Ethnic Studies
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Our Laundry, Our Town: My Chinese American Life from Flushing to the Downtown Stage and Beyond
$20.95 Add to cartNEW IN PAPERBACK!
BOOKS ARE MAGIC 2023 HOLIDAY GIFT BOOK With humor and grace, the memoir of a first-generation Chinese American in New York City. Our Laundry, Our Town is a memoir that decodes and pr- Author: Eng, Alvin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1531504833
- Language: English
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Plants of Power: Native American Ceremony and the Use of Sacred Plants
$12.95 Read morePlants of Power is a guide to sacred plants traditionally used by Native Americans and other Indigenous people. It’s an excellent tool for those seeking to connect more fully with the mysterious world
- Author: Savinelli, Alfred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 15 2002
- ISBN10: 1570671303
- Language: English
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Lady Q: The Rise and Fall of a Latin Queen
$16.95 Add to cartOffering a rarely seen female perspective on gang life, this raw and powerful memoir tells not only of one woman’s struggle to survive the streets but also of her ascent to the top ranks of the new ma
- Author: Sanchez, Reymundo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1569762856
- Language: English
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Native New Yorkers: The Legacy of the Algonquin People of New York
$19.95 Add to cartTo be stewards of the earth, not owners: this was the way of the Lenape. Considering themselves sacred land keepers, they walked gently; they preserved the world they inhabited. Drawing on a wide rang… [more below]
- Author: Pritchard, Evan T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: March 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1571781358
- Language: English
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All of Baba’s Children
$14.95 Read moreThe story of one woman’s personal discovery of her Canadian-Ukrainian cultural origins and the impact of that invigorating discovery on her life. A must-read for those interested in the h
- Author: Kostash, Myrna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 446
- Publish Date: May 16 1992
- ISBN10: 0920897118
- Language: English
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Dance in a Buffalo Skull
$19.95 Read more- Series: Prairie Tales
- Author: Zitkala-Sa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: November 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0977795527
- Language: English
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Malcolm X: The Last Speeches
$12.00 Add to cart“Any kind of movement for freedom of Black people based solely within the confines of America is absolutely doomed to fail. “Speeches and interviews from the last two years of his life.
- Series: Malcolm X Speeches & Writings
- Author: Malcolm X
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 190
- Publish Date: January 01 1989
- ISBN10: 0873485432
- Language: English
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Afropean: Notes from Black Europe
$21.95 Add to cartAfropean is an on-the-ground documentary of areas where Europeans of African descent are juggling their multiple allegiances and forging new identities. Here is an alternative map of the continent, ta
- Author: Pitts, Johny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0141987286
- Language: English
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It Was Always a Choice: Picking Up the Baton of Athlete Activism
$23.00 Read moreThe recent flashpoint of Colin Kaepernick taking a knee renews a long tradition of athlete-activists speaking out against racism, injustice, and oppression. Like Kaepernick, Jackie Robinson, Paul Robe
- Author: Steele, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: July 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1439921733
- Language: English
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Nine Quarters of Jerusalem: A New Biography of the Old City
$27.99 Read moreThis unique, absorbing biography of Jerusalem brings to light its overlooked histories and diverse contemporary voices.
In Jerusalem, what you see and what is true are two different things. The Old Ci- Author: Teller, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 1635423341
- Language: English
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Águila: The Vision, Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Two-Spirit Shaman in the Ozark Mountains
$34.95 Read moreIn Águila: The Vision, Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Two-Spirit Shaman in the Ozark Mountains, María Cristina Moroles traces the path of her extraordinary life from the streets of Dallas to the wild… [more below]
- Author: Moroles, María Cristina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 22 2024
- ISBN10: 168226243X
- Language: English
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Pagans in the Promised Land: Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery
$19.95 Read morePagans in the Promised Land provides a unique, well-researched challenge to U.S. federal Indian law and policy. It attacks the presumption that American Indian nations are legitimately subject to the … [more below]
- Author: Newcomb, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: January 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1555916422
- Language: English
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Solo Nosotros
$21.95 Read moreThe Spanish edition of Claudia Rankine’s (Citizen) new, acclaimed, genre-bending reflection on whiteness in America.
“Rankine [i
“A skyscraper in the literature on racism.” —Christian Science Monitor- Author: Rankine, Claudia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1644211580
- Language: Spanish
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The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison: Revised and Updated
$22.00 Read moreCompiled, edited, and newly revised by Ralph Ellison’s literary executor, John F. Callahan, this Modern Library Paperback Classic includes posthumously discovered reviews, criticism, and interviews, a… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Ellison, Ralph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 912
- Publish Date: September 09 2003
- ISBN10: 0812968263
- Language: English
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Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America
$20.00 Read moreThe mother of Emmett Till recounts the story of her life, her son’s tragic death, and the dawn of the civil rights movement–with a foreword by the Reverend Jesse L. Jackson, Sr.
In August 1955, a fo- Author: Till-Mobley, Mamie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 28 2004
- ISBN10: 0812970470
- Language: English
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Desegregating Comics: Debating Blackness in the Golden Age of American Comics
$37.95 Read moreSome comics fans view the industry’s Golden Age (1930s-1950s) as a challenging time when it comes to representations of race, an era when the few Black characters appeared as brutal savages, devious w… [more below]
- Author: Whitted, Qiana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1978825013
- Language: English
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Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, and Being, Second Edition
$26.00 Add to cartThe achievement of our humanity comes about only through immersion in concrete, visceral, embodied relational experience, yet for many human beings, that achievement is stamped by the struggle against
- Author: Copeland, M. Shawn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 203
- Publish Date: November 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1506463258
- Language: English
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The Modern Art of Brujer?: A Beginner’s Guide to Spellcraft, Medicine Making, and Other Traditions of the Global South
$17.95 Read moreDelve into the world of witchcraft, communicate with your ancestors, and perform spiritual cleansings while celebrating culture and tradition.
This is not your abuela’s brujer?. This modern take on t- Author: Florez, Lou
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 31 2022
- ISBN10: 1646043197
- Language: English
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Kuni: A Japanese Vision and Practice for Urban-Rural Reconnection
$16.95 Read more“Reading Kuni makes me want to dive into rural Japan…this book reminds me that leaders emerge when and where you least expect it.”
— ALICE WATERS, founder of Chez Panisse restaurant, activist, and … [more below]- Author: Sekihara, Tsuyoshi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1623177316
- Language: English
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A Refugee’s American Dream: From the Killing Fields of Cambodia to the U.S. Secret Service
$30.00 Read more“I saw many killed. I almost starved. But I escaped to refugee camps in Thailand and eventually made it to the U.S.” Thus begins Leth Oun’s poignant and vivid memoir. A survivor of the Cambodian Killi
- Author: Oun, Leth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: February 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1439923361
- Language: English
