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

Regulating the Poor

av Frances Fox Piven • 1971

Welfare has one rhythm: expand during riots, contract during calm, always to enforce cheap labor.

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🏛️ Welfare State 🔧 Work And Welfare 🎛️ Social Control 💰 Political Economy ✊ Social Movements

Regulating the Poor

Welfare has one rhythm: expand during riots, contract during calm, always to enforce cheap labor.

av Frances Fox Piven 1971 544 sidor

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🏛️ Welfare State 🔧 Work And Welfare 🎛️ Social Control 💰 Political Economy ✊ Social Movements

The Destructionists

av Dana Milbank • 2022

Gingrich lit the match in 1993. Twenty-five years of arson later, Trump walked through the ashes.

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🐘 Republican Party 🏛️ American Conservatism 🔀 Political Polarization ⚠️ Democratic Backsliding 📺 Conservative Media

The Destructionists

Gingrich lit the match in 1993. Twenty-five years of arson later, Trump walked through the ashes.

av Dana Milbank 2022 416 sidor

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🐘 Republican Party 🏛️ American Conservatism 🔀 Political Polarization ⚠️ Democratic Backsliding 📺 Conservative Media

The Great Alignment

av Alan I. Abramowitz • 2018

Partisan sorting by race and culture turned politics into mutual hatred. Trump is the result.

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🔄 Political Realignment 🧑🏿‍🤝‍🧑🏾 Racial Politics 💔 Affective Polarization 🗳️ Voting Behavior ⚔️ Cultural Polarization

The Great Alignment

Partisan sorting by race and culture turned politics into mutual hatred. Trump is the result.

av Alan I. Abramowitz 2018 216 sidor

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🔄 Political Realignment 🧑🏿‍🤝‍🧑🏾 Racial Politics 💔 Affective Polarization 🗳️ Voting Behavior ⚔️ Cultural Polarization

Dog Whistle Politics

av Ian F. Haney-López • 2013

The hidden racial script that convinced white voters to destroy the middle class, and who cashed in.

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🗣️ Coded Racial Appeals 🇺🇸 American Political History 🤝 Racial Politics 💸 Economic Inequality 🗳️ Southern Strategy

Dog Whistle Politics

The hidden racial script that convinced white voters to destroy the middle class, and who cashed in.

av Ian F. Haney-López 2013 304 sidor

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🗣️ Coded Racial Appeals 🇺🇸 American Political History 🤝 Racial Politics 💸 Economic Inequality 🗳️ Southern Strategy

"Mau Mau" detainee

av Josiah Mwangi Kariuki • 1976

They called it rehabilitation. He survived fourteen camps to tell what it really was.

3.81

🇰🇪 Kenyan History 🌍 Decolonization ✊ Colonial Resistance 🔗 Camp Narratives 🗣️ First-Person Testimony

"Mau Mau" detainee

They called it rehabilitation. He survived fourteen camps to tell what it really was.

av Josiah Mwangi Kariuki 1976 188 sidor

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🇰🇪 Kenyan History 🌍 Decolonization ✊ Colonial Resistance 🔗 Camp Narratives 🗣️ First-Person Testimony

The Court v. The Voters

av Joshua A. Douglas • 2024

We trust the Court to protect voting rights. Fifty years of rulings tell a different story.

4.46

🗳️ Voting Rights ⚖️ Constitutional Law 🏛️ Supreme Court 📋 Judicial Activism ⚠️ Democratic Erosion

The Court v. The Voters

We trust the Court to protect voting rights. Fifty years of rulings tell a different story.

av Joshua A. Douglas 2024 240 sidor

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🗳️ Voting Rights ⚖️ Constitutional Law 🏛️ Supreme Court 📋 Judicial Activism ⚠️ Democratic Erosion

Ada's Room

av Sharon Dodua Otoo • 2021

Reborn across centuries, a woman is haunted by a golden bracelet stolen from her first life.

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🌀 Reincarnation Fiction 🗣️ Unusual Narrators 🌍 Colonial Legacy 🧬 Generational Trauma 💎 Stolen Artifact

Ada's Room

Reborn across centuries, a woman is haunted by a golden bracelet stolen from her first life.

av Sharon Dodua Otoo 2021 352 sidor

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🌀 Reincarnation Fiction 🗣️ Unusual Narrators 🌍 Colonial Legacy 🧬 Generational Trauma 💎 Stolen Artifact

The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism

av Gerald Horne • 2018

Slavery, white supremacy, and capitalism: fused in the 1600s, they still power the modern world.

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🌊 Atlantic History 🏚️ Settler Colonialism 💰 Racial Capitalism ◻️ Origins Of Whiteness ⛓️ Slave Trade History

The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism

Slavery, white supremacy, and capitalism: fused in the 1600s, they still power the modern world.

av Gerald Horne 2018 280 sidor

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🌊 Atlantic History 🏚️ Settler Colonialism 💰 Racial Capitalism ◻️ Origins Of Whiteness ⛓️ Slave Trade History

Mère à mère

av Sindiwe Magona • 1998

Her son murdered a white student. She writes the victim's mother, tracing the act to apartheid.

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📝 Epistolary Novel 🇿🇦 Apartheid Literature 👩‍👦 Mother And Son 🧬 Generational Trauma 🔄 Cycle Of Violence

Mère à mère

Her son murdered a white student. She writes the victim's mother, tracing the act to apartheid.

av Sindiwe Magona 1998 280 sidor

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📝 Epistolary Novel 🇿🇦 Apartheid Literature 👩‍👦 Mother And Son 🧬 Generational Trauma 🔄 Cycle Of Violence

Algorithms of Oppression

av Safiya Umoja Noble • 2018

The search results you trust are shaped by profit, not truth, and they quietly reinforce racism.

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🖥️ Algorithmic Bias 📚 Critical Race Theory ⚖️ Data Justice 👁️ Surveillance Capitalism 🏛️ Platform Accountability

Algorithms of Oppression

The search results you trust are shaped by profit, not truth, and they quietly reinforce racism.

av Safiya Umoja Noble 2018 248 sidor

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🖥️ Algorithmic Bias 📚 Critical Race Theory ⚖️ Data Justice 👁️ Surveillance Capitalism 🏛️ Platform Accountability

Radical American Partisanship

av Nathan P. Kalmoe • 2022

15 percent of Americans have been threatened over politics. The accelerant is racial resentment.

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🗳️ American Politics 💥 Political Violence 🧩 Partisan Polarization 🧠 Political Psychology 🔓 Moral Disengagement

Radical American Partisanship

15 percent of Americans have been threatened over politics. The accelerant is racial resentment.

av Nathan P. Kalmoe 2022 222 sidor

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🗳️ American Politics 💥 Political Violence 🧩 Partisan Polarization 🧠 Political Psychology 🔓 Moral Disengagement

The Great Demographic Illusion

av Richard Alba • 2020

One census rule invents a white minority. The reality: mixed-race America expands the mainstream.

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🧬 Mixed Race Identity 📊 Census Politics 🔄 Assimilation Theory ⚖️ Zero Sum Thinking 👴 Demographic Transition

The Great Demographic Illusion

One census rule invents a white minority. The reality: mixed-race America expands the mainstream.

av Richard Alba 2020 336 sidor

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🧬 Mixed Race Identity 📊 Census Politics 🔄 Assimilation Theory ⚖️ Zero Sum Thinking 👴 Demographic Transition

In the Shadow of the Poorhouse

av Michael B. Katz • 1986

American welfare was designed to deter, not to help. The poorhouse closed; the logic stayed.

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📜 Welfare History 🏚️ Poverty Studies 🔗 Structural Inequality 🏭 Racial Capitalism 💰 Political Economy

In the Shadow of the Poorhouse

American welfare was designed to deter, not to help. The poorhouse closed; the logic stayed.

av Michael B. Katz 1986 410 sidor

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📜 Welfare History 🏚️ Poverty Studies 🔗 Structural Inequality 🏭 Racial Capitalism 💰 Political Economy

Ethnic Boundary Making

av Andreas Wimmer • 2012

Ethnic boundaries are built, not inherited. Who draws the lines, and how they get enforced.

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🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Race And Ethnicity 📐 Boundary Theory 🚧 Social Closure 🕸️ Social Network Analysis 🌍 Immigrant Integration

Ethnic Boundary Making

Ethnic boundaries are built, not inherited. Who draws the lines, and how they get enforced.

av Andreas Wimmer 2012 304 sidor

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🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Race And Ethnicity 📐 Boundary Theory 🚧 Social Closure 🕸️ Social Network Analysis 🌍 Immigrant Integration

Africa in the World

av Frederick Cooper • 2014

Africa co-created global capitalism. The nation-state map that emerged was nobody's intended plan.

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🏛️ Atlantic World 💰 Political Economy 🏴 European Colonialism 🗳️ Decolonization 🏢 Nation-State Critique

Africa in the World

Africa co-created global capitalism. The nation-state map that emerged was nobody's intended plan.

av Frederick Cooper 2014 144 sidor

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🏛️ Atlantic World 💰 Political Economy 🏴 European Colonialism 🗳️ Decolonization 🏢 Nation-State Critique

Racial Realignment

av Eric Schickler • 2016

Labor unions and state parties, not presidents, drove the Democratic turn toward civil rights.

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🗳️ Party Realignment ✊ Civil Rights History 🇺🇸 American Political History 🤝 Coalition Politics ⚒️ Labor And Civil Rights

Racial Realignment

Labor unions and state parties, not presidents, drove the Democratic turn toward civil rights.

av Eric Schickler 2016 384 sidor

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🗳️ Party Realignment ✊ Civil Rights History 🇺🇸 American Political History 🤝 Coalition Politics ⚒️ Labor And Civil Rights

The Death of Reconstruction

av Heather Cox Richardson • 2001

The North's faith in free labor built Reconstruction, then provided the arguments to tear it down.

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🏛️ Reconstruction Era ⚒️ Labor History 💰 Political Economy 🗳️ Voting Rights 🚫 Anti-Statism

The Death of Reconstruction

The North's faith in free labor built Reconstruction, then provided the arguments to tear it down.

av Heather Cox Richardson 2001 336 sidor

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🏛️ Reconstruction Era ⚒️ Labor History 💰 Political Economy 🗳️ Voting Rights 🚫 Anti-Statism

The Myth of Santa Fe

av Chris Wilson • 1997

Santa Fe's adobe charm is a twentieth-century invention, built to attract tourists and new money.

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🏙️ Urban Identity 🧳 Tourism Economies 🎭 Invented Traditions 🏛️ Historic Preservation 🤝 Cultural Hybridity

The Myth of Santa Fe

Santa Fe's adobe charm is a twentieth-century invention, built to attract tourists and new money.

av Chris Wilson 1997 420 sidor

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🏙️ Urban Identity 🧳 Tourism Economies 🎭 Invented Traditions 🏛️ Historic Preservation 🤝 Cultural Hybridity

Separate and Unequal

av Steven M. Gillon • 2018

LBJ's riot commission was a stalling tactic. It blamed the nation, and he buried it.

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📜 Presidential Commissions 🔥 Urban Riots 🧱 Institutional Racism 🗳️ White Backlash 🏛️ Great Society

Separate and Unequal

LBJ's riot commission was a stalling tactic. It blamed the nation, and he buried it.

av Steven M. Gillon 2018 400 sidor

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📜 Presidential Commissions 🔥 Urban Riots 🧱 Institutional Racism 🗳️ White Backlash 🏛️ Great Society

The Buddha of Suburbia

av Hanif Kureishi • 1990

A mixed-race teenager in 1970s London flees his father's guru act for the bohemian theatre world.

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🏙️ 1970s Britain 🎭 Suburban Satire 💜 Bisexual Awakening 💍 Arranged Marriage 🌏 Second Generation

The Buddha of Suburbia

A mixed-race teenager in 1970s London flees his father's guru act for the bohemian theatre world.

av Hanif Kureishi 1990 288 sidor

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🏙️ 1970s Britain 🎭 Suburban Satire 💜 Bisexual Awakening 💍 Arranged Marriage 🌏 Second Generation

State of the Union

av Nelson Lichtenstein • 2002

Why American law expanded individual rights while dismantling the collective power of labor.

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🏭 Labor History 🇺🇸 American Labor Movement 📜 New Deal Era 👷 Working Class History 📉 Political Economy

State of the Union

Why American law expanded individual rights while dismantling the collective power of labor.

av Nelson Lichtenstein 2002 352 sidor

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🏭 Labor History 🇺🇸 American Labor Movement 📜 New Deal Era 👷 Working Class History 📉 Political Economy

The Toronto Book of Love

av Adam Bunch • 2021

Jailed at eighteen for loving a Chinese man. Her sixty-year battle exposed Toronto's hidden heart.

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🏙️ Toronto History 💕 Social History Of Love 🏳️‍🌈 Queer History 🔎 Hidden Histories 🏘️ Urban Microhistory

The Toronto Book of Love

Jailed at eighteen for loving a Chinese man. Her sixty-year battle exposed Toronto's hidden heart.

av Adam Bunch 2021 528 sidor

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🏙️ Toronto History 💕 Social History Of Love 🏳️‍🌈 Queer History 🔎 Hidden Histories 🏘️ Urban Microhistory

Who Rules America?

av G William Domhoff • 2021

America's 0.5%: how interlocking boards, elite schools, and a captured court hold power.

3.70

📊 Political Sociology 🔺 Power Elite Theory 🕸️ Elite Networks 🏢 Corporate Influence 📢 Opinion Manufacturing

Who Rules America?

America's 0.5%: how interlocking boards, elite schools, and a captured court hold power.

av G William Domhoff 2021 260 sidor

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📊 Political Sociology 🔺 Power Elite Theory 🕸️ Elite Networks 🏢 Corporate Influence 📢 Opinion Manufacturing

Race and Racism

av Pierre L. van den Berghe • 1967

Two regimes of race relations: one intimate, one competitive. The economic logic behind the change.

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🌍 Race Relations 🧬 Race As Social Construct 🔬 Comparative Sociology 🧩 Plural Society Theory 🏛️ Paternalism And Race

Race and Racism

Two regimes of race relations: one intimate, one competitive. The economic logic behind the change.

av Pierre L. van den Berghe 1967 169 sidor

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🌍 Race Relations 🧬 Race As Social Construct 🔬 Comparative Sociology 🧩 Plural Society Theory 🏛️ Paternalism And Race

Workers on Arrival

av Joe William Trotter Jr. • 2019

America was built on Black labor, then spent four centuries finding new ways to steal it.

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⛏️ Black Labor History 💰 Racial Capitalism ⛓️ Mass Incarceration 🏭 Deindustrialization 🧳 Great Migration

Workers on Arrival

America was built on Black labor, then spent four centuries finding new ways to steal it.

av Joe William Trotter Jr. 2019 328 sidor

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⛏️ Black Labor History 💰 Racial Capitalism ⛓️ Mass Incarceration 🏭 Deindustrialization 🧳 Great Migration

The Right To Vote The Contested History Of Democracy In The United States

av Alexander Keyssar • 2000

Voting rights advanced, then retreated. Each expansion triggered backlash, and the cycle continues.

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🗳️ Voting Rights 🇺🇸 American Democracy 💰 Class And Politics 🚫 Voter Suppression ⚖️ Constitutional Law

The Right To Vote The Contested History Of Democracy In The United States

Voting rights advanced, then retreated. Each expansion triggered backlash, and the cycle continues.

av Alexander Keyssar 2000 512 sidor

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🗳️ Voting Rights 🇺🇸 American Democracy 💰 Class And Politics 🚫 Voter Suppression ⚖️ Constitutional Law

Empire's Crossroads

av Carrie Gibson • 2014

Five centuries of sugar, slavery, and empire: how a handful of islands made the modern world.

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🏝️ Caribbean History ⛓️ Atlantic Slavery ✊ Haitian Revolution 🍬 Sugar And Empire 🏃 Slave Resistance

Empire's Crossroads

Five centuries of sugar, slavery, and empire: how a handful of islands made the modern world.

av Carrie Gibson 2014 448 sidor

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🏝️ Caribbean History ⛓️ Atlantic Slavery ✊ Haitian Revolution 🍬 Sugar And Empire 🏃 Slave Resistance

Seven Social Movements That Changed America

av Linda Gordon • 2025

Seven American movements, from the Klan to the farmworkers, and the hidden engine that powered them.

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🏘️ Grassroots Organizing 🔬 Social Movement Theory ⚠️ Authoritarian Movements ✊ Women Organizers 🔗 Intersectional Feminism

Seven Social Movements That Changed America

Seven American movements, from the Klan to the farmworkers, and the hidden engine that powered them.

av Linda Gordon 2025 528 sidor

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🏘️ Grassroots Organizing 🔬 Social Movement Theory ⚠️ Authoritarian Movements ✊ Women Organizers 🔗 Intersectional Feminism

North from Mexico

av Carey McWilliams • 1969

The Southwest was built by Mexican labor. Then it invented a Spanish past to hide them.

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🏜️ Chicano History 🗺️ Borderlands History 👷 Labor Migration ⚖️ Systemic Discrimination ⚔️ Conquest And Colonization

North from Mexico

The Southwest was built by Mexican labor. Then it invented a Spanish past to hide them.

av Carey McWilliams 1969 372 sidor

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🏜️ Chicano History 🗺️ Borderlands History 👷 Labor Migration ⚖️ Systemic Discrimination ⚔️ Conquest And Colonization

Southern Nation

av David A. Bateman • 2018

After Reconstruction, the white South ran Congress and built white supremacy into American law.

3.38

📜 Jim Crow Era 🗳️ Southern Politics 🏛️ Congressional History ⚖️ Institutional Racism 🚧 Legislative Obstruction

Southern Nation

After Reconstruction, the white South ran Congress and built white supremacy into American law.

av David A. Bateman 2018 488 sidor

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📜 Jim Crow Era 🗳️ Southern Politics 🏛️ Congressional History ⚖️ Institutional Racism 🚧 Legislative Obstruction

Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion

av Herbert Aptheker • 1966

A solar eclipse, a prophet's vision, and 40 hours that forced the South to defend slavery openly.

3.55

🏛️ Antebellum South ⛓️ American Slavery ✊ Slave Rebellion 🩸 Racial Violence 🕊️ Abolitionism

Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion

A solar eclipse, a prophet's vision, and 40 hours that forced the South to defend slavery openly.

av Herbert Aptheker 1966 176 sidor

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🏛️ Antebellum South ⛓️ American Slavery ✊ Slave Rebellion 🩸 Racial Violence 🕊️ Abolitionism

To Catch a Fascist

av Christopher Mathias • 2026

An infiltrator pulled 440 gigabytes of chat logs from a hate group, unleashing a wave of unmaskings.

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🏴 Modern Antifa 🇺🇸 American Far Right 💻 Open Source Intelligence 🎭 Unmasking Extremists 🕵️ Extremist Infiltration

To Catch a Fascist

An infiltrator pulled 440 gigabytes of chat logs from a hate group, unleashing a wave of unmaskings.

av Christopher Mathias 2026 336 sidor

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🏴 Modern Antifa 🇺🇸 American Far Right 💻 Open Source Intelligence 🎭 Unmasking Extremists 🕵️ Extremist Infiltration

Us Against Them

av Donald R. Kinder • 2009

An instinct to split the world into us and them shapes nearly every American political opinion.

3.97

🧠 Political Psychology 📊 Public Opinion 👥 Intergroup Relations 🎯 In-Group Bias 🔍 Prejudice Research

Us Against Them

An instinct to split the world into us and them shapes nearly every American political opinion.

av Donald R. Kinder 2009 354 sidor

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🧠 Political Psychology 📊 Public Opinion 👥 Intergroup Relations 🎯 In-Group Bias 🔍 Prejudice Research

Indians and English

av Karen Ordahl Kupperman • 2000

Before conquest came curiosity: both sides studied each other as mutual puzzles.

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🇺🇸 Early American History ⚓ Colonial Encounters 📜 Ethnohistory 🏹 Native Agency 🌊 Atlantic World

Indians and English

Before conquest came curiosity: both sides studied each other as mutual puzzles.

av Karen Ordahl Kupperman 2000 320 sidor

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🇺🇸 Early American History ⚓ Colonial Encounters 📜 Ethnohistory 🏹 Native Agency 🌊 Atlantic World

Categorically Unequal

av Douglas S. Massey • 2007

America engineered its inequality: sort people into categories, then rig the rules.

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📊 Social Stratification 🔀 Race And Class 🏛️ Political Economy 🔗 Mass Incarceration 🧠 Social Cognition

Categorically Unequal

America engineered its inequality: sort people into categories, then rig the rules.

av Douglas S. Massey 2007 340 sidor

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📊 Social Stratification 🔀 Race And Class 🏛️ Political Economy 🔗 Mass Incarceration 🧠 Social Cognition

Last Night in Brooklyn

av Xóchitl González • 2026

A woman caught between old Brooklyn and new follows a fashion designer's IPO into glamour and ruin.

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🏗️ Gentrifying Brooklyn 🔥 Ambitious Women 👯 Found Family 📉 Tragic Rise And Fall 💔 Love Triangle

Last Night in Brooklyn

A woman caught between old Brooklyn and new follows a fashion designer's IPO into glamour and ruin.

av Xóchitl González 2026 256 sidor

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🏗️ Gentrifying Brooklyn 🔥 Ambitious Women 👯 Found Family 📉 Tragic Rise And Fall 💔 Love Triangle

They Call You Back

av Tim Z. Hernandez • 2024

1948 crash: 28 Mexican dead labeled 'deportees.' One writer's hunt to learn and return their names.

4.46

🕳️ Historical Erasure 🌳 Family History 🧬 Intergenerational Trauma 🦋 Mexican Diaspora 🇲🇽 Chicano Memoir

They Call You Back

1948 crash: 28 Mexican dead labeled 'deportees.' One writer's hunt to learn and return their names.

av Tim Z. Hernandez 2024 272 sidor

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🕳️ Historical Erasure 🌳 Family History 🧬 Intergenerational Trauma 🦋 Mexican Diaspora 🇲🇽 Chicano Memoir

Unusually Cruel

av Marc Morjé Howard • 2017

Ten times the prisoners of Europe, and not because of crime: four forces behind American punishment.

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🏛️ Mass Incarceration 🛠️ Criminal Justice Reform 🧑🏿‍⚖️ Racial Bias In Justice ⚖️ Prosecutorial Power 🚪 Prison Conditions

Unusually Cruel

Ten times the prisoners of Europe, and not because of crime: four forces behind American punishment.

av Marc Morjé Howard 2017 296 sidor

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🏛️ Mass Incarceration 🛠️ Criminal Justice Reform 🧑🏿‍⚖️ Racial Bias In Justice ⚖️ Prosecutorial Power 🚪 Prison Conditions

The Ruling Race

av James Oakes • 1982

They weren't aristocrats. Restless hunger for land and slaves pushed the South to secession.

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🏛️ Antebellum South ⛓️ American Slavery 👔 Planter Class 📊 Economic History 🚂 Westward Expansion

The Ruling Race

They weren't aristocrats. Restless hunger for land and slaves pushed the South to secession.

av James Oakes 1982 307 sidor

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🏛️ Antebellum South ⛓️ American Slavery 👔 Planter Class 📊 Economic History 🚂 Westward Expansion

Southern Politics In State and Nation

av V.O. Key Jr. • 1949

One party masks a hundred factions; the only unity is Black voter suppression.

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🏛️ Southern Politics 🗳️ One-Party Rule ✋ Voter Suppression ⚖️ Racial Politics 🏙️ Machine Politics

Southern Politics In State and Nation

One party masks a hundred factions; the only unity is Black voter suppression.

av V.O. Key Jr. 1949 752 sidor

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🏛️ Southern Politics 🗳️ One-Party Rule ✋ Voter Suppression ⚖️ Racial Politics 🏙️ Machine Politics

Jefferson's Empire

av Peter S. Onuf • 2000

An empire built on consent that required conquest: the paradox at the core of American identity.

3.56

📚 Intellectual History 🏛️ Early American Republic 🇺🇸 Nationhood And Identity 🌎 Imperial Ideology ⚖️ Race And Citizenship

Jefferson's Empire

An empire built on consent that required conquest: the paradox at the core of American identity.

av Peter S. Onuf 2000 250 sidor

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📚 Intellectual History 🏛️ Early American Republic 🇺🇸 Nationhood And Identity 🌎 Imperial Ideology ⚖️ Race And Citizenship

The Left Behind

av Robert Wuthnow • 2018

Rural America's anger is grief: not for lost jobs, but for communities where belonging meant duty.

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🏡 Rural America 😤 Cultural Resentment 🏙️ Urban Rural Divide 📉 Moral Decline ⛪ Religion And Politics

The Left Behind

Rural America's anger is grief: not for lost jobs, but for communities where belonging meant duty.

av Robert Wuthnow 2018 200 sidor

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🏡 Rural America 😤 Cultural Resentment 🏙️ Urban Rural Divide 📉 Moral Decline ⛪ Religion And Politics

Pick a Colour

av Souvankham Thammavongsa • 2025

A former boxer runs a nail salon. Every worker is Susan. No one gets too close.

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🧳 Immigrant Women 💅 Workplace Bonds 👁️ Wry And Observant 🕯️ Elegiac 💼 Service Industry

Pick a Colour

A former boxer runs a nail salon. Every worker is Susan. No one gets too close.

av Souvankham Thammavongsa 2025 188 sidor

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🧳 Immigrant Women 💅 Workplace Bonds 👁️ Wry And Observant 🕯️ Elegiac 💼 Service Industry

Uneasy Alliances

av Paul Frymer • 1999

The two-party system sidelines race by design, taking its most loyal voters for granted.

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🇺🇸 American Politics 🏛️ Two-Party System 🖤 Racial Politics 🗣️ Political Representation 🔗 Institutional Racism

Uneasy Alliances

The two-party system sidelines race by design, taking its most loyal voters for granted.

av Paul Frymer 1999 224 sidor

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🇺🇸 American Politics 🏛️ Two-Party System 🖤 Racial Politics 🗣️ Political Representation 🔗 Institutional Racism

Exceptional America

av Mugambi Jouet • 2017

Why the richest democracy has the most prisoners, the angriest politics, and the fiercest faith.

3.98

🌍 Comparative Politics ⚡ Political Polarization 🧠 Anti-Intellectualism ⛪ Christian Fundamentalism 🔗 Mass Incarceration

Exceptional America

Why the richest democracy has the most prisoners, the angriest politics, and the fiercest faith.

av Mugambi Jouet 2017 358 sidor

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🌍 Comparative Politics ⚡ Political Polarization 🧠 Anti-Intellectualism ⛪ Christian Fundamentalism 🔗 Mass Incarceration

Creating a New Racial Order

av Jennifer L. Hochschild • 2012

Genomics and a new generation erode racial boundaries. Poverty and prisons redraw them.

3.37

🏗️ Racial Formation 🧩 Multiracial Identity 🧬 Genomics And Race 🚧 Structural Racism ⛓️ Mass Incarceration

Creating a New Racial Order

Genomics and a new generation erode racial boundaries. Poverty and prisons redraw them.

av Jennifer L. Hochschild 2012 280 sidor

3.37

19 betyg

🏗️ Racial Formation 🧩 Multiracial Identity 🧬 Genomics And Race 🚧 Structural Racism ⛓️ Mass Incarceration

American Poison

av Eduardo Porter • 2020

White America starved the safety net to keep it from minorities. Then inequality came for everyone.

3.91

270

🧱 Us Race Relations 🔍 Structural Racism 🏛️ Welfare State ⛓️ Mass Incarceration 🗳️ Political Polarization

American Poison

White America starved the safety net to keep it from minorities. Then inequality came for everyone.

av Eduardo Porter 2020 272 sidor

3.91

270 betyg

🧱 Us Race Relations 🔍 Structural Racism 🏛️ Welfare State ⛓️ Mass Incarceration 🗳️ Political Polarization

Kill Switch

av Adam Jentleson • 2021

The filibuster was born to protect slavery, not debate. That sin still decides who governs.

4.24

2 000+

🏛️ Congressional Gridlock ⏳ Filibuster History ⚖️ Minority Rule 🚧 Procedural Obstruction 🏚️ Institutional Decay

Kill Switch

The filibuster was born to protect slavery, not debate. That sin still decides who governs.

av Adam Jentleson 2021 352 sidor

4.24

2 000+ betyg

🏛️ Congressional Gridlock ⏳ Filibuster History ⚖️ Minority Rule 🚧 Procedural Obstruction 🏚️ Institutional Decay

The Securitarian Personality

av John R. Hibbing • 2020

Trump's most loyal voters aren't authoritarians. An ancient instinct to guard their own drives them.

3.66

🧠 Political Psychology 🛡️ Threat Perception 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 🏛️ American Conservatism 👥 In-Group Bias

The Securitarian Personality

Trump's most loyal voters aren't authoritarians. An ancient instinct to guard their own drives them.

av John R. Hibbing 2020 304 sidor

3.66

29 betyg

🧠 Political Psychology 🛡️ Threat Perception 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 🏛️ American Conservatism 👥 In-Group Bias

The Black Messiah

av Albert B. Cleage Jr. • 1989

Jesus was a Black revolutionary. Paul built a slave religion on his grave.

4.35

🏴 Black Theology ✊ Black Power 🔍 White Supremacy Critique ⛪ Anti-Colonial Christianity 🔗 Collective Liberation

The Black Messiah

Jesus was a Black revolutionary. Paul built a slave religion on his grave.

av Albert B. Cleage Jr. 1989 278 sidor

4.35

17 betyg

🏴 Black Theology ✊ Black Power 🔍 White Supremacy Critique ⛪ Anti-Colonial Christianity 🔗 Collective Liberation

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