Ethnic Studies
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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
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Flutes of Fire: An Introduction to Native California Languages Revised and Updated
$26.00 Add to cartAn essential book on California’s Indigenous languages, updated for the first time in over 25 years.
Before outsiders arrived, about one hundred distinct Indigenous languages were spoken in California,
- Author: Hinton, Leanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1597145661
- Language: English
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Talking to the Ground
$18.99 Add to cartFrom the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Lost City of the Monkey God comes an entrancing, eloquent, and entertaining account of the author’s adventurous journey on horseback through the… [more below]
- Author: Preston, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 04 2019
- ISBN10: 1982112190
- Language: English
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The Bride Price: A Hmong Wedding Story
$18.95 Add to cartWhen Mai Neng Moua decides to get married, her mother, a widow, wants the groom to follow Hmong custom and pay a bride price, which both honors the work the bride’s family has done in raising a daught
- Author: Moua, Mai Neng
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1681340364
- Language: English
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Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror
$18.95 Add to cartFrom hungry ghosts, vampiric babies, and shapeshifting fox spirits to the avenging White Lady of urban legend, for generations, Asian women’s roles have been shaped and defined through myth and story…. [more below]
- Author: Murray, Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1645481298
- Language: English
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Rekindling the Sacred Fire: Métis Ancestry and Anishinaabe Spirituality
$32.95 Add to cartWhy don’t more Métis people go to traditional ceremonies? How does going to ceremonies impact Métis identity?
In Rekindling the Sacred Fire, Chantal Fiola investigates the relationship between Red R
- Author: Fiola, Chantal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 17 2015
- ISBN10: 0887557708
- Language: English
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Indian Tales
$19.99 Add to cartHailed by Ezra Pound as the American Ovid and renowned as a linguist and a self-described amateur anthropologist, Jaime de Angulo drew on his forty years among the Pit River tribe of California to cre
- Author: de Angulo, Jaime
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 30 1997
- ISBN10: 0865475237
- Language: English
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Indians of the Pacific Northwest: A History Volume 158
$29.95 Add to cartMore than one hundred Indian tribes in fifteen language groups inhabited the area of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Western Montana in the nineteenth century. This important work, the first composite
- Series: Civilization of the American Indian #158
- Author: Ruby, Robert H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 15 1988
- ISBN10: 0806121130
- Language: English
