A Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787 - 1804
By: Laurent Dubois
4.00
Format: 472 pages, Paperback
The idea of universal rights is often understood as the product of Europe, but as Laurent Dubois de…
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1. Song of Solomon
By: Toni Morrison
4.14
Format: 338 pages, Paperback
Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain… read more
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"Her passions were narrow but deep."-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
"He can't value you more than you value yourself."-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
"If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it."-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
"You got a life? Live it! Live the motherfuckin' life!"-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
2. Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
By: Clayton Eshleman , Aimé Césaire , Annette Smith , Annette Smith
4.10
Format: 66 pages, Paperback
Aime Cesaire's masterpiece, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, is a work of immense cultural … read more
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"A man screaming is not a dancing bear. Life is not a spectacle."-Clayton Eshleman, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
"Écoutez le monde blanc horriblement las de son effort immense ses articulations rebelles craquer sous les étoiles dures ses raideurs d'acier bleu transperçant la chair mystique écoute ses victoires p…"-Clayton Eshleman, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
"And if all I know how to do is speak, it is for you that I shall speak. My lips shall speak for miseries that have no mouth, my voice shall be the liberty of those who languish in the dungeon of desp…"-Clayton Eshleman, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
". . . car il n'est point vrai que l'oeuvre de l'homme est finie que nous n'avons rien à faire au monde que nous parasitons le monde qu'il suffit que nous nous mettions au pas du monde mais l'oeuvre d…"-Clayton Eshleman, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
3. The Name of the Rose
By: Umberto Eco , Seán Barrett , William Weaver
4.14
Format: 552 pages, Paperback
The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother Willi… read more
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"الكتب ليست مجعولة كي نؤمن بما تقوله ولكن لكي نتحرّى فيها."-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
"Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear."-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
"The people of God cannot be changed until the outcasts are restored to its body."-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
"How peaceful life would be without Love, Adso. How Safe. How Tranquil. And how Dull."-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
4. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
By: C.L.R. James
4.55
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A classic and impassioned account of the first revolution in the Third World. This powerful, intens… read more
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5. Interpreter of Maladies
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
4.17
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here Navigating between the Indian tra… read more
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"Sexy means loving someone you do not know."-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
"You got cats at home?" "No cats. Only a husband."-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
"A woman who had fallen out of love with her life"-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
"In those six weeks I regarded her arrival as I would the arrival of a coming month, or season - something inevitable, but meaningless at the same time."-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
6. The God of Small Things
By: Arundhati Roy
3.96
Format: 321 pages, Paperback
The year is 1969. In the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India, a skyblue Plymouth with… read more
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"If you're happy in a dream, does that count?"-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
"His gratitude widened his smile and bent his back."-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
"Thirty-one. Not old. Not young. But a viable die-able age."-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
"That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less."-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
7. The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave Narrative
By: Mary Prince
4.11
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Born in Bermuda to a house slave in 1788, Mary Prince suffered the first of many soul-shattering ex… read more
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8. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
By: Michelle Alexander
3.77
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"As the United States celebrates the nation's 'triumph over race' with the election of Barack Obama… read more
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9. The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
By: Edward E. Baptist
4.34
Format: 132 pages, Hardcover
Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution--the nation's original sin, perhaps, but… read more
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10. Insurgent Cuba: Race, Nation, and Revolution, 1868-1898
By: Ada Ferrer
3.69
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
In the late nineteenth century, in an age of ascendant racism and imperial expansion, there emerged… read more
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11. Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South
By: None
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
Recent scholarship on slavery has explored the lives of enslaved people beyond the watchful eye of … read more
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12. 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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13. Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America
By: Nicole Eustace
3.61
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
On the eve of a major treaty conference between Iroquois leaders and European colonists in the dist… read more
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14. Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World (Early American Studies)
By: Jessica Marie Johnson
4.27
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
The story of freedom pivots on the choices black women made to retain control over their bodies and… read more
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15. Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic
By: Jennifer L. Morgan
4.37
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
In Reckoning with Slavery Jennifer L. Morgan draws on the lived experiences of enslaved African wom… read more
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16. Freedom's Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution
By: Ada Ferrer
4.19
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
During the Haitian Revolution of 1791–1804, arguably the most radical revolution of the modern worl… read more
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17. Thinking About History
By: Sarah C. Maza
4.09
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
What distinguishes history as a discipline from other fields of study? That's the animating questio… read more
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18. Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction
By: Kate Masur
4.20
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
The half-century before the Civil War was beset with conflict over equality as well as freedom. Beg… read more
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19. Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation
By: Kris Manjapra
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A revelatory historical indictment of the long afterlife of slavery in the Atlantic world To fully … read more
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20. The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas
By: Monica Muñoz Martinez
4.48
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A moving account of a little-known period of state-sponsored racial terror inflicted on ethnic Mexi… read more
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21. A Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787 - 1804
By: Laurent Dubois
4.00
Format: 472 pages, Paperback
The idea of universal rights is often understood as the product of Europe, but as Laurent Dubois de… read more
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