Ethnic Studies
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Black Like Me
$24.95 Read moreOn 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
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The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America
$24.00 Add to cart“That certain groups do much better in America than others—as measured by income, occupational status, test scores, and so on—is difficult to talk about. In large part this is because the topic feel… [more below]
- Author: Chua, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 27 2015
- ISBN10: 0143126350
- Language: English
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Ain’t But a Few of Us: Black Music Writers Tell Their Story
$27.95 Add to cartDespite the fact that most of jazz’s major innovators and performers have been African American, the overwhelming majority of jazz journalists, critics, and authors have been and continue to be white … [more below]
- Author: Jenkins, Willard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: December 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1478019034
- Language: English
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When the Smoke Cleared: Attica Prison Poems and Journal
$19.95 Add to cartFollowing the Attica prison uprising in September 1971, Celes Tisdale-a poet and then professor at Buffalo State College-began leading poetry workshops with those incarcerated at Attica. Tisdale’s wor… [more below]
- Author: Tisdale, Celes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: November 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1478018941
- Language: English
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Cistem Failure: Essays on Blackness and Cisgender
$24.95 Add to cartIn Cistem Failure Marquis Bey meditates on the antagonistic relationship between blackness and cisgender. Bey asks, What does it mean to have a gender that “matches” one’s sex—that is, to be cisgend… [more below]
- Series: Asterisk
- Author: Bey, Marquis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1478018445
- Language: English
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Freedom Knows My Name: Poems
$20.00 Add to cartFreedom Knows My Name takes readers on a poetic journey of seeking collective and personal freedom as a Black woman. By scanning the QR code on the back of the book, readers are transported to the aut
- Author: Harris-Deberry, Kelly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: August 05 2020
- ISBN10: 1883275296
- Language: English
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Echoes of Exclusion and Resistance: Voices from the Hanford Region
$29.95 Read moreLike the rest of the American West, the mid-Columbia region has always been diverse. Its history mirrors common multiracial narratives, but with important nuances. In the late 1880s, Chinese railroad
- Series: Hanford Histories #3
- Author: Bauman, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: January 31 2021
- ISBN10: 0874223822
- Language: English
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Walking with Grandfather: The Wisdom of Lakota Elders [With CD] [With CD]
$22.99 Add to cartWhen we began our search for consultants for Into the West, we were looking for individuals with a deep knowledge of the culture and history of the Lakota people. In Joe Marshall, we found that person
- Author: Marshall, Joseph, III
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: December 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1591793521
- Language: English
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The Book of Medicines
$15.00 Add to cartNational Book Critic’s Circle Award finalist, 1994. Colorado Book Award winner.”…elemental and direct with a tremendous evocative force of imagery…”–Publisher’s Weekly
- Author: Hogan, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: June 01 1993
- ISBN10: 1566890101
- Language: English
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The Chinese and the Iron Road: Building the Transcontinental Railroad
$32.00 Add to cartThe completion of the transcontinental railroad in May 1869 is usually told as a story of national triumph and a key moment for American Manifest Destiny. The Railroad made it possible to cross the co
- Series: Asian America
- Author: Chang, Gordon H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: April 30 2019
- ISBN10: 1503609243
- Language: English
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