Books about issues of social class and inequality

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The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth
The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth 4.56 avg rating — 435 ratings
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Five Practices for Equity-Focused School Leadership
Five Practices for Equity-Focused School Leadership 4.19 avg rating — 83 ratings
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Stuck Improving: Racial Equity and School Leadership
Stuck Improving: Racial Equity and School Leadership 4.32 avg rating — 31 ratings
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The Help
The Help 4.47 avg rating — 2,962,354 ratings
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To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird 4.26 avg rating — 6,689,754 ratings
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Mama Might Be Better Off Dead: The Failure of Health Care in Urban America
Mama Might Be Better Off Dead: The Failure of Health Care in Urban America 3.90 avg rating — 902 ratings
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 3.65 avg rating — 194,444 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 4.13 avg rating — 787,124 ratings
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Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools
Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools 4.26 avg rating — 18,905 ratings
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The STREAM TONE: The Future of Personal Computing?
The STREAM TONE: The Future of Personal Computing? 3.17 avg rating — 23 ratings
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$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America
$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America 3.96 avg rating — 8,642 ratings
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 4.30 avg rating — 499,273 ratings
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Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor
Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor 3.73 avg rating — 827 ratings
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The Price of Thirst: Global Water Inequality and the Coming Chaos
The Price of Thirst: Global Water Inequality and the Coming Chaos 3.83 avg rating — 156 ratings
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Yellow Dirt: An American Story of a Poisoned Land and a People Betrayed
Yellow Dirt: An American Story of a Poisoned Land and a People Betrayed 4.12 avg rating — 664 ratings
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A Country of Strangers: Blacks and Whites in America
A Country of Strangers: Blacks and Whites in America 4.10 avg rating — 142 ratings
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A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League
A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League 3.96 avg rating — 4,478 ratings
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Alejandro Carbajal Estrada
Alejandro Carbajal Estrada 4.43 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China
Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China 3.98 avg rating — 631 ratings
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Failure to Flourish: How Law Undermines Family Relationships
Failure to Flourish: How Law Undermines Family Relationships 4.44 avg rating — 16 ratings
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12 Years a Slave
12 Years a Slave 4.22 avg rating — 123,138 ratings
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Tsarina
Tsarina 3.53 avg rating — 1,837 ratings
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The Perils of "Privilege": Why Injustice Can't Be Solved by Accusing Others of Advantage
The Perils of "Privilege": Why Injustice Can't Be Solved by Accusing Others of Advantage 3.33 avg rating — 197 ratings
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People Without History: India's Muslim Ghettos
People Without History: India's Muslim Ghettos 3.71 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Schooled!: Based on one lawyer’s true-life successes, failures, frustrations, and heartbreaks while teaching in the New York City public school system. (1)
Schooled!: Based on one lawyer’s true-life successes, failures, frustrations, and heartbreaks while teaching in the New York City public school system. (1) 3.88 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Born on Third Base: A One Percenter Makes the Case for Tackling Inequality, Bringing Wealth Home, and Committing to the Common Good
Born on Third Base: A One Percenter Makes the Case for Tackling Inequality, Bringing Wealth Home, and Committing to the Common Good 4.18 avg rating — 437 ratings
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Here We Are: American Dreams, American Nightmares
Here We Are: American Dreams, American Nightmares 4.26 avg rating — 1,137 ratings
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Raising Lazarus
Raising Lazarus
by: Beth Macy
4.01 avg rating — 1,949 ratings
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Alejandro, Lady Gaga and a Billion Dollar Farce
Alejandro, Lady Gaga and a Billion Dollar Farce 4.43 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America
Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America 4.44 avg rating — 1,229 ratings
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A Word With You, World: The Autobiography of a Poet
A Word With You, World: The Autobiography of a Poet 4.42 avg rating — 50 ratings
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Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
by: Beth Macy
4.07 avg rating — 44,191 ratings
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Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High
Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 4.18 avg rating — 16,210 ratings
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Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions
Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions 3.75 avg rating — 268 ratings
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Blindness of Insight: Essays on Caste in Modern India
Blindness of Insight: Essays on Caste in Modern India 3.67 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide
The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide 4.23 avg rating — 1,687 ratings
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Dying in the City of the Blues: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race and Health
Dying in the City of the Blues: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race and Health 3.89 avg rating — 91 ratings
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Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing Out of Catastrophe
Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing Out of Catastrophe 3.75 avg rating — 311 ratings
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#Caste is Not a Rumour: The Online Diary of Rohith Vemula
#Caste is Not a Rumour: The Online Diary of Rohith Vemula 3.90 avg rating — 62 ratings
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How Schools Make Race: Teaching Latinx Racialization in America
How Schools Make Race: Teaching Latinx Racialization in America 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons
Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Worlds Of Pain: Life In The Working-class Family
Worlds Of Pain: Life In The Working-class Family 4.18 avg rating — 83 ratings
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IBM and the Holocaust
IBM and the Holocaust 4.03 avg rating — 1,834 ratings
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The Disaster Profiteers: How Natural Disasters Make the Rich Richer and the Poor Even Poorer
The Disaster Profiteers: How Natural Disasters Make the Rich Richer and the Poor Even Poorer 3.87 avg rating — 45 ratings
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The Ballad of Bant Singh: A Qissa of Courage
The Ballad of Bant Singh: A Qissa of Courage 3.81 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues
Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues 4.10 avg rating — 2,882 ratings
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Black Woman on Board: Claudia Hampton, the California State University, and the Fight to Save Affirmative Action (Gender and Race in American History, 9)
Black Woman on Board: Claudia Hampton, the California State University, and the Fight to Save Affirmative Action (Gender and Race in American History, 9) 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Black Picket Fences : Privilege and Peril Among the Black Middle Class
Black Picket Fences : Privilege and Peril Among the Black Middle Class 3.95 avg rating — 294 ratings
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Deforestation: Social Dynamics in Watersheds and Mountain Ecosystems
Deforestation: Social Dynamics in Watersheds and Mountain Ecosystems
by: J. Ives
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Baluta
Baluta 4.12 avg rating — 533 ratings
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A Warrior of the People: How Susan La Flesche Overcame Racial and Gender Inequality to Become America's First Indian Doctor
A Warrior of the People: How Susan La Flesche Overcame Racial and Gender Inequality to Become America's First Indian Doctor 3.90 avg rating — 912 ratings
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The Danger Imperative: Violence, Death, and the Soul of Policing
The Danger Imperative: Violence, Death, and the Soul of Policing 4.17 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life
Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life 4.15 avg rating — 3,384 ratings
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When London Was Capital of America
When London Was Capital of America 3.62 avg rating — 107 ratings
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Khairlanji: A Strange and Bitter Crop
Khairlanji: A Strange and Bitter Crop 4.65 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Race and the Greening of Atlanta: Inequality, Democracy, and Environmental Politics in an Ascendant Metropolis
Race and the Greening of Atlanta: Inequality, Democracy, and Environmental Politics in an Ascendant Metropolis 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Other Side of the River: A Story of Two Towns, a Death, and America's Dilemma
The Other Side of the River: A Story of Two Towns, a Death, and America's Dilemma 3.79 avg rating — 1,970 ratings
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More: Population, Nature, and What Women Want
More: Population, Nature, and What Women Want 3.98 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Annihilation of Caste
Annihilation of Caste 4.61 avg rating — 8,312 ratings
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The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality
The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality 3.83 avg rating — 1,727 ratings
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Limbo: Blue-Collar Roots, White-Collar Dreams
Limbo: Blue-Collar Roots, White-Collar Dreams 4.10 avg rating — 914 ratings
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The Bankers: How The Banks Ruined The Irish Economy
The Bankers: How The Banks Ruined The Irish Economy 3.64 avg rating — 99 ratings
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Maid in India: Stories of Inequality and Opportunity Inside Our Homes
Maid in India: Stories of Inequality and Opportunity Inside Our Homes 3.72 avg rating — 114 ratings
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Left Behind: The Democrats' Failed Attempt to Solve Inequality
Left Behind: The Democrats' Failed Attempt to Solve Inequality 4.08 avg rating — 106 ratings
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Meltdown in Tibet: China's Reckless Destruction of Ecosystems from the Highlands of Tibet to the Deltas of Asia
Meltdown in Tibet: China's Reckless Destruction of Ecosystems from the Highlands of Tibet to the Deltas of Asia 4.01 avg rating — 73 ratings
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Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America
Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America 3.96 avg rating — 225 ratings
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Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America
Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America 4.16 avg rating — 1,718 ratings
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Fire in the Ashes: Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America
Fire in the Ashes: Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America 4.10 avg rating — 1,846 ratings
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The Edge of Extinction: Travels with Enduring People in Vanishing Lands
The Edge of Extinction: Travels with Enduring People in Vanishing Lands 3.14 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Spotted Goddesses: Dalit Women's Agency-Narratives On Caste And Gender Violence
Spotted Goddesses: Dalit Women's Agency-Narratives On Caste And Gender Violence 4.53 avg rating — 15 ratings
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White Space, Black Hood: Opportunity Hoarding and Segregation in the Age of Inequality
White Space, Black Hood: Opportunity Hoarding and Segregation in the Age of Inequality 4.25 avg rating — 176 ratings
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The Working Poor: Invisible in America
The Working Poor: Invisible in America 4.04 avg rating — 5,703 ratings
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Breaking Free: True Stories of Girls Who Escaped Modern Slavery
Breaking Free: True Stories of Girls Who Escaped Modern Slavery
by: Abby Sher
3.88 avg rating — 342 ratings
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The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition
The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition 4.44 avg rating — 381 ratings
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Engine of Inequality: The Fed and the Future of Wealth in America
Engine of Inequality: The Fed and the Future of Wealth in America 3.53 avg rating — 85 ratings
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Exit Zero: Family and Class in Postindustrial Chicago
Exit Zero: Family and Class in Postindustrial Chicago 4.05 avg rating — 124 ratings
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Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation
Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation
by: Dan Fagin
4.09 avg rating — 4,618 ratings
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Honors of Inequality: How Colleges Work for Some
Honors of Inequality: How Colleges Work for Some liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War
Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War 3.85 avg rating — 4,167 ratings
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How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood
How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood 4.09 avg rating — 3,603 ratings
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Without a Net: The Female Experience of Growing Up Working Class
Without a Net: The Female Experience of Growing Up Working Class 4.15 avg rating — 991 ratings
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Let Them Eat Tweets: How the Right Rules in an Age of Extreme Inequality
Let Them Eat Tweets: How the Right Rules in an Age of Extreme Inequality 4.09 avg rating — 537 ratings
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The Girls in the Back of the Class
The Girls in the Back of the Class 3.69 avg rating — 131 ratings
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Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life
Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life 3.97 avg rating — 5,125 ratings
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Without a Net: Middle Class and Homeless (with Kids) in America
Without a Net: Middle Class and Homeless (with Kids) in America 3.55 avg rating — 632 ratings
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The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future
The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future 4.02 avg rating — 9,789 ratings
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There are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America
There are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America 4.30 avg rating — 15,926 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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Gang Leader for a Day
Gang Leader for a Day 4.07 avg rating — 25,134 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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Floating City: A Rogue Sociologist Lost and Found in New York's Underground Economy
Floating City: A Rogue Sociologist Lost and Found in New York's Underground Economy 3.46 avg rating — 1,292 ratings
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Aftershock(Inequality for All--Movie Tie-in Edition): The Next Economy and America's Future
Aftershock(Inequality for All--Movie Tie-in Edition): The Next Economy and America's Future 4.21 avg rating — 168 ratings
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Dangerous Minds
Dangerous Minds 3.93 avg rating — 1,167 ratings
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The New Urban Crisis: How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class—and What We Can Do About It
The New Urban Crisis: How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class—and What We Can Do About It 3.50 avg rating — 1,330 ratings
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Acres of Skin: Human Experiments at Holmesburg Prison
Acres of Skin: Human Experiments at Holmesburg Prison 3.89 avg rating — 322 ratings
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Fighting Times: Organizing on the Front Lines of the Class War
Fighting Times: Organizing on the Front Lines of the Class War 4.67 avg rating — 86 ratings
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The People: The Rise and Fall of the Working Class, 1910-2010
The People: The Rise and Fall of the Working Class, 1910-2010 4.16 avg rating — 460 ratings
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The Legend of the Black Mecca: Politics and Class in the Making of Modern Atlanta
The Legend of the Black Mecca: Politics and Class in the Making of Modern Atlanta 4.28 avg rating — 71 ratings
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The Road Out: A Teacher's Odyssey in Poor America
The Road Out: A Teacher's Odyssey in Poor America 3.68 avg rating — 164 ratings
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Merge Left: Fusing Race and Class, Winning Elections, and Saving America
Merge Left: Fusing Race and Class, Winning Elections, and Saving America 4.02 avg rating — 180 ratings
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