by Tim J Wise  Publisher Comments Racial privilege shapes the lives of white Americans in every facet of life, from employment and education to housing and criminal justice. Using stories from his own life, Tim Wise shows that racism not only burdens people of color, but also benefits... (read more) Your Price $13.95 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies 
by bell hooks Publisher Comments Ten years ago, bell hooks astonished readers with Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom, Now comes Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope - a powerful, visionary work that will enrich our teaching and our lives. Combining critical... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your Price $13.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Joseph Nevins Publisher Comments Praise for A Not-So-Distant Horror: "[A] remarkable book."-Noam Chomsky Told through the life story of a young man who perished in the California desert, Dying to Liveis a compelling account of US immigration/border enforcement and the rapidly growing... (read more) Your Price $16.95 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by Anne Fadiman 
Publisher Comments Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionWhen three-month-old Lia Lee Arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion from which neither she nor her parents nor her doctors... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your Price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Jeanne W Houston Publisher Comments Wakatsuki was seven years old in 1942 when her family was sent to live at Manzanar internment camp. This is the true story of one spirited Japanese-American family's attempt to survive the indignities of forced detention.... (read more) Your Price $4.50 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
by Philippe Bourgois Publisher Comments This new edition brings this study of inner-city life up to date.... (read more) List Price $20.99 Your Price $16.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Eric Liu
Publisher Comments Beyond black and white, native and alien, lies a vast and fertile field of human experience. It is here that Eric Liu, former speechwriter for President Clinton and noted political commentator, invites us to explore. In these compellingly candid essays... (read more) Your Price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Rebecca Burlent Publisher Comments On a frosty day in November 1831, Rebecca Burlend and her husband, John, and their five children debarked at New Orleans after a long voyage from England. They took a steamboat up the Mississippi to St. Louis and from there went to the wilds of western... (read more) Your Price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Moustafa Mo Bayoumi Publisher Comments The story of how young Arab and Muslim Americans are forging lives for themselves in a country that often mistakes them for the enemy Arab and Muslim Americans are the new, largely undiscussed "problem" of American society, their lives no better... (read more) Your Price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Thomas J Fleming Publisher Comments A son comes of age in a fiercely political world ' You and your brother-youre all Ive got!' This cry of anguish from his politician fathers lips changed 16-year-old Tom Flemings life. Set in Jersey City, where Frank Hague, the ultimate boss, ruled by... (read more) Your Price $10.98 (Sale - Hardcover) check for used copies
by Jerre Mangione Publisher Comments From the early Italian adventurers who played an important role in the European expansion across the Atlantic to the political and business leaders of the 1990s, this book tells a dramatic story. The heart of the story is the mass migration that took... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your Price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Esmeralda Santiago
Publisher Comments The long-awaited new memoir by the author of When I Was Puerto Rican and Almost a Woman. A Merloyd Lawrence Book.... (read more) Your Price $4.88 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
by Ron Suskind Publisher Comments It is 1993, and Cedric Jennings is a bright and ferociously determined honor student at Ballou, a high school in one of Washington D.C.’s most dangerous neighborhoods, where the dropout rate is well into double digits and just 80 students out of... (read more) Your Price $15.95 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by N Scott Momaday Publisher Comments First published in paperback by UNM Press in 1976, The Way to Rainy Mountain has sold over 200,000 copies. The paperback edition of The Way to Rainy Mountain was first published twenty-five years ago. One should not be surprised, I suppose, that it has... (read more) Your Price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Ronald Takaki Publisher Comments A Different Mirror is a dramatic new retelling of our nation's history, a powerful larger narrative of the many different peoples who together compose the United States of America.... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your Price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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