South Side Girls: Growing Up in the Great Migration
10 best books like South Side Girls: Growing Up in the Great Migration (Marcia Chatelain): The Street, The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells, Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War, Prayers for Sale, Living for the City: Migration, Education, and the Rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California, Whistling Women, Feminism for the Americas: The Making of an International Human Rights Movement, Crescent City Girls: The Lives of Young Black Women in Segregated New Orleans, Beauty Shop Politics: African American Women's Activism in the Beauty Industry, A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida
| Author | Ann Petry |
| ISBN | 0395901499 |
The Street tells the poignant, often heartbreaking story of Lutie Johnson, a young black woman, and her spirited struggle to raise her son amid the violence, poverty, and racial dissonance of Harlem in the late 1940s. Originally published in 1946 and hailed by critics as a masterwork, The Street was...
The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells
| Author | Andrew Sean Greer |
| ISBN | 0062213849 |
1985. After the death of her beloved twin brother, Felix, and the break up with her long-time lover, Nathan, Greta Wells embarks on a radical psychiatric treatment to alleviate her suffocating depression. But the treatment has unexpected effects, and Greta finds herself transported to the lives...
| 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 | Sandra Dallas |
| ISBN | 0312385188 |
Hennie Comfort is eighty-six and has lived in the mountains of Middle Swan, Colorado since before it was Colorado. Nit Spindle is just seventeen and newly married. She and her husband have just moved to the high country in search of work. It's 1936 and the depression has ravaged the country and Nit and...
Living for the City: Migration, Education, and the Rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California
| Author | Donna Murch |
| ISBN | 0807871133 |
In this nuanced and groundbreaking history, Donna Murch argues that the Black Panther Party (BPP) started with a study group. Drawing on oral history and untapped archival sources, she explains how a relatively small city with a recent history of African American settlement produced such compelling...
| Author | Kelly Romo |
| ISBN | 1503948781 |
Life went terribly wrong for Addie Bates in San Diego, and she’s been running from dark memories ever since. For fifteen years, the Sleepy Valley Nudist Colony has provided a safe haven for Addie to hide from the crime she committed. But when the residents pack up to go on exhibit at the 1935 world’s...
Feminism for the Americas: The Making of an International Human Rights Movement
| Author | Katherine M Marino |
| ISBN | 1469649691 |
This book chronicles the dawn of the global movement for women's rights in the first decades of the twentieth century. The founding mothers of this movement were not based primarily in the United States, however, or in Europe. Instead, Katherine M. Marino introduces readers to a cast of remarkable...
Crescent City Girls: The Lives of Young Black Women in Segregated New Orleans
| Author | Lakisha Michelle Simmons |
| ISBN | 1469622807 |
What was it like to grow up black and female in the segregated South? To answer this question, LaKisha Simmons blends social history and cultural studies, recreating children's streets and neighborhoods within Jim Crow New Orleans and offering a rare look into black girls' personal lives. Simmons...
Beauty Shop Politics: African American Women's Activism in the Beauty Industry
| Author | Tiffany M. Gill |
| ISBN | 0252076966 |
Looking through the lens of black business history, Beauty Shop Politics shows how black beauticians in the Jim Crow era parlayed their economic independence and access to a public community space into platforms for activism. Tiffany M. Gill argues that the beauty industry played a crucial role in...
A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida
| Author | N. D. B. Connolly |
| ISBN | 0226115143 |
Many people characterize urban renewal projects and the power of eminent domain as two of the most widely despised and often racist tools for reshaping American cities in the postwar period. In A World More Concrete, N. D. B. Connolly uses the history of South Florida to unearth an older and far more...
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California
| Author | Ruth Wilson Gilmore |
| ISBN | 0520242017 |
Since 1980, the number of people in U.S. prisons has increased more than 450%. Despite a crime rate that has been falling steadily for decades, California has led the way in this explosion, with what a state analyst called “the biggest prison building project in the history of the world.” Golden...
Harlem Between Heaven And Hell
| Author | Monique M. Taylor |
| ISBN | 0816640521 |
Monique Taylor’s Harlem: Between Heaven and Hell explores the mythological and literal development of Harlem over time, particularly its FUBU gentrification in the 21st-century. It's shady, striking, and unafraid of asking the hard questions about how helpful black professionals' "return...
Driven from New Orleans: How Nonprofits Betray Public Housing and Promote Privatization
| Author | John Arena |
| ISBN | 0816677476 |
In the early 1980s the tenant leaders of the New Orleans St. Thomas public housing development and their activist allies were militant, uncompromising defenders of the city’s public housing communities. Yet ten years later these same leaders became actively involved in a planning effort to privatize...
Unequal City: Race, Schools, and Perceptions of Injustice
| Author | Carla Shedd |
| ISBN | 0871547961 |
***Note: this is a book review/reflection for my course, City Planning (CPLN) 624: Readings on Race, Poverty, and Place.
Carla Shedd’s Unequal City: Race, Schools, and Perceptions of Injustice is a protracted exercise in entertaining the wild idea that teenagers might have something...
Women at the Wheel: A Century of Buying, Driving, and Fixing Cars
| Author | Katherine J. Parkin |
| ISBN | 0812249534 |
Ever since the Ford Model T became a vehicle for the masses, the automobile has served as a symbol of masculinity. The freedom of the open road, the muscle car's horsepower, the technical know-how for tinkering: all of these experiences have largely been understood from the perspective of the male driver....
Cannery Women, Cannery Lives: Mexican Women, Unionization, and the California Food Processing Industry, 1930-1950
| Author | Vicki L. Ruiz |
| ISBN | 0826309887 |
Women have been the mainstay of the grueling, seasonal canning industry for over a century. This book is their collective biography--a history of their family and work lives, and of their union. Out of the labor militancy of the 1930s emerged the United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing, and Allied Workers...
Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in United States
It is a commonplace that the United States lagged behind the countries of Western Europe in developing modern social policies. But, as Theda Skocpol shows in this startlingly new historical analysis, the United States actually pioneered generous social spending for many of its elderly, disabled,...
The New Deal: A Global History
| Author | Kiran Klaus Patel |
| ISBN | 0691149127 |
The New Deal: A Global History provides a radically new interpretation of a pivotal period in U.S. history. The first comprehensive study of the New Deal in a global context, the book compares American responses to the international crisis of capitalism and democracy during the 1930s to responses...
