Cultural/ Ethnic & Regional
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Lucky Me: A Memoir of Changing the Odds
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A memoir of will, success, and the luck we make–from the founder and CEO of Klutch Sports Group and one of the most influential figures in the multibillion-dollar sports i… [more below]
- Author: Paul, Rich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0593448499
- Language: English
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Compton in My Soul: A Life in Pursuit of Racial Equality
$28.00 Add to cartLessons and inspiration from a lifetime of teaching about race and ethnic relations
When Al Camarillo grew up in Compton, California, racial segregation was the rule. His relatives were among the firs
- Series: Stanford Studies in Comparative Race and Ethnicity
- Author: Camarillo, Albert M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: July 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1503638197
- Language: English
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Two Hundred Miles From Baghdad: Cultures, Conflicts, and the Lost Art of Hitchhiking
$18.00 Add to cartBy planes, trains, and automobiles, journalist Lou Salome has hitched his way through some of the most interesting – and volatile – places on Earth.
In September 1958, Lou Salome hurried past Barney Mc
- Author: Salome, Louis J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 195866930X
- Language: English
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Black Buffalo Woman: An Introduction to the Poetry & Poetics of Lucille Clifton
$23.00 Add to cartThis long-awaited and much-needed volume shines new light on one of America’s most beloved, and profound, poets–Lucille Clifton.
Black Buffalo Woman is a deep, comprehensive dive into Clifton’s work t
- Author: Ali, Kazim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1960145355
- Language: English
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Kazuko: Sixth Grade in World War II Hiroshima
$17.99 Add to cartKazuko is the memoir of a Hiroshima atomic bomb survivor. It is the story of a young Japanese girl’s experience living through the world’s first atomic bomb and its aftermath.
Kazuko Blake, now in her
- Author: Blake, Kazuko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79899E+12
- Language: English
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Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant: A Memoir
$19.99 Add to cartThis “vivid, moving, funny, and heartfelt” memoir tells the story of Curtis Chin’s time growing up as a gay Chinese American kid in 1980’s Detroit (Lisa Ko, author of The Leavers).
Nineteen eighties D… [more below]
- Author: Chin, Curtis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 031650775X
- Language: English
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?Viva Latina!: Wisdom from Remarkable Women to Inspire and Empower
$19.99 Read moreDraw power and pride from the words of inspiring Latina women held in this keepsake volume written by and for Latinas.
!Viva Latina! captures generations of wisdom and Latina stories to inspire you th- Author: Velasquez, Sandra
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 157715438X
- Language: English
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A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging
$19.00 Add to cartNow in its first American edition, Dionne Brand’s groundbreaking A Map to the Door of No Return has emerged as a modern classic, a highly influential exploration of “being” in the Black Diaspora.
Since- Author: Brand, Dionne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1250348846
- Language: English
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The King of Orchard Street
$25.95 Add to cartThe King of Orchard Street is a tale told by six men, including the author, over three generations and across the decades of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. Their stories recreate a world that was bound
- Author: Palmieri, Vincent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 326
- Publish Date: June 27 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79889E+12
- Language: English
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The Road to Now
$13.95 Add to cartLife is a journey, and during that journey, we often veer onto different paths or what some would call roads, whether it be willingly or forced. Sometimes, we unconsciously follow others. However, all
- Author: Powell, Kesha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: March 14 2024
- ISBN10: 9798891308442
- Language: English
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Bird of Four Hundred Voices: A Mexican American Memoir of Music and Belonging
$28.00 Add to cartFrom the founder of Los Cenzontles Cultural Arts Academy, a profoundly personal exploration of music’s power to build cultural bridges that last.
“I wish I had studied with Eugene Rodrigeuz when I was
- Author: Rodriguez, Eugene
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1597146447
- Language: English
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Stories from the Stoop: A Memoir of the 1960s Bronx
$24.99 Read moreThe Outsiders meets This Boy’s Life, in this coming-of-age memoir about growing up in the Bronx during the 1960s among racial tension, street violence, and trouble at home.
Growing up in the 1960s in- Author: Bernstein, Steve
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1510759964
- Language: English
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Little Lady with a Big Drum
$23.95 Add to cartThis, the official autobiography of Elayne Jones, is the story of one woman’s remarkable life and career in her own words; a journey from meager beginnings as a self-described “skinny little girl from
- Author: Jones, Elayne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 310
- Publish Date: March 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1631320661
- Language: English
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Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age
$16.00 Read moreAs a small boy in remote Alberta, Darrel J. McLeod is immersed in his Cree family’s history, passed down in the stories of his mother, Bertha. There he is surrounded by her tales of joy and horror–of
- Author: McLeod, Darrel J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 11 2019
- ISBN10: 1571313877
- Language: English
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Raise Up Off Me: A Portrait of Hampton Hawes
$19.99 Add to cartHampton Hawes [1928-1977] was one of jazz’s greatest pianists. Among his peers from California the self-taught Hawes was second only to Oscar Peterson. At the time of his celebration as New Star of th… [more below]
- Author: Hawes, Hampton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: November 06 2001
- ISBN10: 1560253533
- Language: English
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Lost Bird of Wounded Knee: Spirit of the Lakota
$23.99 Add to cartThis “powerful and chilling” (Publishers Weekly) account of a young girl taken from her native land in South Dakota after the 1890 massacre of Lakota men, women, and children describes the story of Lo… [more below]
- Author: Flood, Renee Sansom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: May 24 2014
- ISBN10: 1476790752
- Language: English
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Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina
$18.99 Add to cartIn 2009, Raquel Cepeda embarked on an exploration of her genealogy using ancestral DNA testing to uncover the truth about her family and the tapestry of races and ethnicities that came together in an … [more below]
- Author: Cepeda, Raquel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 04 2014
- ISBN10: 1451635877
- Language: English
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Not White Enough: How Victorian Racism Contributed to the Destruction of a Photographic Genius
$34.99 Add to cartShe’s sixteen, shunned, isolated and possibly pregnant. This is Marie who thought she had the world by the tail a few months ago. She had married a handsome, professional European man who adored her. … [more below]
- Author: Morris, Muriel J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1039159508
- Language: English
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What Kind of Bird Can’t Fly: A Memoir of Resilience and Resurrection
$24.00 Add to cartA decade behind bars spurs fifty powerful years of political and legal battles for freedom and human rights.
“Whoever wants to assuage their doubts that radical change is possible–from the level of th
- Author: Nunn, Dorsey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1597146323
- Language: English
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Speaking Our Truths: The -Ism Youth Files
$15.95 Add to cart“It’s amazing to believe that what was going to be the best year ever tuned into the beginning of what was thought to be the end.”
Speaking Our Truths: The -Ism Youth Files is an anthology by youth ag
- Author: Mediarites
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 154
- Publish Date: March 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1633040380
- Language: English
