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Meaning of Difference : American Constructions of Race, Sex and Gender, Social Class, and Sexual Orientation (4TH 06 - Old Edition)
by Karen E. Rosenblum  Publisher Comments "The Meaning of Difference" is a text-reader about the social construction of difference as it operates in American formulations of race, sex and gender, social class, and sexual orientation. The book is based on the conviction that similar processes are...
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By the Lake of Sleeping Children
by Luis Alberto Urrea Publisher Comments Luis Alberto Urrea's first book, Across the Wire: Life and Hard Times on the Mexican Border, was a haunting and unprecedented look at what life is like for those living on the Mexican side of the border, eking out only the barest of lives not far from...
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Coming to America (Second Edition): A History of Immigration and Ethnicity in American Life
by Roger Daniels Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 477-491) and index....
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Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir
by Doris Kearns Goodwin 
Publisher Comments Set in the suburbs of New York in the 1950s, Wait Till Next Year is Doris Kearns Goodwin's touching memoir of growing up in love with her family and baseball. She re-creates the postwar era, when the corner store was a place to share stories and...
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Latina Writers (Ilan Stavans Library of Latino Civilization)
by Ilan (edt) Stavans Publisher Comments Latina literature is one of the fastest growing areas of American literature today, and the impact Latina writers have had on the literary scene is undeniable. This volume features the most significant articles-including peer-review essays, interviews...
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States Without Citizens: Understanding the Islamic Crisis
by John W. Jandora Publisher Comments Terrorist attacks on America and its allies and persistent violence in the Islamic world point to a crisis in Islamic society, which States without Citizens attributes to an unfulfilled quest for an Islamic renaissance. The Islamic states, whose borders...
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The Rise and Fall of the Caucasian Race: A Political History of Racial Identity
by Bruce Baum Publisher Comments "Add[s] a needed dimension to the study of race in political science that I hope scholars beyond the field of theory will take to heart." —Perspectives on Politics "An indispensable book. The Rise and Fall of the Caucasian Race takes the study of...
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Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman
by Marjorie Shostak Publisher Comments This classic paperback is available once again — and exclusively — from Harvard University Press. This book is the story of the life of Nisa, a member of the !Kung tribe of hunter-gatherers from southern Africa's Kalahari desert. Told in...
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Taste of Power : a Black Woman's Story (92 Edition)
by Elaine Brown Publisher Comments Brown's account of her life at the highest levels of the Black Panther party's hierarchy. More than a journey through a turbulent time in American history, this is the story of a black woman's battle to define herself....
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Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America and American in Iran
by Azadeh Moaveni Publisher Comments A young Iranian-American journalist returns to Tehran and discovers not only the oppressive and decadent life of her Iranian counterparts who have grown up since the revolution, but the pain of searching for a homeland that may not exist....
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Down These Mean Streets (Thirtieth-Anniversary Edition)
by Piri Thomas Publisher Comments Piri Thomas's classic memoir of the barrio of Spanish Harlem celebrates its thirtieth anniversary of publication. Down These Mean Streets captures both the harrowing facts of his life and the irrepressible rhythms of his voice. As Thomas recounts his...
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Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 1: 1884-1933
by Blanche Wiesen Cook Publisher Comments Cook hit a nerve with her portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt--the brave, fierce, passionate, political heroine of our century. A national bestseller, her authoritative biography has been celebrated by feminists, historians, politicians, potential first ladies,...
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White Like Me
by Tim J. Wise Publisher Comments Wise offers a highly personal examination of the ways in which racial privilege shapes the lives of most white Americans, overtly racist or not, to the detriment of people of color, themselves, and society. Using stories instead of stale statistics, Wise...
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Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life
by Charles Capper Publisher Comments With this first volume of a two-part biography of the Transcendentalist critic and feminist leader, Margaret Fuller, Capper has launched the premier modern biography of early America's best-known intellectual woman. Based on a thorough examination of all...
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Crossing Over: A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail
by Ruben Martinez Publisher Comments The U.S.-Mexican border is one of the most permeable boundaries in the world, breached daily by Mexicans in search of work. Thousands die crossing the line and those who reach "the other side" are branded illegals, undocumented and unprotected. Crossing...
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My First White Friend: Confessions on Race, Love and Forgiveness
by Patricia Raybon Publisher Comments Renowned African American journalist Patricia Raybon comes face-to-face with her own race-driven instincts and past in this powerful book that is part journal, part memoir, part social commentary. In a brave and elegant narrative that owes much to the...
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When I Was Puerto Rican
by Esmeralda Santiago
Publisher Comments Selling over 16,000 copies in hardcover, this triumphant coming-of-age memoir is now available in paperback editions in both English and Spanish. In the tradition of Black Ice, Santiago writes lyrically of her childhood on her native island and of her...
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The Bookseller of Kabul
by Asne Seierstad
Powells.com Staff Pick In this remarkable portrait, Norwegian journalist Åsne Seierstad recounts with brutal honesty the day to day lives of one Afghani family persevering through life in a country beset by chaos. With the assent of the Khan family with whom she lives...
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Black Ice
by Lorene Cary Publisher Comments In 1972 Lorene Cary, a bright, ambitious black teenager from Philadelphia, was transplanted into the formerly all-white, all-male environs of the elite St. Paul's School in New Hampshire, where she became a scholarship student in a "boot camp" for future...
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Historicizing Online Politics: Telegraphy, the Internet, and Political Participation in China
by Yongming Zhou Publisher Comments "Zhou's book is an engaging and important addition to the literary of Chinese media studies."—New Zealand Journal of Asian...
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