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

Except for Palestine

av Marc Lamont Hill • 2021

Why American progressives, fierce on injustice everywhere, stay quiet when it comes to Palestine.

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🌍 Middle East Policy 🇺🇸 Us Foreign Policy 🏚️ Settler Colonialism ✊ Anti-Imperialism ☮️ Nonviolent Resistance

Except for Palestine

Why American progressives, fierce on injustice everywhere, stay quiet when it comes to Palestine.

av Marc Lamont Hill 2021 227 sidor

4.19

4 000+ betyg

🌍 Middle East Policy 🇺🇸 Us Foreign Policy 🏚️ Settler Colonialism ✊ Anti-Imperialism ☮️ Nonviolent Resistance

Me and White Supremacy

av Layla F. Saad • 2020

A 28-day guided journal to excavate your own white supremacy and actually change something.

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📖 Antiracism Workbooks 📝 Workbook Exercises 👤 White Privilege 🧠 Internalized Bias 🖤 Anti-Blackness

Me and White Supremacy

A 28-day guided journal to excavate your own white supremacy and actually change something.

av Layla F. Saad 2020 238 sidor

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📖 Antiracism Workbooks 📝 Workbook Exercises 👤 White Privilege 🧠 Internalized Bias 🖤 Anti-Blackness

Slavery, Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution

av Maxine Berg • 2023

Sugar, copper, cotton, and credit: how enslaved labor built the Industrial Revolution.

4.42

🏛️ Economic History ⛓️ Atlantic Slavery 🏭 Industrial Revolution 🍬 Colonial Commodities 🟤 Racial Capitalism

Slavery, Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution

Sugar, copper, cotton, and credit: how enslaved labor built the Industrial Revolution.

av Maxine Berg 2023 282 sidor

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26 betyg

🏛️ Economic History ⛓️ Atlantic Slavery 🏭 Industrial Revolution 🍬 Colonial Commodities 🟤 Racial Capitalism

The Great Contradiction

av Joseph J. Ellis • 2025

To create a nation, the founders protected slavery. Indian removal was the other price of union.

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🏛️ Founding Era 📜 Constitutional History ⛓️ Slavery And The Founders 🪶 Indian Removal ⚖️ Liberty And Slavery

The Great Contradiction

To create a nation, the founders protected slavery. Indian removal was the other price of union.

av Joseph J. Ellis 2025 240 sidor

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1 000+ betyg

🏛️ Founding Era 📜 Constitutional History ⛓️ Slavery And The Founders 🪶 Indian Removal ⚖️ Liberty And Slavery

Short Stories

av Columbus Short • 2020

A pint of whiskey daily to become Little Walter, and the habit that outlasted the role.

3.94

293

🎬 Hollywood Memoirs 🖤 Black Hollywood 💊 Substance Abuse Recovery 🩹 Childhood Trauma 🎭 Race In Entertainment

Short Stories

A pint of whiskey daily to become Little Walter, and the habit that outlasted the role.

av Columbus Short 2020 133 sidor

3.94

293 betyg

🎬 Hollywood Memoirs 🖤 Black Hollywood 💊 Substance Abuse Recovery 🩹 Childhood Trauma 🎭 Race In Entertainment

Unworthy Republic

av Claudio Saunt • 2020

Eighty thousand deported. A ledger-obsessed bureaucracy. The hidden cost behind the Trail of Tears.

4.22

1 000+

🎩 Jacksonian America 🏚️ Settler Colonialism ⛓️ Antebellum South 🧳 Forced Migration 🏞️ Land Dispossession

Unworthy Republic

Eighty thousand deported. A ledger-obsessed bureaucracy. The hidden cost behind the Trail of Tears.

av Claudio Saunt 2020 396 sidor

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1 000+ betyg

🎩 Jacksonian America 🏚️ Settler Colonialism ⛓️ Antebellum South 🧳 Forced Migration 🏞️ Land Dispossession

Year of Yes

av Shonda Rhimes • 2015

Rich, famous, and miserable. She said yes to whatever scared her for a year. Everything changed.

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🌟 Celebrity Memoirs 🦁 Facing Fear 🌱 Authentic Living ⚖️ Work Life Balance 💬 Difficult Conversations

Year of Yes

Rich, famous, and miserable. She said yes to whatever scared her for a year. Everything changed.

av Shonda Rhimes 2015 352 sidor

4.06

100 000+ betyg

🌟 Celebrity Memoirs 🦁 Facing Fear 🌱 Authentic Living ⚖️ Work Life Balance 💬 Difficult Conversations

Reconstruction

av Eric Foner • 1988

A brief, revolutionary experiment in interracial democracy. Why the country abandoned it.

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🏛️ Reconstruction Era 🗳️ Black Political Agency 🤝 Interracial Democracy 🔥 Racial Terror 🌾 Land And Labor

Reconstruction

A brief, revolutionary experiment in interracial democracy. Why the country abandoned it.

av Eric Foner 1988 690 sidor

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🏛️ Reconstruction Era 🗳️ Black Political Agency 🤝 Interracial Democracy 🔥 Racial Terror 🌾 Land And Labor

HEBREWS TO NEGROES

av Ronald Dalton Jr • 2014

Black people are the Bible's true Israelites, and their stolen history is the key to liberation.

4.09

221

🌍 Afrocentric History ✡️ Black Israelite Theology 🕵️ Conspiracy Theories 📺 Media Manipulation 📜 Biblical Prophecy

HEBREWS TO NEGROES

Black people are the Bible's true Israelites, and their stolen history is the key to liberation.

av Ronald Dalton Jr 2014 1044 sidor

4.09

221 betyg

🌍 Afrocentric History ✡️ Black Israelite Theology 🕵️ Conspiracy Theories 📺 Media Manipulation 📜 Biblical Prophecy

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois

av Honorée Fanonne Jeffers • 2021

A Black woman excavates her Georgia family's past, unearthing centuries of secrets and survival.

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🏠 Multigenerational Saga 💔 Intergenerational Trauma 🎨 Colorism 🕯️ Ancestral Voices 📚 Academic Coming Of Age

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois

A Black woman excavates her Georgia family's past, unearthing centuries of secrets and survival.

av Honorée Fanonne Jeffers 2021 816 sidor

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🏠 Multigenerational Saga 💔 Intergenerational Trauma 🎨 Colorism 🕯️ Ancestral Voices 📚 Academic Coming Of Age

Worse Than Slavery

av David M. Oshinsky • 1996

Slavery ended. Mississippi made convicts cheaper than slaves and built an empire on their labor.

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🏗️ Convict Leasing ⚖️ Jim Crow Justice 🏛️ Southern History 🔒 Mass Incarceration 🔗 Prison Labor

Worse Than Slavery

Slavery ended. Mississippi made convicts cheaper than slaves and built an empire on their labor.

av David M. Oshinsky 1996 320 sidor

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🏗️ Convict Leasing ⚖️ Jim Crow Justice 🏛️ Southern History 🔒 Mass Incarceration 🔗 Prison Labor

Bloody Nasty People

av Daniel Trilling • 2012

The far right didn't storm the gates. Mainstream politicians opened them, one dog whistle at a time.

3.88

143

🗳️ Far-Right Politics ✊ Anti-Fascism 🎯 Dog-Whistle Politics 🎭 Cultural Racism 🌱 Grassroots Organizing

Bloody Nasty People

The far right didn't storm the gates. Mainstream politicians opened them, one dog whistle at a time.

av Daniel Trilling 2012 240 sidor

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143 betyg

🗳️ Far-Right Politics ✊ Anti-Fascism 🎯 Dog-Whistle Politics 🎭 Cultural Racism 🌱 Grassroots Organizing

Culture and Resistance

av Edward W. Said • 2003

Peace rebranded, occupation maintained: dismantling the language hiding Palestinian dispossession.

4.10

419

🇵🇸 Palestinian History ⚔️ Israel Palestine 🗣️ Language And Power 📰 Media Criticism ✊ Cultural Resistance

Culture and Resistance

Peace rebranded, occupation maintained: dismantling the language hiding Palestinian dispossession.

av Edward W. Said 2003 224 sidor

4.10

419 betyg

🇵🇸 Palestinian History ⚔️ Israel Palestine 🗣️ Language And Power 📰 Media Criticism ✊ Cultural Resistance

The Fight in the Fields

av Susan Ferriss • 1997

How a migrant farmworker built a movement so large that 40,000 people marched at his funeral.

4.00

🏭 Labor History 🌎 Chicano History 🌾 Agricultural Labor ✊ Grassroots Organizing ☮️ Nonviolent Resistance

The Fight in the Fields

How a migrant farmworker built a movement so large that 40,000 people marched at his funeral.

av Susan Ferriss 1997 352 sidor

4.00

99 betyg

🏭 Labor History 🌎 Chicano History 🌾 Agricultural Labor ✊ Grassroots Organizing ☮️ Nonviolent Resistance

Hellhound on His Trail

av Hampton Sides • 2010

The prison break. The Memphis balcony. The 65-day international manhunt that followed one bullet.

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🏛️ Civil Rights History 🎯 Political Assassinations 🔍 Manhunt Narratives 🕵️ Fbi Investigations 📖 True Crime History

Hellhound on His Trail

The prison break. The Memphis balcony. The 65-day international manhunt that followed one bullet.

av Hampton Sides 2010 397 sidor

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🏛️ Civil Rights History 🎯 Political Assassinations 🔍 Manhunt Narratives 🕵️ Fbi Investigations 📖 True Crime History

Everything and Nothing at Once

av Joel Leon • 2024

Black men don't get to be ordinary. One memoirist fights for the right to simply be.

4.32

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✊🏿 Black Masculinity 🎭 Cultural Criticism 📝 Memoir Essays 👨‍👧 Black Fatherhood 🩹 Trauma Healing

Everything and Nothing at Once

Black men don't get to be ordinary. One memoirist fights for the right to simply be.

av Joel Leon 2024 304 sidor

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✊🏿 Black Masculinity 🎭 Cultural Criticism 📝 Memoir Essays 👨‍👧 Black Fatherhood 🩹 Trauma Healing

Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal

av Mohammed El-Kurd • 2025

The sympathy economy demands Palestinians be broken, blameless, and silent about who broke them.

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🕊️ Palestinian Liberation ✊ Anti-Colonial Thought 📺 Media Criticism 💔 Dehumanization 🧠 Psychology Of Oppression

Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal

The sympathy economy demands Palestinians be broken, blameless, and silent about who broke them.

av Mohammed El-Kurd 2025 256 sidor

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🕊️ Palestinian Liberation ✊ Anti-Colonial Thought 📺 Media Criticism 💔 Dehumanization 🧠 Psychology Of Oppression

How the South Won the Civil War

av Heather Cox Richardson • 2020

Southern oligarchy lost the war but won the West, rebranding as cowboy individualism.

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🇺🇸 American Political History 🏛️ Oligarchy Studies 🐎 Frontier Mythology ⛓️ Racial Hierarchy 🗳️ Voter Suppression

How the South Won the Civil War

Southern oligarchy lost the war but won the West, rebranding as cowboy individualism.

av Heather Cox Richardson 2020 272 sidor

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🇺🇸 American Political History 🏛️ Oligarchy Studies 🐎 Frontier Mythology ⛓️ Racial Hierarchy 🗳️ Voter Suppression

Rebellion

av Robert Kagan • 2024

A 250-year rebellion against America's founding promise is closer to victory than ever.

4.39

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🇺🇸 American Politics 📜 Political History 🔗 White Supremacy ✝️ Christian Nationalism ⚡ Political Polarization

Rebellion

A 250-year rebellion against America's founding promise is closer to victory than ever.

av Robert Kagan 2024 258 sidor

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500+ betyg

🇺🇸 American Politics 📜 Political History 🔗 White Supremacy ✝️ Christian Nationalism ⚡ Political Polarization

Where You Are Is Not Who You Are

av Ursula Burns • 2021

From the projects to Xerox CEO: saving a corporate giant and rewriting its moral contract.

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500+

🏢 Corporate Leadership 📖 Business Memoirs 🔄 Corporate Turnarounds 🚨 Crisis Management 📈 Economic Mobility

Where You Are Is Not Who You Are

From the projects to Xerox CEO: saving a corporate giant and rewriting its moral contract.

av Ursula Burns 2021 239 sidor

4.01

500+ betyg

🏢 Corporate Leadership 📖 Business Memoirs 🔄 Corporate Turnarounds 🚨 Crisis Management 📈 Economic Mobility

The South Was Right!

av James Ronald Kennedy • 1991

The South legally seceded. The North invaded for economic gain. The rest is propaganda.

3.93

482

🏴 Lost Cause 🏡 Southern Identity 📜 Historical Revisionism 🏛️ State Sovereignty ✂️ Secession

The South Was Right!

The South legally seceded. The North invaded for economic gain. The rest is propaganda.

av James Ronald Kennedy 1991 431 sidor

3.93

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🏴 Lost Cause 🏡 Southern Identity 📜 Historical Revisionism 🏛️ State Sovereignty ✂️ Secession

Uncivil Agreement

av Lilliana Mason • 2018

Policy isn't what divides America. The real fracture is tribal: race, faith, and party have merged.

3.84

500+

🏛️ Political Polarization 🇺🇸 American Politics 👥 Social Identity Theory ⚔️ Intergroup Conflict 🏕️ Tribalism

Uncivil Agreement

Policy isn't what divides America. The real fracture is tribal: race, faith, and party have merged.

av Lilliana Mason 2018 192 sidor

3.84

500+ betyg

🏛️ Political Polarization 🇺🇸 American Politics 👥 Social Identity Theory ⚔️ Intergroup Conflict 🏕️ Tribalism

Never Caught

av Erica Armstrong Dunbar • 2017

George Washington rotated his slaves across state lines to keep them. Ona Judge made him pay.

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🏃🏾‍♀️ Fugitive Slave Narratives ⛓️ Enslaved Women 🏛️ Founding Fathers 🕊️ Escape And Flight ⚖️ Slavery And The Law

Never Caught

George Washington rotated his slaves across state lines to keep them. Ona Judge made him pay.

av Erica Armstrong Dunbar 2017 253 sidor

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🏃🏾‍♀️ Fugitive Slave Narratives ⛓️ Enslaved Women 🏛️ Founding Fathers 🕊️ Escape And Flight ⚖️ Slavery And The Law

Elite Capture

av Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò • 2022

How the powerful co-opted identity politics: from solidarity to symbolic gestures.

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🏛️ Movement Co-Optation 🏗️ Structural Power 🎭 Symbolic Politics 🤝 Coalition Politics 👥 Intersectional Feminism

Elite Capture

How the powerful co-opted identity politics: from solidarity to symbolic gestures.

av Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò 2022 157 sidor

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🏛️ Movement Co-Optation 🏗️ Structural Power 🎭 Symbolic Politics 🤝 Coalition Politics 👥 Intersectional Feminism

Allegedly

av Tiffany D. Jackson • 2017

Convicted at nine of killing a baby, a pregnant teen fights the system for her child.

4.02

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🧠 Psychological Thriller 🌀 Unreliable Narrator 🔒 Wrongfully Accused 🏠 Foster Care System 💔 Mother-Daughter Trauma

Allegedly

Convicted at nine of killing a baby, a pregnant teen fights the system for her child.

av Tiffany D. Jackson 2017 390 sidor

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🧠 Psychological Thriller 🌀 Unreliable Narrator 🔒 Wrongfully Accused 🏠 Foster Care System 💔 Mother-Daughter Trauma

A Black Women's History of the United States

av Daina Ramey Berry • 2020

The Black women who built America: their four-century story, from freedom before 1619 to now.

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🖤 Black Women's History 🇺🇸 African American History 📜 Hidden Histories ✊ Women's Resistance 💜 Black Feminism

A Black Women's History of the United States

The Black women who built America: their four-century story, from freedom before 1619 to now.

av Daina Ramey Berry 2020 273 sidor

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🖤 Black Women's History 🇺🇸 African American History 📜 Hidden Histories ✊ Women's Resistance 💜 Black Feminism

This Is My America

av Kim Johnson • 2020

Her father faces execution, her brother a murder charge. A Texas teen hunts the real killer.

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⚖️ Wrongful Conviction 🔍 Amateur Sleuth 🏘️ Small Town Secrets 🌳 Generational Trauma 👫 Sibling Loyalty

This Is My America

Her father faces execution, her brother a murder charge. A Texas teen hunts the real killer.

av Kim Johnson 2020 416 sidor

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⚖️ Wrongful Conviction 🔍 Amateur Sleuth 🏘️ Small Town Secrets 🌳 Generational Trauma 👫 Sibling Loyalty

American Holocaust

av David E. Stannard • 1992

Before 1492, the Americas held more people than Europe. What followed erased 90 percent of them.

4.34

1 000+

💀 Colonial Genocide 📖 Genocide Studies ✝️ Religious Violence 🔗 Dehumanization 🏚️ Land Dispossession

American Holocaust

Before 1492, the Americas held more people than Europe. What followed erased 90 percent of them.

av David E. Stannard 1992 408 sidor

4.34

1 000+ betyg

💀 Colonial Genocide 📖 Genocide Studies ✝️ Religious Violence 🔗 Dehumanization 🏚️ Land Dispossession

World on Fire

av Amy Chua • 2002

Markets enrich minorities; elections enrage majorities. Exporting both is a global powder keg.

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🌋 Ethnic Conflict 🏛️ Political Economy 💸 Wealth Inequality 📊 Free Market Critique 🌍 Post-Colonialism

World on Fire

Markets enrich minorities; elections enrage majorities. Exporting both is a global powder keg.

av Amy Chua 2002 368 sidor

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🌋 Ethnic Conflict 🏛️ Political Economy 💸 Wealth Inequality 📊 Free Market Critique 🌍 Post-Colonialism

The Souls of Black Folks

av W.E.B. Du Bois • 1903

To be Black and American is to watch yourself through a world's contempt: the defining problem.

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🏛️ Jim Crow Era 🪞 Racial Identity 📚 Black Intellectual Tradition 🎓 Higher Education 💰 Economic Exploitation

The Souls of Black Folks

To be Black and American is to watch yourself through a world's contempt: the defining problem.

av W.E.B. Du Bois 1903

4.31

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🏛️ Jim Crow Era 🪞 Racial Identity 📚 Black Intellectual Tradition 🎓 Higher Education 💰 Economic Exploitation

The Bonfire of the Vanities

av Tom Wolfe • 1987

A bond trader's wrong turn into the Bronx hands a city its next public enemy.

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🎭 Social Satire 📜 Literary Tragedy 📉 Fall From Grace 📺 Media Circus ⚖️ Legal Nightmare

The Bonfire of the Vanities

A bond trader's wrong turn into the Bronx hands a city its next public enemy.

av Tom Wolfe 1987 690 sidor

3.93

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🎭 Social Satire 📜 Literary Tragedy 📉 Fall From Grace 📺 Media Circus ⚖️ Legal Nightmare

Natives

av Akala • 2018

Britain's empire never ended. It just learned to call itself meritocracy.

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🇬🇧 British Empire 🏛️ Structural Racism 👮 Police And Race 🏫 Education Inequality 🖤 Black Britain

Natives

Britain's empire never ended. It just learned to call itself meritocracy.

av Akala 2018 352 sidor

4.53

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🇬🇧 British Empire 🏛️ Structural Racism 👮 Police And Race 🏫 Education Inequality 🖤 Black Britain

The Wages of Whiteness

av David R. Roediger • 1991

The white working class took racial status as partial payment. The bargain was a trap.

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2 000+

🔨 Labor History 👤 Whiteness Studies 🧬 Racial Identity 💰 Racial Capitalism 🏛️ Antebellum America

The Wages of Whiteness

The white working class took racial status as partial payment. The bargain was a trap.

av David R. Roediger 1991 197 sidor

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2 000+ betyg

🔨 Labor History 👤 Whiteness Studies 🧬 Racial Identity 💰 Racial Capitalism 🏛️ Antebellum America

The Strange Career of Jim Crow

av C. Vann Woodward • 1955

Jim Crow: a system built in the 1890s, started in the North, and never inevitable.

4.14

3 000+

🏗️ Reconstruction Era 🚂 Jim Crow Era 🏚️ Southern History ⚖️ Race And Law 📜 Revisionist History

The Strange Career of Jim Crow

Jim Crow: a system built in the 1890s, started in the North, and never inevitable.

av C. Vann Woodward 1955 245 sidor

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🏗️ Reconstruction Era 🚂 Jim Crow Era 🏚️ Southern History ⚖️ Race And Law 📜 Revisionist History

Heart of a Stranger

av Angela Buchdahl • 2025

Told she didn't look Jewish, a Korean-born rabbi turns being an outsider into her greatest strength.

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3 000+

🧬 Mixed-Race Memoir 🕊️ Interfaith Families 🟤 Jews Of Color 🕎 Women In Clergy 🙏 Spiritual Memoir

Heart of a Stranger

Told she didn't look Jewish, a Korean-born rabbi turns being an outsider into her greatest strength.

av Angela Buchdahl 2025 352 sidor

4.62

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🧬 Mixed-Race Memoir 🕊️ Interfaith Families 🟤 Jews Of Color 🕎 Women In Clergy 🙏 Spiritual Memoir

Copaganda

av Alec Karakatsanis • 2025

The hidden PR system that converts police spin into headlines and crime panic into tougher laws.

4.49

500+

🎥 Media Criticism ⚖️ Criminal Justice 🔒 Mass Incarceration 🗞️ News Manipulation 😨 Fear Politics

Copaganda

The hidden PR system that converts police spin into headlines and crime panic into tougher laws.

av Alec Karakatsanis 2025 432 sidor

4.49

500+ betyg

🎥 Media Criticism ⚖️ Criminal Justice 🔒 Mass Incarceration 🗞️ News Manipulation 😨 Fear Politics

The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution

av Joseph Fishkin • 2022

A lost constitutional tradition: preventing oligarchy as the government's first duty.

4.10

🏦 Political Economy 📜 Constitutional History ⚖️ Economic Justice 🛠️ Labor History 🌾 Populism

The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution

A lost constitutional tradition: preventing oligarchy as the government's first duty.

av Joseph Fishkin 2022 640 sidor

4.10

40 betyg

🏦 Political Economy 📜 Constitutional History ⚖️ Economic Justice 🛠️ Labor History 🌾 Populism

Ain't I a Woman

av bell hooks • 1981

White feminism fought for women; black freedom fought for manhood. Neither saw black women.

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19 000+

🖤 Black Feminism 🧊 White Feminism Critique ⛓️ Slavery's Legacy 🔗 Racism And Sexism 🧠 Black Political Thought

Ain't I a Woman

White feminism fought for women; black freedom fought for manhood. Neither saw black women.

av bell hooks 1981 205 sidor

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🖤 Black Feminism 🧊 White Feminism Critique ⛓️ Slavery's Legacy 🔗 Racism And Sexism 🧠 Black Political Thought

What if I Say the Wrong Thing?

av Vernā Myers • 2014

25 habits that move you from good intentions to effective action across cultural differences.

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🌍 Workplace Diversity 🧠 Unconscious Bias 🤝 Cultural Competence ✊ Antiracist Practice 🛑 Bystander Intervention

What if I Say the Wrong Thing?

25 habits that move you from good intentions to effective action across cultural differences.

av Vernā Myers 2014 125 sidor

4.19

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🌍 Workplace Diversity 🧠 Unconscious Bias 🤝 Cultural Competence ✊ Antiracist Practice 🛑 Bystander Intervention

American Slavery, American Freedom

av Edmund S. Morgan • 1975

American liberty and American slavery grew from the same soil, and each strengthened the other.

4.12

3 000+

🏛️ Colonial America 🌿 Virginia History ⛓️ Origins Of Slavery 🧑🏿‍🤝‍🧑🏼 Race And Class 🔨 Labor History

American Slavery, American Freedom

American liberty and American slavery grew from the same soil, and each strengthened the other.

av Edmund S. Morgan 1975 464 sidor

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🏛️ Colonial America 🌿 Virginia History ⛓️ Origins Of Slavery 🧑🏿‍🤝‍🧑🏼 Race And Class 🔨 Labor History

American Crucible

av Gary Gerstle • 2001

Equal rights versus white identity: how America's two nationalisms have warred for a century.

3.82

246

🏛️ American Nationalism 📅 20th Century America ⚖️ Civic Nationalism 🧬 Racial Nationalism 🚪 Immigration Restriction

American Crucible

Equal rights versus white identity: how America's two nationalisms have warred for a century.

av Gary Gerstle 2001 472 sidor

3.82

246 betyg

🏛️ American Nationalism 📅 20th Century America ⚖️ Civic Nationalism 🧬 Racial Nationalism 🚪 Immigration Restriction

The Counter-Revolution of 1776

av Gerald Horne • 2014

Britain was turning against slavery. The American Revolution was the slaveholders' answer.

4.20

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🇺🇸 American Revolution ⛓️ Atlantic Slavery 🏘️ Settler Colonialism ✊ Slave Resistance 📚 Revisionist History

The Counter-Revolution of 1776

Britain was turning against slavery. The American Revolution was the slaveholders' answer.

av Gerald Horne 2014 363 sidor

4.20

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🇺🇸 American Revolution ⛓️ Atlantic Slavery 🏘️ Settler Colonialism ✊ Slave Resistance 📚 Revisionist History

Burn Down Master's House

av Clay Cane • 2026

Virginia's enslaved forge a hidden rebellion of love and vengeance their masters cannot survive.

4.35

17 000+

📜 Slavery Narrative 🔥 Slave Rebellion 🕰️ Multi-Generational Saga 🤝 Found Family 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Love Story

Burn Down Master's House

Virginia's enslaved forge a hidden rebellion of love and vengeance their masters cannot survive.

av Clay Cane 2026 288 sidor

4.35

17 000+ betyg

📜 Slavery Narrative 🔥 Slave Rebellion 🕰️ Multi-Generational Saga 🤝 Found Family 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Love Story

White Backlash

av Marisa Abrajano • 2015

The data is clear: anti-Latino sentiment, not economic anxiety, has redrawn America's political map.

3.65

✈️ Immigration Politics 🌎 Latino Politics 🗳️ Voting Behavior 📺 Media Effects 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Racial Attitudes

White Backlash

The data is clear: anti-Latino sentiment, not economic anxiety, has redrawn America's political map.

av Marisa Abrajano 2015 256 sidor

3.65

49 betyg

✈️ Immigration Politics 🌎 Latino Politics 🗳️ Voting Behavior 📺 Media Effects 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Racial Attitudes

You Can’t Be Serious

av Kal Penn • 2021

His first day in Hollywood, his back was on fire. His next job, he served President Obama.

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🎬 Hollywood Memoir 🌍 Immigrant Experience 🧧 Asian American Identity 🗣️ Code-Switching 🔄 Career Pivots

You Can’t Be Serious

His first day in Hollywood, his back was on fire. His next job, he served President Obama.

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👷 Class Politics 🇺🇸 American Populism 📢 Political Messaging 🎓 Educational Sorting 🎭 Cultural Capital

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The Left lost the working class to economic precarity and condescension. How to win them back.

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4.20

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👷 Class Politics 🇺🇸 American Populism 📢 Political Messaging 🎓 Educational Sorting 🎭 Cultural Capital

Spectacle

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1906: the Bronx Zoo caged a Congolese man in the monkey house. Thousands paid to stare.

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🦍 Human Zoos 🔬 Scientific Racism 💀 Colonial Atrocities 🇧🇪 Belgian Congo 📜 Historical Erasure

Spectacle

1906: the Bronx Zoo caged a Congolese man in the monkey house. Thousands paid to stare.

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🦍 Human Zoos 🔬 Scientific Racism 💀 Colonial Atrocities 🇧🇪 Belgian Congo 📜 Historical Erasure

Medical Apartheid

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Tuskegee was not an anomaly. A sweeping history of medicine exploiting Black Americans for research.

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🏥 Medical History 🩺 Medical Racism 🧬 Scientific Racism ⚖️ Bioethics 🌸 Reproductive Justice

Medical Apartheid

Tuskegee was not an anomaly. A sweeping history of medicine exploiting Black Americans for research.

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🏥 Medical History 🩺 Medical Racism 🧬 Scientific Racism ⚖️ Bioethics 🌸 Reproductive Justice

Mexifornia

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California's crisis: what cheap labor, open borders, and multicultural denial produce.

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🌎 Undocumented Immigration 🗣️ Assimilation Debates 📚 Critique Of Multiculturalism 👨‍🌾 Migrant Labor 🌉 California History

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California's crisis: what cheap labor, open borders, and multicultural denial produce.

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🌎 Undocumented Immigration 🗣️ Assimilation Debates 📚 Critique Of Multiculturalism 👨‍🌾 Migrant Labor 🌉 California History

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Blue-eyed and Black, he could pass for white, so he walked straight into lynch mobs.

4.23

✊🏾 Civil Rights Movement ⛓️ Jim Crow Era 🪢 Anti-Lynching Activism 🪞 Passing Narratives 🗳️ Voting Rights

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Blue-eyed and Black, he could pass for white, so he walked straight into lynch mobs.

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✊🏾 Civil Rights Movement ⛓️ Jim Crow Era 🪢 Anti-Lynching Activism 🪞 Passing Narratives 🗳️ Voting Rights

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