Ethnic Studies
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Oscar Charleston: The Life and Legend of Baseball’s Greatest Forgotten Player
$21.95 Add to cart- Winner of the SABR Seymour Medal
- Casey Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year by Spitball Magazine
- Winner of SABR’s Larry Ritter and Robert Peterson Awards
Buck O’Neil once described him as “Ty Cobb… [more below]
- Author: Beer, Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: April 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1496224965
- Language: English
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The Underground Railroad Records: Narrating the Hardships, Hairbreadth Escapes, and Death Struggles of Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom
$18.00 Read moreA riveting collection of the hardships, hairbreadth escapes, and mortal struggles of enslaved people seeking freedom: these are the true stories of the Underground Railroad.
- Author: Still, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 24 2019
- ISBN10: 1984855050
- Language: English
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Carnival of the Spirit
$21.95 Add to cartCarnival of the Spirit is a vibrant synergy of African Spirituality, folktales, and kitchen-table wisdom in an exuberant tribute to world holidays and nature’s four seasons. Luisah Teish serves up sto
- Author: Teish, Luisah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1940671418
- Language: English
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A Gullah Guide to Charleston: Walking Through Black History
$15.99 Add to cartEnjoy three accessible walking tours and a bonus driving tour through places relevant to the rich and varied contributions of black Charlestonians.
Author Alphonso Brown, owner and operator of Gullah T
- Series: History & Guide
- Author: Brown, Alphonso
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1596293926
- Language: English
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Sexuality and the Black Church: A Womanist Perspective
$18.00 Add to cartPart One determines why sexuality has become a “taboo” issue for the Black church and community. Douglas examines the function of sexuality in White culture and the denigration and exploitation of Bla… [more below]
- Author: Douglas, Kelly B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 08 2003
- ISBN10: 1570752427
- Language: English
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The Metaphysics of Modern Existence
$21.95 Add to cartFrom the most widely read Native American intellectual comes a book that searches for the structure and meaning of reality. Synthesizing ideas from some of the most eminent philosophers of modern time… [more below]
- Author: Deloria Jr, Vine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: September 01 2012
- ISBN10: 1555917593
- Language: English
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Birmingham Foot Soldiers: Voices from the Civil Rights Movement
$31.99 Add to cartReverends Martin Luther King Jr., Andrew Young and Fred Shuttlesworth are iconic names associated with the Birmingham campaign of the civil rights movement. Credit also is due to many local residents … [more below]
- Author: Patterson, Nick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 178
- Publish Date: May 20 2014
- ISBN10: 154022239X
- Language: English
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Born Bright
$22.99 Add to cartStanding on the stage, I felt exposed and like an intruder. In these professional settings, my personal experiences with hunger, poverty, and episodic homelessness often go undetected. I had worked ha… [more below]
- Author: Mason, C. Nicole
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 16 2016
- ISBN10: 1250891124
- Language: English
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365 Black Nuggets: Wisdom for Each Day of the Year
$12.95 Add to cart365 Black Nuggets: Wisdom for Each Day of the Year is a collection of quotes, proverbs, and sayings that represent a very small sample of the collective wisdom within the African experience. This book
- Author: Goggins, Lathardus, II
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: January 13 2023
- ISBN10: 096639724X
- Language: English
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Black Like Me
$24.95 Add to cartOn October 28, 1959, John Howard Griffin underwent a transformation that changed many lives beyond his own–he made his skin black and traveled through the segregated Deep South. His odyssey of discov… [more below]
- Author: Griffin, John Howard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0916727688
- Language: English
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Shamans and Kushtakas: North Coast Tales of the Supernatural
$12.99 Add to cartShaman and Kushtaka, both struck terror in the hearts of the Tlingit and Haida, for both possessed frightening supernatural powers. Among the Natives of the Pacific Northwest Coast, the shaman was hon… [more below]
- Author: Beck, Mary Giraudo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0882404067
- Language: English
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Somalis in Minnesota
$17.95 Add to cartAn enlightening introduction to Minnesota’s Somalis, who have adjusted to a new climate, new language, and new culture in a region wholly different from their homeland.
The story of Somalis in Minneso- Series: People of Minnesota
- Author: Yusuf, Ahmed I.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 92
- Publish Date: December 15 2012
- ISBN10: 0873518675
- Language: English
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Gullah Folktales from the Georgia Coast
$26.95 Add to cartIn 1888, Charles Colcock Jones Jr. published the first collection of folk narratives from the Gullah-speaking people of the South Atlantic coast, tales he heard black servants exchange on his family’s
- Author: Jones, Charles Colcock
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: April 27 2000
- ISBN10: 0820322164
- Language: English
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First Manhattans: A History of the Indians of Greater New York
$21.95 Add to cartA concise history of the Indians said to have sold Manhattan for $24
The Indian sale of Manhattan is one of the world’s most cherished legends. Few people know that the Indians who made the fabled sal
- Author: Grumet, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 15 2011
- ISBN10: 0806141638
- Language: English
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The Great Father: The United States Government and the American Indians (Abridged Edition)
$36.95 Add to cartThe Great Father was widely praised when it appeared in two volumes in 1984 and was awarded the Ray Allen Billington Prize by the Organization of American Historians. This abridged one-volume edition … [more below]
- Author: Prucha, Francis Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 426
- Publish Date: April 01 1986
- ISBN10: 0803287127
- Language: English
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Gang of One: Memoirs of a Red Guard
$24.95 Add to cartIn 1966 twelve-year-old Fan Shen, a newly minted Red Guard, plunged happily into China’s Cultural Revolution. Disillusion soon followed, then turned to disgust and fear when Shen discovered that his c… [more below]
- Series: American Lives (University of Nebraska)
- Author: Shen, Fan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 298
- Publish Date: March 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0803293364
- Language: English
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From the Heart of the Crow Country: The Crow Indians’ Own Stories
$14.95 Add to cartThe world of the Crow Indians comes to life in this extraordinary collection of stories from respected elder and famed storyteller Joseph Medicine Crow. Raised by traditional grandparents, who remembe… [more below]
- Author: Medicine Crow, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: August 01 2000
- ISBN10: 080328263X
- Language: English
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People of Chaco: A Canyon and Its Culture (Revised)
$30.99 Add to cartIn northwestern New Mexico’s Chaco Canyon lies a spectacular array of ruins. Like Stonehenge, they are both a monument to our pre-history and a cryptic puzzle. We know that in Chaco Canyon, one thousa
- Author: Frazier, Kendrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 17 2005
- ISBN10: 0393318257
- Language: English
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We Are Your Sisters: Black Women in the Nineteenth Century
$33.99 Add to cartIncluding oral history, letters and excerpts from diaries, this is a documentary study of 2 million black slave women and 200,000 free black women in the 19th century.
- Author: Sterling, Dorothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 556
- Publish Date: November 30 2012
- ISBN10: 0393316297
- Language: English
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On the Rez
$23.99 Add to cartOn the Rez is a sharp, unflinching account of the modern-day American Indian experience, especially that of the Oglala Sioux, who now live on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in the plains and badlan
- Author: Frazier, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 04 2001
- ISBN10: 0312278594
- Language: English
