Books like The South Side by Natalie Y. Moore

In 1893 Chicago, Erik Larson weaves the story of visionary architect Daniel Burnham and the cunning serial killer H.H. Holmes, whose crimes unfolded against the backdrop of the World’s Columbian Exposition.

Between the World and Me is a memoir‑essay in letter form, where Ta‑Nehisi Coates addresses his teenage son about the history, violence, and ongoing reality of being Black in America.

Cornel West’s Race Matters delivers a penetrating examination of racism, black consciousness, and civil society in the United States, offering essays that remain timely and relevant for every reader in the new millennium.

29, 311 p. 24 cm

C. Vann Woodward’s classic 1955 study argues that Jim Crow segregation emerged only in the 1890s, showing the South’s racial relations were more mixed during slavery and Reconstruction.

"Los Angeles pulsed with economic vitality and demographic growth in the decades following World War II. This detailed cultural history of L.A. from 1940 to 1970 traces the rise of a new suburban consciousness adopted by a generation of migrants who abandoned older American cities for Southern California's booming urban region. Eric Avila explores expressions of this new "white identity" in popular culture with discussions of Hollywood and film noir, Dodger Stadium, Disneyland, and L.A.'s renowned freeways. These institutions not only mirrored this new culture of suburban whiteness and helped to shape it, but also, as Avila argues, reveal the profound relationship between the increasingly fragmented urban landscape of Los Angeles and the rise of a new political outlook that rejected the tenets of New Deal liberalism and anticipated the emergence of the New Right."--BOOK JACKET.