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Periods Gone Public: Taking a Stand for Menstrual Equity by Jennifer Weiss-Wolf

Periods Gone Public: Taking a Stand for Menstrual Equity

Jennifer Weiss-Wolf

336 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

5.0mwatts168's review
nonfiction feminism health politics challenging informative slow-paced
Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of a Young Black Girl in the Rural South by Anne Moody

Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of a Young Black Girl in the Rural South

Anne Moody

432 pages • first pub 1968 (editions)

5.0mwatts168's review
nonfiction autobiography history memoir challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

The Bluest Eye

Toni Morrison

206 pages • first pub 1970 (editions)

5.0mwatts168's review
fiction classics historical literary dark emotional sad medium-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)

5.0mwatts168's review
nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

Bryan Stevenson

336 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

5.0mwatts168's review
nonfiction memoir race emotional informative inspiring medium-paced
Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets by Sudhir Venkatesh

Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets

Sudhir Venkatesh

302 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

5.0mwatts168's review
nonfiction crime memoir sociology reflective medium-paced
Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America by Wil Haygood

Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America

Wil Haygood

416 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

5.0mwatts168's review
nonfiction biography history politics informative reflective slow-paced
Condemned: The Whole Story by Keith Lamar

Condemned: The Whole Story

Keith Lamar

256 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

5.0mwatts168's review
nonfiction challenging informative sad slow-paced
Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life by Annette Lareau

Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life

Annette Lareau

343 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

5.0mwatts168's review
nonfiction education race sociology informative reflective slow-paced
Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross

Pope Joan

Donna Woolfolk Cross

422 pages • first pub 1996 (editions)

5.0mwatts168's review
fiction historical informative inspiring slow-paced