Black Culture and the New Deal: The Quest for Civil Rights in the Roosevelt Era
By: Lauren Rebecca Sklaroff
3.47
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
In the 1930s, the Roosevelt administration--unwilling to antagonize a powerful southern congression…
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1. To 'joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors After the Civil War
By: Tera W. Hunter
4.18
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Tera Hunter follows African-American working women from their newfound optimism and hope at the end… read more
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2. Ar'n't I a Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South
By: Deborah Gray White
4.18
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Living with the dual burdens of racism and sexism, slave women in the plantation South assumed role… read more
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3. Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America
By: Peniel E. Joseph
3.76
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A gripping narrative that brings to life a legendary moment in American history: the birth, life, a… read more
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4. Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880
By: W.E.B. Du Bois , David Levering Lewis
3.90
Format: 309 pages, Paperback
The pioneering work in the study of the role of Black Americans during Reconstruction by the most i… read more
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5. 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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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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7. 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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8. Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination
By: Robin D.G. Kelley
4.25
Format: None pages, Paperback
Kelley unearths freedom dreams in this exciting history of renegade intellectuals and artists of th… read more
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9. Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household
By: Thavolia Glymph
3.95
Format: None pages, Paperback
This book views the plantation household as a site of production where competing visions of gender … read more
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10. The Only Good Indians
By: Stephen Graham Jones
3.70
Format: 305 pages, Hardcover
The creeping horror of Paul Tremblay meets Tommy Orange’s There There in a dark novel of revenge, c… read more
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"Names are stupid, though. Pretty soon he won't even need his."-Stephen Graham Jones, The Only Good Indians
"Lewis finds the fourteen-foot aluminum ladder under boxes in the garage, Three Stooges in into the backyard..."-Stephen Graham Jones, The Only Good Indians
"Dealing with cops is like being around a skittish horse: No sudden movements, nothing shiny or loud. Zero jokes."-Stephen Graham Jones, The Only Good Indians
"An elk mother, cornered, will slash with her hooves and tear with her mouth and even offer the hope of her own hamstrings, and if none of that works, she'll rise again years and years later, because …"-Stephen Graham Jones, The Only Good Indians
11. All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
By: Tiya Miles
3.95
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
In a display case in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture sits… read more
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"Though necessary to the work of uncovering the past, archives are nevertheless limited and misleading storehouses of information. While at times imposing and formal enough as to seem all-encompassing…"-Tiya Miles, All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
12. Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America
By: Keisha N. Blain
4.20
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Explores the Black activist's ideas and political strategies highlighting their relevance for tackl… read more
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13. How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America
By: Heather Cox Richardson
4.31
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
While the North prevailed in the Civil War, ending slavery and giving the country a "new birth of f… read more
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14. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present
By: David Treuer
4.23
Format: 526 pages, Kindle Edition
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE A sweeping history—and counter-narr… read more
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15. 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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16. Exodusters: Black Migration to Kansas After Reconstruction
By: Nell Irvin Painter
3.83
Format: 318 pages, Paperback
The first major migration to the North of ex-slaves. read more
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17. Terror in the Heart of Freedom: Citizenship, Sexual Violence, and the Meaning of Race in the Postemancipation South (Gender & American Culture)
By: Hannah Rosen
4.12
Format: 407 pages, Paperback
The meaning of race in the antebellum southern United States was anchored in the racial exclusivity… read more
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18. West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America after the Civil War
By: Heather Cox Richardson
3.93
Format: 413 pages, Kindle Edition
The story of Reconstruction is not simply about the rebuilding of the South after the Civil War. I… read more
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19. The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics
By: Mae M. Ngai
4.08
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
In roughly five decades, between 1848 and 1899, more gold was removed from the earth than had been … read more
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20. Troubled Refuge: Struggling for Freedom in the Civil War
By: Chandra Manning
4.12
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the author of What This Cruel War Was Over, a vivid portrait of the Union army’s escaped-slave… read more
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21. Black Culture and the New Deal: The Quest for Civil Rights in the Roosevelt Era
By: Lauren Rebecca Sklaroff
3.47
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
In the 1930s, the Roosevelt administration--unwilling to antagonize a powerful southern congression… read more
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