The best politics books & society books, as recommended by eminent experts, theorists and analysts. Includes EU, free speech, immigration & feminism
No reader can read all there is, but there is more to the reading life than a duty to edify ourselves. Even the ephemera of our reading will give us something of value if we experience the pleasure of a well-told tale.
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History: a bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy
PLEASE NOTE: Skokie Public Library does not have the rights to make this photo available for reproduction. Before the presidential campaign started, Illinois Senator Barack Obama posed for our series of READ posters. He is seen here reading Team of Rivals: the Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin. Check out this poster and many others @ Skokie Public Library!
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The medical exploitation of African Americans has caused mistrust among patients and the medical industry. Author Harriet Washington talks about centuries of abuse documented in her book Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans From Colonial Times to the Present.
Lisa Levenstein reframes highly charged debates over the origins of chronic African American poverty and the social policies and political struggles that led to the postwar urban crisis. A Movement Without Marches follows poor black women as they traveled from some of Philadelphia's most impoverished neighborhoods into its welfare offices, courtrooms, public housing, schools, and hospitals, laying claim to an unprecedented array of government benefits and services. With these resources came new constraints, as public officials frequently responded to women's efforts by limiting benefits and attempting to control their personal lives. Scathing public narratives about women's \"dependency\" and their children's \"illegitimacy\" placed African American women and public institutions at the center of the growing opposition to black migration and civil rights in northern U.S. cities. Countering stereotypes that have long plagued public debate, Levenstein offers a new paradigm for understanding postwar U.S. history.
In navigating lives of privation and brutality, enslaved people haggled, often daily, for liberties small and large.
Black Africans invented the Olympics! Once again we find out about what Black Africans invented and it never stops. I am so happy about that. So I’m here to inform you. We already know thing…
Book — Non-fiction. By Lerone Bennett Jr. 1967. 426 pages. A bottom-up, student friendly text about the people's history of Reconstruction.
