Exquisite Slaves: Race, Clothing, and Status in Colonial Lima
By: Tamara J. Walker
4.12
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
In Exquisite Slaves, Tamara J. Walker examines how slaves used elegant clothing as a language for e…
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1. The Bluest Eye
By: Toni Morrison
4.12
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison's first novel, a book heralded for its richness of language and bol… read more
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"Lonely was much better than alone."-Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
"Maybe that was love. Choking sounds and silence."-Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
"She missed -- without knowing what she missed-- paints and crayons"-Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
"Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do."-Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
2. Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
By: Michel-Rolph Trouillot
4.36
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Placing the West's failure to acknowledge the most successful slave revolt in history alongside den… read more
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"I find it hard to harness respect for those who genuinely believe that postmodernity, whatever it may be, allows us to claim no roots."-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
"We are never as steeped in history as when we pretend not to be, but if we stop pretending we may gain in understanding what we lose in false innocence. Naiveté is often an excuse for those who exerc…"-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
". . . But the past does not exist independently from the present. Indeed, the past is only past because there is a present, just as I can point to something over there only because I am here. But not…"-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
3. Celia, A Slave
By: Melton A. McLaurin
3.52
Format: 192 pages, Mass Market Paperback
"Compelling. . . a shocking tale. . . a remarkable account. . . . McLaurin succeeds admirably in us… read more
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4. Lieutenant Nun: Memoir of a Basque Transvestite in the New World
By: Catalina de Erauso , Michele Stepto , None , Gabri Stepto
4.16
Format: 354 pages, Paperback
Named a New York Times Book ReviewNotable Book of 1996 One of the earliest known autobiographies by… read more
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5. The Living Mountain
By: Robert Macfarlane , Nan Shepherd
4.50
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
This is an alternate Cover Edition for . The Living Mountain is a lyrical testament in praise of t… read more
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6. 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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7. Daughter of the Moon Goddess (The Celestial Kingdom, #1)
By: Sue Lynn Tan
4.10
Format: 503 pages, Hardcover
Growing up on the moon, Xingyin is accustomed to solitude, unaware that she is being hidden from th… read more
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"Never again would I be content to remain in the shadows."-Sue Lynn Tan, Daughter of the Moon Goddess (The Celestial Kingdom, #1)
"Everyone has their own troubles; some lay them bare while others hide them better."-Sue Lynn Tan, Daughter of the Moon Goddess (The Celestial Kingdom, #1)
"Some scars are carved into our bones - a part of who we are, shaping what we become."-Sue Lynn Tan, Daughter of the Moon Goddess (The Celestial Kingdom, #1)
"I do care," he ground out. "despite my sense, my judgement and honor - I cannot help but care."-Sue Lynn Tan, Daughter of the Moon Goddess (The Celestial Kingdom, #1)
8. 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
9. 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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10. A Day of Fallen Night (The Roots of Chaos, #0)
By: Samantha Shannon
4.36
Format: 868 pages, Hardcover
In A Day of Fallen Night, Samantha Shannon sweeps readers back to the universe of Priory of the Or… read more
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"We could start by not scorning one another for our beliefs, or lack of them."-Samantha Shannon, A Day of Fallen Night (The Roots of Chaos, #0)
"We could start by not scorning one another for our beliefs, or lack of them." Thrit"-Samantha Shannon, A Day of Fallen Night (The Roots of Chaos, #0)
"Tunuva returned to her watching, knowing that this was the last night she would have everything she wanted in the world, all in one place."-Samantha Shannon, A Day of Fallen Night (The Roots of Chaos, #0)
"Desire had been a madness in her, grounded by a love that had filled her like a breath - as if it had always been meant, written on her soul when it was just a seed."-Samantha Shannon, A Day of Fallen Night (The Roots of Chaos, #0)
11. 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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12. 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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13. Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
By: Rebecca Hall
4.30
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Part graphic novel, part memoir, Wake is an imaginative tour-de-force that tells the story of women… read more
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"You think you are reading an accurate chronicle written at the time, but if we are and what we care about are deemed irrelevant, it won't be in there."-Rebecca Hall, Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
"History written by the victors always erases the resistance. And those of us who live in the wake/ruins learn that we're inferior and needed to be conquered and enslaved. This is the afterlife of sla…"-Rebecca Hall, Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
"Quantitative historians who use statistical tools to study big-picture historical trends, created a vast database of research on more than 36,000 slave ship voyages that took place over four hundred …"-Rebecca Hall, Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
14. Exquisite Slaves: Race, Clothing, and Status in Colonial Lima
By: Tamara J. Walker
4.12
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
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15. Things of Darkness: Economies of Race and Gender in Early Modern England
By: Kim F. Hall
4.26
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
The "Ethiope," the "tawny Tartar," the "woman blackamoore," and "knotty Africanisms"—allusions to b… read more
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