How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts

Similar books (20)

• 

  Freaks of Fortune: The Emerging World of Capitalism and Risk in America

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts

  Part graphic novel, part memoir, Wake is an imaginative tour-de-force that tells the story of women-led slave revolts and chronicles scholar Rebecca Hall’s efforts to uncover the truth about these wom…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

  In a display case in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture sits a rough cotton bag, called Ashley’s Sack, embroidered with just a handful of words that evoke a swee…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  The Fire Next Time

  A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. At once a powerful evocation of James Ba…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America

  "Belew's book helps explain how we got to today's alt right."―Terry Gross, Fresh Air
  
  The white power movement in America wants a revolution. Its soldiers are not lone wolves but highly organized cadres…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America

  In this signal work of history, Bancroft Prize winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Lizabeth Cohen shows how the pursuit of prosperity after World War II fueled our pervasive consumer mentality and tran…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Orientalism

  More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East has become a modern classic.
  
  In this…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

  "Jarvious Cotton's great-great-grandfather could not vote as a slave. His great-grandfather was beaten to death by the Klu Klux Klan for attempting to vote. His grandfather was prevented from voting b…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America

  This book traces the origins of the illegal alien in American law and society, explaining why and how illegal migration became the central problem in U.S. immigration policy--a process that profoundly…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Living a Feminist Life

  In Living a Feminist Life Sara Ahmed shows how feminist theory is generated from everyday life and the ordinary experiences of being a feminist at home and at work. Building on legacies of feminist of…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  “You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People

  The co-host of the Maintenance Phase podcast and creator of Your Fat Friend equips you with the facts to debunk common anti-fat myths and with tools to take action for fat justice

  The pushback that sho…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English

  In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, an Egyptian American woman and a man from the village of Shobrakheit meet at a café in Cairo. He was a photographer of the revolution, but now finds himself unempl…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Bad Mormon: A Memoir

  INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
  
  Drinking and Tweeting meets Unorthodox in this vulnerable memoir about The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star’s departure from the Mormon Church, and her unforesee…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Mother Night

  Librarian note: Alternate cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.
  
  Mother Night is a daring challenge to our moral sense. American Howard W. Campbell, Jr., a spy during World War II, is now on tr…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South

  A bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy
  
  Bridging women’s history, the history of the South, and African American history, this book makes a bold arg…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route

  In Lose Your Mother, Saidiya Hartman journeys along a slave route in Ghana, following the trail of captives from the hinterland to the Atlantic coast. She retraces the history of the Atlantic slave tr…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Death in Her Hands

  A novel of haunting metaphysical suspense about an elderly widow whose life is upturned when she finds a cryptic note on a walk in the woods that ultimately makes her question everything about her new…

  Buy this book on Amazon