Minority Studies
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American Nightmare: The History of Jim Crow
$22.99 Add to cartFor a hundred years after the end of the Civil War, a quarter of all Americans lived under a system of legalized segregation called Jim Crow. Together with its rigidly enforced canon of racial etiquet
- Author: Packard, Jerrold M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 01 2003
- ISBN10: 031230241X
- Language: English
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A Runaway Teenager: Who Found Freedom
$16.99 Add to cartWhat is freedom worth to you?
At 14 years old, Quyen (Quin) Ha risked everything for a chance for a better life. Living under the communist regime in Viet Nam, Quyen saw his freedoms being taken away.
- Author: Ha, Quyen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 29 2021
- ISBN10: 1736849107
- Language: English
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The Conquest of a Continent; or, The Expansion of Races in America
$11.90 Add to cartThe Conquest of a Continent; or, The Expansion of Races in America is a eugenicist work by an American lawyer and biologist Madison Grant. The book deals with the settlement of American continent thro… [more below]
- Author: Grant, Madison
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 154
- Publish Date: December 30 2020
- ISBN10: 8027308372
- Language: English
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The Color of Food: Stories of Race, Resilience and Farming
$34.99 Read more“Anyone who eats should read this book: You will come to the table with new appreciation for the intersections between race and food . . . powerful.”–Anna Lapp?, author of Diet for a Hot Planet
The
- Author: Bowens, Natasha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0865717893
- Language: English
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A Dream Deferred: The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America
$19.99 Add to cart“Steele has given eloquent voice to painful truths that are almost always left unspoken in the nation’s circumscribed public discourse on race.” —New York Times
From the author of the award-winning be
- Author: Steele, Shelby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 06 1999
- ISBN10: 0060931043
- Language: English
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The Nature of Prejudice (25th Anniversary Edition)
$25.00 Add to cartThe classic psychological study of the roots of discrimination.
First published in 1954, The Nature of Prejudice remains the standard work on discrimination. With profound insight into the complexities… [more below]- Author: Allport, Gordon W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: January 22 1979
- ISBN10: 0201001799
- Language: English
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We Too Sing America: South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future
$25.43 Add to cart“Powerful…Iyer catalogues the toll that various forms of discrimination have taken and highlights the inspiring ways activists are fighting back. [She] is an ideal chronicler of this experience.”
–Th… [more below]- Author: Iyer, Deepa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 07 2017
- ISBN10: 1620972735
- Language: English
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Still Life with Rice: A Young American Woman Discovers the Life and Legacy of Her Korean Grandmother
$19.99 Add to cart“A captivating memoir of a courageous survivor” (Publishers Weekly) and “a window onto the panorama of modern Korean history” (St. Petersburg Times) this is a radiant and engaging story about a young … [more below]
- Author: Lee, Helie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 08 1997
- ISBN10: 0684827115
- Language: English
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Federico Villalba’s Texas: The Story of a Mexican Pioneer’s Life in the Big Bend
$24.00 Add to cartIn the 1880s Federico Villalba left old San Ger nimo (Aldama, Chihuahua) and began ranching near the village of San Carlos, about fifteen miles south of the Lajitas ford of the Rio Grande. Villalba pr
- Author: Casas, Juan Manuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 13 2019
- ISBN10: 0974504866
- Language: English
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Postcolonial Melancholia
$24.95 Add to cartIn an effort to deny the ongoing effect of colonialism and imperialism on contemporary political life, the death knell for a multicultural society has been sounded from all sides. That’s the provocati
- Series: Wellek Library Lectures
- Author: Gilroy, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 10 2006
- ISBN10: 023113455X
- Language: English
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The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class
$29.95 Add to cartCombining classical Marxism, psychoanalysis, and the new labor history pioneered by E. P. Thompson and Herbert Gutman, David Roediger’s widely acclaimed book provides an original study of the formativ… [more below]
- Author: Roediger, David R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1839768304
- Language: English
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American Tapestry: The Story of the Black, White, and Multiracial Ancestors of Michelle Obama
$16.99 Add to cartA remarkable history of First Lady Michelle Obama’s mixed ancestry, American Tapestry by Rachel L. Swarns is nothing less than a breathtaking and expansive portrait of America itself.
In this extraordi
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Swarns, Rachel L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 09 2013
- ISBN10: 0061999873
- Language: English
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“Our Crowd”: The Great Jewish Families of New York
$24.95 Add to cart“Our Crowd” is Stephen Birmingham’s #1 New York Times-bestselling history of the rise of the most powerful and privileged Jewish families in America.
- Author: Birmingham, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1493057758
- Language: English
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Postville: A Clash of Cultures in Heartland America
$15.95 Add to cartA conflict between two deeply rooted traditions raises the specter of anti-Semitism and provokes a struggle over a community’s future of how to accommodate diverse but equally powerful traditions, and… [more below]
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Bloom, Stephen G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 10 2001
- ISBN10: 0156013363
- Language: English
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100 Amazing Facts about the Negro
$40.00 Read moreThe first edition of Joel Augustus Rogers’s now legendary 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof, published in 1934, was billed as “A Negro ‘Believe It or Not.'” Rogers’s little book wa… [more below]
- Author: Gates, Henry Louis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: October 24 2017
- ISBN10: 0307908712
- Language: English
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How to Be Less Stupid about Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide
$14.95 Read moreA unique and irreverent take on everything that’s wrong with our “national conversation about race”–and what to do about it
How to Be Less Stupid About Race is your essential guide to breaking throug- Author: Fleming, Crystal M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 20 2019
- ISBN10: 0807039845
- Language: English
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Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household
$32.00 Add to cartThis book views the plantation household as a site of production where competing visions of gender were wielded as weapons in class struggles between black and white women. Mistresses were powerful be… [more below]
- Author: Glymph, Thavolia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: June 30 2008
- ISBN10: 0521703980
- Language: English
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Chicano Folklore: A Guide to the Folktales, Traditions, Rituals and Religious Practices of Mexican Americans
$29.99 Add to cartDid you know that barrio is a term for a Chicano neighborhood, and that some of the oldest barrios can be found in major U.S. cities, like Los Angeles, Chicago, El Paso, and San Antonio? Or that menud… [more below]
- Author: Castro, Rafaela G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 29 2001
- ISBN10: 0195146395
- Language: English
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Black Love Is a Revolutionary ACT
$19.95 Add to cartThis politically-incorrect book reveals the most critical problems facing black male and female relationships, and provides a blueprint for healing our relationships, families, marriages, and ourselve… [more below]
- Author: Umoja
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 430
- Publish Date: June 08 2011
- ISBN10: 0982206119
- Language: English
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Bicycle/Race: Transportation, Culture, & Resistance
$14.95 Add to cartThe intersection of advocacy, city planning, and racism
Bicycle / Race paints an unforgettable picture of Los Angeles–and the United States–from the perspective of two wheels. This is a book of bord- Series: Bicycle Revolution
- Author: Lugo Phd Adonia E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 09 2018
- ISBN10: 1621067645
- Language: English
