Century of Struggle: The Woman's Rights Movement in the United States, Enlarged Edition

6 best books like Century of Struggle: The Woman's Rights Movement in the United States, Enlarged Edition (Eleanor Flexner): Citizen: An American Lyric, Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls, Chosen, When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America, 1919, Sweet Ruin

Citizen: An American Lyric

Author	Claudia Rankine
ISBN	1555976905

A provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine's long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking book Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric.

Claudia Rankine's bold new book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media....

Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls

Author	T Kira Madden
ISBN	1635571855

Acclaimed literary essayist T Kira Madden's raw and redemptive debut memoir is about coming of age and reckoning with desire as a queer, biracial teenager amidst the fierce contradictions of Boca Raton, Florida, a place where she found cult-like privilege, shocking racial disparities, rampant...

Chosen

Author

Stacy Jones

One minute Lily is trying, and failing, to run her grandmother’s farm—her last remaining connection to her family. The next, she wakes to find herself in a cold, sterile cage surrounded by monsters, with no memory of how she got there. Accidentally abducted by alien poachers, unsure if she will...

When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America

Author	Ira Katznelson
ISBN	0393328511

In this "penetrating new analysis" (New York Times Book Review) Ira Katznelson fundamentally recasts our understanding of twentieth-century American history and demonstrates that all the key programs passed during the New Deal and Fair Deal era of the 1930s and 1940s were created in a deeply discriminatory...

1919

Author	Eve L. Ewing
ISBN	1608465985

Poetic reflections on race, class, violence, segregation, and the hidden histories that shape our divided urban landscapes.

The Chicago Race Riot of 1919, the most intense of the riots that comprised the “Red Summer” of violence across the nation’s cities, is an event that has shaped...

Sweet Ruin

Author	Tony Hoagland
ISBN	0299135845

Tony Hoagland captures the recognizably American landscape of a man of his generation:  sex, friendship, rock and roll, cars, high optimism, and disillusion.  With what Robert Pinsky has called “the saving vulgarity of American poetry,”  Hoagland’s small biographies of destruction...