Listopia > Pat's votes on the list Books White People Need to Read (16 Books)
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Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment
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"Why the U.S. cannot solve its gun problem until we come to terms with violence against indigenous people and Blacks, from the beginning of colonization up to now
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How to Be an Antiracist
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"Sums up actions to take"
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
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"Extensive documentation of how the south continued slavery after Reconstruction"
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rated it 5 stars
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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
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"Ties together the past and the present"
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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
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"Devastating and expansive"
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rated it 5 stars
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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
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"Comprehensive explanation of the government's role in segregation"
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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"Ground-breaking work on mass incarceration as another form of control "
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rated it 5 stars
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The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry
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"Important history of slavery as a foundation of capitalism"
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rated it 5 stars
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
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"Magnificent writing and explanation of the Great Migration"
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Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
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"Insights from a contemporary author's visit to Ghana to retrace the roots of American slavery"
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Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
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"Our founding fathers' relationships to slavery"
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
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"Important history"
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rated it 5 stars
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The Souls of Black Folk
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"Classic, remains relevant one hundred years later"
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rated it 5 stars
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
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"Insight into cross cultural misunderstandings and assumptions"
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rated it 5 stars
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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
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"Classic, cultural imposition"
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Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto
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"Important history"
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rated it 5 stars
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