Ethnic Studies
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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 Read moreCrossing 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
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The Woo-Woo: How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family
$19.95 Add to cartIn this jaw-dropping, darkly comedic memoir, a young woman comes of age in a dysfunctional Asian family whose members blamed their woes on ghosts and demons when in fact they should have been on anti-… [more below]
- Author: Wong, Lindsay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 06 2018
- ISBN10: 1551527367
- Language: English
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Native Foods: Agriculture, Indigeneity, and Settler Colonialism in American History
$27.95 Add to cartIn Native Foods: Agriculture, Indigeneity, and Settler Colonialism in American History, Michael D. Wise confronts four common myths about Indigenous food history: that most Native communities did not … [more below]
- Series: Food and Foodways
- Author: Wise, Michael D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: June 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1682262383
- Language: English
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Still True: The Evolution of an Unexpected Journalist
$18.99 Add to cartThrough this collection of essays, author and activist Reagan Jackson, chronicles her journey into the world of journalism. Art, cinema, social justice, feminism, Black reparations, health & reproduct… [more below]
- Author: Jackson, Reagan E. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1609441540
- Language: English
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Revenge of the Pequots: How a Small Native American Tribe Created the World’s Most Profitable Casino
$18.00 Add to cartThe Mashantucket Pequots have had a long and proud history, enduring for centuries even after colonists and historians believed them to have been exterminated by the British in 1637. By the early 1970… [more below]
- Author: Eisler, Kim Isaac
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 267
- Publish Date: January 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0803267452
- Language: English
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In the Hands of the Great Spirit: The 20,000-Year History of American Indians
$24.00 Add to cartThis “flowing, lucid, and satisfying…story of Indian nations” (The Washington Post) traces the history of North American Indigenous peoples from the Pleistocene era to the present–a must-read for a
- Author: Page, Jake
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 03, 2004
- ISBN10: 0684855771
- Language: English
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Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King’s Last Campaign
$19.95 Read moreMemphis in 1968 was ruled by a paternalistic “plantation mentality” embodied in its good-old-boy mayor, Henry Loeb. Wretched conditions, abusive white supervisors, poor education, and low wages locked… [more below]
- Author: Honey, Michael K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: January 17 2008
- ISBN10: 0393330532
- Language: English
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100 Amazing Facts about the Negro
$40.00 Read moreThe first edition of Joel Augustus Rogers’s now legendary 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof, published in 1934, was billed as “A Negro ‘Believe It or Not.'” Rogers’s little book wa… [more below]
- Author: Gates, Henry Louis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: October 24 2017
- ISBN10: 0307908712
- Language: English
