Ethnic Studies
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Economy Hall: The Hidden History of a Free Black Brotherhood
$34.95 Add to cartSelected by Kirkus for “Best of 2021: Our Favorite Nonfiction”
It is impossible to imagine New Orleans, and by extension American history, without the vibrant and singular Creole culture. In the face o
- Author: Shaik, Fatima
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: February 25 2021
- ISBN10: 0917860802
- Language: English
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Words of the Inuit: A Semantic Stroll Through a Northern Culture
$34.95 Add to cartWords of the Inuit is an important compendium of Inuit culture illustrated through Inuit words. It brings the sum of the author’s decades of experience and engagement with Inuit and Inuktitut to bear
- Series: Contemporary Studies on the North #7
- Author: Dorais, Louis-Jacques
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: September 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0887558623
- Language: English
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Daybreak Woman: An Anglo-Dakota Life
$18.95 Add to cartA woman’s remarkable life provides a new perspective on a century of turbulent change.
Daybreak Woman, also known as Jane Anderson Robertson, was born at a trading post on the Minnesota River in 1812 a
- Author: Carroll, Jane Lamm
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 1681341662
- Language: English
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The Meaning of Soul: Black Music and Resilience Since the 1960s
$26.95 Add to cartIn The Meaning of Soul, Emily J. Lordi proposes a new understanding of this famously elusive concept. In the 1960s, Lordi argues, soul came to signify a cultural belief in black resilience, which was … [more below]
- Series: Refiguring American Music
- Author: Lordi, Emily J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: August 14 2020
- ISBN10: 1478009594
- Language: English
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No Word for Time: The Way of the Algonquin
$25.00 Add to cartA descendant of the Algonquins explores a rapidly disappearing world in which there is no word for time and life moves with the rhythms of nature -the world of the Algonquin Indians. One of the larges
- Author: Pritchard, Evan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: February 02 2016
- ISBN10: 1937462013
- Language: English
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Aphro-Ism: Essays on Pop Culture, Feminism, and Black Veganism from Two Sisters
$20.00 Read moreIn this lively, accessible, and provocative collection, Aph and Syl Ko provide new theoretical frameworks on race, advocacy for nonhuman animals, and feminism. Using popular culture as a point of refe… [more below]
- Author: Ko, Aph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: June 15 2017
- ISBN10: 159056555X
- Language: English
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The Gospel of the Red Man: An Indian Bible an Indian Bible
$28.95 Add to cartConsidered one of the best books on Native Americans ever written. The author and compiler reveals how Indians once lived and what they believed in relation to spiritual principles. As we move further
- Author: Seton, Ernest Thompson
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 132
- Publish Date: September 13 2006
- ISBN10: 1585095400
- Language: English
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Class Notes: Posing as Politics and Other Thoughts on the American Scene
$24.02 Add to cartThe classic and deeply prescient collection that explores the multifaceted nature of race, class, and identity in America, from one of our most insightful and iconoclastic intellectuals
Hailed by Publ- Author: Reed, Adolph L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 01 2001
- ISBN10: 1565846753
- Language: English
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The America Play and Other Works
$19.95 Add to cartA collection of plays and essays by one of America’s premier playwrights. Includes the essays “Possession,” “from Elements of Style,” and “An Equation for Black People Onstage,” and the plays Impercep… [more below]
- Author: Parks, Suzan-Lori
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 01 1994
- ISBN10: 1559360925
- Language: English
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Ride or Die: A Feminist Manifesto for the Well-Being of Black Women
$18.99 Read moreCultural criticism and pop culture history intertwine in this important book, which dissects how hip hop has sidelined Black women’s identity and emotional well-being.
A “ride-or-die chick” is a woma- Author: Hubbard, Shanita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 07, 2023
- ISBN10: 0306874687
- Language: English
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House of Shattering Light: Life of an American Indian Mystic
$20.00 Add to cartJoseph Rael, Beautiful Painted Arrow, is one of the great, living visionaries in the Native American tradidion. House of Shattering LIght is Rael’s personal story from his birth on the Ute land in Col
- Author: Rael, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: December 12 2016
- ISBN10: 0982327447
- Language: English
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In Good Relation: History, Gender, and Kinship in Indigenous Feminisms
$31.95 Add to cartOver the past thirty years, a strong canon of Indigenous feminist literature has addressed how Indigenous women are uniquely and dually affected by colonialism and patriarchy. Indigenous women have lo
- Author: Nickel, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0887558518
- Language: English
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The White Earth Tragedy: Ethnicity and Dispossession at a Minnesota Anishinaabe Reservation, 1889-1920
$21.95 Add to cartThis compelling interdisciplinary history of an Anishinaabe community at the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota offers a subtle and sophisticated look at changing social, economic, and political rel… [more below]
- Author: Meyer, Melissa L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 333
- Publish Date: June 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0803282567
- Language: English
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Mythology of the Blackfoot Indians
$19.95 Add to cartMythology of the Blackfoot Indians, originally published in 1908 by the American Museum of Natural History, introduces such figures as Old Man, Scar-Face, Blood-Clot, and the Seven Brothers. Included … [more below]
- Series: Sources of American Indian Oral Literature
- Author: Wissler, Clark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: January 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0803260237
- Language: English
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At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68
$25.00 Add to cartAt Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 is the final volume in Taylor Branch’s magnificent history of America in the years of the Civil Rights Movement and Vietnam War, recognized univers… [more below]
- Series: America in the King Years
- Author: Branch, Taylor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1056
- Publish Date: January 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0684857138
- Language: English
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The Autobiography of Medgar Evers: A Hero’s Life and Legacy Revealed Through His Writings, Letters, and Speeches
$21.99 Add to cartOn the evening of June 12, 1963 — the day President John F. Kennedy gave his most impassioned speech about the need for interracial tolerance “Medgar Evers, the NAACP’s first field secretary in Missi… [more below]
- Author: Evers-Williams, Myrlie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 29 2006
- ISBN10: 0465021786
- Language: English
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The Dakota Way of Life
$36.95 Add to cart2023 Bronze Medal in Western Nonfiction for the Will Rogers Medallion Award
Ella Cara Deloria devoted much of her life to the study of the language and cult
2023 WHA Dwight L. Smith (ABC-CLIO) Award- Series: Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians
- Author: Deloria, Ella Cara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: December 01 2022
- ISBN10: 149623359X
- Language: English
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Rez Metal: Inside the Navajo Nation Heavy Metal Scene
$16.95 Add to cartRez Metal captures the creative energy of Indigenous youth culture in the twenty-first century. Bridging communities from disparate corners of Indian Country and across generations, heavy metal has to… [more below]
- Author: Soltani Stone, Ashkan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: October 01 2020
- ISBN10: 149620509X
- Language: English
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The Toni Morrison Book Club
$17.95 Add to cartIn this startling group memoir, four friends-black and white, gay and straight, immigrant and American-born-use Toni Morrison’s novels as a springboard for intimate and revealing conversations about t… [more below]
- Author: Bennett, Juda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 04 2020
- ISBN10: 029932494X
- Language: English
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Rooted in the Earth: Reclaiming the African American Environmental Heritage
$18.95 Add to cartCrossing the ocean on a slave ship, working the land under threat of violence, eluding racists in nighttime chases through moonless fields and woodlands, stumbling across a murder victim hanging from … [more below]
- Author: Glave, Dianne D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1556527667
- Language: English
