Cultural & Ethnic Studies
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The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America’s Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War
$18.00 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book Selection
Winner of the Mark Lynton History Prize Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
Winner of the Lionel Trilling Book Award A New York Times Critics’ Best Book “Ex- Author: Delbanco, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 05 2019
- ISBN10: 0735224137
- Language: English
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How to Succeed in Business Without Being White: Straight Talk on Making It in America
$20.99 Add to cartAfrican-Americans are entering the business world in unprecedented numbers, and Earl G. Graves serves as their role model and mentor. Graves, one of the most influential and well-known executives in t… [more below]
- Author: Graves, Earl G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 21 1998
- ISBN10: 0887309097
- Language: English
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Becoming Trustworthy White Allies
$23.95 Add to cartIn Becoming Trustworthy White Allies, longtime antiracist facilitator Melanie S. Morrison outlines the actions white people must undertake to become partners in the work of racial justice. In this col… [more below]
- Author: Morrison, Melanie S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 19 2025
- ISBN10: 147803243X
- Language: English
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Golden Children: Legacy of Ethnic Studies, SF State. A Memoir
$19.95 Add to cartA memoir written by Juanita Tamayo Lott, a participant in the 1968 San Francisco State College Third World Liberation Front (TWLF) Strike to establish the College of Ethnic Studies. The book discusses
- Author: Lott, Juanita Tamayo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 15 2018
- ISBN10: 0996351787
- Language: English
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God Help Us!: The Bible and Pastoral Care Concerns for Black Churches
$24.95 Add to cartGrief and loss are familiar stories in the Bible. So are stories of immigration and belonging. So are stories of incarceration, reconciliation, parenting, and complicated families. God Help Us! shines
- Author: Smith, Raynard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: August 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0829803149
- Language: English
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Defectors: The Rise of the Latino Far Right and What It Means for America
$18.00 Add to cartAN NPR BEST BOOK OF 2024 – An award-winning journalist’s exploration of how race, identity and political trauma have influenced the rise in far-right sentiment among Latinos, and how this group can sh… [more below]
- Author: Ramos, Paola
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 0593687191
- Language: English
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Driven by the Movement: Reports from the Black Power Era
$18.00 Add to cartA collective portrait of the Black Power movement by radical journalist and former Black Panther JoNina Abron-Ervin
Driven by the Movement collects the stories of twenty ordinary people who did extraor
- Author: Abron-Ervin, Jonina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 1849356068
- Language: English
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The Insider: Malcolm Cowley and the Triumph of American Literature
$35.00 Add to cartA delightful and majestic reckoning with the ascent of American fiction in the twentieth century through the prism of the under-known man who had an astonishing amount to do with it
Malcolm Cowley is- Author: Howard, Gerald
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0525522050
- Language: English
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The Emmett Till Case
$15.99 Add to cartAt the end of August 1955, the lifeless and disfigured body of a teenager was fished out of the Tallahatchie River in Mississippi. The body was that of Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old Black boy from … [more below]
- Series: 50 States of Crime #4
- Author: Pottier, Jean-Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1613166923
- Language: English
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Freedom Summer: The Savage Season of 1964 That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy
$27.00 Add to cartA riveting account of one of the most remarkable episodes in American history.
In his critically acclaimed history Freedom Summer, award- winning author Bruce Watson presents powerful testimony abou- Author: Watson, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: May 31 2011
- ISBN10: 0143119435
- Language: English
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Latino Americans: The 500-Year Legacy That Shaped a Nation
$27.00 Add to cartChronicling the rich and varied history of Latinos in the United States, this companion to the PBS documentary miniseries vividly and candidly tells how the story of Latino Americans is the story of o… [more below]
- Author: Suarez, Ray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 03 2013
- ISBN10: 0451238141
- Language: English
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The Poet and the Silk Girl: A Memoir of Love, Imprisonment, and Protest
$22.00 Add to cartNow in paperback: A compelling and prismatic love story of one family’s defiance in the face of injustice–and how their story echoes across generations.
“Beautifully woven together by Satsuki Ina’s mo… [more below]
- Author: Ina, Satsuki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 159714696X
- Language: English
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Stitching Love and Loss: A Gee’s Bend Quilt
$24.95 Add to cartWinner of the 2023 Horowitz Prize by the Bard Graduate Center
Winner of the 2025 James A. Porter and David C. Driskell Award in African American Art History from the Driskell Center at the University
- Author: Collins, Lisa Gail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0295753757
- Language: English
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The Dari?n Gap: A Reporter’s Journey Through the Deadly Crossroads of the Americas
$29.95 Add to cartThe narrow Dari?n Gap, the only land bridge connecting South and Central America, encompasses a spectacularly hostile jungle, covered in steep mountains, dense rainforests, and flood-prone marshes. Kn… [more below]
- Author: Fernández, Belén
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 1978842082
- Language: English
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Let My Country Awake: Indian Revolutionaries in America and the Fight to Overthrow the British Raj
$30.00 Add to cartThe true story of an audacious international movement to liberate India from colonial rule during World War I.
WANTED: Brave soldiers to stir up revolt in India;
REMUNERATIONS: Death;
PRIZE: Martyrdom;
P- Author: Miller, Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0374609675
- Language: English
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Las Horas Imposibles / The Impossible Hours
$17.95 Add to cartIn Las Horas Imposibles / The Impossible Hours, Octavio Quintanilla takes us on a profound journey to witness what it means to erase those boundaries devised by genre and politics intent on stifling m… [more below]
- Series: Ambroggio Prize
- Author: Quintanilla, Octavio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 166
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0816554889
- Language: Spanish
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Kokono’ de Una Mujer Rebelde. La Primera Chef Tsotsil Reconocida Como Una de Las 50 Promesas de la Cocina Internacional / Kokono of a Brave Woman
$17.95 Add to cartLa historia de lucha y pasi?n de una mujer tsotsil rebelde que construye su propio destino al tiempo que nos comparte la sabidur?a de pueblos originarios.
El destino de Claudia S?ntiz estaba escrito d- Author: Sántiz, Claudia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 6073854307
- Language: Spanish
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All about Love: The Deluxe Collector’s Edition: New Visions
$30.00 Add to cartNow available in a special hardcover Deluxe Collector’s Edition featuring beautiful new packaging, including cloth case stamping with red foil, bold endpapers, and red sprayed edges!
A New York Times
- Series: Love Song to the Nation #1
- Author: Hooks, Bell
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 006346313X
- Language: English
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Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday and the Biography of a Song
$18.99 Add to cartLearn the story behind the song performed by Andra Day in “United States vs. Billie Holiday” now on Hulu
Recorded by jazz legend Billie Holiday in 1939, “Strange Fruit” is considered the first signifi
- Author: Margolick, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: August 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0060959568
- Language: English
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To Be Young, Gifted and Black
$26.95 Add to cartAn impassioned defence of Black excellence in the arts.
What does it mean – and how does it feel – to grow up as a Black artist today? ‘This exceptional book, written with a mother’s love for her seve- Author: Kanneh-Mason, Kadiatu
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1836430736
- Language: English
