Race in America

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Buses Are a Comin': Memoir of a Freedom Rider
Buses Are a Comin': Memoir of a Freedom Rider 4.50 avg rating — 918 ratings
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The Book of Angels: Twin Flames Rising
The Book of Angels: Twin Flames Rising
by: Maya El
4.64 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Action Words: Journey of a Journalist
Action Words: Journey of a Journalist 4.73 avg rating — 11 ratings
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America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America
America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America 4.07 avg rating — 1,728 ratings
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So You Want to Talk About Race
So You Want to Talk About Race 4.49 avg rating — 107,280 ratings
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness 4.52 avg rating — 115,056 ratings
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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3) 4.37 avg rating — 19,440 ratings
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Place, Not Race: A New Vision of Opportunity in America
Place, Not Race: A New Vision of Opportunity in America 4.11 avg rating — 73 ratings
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White Teacher/Black Mama
White Teacher/Black Mama 4.36 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Institutional Racism and the search for African American masculinity and identity in selected works of Richard Wright
Institutional Racism and the search for African American masculinity and identity in selected works of Richard Wright 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century 4.26 avg rating — 2,337 ratings
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Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat from Mayflower to Modern
Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat from Mayflower to Modern
by: J. Sakai
4.18 avg rating — 1,027 ratings
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Birth of a Nation'hood: Gaze, Script, and Spectacle in the O. J. Simpson Case
Birth of a Nation'hood: Gaze, Script, and Spectacle in the O. J. Simpson Case 3.93 avg rating — 71 ratings
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And Still I Rise: Black America Since MLK
And Still I Rise: Black America Since MLK 4.40 avg rating — 178 ratings
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The Accidental Slaveowner: Revisiting a Myth of Race and Finding an American Family
The Accidental Slaveowner: Revisiting a Myth of Race and Finding an American Family 3.74 avg rating — 31 ratings
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The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row 4.65 avg rating — 75,673 ratings
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Buses Are a Comin'
Buses Are a Comin' 4.50 avg rating — 918 ratings
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Liberalism: A Counter-History
Liberalism: A Counter-History 4.39 avg rating — 1,088 ratings
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Patterns of Race in the Americas
Patterns of Race in the Americas 3.54 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America
Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America 4.23 avg rating — 1,870 ratings
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Man's Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race
Man's Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race 4.24 avg rating — 55 ratings
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The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race
The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race 4.35 avg rating — 9,414 ratings
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Race, Place, and Memory: Deep Currents in Wilmington, North Carolina
Race, Place, and Memory: Deep Currents in Wilmington, North Carolina 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
by: Dee Brown
4.26 avg rating — 99,688 ratings
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Broken Chains and Subverted Plans: Ethnicity, Race, and Commodities
Broken Chains and Subverted Plans: Ethnicity, Race, and Commodities 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America
Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America 4.31 avg rating — 3,488 ratings
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Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins
Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins 3.94 avg rating — 1,054 ratings
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There Goes the Neighborhood: Racial, Ethnic, and Class Tensions in Four Chicago Neighborhoods and Their Meaning for America
There Goes the Neighborhood: Racial, Ethnic, and Class Tensions in Four Chicago Neighborhoods and Their Meaning for America 3.39 avg rating — 204 ratings
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Yellow
Yellow 3.73 avg rating — 567 ratings
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Black Food Geographies: Race, Self-Reliance, and Food Access in Washington, D.C.
Black Food Geographies: Race, Self-Reliance, and Food Access in Washington, D.C. 4.33 avg rating — 189 ratings
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Superior: The Return of Race Science
Superior: The Return of Race Science 4.23 avg rating — 5,085 ratings
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We Too Sing America: South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future
We Too Sing America: South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future 4.02 avg rating — 378 ratings
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All New, All Different?: A History of Race and the American Superhero (World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction Series)
All New, All Different?: A History of Race and the American Superhero (World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction Series) 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Some of My Best Friends Are Black: The Strange Story of Integration in America
Some of My Best Friends Are Black: The Strange Story of Integration in America 3.88 avg rating — 1,187 ratings
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In a Classroom of Their Own: The Intersection of Race and Feminist Politics in All-Black Male Schools
In a Classroom of Their Own: The Intersection of Race and Feminist Politics in All-Black Male Schools 3.56 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Blood and Politics: The History of the White Nationalist Movement from the Margins to the Mainstream
Blood and Politics: The History of the White Nationalist Movement from the Margins to the Mainstream 3.89 avg rating — 222 ratings
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The Accident of Color: A Story of Race in Reconstruction
The Accident of Color: A Story of Race in Reconstruction 4.35 avg rating — 157 ratings
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Rez Life: An Indian's Journey Through Reservation Life
Rez Life: An Indian's Journey Through Reservation Life 3.91 avg rating — 2,603 ratings
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Materials of the Mind: Phrenology, Race, and the Global History of Science, 1815-1920
Materials of the Mind: Phrenology, Race, and the Global History of Science, 1815-1920 3.64 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock
Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock 3.81 avg rating — 1,597 ratings
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Black, White, and Indian: Race and the Unmaking of an American Family
Black, White, and Indian: Race and the Unmaking of an American Family 3.96 avg rating — 81 ratings
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The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670 - 1717
The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670 - 1717 4.02 avg rating — 181 ratings
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Summoned at Midnight: A Story of Race and the Last Military Executions at Fort Leavenworth
Summoned at Midnight: A Story of Race and the Last Military Executions at Fort Leavenworth 3.72 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Brown: The Last Discovery of America
Brown: The Last Discovery of America 3.52 avg rating — 520 ratings
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Bop Apocalypse: Jazz, Race, the Beats, and Drugs
Bop Apocalypse: Jazz, Race, the Beats, and Drugs 4.02 avg rating — 124 ratings
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Call The Lost Dream Back: Essays on History, Race and Museums
Call The Lost Dream Back: Essays on History, Race and Museums 4.07 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Crossovers: Essays on Race, Music, and American Culture
Crossovers: Essays on Race, Music, and American Culture 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory
Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory 4.14 avg rating — 2,724 ratings
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Songsters and Saints: Vocal Traditions on Race Records
Songsters and Saints: Vocal Traditions on Race Records 4.20 avg rating — 15 ratings
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W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919
W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919 4.38 avg rating — 2,420 ratings
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The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation
The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation 4.21 avg rating — 1,624 ratings
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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance 3.94 avg rating — 229,616 ratings
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A Change Is Gonna Come: Music, Race & the Soul of America
A Change Is Gonna Come: Music, Race & the Soul of America 4.14 avg rating — 371 ratings
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The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama
The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama 3.77 avg rating — 397 ratings
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The Ballad of Little River: A Tale of Race and Restless Youth in the Rural South
The Ballad of Little River: A Tale of Race and Restless Youth in the Rural South 3.81 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Civil Rights and Wrongs: A Memoir of Race and Politics, 1944-1996
Civil Rights and Wrongs: A Memoir of Race and Politics, 1944-1996 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy
Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy 3.96 avg rating — 513 ratings
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Race, Rock, and Elvis
Race, Rock, and Elvis 3.32 avg rating — 44 ratings
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The Execution of Willie Francis: Race, Murder, and the Search for Justice in the American South
The Execution of Willie Francis: Race, Murder, and the Search for Justice in the American South 4.34 avg rating — 234 ratings
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My Song: A Memoir of Art, Race, and Defiance
My Song: A Memoir of Art, Race, and Defiance 4.20 avg rating — 959 ratings
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Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age
Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age 4.08 avg rating — 2,993 ratings
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Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940
Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940 3.98 avg rating — 254 ratings
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Snow-Storm in August: Washington City, Francis Scott Key, and the Forgotten Race Riot of 1835
Snow-Storm in August: Washington City, Francis Scott Key, and the Forgotten Race Riot of 1835 3.95 avg rating — 345 ratings
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Without Mercy: The Stunning True Story of Race, Crime, and Corruption in the Deep South
Without Mercy: The Stunning True Story of Race, Crime, and Corruption in the Deep South 3.53 avg rating — 114 ratings
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Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities
Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities 3.82 avg rating — 749 ratings
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Atlanta, Cradle of the New South: Race and Remembering in the Civil War's Aftermath
Atlanta, Cradle of the New South: Race and Remembering in the Civil War's Aftermath 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Southern Prohibition: Race, Reform, and Public Life in Middle Florida, 1821-1920
Southern Prohibition: Race, Reform, and Public Life in Middle Florida, 1821-1920 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race
War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race 4.22 avg rating — 990 ratings
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On Highway 61: Music, Race, and the Evolution of Cultural Freedom
On Highway 61: Music, Race, and the Evolution of Cultural Freedom 4.03 avg rating — 156 ratings
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The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory
The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory 4.12 avg rating — 84 ratings
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The Invisible History of the Human Race: How DNA and History Shape Our Identities and Our Futures
The Invisible History of the Human Race: How DNA and History Shape Our Identities and Our Futures 3.81 avg rating — 1,640 ratings
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X-Men and the Mutant Metaphor: Race and Gender in the Comic Books
X-Men and the Mutant Metaphor: Race and Gender in the Comic Books 3.17 avg rating — 24 ratings
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A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History
A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History 3.73 avg rating — 1,541 ratings
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The Creation of Jazz: Music, Race, and Culture in Urban America
The Creation of Jazz: Music, Race, and Culture in Urban America 3.17 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Rage in the Gate City: The Story of the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot
Rage in the Gate City: The Story of the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot 4.04 avg rating — 54 ratings
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News For All The People: The Epic Story of Race and the American Media
News For All The People: The Epic Story of Race and the American Media 4.21 avg rating — 168 ratings
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Broadcasting Freedom: Radio, War, and the Politics of Race, 1938-1948 (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)
Broadcasting Freedom: Radio, War, and the Politics of Race, 1938-1948 (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture) 4.06 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Jackson, 1964: And Other Dispatches from Fifty Years of Reporting on Race in America
Jackson, 1964: And Other Dispatches from Fifty Years of Reporting on Race in America 4.01 avg rating — 351 ratings
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Charleston Syllabus: Readings on Race, Racism, and Racial Violence
Charleston Syllabus: Readings on Race, Racism, and Racial Violence 4.33 avg rating — 76 ratings
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Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso: A Tale of Race, Sex, and Violence in America
Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso: A Tale of Race, Sex, and Violence in America 3.59 avg rating — 434 ratings
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Trace: Memory, History, Race and the American Landscape
Trace: Memory, History, Race and the American Landscape 4.08 avg rating — 1,224 ratings
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Labor Versus Empire
Labor Versus Empire really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Natchez Country: Indians, Colonists, and the Landscapes of Race in French Louisiana
Natchez Country: Indians, Colonists, and the Landscapes of Race in French Louisiana 3.53 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Negrophobia: A Race Riot in Atlanta, 1906
Negrophobia: A Race Riot in Atlanta, 1906 4.03 avg rating — 36 ratings
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A Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama's America
A Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama's America 3.63 avg rating — 84 ratings
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Double Victory: How African American Women Broke Race and Gender Barriers to Help Win World War II
Double Victory: How African American Women Broke Race and Gender Barriers to Help Win World War II 3.90 avg rating — 106 ratings
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Making Gullah: A History of Sapelo Islanders, Race, and the American Imagination (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)
Making Gullah: A History of Sapelo Islanders, Race, and the American Imagination (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture) 4.34 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Democracy Betrayed: The Wilmington Race Riot of 1898 and Its Legacy
Democracy Betrayed: The Wilmington Race Riot of 1898 and Its Legacy 4.34 avg rating — 70 ratings
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The Culture of Property: Race, Class, and Housing Landscapes in Atlanta, 1880-1950
The Culture of Property: Race, Class, and Housing Landscapes in Atlanta, 1880-1950 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul
Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul 4.10 avg rating — 1,242 ratings
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Sing for Your Life
Sing for Your Life 3.90 avg rating — 1,753 ratings
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The Silencing of Ruby McCollum: Race, Class, and Gender in the South
The Silencing of Ruby McCollum: Race, Class, and Gender in the South 3.61 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Dixie Lullaby: A Story of Music, Race, and New Beginnings in a New South
Dixie Lullaby: A Story of Music, Race, and New Beginnings in a New South
by: Mark Kemp
3.96 avg rating — 122 ratings
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Race, Class, and Power in the Alabama Coalfields, 1908-21
Race, Class, and Power in the Alabama Coalfields, 1908-21 3.78 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Goat Castle: A True Story of Murder, Race, and the Gothic South
Goat Castle: A True Story of Murder, Race, and the Gothic South 3.56 avg rating — 431 ratings
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A Few Red Drops
A Few Red Drops 3.67 avg rating — 1,205 ratings
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Race and the Shaping of Twentieth-Century Atlanta (Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies)
Race and the Shaping of Twentieth-Century Atlanta (Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies) 4.14 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Southern Liberal Journalists and the Issue of Race, 1920-1944 (Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies)
Southern Liberal Journalists and the Issue of Race, 1920-1944 (Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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What Is "Your" Race?: The Census and Our Flawed Efforts to Classify Americans
What Is "Your" Race?: The Census and Our Flawed Efforts to Classify Americans 4.26 avg rating — 27 ratings
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After Slavery: Race, Labor, and Citizenship in the Reconstruction South
After Slavery: Race, Labor, and Citizenship in the Reconstruction South really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
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