Ras

Böcker i denna genre konfronterar de komplexa verkligheterna kring rasidentitet, rättvisa och makt i samhället genom personliga berättelser, vetenskaplig analys och kulturell kommentar. Dessa viktiga verk granskar systemisk rasism, medborgerliga rättigheter, massfängslande, utbildningsreform och de levda erfarenheterna hos icke-vita personer i olika tider och på olika platser.

Ras Boksammanfattningar

Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls

av T Kira Madden • 2019

A fatherless girl in Boca Raton craves a fierce love and finds it in dangerous places.

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🧒 Fatherlessness 🌐 Mixed-Race Identity 🌈 Queer Coming Of Age 🔗 Intergenerational Trauma ✍️ Confessional Memoir

Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls

A fatherless girl in Boca Raton craves a fierce love and finds it in dangerous places.

av T Kira Madden 2019 336 sidor

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10 000+ betyg

🧒 Fatherlessness 🌐 Mixed-Race Identity 🌈 Queer Coming Of Age 🔗 Intergenerational Trauma ✍️ Confessional Memoir

Black in Blues

av Imani Perry • 2025

Indigo was traded for human life. How blue became the keeper of Black grief, art, and survival.

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3 000+

📖 African American History 📚 Black Cultural Criticism 🔵 Cultural History Of Color 🎶 Music And Identity 🕯️ Spiritual Folkways

Black in Blues

Indigo was traded for human life. How blue became the keeper of Black grief, art, and survival.

av Imani Perry 2025 248 sidor

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3 000+ betyg

📖 African American History 📚 Black Cultural Criticism 🔵 Cultural History Of Color 🎶 Music And Identity 🕯️ Spiritual Folkways

Best American Essays 2018

av Hilton Als • 2018

The essay as weapon and refuge: twenty-seven writers on race, memory, and a nation on edge.

3.53

350

✍️ The Essay Form 🖋️ Personal Essays 💬 Cultural Criticism 🖤 Race In America 📰 Literary Journalism

Best American Essays 2018

The essay as weapon and refuge: twenty-seven writers on race, memory, and a nation on edge.

av Hilton Als 2018 336 sidor

3.53

350 betyg

✍️ The Essay Form 🖋️ Personal Essays 💬 Cultural Criticism 🖤 Race In America 📰 Literary Journalism

A Renaissance of Our Own

av Rachel Elizabeth Cargle • 2023

A Black feminist's roadmap for redesigning your inherited belief systems, relationships, and work.

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📜 Memoir Manifesto 🥷 Black Feminism ✳️ Intersectional Feminism ☕ White Feminism Critique 🛌 Rest As Resistance

A Renaissance of Our Own

A Black feminist's roadmap for redesigning your inherited belief systems, relationships, and work.

av Rachel Elizabeth Cargle 2023 256 sidor

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📜 Memoir Manifesto 🥷 Black Feminism ✳️ Intersectional Feminism ☕ White Feminism Critique 🛌 Rest As Resistance

Writings of Abraham Lincoln

av Abraham Lincoln • 1953

The man who saved the Union, in his own words: the speeches and letters behind the legend.

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🏛️ Presidential Biography ⚔️ Civil War History ⛓️ Antislavery Thought ⚖️ Moral Leadership 📜 Primary Sources

Writings of Abraham Lincoln

The man who saved the Union, in his own words: the speeches and letters behind the legend.

av Abraham Lincoln 1953

4.13

313 betyg

🏛️ Presidential Biography ⚔️ Civil War History ⛓️ Antislavery Thought ⚖️ Moral Leadership 📜 Primary Sources

Justice at Work

av Marc Doussard • 2022

How coalitions fuse racial and economic justice to win policy in cities.

5.00

🏙️ Urban Policy ✊ Labor Movements 🤝 Coalition Building ⚖️ Racial Justice 📢 Community Organizing

Justice at Work

How coalitions fuse racial and economic justice to win policy in cities.

av Marc Doussard 2022 252 sidor

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3 betyg

🏙️ Urban Policy ✊ Labor Movements 🤝 Coalition Building ⚖️ Racial Justice 📢 Community Organizing

Impounded

av Linda Gordon • 2006

Dorothea Lange's internment photos were impounded: they showed the humanity the government denied.

4.28

393

🏮 Japanese Internment 📷 Documentary Photography 🔒 Wartime Incarceration ⚖️ Civil Liberties 🚫 Government Censorship

Impounded

Dorothea Lange's internment photos were impounded: they showed the humanity the government denied.

av Linda Gordon 2006 224 sidor

4.28

393 betyg

🏮 Japanese Internment 📷 Documentary Photography 🔒 Wartime Incarceration ⚖️ Civil Liberties 🚫 Government Censorship

We Do This 'til We Free Us

av Mariame Kaba • 2021

The carceral system works as designed. It is not broken. Abolition is the alternative.

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🔓 Prison Abolition 🌱 Transformative Justice 🫂 Restorative Justice 🤲 Collective Care 🔗 Intersectional Organizing

We Do This 'til We Free Us

The carceral system works as designed. It is not broken. Abolition is the alternative.

av Mariame Kaba 2021 240 sidor

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6 000+ betyg

🔓 Prison Abolition 🌱 Transformative Justice 🫂 Restorative Justice 🤲 Collective Care 🔗 Intersectional Organizing

Black Rednecks and White Liberals

av Thomas Sowell • 2005

Liberals protect a dysfunctional culture that black communities learned from white Southerners.

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⚖️ Racial Inequality 🌍 Cultural Persistence 🗣️ Victimhood Culture 📚 Black Education ⛓️‍💥 Abolition History

Black Rednecks and White Liberals

Liberals protect a dysfunctional culture that black communities learned from white Southerners.

av Thomas Sowell 2005 372 sidor

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⚖️ Racial Inequality 🌍 Cultural Persistence 🗣️ Victimhood Culture 📚 Black Education ⛓️‍💥 Abolition History

Black American Refugee

av Tiffanie Drayton • 2022

America showers Black immigrants with hope, then yanks it back. One woman's escape.

4.03

331

🧳 Black Immigrant Experience 🌴 Caribbean Diaspora ⛓️ Systemic Racism 🪞 Internalized Racism 🎭 Code-Switching

Black American Refugee

America showers Black immigrants with hope, then yanks it back. One woman's escape.

av Tiffanie Drayton 2022 304 sidor

4.03

331 betyg

🧳 Black Immigrant Experience 🌴 Caribbean Diaspora ⛓️ Systemic Racism 🪞 Internalized Racism 🎭 Code-Switching

Our Beautiful Boys

av Sameer Pandya • 2025

One night of violence at a cavehouse party shatters the facades of three suburban families.

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🏈 High School Football 🌏 Immigrant Families 🖤 Race And Privilege 😔 Guilt And Redemption 🏡 Suburban Secrets

Our Beautiful Boys

One night of violence at a cavehouse party shatters the facades of three suburban families.

av Sameer Pandya 2025 400 sidor

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🏈 High School Football 🌏 Immigrant Families 🖤 Race And Privilege 😔 Guilt And Redemption 🏡 Suburban Secrets

The Prosecutor

av Nazir Afzal • 2020

He reversed the decision on the Rochdale gangs. Then he had to prove they were guilty.

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⚖️ Criminal Prosecution 👰 Honour Based Violence 🛑 Child Sexual Exploitation ⛓️ Modern Slavery 🏛️ Institutional Reform

The Prosecutor

He reversed the decision on the Rochdale gangs. Then he had to prove they were guilty.

av Nazir Afzal 2020 304 sidor

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⚖️ Criminal Prosecution 👰 Honour Based Violence 🛑 Child Sexual Exploitation ⛓️ Modern Slavery 🏛️ Institutional Reform

The Pain We Carry

av Natalie Y. Gutiérrez • 2022

Racial trauma is stored in the body. Breath, ancestors, and self-compassion are the medicine.

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🩸 Racial Trauma 🧠 Complex Ptsd ✊🏾 Bipoc Mental Health 🧘 Somatic Healing 🔗 Intergenerational Trauma

The Pain We Carry

Racial trauma is stored in the body. Breath, ancestors, and self-compassion are the medicine.

av Natalie Y. Gutiérrez 2022 208 sidor

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🩸 Racial Trauma 🧠 Complex Ptsd ✊🏾 Bipoc Mental Health 🧘 Somatic Healing 🔗 Intergenerational Trauma

The Black History of the White House

av Clarence Lusane • 2011

Enslaved laborers built the White House. The racial reckoning inside its walls has never stopped.

4.15

434

🏛️ White House History ⛓️ Slavery And Resistance 🚋 Jim Crow Era 🏗️ Reconstruction ✊ Civil Rights Movement

The Black History of the White House

Enslaved laborers built the White House. The racial reckoning inside its walls has never stopped.

av Clarence Lusane 2011 575 sidor

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434 betyg

🏛️ White House History ⛓️ Slavery And Resistance 🚋 Jim Crow Era 🏗️ Reconstruction ✊ Civil Rights Movement

Killing the Dream

av Gerald Posner • 1998

No government plot, no mob hit. A racist drifter's meticulous path to a Memphis balcony.

4.09

220

🔫 Political Assassinations 🕵️ Conspiracy Debunking 📋 Forensic Journalism ✊ Civil Rights History 🎯 Lone Gunman Theory

Killing the Dream

No government plot, no mob hit. A racist drifter's meticulous path to a Memphis balcony.

av Gerald Posner 1998 448 sidor

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220 betyg

🔫 Political Assassinations 🕵️ Conspiracy Debunking 📋 Forensic Journalism ✊ Civil Rights History 🎯 Lone Gunman Theory

The Hate Next Door

av Matson Browning • 2023

An undercover cop infiltrates white supremacy. The scariest part: how ordinary it looks.

4.16

500+

🕳️ White Supremacy 🕵️ Undercover Investigation 🧠 Radicalization ⚖️ Law Enforcement Critique ✊ Antiracist Activism

The Hate Next Door

An undercover cop infiltrates white supremacy. The scariest part: how ordinary it looks.

av Matson Browning 2023 368 sidor

4.16

500+ betyg

🕳️ White Supremacy 🕵️ Undercover Investigation 🧠 Radicalization ⚖️ Law Enforcement Critique ✊ Antiracist Activism

Unreliable Narrator

av Aparna Nancherla • 2023

Off stage, she was still performing. A comedian on the exhausting act of looking okay.

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🎤 Comedian Memoirs 🎭 Impostor Syndrome 😅 Depression And Humor 🤫 Introversion 🪞 Body Image

Unreliable Narrator

Off stage, she was still performing. A comedian on the exhausting act of looking okay.

av Aparna Nancherla 2023 289 sidor

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🎤 Comedian Memoirs 🎭 Impostor Syndrome 😅 Depression And Humor 🤫 Introversion 🪞 Body Image

The Paris Express

av Emma Donoghue • 2025

An anarchist boards the 1895 Paris Express with a bomb, a grudge, and a faltering will.

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🏴 Anarchist Fiction 📖 Literary Suspense 🧩 Interwoven Lives 🕰️ Fin De SièCle ⚖️ Act Of Conscience

The Paris Express

An anarchist boards the 1895 Paris Express with a bomb, a grudge, and a faltering will.

av Emma Donoghue 2025 274 sidor

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🏴 Anarchist Fiction 📖 Literary Suspense 🧩 Interwoven Lives 🕰️ Fin De SièCle ⚖️ Act Of Conscience

Red Nation Rising

av Nick Estes • 2021

Every American town is a bordertown, built on stolen land and guarded by scalp hunters' heirs.

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159

🏚️ Settler Colonialism 🗳️ Native American Politics ✊ Indigenous Resistance 🚫 Police Abolition 🌱 Decolonization

Red Nation Rising

Every American town is a bordertown, built on stolen land and guarded by scalp hunters' heirs.

av Nick Estes 2021 176 sidor

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159 betyg

🏚️ Settler Colonialism 🗳️ Native American Politics ✊ Indigenous Resistance 🚫 Police Abolition 🌱 Decolonization

The Last Juror

av John Grisham • 2004

A new Mississippi paper owner covers a murder trial as a crime family threatens the jury.

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⚖️ Legal Thriller 📰 Small-Town Newspaper 🤝 Interracial Friendship 🌅 1970s South 👑 Crime Family

The Last Juror

A new Mississippi paper owner covers a murder trial as a crime family threatens the jury.

av John Grisham 2004 278 sidor

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⚖️ Legal Thriller 📰 Small-Town Newspaper 🤝 Interracial Friendship 🌅 1970s South 👑 Crime Family

Not Stolen

av Jeff Fynn-Paul • 2023

Genocide, stolen land, settler colonialism: a historian says the common story gets all three wrong.

4.13

463

🪶 Native American History 🌎 Settler Colonialism 🔍 Revisionist History ⚖️ Genocide Debate 🏛️ Federal Indian Policy

Not Stolen

Genocide, stolen land, settler colonialism: a historian says the common story gets all three wrong.

av Jeff Fynn-Paul 2023 397 sidor

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463 betyg

🪶 Native American History 🌎 Settler Colonialism 🔍 Revisionist History ⚖️ Genocide Debate 🏛️ Federal Indian Policy

You Must Set Forth at Dawn

av Wole Soyinka • 2006

A stolen artifact, a dictator's table, a secret peace mission: a Nobel laureate's life off stage.

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500+

🇳🇬 Nigerian Politics 🌍 Postcolonial Africa 📚 African Literature ✊ Activist Memoirs 🏺 Cultural Reclamation

You Must Set Forth at Dawn

A stolen artifact, a dictator's table, a secret peace mission: a Nobel laureate's life off stage.

av Wole Soyinka 2006 528 sidor

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🇳🇬 Nigerian Politics 🌍 Postcolonial Africa 📚 African Literature ✊ Activist Memoirs 🏺 Cultural Reclamation

The Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation

av John F. Baker Jr. • 2009

A classroom photograph sent a man searching for his enslaved ancestors on a Tennessee plantation.

4.24

131

🪶 American Slavery 🏚️ Plantation Life 🎙️ Oral Histories 🧬 Genealogical Research 💔 Family Separation

The Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation

A classroom photograph sent a man searching for his enslaved ancestors on a Tennessee plantation.

av John F. Baker Jr. 2009 432 sidor

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🪶 American Slavery 🏚️ Plantation Life 🎙️ Oral Histories 🧬 Genealogical Research 💔 Family Separation

Being Black

av Angel Kyodo Williams • 2000

A Zen priest maps the path from racial suffering to fearless living, using discomfort as fuel.

4.15

329

🧘 Engaged Buddhism 🪷 Zen Practice 🧠 Buddhist Psychology 🌿 Mindfulness ✊🏿 Black Buddhism

Being Black

A Zen priest maps the path from racial suffering to fearless living, using discomfort as fuel.

av Angel Kyodo Williams 2000 200 sidor

4.15

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🧘 Engaged Buddhism 🪷 Zen Practice 🧠 Buddhist Psychology 🌿 Mindfulness ✊🏿 Black Buddhism

The Travelers

av Regina Porter • 2019

Two families, bound by love and divided by race, navigate five decades of the American century.

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🔗 Interlocking Narratives 🌳 Generational Saga 🫂 Found Family 💞 Interracial Love 💥 War Trauma

The Travelers

Two families, bound by love and divided by race, navigate five decades of the American century.

av Regina Porter 2019 297 sidor

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🔗 Interlocking Narratives 🌳 Generational Saga 🫂 Found Family 💞 Interracial Love 💥 War Trauma

Burqas, Baseball, and Apple Pie

av Ranya Tabari Idliby • 2014

In a post-9/11 living room, three faiths built the conversation America was avoiding.

3.47

204

🕌 Muslim American Identity 🤝 Interfaith Dialogue 🎯 Islamophobia 🌉 Cultural Assimilation 📖 Progressive Islam

Burqas, Baseball, and Apple Pie

In a post-9/11 living room, three faiths built the conversation America was avoiding.

av Ranya Tabari Idliby 2014 256 sidor

3.47

204 betyg

🕌 Muslim American Identity 🤝 Interfaith Dialogue 🎯 Islamophobia 🌉 Cultural Assimilation 📖 Progressive Islam

Dignity in a Digital Age

av Ro Khanna • 2022

Five cities captured 90% of tech job growth. The case for creating digital opportunity everywhere.

3.71

149

⚙️ Tech Policy 🌐 Digital Divide 🗺️ Economic Geography ⚖️ Internet Regulation 🔒 Data Privacy

Dignity in a Digital Age

Five cities captured 90% of tech job growth. The case for creating digital opportunity everywhere.

av Ro Khanna 2022 368 sidor

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149 betyg

⚙️ Tech Policy 🌐 Digital Divide 🗺️ Economic Geography ⚖️ Internet Regulation 🔒 Data Privacy

The Person You Mean to Be

av Dolly Chugh • 2018

From good intentions to real allyship: the science of hidden bias and how to undo it.

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🔎 Bias Awareness 🏷️ Privilege Recognition 🌱 Growth Mindset 🤝 Inclusive Behaviors 🗣️ Difficult Conversations

The Person You Mean to Be

From good intentions to real allyship: the science of hidden bias and how to undo it.

av Dolly Chugh 2018 325 sidor

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🔎 Bias Awareness 🏷️ Privilege Recognition 🌱 Growth Mindset 🤝 Inclusive Behaviors 🗣️ Difficult Conversations

You Got Anything Stronger?

av Gabrielle Union • 2021

Perimenopause made Gabrielle Union want to die. Then her daughter taught her how to live.

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🎬 Celebrity Memoir ✊🏾 Intersectional Feminism 👩🏾‍💼 Invisible Labor 🖤 Anti-Blackness 🩺 Women's Health

You Got Anything Stronger?

Perimenopause made Gabrielle Union want to die. Then her daughter taught her how to live.

av Gabrielle Union 2021 242 sidor

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🎬 Celebrity Memoir ✊🏾 Intersectional Feminism 👩🏾‍💼 Invisible Labor 🖤 Anti-Blackness 🩺 Women's Health

The Secret Token

av Andrew Lawler • 2018

The Lost Colony assimilated. America built its first origin myth to hide that truth.

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🏴 Colonial America 👑 Elizabethan England 🔍 Historical Mysteries 🎭 Myth-Making 🧬 Racial Identity

The Secret Token

The Lost Colony assimilated. America built its first origin myth to hide that truth.

av Andrew Lawler 2018 426 sidor

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🏴 Colonial America 👑 Elizabethan England 🔍 Historical Mysteries 🎭 Myth-Making 🧬 Racial Identity

Bunk

av Kevin Young • 2017

America's real tradition is the hoax, and its most reliable lever is race.

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🎭 Hoaxes And Deception 📝 Cultural Criticism 🎪 Racial Appropriation 📚 Literary Hoaxes ✍️ Plagiarism

Bunk

America's real tradition is the hoax, and its most reliable lever is race.

av Kevin Young 2017 560 sidor

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🎭 Hoaxes And Deception 📝 Cultural Criticism 🎪 Racial Appropriation 📚 Literary Hoaxes ✍️ Plagiarism

Decoded

av Jay-Z • 2009

His annotated lyrics reveal how the corner became a boardroom and rhyme became high poetry.

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8 000+

🎤 Hip Hop Memoirs 🎵 Lyricism 💼 Street Entrepreneurship 🎶 Rap Poetics ✊ Conscious Hip Hop

Decoded

His annotated lyrics reveal how the corner became a boardroom and rhyme became high poetry.

av Jay-Z 2009 317 sidor

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🎤 Hip Hop Memoirs 🎵 Lyricism 💼 Street Entrepreneurship 🎶 Rap Poetics ✊ Conscious Hip Hop

Consumed by Hate, Redeemed by Love

av Thomas A. Tarrants • 2019

A Klansman went to prison. Books and unlikely friendships made him a minister.

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461

🕊️ Racial Reconciliation 🚪 Leaving Hate Groups ⛓️ Prison Conversion ✝️ Christian Testimony 📚 Intellectual Conversion

Consumed by Hate, Redeemed by Love

A Klansman went to prison. Books and unlikely friendships made him a minister.

av Thomas A. Tarrants 2019 224 sidor

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461 betyg

🕊️ Racial Reconciliation 🚪 Leaving Hate Groups ⛓️ Prison Conversion ✝️ Christian Testimony 📚 Intellectual Conversion

The Story of Art Without Men

av Katy Hessel • 2022

Art history left out the women. Five centuries of painters and sculptors the canon overlooked.

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🏛️ Art History 🎨 Women Artists ✊ Feminist Art History 📚 Canon Revision 🪧 Art And Activism

The Story of Art Without Men

Art history left out the women. Five centuries of painters and sculptors the canon overlooked.

av Katy Hessel 2022 352 sidor

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🏛️ Art History 🎨 Women Artists ✊ Feminist Art History 📚 Canon Revision 🪧 Art And Activism

Going Mainstream

av Julia Ebner • 2023

How extremist ideas conquered the mainstream, one online subculture at a time.

3.74

468

💻 Online Radicalization ⚡ Far-Right Extremism 🕵️ Conspiracy Theories 📰 Disinformation ⚔️ Culture Wars

Going Mainstream

How extremist ideas conquered the mainstream, one online subculture at a time.

av Julia Ebner 2023 249 sidor

3.74

468 betyg

💻 Online Radicalization ⚡ Far-Right Extremism 🕵️ Conspiracy Theories 📰 Disinformation ⚔️ Culture Wars

Black Woman Redefined

av Sophia A. Nelson • 2011

Break the stereotypes: a Black woman's guide to fulfillment in love, work, and spirit.

3.74

187

👩🏿 Black Womanhood ✊🏿 Black Feminism 🔨 Breaking Stereotypes 💼 Workplace Success 💰 Financial Literacy

Black Woman Redefined

Break the stereotypes: a Black woman's guide to fulfillment in love, work, and spirit.

av Sophia A. Nelson 2011 260 sidor

3.74

187 betyg

👩🏿 Black Womanhood ✊🏿 Black Feminism 🔨 Breaking Stereotypes 💼 Workplace Success 💰 Financial Literacy

You Are More Than Magic

av Minda Harts • 2022

The mentorship Black and brown girls rarely get: self-advocacy, resilience, and owning your space.

4.45

🧭 Teen Girl Advice 🗣️ Self Advocacy 🎭 Imposter Syndrome 💬 Tough Conversations 🌱 Positive Self Talk

You Are More Than Magic

The mentorship Black and brown girls rarely get: self-advocacy, resilience, and owning your space.

av Minda Harts 2022 192 sidor

4.45

11 betyg

🧭 Teen Girl Advice 🗣️ Self Advocacy 🎭 Imposter Syndrome 💬 Tough Conversations 🌱 Positive Self Talk

Christianity and Critical Race Theory

av Robert Chao Romero • 2023

Racism is pervasive, not rare. A theologian argues CRT and Christianity share that core insight.

4.25

100

📚 Critical Race Theory ⚖️ Racial Justice ✝️ Christian Theology 🔍 Systemic Racism 🗳️ Faith And Politics

Christianity and Critical Race Theory

Racism is pervasive, not rare. A theologian argues CRT and Christianity share that core insight.

av Robert Chao Romero 2023 209 sidor

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100 betyg

📚 Critical Race Theory ⚖️ Racial Justice ✝️ Christian Theology 🔍 Systemic Racism 🗳️ Faith And Politics

We Need New Stories

av Nesrine Malik • 2021

The stories we tell about free speech, gender, and national virtue protect power, not truth.

4.02

500+

🎭 Political Myths 📰 Media Criticism 🌐 Cultural Myths ⛓️ Systemic Inequality 🗣️ Free Speech Debates

We Need New Stories

The stories we tell about free speech, gender, and national virtue protect power, not truth.

av Nesrine Malik 2021 304 sidor

4.02

500+ betyg

🎭 Political Myths 📰 Media Criticism 🌐 Cultural Myths ⛓️ Systemic Inequality 🗣️ Free Speech Debates

Sound Within Sound

av Kate Molleson • 2022

A microtonal Mexican, an Ethiopian nun, and eight more composers the classical canon erased.

4.34

181

🧪 Experimental Music 🗓️ 20th Century Music 👩 Women Composers 📜 Forgotten Composers 🔌 Electronic Music

Sound Within Sound

A microtonal Mexican, an Ethiopian nun, and eight more composers the classical canon erased.

av Kate Molleson 2022 312 sidor

4.34

181 betyg

🧪 Experimental Music 🗓️ 20th Century Music 👩 Women Composers 📜 Forgotten Composers 🔌 Electronic Music

Mom & Me & Mom

av Maya Angelou • 2013

After a decade of abandonment, Maya Angelou must learn to love the mother who left her.

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👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Reconciliation 🌪️ Flawed Mothers 🩹 Generational Healing 🌱 Coming Of Age 🛡️ Surviving Abuse

Mom & Me & Mom

After a decade of abandonment, Maya Angelou must learn to love the mother who left her.

av Maya Angelou 2013 201 sidor

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👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Reconciliation 🌪️ Flawed Mothers 🩹 Generational Healing 🌱 Coming Of Age 🛡️ Surviving Abuse

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

av Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz • 2014

Genocide, not liberty, built America. The counterinsurgency tactics born here now circle the globe.

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🏚️ Settler Colonialism 🪶 Native American History 📚 Revisionist History 🕯️ Genocide Studies 🌱 Decolonial Thought

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

Genocide, not liberty, built America. The counterinsurgency tactics born here now circle the globe.

av Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz 2014 320 sidor

4.37

20 000+ betyg

🏚️ Settler Colonialism 🪶 Native American History 📚 Revisionist History 🕯️ Genocide Studies 🌱 Decolonial Thought

Look at Me!

av Jonathan Reiss • 2020

Murdered at 20, after becoming more famous in jail than most artists ever get outside it.

4.54

126

🎤 Hip Hop Biography 🔪 True Crime Biography 🎨 Troubled Artists 💔 Trauma And Creativity 📱 Digital Age Celebrity

Look at Me!

Murdered at 20, after becoming more famous in jail than most artists ever get outside it.

av Jonathan Reiss 2020 304 sidor

4.54

126 betyg

🎤 Hip Hop Biography 🔪 True Crime Biography 🎨 Troubled Artists 💔 Trauma And Creativity 📱 Digital Age Celebrity

Slavery by Another Name

av Douglas A. Blackmon • 2008

The 13th Amendment's exception for criminals became a new slavery that lasted eighty years.

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⛓️ Forced Labor 📜 Jim Crow Era 🏗️ Reconstruction Era 🔗 Mass Incarceration Origins 💰 Racial Capitalism

Slavery by Another Name

The 13th Amendment's exception for criminals became a new slavery that lasted eighty years.

av Douglas A. Blackmon 2008 480 sidor

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⛓️ Forced Labor 📜 Jim Crow Era 🏗️ Reconstruction Era 🔗 Mass Incarceration Origins 💰 Racial Capitalism

Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men

av Eric Foner • 1971

The ideology that built the Republican Party made its clash with the slave South inevitable.

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🏛️ Antebellum America ⚔️ Sectional Conflict 🗳️ Political Antislavery 📜 Constitutional Crisis 🧠 Racial Ideology

Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men

The ideology that built the Republican Party made its clash with the slave South inevitable.

av Eric Foner 1971 400 sidor

4.12

1 000+ betyg

🏛️ Antebellum America ⚔️ Sectional Conflict 🗳️ Political Antislavery 📜 Constitutional Crisis 🧠 Racial Ideology

Crossroads

av Tom Graves • 2008

The crossroads devil never met Robert Johnson. The myth was stolen. His real story is stranger.

3.85

202

🎸 Delta Blues 🔍 Debunking Legends ⚰️ Posthumous Legacy 🎧 Roots Of Rock 🇺🇸 American Folklore

Crossroads

The crossroads devil never met Robert Johnson. The myth was stolen. His real story is stranger.

av Tom Graves 2008 133 sidor

3.85

202 betyg

🎸 Delta Blues 🔍 Debunking Legends ⚰️ Posthumous Legacy 🎧 Roots Of Rock 🇺🇸 American Folklore

Sidewalk

av Mitchell Duneier • 1999

Some of the most disorderly figures on the sidewalk are also the ones preventing real crime.

4.15

1 000+

🛝 Urban Ethnography 💰 Informal Economies 🚨 Broken Windows Debate 👮 Police Discretion 🚶‍♀️ Street Harassment

Sidewalk

Some of the most disorderly figures on the sidewalk are also the ones preventing real crime.

av Mitchell Duneier 1999 400 sidor

4.15

1 000+ betyg

🛝 Urban Ethnography 💰 Informal Economies 🚨 Broken Windows Debate 👮 Police Discretion 🚶‍♀️ Street Harassment

Entitled

av Kate Manne • 2020

The entitlement that fuels incel killers also explains why doctors dismiss pain and rapists walk.

4.19

6 000+

👑 Male Entitlement 📚 Feminist Philosophy ⚖️ Rape Culture 🩺 Medical Sexism 🧹 Domestic Labor

Entitled

The entitlement that fuels incel killers also explains why doctors dismiss pain and rapists walk.

av Kate Manne 2020 269 sidor

4.19

6 000+ betyg

👑 Male Entitlement 📚 Feminist Philosophy ⚖️ Rape Culture 🩺 Medical Sexism 🧹 Domestic Labor

From Babylon to Timbuktu

av Rudolph R. Windsor • 2023

Ancient Israel was black, its lost kingdoms ruled Africa, and the slave trade was foretold.

4.31

500+

🌍 African History ✊ Afrocentrism 🏺 Biblical Archaeology 🧭 Lost Tribes 🏛️ Ancient Near East

From Babylon to Timbuktu

Ancient Israel was black, its lost kingdoms ruled Africa, and the slave trade was foretold.

av Rudolph R. Windsor 2023 158 sidor

4.31

500+ betyg

🌍 African History ✊ Afrocentrism 🏺 Biblical Archaeology 🧭 Lost Tribes 🏛️ Ancient Near East

I'd Rather We Got Casinos

av Larry Wilmore • 2009

A comedian petitions the NAACP to rename Black people 'chocolate.' He's only half kidding.

3.32

1 000+

🎭 Racial Satire 🖤 Black Identity 🗣️ Language And Race 🏛️ Political Humor 📺 Media Representation

I'd Rather We Got Casinos

A comedian petitions the NAACP to rename Black people 'chocolate.' He's only half kidding.

av Larry Wilmore 2009 224 sidor

3.32

1 000+ betyg

🎭 Racial Satire 🖤 Black Identity 🗣️ Language And Race 🏛️ Political Humor 📺 Media Representation

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