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Good Luck Life
by Rosemary Gong Publisher Comments Good Luck Life is the first book to explain the meanings of Chinese rituals and to offer advice on when and how to plan for Chinese holidays and special occasions such as Chinese weddings, the Red Egg and Ginger party to welcome a new baby, significant...
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In Nueva York
by Nicholasa Mohr Publisher Comments Winner of the School Library Journal's Best Book for Young Adults (1977) and the Notable Trade Book Award (1977)....
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The Condition of the Working Class in England (Oxford World's Classics)
by Friedrich Engels Publisher Comments This, the first book written by Engels during his stay in Manchester from 1842 to 1844, is the best known and in many ways the most astute study of the working class in Victorian England. The fluency of his writing, the personal nature of his insights...
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Jubilee (66 Edition)
by Margaret Walker Publisher Comments Here is the classic--and true--story of Vyry, the child of a white plantation owner and his black mistress, a Southern Civil War heroine to rival Scarlett O'Hara. Vyry bears witness to the South's prewar opulence and its brutality, to its wartime ruin...
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Color-Blind: Seeing Beyond Race in a Race-Obsessed World
by Ellis Cose Publisher Comments Drawing on the experiences of South Africa and Latin America, the acclaimed author of "The Rage of a Privileged Class" illustrates why it has been impossible for the United States to move directly from race relations hell to utopia without passing...
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Turning Japanese Memoirs of a Sansei
by David Mura Publisher Comments A journal of discovery by a poet and third-generation Japanese-American who explores the sense of difference that haunts him both at home and in Japan....
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My Bondage and My Freedom (Penguin Classics)
by Frederick Douglass Publisher Comments Ex-slave Frederick Douglass's second autobiography-written after ten years of reflection following his legal emancipation in 1846 and his break with his mentor William Lloyd Garrison-catapulted Douglass into the international spotlight as the foremost...
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Harvest Son: Planting Roots in American Soil
by David Mas Masumoto Publisher Comments Masumoto's philosophy about man and nature emerges in this absorbing chronicle of his life--from his search for roots in the internment camps and the rural culture of Japan to the joy he felt passing along his organic farming techniques to his children....
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Celia, a Slave
by Melton A Mclaurin Publisher Comments Avon has compiled a varied list of books that focus on issues and concerns for women everywhere -- from notable fiction to detailed healthcare guides....
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Contemporary Voices of White Nationalism in America
by Carol M Swain Publisher Comments These candid interviews with white nationalists allow a better understanding of this threat to integration....
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The Psychopathic Racial Personality and Other Essays
by Bobby E. Wright Publisher Comments The Psychopathic Racial Personality and Other Essays presents a thought-provoking examination of the group personality of Europeans, as manifest in their behavior towards Black people. In the essay "The Psychopathic Racial Personality", Dr. Bobby Wright...
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Beyond Fear: Twelve Spiritual Keys to Racial Healing
by Aeeshah Ababio Clottey Publisher Comments Addressing racism in a distinctively different way, this seminal work presents a refreshing new vision of the internal peace that is possible for each individual, and ultimately for our society as a whole....
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Issei Nisei War Bride Three
by Evelyn Nakano Glenn Publisher Comments Although unique in many ways, the situation of the Japanese American woman has important parallels with that of other women of colour in the United States. Ironically her role as a domestic cast her in a menial, degraded job but often elevated her to the...
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American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood
by Marie Arana Publisher Comments In her father’s Peruvian family, Marie Arana was taught to be a proper lady, yet in her mother’s American family she learned to shoot a gun, break a horse, and snap a chicken’s neck for dinner. Arana shuttled easily between these deeply...
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Immigration: A Civil Rights Issue for the Americas: A Civil Rights Issue for the Americas
by Susanne Jonas Publisher Comments Public policy on immigration will be central to determining the form and character of U.S. society in the twenty-first century. The political Right has so far seized the initiative in defining the parameters of the discussion, in effect limiting national...
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Growing Up Chicana O
by Tiffany Ana Lopez Publisher Comments A collection of stories of coming-of-age in America from such accomplished Chicana/o writers as Rudolfo Anaya, Denise Chavez, Alberto Alvaro Rios, Marta Salinas, Gary Soto and others....
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Long way to go :Black and white in America
by Jonathan Coleman Book News Annotation An analysis of race relations in America using Milwaukee as a window on the rest of the nation. The author of the bestsellers At Mother's Request and Exit the Rainmaker uses interviews, diaries, letters, and his own experiences as a reporter to assess...
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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...
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Showing My Color: Impolite Essays on Race and Identity
by Clarence Page Publisher Comments The Pulitzer-Prize winning columnist for the Chicago Tribune presents a series of essays examining the central questions of race, gender, and ethnic identity that have emerged since the civil rights reforms of the mid-1960s. The essays address such...
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In the Little World: A True Story of Dwarfs, Love, and Trouble
by John H Richardson Publisher Comments In 1997, almost by accident, John Richardson found himself sharing a hotel with more than a thousand dwarfs. Over the course of a single week, he begins relationships with some of the people at a convention that evolve into an affecting two-year-and...
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