Non-fiction books inspired by the sound clip: "And remember, kids - the next time somebody tells you, 'the government wouldn't do that'. Oh, yes they would."
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We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration
Frank Abe
Profit and Punishment: How America Criminalizes the Poor in the Name of Justice
Tony Messenger
Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond
Marc Lamont Hill
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
Howard Zinn
Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism
Eve L. Ewing
The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces
Seth Harp
The Deportation Machine: America's Long History of Expelling Immigrants (Politics and Society in Modern America)
Adam Goodman
Crime Fictions: How Racist Lies Built a System of Mass Wrongful Conviction
Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve
Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness
Da’Shaun Harrison
Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor
Kim Kelly
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
Jane Mayer
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
Nikole Hannah-Jones
The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World
Noam Chomsky
Medicine River: A Story of Survival and the Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools
Mary Annette Pember
Resist: How a Century of Young Black Activists Shaped America
Rita Omokha
Kuleana: A Story of Family, Land, and Legacy in Old Hawai'i
Sara Kehaulani Goo
Transgender History: The Roots of Today's Revolution
Susan Stryker
Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam (American Empire Project)
Nick Turse
The Spoils of War: Power, Profit and the American War Machine
Andrew Cockburn
Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness
Simone Browne
Red Nation Rising: From Bordertown Violence to Native Liberation
Nick Estes
The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans—And How We Can Fix It
Dorothy A. Brown
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
Harriet A. Washington
The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
Vincent Bevins
Assata: An Autobiography
Assata Shakur
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Richard Rothstein
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