Cultural/ Ethnic & Regional
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The Improbable Rise of Redneck Rock
$29.95 Add to cartFirst published in 1974, The Improbable Rise of Redneck Rock grew out of a magazine article coauthored by Jan Reid. His first book was a sensation in Texas. It portrayed an Austin-based live music exp… [more below]
- Author: Reid, Jan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 05 2021
- ISBN10: 0875657761
- Language: English
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Bad as I Wanna Be
$8.99 Add to cartA wild ride inside the glowing head of Dennis Rodman–the NBA’s greatest rebounder and America’s most outspoken and outrageous athlete.
When Sports Illustrated put the man they call “America’s most pr- Author: Rodman, Dennis
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 12 1997
- ISBN10: 0440222664
- Language: English
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Rubber Bands on My Socks: The Reflections of a Sharecropper’s Daughter – Family, Poverty, Potential and Progress
$19.95 Add to cartNothing explains this book more than the subtitle, “The Reflections of a Sharecropper’s Daughter – Family, Poverty, Potential, and Progress,” that refers to the journey of the daughter of a sharecropp… [more below]
- Author: Wimbish Ed D., Annie P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 29 2020
- ISBN10: 1977209548
- Language: English
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Neurotic Beauty: An Outsider Looks at Japan
$27.50 Add to cartNeurotic Beauty is a remarkable reevaluation of Japan’s role in the modern world.
It includes a new assessment of the events leading up to the dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima, and of the potential r
- Author: Berman, Morris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: June 18 2019
- ISBN10: 1621342107
- Language: English
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The Butler: A Witness to History
$18.99 Add to cartThis mesmerizing companion book to the award-winning film, The Butler traces the Civil Rights Movement and explores crucial moments of twentieth century American history through the eyes of Eugene All… [more below]
- Author: Haygood, Wil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 30 2018
- ISBN10: 1501195603
- Language: English
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The Veil Between Two Worlds: A Memoir of Silence, Loss, and Finding Home
$17.95 Read moreJanuary 2021, mid-pandemic, Christina Vo-single, childless, and in her early forties–sets off on a road trip with a close friend in search of a new place to call home. What ensues is an illuminating … [more below]
- Author: Vo, Christina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 164742397X
- Language: English
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This Arab Life: A Generation’s Journey into Silence
$22.65 Add to cartThis Arab Life is an intimate and honest exploration of a rising Arab generation’s descent into silence. Personal and panoramic, granular and sweeping, the book offers a raw account of the unremitting
- Author: Ghandour, Amal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1954805268
- Language: English
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My Ireland
$23.95 Add to cartMy Ireland presents a factual and descriptive account of Ireland in the 1950s from the perspective of the author looking back on her early life in the country of her birth. Margaret’s captivating and
- Author: Connor, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1739872533
- Language: English
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Die Standing: From Black Panther Revolutionary to Global Diversity Consultant
$37.99 Add to cartHis image-holding a rifle on the steps of the Washington state capitol building, flanked by Black men gripping guns as law enforcement officers and others stand by-is one of the most iconic photograph… [more below]
- Author: Dixon, Elmer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 470
- Publish Date: June 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1956879390
- Language: English
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Lost & Found: Finding The Power In Your Voice
$29.95 Add to cartGrowing up in the 1980s, in the heart of New York City’s downtown music and art scene became fertile ground for seeds of creativity, doubt, and eventual empowerment for Pyeng Threadgill-as expressed t
- Author: Threadgill, Pyeng
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: September 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1956989315
- Language: English
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Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America
$18.99 Add to cartJulia Lee is angry. And she has questions.
What does it mean to be Asian in America? What does it look like to be an ally or an accomplice? How can we shatter the structures of white supremacy that fue- Author: Lee, Julia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1250861578
- Language: English
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Chosen To Believe
$24.95 Add to cartA true testimony of how God miraculously showed up in her life, breaking every demonic stronghold. A story of how she was set free in a dire moment when it looked like no one would come and save her.
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- Author: Rodriguez, Yvette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: December 04 2023
- ISBN10: 9798887519050
- Language: English
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Grown-Up Child: A Memoir
$14.95 Add to cartCHIUFANG HWANG came to the United States from Taiwan when she was a toddler so her father could pursue a PhD. But his academic American dream stalled, forcing the family into a transient lifestyle as
- Author: Hwang, Chiufang
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: May 15 2017
- ISBN10: 0998673013
- Language: English
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Retablos: Stories from a Life Lived Along the Border
$15.95 Read moreRecommended by the New York Times and NBC News, and called one of the Best Books of the Year by Buzzfeed!
The New York Times directs readers to Retablos if you want to know “what’s life really like on
- Author: Solis, Octavio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: October 23 2018
- ISBN10: 0872867862
- Language: English
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Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn
$23.99 Add to cartA finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
Billy Strayhorn (1915-67) was one of the greatest composers in the history of American music, the creator of a body of work that includes such sta- Author: Hajdu, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 26 1997
- ISBN10: 0865475121
- Language: English
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To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells
$18.00 Add to cartBorn to slaves in 1862, Ida B. Wells became a fearless antilynching crusader, women’s rights advocate, and journalist. Wells’s refusal to accept any compromise on racial inequality caused her to be la
- Author: Bay, Mia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 02 2010
- ISBN10: 080901646X
- Language: English
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A More Noble Cause: A. P. Tureaud and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Louisiana: A Personal Biography
$44.95 Add to cartThroughout the decades-long legal battle to end segregation, discrimination, and disfranchisement, attorney Alexander Pierre Tureaud was one of the most influential figures in Louisiana’s courts. A Mo
- Author: Emanuel, Rachel L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: April 25 2011
- ISBN10: 0807137936
- Language: English
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Red Cloud: Warrior-Statesman of the Lakota Sioux
$21.95 Add to cartPerhaps no Indian leader of the mid-nineteenth century was as well known in his time as the great Lakota Sioux Red Cloud. Although his fame later was eclipsed by that of the legendary heroes who crush… [more below]
- Series: Oklahoma Western Biographies #13
- Author: Larson, Robert W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 354
- Publish Date: April 15 1997
- ISBN10: 0806131896
- Language: English
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My People the Sioux, New Edition
$18.95 Add to cartWhen it was first published in 1928, Luther Standing Bear’s autobiographical account of his tribe and tribesmen was hailed by Van Wyck Brooks as “one of the most engaging and veracious we have ever ha… [more below]
- Author: Standing Bear, Luther
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 322
- Publish Date: November 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0803293321
- Language: English
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To the Stars: Autobiography of George Takei
$27.95 Add to cartBest known as Mr. Sulu, helmsman of the Starship Enterprise(TM) and captain of the Starship Excelsior, George Takei is beloved by millions as part of the command team that has taken audiences to new v… [more below]
- Series: Star Trek
- Author: Takei, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: December 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0671890093
- Language: English
