Ethnic Studies
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Lifting as They Climbed: Mapping a History of Trailblazing Black Women in Chicago
$19.95 Add to cartAn essential guidebook to influential Black women from Chicago’s South and West Sides, and their social, cultural, and artistic contributions to movements both past and present.
Geographically, histor- Author: Kaba, Mariame
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1642599018
- Language: English
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The Turtle’s Beating Heart: One Family’s Story of Lenape Survival
$21.95 Add to cart“Grandchildren meet their grandparents at the end,” Denise Low writes, “as tragic figures. We remember their decline and deaths. . . . The story we see as grandchildren is like a garden covered by sno… [more below]
- Series: American Indian Lives
- Author: Low, Denise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496236890
- 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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At War With Politics: A Journey from Traditional Political Science to Black Politics
$34.95 Add to cartIs politics the best way to make changes in your community? How can one find a political identity? What is the relationship between Black identity and the US political field?
Through reflection and rec
- Series: Black Studies
- Author: Graves, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1915271096
- Language: English
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Finns in Minnesota
$17.95 Add to cartThis succinct yet comprehensive volume outlines the contributions and culture of Minnesota’s Finnish Americans, perhaps best known for their cooperative ventures, their political involvement, and, of … [more below]
- Series: People of Minnesota
- Author: Alanen, Arnold R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 124
- Publish Date: May 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0873518543
- Language: English
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Hmong in Minnesota
$17.95 Add to cartAn engaging history of the arrival of the Hmong in Minnesota in the 1970s, their struggle to build community in a new land, and the challenges they face today.
From bountiful booths at local farmers’- Series: People of Minnesota
- Author: Vang, Chia Youyee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0873515986
- Language: English
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Chippewa Customs
$22.95 Add to cartChippewa Customs, first published in 1929, remains an authoritative source for the tribal history, customs, legends, traditions, art, music, economy, and leisure activities of the Chippewa (Ojibway) I… [more below]
- Series: Borealis Books
- Author: Densmore, Frances
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: October 15 1979
- ISBN10: 0873511425
- Language: English
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They Cleared the Lane: The Nba’s Black Pioneers
$19.95 Add to cartToday, Black players compose more than eighty percent of the National Basketball Association’s rosters, providing a strong and valued contribution to professional basketball. In the first half of the … [more below]
- Author: Thomas, Ron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0803294549
- 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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Survivance: Narratives of Native Presence
$35.00 Add to cartThe concept and idea of survivance has revolutionized our understanding of the lives, creative impulses, literary practices, and histories of the Native peoples of North America. Engendered and articu
- Author: Vizenor, Gerald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 396
- Publish Date: November 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0803210833
- Language: English
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Rosebud Sioux
$24.99 Read moreThe Sicangu (burnt thighs) received their name when some of the Lakota peoples’ legs were burned in a great prairie fire. The French later named them Brule, and two large groups of the band would be s… [more below]
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Sprague, Donovin Arleigh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 24 2005
- ISBN10: 0738534471
- Language: English
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Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 Through the Stono Rebellion
$26.99 Add to cartBlack Majority won the Albert J. Beveridge Award of the American Historical Association.
- Series: Norton Library
- Author: Wood, Peter H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 380
- Publish Date: April 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0393314820
- Language: English
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American Tapestry: The Story of the Black, White, and Multiracial Ancestors of Michelle Obama
$16.99 Add to cartA remarkable history of First Lady Michelle Obama’s mixed ancestry, American Tapestry by Rachel L. Swarns is nothing less than a breathtaking and expansive portrait of America itself.
In this extraordi
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Swarns, Rachel L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 09 2013
- ISBN10: 0061999873
- Language: English
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New Dimensions in African History: The London Lectures of Dr. Yosef Ben-Jochannan and Dr. John Henrik Clarke
$21.95 Add to cartThe London lectures of Dr. John Henrik Clarke and Dr. Yosef ben-Jochannan were delivered for the Minority Ethnic Unit of the Greater London Council in 1986. Since then there has been a great demand fo… [more below]
- Author: John Henrik, Clarke
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: June 01 1991
- ISBN10: 0865432279
- Language: English
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Emmett J. Scott: Power Broker of the Tuskegee Machine
$45.00 Add to cartReared in Houston (Freedmen’s Town), Texas, Emmett J. Scott was a journalist, newspaper editor, government official, author, and chief of staff, adviser, and ghostwriter to Booker T. Washington. Calle… [more below]
- Series: Afro-Texans
- Author: Dailey, Maceo C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 168283123X
- Language: English
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Southbound: Essays on Identity, Inheritance, and Social Change
$26.95 Add to cartA move at age ten from a Detroit suburb to Chattanooga in 1984 thrusts Anjali Enjeti into what feels like a new world replete with Confederate flags, Bible verses, and whiteness. It is here that she l
- Series: Crux: The Georgia Literary Nonfiction
- Author: Enjeti, Anjali
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: April 15 2021
- ISBN10: 0820360066
- Language: English
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Food Plants of Interior First Peoples
$20.00 Read moreNancy Turner describes more than 150 plants traditionally harvested and eaten by First Peoples east of the Coast Mountains in British Columbia and northern Washington. Each description includes inform… [more below]
- Series: Royal BC Museum Handbooks
- Author: Turner, Nancy J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 22 2007
- ISBN10: 0772658463
- Language: English
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At the Place of the Lobsters and Crabs: Indian People and Deer Isle, Maine, 1605-2005
$15.95 Add to cartFor thousands of years, native people lived, loved and labored on Deer Isle as well as the surrounding islands and peninsulas of east Penobscot Bay. Then, just over 400 years ago, their lives were dis
- Author: Haviland, William a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 30 2018
- ISBN10: 1882190807
- Language: English
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Futures of Black Radicalism
$29.95 Read moreWith racial justice struggles on the rise, a probing collection considers the past and future of Black radicalism
Black rebellion has returned. Dramatic protests have risen up in scores of cities and c
- Author: Johnson, Gaye Theresa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 29, 2017
- ISBN10: 1784787582
- Language: English
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Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God
$26.00 Add to cart“”If Trayvon was of age and armed, could he have stood his ground on that sidewalk?”” –President Barack ObamaThe 2012 killing of Trayvon Martin, an African-American teenager in Florida, and the subse
- Author: Douglas, Kelly Brown
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 10 2015
- ISBN10: 1626981094
- Language: English
