Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present

10 best books like Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present (Jacqueline A. Jones): The Feminine Mystique, This Will Only Hurt a Little, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, The Fire Next Time, On Beauty, Invisible Man, Up from Slavery, The Souls of Black Folk, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, The Greengage Summer

The Feminine Mystique
AuthorBetty Friedan
ISBN0393346781
Landmark, groundbreaking, classic—these adjectives barely do justice to the pioneering vision and lasting impact of The Feminine Mystique. Published in 1963, it gave a pitch-perfect description of “the problem that has no name”: the insidious beliefs and institutions that undermined...
This Will Only Hurt a Little
AuthorBusy Philipps
Busy Philipps’s autobiographical book offers the same unfiltered and candid storytelling that her Instagram followers have come to know and love, from growing up in Scottsdale, Arizona and her painful and painfully funny teen years, to her life as a working actress, mother, and famous best friend.

Busy...
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
AuthorDavid Sedaris
ISBN0965904830
David Sedaris plays in the snow with his sisters. He goes on vacation with his family. He gets a job selling drinks. He attends his brother’s wedding. He mops his sister’s floor. He gives directions to a lost traveler. He eats a hamburger. He has his blood sugar tested. It all sounds so normal, doesn’t...
The Fire Next Time
AuthorJames Baldwin
A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin’s early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice,...
On Beauty
AuthorZadie Smith
ISBN0143037749
Howard Belsey, a Rembrandt scholar who doesn't like Rembrandt, is an Englishman abroad and a long-suffering professor at Wellington, a liberal New England arts college. He has been married for thirty years to Kiki, an American woman who no longer resembles the sexy activist she once was. Their three...
Invisible Man
AuthorRalph Ellison
First published in 1952 and immediately hailed as a masterpiece, Invisible Man is one of those rare novels that have changed the shape of American literature. For not only does Ralph Ellison's nightmare journey across the racial divide tell unparalleled truths about the nature of bigotry and its effects...
Up from Slavery
AuthorBooker T. Washington
ISBN0451527542
Booker T. Washington, the most recognized national leader, orator and educator, emerged from slavery in the deep south, to work for the betterment of African Americans in the post Reconstruction period.

"Up From Slavery" is an autobiography of Booker T. Washington's life and work, which...
The Souls of Black Folk
AuthorW.E.B. Du Bois
This landmark book is a founding work in the literature of black protest. W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) played a key role in developing the strategy and program that dominated early 20th-century black protest in America. In this collection of essays, first published together in 1903, he eloquently...
Behind the Scenes at the Museum
AuthorKate Atkinson
ISBN0312150601
"As a family, we are genetically disposed towards having accidents."

First and foremost, this is a challenging ambitious book, more so than Life after Life. The narrative is a labyrinth of twists and turns, false trails, loops and double helixes. There’s also an awful lot to remember because...
The Greengage Summer
AuthorRumer Godden
The faded elegance of Les Oeillets, with its bullet-scarred staircase and serene garden bounded by high walls; Eliot, the charming Englishman who became the children's guardian while their mother lay ill in hospital; sophisticated Mademoiselle Zizi, hotel patronne, and Eliot's devoted lover;...
A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America
AuthorRonald Takaki
ISBN0316831115
"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...
Arcadia
AuthorTom Stoppard
ISBN0571169341
Arcadia takes us back and forth between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, ranging over the nature of truth and time, the difference between the Classical and the Romantic temperament, and the disruptive influence of sex on our orbits in life. Focusing on the mysteries--romantic, scientific,...
Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet
AuthorXinran
ISBN0385515480
It was 1994 when Xinran, a journalist and the author of The Good Women of China, received a telephone call asking her to travel four hours to meet an oddly dressed woman who had just crossed the border from Tibet into China. Xinran made the trip and met the woman, called Shu Wen, who recounted the story of...
How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide
AuthorCrystal Marie Fleming
ISBN0807050776
How to Be Less Stupid About Race is your essential guide to breaking through the half-truths and ridiculous misconceptions that have thoroughly corrupted the way race is represented in the classroom, pop culture, media, and politics. Centuries after our nation was founded on genocide, settler colonialism,...
AuthorCarol Ann Duffy
ISBN0856463035
Winner of the Forward Poetry Prize and the Whitbread Poetry Award 1993 In her fourth collection, Mean Time, Carol Ann Duffy dramatizes scenes from childhood, adolescence and adulthood, finding moments of grace or consolation in memory, love and language amid the complexities of life. These are...
Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays
AuthorJune Jordan
ISBN0465036937
"She remains a thinker and activist who 'insists upon complexity.' " -Reamy Jansen, San Francisco Chronicle

Some of Us Did Not Die brings together a rich sampling of the late poet June Jordan's prose writings. The essays in this collection, which include her last writings and span the length...
Sleepwalking Through History: America in the Reagan Years
AuthorHaynes Johnson
ISBN0393324346
National bestseller: In this brilliantly readable book, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist chronicles the Reagan decade, when America fell from dominant world power to struggling debtor nation and when optimism turned to foreboding. In human terms and living case histories, Haynes Johnson...
Advertising, The Uneasy Persuasion: Its Dubious Impact On American Society
AuthorMichael Schudson
ISBN0465000800
Michael Schudson grew up in Milwaukee, Wisc. He received a B.A. from Swarthmore College and M.A. and Ph.D. in sociology from Harvard. He taught at the University of Chicago from 1976 to 1980 and at the University of California, San Diego from 1980 to 2009. From 2005 on, he split his teaching between UCSD...
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