Cultural/ Ethnic & Regional
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A Black Man’s Point of View: Mind, Body, and Soul from the Voices of Black Men
$21.95 Add to cartJames Cooley unpacks his thoughts on the challenges that many Black men face due to their ancestors being taken away from their homeland over 400 years ago and forced into slavery and colonization.
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- Author: Cooley, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 132
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 9798888240243
- Language: English
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Boker Tov, Visions and Dreams of a Pilgrim
$45.95 Add to cartOur civilization has found itself at its possibly final crossroads. The dusty and blurred signposts beckon for our attention and decisions. A clear perspective and vision for our desired destination w… [more below]
- Author: Jones, Dennis C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: October 12 2023
- ISBN10: 9798889820949
- Language: English
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Frederick Douglass: Autobiographies (Loa #68): Narrative of the Life / My Bondage and My Freedom / Life and Times
$42.50 Read moreHenry Louis Gates, Jr. presents the only authoritative edition of all three autobiographies by the escaped slave who became a great American leader.
Here in this Library of America volume are collecte- Series: Library of America #68
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1126
- Publish Date: February 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0940450798
- Language: English
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The Assassination of Hole in the Day
$22.95 Add to cartExplores the murder of the controversial Ojibwe chief who led his people through the first difficult years of dispossession by white invaders-and created a new kind of leadership for the Ojibwe.
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- Author: Treuer, Anton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0873518438
- Language: English
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Josephine Baker: The Hungry Heart
$22.95 Add to cartThis revelatory biography of Folies Bergere dancer Josephine Baker (1906-1975) is a study of struggle, truimph and tragedy.
- Author: Baker, Jean-Claude
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: July 30 2001
- ISBN10: 0815411723
- Language: English
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Does the Land Remember Me?: A Memoir of Palestine
$17.95 Add to cartSummoned by his dying mother, Palestinian-born Aziz Shihab returns to the homeland he and his family fled as refugees decades earlier: to a Palestine reclaimed by Israelis and to a country no longer t… [more below]
- Series: Arab American Writing
- Author: Shihab, Aziz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 30 2011
- ISBN10: 081560968X
- Language: English
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Thea Bowman: In My Own Words
$9.99 Add to cartSister Thea Bowman spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ as only an African American born in 1937 in Yazoo City, Mississippi, could. Throughout her adult life, she embraced Catholicism and religious life
- Author: Nutt, Maurice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0764826239
- Language: English
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Stokely: A Life
$21.99 Read moreFrom the author of The Sword and the Shield, this definitive biography of the Black Power activist Stokely Carmichael offers “an unflinching look at an unflinching man” (Daily Beast).
Stokely Carmich- Author: Joseph, Peniel E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 09 2016
- ISBN10: 0465065589
- Language: English
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Hurricane: The Miraculous Journey of Rubin Carter
$16.95 Add to cartIn 1967, the black boxer Rubin “Hurricane” Carter and a young acquaintance, John Artis, were wrongly convicted of triple murder by an all-white jury in Paterson, New Jersey. Over the next decade, Cart… [more below]
- Author: Hirsch, James S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 20 2000
- ISBN10: 0618087281
- Language: English
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Listening to Stone: The Art and Life of Isamu Noguchi
$28.00 Add to cartA master of what he called “the sculpturing of space,” Isamu Noguchi was a vital figure for modern public art. Born to an American mother and a Japanese father, Noguchi never felt like he belonged any
- Author: Herrera, Hayden
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: April 05 2016
- ISBN10: 0374535981
- Language: English
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My American Journey
$35.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – “A great American success story . . . an endearing and well-written book.”–The New York Times Book Review
Colin Powell is the embodiment of the American dream. He was bo… [more below]- Author: Powell, Colin L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: March 04 2003
- ISBN10: 0345466411
- Language: English
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Fourth Uncle in the Mountain: The Remarkable Legacy of a Buddhist Itinerant Doctor in Vietnam
$26.00 Add to cartFourth Uncle in the Mountain is an odyssey of a single-father folk hero and his foundling son in a land ravaged by the atrocities of war. It is a classic story complete with humor, tragedy, and insigh
- Author: Nguyen, Quang Van
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 03 2006
- ISBN10: 0312314310
- Language: English
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Black Market: An Insider’s Journey Into the High-Stakes World of College Basketball
$21.99 Read moreFrom a former college basketball player and Executive at Nike, a “riveting” (Sports Illustrated) insider’s account into the business of college basketball exposes the corrupt and racist systems that e… [more below]
- Author: Code, Merl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1335449450
- Language: English
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We Take Our Cities with Us: A Memoir
$19.95 Add to cartEven when we leave them, our cities never leave us. After her Dutch mother’s death, Sorayya Khan confronts her grief by revisiting their relationship, her parents’ lives, and her own Pakistani-Dutch h… [more below]
- Series: Machete
- Author: Khan, Sorayya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 07 2022
- ISBN10: 0814258484
- Language: English
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Laughing with the Trickster: On Sex, Death, and Accordions
$17.99 Read moreBrilliant, jubilant insights into the glory and anguish of life from one of the world’s most treasured Indigenous creators.
Trickster is zany, ridiculous. The ultimate, over-the-top, madcap fool. Her
- Series: CBC Massey Lectures
- Author: Highway, Tomson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 1487011237
- Language: English
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Don’t Let It Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Body
$17.99 Add to cartA “brutal, beautifully rendered” (The New York Times Book Review) collection of essays that offers poignant reflections on living between society’s most charged, politicized, and intractable polar spa… [more below]
- Author: Nolan, Savala
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1982137282
- 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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A Body Across Two Hemispheres: A Memoir in Essays
$18.95 Add to cart“A Body Across Two Hemispheres is a timely book, one many of us need and will be grateful to have read.” –Shara McCallum
“A Body Across Two Hemispheres is the kind of memoir that makes us more human;
- Author: Buitron, Victoria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1949116999
- Language: English
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I Came as a Shadow: An Autobiography
$19.99 Read moreA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
The long-awaited autobiography from Georgetown University’s legendary coach, whose life on and off the basketball court throws America’s unresolved struggle with racial j- Author: Thompson, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 08, 2022
- ISBN10: 125061936X
- Language: English
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Miseducated: A Memoir
$29.00 Add to cartAn inspiring memoir of one man’s transformation from a delinquent, drug-dealing dropout to an award-winning Harvard educator through literature and debate–all by the age of twenty-seven.
Brandon P. F- Author: Fleming, Brandon P.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 15 2021
- ISBN10: 0306925133
- Language: English
