10 Top race books like White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea by Tyler Stovall

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Similar categories in Noam Chomsky's On Palestine book and Tyler Stovall's White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea

• history
• politics
• nonfiction
• social justice
• audiobook

"It's quite standard for those who hold the clubs to say: "Forget about everything that happened and let's just go on from here." In other words, "I've got what I want, and out forget about what your …"

-Noam Chomsky, On Palestine

"How, then, does one become an activist? The easy answer would be to say that we do not become activists; we simply forget that we are. We are all born with compassion, generosity, and love for others…"

-Noam Chomsky, On Palestine

Similar categories in Fred Gipson's Old Yeller book and Tyler Stovall's White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea

"... I guessed that when you are nearly a man, you have to learn to put up with a lot of aggravation from little old bitty kids."

-Fred Gipson, Old Yeller

"You're getting to be a big boy; and while I'm gone, you'll be the man of the family. I want you to act like one. You take care of Mama and Little Arliss. You look after the work and don't wait around…"

-Fred Gipson, Old Yeller

"Well, when you're fourteen years old, you can't afford to mix in a rock fight with your five-year-old brother. You can't do it, even when you're in the right. You just can't explain a thing like that…"

-Fred Gipson, Old Yeller

"That was as rough a thing as I ever heard tell of happening to a boy. And I'm mighty proud to learn how my boy stood up to it. You couldn't ask any more of a grown man... It's not a thing you can for…"

-Fred Gipson, Old Yeller

Similar categories in Sinclair Lewis's It Can't Happen Here book and Tyler Stovall's White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea

• politics
• audiobook

"NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged."

-Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here

"So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting."

-Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here

"Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on."

-Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here

"It isn't what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class."

-Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here

Similar categories in David Graeber's Debt: The First 5,000 Years book and Tyler Stovall's White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea

• politics
• history
• nonfiction

Similar categories in Noam Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media book and Tyler Stovall's White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea

• politics
• history
• nonfiction
• sociology

Similar categories in Bethany McLean's The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron book and Tyler Stovall's White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea

• nonfiction
• history

Similar categories in Charles C. Mann's 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created book and Tyler Stovall's White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea

• american history
• history
• nonfiction

Similar categories in Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor's How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective book and Tyler Stovall's White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea

Similar categories in Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism book and Tyler Stovall's White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea

Similar categories in Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3) book and Tyler Stovall's White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea

• american history
• race
• history
• historical
• politics
• nonfiction
• social justice
• audiobook

"Of a thousand Red Stick and allied insurgents, eight hundred were killed. [Andrew] Jackson lost forty-nine men."

-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)

"Once elected president, Jackson lost no time in initiating the removal of all Indigenous farmers and the destruction of all their towns in the South."

-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)

"[Theodore] Roosevelt referred to [Emilio] Aguinaldo as a "renegade Pawnee" and observed that Filipinos did not have the right to govern their country just because they happened to occupy it."

-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)

"The establishment of the missions and presidios from San Diego and Los Angeles and Santa Barbara to Carmel, San Francisco, and Sonoma, traces the colonization of California's Indigenous nations. The …"

-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)

Similar categories in Charles C. Mann's 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus book and Tyler Stovall's White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea

Similar categories in Imani Perry's South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation book and Tyler Stovall's White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea

• american history
• race
• history
• politics
• nonfiction
• social justice
• african american
• audiobook

"So I went deeper into an archive of historical memory, hoping to sort it out"

-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

"Acting like you know everything and acting like you don't know how to be respectful will keep you ignorant. Be humble."

-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

"And yes, slavery was abolished, Jim Crow is over, but the prisons, the persistence of poverty, are constant reminders of how the past made the present."

-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

"What, by analogy, happens to the family of the university, or the town, or the state, or the Old Dominion, or the nation itself, given what has been built into its creation?"

-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

Similar categories in Erik Larson's The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War book and Tyler Stovall's White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea

• american history
• history
• historical
• politics
• nonfiction
• audiobook

"A house divided against itself cannot stand."

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"Lincoln on a sofa was like a ship's mast on a barstool, poised in an uneasy equilibrium between relaxation and structural collapse."

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"They were convinced that Britain, once confronted with the loss of Southern cotton, would ally itself with the Confederacy—the “cotton is king"

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum. [James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]"

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Similar categories in Jonathan Eig's King: A Life book and Tyler Stovall's White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea

• american history
• race
• history
• politics
• nonfiction
• social justice
• audiobook

Similar categories in Brian Klaas's Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us book and Tyler Stovall's White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea

• history
• politics
• nonfiction
• sociology
• audiobook

Similar categories in David Graeber's The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity book and Tyler Stovall's White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea

• history
• politics
• nonfiction
• sociology
• audiobook

"Humans - from this other perspective, which is just as extreme in its own way - are at best an arbitrary constellation of cultural elements, perhaps assembled according to some prevailing spirit, cod…"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

"One might ask, how could that most basic element of all human freedoms, the freedom to make promises and commitments and thus build relationships, be turned into its very opposite: into peonage, serf…"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

"There is an obvious objection to evolutionary models which assume that our strongest social ties are based on close biological kinship: many humans just don’t like their families very much. And this …"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

"In the Middle Ages, most people in other parts of the world who actually knew anything about northern Europe at all considered it an obscure and uninviting backwater full of religious fanatics who, a…"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

Similar categories in Matthew Desmond's Poverty, by America book and Tyler Stovall's White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea

• history
• politics
• nonfiction
• social justice
• sociology
• audiobook

"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

Similar categories in Greg Grandin's The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America book and Tyler Stovall's White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea

• american history
• race
• history
• politics
• nonfiction
• social justice
• sociology
• audiobook

"Having been born into a large litter and raised, as one republican put it, in a shared New World household, Spanish American nations were socialized at an early age. The United States, in contrast, w…"

-Greg Grandin, The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America

"Taking Texas, Adams feared, would lock in the worldview that Jackson represented. The country was already fighting what Adams considered a perpetual war on Native Americans, a crusade that Jacksonian…"

-Greg Grandin, The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America

"In other words, the United States won independence from Great Britain in a revolutionary war that was, among other reasons, fought to deny Great Britain the right to establish a western border; then,…"

-Greg Grandin, The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America

"The Confederate flag stopped flying as the pennant of reconciliation, the joining of the southern military tradition to northern establishment might to spread Americanism abroad. It now was the banne…"

-Greg Grandin, The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America

Similar categories in Tim Alberta's The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism book and Tyler Stovall's White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea

• american history
• history
• politics
• nonfiction
• audiobook

Similar categories in Daniel Immerwahr's How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States book and Tyler Stovall's White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea

• american history
• history
• historical
• politics
• nonfiction
• audiobook

"At various times, inhabitants of the U.S. Empire have been shot, shelled, starved, interned, dispossessed, tortured, and experimented on. What they haven't been, by and large, is seen."

-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States

"Hoover’s greatest challenge was one of the least visible: the humble screw thread. Screws, nuts, and bolts are universal fasteners. They function in industrial societies, as one writer put it, like s…"

-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States

Similar categories in Ijeoma Oluo's Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America book and Tyler Stovall's White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea

• race
• history
• politics
• nonfiction
• social justice
• sociology
• audiobook

"It's the expectations that many white men have that they shouldn't have to climb, shouldn't have to struggle, as others do. It's the idea not only that they think they have less than others, but that…"

-Ijeoma Oluo, Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America

Similar categories in Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò's Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else) book and Tyler Stovall's White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea

• race
• history
• politics
• nonfiction
• social justice
• sociology
• audiobook

"A philosopher Briana Toole clarifies, by itself, one's social location only puts a person in a position to know; 'epistemic privilege' or advantage, on the other hand, is achieved only through delibe…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"Elites do often make the environment worse and block solutions, but to blame the problem of elite capture entirely on their moral successes and failures is to confuse effect for cause. The true probl…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"To opt for deference, rather than interdependence, may soothe short-term psychological wounds. But it does so at a steep cost: it may undermine the goals that motivated the project--and it entrenches…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"As Carter G. Woodson realized, many of our decisions are shaped by decisions that someone with more power made before us. The whole social structure affects how institutional systems, like schools, f…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

Similar categories in N.T. Wright's Jesus and the Powers: Christian Political Witness in an Age of Totalitarian Terror and Dysfunctional Democracies book and Tyler Stovall's White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea

• politics
• nonfiction

Similar categories in J.B. MacKinnon's The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves book and Tyler Stovall's White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea

• politics
• nonfiction
• sociology
• audiobook

"We can't stop shopping, we must stop shopping. It isn't only that consumption is distorting the climate, felling the forests, cluttering out lives, filling our heads with a throwaway mindset, even st…"

-J.B. MacKinnon, The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves

Similar categories in Eric Foner's The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution book and Tyler Stovall's White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea

• american history
• race
• history
• politics
• nonfiction

Similar categories in Bradley Onishi's Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism—and What Comes Next book and Tyler Stovall's White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea

• american history
• race
• history
• politics
• nonfiction
• sociology
• audiobook

Similar categories in Elizabeth Comen's All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today book and Tyler Stovall's White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea

• nonfiction
• history
• audiobook

"The role of women was proscribed in medicine as in society, bolstered by the stereotype of the female nurturer: Doctors cured. Nurses cared."

-Elizabeth Comen, All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today

"A man with high testosterone, it was understood, was virile, a warrior, a stud. A woman with too much estrogen, on the other hand, was just crazy."

-Elizabeth Comen, All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today

"The idea was just this: that there is something beautiful, and wonderfully feminine, and powerful and empowering at once, about a woman who can’t breathe."

-Elizabeth Comen, All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today

"Between the purported sex appeal of tuberculosis and its special deadliness in young people, being afflicted with the disease—or at least, looking like you were—became associated with a certain statu…"

-Elizabeth Comen, All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today

Similar categories in David Gelles's The Man Who Broke Capitalism: How Jack Welch Gutted the Heartland and Crushed the Soul of Corporate America―and How to Undo His Legacy book and Tyler Stovall's White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea

• american history
• history
• politics
• nonfiction
• audiobook

Similar categories in Tyler Stovall's White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea book and Tyler Stovall's White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea

• american history
• race
• history
• historical
• politics
• nonfiction
• social justice
• african american
• sociology
• audiobook

Similar categories in Stephen D. Morrison's All Riches Come From Injustice: The Anti-mammon Witness of the Early Church & Its Anti-capitalist Relevance book and Tyler Stovall's White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea

Similar categories in Wright Thompson's The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi book and Tyler Stovall's White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea

• american history
• race
• history
• historical
• nonfiction
• social justice
• african american
• audiobook