Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery
By: Jennifer L. Morgan
3.69
Format: 98 pages, Paperback
When black women were brought from Africa to the New World as slave laborers, their value was deter…
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1. Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution
By: Kathleen DuVal
3.87
Format: 435 pages, Hardcover
A rising-star historian offers a significant new global perspective on the Revolutionary War with t… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
2. 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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- gender
- race
- history
- nonfiction
3. The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness
By: Paul Gilroy
4.03
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
Afrocentrism. Eurocentrism. Caribbean Studies. British Studies. To the forces of cultural national… read more
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- nonfiction
- race
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- academic
4. Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands
By: Juliana Barr
3.79
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Revising the standard narrative of European-Indian relations in America, Juliana Barr reconstructs … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- read for school
5. 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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- nonfiction
- history
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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
6. 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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"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
7. Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market
By: Walter Johnson
4.11
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Soul by Soul tells the story of slavery in antebellum America by moving away from the cotton planta… read more
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- nonfiction
- race
- history
8. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England
By: William Cronon , John Putnam Demos , Tere LoPrete
3.66
Format: 296 pages,
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- nonfiction
- history
9. Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia
By: Kathleen M. Brown
3.50
Format: 218 pages, Paperback
Kathleen Brown examines the origins of racism and slavery in British North America from the perspec… read more
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- race
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- feminism
- gender
- nonfiction
10. Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression
By: Robin D.G. Kelley
5.00
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Between 1929 and 1941, the Communist Party organized and led a radical, militantly antiracist movem… read more
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- nonfiction
- race
- history
11. Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery
By: Jennifer L. Morgan
3.69
Format: 98 pages, Paperback
When black women were brought from Africa to the New World as slave laborers, their value was deter… read more
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- academic
- read for school
- nonfiction
12. Living a Feminist Life
By: Sara Ahmed
4.10
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In Living a Feminist LifeSara Ahmed shows how feminist theory is generated from everyday life and t… read more
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- feminism
- gender
- nonfiction
- academic
13. Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves & the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia
By: Woody Holton
3.87
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this provocative reinterpretation of one of the best-known events in American history, Woody Hol… read more
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14. American Slavery, American Freedom
By: Edmund S. Morgan
4.21
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
In the American Revolution, Virginians were the most eloquent spokesmen for freedom and quality. Ge… read more
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15. Palestine's Children: Returning to Haifa and Other Stories
By: غسان كنفاني , Barbara Harlow , Ghassan Kanafani , None
4.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
Short stories describing the Palestinian experience of the Middle East conflict. Each involves a ch… read more
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16. 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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17. Nothing But Freedom: Emancipation and Its Legacy
By: Eric Foner
4.26
Format: None pages, Paperback
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18. 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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19. Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America
By: Rachel Hope Cleves
3.80
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Conventional wisdom holds that same-sex marriage is a purely modern innovation, a concept born of a… read more
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20. Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America
By: Nicole Eustace
3.61
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
On the eve of a major treaty conference between Iroquois leaders and European colonists in the dist… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
21. The Indian Great Awakening: Religion and the Shaping of Native Cultures in Early America
By: Linford D. Fisher
3.78
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
The First Great Awakening was a time of heightened religious activity in the colonial New England. … read more
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- history
- academic
22. 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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- nonfiction
- race
- history
"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
23. The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
By: Ned Blackhawk
4.18
Format: 596 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping and overdue retelling of U.S. history that recognizes that Native Americans are essentia… read more
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- nonfiction
- race
- history
24. Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
By: Deirdre Cooper Owens
4.14
Format: 182 pages, Kindle Edition
The accomplishments of pioneering doctors such as John Peter Mettauer, James Marion Sims, and Natha… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- race
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25. Female Husbands: A Trans History
By: Jen Manion
4.01
Format: 350 pages, Hardcover
Long before people identified as transgender or lesbian, there were female husbands and the women w… read more
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- feminism
- gender
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- nonfiction
26. Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War
By: Vincent Brown
4.16
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A gripping account of the largest slave revolt in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world, an… read more
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- race
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- academic
27. No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity (Justice, Power, and Politics)
By: Sarah Haley
4.45
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries imprisoned black women faced wrenching forms o… read more
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- history
- feminism
- gender
- nonfiction
28. Gendered Strife and Confusion: The Political Culture of Reconstruction
By: Laura F. Edwards
3.15
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Exploring the gendered dimension of political conflicts, Laura Edwards links transformations in pri… read more
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29. 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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- race
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30. 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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31. Menace to Empire: Anticolonial Solidarities and the Transpacific Origins of the US Security State (Volume 63) (American Crossroads)
By: Moon-Ho Jung
4.06
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
One of Smithsonian Magazine 's Favorite Books of 2022 This history reveals how radical threats to … read more
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- race
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