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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.52 — 120,353 ratings — published 2010
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.48 — 122,039 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 — 273,679 ratings — published 1980
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.40 — 375,816 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 — 514,582 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 — 1,352,953 ratings — published 1885
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 16 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.55 — 129,835 ratings — published 1963
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as american-studies)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,131,779 ratings — published 1925
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.31 — 45,933 ratings — published 1903
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.14 — 138,619 ratings — published 1845
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.26 — 106,051 ratings — published 1970
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,111,557 ratings — published 1960
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
by (shelved 11 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.37 — 21,764 ratings — published 2014
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.05 — 107,693 ratings — published 1940
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.47 — 118,212 ratings — published 2016
The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.29 — 20,840 ratings — published 1961
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.45 — 26,255 ratings — published 2019
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.43 — 48,465 ratings — published 2017
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.14 — 469,622 ratings — published 2017
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.12 — 18,330 ratings — published 2016
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.28 — 204,689 ratings — published 2005
Citizen: An American Lyric (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.25 — 53,110 ratings — published 2014
Democracy in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.06 — 27,613 ratings — published 1835
A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,409 ratings — published 1993
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.52 — 167,737 ratings — published 2020
These Truths: A History of the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.40 — 14,308 ratings — published 2018
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.48 — 108,726 ratings — published 2018
Death of a Salesman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as american-studies)
avg rating 3.60 — 266,519 ratings — published 1949
Sister Carrie (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as american-studies)
avg rating 3.78 — 42,295 ratings — published 1900
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as american-studies)
avg rating 3.44 — 940,980 ratings — published 1850
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.62 — 271,793 ratings — published 2014
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.18 — 59,550 ratings — published 1861
Notes of a Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.36 — 25,809 ratings — published 1955
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,495 ratings — published 1967
Anti-Intellectualism in American Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,778 ratings — published 1963
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as american-studies)
avg rating 3.96 — 48,363 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 — 643 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 — 206,973 ratings — published 2001
Ragtime (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as american-studies)
avg rating 3.90 — 48,163 ratings — published 1975
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.53 — 39,311 ratings — published 2016
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.38 — 31,325 ratings — published 2017
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as american-studies)
avg rating 3.77 — 25,728 ratings — published 2016
The Federalist Papers (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.10 — 42,681 ratings — published 1788
Bread Givers (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as american-studies)
avg rating 3.75 — 7,145 ratings — published 1925
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as american-studies)
avg rating 3.92 — 246,962 ratings — published 1852
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,025,987 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 — 15,448 ratings — published 2011
Blues People: Negro Music in White America (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,483 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 — 597,459 ratings — published 1969
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as american-studies)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,945,590 ratings — published 1937
“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
