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Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis by Jonathan Blitzer

Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis

Jonathan Blitzer

544 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction history politics informative reflective medium-paced
The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World by Vincent Bevins

The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World

Vincent Bevins

340 pages • first pub 2020 (editions) user-added

nonfiction history politics challenging informative slow-paced
The Body Family by Hope Wabuke

The Body Family

Hope Wabuke

80 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent by Eduardo Galeano

Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

Eduardo Galeano

317 pages • first pub 1971 (editions)

nonfiction economics history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon

Black Skin, White Masks

Frantz Fanon

6 hours, 49 minutes • first pub 1952 (editions) user-added

nonfiction philosophy politics race challenging reflective slow-paced
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis

Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

Angela Y. Davis

158 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction essays feminism politics race informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
Whites, Jews, and Us: Toward a Politics of Revolutionary Love by Houria Bouteldja

Whites, Jews, and Us: Toward a Politics of Revolutionary Love

Semiotext(e) / Intervention Series)

Houria Bouteldja

152 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction feminism politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Sandino's Daughters: Testimonies of Nicaraguan Women in Struggle by Margaret Randall

Sandino's Daughters: Testimonies of Nicaraguan Women in Struggle

Margaret Randall

252 pages • first pub 1985 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history politics informative inspiring reflective slow-paced
Disposable Domestics: Immigrant Women Workers in the Global Economy by Grace Chang

Disposable Domestics: Immigrant Women Workers in the Global Economy

Grace Chang

272 pages • first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction feminism gender challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Feminism without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity by Chandra Talpade Mohanty

Feminism without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity

Chandra Talpade Mohanty

312 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction feminism gender challenging informative reflective slow-paced