The History of White People

The History of White People

By
Nell Irvin Painter
Nell Irvin Painter
2010 • 512 pages

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153 books

History

aurelin
Aurelin
Creating country music : fabricating authenticity
Selling sounds : the commercial revolution in American music
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
Savage Summit
The Creators
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Escaping the Delta

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182 books

Nonfiction

mildcat
Andy
Salt: A World History
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of his Time
Black Like Me: The Definitive Griffin Estate Edition
Reading Like A Writer
The Art of X-Ray Reading
Mentor: A Memoir
The baseball codes

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7 books

Didn T Quite Finish This One

mildcat
Andy
The History of White People
Midnight's Children
Beasts of No Nation
Too much happiness
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean
Anna Karenina

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9 books

Race In America

panashe
Panashe Fundira
American Slavery, American Freedom
White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812
The History of White People
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

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489 books

Nonfiction

kab
kab
Pure Effect: Direct Mindreading and Magical Artistry
Tricks of the mind
A Brief History of Time
Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes
D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths
Riding the Iron Rooster
Catch Me If You Can

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139 books

Social Justice

kab
kab
White Fragility
Bitch Doctrine: Essays for Dissenting Adults
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
A Burst of Light and Other Essays
The Cancer Journals

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98 books

Antiracism Anti Imperialism

kab
kab
But Some of Us are Brave
Deep Diversity: A Compassionate, Scientific Approach to Achieving Racial Justice
Identités Françaises: Banlieues, Féminités Et Universalisme
Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism
Rise Up!: How You Can Join the Fight Against White Supremacy
The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction, 1948-1985
Border Nation: A Story of Migration

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69 books

History

kab
kab
Kingdom of Characters
The 1619 Project: Born on the Water
Witches, Midwives, and Nurses
Four Hundred Souls : A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
One Step Further: My Story of Math, the Moon, and a Lifelong Mission

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62 books

Non Fiction

Dunstable
Ryan
The Gnostic Discoveries
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
Do I Look Like a Daddy to You?: A Survival Guide for First-Time Fathers
Sign With Your Baby: How to Communicate With Infants Before They Can Speak

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354 books

Own

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tom
Silence
Where the Heart Beats
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
Tao Te Ching
Into the Wild
Notes From Walnut Tree Farm

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50 books

Nonf History

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Lucille Ancrath
Sex with Kings
The History of White People
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
Dancing Bears

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49 books

Audible

WrenFaire
Wren
Adulthood Rites
Snow Crash
The Book of Phoenix
Star Maker
The Boy on the Bridge
The Dispossessed
Ringworld

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511 books

Non Fiction

zween_eugene
Eugene Wilder
Where Men Win Glory
Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains
Eating Animals
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
The Way We Eat
The Rest Is Noise

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68 books

Mission Critical

zween_eugene
Eugene Wilder
Last Child in the Woods
The Diversity of Life
Reading in the Brain
The World Without Us
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions
American Gods
Rabbit, Run

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82 books

Nonfiction

megweg
Meg
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
H is for Hawk
The History of White People
Glass, Irony, and God
On Tyranny

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18 books

Shelf Of Shame

megweg
Meg
Impostor Syndrome
The History of White People
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
The Sun Also Rises
The Water Dancer
Wuthering Heights
H is for Hawk

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56 books

2021

kentbur
Kent
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
The Poet's Companion
How to Love a Country
Anxious People
Tantric Jesus: The Erotic Heart of Early Christianity
Citizen: An American Lyric
Just Us

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26 books

Anti Racist

JavaLibrarian
Lisa Francine
White Fragility
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
So You Want to Talk about Race
How to Be Less Stupid About Race
Raising Our Hands
This Is My America
My Vanishing Country

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67 books

Tbr 2020

NeedMoreShelves
Elizabeth
Queen of Coin and Whispers
Huntress
On a Sunbeam
Once Upon an Eid
Loveless

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7 books

Race

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AE
Negroes with Guns
Racism Without Racists
The History of White People
When Affirmative Action Was White
The Souls of Black Folk
How to Be an Antiracist
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy

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110 books

Ebook

keroscenik
Natasha
When Affirmative Action Was White
Children of Blood and Bone
Let's Go Exploring: Calvin and Hobbes
Fascism: A Warning
The Great Stain: Witnessing American Slavery
A Thousand Beginnings and Endings
Sons of Cain

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91 books

Arapahoe

keroscenik
Natasha
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
They Called Us Enemy
The City of Brass
Give Us the Ballot
Punishment Without Crime: How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal
Real Queer America
Biased

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71 books

Pueblo

keroscenik
Natasha
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
They Called Us Enemy
The City of Brass
Give Us the Ballot
Punishment Without Crime: How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History

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341 books

Race Immigration Native

labibliobecca
Becca
Ghost
The Poet X
Children of Blood and Bone
When They Call You a Terrorist
How Long 'til Black Future Month?
March
March

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311 books

Tbr Nonfiction

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Becca
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Asking for It
Redefining Realness
A People's History of the United States
The Color of Law
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
Political Tribes
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