Ethnic Studies
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Have Black Lives Ever Mattered?
$15.95 Add to cart“A must-read for anyone interested in social justice and inequalities, social movements, the criminal justice system, and African American history. An excellent companion to Michelle Alexander’s The N
- Series: City Lights Open Media
- Author: Abu-Jamal, Mumia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 04 2017
- ISBN10: 872867382
- Language: English
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The Rotinonshonni: A Traditional Iroquoian History Through the Eyes of Teharonhia: Wako and Sawiskera
$24.95 Add to cartIn this book, Rice offers a comprehensive history based on the oral traditions of the Rotinonshonni “Longhouse People,” also known as the Iroquois. As a participant in a nearly 700-mile walk following
- Series: Iroquois and Their Neighbors
- Author: Rice, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: March 29 2016
- ISBN10: 081561067X
- Language: English
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Those Who Labor for My Happiness: Slavery at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello
$27.95 Add to cartOur perception of life at Monticello has changed dramatically over the past quarter century. The image of an estate presided over by a benevolent Thomas Jefferson has given way to a more complex view
- Series: Jeffersonian America
- Author: Stanton, Lucia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 02 2012
- ISBN10: 0813932238
- Language: English
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Lakota Society
$24.95 Add to cartAs agency physician on the Pine Ridge Reservation from 1896 to 1914, Dr. James R. Walker recorded a wealth of information on the traditional lifeways of the Oglala Sioux. Lakota Society presents the p… [more below]
- Author: Walker, James R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 243
- Publish Date: February 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0803297378
- Language: English
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Manifest Manners: Narratives on Postindian Survivance
$15.95 Add to cartGerald Vizenor counters the cultural notions of dominance, false representations, and simulations of absence, and, by documents, experience, and theories, secures a narrative presence of Native Americ… [more below]
- Author: Vizenor, Gerald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 191
- Publish Date: December 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0803296215
- Language: English
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Tsimshian Culture: A Light Through the Ages
$28.50 Add to cartThe Tsimshians are a Northwest Coast Native people known for their dazzling works of art and rich array of social, religious, and oral traditions that have captured the attention of scholars for over … [more below]
- Author: Miller, Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: October 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0803282664
- Language: English
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Native Americans and the Environment: Perspectives on the Ecological Indian
$30.00 Add to cartNative Americans and the Environment brings together an interdisciplinary group of prominent scholars whose works continue and complicate the conversations that Shepard Krech started in The Ecological… [more below]
- Author: Harkin, Michael E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 370
- Publish Date: March 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0803273614
- Language: English
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Grave Injustice: The American Indian Repatriation Movement and NAGPRA
$19.95 Add to cartGrave Injustice is the powerful story of the ongoing struggle of Native Americans to repatriate the objects and remains of their ancestors that were appropriated, collected, manipulated, sold, and dis… [more below]
- Series: Fourth World Rising
- Author: Fine-Dare, Kathleen S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: October 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0803269080
- Language: English
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The Negro Cowboys
$19.95 Add to cartMore than five thousand Negro cowboys joined the round-ups and served on the ranch crews in the cattleman era of the West. Lured by the open range, the chance for regular wages, and the opportunity to… [more below]
- Author: Durham, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: October 01 1983
- ISBN10: 0803265603
- Language: English
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Searching for Zion
$18.00 Add to cart“A brilliant illustration of the ways in which race is an artificial construct that, like beauty, is often a matter of perspective.”–The Wall Street Journal
“Frank and expansive . . . Each impression- Author: Raboteau, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 11 2014
- ISBN10: 0802122272
- Language: English
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Fire in a Canebrake: The Last Mass Lynching in America
$18.99 Add to cartIn the tradition of Melissa Faye Greene and her award-winning Praying for Sheetrock, extraordinarily talented debut author Laura Wexler tells the story of the Moore’s Ford Lynching in Walton County, G… [more below]
- Author: Wexler, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 30 2003
- ISBN10: 0684868172
- Language: English
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American Slaves Tell Their Stories: Six Interviews
$8.95 Add to cartVivid narratives recall life during and just after the Civil War, not only describing cruel punishments, divided families, and debilitating labor, but also providing information about religious belief… [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on Americana
- Author: Albert, Octavia V. Rogers
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 87
- Publish Date: April 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0486441903
- Language: English
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In Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the American West 1528-1990
$29.99 Add to cartA landmark history of African Americans in the West, In Search of the Racial Frontier rescues the collective American consciousness from thinking solely of European pioneers when considering the explo
- Author: Taylor, Quintard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0393318893
- Language: English
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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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How to Be Drawn
$27.00 Add to cartA finalist for the 2015 National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award
In How to Be Drawn, his daring fifth collection, Terrance Hayes explores how we see and are seen. While many of t- Series: Penguin Poets
- Author: Hayes, Terrance
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 31 2015
- ISBN10: 0143126881
- Language: English
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The Hopi Survival Kit: The Prophecies, Instructions and Warnings Revealed by the Last Elders
$17.00 Add to cartNow made public for the first time–an ancient Hopi spiritual guide that may hold the key to our survival in the next millennium
For nearly a century the Elders of Hotevilla–a tiny village on a remo- Series: Compass
- Author: Mails, Thomas E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0140195459
- Language: English
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Crow Dog: Four Generations of Sioux Medicine Men
$17.99 Add to cart“I am Crow Dog. I am the fourth of that name. Crow Dogs have played a big part in the history of our tribe and in the history of all the Indian nations of the Great Plains during the last two hundred
- Author: Dog, Leonard C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 18 1996
- ISBN10: 0060926821
- Language: English
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Heavy Metal Islam: Rock, Resistance, and the Struggle for the Soul of Islam
$29.95 Add to cartThis updated reissue of Mark LeVine’s acclaimed, revolutionary book on sub- and countercultural music in the Middle East brings this groundbreaking portrait of the region’s youth cultures to a new gen… [more below]
- Author: Levine, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 0520389387
- Language: English
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Arts & Crafts of the Native American Tribes
$29.95 Read more“What makes this work exceptional is the color photography, use of illustrations and diagrams, and maps. One really gets the sense that this is a labor of love for the authors and that they did pains
- Author: Johnson, Michael G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 29, 2022
- ISBN10: 0228103851
- Language: English
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Surfing the South: The Search for Waves and the People Who Ride Them
$26.00 Add to cartWhen most Americans think of surfing, they often envision waves off the coasts of California, Hawai’i, or even New Jersey. What few know is that the South has its own surf culture. To fully explore th… [more below]
- Author: Estes, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 214
- Publish Date: May 24 2022
- ISBN10: 1469667770
- Language: English
