Power and Powerlessness: Quiescence and Rebellion in an Appalachian Valley
7 best books like Power and Powerlessness: Quiescence and Rebellion in an Appalachian Valley (John Gaventa): Go Tell It on the Mountain, The Jungle, The Parisian, An American Tragedy, The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love, The Blue Period, How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide
Go Tell It on the Mountain
| Author | James Baldwin |
| ISBN | 0141185910 |
Go Tell It On The Mountain, first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a semi-autobiographical novel that has established itself as an American classic. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate,...
| Author | Upton Sinclair |
| ISBN | 1884365302 |
For nearly a century, the original version of Upton Sinclair's classic novel has remained almost entirely unknown.
When it was published in serial form in 1905, it was a full third longer than the censored, commercial edition published in book form the following year. That expurgated commercial...
| Author | Isabella Hammad |
| ISBN | 1473547679 |
As the First World War shatters families, destroys friendships and kills lovers, a young Palestinian dreamer sets out to find himself.
Midhat Kamal picks his way across a fractured world, from the shifting politics of the Middle East to the dinner tables of Montpellier and a newly tumultuous...
| Author | Theodore Dreiser |
| ISBN | 0451527704 |
On one level, An American Tragedy is the story of the corruption and destruction of one man, Clyde Griffiths, who forfeits his life in desperate pursuit of success. On a deeper, more profound level, the novel represents a massive portrayal of the society whose values both shape Clyde's tawdry ambitions...
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
| Author | bell hooks |
| ISBN | 0743456084 |
Everyone needs to love and be loved -- even men. But to know love, men must be able to look at the ways that patriarchal culture keeps them from knowing themselves, from being in touch with their feelings, from loving. In The Will to Change, bell hooks gets to the heart of the matter and shows men how to express...
A riveting novel about the tragic romance that nearly destroyed a young Pablo Picasso—while granting him his first flight of creative genius.
From rowdy Barcelona barrooms to the incandescent streets of turn-of-the-century Paris, Pablo Picasso experiences the sumptuous highs and seedy lows...
How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide
| Author | Crystal Marie Fleming |
| ISBN | 0807050776 |
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,...
