No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity
10 best books like No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity (Sarah Haley): Frankly in Love, Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War, Build Yourself a Boat, Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940, I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: Essays, Banana Cultures: Agriculture, Consumption, and Environmental Change in Honduras and the United States, Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science, and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico, Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora, Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition, The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction
| Author | David Yoon |
| ISBN | 1984812203 |
High school senior Frank Li is a Limbo–his term for Korean-American kids who find themselves caught between their parents’ traditional expectations and their own Southern California upbringing. His parents have one rule when it comes to romance–“Date Korean”–which proves complicated...
| Author | Thomas G. Andrews |
| ISBN | 0674031016 |
On a spring morning in 1914, in the stark foothills of southern Colorado, members of the United Mine Workers of America clashed with guards employed by the Rockefeller family, and a state militia beholden to Colorado’s industrial barons. When the dust settled, nineteen men, women, and children...
| Author | Camonghne Felix |
| ISBN | 1608466116 |
2019 National Book Award Longlist
A poetic exploration of trauma, healing, and survival from award-winning poet Camonghne Felix.
"With Build Yourself a Boat, Camonghne Felix heralds a thrillingly new form of storytelling, as much investigation as it is song, as broken as it is...
| Author | George Chauncey |
| ISBN | 0465026214 |
The award-winning, field-defining history of gay life in New York City in the early to mid-20th century
Gay New York brilliantly shatters the myth that before the 1960s gay life existed only in the closet, where gay men were isolated, invisible, and self-hating. Drawing on a rich trove of...
I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: Essays
| Author | Bassey Ikpi |
| ISBN | 0062894781 |
A deeply personal collection of essays exploring Nigerian-American author Bassey Ikpi’s experiences navigating Bipolar II and anxiety throughout the course of her life.
Bassey Ikpi was born in Nigeria in 1976. Four years later, she and her mother joined her father in Stillwater, Oklahoma...
Banana Cultures: Agriculture, Consumption, and Environmental Change in Honduras and the United States
| Author | John Soluri |
| ISBN | 0292712561 |
Winner, George Perkins Marsh Award for Best Book in Environmental History, American Society for Environmental History, 2007
Bananas, the most frequently consumed fresh fruit in the United States, have been linked to Miss Chiquita and Carmen Miranda, "banana republics," and Banana Republic...
| Author | Laura Briggs |
| ISBN | 0520232585 |
Original and compelling, Laura Briggs's Reproducing Empire shows how, for both Puerto Ricans and North Americans, ideologies of sexuality, reproduction, and gender have shaped relations between the island and the mainland. From science to public policy, the "culture of poverty" to overpopulation,...
| Author | Stephanie E. Smallwood |
| ISBN | 0674023498 |
This bold, innovative book promises to radically alter our understanding of the Atlantic slave trade, and the depths of its horrors. Stephanie E. Smallwood offers a penetrating look at the process of enslavement from its African origins through the Middle Passage and into the American slave market.
Smallwood's...
| Author | Cedric J. Robinson |
| ISBN | 0807848298 |
In this ambitious work, first published in 1983, Cedric Robinson demonstrates that efforts to understand black people's history of resistance solely through the prism of Marxist theory are incomplete and inaccurate. Marxist analyses tend to presuppose European models of history and experience...
In 1904, New York nuns brought forty Irish orphans to a remote Arizona mining camp, to be placed with Catholic families. The Catholic families were Mexican, as was the majority of the population. Soon the town's Anglos, furious at this "interracial" transgression, formed a vigilante squad that kidnapped...
War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War
| Author | John W. Dower |
| ISBN | 0394751728 |
Now in paperback, War Without Mercy has been hailed by the New York Times as "one of the most original and important books to be written about the war between Japan and the United States." In this monumental history, Professor John Dower reveals a hidden, explosive dimension of the Pacific War -- race...
At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration During the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943
| Author | Erika Lee |
| ISBN | 0807854484 |
With the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, Chinese laborers became the first group in American history to be excluded from the United States on the basis of their race and class. This landmark law changed the course of U.S. immigration history, but we know little about its consequences for the Chinese in...
Eagle Against the Sun: The American War with Japan
| Author | Ronald H. Spector |
| ISBN | 0394741013 |
Only now, almost forty years after the surrender of the Imperial Japanese Empire on the deck of the battleship Missouri, can the true scope of the American war in the Pacific be understood. Historian Ronald H. Spector, drawing on newly declassified intelligence files, an abundance of British and American...
Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution
| Author | Kathleen DuVal |
| ISBN | 1400068959 |
A rising-star historian offers a significant new global perspective on the Revolutionary War with the story of the conflict as seen through the eyes of the outsiders of colonial society
Over the last decade, award-winning historian Kathleen DuVal has revitalized the study of early America’s...
Cuban Star: How One Negro-League Owner Changed the Face of Baseball
| Author | Adrian Burgos Jr. |
| ISBN | 0809037203 |
When the selection committee voted Alejandro “Alex” Pompez into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2006, some cried foul. A Negro-league owner during baseball’s glory days, Pompez was known as an early and steadfast advocate for Latino players, helping bring baseball into the modern age. So why was...
| Author | Frank Andre Guridy |
| ISBN | 0807871036 |
Cuba's geographic proximity to the United States and its centrality to U.S. imperial designs following the War of 1898 led to the creation of a unique relationship between Afro-descended populations in the two countries. In Forging Diaspora, Frank Andre Guridy shows that the cross-national relationships...
Histoire des grands-parents que je n'ai pas eus
| Author | Ivan Jablonka |
| ISBN | 2020991012 |
Je suis parti, en historien, sur les traces des grands-parents que
je n'ai pas eus. Leur vie s'achève longtemps avant que la
mienne ne commence: Matès et Idesa Jablonka sont autant
mes proches que de parfaits étrangers. Ils ne sont pas célèbres.
Pourchassés comme communistes...
Race, Class, and Politics in the Cappuccino City
For long-time residents of Washington, DC’s Shaw/U Street, the neighborhood has become almost unrecognizable in recent years. Where the city’s most infamous open-air drug market once stood, a farmers’ market now sells grass-fed beef and homemade duck egg ravioli. On the corner where AM.PM...
