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Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo
by Oscar Zeta Acosta  Publisher Comments Before his mysterious disappearance and probable death in 1971, Oscar Zeta Acosta was famous as a Robin Hood Chicano layer and notorious as the real-life model for Hunter S. Thompson's "Dr. Gonzo," a fat, pugnacious attorney with a gargantuan appetite...
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The Rise and Fall of the White Republic: Class Politics and Mass Culture in Nineteenth-Century America (Haymarket)
by Alexander Saxton Publisher Comments In this acclaimed historical study, Alexander Saxton establishes the centrality of white racism to American politics and culture. Examining images of race at a popular level--from black-face minstrelsy to the construction of the Western hero, from...
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Not Out of Africa: How Afrocentrism Became an Excuse to Teach Myth as History
by Mary Lefkowitz Publisher Comments Not Out of Africa has sparked widespread debate over the teaching of revisionist history in schools and colleges. Was Socrates black? Did Aristotle steal his ideas from the library in Alexandria? Do we owe the underlying tenets of our democratic...
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All Souls: A Family Story from Southie
by Michael Patrick MacDonald Publisher Comments A breakaway bestseller since its first printing, "All Souls" takes readers deep into MacDonalds Southie, the proudly insular neighborhood with the highest concentration of white poverty in America. MacDonald tells his family story here with gritty but...
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Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir
by Joyce Johnson 
Publisher Comments A National Book Critics Circle Award-winner, Minor Characters has deservedly become known among the cognoscenti as a classic about the 1950s, a vivid and compelling memoir of one womans coming of age amidst the angels and poets of the Beat Generation...
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Little Money Street: In Search of Gypsies and Their Music in the South of France (Vintage Departures)
by Fernanda Eberstadt Publisher Comments In 1998, Fernanda Eberstadt, her husband, and their two small children moved from New York to an area outside Perpignan, France — a city with one of the largest Gypsy populations in Western Europe. Here she found a jealously guarded culture, a...
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Names a Memoir Sun Tracks Volume 16
by N Scott Momaday Publisher Comments Of all of the works of N. Scott Momaday, The Names may be the most personal. A memoir of his boyhood in Oklahoma and the Southwest, it is also described by Momaday as "an act of the imagination. When I turn my mind to my early life, it is the imaginative...
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Joan of Arc: By Herself and Her Witnesses
by Regine Pernoud Publisher Comments One feels closer to Joan in these pages than in any modern biographies.--Saturday...
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Rethinking the Color Line (3RD 07 Edition)
by Charles A. Gallagher Publisher Comments This anthology of current research and writings examines contemporary issues and explores new approaches to the study of race and ethnic relations....
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Frederick Douglass
by William S Mcfeely Publisher Comments A former slave, orator, journalist, autobiographer, and revolutionary on behalf of a just America, Douglass was a towering figure, at once consumately charismatic and flawed. In this biography, fresh and incisive in its research and interpretation...
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Autobiography of a Face
by Lucy Grealy Publisher Comments This powerful memoir is about the premium we put on beauty and on a woman's face in particular. It took Lucy Grealy twenty years of living with a distorted self-image and more than thirty reconstructive procedures before she could come to terms with her...
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Bone Black #1: Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood
by bell hooks Publisher Comments Stitching together girlhood memories with the finest threads of innocence, feminist intellectual bell hooks presents a powerfully intimate account of growing up in the South. A memoir of ideas and perceptions, Bone Black shows the unfolding of female...
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Laughing in the Dark: From Colored Girl to Woman of Color--A Journey from Prison to Power
by Patrice Gaines Publisher Comments An award-winning Washington Post reporter explores the twisted path she traveled to find her place as a confident black female in a world that values whiteness and maleness. Here is a rich and insightful story of a life lived on the edge by a woman...
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Brother To a Dragonfly (2ND 00 Edition)
by Will D. Campbell Publisher Comments Published to coincide with the PBS documentary "God's Will", this 25th anniversary edition of this powerful and personal civil rights memoir is introduced to a new generation of readers....
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The Death of the West: How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil Our Country and Civilization
by Patrick J Buchanan Publisher Comments The national bestseller that shocked the nation--The Death of the West is an unflinching look at the increasing decline in Western culture and power. The West is dying. Collapsing birth rates in Europe and the U. S., coupled with population explosions in...
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Spanglish : Making of a New American Language (03 Edition)
by Ilan Stavans Publisher Comments With the release of the census figures in 2000, Latino America wasanointed the future driving force of American culture. The emergence of Spanglish as a form of communication is one of the more influential markers of an America gone Latino. Spanish...
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Lakota Woman Tie in
by Mary Crow Dog Publisher Comments Chapter 1 A Woman from He-Dog A nation is not conquered until the hearts of its women are on the ground. Then it is done, no matter how brave its warriors nor how strong their weapons. "-- Cheyenne proverb"
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Daughter of Persia: A Woman's Journey From Her Father's Harem Through the Islamic Revolution
by Sattareh F Farmaian Publisher Comments The Remarkable story of the daughter of a once powerful and wealthy shazdeh, or prince, Farmaian tells a fascinating tale of growing up in the 1930s in a Persian harem compound in Tehran. Breaking with Muslim tradition, she became...
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Motherhood in Black and White : Race and Sex in American Liberalism, 1930-1965 (00 Edition)
by Ruth Feldstein Publisher Comments The apron-clad, white, stay-at-home mother. Black bus boycotters in Montgomery, Alabama. Ruth Feldstein explains that these two enduring, yet very different, images of the 1950s did not run parallel merely by ironic coincidence, but were in fact...
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Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo Van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance
by Ian Buruma Publisher Comments Ian Buruma returns to his native land to explore the great dilemma of our time through the story of the brutal murder of controversial Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh at the hands of an Islamic extremist. It was the emblematic crime of our moment: On a...
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