6 Top nonfiction books like Represented: The Black Imagemakers Who Reimagined African American Citizenship (American Business, Politics, and Society) by Brenna Wynn Greer

Cover of Represented: The Black Imagemakers Who Reimagined African American Citizenship (American Business, Politics, and Society) by Brenna Wynn Greer

Represented: The Black Imagemakers Who Reimagined African American Citizenship (American Business, Politics, and Society)

By: Brenna Wynn Greer

4.63

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In 1948, Moss Kendrix, a former New Deal public relations officer, founded a highly successful, Was…

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Cover of A Clash of Kings  (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2) by George R.R. Martin

1. A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2)

By: George R.R. Martin

4.42

Format: 1009 pages, Paperback

A comet the color of blood and flame cuts across the sky. Two great leaders—Lord Eddard Stark and R… read more

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"Because it will not last,"

-George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2)

"Mine is the blood of the dragon."

-George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2)

"Valar Morghulis- All men must die"

-George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2)

"His lips look like two worms fucking."

-George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2)

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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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  • history
  • nonfiction
"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

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3. Orientalism

By: None , Edward W. Said

4.12

Format: 424 pages, Paperback

More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the W… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"Toda época y toda sociedad recrea sus «otros»."

-None, Orientalism

"الإستشرق في جوهره مذهب سياسي فُرِضَ فَرْضاً على الشرق لأن الشرق كان أضعف من الغرب، وإنه تجاهل اختلاف الشرق الراجع إلى ضعفه."

-None, Orientalism

"It seems a common human failing to prefer the schematic authority of a text to the disorientations of direct encounters with the human."

-None, Orientalism

"إن مناقشات الشرق كانت تتسم بالغياب الكامل للشرق، لكن المرء يحس بأن المستشرق ومايقوله حاضران، ومع ذلك فيجب ألا ننسى أن الذي يمكِّن المستشرق من الحضور هو الغياب الفعلي للشرق."

-None, Orientalism

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4. In the Country of Men

By: شبنم سمیعیان , Hisham Matar

3.87

Format: 411 pages,

In the Country of Men is a stunning depiction of a child confronted with the effects of Libyan stro… read more

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5. Discourse on Colonialism

By: Robin D.G. Kelley , Aimé Césaire , Joan Pinkham

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Cesaire's essay stands as an important document in the development of third world consciousness--a… read more

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6. The Moving Finger (Miss Marple, #4)

By: Agatha Christie

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

The placid village of Lymstock seems the perfect place for Jerry Burton to recuperate from his acci… read more

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7. Black Skin, White Masks

By: Frantz Fanon , None

2.56

Format: 201 pages, Paperback

A major influence on international civil rights, anticolonial, and black consciousness movement, Bl… read more

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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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  • history
  • nonfiction
"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

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9. How the Clinic Made Gender: The Medical History of a Transformative Idea

By: Sandra Eder

4.23

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

An eye-opening exploration of the medical origins of gender in modern US history.  Today, a world … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"His childhood instilled in him a dislike of religious dogma and sexual prudery as well as a deep class-consciousness alongside his ambition to transcend his meager beginning, Science would become his…"

-Sandra Eder, How the Clinic Made Gender: The Medical History of a Transformative Idea

"Money spent the rest of his childhood in a predominantly female household in consistent poverty. His childhood instilled in him a dislike of religious dogma and sexual prudery as well as a deep class…"

-Sandra Eder, How the Clinic Made Gender: The Medical History of a Transformative Idea

"[John] Money spent the rest of his childhood in a predominantly female household in consistent poverty. His childhood instilled in him a dislike of religious dogma and sexual prudery as well as a dee…"

-Sandra Eder, How the Clinic Made Gender: The Medical History of a Transformative Idea

Cover of Fit to Be Citizens?: Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939 by Natalia Molina

10. Fit to Be Citizens?: Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939

By: Natalia Molina

4.08

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

Meticulously researched and beautifully written, Fit to Be Citizens? demonstrates how both science … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Represented: The Black Imagemakers Who Reimagined African American Citizenship (American Business, Politics, and Society) by Brenna Wynn Greer

11. Represented: The Black Imagemakers Who Reimagined African American Citizenship (American Business, Politics, and Society)

By: Brenna Wynn Greer

4.63

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In 1948, Moss Kendrix, a former New Deal public relations officer, founded a highly successful, Was… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction

6 best-selling history books like Represented: The Black Imagemakers Who Reimagined African American Citizenship (American Business, Politics, and Society) by Brenna Wynn Greer

Transform Your Habits

Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History

Michel-Rolph Trouillot

4.36

Transform Your Habits

Orientalism

None , Edward W. Said

4.12

Transform Your Habits

All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

Tiya Miles

3.95

Transform Your Habits

How the Clinic Made Gender: The Medical History of a Transformative Idea

Sandra Eder

4.23

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13 Top history books like How the Clinic Made Gender: The Medical History of a Transformative Idea by Sandra Eder

Transform Your Habits

Complete Writings

Phillis Wheatley , Vincent Carretta

3.66

Transform Your Habits

Herculine Barbin: Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth-century French Hermaphrodite

Michel Foucault , Herculine Barbin , Richard McDougall

3.66

Transform Your Habits

Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

Michel Foucault , Alan Sheridan , None , None , None

3.35

Transform Your Habits

The Archaeology of Knowledge & The Discourse on Language

Michel Foucault , None

3.95

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