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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.48 — 122,974 ratings — published 2010
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.52 — 120,823 ratings — published 2010
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.09 — 275,410 ratings — published 1980
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.40 — 377,450 ratings — published 2015
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as american-studies)
avg rating 3.83 — 516,506 ratings — published 2016
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 16 times as american-studies)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,356,541 ratings — published 1885
The Fire Next Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.55 — 131,358 ratings — published 1963
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.26 — 106,851 ratings — published 1970
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.31 — 46,095 ratings — published 1903
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as american-studies)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,168,864 ratings — published 1925
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.14 — 139,776 ratings — published 1845
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,150,391 ratings — published 1960
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.05 — 108,103 ratings — published 1940
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
by (shelved 11 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.36 — 22,023 ratings — published 2014
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.47 — 118,936 ratings — published 2016
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.43 — 48,960 ratings — published 2017
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.14 — 474,006 ratings — published 2017
The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.28 — 21,001 ratings — published 1961
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.52 — 169,352 ratings — published 2020
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.45 — 27,229 ratings — published 2019
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.12 — 18,382 ratings — published 2016
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.28 — 206,004 ratings — published 2005
Sister Carrie (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as american-studies)
avg rating 3.78 — 42,450 ratings — published 1900
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as american-studies)
avg rating 3.44 — 944,903 ratings — published 1850
Citizen: An American Lyric (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.24 — 53,360 ratings — published 2014
Democracy in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.06 — 27,719 ratings — published 1835
A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,425 ratings — published 1993
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.53 — 39,477 ratings — published 2016
These Truths: A History of the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.40 — 14,476 ratings — published 2018
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.48 — 108,932 ratings — published 2018
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.38 — 31,382 ratings — published 2017
Death of a Salesman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as american-studies)
avg rating 3.60 — 267,732 ratings — published 1949
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.62 — 273,595 ratings — published 2014
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.18 — 59,889 ratings — published 1861
Notes of a Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.36 — 25,998 ratings — published 1955
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,512 ratings — published 1967
Anti-Intellectualism in American Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,796 ratings — published 1963
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as american-studies)
avg rating 3.96 — 48,488 ratings — published 2000
The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.06 — 647 ratings — published 1964
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as american-studies)
avg rating 3.75 — 207,077 ratings — published 2001
Ragtime (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as american-studies)
avg rating 3.90 — 48,414 ratings — published 1975
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present (ebook)
by (shelved 7 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.23 — 6,981 ratings — published 2019
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as american-studies)
avg rating 3.77 — 25,814 ratings — published 2016
The Federalist Papers (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.10 — 42,751 ratings — published 1788
Bread Givers (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as american-studies)
avg rating 3.75 — 7,185 ratings — published 1925
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as american-studies)
avg rating 3.92 — 247,785 ratings — published 1852
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,032,808 ratings — published 1939
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.20 — 15,548 ratings — published 2011
Blues People: Negro Music in White America (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,496 ratings — published 1963
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.30 — 600,515 ratings — published 1969
“Historians who explore slavery's relationship to capitalism generally focus on the roles that men played in the development of both. But if we considered the very real possibility that some of the enslaved people these men compelled to work in southern cotton fields actually belonged to their wives, the narrative about American slavery and capitalism would be strikingly different. And when we consider that the enslaved people women owned before they married or acquired afterward helped make the nineteenth-century scale of southern cotton cultivation possible, the narrative of slavery, nineteenth-century markets, and capitalism as the domain of men becomes untenable.”
― They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
― They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
