A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration
10 best books like A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration (Steven Hahn): A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America, The Mis-Education of the Negro, The Impending Crisis: America Before the Civil War, 1848-1861, Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution, Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery, W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919, Critical Race Theory, First Edition: An Introduction, First Edition, Racial Formation in the United States: From the 1960s to the 1990s, The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class, The Death of the Liberal Class
A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America
| Author | Ronald Takaki |
| ISBN | 0316831115 |
"A Different Mirror" is a dramatic new retelling of our nation's history, a powerful larger narrative of the many different peoples who together compose the United States of America. In a lively account filled with the stories and voices of people previously left out of the historical canon, Ronald...
The Mis-Education of the Negro
| Author | Carter G. Woodson |
| ISBN | 1564110419 |
The Mis-Education of the Negro is one of the most important books on education ever written. Carter G. Woodson shows us the weakness of Euro-centric based curriculums that fail to include African American history and culture. This system mis-educates the African American student, failing to prepare...
| Author | David M. Potter |
| ISBN | 0061319295 |
“David M. Potter’s magisterial The Impending Crisis is the single best account to date of the coming of the Civil War.” —Civil War History
“The magnum opus of a great American historian.” —Newsweek
Now in a new edition for the 150th Anniversary of the Civil War, David...
| Author | Jack N. Rakove |
| ISBN | 0679781218 |
From abortion to same-sex marriage, today's most urgent political debates will hinge on this two-part question: What did the United States Constitution originally mean and who now understands its meaning best? Rakove chronicles the Constitution from inception to ratification and, in doing so,...
| Author | Leon F. Litwack |
| ISBN | 0394743989 |
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award
Based on hitherto unexamined sources: interviews with ex-slaves, diaries and accounts by former slaveholders, this "rich and admirably written book" (Eugene Genovese, The New York Times Book Review) aims to show how, during the Civil...
W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919
| Author | David Levering Lewis |
| ISBN | 0613630866 |
This is a biography that actually merits the “magisterial” among its blurbs, the kind of book that shows biography second only to the novel for difficulty of organization and effect. As epigraph to the first of the five volumes he would devote to the life of Henry James, Leon Edel quoted a line from...
| Author | Richard Delgado |
| ISBN | 0814719309 |
For well over a decade, critical race theory--the school of thought that holds that race lies at the very nexus of American life--has roiled the legal academy. In recent years, however, the fundamental principles of the movement have influenced other academic disciplines, from sociology and politics...
Racial Formation in the United States: From the 1960s to the 1990s
| Author | Michael Omi |
| ISBN | 0415908647 |
First published in 1986, Racial Formation in the United States is now considered a classic in the literature on race and ethnicity.
This second edition builds upon and updates Omi and Winant's groundbreaking research. In addition to a preface to the new edition, the book provides a more detailed...
The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class
| Author | David R. Roediger |
| ISBN | 1859842402 |
The point of this book is that it has been hugely influential and it is worth reading for that reason, even though it has merely opened the gate through which many later writers have poured. It does not make exaggerated claims for itself and the author’s preface lists defects in a way that I cannot. Instead...
The Death of the Liberal Class
| Author | Chris Hedges |
| ISBN | 1568586442 |
The liberal class plays a vital role in a democracy. It gives moral legitimacy to the state. It makes limited forms of dissent and incremental change possible. The liberal class posits itself as the conscience of the nation. It permits us, through its appeal to public virtues and the public good, to define...
Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America
| Author | Mae M. Ngai |
| ISBN | 0691124299 |
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 shaped ideas and practices about citizenship, race, and state authority in the twentieth century.
Mae...
Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market
| Author | Walter Johnson |
| ISBN | 0674005392 |
Soul by Soul tells the story of slavery in antebellum America by moving away from the cotton plantations and into the slave market itself, the heart of the domestic slave trade. Taking us inside the New Orleans slave market, the largest in the nation, where 100,000 men, women, and children were packaged,...
