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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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A Mexican Elite Family, 1820-1980: Kinship, Class, and Culture
by Larissa Adl Lomnitz Publisher Comments "This is a rare glimpse into the family in the Mexican elite, and it provides us with an unusual depth of understanding. In a sense, the authors do for the upper sector what Oscar Lewis did for the lower sector."--Richard N. Adams, University of...
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Uprooting Racism : How White People Can Work for Racial Justice (Rev 02 Edition)
by Paul Kivel Publisher Comments Continuously at the top of New Society Publishers' best-seller list for five years, Uprooting Racism has sold over 25,000 copies since its first printing. Substantially revised and expanded, the new edition has more tools to help white people understand...
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Harriet Tubman (83 Edition)
by Ann Petry Publisher Comments Born a slave, Harriet Tubman dreamed of freedom. And through hard work and her willingness to risk everything-including her life-she was able to make that dream come true.But after making her escape, Harriet realized that her own freedom was not enough....
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Dust Rose Like Smoke : the Subjugation of the Zulu and the Sioux (94 Edition)
by James D. Gump Publisher Comments Gump, professor and chair of the Department of History at the University of San Diego, is the author of "The Formation of the Zulu Kingdom in South Africa, 1750-1840"....
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Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language
by Eva Hoffman Publisher Comments This remarkable book is Eva Hoffman's personal story of her experiences as an emigre who loses and remakes her identity in a new land and translates her sense of self into a new culture and a different language....
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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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Stranger Next Door : the Story of a Small Community's Battle Over Sex, Faith, and Civil Rights (01 Edition)
by Arlene Stein Publisher Comments A small town believes they are "under siege from homosexuals" as animosity begins to tear it apart. Author Stein writes as both a community insider and outsider, drawing upon personal observation, media analysis and interviews with 50 of the town's...
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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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As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams : Recollections of a Woman in 11TH-century Japan (71 Edition)
by Lady Sarashina Synopsis A Lady-in-waiting at a Heian court in medieval Japan records her personal feelings and reactions to social standards. Its shy and vulnerable author found happiness neither in her work at court nor with her family, and projected into her writing veiled...
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Silent Travelers : Germs, Genes, and the ""Immigrant Menace"" (94 Edition)
by Alan M. Kraut Synopsis This study traces the American tradition of the suspicion of immigrant populations spreading disease. From the cholera outbreak of the 1930s to the associations of Haitians and AIDS, the author shows how immigrant groups have been regularly slandered as...
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Alchemy of Race and Rights
by Patricia Williams Publisher Comments result is a testament of considerable beauty, a triumph of moral tactfullness, The result, as the title suggests, is magic....
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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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From Ashes To Life : My Memories of the Holocaust (94 Edition)
by Lucille Eichengreen Publisher Comments In this disturbing but inspirational account of her experiences of the Holocaust, Lucille Eichengreen relates her journey as a young Jewish girl through Nazi Germany and Poland - including internment in the camps at Auschwitz, Neuengamme, and Bergen...
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Messengers of the Wind
by Jane B Katz Publisher Comments "Messengers of the Wind goes beyond the autobiographies of everyday women. These are women who have long been an invisible part of American culture. Their stories are haunting, frightening, encouraging, and courageous. . . . Katz is a faithful guide...
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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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Memories of Chicano History: Life & Narrative of Bert Corona
by Mario T Garcia Publisher Comments Who is Bert Corona? Though not readily identified by most Americans, nor indeed by many Mexican Americans, Corona is a man of enormous political commitment whose activism has spanned much of this century. Now his voice can be heard by the wide audience...
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