Books like The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
12 books with a reading profile close to The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein. Deep, outward-looking and clear-cut; a moderate read.
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History of Beauty
by Umberto Eco
Also outward-looking · history, analytical
Umberto Eco examines the shifting definitions of aesthetics in Western civilization from ancient Greece to the dawn of the twenty-first century.
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Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement
Also deep and outward-looking · history, analytical
Angela Davis connects disparate liberation efforts through a framework of intersectional internationalism.
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Art Under Control in North Korea
by Jane Portal
Also outward-looking · history, analytical
Jane Portal examines the institutional mechanisms through which the North Korean state dictates artistic production.
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The Oxford Illustrated History of the Renaissance
Also outward-looking · history, analytical
Gordon Campbell coordinates a chronological survey that expands the Renaissance beyond its traditional fifteenth-century Tuscan borders.
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Truth and fiction in the Da Vinci code
Also outward-looking · history, analytical
Bart Ehrman examines the historical claims presented in Dan Brown’s novel, specifically addressing the origins of the New Testament and the identity of Mary Magdalene.
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Scenes from Deep Time
Also deep and outward-looking · history, analytical
In Scenes from Deep Time, M.
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Women, Race & Class
Also deep · history, analytical
Angela Davis maps the historical intersection of abolitionism and the early women’s suffrage movement to demonstrate how the priorities of middle-class white women often excluded the needs of Black women.
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Powers and Prospects
by Noam Chomsky
Also deep and outward-looking · history, analytical
In this collection of essays and lectures, Noam Chomsky analyzes the intersection of international relations, geopolitical power, and elite control over economic policy.
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The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917–2017
Also deep and outward-looking · history, analytical
Rashid Khalidi frames the modern history of Palestine as a sequence of six distinct colonial declarations of war, beginning with the 1917 Balfour Declaration and continuing through the 1982 invasion of Lebanon and the m…
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And the Band Played on
by Randy Shilts
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, analytical
Randy Shilts documents the initial decade of the AIDS epidemic in the United States, tracking the virus from its first appearance in urban centers to its spread through the blood supply.
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