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From the Deep Woods To Civilization (03 Edition)
by Charles Alexander Eastman Publisher Comments In the sequel to "Indian" "Boyhood," Eastman tells of his departure from the reservation at age 15 to receive his education among whites, his experiences as a reservation physician at the Wounded Knee massacre, and of his time in Washington, D.C., where...
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Crossing Border Street
by Peter Ja Honigsberg Publisher Comments In 1966 Peter Jan Honigsberg -- a young, idealistic law student -- arrived in the South to help provide legal representation for civil rights workers. Although he was based in New Orleans, most of his work was in the city of Bogalusa and in Plaquemines...
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I Had a Hammer : the Hank Aaron Story (91 Edition)
by Hank Aaron Publisher Comments Henry Aaron left his mark on the world by breaking Babe Ruth's record for home runs. But the world has also left its mark on him. "Hammering Hank" Aaron's story is one that tells us much about baseball, naturally, but also about our times. His...
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Dictatorship of Virtue: How the Battle Over Multiculturalism is Reshaping Our Schools, Our Country, and Our Lives
by Richard Bernstein Publisher Comments In a fiercely provocative book that will generate debate for years to come, Bernstein shows how multicultural orthodoxy has created a highly lucrative bureaucracy, even as it shortchanged the very people it is meant to benefit. "Graceful and lucid. . . ....
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Strangers from a Different Shore
by Ronald Takaki Publisher Comments In a blend of narrative history, personal recollection, and oral testimony, Ronald Takaki presents a sweeping history of Asian Americans. He writes of the Chinese who laid tracks for the transcontinental railroad, of plantation laborers in the canefields...
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Can We All Get Along?: Racial & Ethnic Minorities in American Politics, RACIAL AN
by Paula D Mcclain About the Author Paula D. McClain is professor of political science; and professor of law, public policy, and African and African American Studies at Duke University. She also directs the American Political Science Association’s Ralph Bunche Summer Institute...
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave
by Frederick Douglass Publisher Comments This dramatic autobiography of the early life of an American slave was first published in 1845, when its young author had just achieved his freedom. Douglass' eloquence gives a clear indication of the powerful principles that led him to become the first...
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Immigration in a Changing Economy: California's Experience
by Kevin F Mccarthy Publisher Comments International immigration to California has steadily increased over the past 30 years. Some observers are seeing the extreme diversity of California's population as the harbinger of where the nation is headed. The culmination of a comprehensive study of...
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West Indian in the West: Self-Representations in an Immigrant Community
by Percy C Hintzen Publisher Comments In the San Francisco Bay area, West Indians negotiate their identity within a system of race relations that is shaped by the social and political power of African Americans. By asserting their racial identity as black, West Indians make legal and...
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Free to Die for Their Country: The Story of the Japanese American Draft Resisters in World War II (Chicago Series in Law and Society)
by Eric L Muller Publisher Comments In the spring of 1942, the federal government forced West Coast Japanese Americans into detainment camps on suspicion of disloyalty. Two years later, after stripping them of their livelihoods, liberty, and dignity, the government demanded even more by...
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Black Planet: Facing Race During an NBA Season
by David Shields Publisher Comments Exploration of how, in a predominantly black sport, white fans think and talk about black heroes, black scapegoats, and black bodies....
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Siberian Dream :Russ
by Irina Pantaeva Synopsis The tale of a courageous young woman. Irina Pantaeva was born in communist Siberia, where individuality was stifled. Her parents refused to join the Communist Party, and Irina, picked by a talent scout to star in a Soviet film, went on to conquer the...
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The New Anti-semitism
by Phyllis Chesler Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-286) and index....
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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 the...
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Making of a Civil Rights Leader: Jose Angel Gutierrez
by Jose Ange Gutierrez Publisher Comments Born in 1944, Jose Angel Gutierrez grew up in a time when Mexicans and Mexican Americans in Texas and the Southwest attended separate schools and avoided public facilities and restaurants that were designated "Whites Only." Despite the limits of...
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Song of Saigon: One Woman's Journey to Freedom
by Anh Vu Sawyer Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-288)....
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Hatred, Bigotry, and Prejudice: Definitions, Causes & Solutions (Contemporary Issues)
by Robert M Baird Publisher Comments The kidnaping and beating death of a gay University of Wyoming student; the dragging death of a black man in Jasper, Texas, by advocates of "white pride" -- these two isolated incidents of violent crime occurred in 1998, not 1898, and are painful...
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Darker Shade of Crimson: Odyssey of a Harvard Chicano
by Ruben Jr Navarrette Publisher Comments In this nationally acclaimed account of a young Latino's coming-of-age at America's most prestigious university, Navarrette engages the reader in a challenging discussion of affirmative action, racism, and liberal education in America. (Education...
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Monica's Story (99 Edition)
by Andrew Morton Publisher Comments Behind the headlines, there was one fascinating woman. This is her story. Monica Lewinsky. You know her name, you know her face, and you think you know her story: the pretty young intern who began an illicit affair with the President of the United States-...
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Faces at the Bottom of the Well
by Derrick Bell Publisher Comments The noted civil rights activist uses allegory and historical example to present a radical vision of the persistence of racism in America. These essays shed light on some of the most perplexing and vexing issues of our day: affirmative action, the...
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