• Amy Hill Hearth, A. Elizabeth Delany, Sarah L. Delany
    • Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years - African-American family life crossed with social issues spanning a fuckin' century
  • Christine Fletcher
    • Ten Cents a Dance - meatpacking, 1940s taxi dance halls, prostitution, racism
  • Danzy Senna
    • Caucasia - being biracial in the 1970s (btw the term Caucasian is itself a remnant of a really old-timey racist "classification" system that classified different skin colors/ethnicities based on how "beautiful" they were?! omgstopit)
  • E.B. White
    • Here is New York - Cold War era Manhattan
  • Fareed Zakaria
    • The Post-American World - "This is not a book about the decline of America, but rather about the rise of everyone else."
  • Harper Lee
    • To Kill a Mockingbird - racism, rape, sexuality, law
  • Henry Louis Gates Jr.
    • Colored People: A Memoir - personal recollections of African-Americans as human beings, linguistics
  • Howard Zinn
  • Jerald F. Dirks
    • Muslims in American History: A Forgotten Legacy - Islam in North America before the arrival of Christopher Columbus, history through today
  • John Steinbeck
    • The Grapes of Wrath - the Great Depression
  • Karl Marx
    • The Communist Manifesto - ;aehig;oaeg I cannot say enough, if you haven't read it, dooooo
  • Katherine Paterson
    • Bread and Roses Too - the Industrial Revolution and subsequent labor movements, textile strikes, immigration
  • Laurie Halse Anderson
    • Fever 1793 - Philadelphia's yellow fever epidemic
  • Lawrence Gonzalez
    • Lucy - evolutionary biology, the history of human evolution, genetic modification, religion
  • Loukia K. Sarroub
    • All American Yemeni Girls: Being Muslim in a Public School - girls trying to make sense of their identities as "Yemenis, Muslims, Americans, daughters of immigrants, teenagers, and high school students" in Michigan
  • Margaret Peterson Haddix
    • Uprising - the Industrial Revolution and subsequent labor movements, the Socialist Party, textile strikes, immigration
  • Moustafa Bayoumi
    • How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America - workplace discrimination, government surveillance, deportation
  • Omar Ibn Said
    • A Muslim American Slave: The Life of Omar Ibn Said - the life of a West African Muslim slave
  • Roy De Carava and Langston Hughes
    • The Sweet Flypaper of Life - history of Harlem in photography/poetry
  • Stacey J. Lee
    • Up Against Whiteness: Race, School and Immigrant Youth - first and second generation Asian American experiences
  • Toni Morrison
    • The Bluest Eye - racism, the beauty myth
  • Upton Sinclair
    • The Jungle - the Industrial Revolution and subsequent labor movements, the Socialist Party, immigration, the meat industry
    • Oil! - the California oil industry, religious corruption
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