By Isabel Wilkerson From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. Wilkerson compares this epic migration to the migrations of other peoples in history. She interviewed more than a thousand people, and gained access to new data and official records, to write this definitive and vividly dramatic account of how these American … [Read more...] about The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
By Michelle Alexander Seldom does a book have the impact of Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow. Since it was first published in 2010, it has been cited in judicial decisions and has been adopted in campus-wide and community-wide reads; it helped inspire the creation of the Marshall Project and the new $100 million Art for Justice Fund; it has been the winner of … [Read more...] about The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
The American War in Afghanistan: A History
The American war in Afghanistan, which began in 2001, is now the longest armed conflict in the nation's history. It is currently winding down, and American troops are likely to leave soon ― but only after a stay of nearly two decades. In The American War in Afghanistan, Carter Malkasian provides the first comprehensive history of the entire conflict. Malkasian is both a … [Read more...] about The American War in Afghanistan: A History
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
By Isabel Wilkerson In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human rankings. Beyond race, class, or … [Read more...] about Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
by Richard Rothstein Widely heralded as a “masterful” (Washington Post) and “essential” (Slate) history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein’s The Color of Law offers “the most forceful argument ever published on how federal, state, and local governments gave rise to and reinforced neighborhood segregation” (William Julius Wilson). Exploding the myth of de … [Read more...] about The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America