Category: Humanities & Social Science
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The Indian Card: Who Gets to Be Native in America

A groundbreaking and deeply personal exploration of Tribal enrollment, and what it means to be Native American in the United States.
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Troubled

A memoir of hardscrabble living, from foster care to the Air Force to Yale, with observations about elite universities.
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Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class

A memoir of hardscrabble living, from foster care to the Air Force to Yale, with observations about elite universities.
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Searching for Savanna

An investigation into the disappearance of a pregnant Native woman, highlighting the epidemic of violence against Indigenous women in America.
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Rikers: An Oral History

An oral history of the infamous Rikers jail complex and an unflinching portrait of injustice and resilience told by the people whose lives have been forever altered by it.
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Biting the Hand

A passionate, no-holds-barred memoir about the Asian American experience in a nation defined by racial stratification.
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White Hot Hate

The true story of a would-be terrorist attack against a Kansas farming town’s immigrant community, and the FBI informant who exposed it.
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The Best We Could Do

An intimate debut graphic novel portraying one family’s journey from war-torn Vietnam.
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We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, & Child Removal in America

The shocking, deeply reported story of a murder-suicide that claimed the lives of six children―and a searing indictment of the American foster care system.
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We Were Once a Family

The shocking, deeply reported story of a murder-suicide that claimed the lives of six children―and a searing indictment of the American foster care system.