Jen Yi

Add friend
Sign in to Goodreads to learn more about Jen.


The Cartiers: The...
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
War and Peace
Jen Yi is currently reading
bookshelves: currently-reading
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
Book cover for White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
The interconnected civil rights movement and culture wars of the fifties and sixties were marked by social stratification. As ownership of a home in the suburbs came to represent the American dream, the most controversial housing option ...more
Loading...
Brandon Sanderson
“I don't talk to myself because I'm crazy."
"No?"
"I do it because I'm awesome.”
Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

Timothy Snyder
“When states are absent, rights—by any definition—are impossible to sustain. States are not structures to be taken for granted, exploited, or discarded, but are fruits of long and quiet effort.”
Timothy Snyder, Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning

Junot Díaz
“Motherfuckers will read a book that’s one third Elvish, but put two sentences in Spanish and they [white people] think we’re taking over.”
Junot Díaz

Nancy Isenberg
“Americans lack any deeper appreciation of class. Beyond white anger and ignorance is a far more complicated history of class identity that dates back to America’s colonial period and British notions of poverty.”
Nancy Isenberg, White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

Timothy Snyder
“The ideal capitalism envisioned by advocates of the free market depends upon social virtues and wise policies that it does not itself generate.”
Timothy Snyder, Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning

year in books
Corinne...
262 books | 136 friends

Erin Knapp
1,093 books | 70 friends

Abby
2,412 books | 131 friends

Jen
Jen
5,175 books | 187 friends

Ursula
816 books | 48 friends

Em
Em
2,444 books | 146 friends

Kathleen
1,698 books | 118 friends

Sarah Mae
2,313 books | 112 friends

More friends…



Polls voted on by Jen

Lists liked by Jen