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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander Publisher Comments The New Jim Crow was initially published with a modest first printing and reasonable expectations for a hard-hitting book on a tough topic. Now, ten-plus printings later, the long-awaited paperback version of the book Lani Guinier calls brave and... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Orientalism (78 Edition) by Edward W. Said Publisher Comments The noted critic and a Palestinian now teaching at Columbia University,examines the way in which the West observes the Arabs.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope (P.S.) by William Kamkwamba Publisher Comments William Kamkwamba was born in Malawi, a country where magic ruled and modern science was mystery. It was also a land withered by drought and hunger. But William had read about windmills, and he dreamed of building one that would bring to his small... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup Publisher Comments Gripping autobiography presents exceptionally detailed and accurate description of slave life and plantation society. "A moving, vital testament . . ."--"Saturday Review." 7 illus.... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Black Elk Speaks Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux by John G Neihardt Publisher Comments The most famous Native American book ever written, Black Elk Speaks is the acclaimed story of Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk (1863-1950) and his people during the momentous, twilight years of the nineteenth century. Black Elk grew up in a... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Racial Formation in the United States, 1960-1990 (2ND 94 Edition) by Michael Omi Synopsis First published in 1986, Racial Formation in the United States is now considered a classic in the literature on race and ethnicity. This second edition builds upon and updates Omi and Winant's groundbreaking research. In addition to a preface to the new... (read more) List Price $50.25 Your price: $32.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Black Boy: American Hunger a Record of Childhood and Youth (Perennial Classics) by Richard Wright Publisher Comments Plot Summary "Black Boy is Richard Wright's memoir of his life from early childhood to the launching of his career as a writer. His father abandoned the family soon after they moved to Memphis, leaving Wright, his mother and brother in dire straits... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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American Apartheid : Segregation and the Making of the Underclass (93 Edition) by Douglas S. Massey Publisher Comments significance in the United States today.... (read more) List Price $29.00 Your price: $22.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Asian Philosophies (6TH 12 Edition) by John M. Koller Publisher Comments With an inside view from an expert in the field, solid scholarship, and a clear and engaging writing style, Asian Philosophies invites students and professors to think along with the great thinkers of the Asian traditions. John M... (read more) List Price $115.75 Your price: $76.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (Penguin American Library) by Frederick Douglass Publisher Comments An updated edition of a classic African American autobiography, with new supplementary materials The preeminent American slave narrative first published in 1845, Frederick Douglasss Narrative powerfully details the life of the abolitionist from his birth... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Down These Mean Streets, 30TH Anniversary Edition (97 Edition) by Piri Thomas Publisher Comments Thirty years ago Piri Thomas made literary history with this lacerating, lyrical memoir of his coming of age on the streets of Spanish Harlem. Here was the testament of a born outsider: a Puerto Rican in English-speaking America; a dark-skinned morenito... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Sun Chief : the Autobiography of a Hopi Indian (42 Edition) by Leo W. (ed.) Simmons Publisher Comments The story of Don C. Talayesva, the Sun Chief, who was born and reared until the age of ten as a Hopi Indian, and then trained as a white man until he was twenty. Although torn between two worlds and cultures, he returned to Hopiland and readopted all the... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price: $17.00 Used - Trade Paper
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White Like Me: Reflections on Race From a Privileged Son - Revised and Updated (Rev 11 Edition) by Tim Wise Synopsis With a new preface and updated chapters, White Like Me is one-part memoir, one-part polemical essay collection. It is a personal examination of the way in which racial privilege shapes the daily lives of white Americans in every realm: employment... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Everyday Life in Southeast Asia (11 Edition) by Kathleen M. Adams Publisher Comments This lively survey of the peoples, cultures, and societies of Southeast Asia introduces a region of tremendous geographic, linguistic, historical, and religious diversity. Encompassing both mainland and island countries, these engaging essays describe... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $20.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Understanding and Managing Diversity (4TH 09 - Old Edition) by Carol Harvey Publisher Comments This book uses applications to clarify and understand the complexity of a diverse workforce, and how it can be used as an organizational asset. This edition covers the forces acting for and against the shift to a more diverse workforce and the... (read more) List Price $105.95 Your price: $71.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Hidden Wound (89 Edition) by Wendell Berry Publisher Comments In this beautifully written book-length essay, Berry explores the “hidden wound” of racism and its pernicious effects on white people in America. Rigorous, honest, and deeply felt, The Hidden Wound is essential reading for anyone hoping to... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race by Matthew Fr Jacobson Publisher Comments America’s racial odyssey is the subject of this remarkable work of historical imagination. Matthew Frye Jacobson argues that race resides not in nature but in the contingencies of politics and culture. In ever-changing racial categories we glimpse... (read more) List Price $35.50 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Names We Call Home : Autobiography on Racial Identity (96 Edition) by Becky (ed.) Thompson Publisher Comments This volume includes autobiographical essays, poetry and interviews to highlight the historical, social and cultural influences that inform racial identity and make possible resistance to myriad forms of injustice. Topics covered include: border politics... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price: $38.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Why Are All Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? ((Rev)03 Edition) by Beverly Daniel Tatum Publisher Comments Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see black youth seated together in the cafeteria. Of course, it's not just the black kids sitting together-the white, Latino, Asian Pacific, and, in some regions, American Indian youth are clustered... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Sorrow in Our Heart: The Life of Tecumseh by Allan W Eckert Publisher Comments The epic tale of a towering Native American hero by the award-winning author of The Frontiersmen. Published to rave reviews, this extraordinary book tells the story of Shawnee leader Tecumseh, a military genius whose vision was to unite the North... (read more) List Price $8.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Mass Market
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