Between Good and Ghetto: African American Girls and Inner-City Violence (Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies)
By: Nikki Jones
4.09
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
With an outward gaze focused on a better future, Between Good and Ghetto reflects the social world …
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1. Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
By: Carmen Maria Machado
3.84
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders betwe… read more
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- feminism
"I'm having a crisis of function."-Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
"None of us will make it to the end."-Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
"What I say: “Why did you leave her with me?"-Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
"Everything is soft, like a fresh oil painting."-Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
2. Eve's Hollywood
By: Eve Babitz
3.44
Format: 213 pages,
Journalist, party girl, bookworm, muse, artist: by the time she'd hit thirty, Eve Babitz had been a… read more
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- nonfiction
3. Sing, Unburied, Sing
By: Jesmyn Ward
3.81
Format: 343 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction 2017 A searing and profound Southern odyssey. In Jesm… read more
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- race
4. Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
By: Bryan Stevenson
3.93
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our bro… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
- social justice
5. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
By: Richard Rothstein
2.89
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading auth… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
- social justice
6. Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life
By: Annette Lareau
5.00
Format: 646 pages, Paperback
Class does make a difference in the lives and futures of American children. Drawing on in-depth obs… read more
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7. Diary Of An Oxygen Thief (The Oxygen Thief Diaries #1)
By: Anonymous
3.66
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Hurt people hurt people. Say there was a novel in which Holden Caulfield was an alcoholic and Lolit… read more
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8. Women without Class: Girls, Race, and Identity
By: None
3.99
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
In this examination of white and Mexican-American girls coming of age in California's Central Valle… read more
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9. Hum If You Don’t Know the Words
By: Bianca Marais
3.43
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
Perfect for readers of The Secret Life of Bees and The Help, a perceptive and searing look at Apart… read more
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10. Where Am I Now?
By: Mara Wilson
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
For readers of Lena Dunham, Allie Brosh and Roxane Gay, this funny, poignant, daringly honest colle… read more
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11. The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide
By: Steven W. Thrasher
4.22
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From preeminent LGBTQ scholar, social critic, and journalist Steven W. Thrasher comes a powerful an… read more
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- nonfiction
- social justice
- sociology
12. Olga Dies Dreaming
By: Xóchitl González
3.98
Format: 369 pages, Hardcover
It's 2017, and Olga and her brother, Pedro "Prieto" Acevedo, are bold-faced names in their hometown… read more
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"It's a myth about motherhood, Olga felt, that the time in utero imbues mothers with a lifelong understanding of their children. Yes, they know their essences, this she didn't doubt, but mothers are s…"-Xóchitl González, Olga Dies Dreaming
13. The Rabbit Hutch
By: Tess Gunty
3.52
Format: 399 pages, Hardcover
Blandine isn't like the other residents of her building. An online obituary writer. A young moth… read more
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"On the opposite end of the sidewalk, a large woman in her sixties collapsed. Immediately, two people rushed to the woman's side, gingerly tending to her, touching her shoulders and face, speaking to …"-Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch
"· Las calles por las que caminas, el alimento que comes, el trabajo que haces, el medio de transporte que eliges, los productos de belleza que compras, los programas que ves, los enlaces en los que p…"-Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch
"Acaba de ponerse a llover. Estamos encantados de que se quede un rato más, si quiere. Milagroso. Joan recuerda que existen los perros, las tiendas de manualidades, los analgésicos, las bibliotecas pú…"-Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch
"—Estoy harta —dice Blandine— de la violencia contra las mujeres disfrazada de validación. —Lo siento —murmura James de manera automática, pero tiene el gesto de la mascota reprendida que no sabe qué …"-Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch
14. Poverty, by America
By: Matthew Desmond
4.27
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more
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- nonfiction
- social justice
- sociology
"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
15. Clap When You Land
By: Elizabeth Acevedo
4.24
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
In a novel-in-verse that brims with grief and love, National Book Award-winning and New York Times … read more
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"Who knew death must be so damn polite?"-Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap When You Land
"All these lies that we've all swallowed, they're probably rotting in our stomachs."-Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap When You Land
"A queen offers her hand to be kissed, & can form it into a fist while smiling the whole damn time."-Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap When You Land
"This whole time she's swallowed her words like bitter pills not realizing they were slow-drip poison."-Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap When You Land
16. Pageboy
By: Elliot Page
3.75
Format: 271 pages, None
Pageboy is a groundbreaking coming-of-age memoir from the Academy Award-nominated actor Elliot Page… read more
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- nonfiction
"Her visibility meant the world to me. I think about this as I walk through the world now."-Elliot Page, Pageboy
"How do people do it? How do they shut off the noise? And I don't mean "happy", they may not be happy, but they seem to be able to exist at least."-Elliot Page, Pageboy
"In a world where queerness all too often alienates us from blood, I am grateful to Julia, and the family I have chosen. Without them, I wouldn't be here."-Elliot Page, Pageboy
"I could block myself out, I was a person I didn't know, I'd gaze into what felt like the universe, my eye a planet of its own. I must be somewhere in there, I'd think."-Elliot Page, Pageboy
17. With the Fire on High
By: Elizabeth Acevedo
4.18
Format: 400 pages, ebook
With her daughter to care for and her abuela to help support, high school senior Emoni Santiago has… read more
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"You're the author on your own life story."-Elizabeth Acevedo, With the Fire on High
"Everything changes. I'll learn to be fine."-Elizabeth Acevedo, With the Fire on High
"The whole of me is black. The whole of me is whole."-Elizabeth Acevedo, With the Fire on High
"It's wild to miss someone so much, and yet in order to care for them you have to constantly say goodbye."-Elizabeth Acevedo, With the Fire on High
18. The Sweetness of Water
By: Nathan Harris
4.15
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In the spirit of The Known World and The Underground Railroad, a profound debut about the unlikely … read more
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- race
"I can carry him, I've carried him my whole life."-Nathan Harris, The Sweetness of Water
"Don't hide this pain either, I want you to carry what you've done."-Nathan Harris, The Sweetness of Water
"Clementine looked at Prentiss a final time, not in shame but as if to say, "This is what I will do for you."-Nathan Harris, The Sweetness of Water
"...it dawned on him [Landry] that there was less to fear than he'd once imagined, which was maybe a truth he'd long wished to believe--that all danger carried the faint trace of comfort, all wrongs t…"-Nathan Harris, The Sweetness of Water
19. Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life
By: Alice Wong
4.25
Format: 376 pages, Paperback
From the founder and director of the Disability Visibility Project, and the editor of the acclaimed… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- social justice
20. Respect Yourself, Protect Yourself: Latina Girls and Sexual Identity (Intersections, 14)
By: Lorena Garcia
4.34
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Exploring young Latina youth's sexual agency, education, and expression While Latina girls have hi… read more
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- race
- feminism
- gender
- nonfiction
- sociology
21. Between Good and Ghetto: African American Girls and Inner-City Violence (Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies)
By: Nikki Jones
4.09
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
With an outward gaze focused on a better future, Between Good and Ghetto reflects the social world … read more
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- ethnography
- feminism
- gender
- academic
- nonfiction
- social justice
- womens
- sociology
22. Struggling in the Land of Plenty: Race, Class, and Gender in the Lives of Homeless Families
By: Anne R Roschelle
1.19
Format: 215 pages, Kindle Edition
At the conclusion of the twentieth century, the US economy was booming, but the gap between the ric… read more
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