Ethnic Studies
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The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America
$27.00 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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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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