Ethnic Studies
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A Bag Worth a Pony: The Art of the Ojibwe Bandolier Bag
$39.95 Read moreBandolier bags, or gashkibidaaganag–the large, heavily beaded shoulder bags made and worn by several North American Indian tribes around the Great Lakes–are prized cultural icons here and around the… [more below]
- Author: Anderson, Marcia G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 15 2017
- ISBN10: 1681340291
- Language: English
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The Name Negro Its Origin and Evil Use
$10.95 Read moreThis study focuses on the exploitive nature of the word ”Negro.” Tracing its origins to the African slave trade, he shows how the label “Negro” was used to separate African descendents and to confirm… [more below]
- Author: Moore, Richard B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: April 07 1992
- ISBN10: 0933121350
- Language: English
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African People in World History
$11.95 Add to cartThis book surveys the impact that African people have made on world history. Dr. Clarke guides the reader along a narrative journey that spans from antiquity through present times.
- Author: Clarke, John Henrik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 06 1993
- ISBN10: 0933121776
- Language: English
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Lift Every Voice: A Celebration of Black Lives
$40.00 Read more“When we lift every voice, we forge a deep and enduring connection to the past–and carve a tunnel of hope to a brighter future for us all.” -Oprah Winfrey
“This book, above all else, is a reminder of… [more below]- Author: Winfrey, Oprah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1950785815
- Language: English
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Cherie Quarters: The Place and the People That Inspired Ernest J. Gaines
$39.95 Add to cartCherie Quarters combines personal interviews, biography, and social history to tell the story of a plantation quarter and its most famous resident, renowned Louisiana writer and Pulitzer Prize nominee
- Author: Laney, Ruth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 19 2022
- ISBN10: 0807178020
- Language: English
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Voices in Our Blood: America’s Best on the Civil Rights Movement
$22.00 Add to cartAn unprecedented portrait of the civil rights movement and the fight against white supremacy, told through voices that resonate with passion and strength–including Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, Ralph … [more below]
- Author: Meacham, Jon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: January 07 2003
- ISBN10: 037575881X
- Language: English
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The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks
$27.00 Add to cartBoth an unflinching indictment of past wrongs and an impassioned call to America to educate its citizens about the history of Africa and its people, The Debt says in no uncertain terms what white Amer… [more below]
- Author: Robinson, Randall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0452282101
- Language: English
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Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age
$21.00 Read moreAn electrifying story of the sensational murder trial that divided a city and ignited the civil rights struggle
In 1925, Detroit was a smoky swirl of jazz and speakeasies, assembly lines and fistfight- Author: Boyle, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0805079335
- Language: English
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Everything You Know about Indians Is Wrong
$21.95 Read moreIn this sweeping work of memoir and commentary, leading cultural critic Paul Chaat Smith illustrates with dry wit and brutal honesty the contradictions of life in “the Indian business.”
Raised in subu- Series: Indigenous Americas
- Author: Smith, Paul Chaat
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0816656010
- Language: English
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A Cherokee Encyclopedia
$27.95 Add to cartA Cherokee Encyclopedia is a quick reference guide for many of the people, places, and things connected to the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokees, as well as for the other officially recognized Cherok
- Author: Conley, Robert J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: December 16 2007
- ISBN10: 0826339514
- Language: English
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Brown Girl Like Me: The Essential Guidebook and Manifesto for South Asian Girls and Women
$18.99 Read moreYou might feel that this fight is too big for you. How on earth can you dismantle so many complex, long-standing systems of oppression? My answer: piece by piece.
Brown Girl Like Me is an inspiring me- Author: Kaur, Jaspreet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1529056357
- Language: English
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Here, Now and Always: Voices of the First Peoples of the Southwest
$34.95 Read more“In these pages are the words of Native peoples of the Southwest remembering the thoughts and perceptions of our ancestors in which the beauty of life and place is acknowledged. They talk about the em… [more below]
- Author: McBrinn, Maxine E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0890136742
- Language: English
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The Refugee: Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada
$29.99 Add to cartIn the early 1850s, white American abolitionist Benjamin Drew was commissioned to travel to Canada West (now Ontario) to interview escaped slaves from the United States. At the time the population of
- Series: Voyageur Classics #11
- Author: Drew, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 30 2008
- ISBN10: 1550028014
- Language: English
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Meditations with the Cherokee: Prayers, Songs, and Stories of Healing and Harmony
$12.95 Read more– A collection of earth-centered meditations to enhance our connection to the natural world.
– Reveals the Old Wisdom of the Cherokee elders for living in harmony with all beings. – Written by J. T. G- Author: Garrett, J. T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 01 2001
- ISBN10: 1879181592
- Language: English
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Brothers on Three: A True Story of Family, Resistance, and Hope on a Reservation in Montana
$28.99 Read more**Winner of the 2021 Montana Book Award**
**Winner of the 2021 New Mexico-Arizona General Nonfiction Book Award**
**Finalist for the Spur Award for Best Contemporary Nonfiction**
**A New York Times Edito- Author: Streep, Abe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1250210682
- Language: English
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My Road from Damascus: A Memoir
$22.95 Read more“A lyrical, extremely rich narrative of loss, memory, and trauma.” — STARRED review, Kirkus Reviews
An extraordinary account of survival in Syria’s most notorious military prisons that is written w
- Author: Saeed, Jamal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1770416218
- Language: English
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When I Was a Slave: Memoirs from the Slave Narrative Collection
$8.00 Read moreIn an effort to provide unemployed writers with work during the Great Depression of the 1930s, the United States Government, through the Works Progress Administration (WPA), funded the Federal Writers
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Yetman, Norman R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0486420701
- Language: English
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Historic Black Neighborhoods of Raleigh
$23.99 Read moreThe story of Raleigh’s African American communities begins before the Civil War. Towns like Oberlin Village were built by free people of color in the antebellum era. During Reconstruction, the creatio… [more below]
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: Cauthen, Carmen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1467150886
- Language: English
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Anything But Mexican: Chicanos in Contemporary Los Angeles
$34.95 Read moreMexicans and other Latinos comprise fifty percent of the population of Los Angeles and are the largest ethnic group in California. In this completely revised and updated edition of a classic political… [more below]
- Author: Acuna, Rodolfo F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 14 2020
- ISBN10: 1786633795
- Language: English
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Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country
$16.95 Add to cartFinalist for the 2020 National Book Critics’ Circle Award for Criticism
By one of Mexico’s greatest contemporary writers, this investigation into state violence and mourning gives voice to the politic
- Author: Rivera Garza, Cristina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 1936932938
- Language: English
