Development Arrested: Race, Power and the Blues in the Mississippi Delta
By: Clyde Woods
4.67
Format: 342 pages, Hardcover
Development Arrested is a major reinterpretation of the two-centuries-old conflict between the Afri…
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1. They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
4.57
Format: 291 pages, Paperback
In an age of confusion, fear, and loss, Hanif Abdurraqib's is a voice that matters. Whether he's at… read more
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- music
- politics
- race
- nonfiction
"We make our own music to celebrate our dead where we must."-Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
"Home is where the heart begins, but not where the heart stays."-Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
"It is a luxury to see some violence as terror and other violence as necessary."-Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
"It's in the spirit of male loneliness to imagine that someone has to suffer for it."-Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
2. Debt: The First 5,000 Years
By: David Graeber
3.61
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Before there was money, there was debt Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was inve… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
3. Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition
By: Cedric J. Robinson
4.04
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this ambitious work, first published in 1983, Cedric Robinson demonstrates that efforts to under… read more
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- race
- history
- theory
- politics
- nonfiction
4. Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
By: Octavia E. Butler
3.82
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
In 2025, with the world descending into madness and anarchy, one woman begins a fateful journey tow… read more
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5. Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
By: Christopher R. Browning
4.10
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
Christopher R. Browning’s shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the … read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"The behavior of any human being is, of course, a very complex phenomenon, and the historian who attempts to "explain" it is indulging in a certain arrogance."-Christopher R. Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
"This story of ordinary men is not the story of all men. The reserve policemen faced choices, and most of them committed terrible deeds. But those who killed cannot be absolved by the notion that anyo…"-Christopher R. Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
"What, then, is one to conclude? Most of all, one comes away from the story of Reserve Police Battalion 101 with great unease. This story of ordinary men is not the story of all men. The reserve polic…"-Christopher R. Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
"At the same time, however, the collective behavior of Reserve Police Battalion 101 has deeply disturbing implications. There are many societies afflicted by traditions of racism and caught in the sie…"-Christopher R. Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
6. 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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- politics
- race
- history
- nonfiction
7. Revolutionary Road
By: Richard Yates
3.90
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
In the hopeful 1950s, Frank and April Wheeler appear to be a model couple: bright, beautiful, talen… read more
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8. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
By: Haruki Murakami , Jay Rubin
3.92
Format: None pages, Paperback
Japan's most highly regarded novelist now vaults into the first ranks of international fiction writ… read more
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9. The Communist Manifesto
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Gareth Stedman Jones
3.66
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today Originally published on the eve of th… read more
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- theory
- politics
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- nonfiction
"The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"Study of the past often turns into love of the past and a desire to keep it."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps"-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
10. Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
By: Silvia Federici
4.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
Literary Nonfiction. CALIBAN AND THE WITCH is a history of the body in the transition to capitalism… read more
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11. Playing Indian
By: Philip J. Deloria
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Boston Tea Party, the Order of Red Men, Camp Fire Girls, Boy Scouts, Grateful Dead concerts are… read more
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12. Salvage the Bones
By: Jesmyn Ward
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2011 National Book Award for FictionA hurricane is building over the Gulf of Mexico, … read more
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13. 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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14. Long Live the Post Horn!
By: Vigdis Hjorth
3.67
Format: 240 pages, ebook
Ellinor, a 35-year-old media consultant, has not been feeling herself; she's not been feeling much … read more
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- politics
"A letter is practically a gift."-Vigdis Hjorth, Long Live the Post Horn!
"What do we do with our despair if our lives are too small to contain it?"-Vigdis Hjorth, Long Live the Post Horn!
"What do we do with our despair if our lives are too small to contain it?’ . . . .accept that there’s so much we’ll never understand intellectually and try to live with things which don’t add up, that…"-Vigdis Hjorth, Long Live the Post Horn!
15. Martyr!
By: Kaveh Akbar
4.24
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves… read more
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16. 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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- race
- history
- academic
- nonfiction
17. A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
4.60
Format: 301 pages, Hardcover
A stirring meditation on Black performance in America from the New York Times bestselling author of… read more
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- nonfiction
- race
- history
"When someone loves loudly, with everything they have in them, the withholding of that loud love, even briefly, feels impossible to endure."-Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
"If I am going to be afraid, I might as well do it honest. Arm in arm with everyone I love, adorned in blood and bruises, singing jokes on our way to the grave."-Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
"I have wanted to die enough times in my life to understand the idea that wanting to die is not a foolish thing... I don't mean to prop up the idea of wanting an exit, but for me, not to imagine it as…"-Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
"Of the many things America loves to pat itself on the back about, one of the things is an obsession with exploration, or the desire to seek places beyond the places you are from or the places you hav…"-Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
18. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
By: Rashid Khalidi
4.50
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
19. The Twilight Zone
By: Nona Fernández
4.20
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
An engrossing, incantatory novel about the legacy of historical crimes by the author of Space Invad… read more
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"No importa lo que ves, importa lo que crees que ves."-Nona Fernández, The Twilight Zone
"Ser estúpido es una elección personal y no necesariamente hay que llevar uniforme para ejercer ese maligno talento."-Nona Fernández, The Twilight Zone
"La empatía y la compasión son rasgos de lucidez, la posibilidad de ponerse en los zapatos del otro, de transmutar la piel y enmascararse con un rostro ajeno es un ejercicio de pura inteligencia."-Nona Fernández, The Twilight Zone
"I believe that evil is directly proportional to idiocy. I believe that the territory you roamed in anguish before you disappeared is ruled by idiots. It isn’t true that criminals are masterminds. It …"-Nona Fernández, The Twilight Zone
20. Demonic Grounds: Black Women And The Cartographies Of Struggle
By: Katherine McKittrick
4.49
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In a long overdue contribution to geography and social theory, Katherine McKittrick offers a new an… read more
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- theory
- research
- academic
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- geography
21. What Blood Won't Tell: A History of Race on Trial in America
By: Ariela J. Gross
4.28
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Is race something we know when we see it? In 1857, Alexina Morrison, a slave in Louisiana, ran away… read more
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- race
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- american history
22. Development Arrested: Race, Power and the Blues in the Mississippi Delta
By: Clyde Woods
4.67
Format: 342 pages, Hardcover
Development Arrested is a major reinterpretation of the two-centuries-old conflict between the Afri… read more
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- history
- theory
- politics
- research
- academic
- nonfiction
- geography
