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The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America by Khalil Gibran Muhammad

The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America

Khalil Gibran Muhammad

380 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

5.0kristymartino's review
nonfiction history race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Michelle Alexander

312 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

5.0kristymartino's review
nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

Sing, Unburied, Sing

Bois Sauvage #3

Jesmyn Ward

206 pages • first pub 2017 (editions) user-added

5.0kristymartino's review
fiction literary magical realism dark emotional sad medium-paced
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

Naomi Klein

558 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

5.0kristymartino's review
nonfiction economics history politics challenging informative slow-paced
Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing by Robert A. Caro

Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing

Robert A. Caro

231 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

5.0kristymartino's review
nonfiction biography memoir informative slow-paced
סוס אחד נכנס לבר by David Grossman, דויד גרוסמן

סוס אחד נכנס לבר

David Grossman, דויד גרוסמן

198 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

5.0kristymartino's review
fiction contemporary challenging dark medium-paced
Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James

Black Leopard, Red Wolf

The Dark Star Trilogy #1

Marlon James

620 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

5.0kristymartino's review
fiction fantasy historical lgbtqia+ adventurous challenging dark slow-paced
History by Elsa Morante

History

La Storia #1-2

Elsa Morante

754 pages • first pub 1974 (editions)

5.0kristymartino's review
fiction historical challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land, Revised and Updated by David K. Shipler
Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land, Revised and Updated
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David K. Shipler

Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land, Revised and Updated

David K. Shipler

missing duration info • first pub 1986 (editions)

5.0kristymartino's review
nonfiction history politics religion challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Train Was On Time by Heinrich Böll

The Train Was On Time

Heinrich Böll

128 pages • first pub 1949 (editions)

5.0kristymartino's review
fiction classics dark reflective sad slow-paced