CB’s History Special Interest List

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Overview

Hello!
If you’re here you’re either one of my friends who knows I’m a violence historian and enjoy sharing books that open your mind OR you’re a stranger that stumbled upon this while looking for historical books to read to balance out your charts.
Either way welcome to my historical special interests. These are books that I read throughout my schooling that impacting my thinking; so come along into the archives of my mind.

Challenge Books

1

Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America by Mae M. Ngai

Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America

Mae M. Ngai

2

Murder at the Sleepy Lagoon: Zoot Suits, Race, and Riot in Wartime L.A. by Eduardo Obregón Pagán

Murder at the Sleepy Lagoon: Zoot Suits, Race, and Riot in Wartime L.A.

Eduardo Obregón Pagán

3

Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism by Harsha Walia

Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism

Harsha Walia

4

Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America by Kathleen Belew

Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America

Kathleen Belew

5

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

Timothy Snyder

6

Letters from the 442nd: The World War II Correspondence of a Japanese American Medic by Minoru Masuda

Letters from the 442nd: The World War II Correspondence of a Japanese American Medic

Minoru Masuda

7

Cannery Women, Cannery Lives: Mexican Women, Unionization, and the California Food Processing Industry, 1930-1950 by Vicki L. Ruiz

Cannery Women, Cannery Lives: Mexican Women, Unionization, and the California Food Processing Industry, 1930-1950

Vicki L. Ruiz