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Revolutionary Suicide by Huey P. Newton

Revolutionary Suicide

Huey P. Newton

333 pages • first pub 1973 (editions)

5.0niconorico's review
nonfiction autobiography memoir informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

ReVisioning American History

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

10 hours, 18 minutes • first pub 2014 (editions)

5.0niconorico's review
nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

The Fire Next Time

James Baldwin

106 pages • first pub 1963 (editions)

5.0niconorico's review
nonfiction classics essays memoir race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Armed Joy by Alfredo M. Bonanno

Armed Joy

Alfredo M. Bonanno

48 pages • first pub 1977 (editions)

5.0niconorico's review
nonfiction essays politics informative reflective fast-paced
The Battle for Paradise: Puerto Rico Takes on the Disaster Capitalists by Naomi Klein

The Battle for Paradise: Puerto Rico Takes on the Disaster Capitalists

Naomi Klein

96 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

5.0niconorico's review
nonfiction economics history politics informative reflective fast-paced
Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis

Are Prisons Obsolete?

Angela Y. Davis

128 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

5.0niconorico's review
nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
War Is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier by Smedley D. Butler

War Is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier

Smedley D. Butler

80 pages • first pub 1935 (editions)

5.0niconorico's review
nonfiction history politics 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

16 hours, 57 minutes • first pub 2010 (editions)

5.0niconorico's review
nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

Ibram X. Kendi

592 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

5.0niconorico's review
nonfiction history race sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

Max Weber

320 pages • first pub 1904 (editions)

5.0niconorico's review
nonfiction history philosophy sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced