Ethnic Studies
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Crumbs from the Table of Joy and Other Plays
$19.95 Read moreThis collection includes Lynn Nottage’s best known work, Crumbs from the Table of Joy, which has been produced widely since its premiere in May 1995 and which the Chicago Tribune hailed as “a complex
- Author: Nottage, Lynn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 01 2003
- ISBN10: 1559362146
- Language: English
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White Burgers, Black Cash: Fast Food from Black Exclusion to Exploitation
$29.95 Read moreThe long and pernicious relationship between fast food restaurants and the African American community
Today, fast food is disproportionately located in Black neighborhoods and marketed to Black Ameri- Author: Kwate, Naa Oyo a.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: April 11, 2023
- ISBN10: 1517911095
- Language: English
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A Nimble ARC: James Van Der Zee and Photography
$27.95 Read moreWhile James Van Der Zee is widely known and praised for his studio portraits from the Harlem Renaissance era, much of the diversity and expansive reach of his work has been overlooked. From the major … [more below]
- Series: Visual Arts of Africa and Its Diasporas
- Author: Boone, Emilie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1478024909
- Language: English
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Flyboy 2: The Greg Tate Reader
$28.95 Add to cartSince launching his career at the Village Voice in the early 1980s Greg Tate has been one of the premiere critical voices on contemporary Black music, art, literature, film, and politics. Flyboy 2 pro… [more below]
- Author: Tate, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 05 2016
- ISBN10: 0822361965
- Language: English
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Race & Economics: How Much Can Be Blamed on Discrimination?
$14.95 Add to cartWalter E. Williams applies an economic analysis to the problems black Americans have faced in the past and still face in the present to show that that free-market resource allocation, as opposed to po… [more below]
- Series: Hoover Institution Press Publication
- Author: Williams, Walter E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: April 27 2011
- ISBN10: 0817912452
- Language: English
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Storyville, New Orleans: Being an Authentic, Illustrated Account of the Notorious Red-Light District
$24.95 Add to cartA true-to-life impression of Storyville, the only legally established red light district in the US
At the turn of the twentieth-century, there were hundreds of red-light districts in the United State- Author: Rose, Al
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 17 1997
- ISBN10: 0817344039
- Language: English
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Lakota Myth
$21.95 Add to cartJames R. Walker was a physician to the Pine Ridge Sioux from 1896 to 1914. His accounts of this time, taken from his personal papers, reveal much about Lakota life and culture. This third volume of pr… [more below]
- Author: Walker, James R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 428
- Publish Date: April 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0803298609
- Language: English
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The Sixth Grandfather: Black Elk’s Teachings Given to John G. Neihardt
$29.95 Add to cartIn Black Elk Speaks and When the Tree Flowered, John C. Neihardt recorded the teachings of the Oglala holy man Black Elk, who had, in a vision, seen himself as the “sixth grandfather,” the spiritual r… [more below]
- Series: Bison Book S
- Author: Demallie, Raymond J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 462
- Publish Date: October 01 1985
- ISBN10: 0803265646
- Language: English
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Our Class: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison
$18.00 Add to cartA powerfully moving book that “could make graspable why today’s prisons are contemporary slave plantations” (Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple), giving voice to the poorest among us and laying … [more below]
- Author: Hedges, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1982154446
- Language: English
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And the Category Is.: Inside New York’s Vogue, House, and Ballroom Community
$25.95 Read moreA 2023 Lambda Literary Award Finalist in Nonfiction
An Electric Literature “Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Book of 2022” Selection A love letter to the legendary Black and Latinx LGBTQ underground subculture- Author: Tucker, Ricky
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0807003484
- Language: English
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Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Talk about Life in the Segregated South
$28.32 Add to cartA timely paperback reissue of the stunning, prize-winning portrait of the Jim Crow South through unique first-person accounts
Praised as “viscerally powerful” (Publishers Weekly), this remarkable work
- Author: Chafe, William H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 162097682X
- Language: English
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Medicine of the Cherokee: The Way of Right Relationship
$14.00 Add to cartDiscover the holistic experience of human life from the elder teachers of Cherokee Medicine. With stories of the Four Directions and the Universal Circle, these once-secret teachings offer us wisdom o… [more below]
- Series: Folk Wisdom
- Author: Garrett, J. T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 01 1996
- ISBN10: 1879181371
- Language: English
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Crazy Horse Weeps: The Challenge of Being Lakota in White America
$19.95 Add to cartFor Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota people, historical trauma, chronically underfunded federal programs, and broken promises on the part of the US government have resulted in gaping health, educational, an… [more below]
- Author: Marshall, Joseph M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: February 21 2019
- ISBN10: 1682750256
- Language: English
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Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America
$18.99 Add to cartTwo world wars, the Civil Rights movement, and a Jheri curl later, Blacks in America continue to have a complex and convoluted relationship with their hair. From the antebellum practice of shaving the
- Author: Byrd, Ayana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 28 2014
- ISBN10: 1250046572
- Language: English
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Searching for Savanna: The Murder of One Native American Woman and the Violence Against the Many
$18.99 Add to cartA gripping and illuminating investigation “that is far overdue” (Rachel Louise Snyder, author of No Visible Bruises) into the disappearance of Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind when she was eight months pre… [more below]
- Author: Gable, Mona
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1982153695
- Language: English
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We Will Tell Our Own Story: The Lions of Africa Speak!
$45.00 Add to cartThese authors, all deeply dedicated to the telling of an African story, are committed to righting the wrongs of intellectual inquiry by setting upright the standards, criteria, and assumptions often a
- Author: Akomolafe, Adebayo C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 01, 2017
- ISBN10: 0982532768
- Language: English
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Indians in Eden: Wabanakis and Rusticators on Maine’s Mt. Desert Island
$16.95 Add to cartWhen the Wabanaki were moved to reservations, they proved their resourcefulness by catering to the burgeoning tourist market during the 19th and early 20th centuries, when Bar Harbor was called Eden. … [more below]
- Author: McBride, Bunny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0892728043
- Language: English
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The Classroom and the Cell: Conversations on Black Life in America
$14.95 Add to cartThis collection of conversations between celebrity intellectual Marc Lamont Hill and famed political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal is a shining example of African American men speaking for themselves about
- Author: Abu-Jamal, Mumia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 177
- Publish Date: January 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0883783371
- Language: English
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Healing Plants: Medicine of the Florida Seminole Indians
$19.95 Add to cartThe first published record of Florida Seminole herbal medicine and ancient healing practices, Healing Plants is a colorfully illustrated compendium of knowledge and practices passed down orally to Ali… [more below]
- Author: Snow, Alice Micco
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: September 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0813061725
- Language: English
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Walking in the Sacred Manner: Healers, Dreamers, and Pipe Carriers–Medicine Women of the Plains
$15.99 Add to cartWalking in the Sacred Manner is an exploration of the myths and culture of the Plains Indians, for whom the everyday and the spiritual are intertwined, and women play a strong and important role in th… [more below]
- Author: St Pierre, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 30 1995
- ISBN10: 0684802007
- Language: English
