Ethnic Studies
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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 Add to cartMemphis 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
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Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots
$20.00 Add to cartOne of TIME‘s 100 Must Read Books of 2020 and one of Good Housekeeping’s Best Books of the Year
“One of the smartest young writers of her generation.”–Book Riot
Now in paperback and featuring a new aft
- Author: Jerkins, Morgan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 06 2021
- ISBN10: 0062873067
- Language: English
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Latinx Photography in the United States: A Visual History
$34.95 Add to cartWhether at UFW picket lines in California’s Central Valley or capturing summertime street life in East Harlem Latinx photographers have documented fights for dignity and justice as well as the daily l
- Author: Ferrer, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: January 14 2021
- ISBN10: 0295747633
- Language: English
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Invisible Men: Life in Baseball’s Negro Leagues
$19.95 Add to cartThis fascinating book is a milestone in baseball scholarship.–Ken Burns
Jackie Robinson was a Negro Leaguer before he became a Major Leaguer. So too were Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, Monte Irvin, Roy C
- Author: Rogosin, Donn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 342
- Publish Date: October 01 2020
- ISBN10: 149622339X
- Language: English
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City of Segregation: 100 Years of Struggle for Housing in Los Angeles
$29.95 Add to cartA majestic one-hundred-year study of segregation in Los Angeles
City of Segregation documents one hundred years of struggle against the enforced separation of racial groups through property markets, co
- Author: Gibbons, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 18 2018
- ISBN10: 1786632705
- Language: English
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Redlined: A Memoir of Race, Change, and Fractured Community in 1960s Chicago
$17.95 Add to cartRedlined exposes the outcome of racist mortgage laws that ravage a Chicago community in the 1960s, told through the story of one white family navigating the uncharted shoals of their neighborhood’s ra… [more below]
- Author: Gartz, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 03 2018
- ISBN10: 1631523201
- Language: English
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Western Journeys
$21.95 Read moreIn Western Journeys, Teow Lim Goh charts her journeys immigrating from Singapore and spending the last fifteen years living in and exploring the American West. Goh chronicles her lived experiences wh
- Author: Goh, Teow Lim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 182
- Publish Date: October 31 2022
- ISBN10: 1647690951
- Language: English
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The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages
$35.00 Add to cartIn The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages, Geraldine Heng questions the common assumption that the concepts of race and racisms only began in the modern era. Examining Europe’s encounters w… [more below]
- Author: Heng, Geraldine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 434
- Publish Date: November 28 2019
- ISBN10: 1108435092
- Language: English
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Germans in Minnesota
$17.95 Add to cartA concise history of Germans in Minnesota including immigration patterns, the Catholic and Lutheran churches, cultural organizations, businesses, and politics, especially in the World War I years.
Ger- Series: People of Minnesota
- Author: Conzen, Kathleen Neils
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 102
- Publish Date: July 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0873514548
- Language: English
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Native Carolinians: The Indians of North Carolina
$12.00 Add to cartIn Native Carolinians, Dr. Theda Perdue, Atlanta Distinguished Professor of Southern Culture at UNC at Chapel Hill, discusses the history, life-style, and culture of the native people of the region b… [more below]
- Author: Perdue, Theda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: January 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0865263450
- Language: English
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Nature Knows No Color-Line: Research Into the Negro Ancestry in the White Race
$18.95 Read moreClassic work of black study refuting scientific racism
In Nature Knows No Color-Line, originally published in 1952, historian Joel Augustus Rogers examines the origins of racial hierarchy and the color
- Author: Rogers, J. a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: April 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0819575100
- Language: English
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Coyote Medicine: Coyote Medicine
$18.99 Add to cartHailed by Dr. Andrew Weil as a book “that must be brought to all who seek true health,” Coyote Medicine is an engaging and essential testament to the power of alternative healing and recovery methods … [more below]
- Author: Simon, William L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 26 1998
- ISBN10: 0684839970
- Language: English
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Yooper Talk: Dialect as Identity in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula
$17.95 Add to cartThe Upper Peninsula of Michigan–known as “the U P”–is historically, geographically, and culturally distinct. Struggles over land, labor, and language during the last 150 years have shaped the variet… [more below]
- Series: Languages and Folklore of Upper Midwest
- Author: Remlinger, Kathryn A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 13 2019
- ISBN10: 0299312542
- Language: English
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Kokoro: An Intimate Portrait of Japanese Inner Life
$14.99 Add to cart“The papers composing this volume treat of the inner rather than of the outer life of Japan, for which reason they have been grouped under the title Kokoro (heart). [This] word signifies also mind, in… [more below]
- Author: Hearn, Lafcadio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 4805317205
- Language: English
