Ethnic Studies
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Crazy Horse Weeps: The Challenge of Being Lakota in White America
$19.95 Add to cartFor Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota people, historical trauma, chronically underfunded federal programs, and broken promises on the part of the US government have resulted in gaping health, educational, an… [more below]
- Author: Marshall, Joseph M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: February 21 2019
- ISBN10: 1682750256
- Language: English
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Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America
$18.99 Add to cartTwo world wars, the Civil Rights movement, and a Jheri curl later, Blacks in America continue to have a complex and convoluted relationship with their hair. From the antebellum practice of shaving the
- Author: Byrd, Ayana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 28 2014
- ISBN10: 1250046572
- Language: English
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Searching for Savanna: The Murder of One Native American Woman and the Violence Against the Many
$18.99 Add to cartA gripping and illuminating investigation “that is far overdue” (Rachel Louise Snyder, author of No Visible Bruises) into the disappearance of Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind when she was eight months pre… [more below]
- Author: Gable, Mona
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1982153695
- Language: English
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We Will Tell Our Own Story: The Lions of Africa Speak!
$45.00 Add to cartThese authors, all deeply dedicated to the telling of an African story, are committed to righting the wrongs of intellectual inquiry by setting upright the standards, criteria, and assumptions often a
- Author: Akomolafe, Adebayo C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 01, 2017
- ISBN10: 0982532768
- Language: English
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Indians in Eden: Wabanakis and Rusticators on Maine’s Mt. Desert Island
$16.95 Add to cartWhen the Wabanaki were moved to reservations, they proved their resourcefulness by catering to the burgeoning tourist market during the 19th and early 20th centuries, when Bar Harbor was called Eden. … [more below]
- Author: McBride, Bunny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0892728043
- Language: English
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The Classroom and the Cell: Conversations on Black Life in America
$14.95 Add to cartThis collection of conversations between celebrity intellectual Marc Lamont Hill and famed political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal is a shining example of African American men speaking for themselves about
- Author: Abu-Jamal, Mumia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 177
- Publish Date: January 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0883783371
- Language: English
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Healing Plants: Medicine of the Florida Seminole Indians
$19.95 Add to cartThe first published record of Florida Seminole herbal medicine and ancient healing practices, Healing Plants is a colorfully illustrated compendium of knowledge and practices passed down orally to Ali… [more below]
- Author: Snow, Alice Micco
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: September 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0813061725
- Language: English
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Walking in the Sacred Manner: Healers, Dreamers, and Pipe Carriers–Medicine Women of the Plains
$15.99 Add to cartWalking in the Sacred Manner is an exploration of the myths and culture of the Plains Indians, for whom the everyday and the spiritual are intertwined, and women play a strong and important role in th… [more below]
- Author: St Pierre, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 30 1995
- ISBN10: 0684802007
- Language: English
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Honoring the Medicine: The Essential Guide to Native American Healing
$18.00 Add to cartFor thousands of years, Native medicine was the only medicine on the North American continent. It is America’s original holistic medicine, a powerful means of healing the body, balancing the emotions,… [more below]
- Author: Cohen, Kenneth S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: June 27 2006
- ISBN10: 0345435133
- Language: English
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This Is One Way to Dance: Essays
$24.95 Add to cartIn the linked essays that make up her debut collection, This Is One Way to Dance, Sejal Shah explores culture, language, family, and place. Throughout the collection, Shah reflects on what it means to
- Series: Crux: The Georgia Literary Nonfiction
- Author: Shah, Sejal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: June 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0820357235
- Language: English
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Every Day Is a Good Day
$21.95 Read moreA rare and often intimate glimpse at the resilience and perserverance of Native women who face each day positively and see the richnes in their lives.
- Author: Mankiller, Wilma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1555916910
- Language: English
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The Color of Christ: The Son of God & the Saga of Race in America
$47.93 Add to cartHow is it that in America the image of Jesus Christ has been used both to justify the atrocities of white supremacy and to inspire the righteousness of civil rights crusades? In The Color of Christ, E… [more below]
- Author: Blum, Edward J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1469618842
- Language: English
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Creating the Black Utopia of Buxton, Iowa
$21.99 Add to cartSome have called Buxton a Black Utopia. In the town of five thousand residents, established in 1900, African Americans and Caucasians lived, worked and attended school together. It was a thriving, one… [more below]
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: Chase, Rachelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 28 2019
- ISBN10: 1467140465
- Language: English
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Black History in the Philadelphia Landscape: Deep Roots, Continuing Legacy
$18.95 Add to cartBlack Philadelphians have shaped Philadelphia history since colonial times. In Black History in the Philadelphia Landscape, Amy Cohen recounts notable aspects of the Black experience in Philadelphia f… [more below]
- Author: Cohen, Amy Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1439923655
- Language: English
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Salish and Kootenai Indian Chiefs Speak for Their People and Land, 1865-1909
$34.95 Add to cart2023 Best Historical Materials from the American Library Association
This collection includes talks or petitions by Salish and Kootenai chiefs found in the surviving historical record. The Salish and- Author: Bigart, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: June 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1934594342
- Language: English
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Lifting as They Climb: Black Women Buddhists and Collective Liberation
$24.95 Read moreThe lives and writings of six leading Black Buddhist women–Jan Willis, bell hooks, Zenju Earthlyn Manuel, angel Kyodo williams, Spring Washam, and Faith Adiele–reveal new expressions of Buddhism roo… [more below]
- Author: Pressley-Sanon, Toni
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1645470768
- Language: English
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Black Bourgeoisie
$19.99 Add to cartA classic analysis of the Black middle class studies its origin and development, accentuating its behavior, attitudes, and values during the 1940s and 1950s.
When it was first published in 1957, E. Fr- Author: Frazier, Franklin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 13 1997
- ISBN10: 0684832410
- Language: English
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Cool Pose: The Dilemma of Black Manhood in America
$14.95 Add to cartFrom Simon & Schuster, Cool Pose explores the dilemmas of black manhood in America.
Behind the mask of cool–a clear-eyed look at how African American inner-city youths defend themselves against the i- Author: Majors, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 22 2002
- ISBN10: 0671865722
- Language: English
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March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights
$24.99 Add to cartIt was the final speech of a long day, August 28, 1963, when hundreds of thousands gathered on the Mall for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. In a resounding cadence, Martin Luther King Jr… [more below]
- Author: Jones, William P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0393349411
- Language: English
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There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America (Helen Bernstein Book Award)
$19.00 Read moreNATIONAL BESTSELLER – A moving and powerful account by an acclaimed journalist that “informs the heart. [This] meticulous portrait of two boys in a Chicago housing project shows how much heroism is re… [more below]
- Author: Kotlowitz, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 05 1992
- ISBN10: 0385265565
- Language: English
