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  • When They Blew the Levee

    Race, Politics, and Community in Pinhook, Missouri

    Winner of the 2019 Chicago Folklore PrizeIn 2011, the Midwest suffered devastating floods. Due to the flooding, the US Army Corps of Engineers activated the Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway, one of the flood prevention mechanisms of the Mississippi Rivers and Tributaries Project. This levee breach was intended to divert water in order to save the town of Cairo, Illinois, but in the process, it ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • On Juneteenth

    NEW YORK TIMES • 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2021New York Times • Times Critics Top Books of 2021New York Times BestsellerBest Books of the Year • Washington Post, TIME, NPR, Oprah Daily, Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, Kansas City Independent, Los Angeles Public Library, Washington Independent Review of Books, Spy, Audile, Biblioracle, AbeBooksThe essential, sweeping... ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Remembering Jim Crow

    African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South

    This “viscerally powerful . . . compilation of firsthand accounts of the Jim Crow era” won the Lillian Smith Book Award and the Carey McWilliams Award (Publisher’s Weekly, starred review).Based on interviews collected by the Behind the Veil Oral History Project at Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies, this remarkable book presents for the first time the most extensive oral history ever ... Read more

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  • What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia

    An antidote to bigotry and a "perfect primer for readers seeking factual, realistic portrayals of the rural and working-class experience" ( Los Angeles Times).In 2016, headlines declared Appalachia ground zero for America's "forgotten tribe" of white working-class voters. Journalists flocked to the region to extract sympathetic profiles of families devastated by poverty, abandoned by establishment ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Summary and Analysis of White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

    Based on the Book by Nancy Isenberg

    by Worth Books ...
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    So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of White Trash tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Nancy Isenberg's book.Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader.This short summary and analysis of White Trash includes:Historical contextChapter-by-chapter overviewsProfiles of the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Good Time for the Truth

    Race in Minnesota

    Edited by Sun Yung Shin ...
    In this provocative book, sixteen of Minnesota's best writers provide a range of perspectives on what it is like to live as a person of color in Minnesota. They give readers a splendid gift: the gift of touching another human being's inner reality, behind masks and veils and politeness. They bring us generously into experiences that we must understand if we are to come together in real ... Read more

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  • Graceland, At Last

    Notes on Hope and Heartache From the American South

    "In this luminous collection" a New York Times columnist "delivers smart, beautifully crafted personal and political observations" on the American south ( Minneapolis Star Tribune).Margaret Renkl's New York Times columns offer readers a weekly dose of natural beauty, human decency, and persistent hope from her home in Nashville. Now more than sixty of those pieces have been brought together in ... Read more

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  • Better Off Without 'Em

    A Northern Manifesto for Southern Secession

    Chuck Thompson—dubbed "savagely funny" by The New York Times and "wickedly entertaining" by the San Francisco Chronicle—spent two years traveling the American South to determine whether, as he’d long suspected but not yet proven, the whole country might be better off letting Dixieland make good on its two-hundred-years-old threat to secede. The result is a long overdue and serious inquiry into ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Requiem for the Massacre

    A Black History on the Conflict, Hope, and Fallout of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

    by RJ Young ...
    **Longlisted for the Reading the West Book AwardsNAACP Image Award Nominee for Outstanding Literary Work - Non-FictionWith journalistic skill, heart, and hope, Requiem for the Massacre reckons with the tension in Tulsa, Oklahoma, one hundred years after the most infamous act of racial violence in American history**More than one hundred years ago, the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, perpetrated a massacre ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Freedom Colonies

    Independent Black Texans in the Time of Jim Crow

    Series Book 15 - Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture
    A history of independent African American settlements in Texas during the Jim Crow era, featuring historical and contemporary photographs.In the decades following the Civil War, nearly a quarter of African Americans achieved a remarkable victory—they got their own land. While other ex-slaves and many poor whites became trapped in the exploitative sharecropping system, these independence-seeking ... Read more

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  • Edge City

    Life on the New Frontier

    by Joel Garreau ...
    First there was downtown. Then there were suburbs. Then there were malls. Then Americans launched the most sweeping change in 100 years in how they live, work, and play. The Edge City. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • My Black Family, My White Privilege

    A White Man’S Journey Through the Nation’S Racial Minefield

    In 1970, a working-class, Jewish man from New York City married an African American woman from rural, segregated North Carolina. From their union, Michael Wenger has three children, four grandchildren, and one great grandchild. Years later, Mr. Wenger served as Deputy Director for Outreach and Program Development for President Clintons Initiative on Race, an opportunity that confirmed for him the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD