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Slavery After Slavery: Revealing the Legacy of Forced Child Apprenticeships on Black Families, from Emancipation to the Present
With its data-filled appendix, this instructive inquiry into post–Civil War U.S. history beckons readers to see what can be learned from tracing survivors of ongoing injuries from white supremacy’s extensions of slavery.
Unfit Parent: A Disabled Mother Challenges an Inaccessible World
A must for collections. This work offers much insight and interweaves the author’s personal experiences with interviews with numerous parents with a variety of disabilities about their experiences.
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Counterculture: The Story of America from Bohemia to Hip-Hop
A good introduction to the process of culture making in the 20th century.
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Homes for Living: The Fight for Social Housing and a New American Commons
This book might seem relevant only to residents of places with legislation similar to Mitchell-Lama, but it expertly offers deeper insights into what drives the concept of community and how people view their personal interests in relation to the interests of their neighborhood.
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Three Leaves, Three Roots: Poems on the Haiti-Congo Story
Georges’s poems map the complexities of national identity with an immediacy especially relevant to the present day.
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Transfarmation: The Movement To Free Us from Factory Farming
This highly recommended title is for readers concerned about current agricultural policies and practices and the future of the nation’s food production.
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To Be a Problem: A Black Woman’s Survival in the Racist Disability Rights Movement
A frank critique of the disability rights movement. Recommended for readers interested in activism and social justice.
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The Unicorn Woman
Jones (The Birdcatcher) rambles somewhat aimlessly, like Buddy, offering a character that should have been more compelling and a story that plods along.
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Homeland of My Body: New and Selected Poems
Accessible and sincere, Blanco’s poems may sometimes play tag with unmasked sentiment, but they are equally capable of sharp commentary (“History’s most constant conceit: that to love/ a country justifies killing everyone who does/ not love it exactly as we wish”) and a keen engagement with contemporary American life.
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