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In the Shadow of Revolution
by Sheila (edt) Fitzpatrick  Publisher Comments Asked shortly after the revolution about how she viewed the new government, Tatiana Varsher replied, "With the wide-open eyes of a historian." Her countrywoman, Zinaida Zhemchuzhnaia, expressed a similar need to take note: "I want to write about the way...
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Race Rules : Navigating the Color Line (97 Edition)
by Michael Eric Dyson Publisher Comments "You couldn't ask for a fairer-minded, better-informed, or more enjoyable guide."<BR>--"Elle <BR>As a former welfare father who is also an ordained Baptist minister and a Princeton Ph.D., Michael Eric Dyson is one of those rare intellectuals...
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Forgiving the Dead Man Walking
by Debbie Morris with Gregg Lewis Publisher Comments It was just another time of enjoying milkshakes and small talk. Neither Debbie Cuevas nor her boyfriend, Mark Brewster, gave much thought to the white pickup truck that had pulled up beside them on the riverfront. Until . . . a revolver thrust through...
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Cultural Diversity in United States : a Critical Reader (01 Edition)
by Ida (ed.) Susser Publisher Comments "Cultural Diversity in the United States: A Critical Reader" is an unprecedented collection of contemporary writings authored by some of anthropology's most notable scholars-from across the discipline - on the central issues of cultural diversity in the...
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Africans in the Americas: A History of the Black Diaspora
by Michael L. / Davis, Thomas J. Conniff Publisher Comments This book seeks to explore, in a single, short convenient text, the complex relationship between Africa and the Americas from the early sixteenth century through the end of the twentieth century. Beginning with a preview of the relations between Africa...
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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...
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The Trouble with Friendship: Why Americans Can't Think Straight about Race
by Benjamin Demott Publisher Comments In this lively book, a well-known social critic draws on evidence from movies, TV, literature, and advertising to argue that many Americans have been lulled by the media into believing that racial problems can be substantially mitigated, even vanquished,...
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Twelve Years a Slave (70 Edition)
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....
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Race in North America : Origins and Evolution of a Worldview (3RD 07 Edition)
by Audrey Smedley Publisher Comments In a sweeping work that traces the idea of race for more than three centuries, Audrey Smedley shows that “race” is a cultural invention that began to appear around the turn of the eighteenth century. In its origin, race was not a product of...
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Understanding Contemporary Africa (4TH 07 Edition)
by April A. Gordon Book News Annotation The textbook for general African studies courses and discipline-based courses is updated again to keep up with changing events and conditions in Africa. Geography, history, politics, economics, international relations, urbanization, AIDS, the...
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Rachel of Old Louisiana
by Avery O Craven Publisher Comments Rachel O'Connor was an extraordinary woman. For nearly fifty years (from 1797 to 1846), she lived on a plantation near Bayou Sara in Louisiana's West Feliciana Parish. And for twenty-five of those years, after the death of her husband, she managed the...
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Gendered Society Reader 3RD Edition
by Michael S Kimmel Publisher Comments Are men and women really from different planets? How are they different? And what do these differences mean? Why is it that every society distinguishes people on the basis of gender? Why is it that virtually every known society is also based on male...
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Reuben Snake : Your Humble Serpent (96 Edition)
by Jay Fikes Publisher Comments "In this eminently readable and beautifully designed book, editor Fikes has salvaged one of the inspirational stories of our time. Reuben Snake's journey is a vital embodiment of how living faith, humility, terrific self-discipline, and dedication to a...
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Place in El Paso : a Mexican-american Childhood (96 Edition)
by Gloria Lopez-stafford Publisher Comments This memoir of growing up in El Paso in the 1940s and 1950s creates an entire city: the way a barrio awakens in the early morning sun, the thrill of a rare desert snow, the taste of fruit-flavored raspadas on summer afternoons, the money boys who beg...
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Clear Springs (99 Edition)
by Bobbie Ann Mason Publisher Comments Chapter One It is late spring, and I am pulling pondweed. My mother likes to fish for bream and catfish, and the pondweed is her enemy. Her fishing line gets caught in it, and she says the fish feed on it, ignoring her bait. "That old pondweed will take...
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Melungeons (Revised) ((2ND)97 Edition)
by Robyn Vaughan Kennedy Publisher Comments A manifesto of a forgotten people. Kennedy's memoir of discovery is personal and historical, cultural, and autobiographical....
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Visions and Longings
by Monica Furlong Publisher Comments The women mystics of medieval Europe represent the very first feminine voices heard in a world where women were nearly silent. As such, they are striking and unusual, strange, powerful and urgent. Monica Furlong uses key selections from among these women'...
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Debating Sexual Correctness (95 Edition)
by Adele M. Stan Publisher Comments A glance here, a flirtation there, a moment of misunderstanding. Have the new rules of feminist politics gone too far? Since Katie Riophe's book "The Morning After helped spark a national debate over the politics of date rape, the media has focused on...
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Two Nations : Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal (Rev 03 Edition)
by Andrew Hacker Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references and index....
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Canicula : Snapshots of a Girlhood En La Frontera (95 Edition)
by Norma Elia Cantu Publisher Comments Chronicles the coming of age of a Chicana in the U.S.-Mexico border towns of Laredo and Nuevo Laredo in the fifties and sixties....
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