorials, Museums, and Architecture in the Post-9/11 Era

Similar categories in Erika Doss's Memorial Mania: Public Feeling in America book and Marita Sturken's Terrorism in American Memory: Memorials, Museums, and Architecture in the Post-9/11 Era

Similar categories in Annie Ernaux's Simple Passion book and Marita Sturken's Terrorism in American Memory: Memorials, Museums, and Architecture in the Post-9/11 Era

"I experienced pleasure like a future pain."

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

"I do not wish to explain my passion—that would imply that it was a mistake or some disorder I need to justify—I just want to describe it."

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

"A partir du mois de septembre l'année dernière, je n'ai plus rien fait d'autre qu'attendre un homme : qu'il me téléphone et qu'il vienne chez moi."

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

"Yet it is that surreal, almost non-existent last visit that gives my passion its true meaning, which is precisely to be meaningless, and to have been for two years the most violent and unaccountable …"

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

Similar categories in Kristin Kobes Du Mez's Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation book and Marita Sturken's Terrorism in American Memory: Memorials, Museums, and Architecture in the Post-9/11 Era

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Similar categories in Mona Chollet's In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial book and Marita Sturken's Terrorism in American Memory: Memorials, Museums, and Architecture in the Post-9/11 Era

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"En somme, si on voulait être cohérent, il faudrait soit lever le pied sur l'éducation des filles, soit intégrer à leur formation un sérieux entraînement à la guérilla contre le patriarcat, tout en s'…"

-Mona Chollet, In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

"No obstante, algunas mujeres, vivan o no con hombres, se sientan o no llamadas por una vocación, encuentran otro modo de evitar ser engullidas por el papel de la devota sirvienta: no tener hijos; dar…"

-Mona Chollet, In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

"Certaines, cependant, qu'elles vivent avec les hommes ou pas, qu'elles se sentent ou non requises par une vocation, trouvent un autre moyen d'échapper à l'engloutissement dans le rôle de la servante …"

-Mona Chollet, In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

"Il serait temps que les femmes - souvent si peu sûres d'elles, de leurs capacités, de la pertinence de ce qu'elles ont à apporter, de leur droit à une vie pour elles-mêmes - apprennent à se défendre …"

-Mona Chollet, In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

Similar categories in Tommy Orange's Wandering Stars book and Marita Sturken's Terrorism in American Memory: Memorials, Museums, and Architecture in the Post-9/11 Era

"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"

-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars

Similar categories in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Notes on Grief book and Marita Sturken's Terrorism in American Memory: Memorials, Museums, and Architecture in the Post-9/11 Era

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"I liked to call him 'a gentle man and a gentleman'."

-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief

"I am afraid of tomorrow, and all the tomorrows after..."

-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief

"It was not supposed to happen like this, not like a malicious surprise.."

-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief

"Je vais parfaitement bien. Et c'était vrai. Jusqu'à ce que cela cesse de l'être."

-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief

Similar categories in Mia P. Manansala's Homicide and Halo-Halo (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery, #2) book and Marita Sturken's Terrorism in American Memory: Memorials, Museums, and Architecture in the Post-9/11 Era

"People said that dogs tended to resemble their owners, and considering that my little wiener dog was a super cute brown girl with stubby legs, great fashion sense, and a tendency toward plumpness, I …"

-Mia P. Manansala, Homicide and Halo-Halo (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery, #2)

"I decided to let Longganisa ride with us, both to cheer us up and to make up for having her shut in my room all night. We completed the short drive in silence, Joy stroking Longganisa's short fur and…"

-Mia P. Manansala, Homicide and Halo-Halo (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery, #2)

"I set out a loaf of zucchini-pandan bread, the green coloring from the extract adding an interesting tinge to the crumb. The grassy, floral taste complemented the neutral flavor of the zucchini well,…"

-Mia P. Manansala, Homicide and Halo-Halo (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery, #2)

"So you're the former beauty queen Rob mentioned. Not quite what I was expecting, honey." The spell she'd cast over me lifted a bit at that remark---I didn't need her reminding me I wasn't beauty quee…"

-Mia P. Manansala, Homicide and Halo-Halo (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery, #2)

Similar categories in Mia P. Manansala's Arsenic and Adobo (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery, #1) book and Marita Sturken's Terrorism in American Memory: Memorials, Museums, and Architecture in the Post-9/11 Era

"So that's why you're here. You're trying to help out Tita Rosie." I looked her in the eye. "Just because I left doesn't mean I was never there for my family. We all help in whatever way we can. Not a…"

-Mia P. Manansala, Arsenic and Adobo (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery, #1)

"I handed her one of the little chiffon cakes, the top slathered in butter and sugar, and helped myself to one of the cheese-topped mamón. I tore it in half and a faint curl of steam rose up, as well …"

-Mia P. Manansala, Arsenic and Adobo (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery, #1)

"I piled the cookies, their lovely violet color peeping through a light coating of powdered sugar, on a plate. I studied the offering, then added a small bowl of vanilla ice cream as well as a serving…"

-Mia P. Manansala, Arsenic and Adobo (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery, #1)

"I hustled back to the kitchen to prepare some salabat. The hot ginger tea would cure anything that ailed you, and I'd made a few modifications to boost the flavor and health profile. I set the electr…"

-Mia P. Manansala, Arsenic and Adobo (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery, #1)

Similar categories in Marlowe Granados's Happy Hour book and Marita Sturken's Terrorism in American Memory: Memorials, Museums, and Architecture in the Post-9/11 Era

"Being unattached is exhausting."

-Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour

"being a muse is not for the weak"

-Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour

"Money was limited, but my taste was not."

-Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour

"isn't a vacation when you forget what day it is?"

-Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour

Similar categories in Ada Limon's The Carrying book and Marita Sturken's Terrorism in American Memory: Memorials, Museums, and Architecture in the Post-9/11 Era

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"What if, instead of carrying a child, I am supposed to carry grief?"

-Ada Limon, The Carrying

"All I’ve been working on is napping, and maybe being kinder to others, to myself."

-Ada Limon, The Carrying

"I know you don’t always understand, but let me point to the first wet drops landing on the stones, the noise like fingers drumming the skin. I can’t help it. I will never get over making everything s…"

-Ada Limon, The Carrying

"I saw a mom take her raincoat off and give it to her young daughter when a storm took over the afternoon. My god, I thought, my whole life I’ve been under her raincoat thinking it was somehow a marve…"

-Ada Limon, The Carrying

Similar categories in Jia Tolentino's Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion book and Marita Sturken's Terrorism in American Memory: Memorials, Museums, and Architecture in the Post-9/11 Era

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"To communicate an identity requires some degree of self-delusion."

-Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

"Even if you avoid the internet completely—my partner does: he thought #tbt meant “truth be told"

-Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

"People have been carping in this way for many centuries. Socrates feared that the act of writing would “create forgetfulness in the learners’ souls."

-Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

"A woman is unruly if anyone has incorrectly decided that she’s too much of something, and if she, in turn, has chosen to believe that she’s just fine."

-Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

Similar categories in Kathleen Belew's Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America book and Marita Sturken's Terrorism in American Memory: Memorials, Museums, and Architecture in the Post-9/11 Era

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"The story of white power as a social movement exposes something broader about the enduring impact of state violence in America. It reveals one catastrophic ricochet of the Vietnam War, in the form of…"

-Kathleen Belew, Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America

Similar categories in Ruth Ozeki's Timecode of a Face book and Marita Sturken's Terrorism in American Memory: Memorials, Museums, and Architecture in the Post-9/11 Era

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"We place such crazy importance on physical appearance in our image-obsessed culture, on youth and beauty to define our sense of self-worth, that aging, by default, becomes a kind of defect, something…"

-Ruth Ozeki, Timecode of a Face

Similar categories in Roman Mars's The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design book and Marita Sturken's Terrorism in American Memory: Memorials, Museums, and Architecture in the Post-9/11 Era

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"A round of applause for circles."

-Roman Mars, The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design

"For better or worse, defensive designs limit the range of activities people can engage in. They can also create real problems for the elderly or disabled. Some of the goals of unpleasant designs can …"

-Roman Mars, The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design

Similar categories in Mia P. Manansala's Blackmail and Bibingka (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery, #3) book and Marita Sturken's Terrorism in American Memory: Memorials, Museums, and Architecture in the Post-9/11 Era

"If you've turned up after all these years just to break Tita Rosie's heart again, I'll kill you. I'm serious. And Ate Bernie will help me hide the body," I said, bringing up his ex-girlfriend and my …"

-Mia P. Manansala, Blackmail and Bibingka (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery, #3)

"My aunt said a quick grace, then everyone helped themselves to the myriad dishes on the table: chicken afritada, bangus a la pobre, adobong pusit, beef nilaga, lumpiang togue, kang-kong in oyster sau…"

-Mia P. Manansala, Blackmail and Bibingka (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery, #3)

"I slid the cookie platter in front of them, which contained the four holiday cookies I'd come up with as well as peach-mango crumble cookies, my special of the day. The buttery, sweet base was topped…"

-Mia P. Manansala, Blackmail and Bibingka (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery, #3)

"I pulled one of my individual buko pandan trifles out of the refrigerated tote bag I was carrying. Considering how little time I had to come up with the recipe, I was proud of how they'd turned out: …"

-Mia P. Manansala, Blackmail and Bibingka (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery, #3)

Similar categories in Ryan Lee Wong's Which Side Are You On book and Marita Sturken's Terrorism in American Memory: Memorials, Museums, and Architecture in the Post-9/11 Era

Similar categories in Elizabeth Miki Brina's Speak, Okinawa: A Memoir book and Marita Sturken's Terrorism in American Memory: Memorials, Museums, and Architecture in the Post-9/11 Era

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"My mother and I speak different languages. Her native language is Japanese. My native language is English. This might seem like a mundane fact about us. It's not. It dictates everything. Because even…"

-Elizabeth Miki Brina, Speak, Okinawa: A Memoir

"My mother and I speak different languages. Her native language is Japanese. My native language is English. This might seem like a mundane fact about us. It’s not. It dictates everything. Because even…"

-Elizabeth Miki Brina, Speak, Okinawa: A Memoir

Similar categories in Nick Estes's Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance book and Marita Sturken's Terrorism in American Memory: Memorials, Museums, and Architecture in the Post-9/11 Era

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"In this particular era of neoliberal capitalism, it's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism."

-Nick Estes, Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance

"Obama spoke of being inspired by the courage of Black civil rights activists and freedom riders, who faced dog attacks, fire hoses, and police brutality, and “who risked everything to advance democra…"

-Nick Estes, Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance

Similar categories in Manu Karuka's Empire's Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad (American Crossroads) (Volume 52) book and Marita Sturken's Terrorism in American Memory: Memorials, Museums, and Architecture in the Post-9/11 Era

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Similar categories in Marita Sturken's Terrorism in American Memory: Memorials, Museums, and Architecture in the Post-9/11 Era book and Marita Sturken's Terrorism in American Memory: Memorials, Museums, and Architecture in the Post-9/11 Era

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