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If you loved Performance and Activism by Afary, Kamran, this shelf of 24 books shares the same pull — rooted in Storytelling, Media & Internet, Political Advocacy, and Minority Studies.

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A handpicked shelf of strong matches chosen for shared themes, literary overlap, and a broader spread of voices.

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Robert Gooding-Williams

Themes: Minority Studies • Race & Ethnic Relations • West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)

Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950

Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore

Themes: Political Advocacy • Race & Ethnic Relations • Discrimination

Sundown Towns A Hidden Dimension of American Racism

James W. Loewen

Themes: Minority Studies • Race & Ethnic Relations • Discrimination

Tulsa, 1921 Reporting a Massacre

Randy Krehbiel

Themes: Minority Studies • Violence in Society • Race & Ethnic Relations

Blood & Bone Truth and Reconciliation in a Southern Town

Jack Shuler

Themes: Minority Studies • Violence in Society • Race & Ethnic Relations

American Pogrom The East St. Louis Race Riot and Black Politics

Charles L. Lumpkins

Themes: Minority Studies • Violence in Society • Race & Ethnic Relations

News of Baltimore Race, Rage and the City

Linda Steiner

Themes: Media & Internet • Violence in Society • Media Studies

Black Sailor, White Navy Racial Unrest in the Fleet During the Vietnam War Era

John Darrell Sherwood

Themes: Political Advocacy • Minority Studies • Race & Ethnic Relations

They Can’t Kill Us All The Story of Black Lives Matter

Wesley Lowery

Themes: Political Advocacy • Minority Studies • Race & Ethnic Relations

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White Flight Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism

Kevin M. Kruse

Themes: Minority Studies • Race & Ethnic Relations • African American & Black Studies

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Black Software The Internet and Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter

Charlton D. McIlwain

Themes: Media & Internet • Political Advocacy • Discrimination

#12

Pageants, Parlors, & Pretty Women Race and Beauty in the Twentieth-century South

Blain Roberts

Themes: Minority Studies • Race & Ethnic Relations • Discrimination

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August Reckoning Jack Turner and Racism in Post-Civil War Alabama

William Warren Rogers

Themes: Political Advocacy • Race & Ethnic Relations • Discrimination

#14

Arab Detroit 9/11 Life in the Terror Decade

Nabeel Abraham

Themes: Minority Studies • Race & Ethnic Relations • Discrimination

#15

Fighting for US Maulana Karenga, the US Organization, and Black Cultural Nationalism

Scot Brown

Themes: Political Advocacy • Race & Ethnic Relations • Social Classes & Economic Disparity

#16

Ballad of the Bullet Gangs, Drill Music, and the Power of Online Infamy

Forrest Stuart

Themes: Violence in Society • Social Classes & Economic Disparity • Discrimination

#17

Anarchism and the Black Revolution The Definitive Edition — Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin

Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin

Themes: Political Advocacy • Minority Studies • Race & Ethnic Relations

#18

Driven Out The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans

Jean Pfaelzer

Themes: Minority Studies • Violence in Society • Race & Ethnic Relations

#19

Democracy Abroad, Lynching at Home Racial Violence in Florida

Tameka B. Hobbs

Themes: Violence in Society • Race & Ethnic Relations • Discrimination

#20

The Freedom Schools Student Activists in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement

Jon N. Hale

Themes: Political Advocacy • Race & Ethnic Relations • African American & Black Studies

#21

Managing Inequality Northern Racial Liberalism in Interwar Detroit

Karen R. Miller

Themes: Minority Studies • Social Classes & Economic Disparity • Discrimination

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Black Citymakers How the Philadelphia Negro Changed Urban America

Marcus Anthony Hunter

Themes: Race & Ethnic Relations • Discrimination • African American & Black Studies

#23

The Making of Black Detroit in the Age of Henry Ford

Beth Tompkins Bates

Themes: Race & Ethnic Relations • African American & Black Studies • Urban

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Baltimore Revisited Stories of Inequality and Resistance in a U.S. City

P. Nicole King

Themes: Social Classes & Economic Disparity • Discrimination • African American & Black Studies

This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with Performance and Activism by Afary, Kamran. Connected by Storytelling, Media & Internet, Political Advocacy. Authors featured include Robert Gooding-Williams, Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, James W. Loewen, Randy Krehbiel, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.

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