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History
November 16 2021

Read Kyle T. Mays’ Author Note for An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States

Beginning with pre-Revolutionary America and moving into the movement for Black lives and contemporary Indigenous activism, Afro-Indigenous historian, Kyle T. Mays argues that the foundations of the US are rooted in antiblackness and settler colonialism, and that these parallel oppressions continue into the present. He explores how Black and Indigenous peoples have always resisted and struggled

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Read Kyle T. Mays’ Author Note for An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States

History
November 16 2021
Humanities & Social Sciences History
October 11 2021

On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Read an Exerpt from Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s New Book Not “A Nation of Immigrants”

Whether in political debates or discussions about immigration around the kitchen table, many Americans, regardless of party affiliation, will say proudly that we are a nation of immigrants. In this bold new book, historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz asserts this ideology is harmful and dishonest because it serves to mask and diminish the US’s history of settler

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On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Read an Exerpt from Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s New Book Not “A Nation of Immigrants”

Humanities & Social Sciences History
October 11 2021
General History
September 23 2021

Read an Excerpt from Andy Robinson’s Gold, Oil, and Avocados

The 21st century began optimistically in Latin America. Left-leaning leaders armed with programs to reduce poverty and reclaim national wealth were seeing results—but as the aughts gave way to the teens, they began to fall like dominos. Where did the dreams of this “pink tide” go? Look no further than the original culprits of Latin

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Read an Excerpt from Andy Robinson’s Gold, Oil, and Avocados

General History
September 23 2021
General History
September 20 2021

Read an Excerpt from Ruby Hamad’s White Tears/Brown Scars

Called “powerful and provocative” by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, author of the New York Times bestselling How to be an Antiracist, White Tears/Brown Scars reveals how white feminism has been used as a weapon of white supremacy and patriarchy deployed against Black and Indigenous women, and women of color. Taking us from the slave era, when white women fought

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Read an Excerpt from Ruby Hamad’s White Tears/Brown Scars

General History
September 20 2021
Literature
April 5 2021

An Excerpt from Richard Wright’s The Man Who Lived Underground

Richard Wright (1908–1960) is one of the most influential African American writers of the last century. But in the 1940s, at the height of his creative powers, he was unable to secure publication of perhaps his most important novel. Now, for the first time, by special arrangement with the author’s estate, Library of America is publishing

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An Excerpt from Richard Wright’s The Man Who Lived Underground

Literature
April 5 2021
General Common Reads Humanities & Social Sciences
July 15 2019

FROM THE PAGE: Eat Like A Fish

Seaweed is a sustainable, easy-to-produce ocean vegetable that has a positive impact on climate change and our environment. Why then is it not a staple ingredient used in American kitchens? In his recently published memoir, fisherman-turned-ocean farmer Bren Smith aims to change that through his tales of ocean-bound adventure and culinary re-imagination. In the following

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FROM THE PAGE: Eat Like A Fish

General Common Reads Humanities & Social Sciences
July 15 2019
Common Reads Humanities & Social Sciences
June 5 2019

Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale retold through illustrations

Season 3 of The Handmaid’s Tale kicks off on Wednesday, June 05, with Hulu releasing new episodes each week. Hulu has described the new season as being “driven by June’s resistance to the dystopian regime of Gilead and her struggle to strike back against overwhelming odds.” Just in time for the season premiere, Nan A. Talese

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Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale retold through illustrations

Common Reads Humanities & Social Sciences
June 5 2019
Common Reads Humanities & Social Sciences
May 17 2019

FROM THE PAGE: Washington Black

Washington Black follows “Wash” Black, an eleven-year-old field slave on a sugar plantation in Barbados. When Wash’s old master dies, the plantation’s already dire living conditions immediately worsen. Wash is then selected to become a manservant to his new master’s brother, a man who, as it turns out, is not only an abolitionist, but an inventor,

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FROM THE PAGE: Washington Black

Common Reads Humanities & Social Sciences
May 17 2019
General Common Reads Humanities & Social Sciences
May 10 2019

FROM THE PAGE: Unbound: Transgender Men and the Remaking of Identity

According to an analysis by the Williams Institute in 2016, 1.4 million adults in the United States identify as transgender, with young adults (ages 18 to 24) most likely to say they are transgender. Sociologist Arlene Stein spent a year following the lives of four transgender young adults, capturing their experiences as they transitioned from

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FROM THE PAGE: Unbound: Transgender Men and the Remaking of Identity

General Common Reads Humanities & Social Sciences
May 10 2019
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