Books about Middle America - Nonfiction

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Deep in Our Hearts: Nine White Women in the Freedom Movement
Deep in Our Hearts: Nine White Women in the Freedom Movement 4.32 avg rating — 38 ratings
102.
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide 4.47 avg rating — 14,603 ratings
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Southern Fried White Trash
Southern Fried White Trash 3.06 avg rating — 98 ratings
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The World in Flames: A Black Boyhood in a White Supremacist Doomsday Cult
The World in Flames: A Black Boyhood in a White Supremacist Doomsday Cult 3.60 avg rating — 429 ratings
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The End of White Christian America
The End of White Christian America 3.96 avg rating — 1,398 ratings
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Poor but Proud: Alabama's Poor Whites
Poor but Proud: Alabama's Poor Whites 4.33 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Dixie's Forgotten People, New Edition: The South's Poor Whites (Minorities in Modern America)
Dixie's Forgotten People, New Edition: The South's Poor Whites (Minorities in Modern America) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Whitewashing the South: White Memories of Segregation and Civil Rights
Whitewashing the South: White Memories of Segregation and Civil Rights 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination 4.32 avg rating — 7,356 ratings
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Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America
Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America 4.30 avg rating — 10,528 ratings
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Unlikely Dissenters: White Southern Women in the Fight for Racial Justice, 1920–1970
Unlikely Dissenters: White Southern Women in the Fight for Racial Justice, 1920–1970 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Indicted South: Public Criticism, Southern Inferiority, and the Politics of Whiteness
The Indicted South: Public Criticism, Southern Inferiority, and the Politics of Whiteness 4.24 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South
Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South 4.44 avg rating — 172 ratings
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The Long Civil War in the North Georgia Mountains: Confederate Nationalism, Sectionalism, and White Supremacy in Bartow County, Georgia
The Long Civil War in the North Georgia Mountains: Confederate Nationalism, Sectionalism, and White Supremacy in Bartow County, Georgia liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in 17th Century North America and the Caribbean
The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in 17th Century North America and the Caribbean 4.28 avg rating — 176 ratings
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When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America
When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America 4.13 avg rating — 2,018 ratings
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Litigating Across the Color Line: Civil Cases Between Black and White Southerners from the End of Slavery to Civil Rights
Litigating Across the Color Line: Civil Cases Between Black and White Southerners from the End of Slavery to Civil Rights 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Everything You Love Will Burn: Inside the Rebirth of White Nationalism in America
Everything You Love Will Burn: Inside the Rebirth of White Nationalism in America 3.80 avg rating — 1,163 ratings
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The Omni-Americans: Some Alternatives to the Folklore of White Supremacy
The Omni-Americans: Some Alternatives to the Folklore of White Supremacy 4.08 avg rating — 224 ratings
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Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy
Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy 4.09 avg rating — 504 ratings
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White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism 4.16 avg rating — 170,215 ratings
122.
Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist
Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist 4.42 avg rating — 10,563 ratings
123.
How Not to Get Shot: And Other Advice From White People
How Not to Get Shot: And Other Advice From White People 4.03 avg rating — 3,465 ratings
124.
In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History
In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History 4.03 avg rating — 2,995 ratings
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White Spirituals in the Southern Uplands: The Story of the Fasola Folk, Their Songs, Singings, and "Buckwheat Notes"
White Spirituals in the Southern Uplands: The Story of the Fasola Folk, Their Songs, Singings, and "Buckwheat Notes" really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide
How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide 4.27 avg rating — 2,669 ratings
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Whiteness Visible: The Meaning of Whiteness in American Literature
Whiteness Visible: The Meaning of Whiteness in American Literature 3.18 avg rating — 17 ratings
128.
Not Your White Jesus: Following a Radical, Refugee Messiah
Not Your White Jesus: Following a Radical, Refugee Messiah 3.66 avg rating — 114 ratings
129.
Hattiesburg: An American City in Black and White
Hattiesburg: An American City in Black and White 4.17 avg rating — 151 ratings
130.
Drawn to Change: Graphic Histories of Working-Class Struggle
Drawn to Change: Graphic Histories of Working-Class Struggle really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 40 ratings
131.
AlabamaNorth: African-American Migrants, Community, and Working-Class Activism in Cleveland, 1915-1945
AlabamaNorth: African-American Migrants, Community, and Working-Class Activism in Cleveland, 1915-1945 3.53 avg rating — 15 ratings
132.
Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class
Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class
by: Eric Lott
4.14 avg rating — 340 ratings
133.
A Short History of the U.S. Working Class: From Colonial Times to the Twenty-First Century
A Short History of the U.S. Working Class: From Colonial Times to the Twenty-First Century 3.86 avg rating — 91 ratings
134.
Don't Get Above Your Raisin': Country Music and the Southern Working Class
Don't Get Above Your Raisin': Country Music and the Southern Working Class 4.35 avg rating — 43 ratings
135.
Real Country: Music and Language in Working-Class Culture
Real Country: Music and Language in Working-Class Culture 3.68 avg rating — 98 ratings
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Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class
Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class 4.11 avg rating — 958 ratings
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Working-Class War: American Combat Soldiers and Vietnam
Working-Class War: American Combat Soldiers and Vietnam really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 210 ratings
138.
Joe Hill: The IWW & the Making of a Revolutionary Workingclass Counterculture
Joe Hill: The IWW & the Making of a Revolutionary Workingclass Counterculture 4.16 avg rating — 57 ratings
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"We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now": The Global Uprising Against Poverty Wages
"We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now": The Global Uprising Against Poverty Wages 3.69 avg rating — 108 ratings
140.
Reading Southern Poverty between the Wars, 1918–1939
Reading Southern Poverty between the Wars, 1918–1939 liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
141.
Poverty, Politics, and Race: The View From Down Here
Poverty, Politics, and Race: The View From Down Here it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
142.
Carry It On: The War on Poverty and the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama, 1964-1972
Carry It On: The War on Poverty and the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama, 1964-1972 4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings
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From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America 4.17 avg rating — 781 ratings
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Escaping Poverty
Escaping Poverty 4.28 avg rating — 18 ratings
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The Devil Is Here in These Hills: West Virginia's Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom
The Devil Is Here in These Hills: West Virginia's Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom 4.33 avg rating — 569 ratings
146.
Working Girl Blues: The Life and Music of Hazel Dickens
Working Girl Blues: The Life and Music of Hazel Dickens 4.28 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Striking Beauties: Women Apparel Workers in the U.S. South, 1930-2000
Striking Beauties: Women Apparel Workers in the U.S. South, 1930-2000 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Twice the Work of Free Labor: The Political Economy of Convict Labor in the New South (Haymarket Series)
Twice the Work of Free Labor: The Political Economy of Convict Labor in the New South (Haymarket Series) 3.85 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Mama Learned Us to Work: Farm Women in the New South
Mama Learned Us to Work: Farm Women in the New South 3.50 avg rating — 26 ratings
150.
Carry it On!: A History in Song and Picture of the Working Men and Women of America
Carry it On!: A History in Song and Picture of the Working Men and Women of America 4.69 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Hidden America: From Coal Miners to Cowboys, an Extraordinary Exploration of the Unseen People Who Make This Country Work
Hidden America: From Coal Miners to Cowboys, an Extraordinary Exploration of the Unseen People Who Make This Country Work 3.83 avg rating — 1,454 ratings
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The Age of Inequality: Corporate America's War on Working People
The Age of Inequality: Corporate America's War on Working People 3.84 avg rating — 57 ratings
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Work, Family, and Faith: Rural Southern Women in the Twentieth Century
Work, Family, and Faith: Rural Southern Women in the Twentieth Century 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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