Ethnic Studies
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Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada’s Quest to Change Harlem and America
$17.99 Add to cartNew York Times bestselling author Paul Tough’s Whatever It Takes is “one of the best books ever written about how poverty influences learning, and vice versa” (The Washington Post).
What would it take?… [more below]
- Author: Tough, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 10 2009
- ISBN10: 0547247966
- Language: English
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Eyes Off the Prize: The United Nations and the African American Struggle for Human Rights, 1944-1955
$33.00 Add to cartAs World War II drew to a close and the world awakened to the horrors wrought by white supremacists in Nazi Germany, the NAACP and African-American leaders sensed an opportunity to launch an offensive… [more below]
- Author: Anderson, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: April 21 2003
- ISBN10: 0521531586
- Language: English
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Crux: A Daughter’s Quest for Her Border-Crossing Father
$18.99 Add to cartA daughter’s quest to understand her charismatic and troubled father, an immigrant who crosses borders both real and illusory–between sanity and madness, science and spirituality, life and death–now… [more below]
- Author: Guerrero, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0399592415
- Language: English
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Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People
$22.00 Read moreWinner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for History
Encounters at the Heart of the World concerns the Mandan Indians, iconic Plains people whose teeming, busy towns on the upper Missouri River were for cent- Author: Fenn, Elizabeth A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 17, 2015
- ISBN10: 0374535116
- Language: English
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Olio
$35.00 Add to cartWinner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry
Winner of the 2017 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Poetry Winner of the 2017 Book Award from the Society of Midland Authors for Poetry 2016 National Book Criti- Author: Jess, Tyehimba
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 05 2016
- ISBN10: 1940696208
- Language: English
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Legacy: Trauma, Story, and Indigenous Healing
$19.95 Add to cartWinner of the 2019-20 Huguenot Society of Canada Award “Powerful … A deeply empathetic and inspiring work with insights of value to anyone struggling to overcome personal or communal trauma.” — Lib… [more below]
- Author: Methot, Suzanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 19 2019
- ISBN10: 1770414258
- Language: English
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Community as Rebellion: A Syllabus for Surviving Academia as a Woman of Color
$15.95 Add to cartA meditation on freedom-making in the academy for women scholars of color.
- Author: Pe?a, Lorgia Garc?a
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: May 31 2022
- ISBN10: 1642596922
- Language: English
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Voices of Cherokee Women
$19.95 Add to cartVoices of Cherokee Women is a compelling collection of first-person accounts by Cherokee women. It includes letters, diaries, newspaper articles, oral histories, ancient myths, and accounts by travele
- Series: Real Voices, Real History
- Author: Johnston, Carolyn Ross
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 295
- Publish Date: October 08 2013
- ISBN10: 0895875993
- Language: English
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Onigamiising: Seasons of an Ojibwe Year
$14.95 Add to cartLong before it came to be known as Duluth, the land at the western tip of Lake Superior was known to the Ojibwe as Onigamiising, “the place of the small portage.” There the Ojibwe lived in keeping wit
- Author: Grover, Linda Legarde
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: October 10 2017
- ISBN10: 1517903440
- Language: English
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Brothers on Three: A True Story of Family, Resistance, and Hope on a Reservation in Montana
$19.99 Add to cart**Winner of the 2021 Montana Book Award**
**Winner of the 2021 New Mexico-Arizona General Nonfiction Book Award**
**Finalist for the Spur Award for Best Contemporary Nonfiction**
**A New York Times Edito- Author: Streep, Abe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1250210690
- Language: English
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The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey Into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred
$28.00 Add to cartFrom a star theoretical physicist, a journey into the world of particle physics and the cosmos–and a call for a more liberatory practice of science.
Winner of the 2021 Los Angeles Times Book Prize i- Author: Prescod-Weinstein, Chanda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1541724704
- Language: English
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A Dictionary of the Ojibway Language
$34.95 Add to cartThe language of the Ojibway people was recorded by Frederic Baraga (1797-1868), a missionary priest from Slovenia, who was sent in 1835 by the Catholic church to serve among the Ojibway living in the … [more below]
- Series: Borealis Books
- Author: Baraga, Frederic
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 442
- Publish Date: November 15 1992
- ISBN10: 0873512812
- Language: English
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The Good Path: Ojibwe Learning and Activity Book for Kids
$19.95 Add to cartKids of all cultures journey through time with the Ojibwe people as their guide to the Good Path and its universal lessons of courage, cooperation, and honor. Through traditional native tales, hear ab
- Author: Peacock, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: December 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0873517830
- Language: English
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Warrior Nation: A History of the Red Lake Ojibwe
$24.95 Add to cartThe Red Lake Nation has a unique and deeply important history. Unlike every other reservation in Minnesota, Red Lake holds its land in common–and, consequently, the tribe retains its entire reservati… [more below]
- Author: Treuer, Anton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: October 15 2015
- ISBN10: 0873519639
- Language: English
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Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman
$19.95 Add to cart2020 AMERICAN BOOK AWARD WINNER
“The Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman is the most comprehensive selection of his verse to date, a volume that contains a lot of previously uncollected work. … this book
- Author: Kaufman, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: November 12 2019
- ISBN10: 0872867692
- Language: English
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Wooden Leg: A Warrior Who Fought Custer (Second Edition)
$21.95 Add to cartTold with vigor and insight, this is the memorable story of Wooden Leg (1858-1940), one of sixteen hundred warriors of the Northern Cheyennes who fought with the Lakotas against Custer at the Battle o… [more below]
- Author: Marquis, Thomas B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 389
- Publish Date: October 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0803282885
- Language: English
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The Sun Came Down: The History of the World as My Blackfeet Elders Told It
$32.95 Add to cartAt the age of sixty-seven, Percy Bullchild (1915-1986), a Blackfeet Indian from Browning, Montana, with little formal education in English, set out to put the oral traditions and history of his people… [more below]
- Author: Bullchild, Percy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: October 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0803262507
- Language: English
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Freedom’s Daughters: The Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement from 1830 to 1970
$22.00 Add to cartThe first comprehensive history of the vital role women—both black and white—played in the civil rights movement.
In this groundbreaking and absorbing book, credit finally goes where credit is due—- Author: Olson, Lynne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 05 2002
- ISBN10: 0684850133
- Language: English
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1001 Things Everyone Should Know about African American History
$22.00 Add to cartA comprehensive and engaging account of the most significant events, individuals, terms, ideas, and social movements that make up the dazzling canvas of African American history–from the National Boo… [more below]
- Author: Stewart, Jeffrey C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 04 1998
- ISBN10: 038548576X
- Language: English
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Black Elk: The Sacred Ways of a Lakota
$17.99 Add to cart“An unprecedented account of the shaman’s world and the way it is entered.”
STANLEY KRIPPNER, PH.D., coauthor of ‘Personal Mythology: The Psychology of Your Evolving Self’ and ‘Healing States’“Black El
- Series: Religion and Spirituality
- Author: Black, Elk Wallace
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 01 1991
- ISBN10: 0062500740
- Language: English
