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The Devil's Highway: A True Story by Luis Alberto Urrea Publisher Comments "In May 2001, a group of men attempted to cross the border into the desert of southern Arizona, through the deadliest region of the continent, a place called the Devil's Highway. Fathers and sons, brothers and strangers, entered a desert so harsh and... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Strangers Among Us: Latino Lives in a Changing America (Vintage) by Roberto Suro Publisher Comments Strangers Among Us is a lucid, informed, and cliché-shattering examination of Latino immigration to the United States--its history, the vast transformations it is fast producing in American society, and the challenges it will present for decades to... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman Publisher Comments Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction When 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: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Silent Dancing: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood by Judith Ortiz Cofer Publisher Comments Cultural Writing. Latino/Latina Studies. SILENT DANCING combines poetry and prose to form an innovative and deeply personal narrative that explores Judith Ortiz Cofer's memories of her childhood spent between Puerto Rico and New Jersey. Winner of the... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Irish on the Inside: In Search of the Soul of Irish-America by Tom Hayden Publisher Comments Tom Hayden first realized he was "Irish on the inside" when he heard civil rights marchers in Northern Ireland singing "We Shall Overcome" in 1969. Though his great-grandparents had been forced to emigrate to the US in the 1850s, Hayden?s parents erased... (read more) List Price $23.25 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Brown: The Last Discovery of America by Richard Rodriguez Publisher Comments In his dazzling new memoir, Richard Rodriguez reflects on the color brown and the meaning of Hispanics to the life of America today. Rodriguez argues that America has been brown since its inception — since the moment the African and the European met... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Gringa Latina :a woman of two worlds by Gabriell De Ferrari Publisher Comments For the readers of Laura Esquivel and Isabelle Allende, this memoir of a girlhood in Peru is seen from the very different vantage point of an adulthood in the United States. Gabriella De Ferrari, the author of the acclaimed novel A Cloud on Sand, grew up... (read more) Your price: $2.95 Used - Hardcover
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Sons of Mississippi: A Story of Race and Its Legacy by Paul Hendrickson Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-329) and index.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Other Side of the River: A Story of Two Towns, a Death, and America's Dilemma by Alex Kotlowitz Publisher Comments When the body of a black teenager is found in the St. Joseph's River, unhealed wounds and suspicions surface between two Michigan towns. Beautifully written and painstakingly reported, "The Other Side of the River" sensitively portrays the lives and... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Black White and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self by Rebecca Walker Publisher Comments Hailed as "compelling" by The Washington Post and "stunningly honest" by The San Francisco Chronicle, this memoir has hit bestseller lists and earned critical praise from coast to coast. Rebecca Walker was born in 1969 to author Alice Walker and lawyer... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Desert Remembers My Name: On Family and Writing by Kathleen Alcala Publisher Comments My parents always told me I was Mexican. I was Mexican because they were Mexican. This was sometimes modified to “Mexican American,” since I was born in California, and thus automatically a U.S. citizen. But, my parents said, this, too, was... (read more) List Price $14.50 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Julian Nava: My Mexican-American Journey (Pinata Books for Young Adults) by Julian Nava Publisher Comments Julian Nava is one of the most renowned and distinguished elder statesmen in the Hepatic community of the United States. The child of poor Mexican immigrants. Nava rose through years of hardship and hard work to achieve what no other Latino in the United... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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Illegal: NAFTA Refugees Forced to Flee by Peter A. Geniesse Publisher Comments Why have millions of Mexicans and other Latinos fled their homelands and risked their lives to come to the U.S. in search of a job? Why are they living in the shadows, ever fearful of being discovered by the migras and of being deported? Why is the... (read more) Your price: $6.00 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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The Comparative Imagination by George Fredrickson Publisher Comments In this collection of essays, an eminent American historian of race relations discusses issues central to our understanding of the history of racism, the role of racism, and the possibilites for justice in contemporary society. George M. Fredrickson... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $3.25 Used - Trade Paper
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Learning Race and Ethnicity: Youth and Digital Media (John D. and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning) by Anna Everett Publisher Comments It may have been true once that (as the famous cartoon of the 1990s put it) Nobody knows you're a dog on the Internet, and that (as an MCI commercial of that era declared) on the Internet there is no race, gender, or infirmity, but today, with the... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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William Still and the Underground Railroad: Fugitive Slaves and Family Ties by Lurey Khan Publisher Comments The Stills were the prototypical African American family who lived, worked, and sometimes prospered before, during, and after the Civil War. History is replete with the selfless contributions of these black individuals. Beginning in the waning decades of... (read more) List Price $3.99 Your price: $3.54 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Up from Slavery (Signet Classics) by Booker T Washington Publisher Comments A MAN WHO OVERCAME THE BONDS OF SLAVERY TO BECOME A SPOKESMAN FOR HIS PEOPLE.<P>Historically acknowledged as one of America's most powerful and persuasive orators, Booker T. Washington consistently challenged the forces of racial prejudice at a... (read more) List Price $4.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Mass Market
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Burning All Illusions: Writings from the Nation on Race by Paula Giddings Publisher Comments Burning All Illusions is a collection from The Nation archives of the best writing on race and civil rights from the magazine's founding in 1865 to the present. It features selections by such insurgent American writers as Martin Luther King, Jr... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Japanese Conspiracy: The Oahu Sugar Strike of 1920 by Masayo Duus Publisher Comments In early 1920 in Hawaii, Japanese sugar cane workers, faced with spiraling living expenses, defiantly struck for a wage increase to $1.25 per day. The event shook the traditional power structure in Hawaii and, as Masayo Duus demonstrates in this book... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Dismantling Racism by Joseph Barndt Publisher Comments Racism has reemerged, dramatically and forcefully. All of us -- people of color and white people alike -- are damaged by its debilitating effects. In this book, the author addresses the majority, the white race in the United States. Racism permeates the... (read more) List Price $21.50 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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