Ethnic Studies
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Speaking of Indians
$14.95 Add to cartElla Deloria could speak intimately about Indian ways because she belonged to a Yankton Sioux family. A distinguished scholar who studied with Franz Boas at Columbia University, she had the gift of la… [more below]
- Author: Deloria Jr, Vine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 163
- Publish Date: August 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0803266146
- Language: English
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Counting Coup: A True Story of Basketball and Honor on the Little Big Horn
$21.99 Add to cartIn this extraordinary work of journalism, bestselling and award-winning author Larry Colton journeys into the world of Montana’s Crow Indians and follows the struggles of a talented, moody, charismati… [more below]
- Author: Colton, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0446677558
- Language: English
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The Desert Smells Like Rain: A Naturalist in O’Odham Country
$21.95 Read morePublished more than forty years ago, The Desert Smells Like Rain remains a classic work about nature, how to respect it, and what transplants can learn from the longtime residents of the Sonoran Deser… [more below]
- Author: Nabhan, Gary Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 0816546894
- Language: English
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Vibrate Higher: A Rap Story
$18.00 Add to cartFrom one of the most lyrically gifted and socially conscious rappers of the past twenty years, Vibrate Higher is a firsthand account of hip-hop as a political force
Before Talib Kweli became a world-r- Author: Kweli, Talib
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1250787386
- Language: English
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Ethiopia and the Origin of Civilization
$19.94 Add to cartThe history of Ethiopia could also be called the history of humanity. The question is not if this history is well documented, but why it is not thought widely in schools. The time necessary to study t
- Author: Jackson, John G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: May 24 2020
- ISBN10: 0592438848
- Language: English
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Detroit: I Do Mind Dying: A Study in Urban Revolution
$19.95 Add to cartBlack autoworkers fight back against exploitation and oppression on the shop floors in the ’60s and ’70s.
- Author: Surkin, Marvin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: August 21 2012
- ISBN10: 1608462218
- Language: English
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Dinéjà Na`nitin: Navajo Traditional Teachings and History
$28.95 Add to cartTraditional teachings derived from stories and practices passed through generations lie at the core of a well-balanced Navajo life. These teachings are based on a very different perspective of the phy… [more below]
- Author: McPherson, Robert S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: December 15 2012
- ISBN10: 1607322161
- Language: English
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The Black Panthers: Portraits from an Unfinished Revolution
$24.99 Add to cart“Brilliant, painful, enlightening, tearful, tragic, sad, and funny, this photo-essay book is at its core about healing, and about the social justice work that still needs to be done in the era of hip-… [more below]
- Author: Shih, Bryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 13 2016
- ISBN10: 1568585551
- Language: English
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Crumbs from the Table of Joy and Other Plays
$19.95 Read moreThis collection includes Lynn Nottage’s best known work, Crumbs from the Table of Joy, which has been produced widely since its premiere in May 1995 and which the Chicago Tribune hailed as “a complex
- Author: Nottage, Lynn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 01 2003
- ISBN10: 1559362146
- Language: English
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White Burgers, Black Cash: Fast Food from Black Exclusion to Exploitation
$29.95 Read moreThe long and pernicious relationship between fast food restaurants and the African American community
Today, fast food is disproportionately located in Black neighborhoods and marketed to Black Ameri- Author: Kwate, Naa Oyo a.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: April 11, 2023
- ISBN10: 1517911095
- Language: English
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A Nimble ARC: James Van Der Zee and Photography
$27.95 Read moreWhile James Van Der Zee is widely known and praised for his studio portraits from the Harlem Renaissance era, much of the diversity and expansive reach of his work has been overlooked. From the major … [more below]
- Series: Visual Arts of Africa and Its Diasporas
- Author: Boone, Emilie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1478024909
- Language: English
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Flyboy 2: The Greg Tate Reader
$28.95 Add to cartSince launching his career at the Village Voice in the early 1980s Greg Tate has been one of the premiere critical voices on contemporary Black music, art, literature, film, and politics. Flyboy 2 pro… [more below]
- Author: Tate, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 05 2016
- ISBN10: 0822361965
- Language: English
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Race & Economics: How Much Can Be Blamed on Discrimination?
$14.95 Add to cartWalter E. Williams applies an economic analysis to the problems black Americans have faced in the past and still face in the present to show that that free-market resource allocation, as opposed to po… [more below]
- Series: Hoover Institution Press Publication
- Author: Williams, Walter E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: April 27 2011
- ISBN10: 0817912452
- Language: English
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Storyville, New Orleans: Being an Authentic, Illustrated Account of the Notorious Red-Light District
$24.95 Add to cartA true-to-life impression of Storyville, the only legally established red light district in the US
At the turn of the twentieth-century, there were hundreds of red-light districts in the United State- Author: Rose, Al
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 17 1997
- ISBN10: 0817344039
- Language: English
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Lakota Myth
$21.95 Add to cartJames R. Walker was a physician to the Pine Ridge Sioux from 1896 to 1914. His accounts of this time, taken from his personal papers, reveal much about Lakota life and culture. This third volume of pr… [more below]
- Author: Walker, James R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 428
- Publish Date: April 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0803298609
- Language: English
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The Sixth Grandfather: Black Elk’s Teachings Given to John G. Neihardt
$29.95 Add to cartIn Black Elk Speaks and When the Tree Flowered, John C. Neihardt recorded the teachings of the Oglala holy man Black Elk, who had, in a vision, seen himself as the “sixth grandfather,” the spiritual r… [more below]
- Series: Bison Book S
- Author: Demallie, Raymond J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 462
- Publish Date: October 01 1985
- ISBN10: 0803265646
- Language: English
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Our Class: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison
$18.00 Add to cartA powerfully moving book that “could make graspable why today’s prisons are contemporary slave plantations” (Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple), giving voice to the poorest among us and laying … [more below]
- Author: Hedges, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1982154446
- Language: English
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And the Category Is.: Inside New York’s Vogue, House, and Ballroom Community
$25.95 Read moreA 2023 Lambda Literary Award Finalist in Nonfiction
An Electric Literature “Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Book of 2022” Selection A love letter to the legendary Black and Latinx LGBTQ underground subculture- Author: Tucker, Ricky
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0807003484
- Language: English
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Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Talk about Life in the Segregated South
$28.32 Add to cartA timely paperback reissue of the stunning, prize-winning portrait of the Jim Crow South through unique first-person accounts
Praised as “viscerally powerful” (Publishers Weekly), this remarkable work
- Author: Chafe, William H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 162097682X
- Language: English
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Medicine of the Cherokee: The Way of Right Relationship
$14.00 Add to cartDiscover the holistic experience of human life from the elder teachers of Cherokee Medicine. With stories of the Four Directions and the Universal Circle, these once-secret teachings offer us wisdom o… [more below]
- Series: Folk Wisdom
- Author: Garrett, J. T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 01 1996
- ISBN10: 1879181371
- Language: English
