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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 — 117,038 ratings — published 2010
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.09 — 266,302 ratings — published 1980
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.52 — 117,328 ratings — published 2010
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as american-studies)
avg rating 3.84 — 504,593 ratings — published 2016
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.40 — 366,657 ratings — published 2015
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 16 times as american-studies)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,337,378 ratings — published 1885
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 14 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.55 — 121,244 ratings — published 1963
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as american-studies)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,920,948 ratings — published 1925
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.31 — 44,940 ratings — published 1903
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 — 102,459 ratings — published 1970
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,890,122 ratings — published 1960
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.04 — 104,684 ratings — published 1940
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.13 — 134,959 ratings — published 1845
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
by (shelved 10 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.37 — 20,534 ratings — published 2014
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.47 — 113,994 ratings — published 2016
The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.29 — 19,940 ratings — published 1961
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.44 — 46,002 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 — 446,679 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 — 17,886 ratings — published 2016
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.28 — 200,238 ratings — published 2005
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as american-studies)
avg rating 3.44 — 920,234 ratings — published 1850
Citizen: An American Lyric (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.25 — 51,923 ratings — published 2014
Democracy in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.05 — 27,035 ratings — published 1835
A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,352 ratings — published 1993
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.52 — 161,528 ratings — published 2020
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.46 — 21,277 ratings — published 2019
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.48 — 107,842 ratings — published 2018
Death of a Salesman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as american-studies)
avg rating 3.59 — 259,096 ratings — published 1949
Sister Carrie (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as american-studies)
avg rating 3.78 — 41,773 ratings — published 1900
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.17 — 58,055 ratings — published 1861
Notes of a Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.36 — 24,283 ratings — published 1955
The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.06 — 629 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 — 206,519 ratings — published 2001
Ragtime (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as american-studies)
avg rating 3.90 — 46,606 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 — 38,452 ratings — published 2016
These Truths: A History of the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.40 — 13,294 ratings — published 2018
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.38 — 30,888 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 — 25,113 ratings — published 2016
Bread Givers (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as american-studies)
avg rating 3.75 — 6,935 ratings — published 1925
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.62 — 261,928 ratings — published 2014
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 — 14,841 ratings — published 2011
Blues People: Negro Music in White America (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,423 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 — 581,221 ratings — published 1969
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as american-studies)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,838,032 ratings — published 1937
Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.26 — 13,734 ratings — published 2003
The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,252 ratings — published 2010
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.37 — 291,494 ratings — published 1965
Walden or, Life in the Woods (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as american-studies)
avg rating 3.77 — 204,334 ratings — published 1854
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as american-studies)
avg rating 3.95 — 47,539 ratings — published 2000
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as american-studies)
avg rating 4.10 — 25,461 ratings — published 1998
“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
