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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... (read more)  List Price $6.95 Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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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... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $18.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by James Gill Publisher Comments Mardi Gras remains one of the most distinctive features of New Orleans. Although the city has celebrated Carnival since its days as a French and Spanish colonial outpost, the rituals familiar today were largely established in the Civil War era by a white... (read more) List Price $31.25 Your price $26.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Washington Matthews Publisher Comments The ceremony of dsilydje qal, or mountain chant-literally, chant towards (a place) within the mountains-is one of a large number practiced by the shamans, or medicine men, of the Navajo tribe. I have selected it as the first of those to be described... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $7.50 Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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. . . .... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Loretta Baldassar Publisher Comments Emigration is often perceived as a one-way journey -- leaving one's homeland and arriving in, and adjusting to, a new country. In fact, it can be a much more complex and long-drawn-out process than this. The small village of San Fior lies in northeastern... (read more) Your price $28.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Kate Simon Publisher Comments The classic, unforgettable memoir of a young girl's coming of age, "Bronx Primitive" recalls the vitality of an immigrant neighborhood through the unsentimental eyes of a child. With an unerring eye for detail and an iridescent, clear-eyed prose, Kate... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $5.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Paula Denice 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... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price $1.55 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard Gunther Publisher Comments In The Politics of Democratic Consolidation, a distinguished group of internationally recognized scholars focus on four nations of Southern Europe--Spain, Portugal, Italy, and Greece--which have successfully consolidated their democratic regimes... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $17.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Sarah Royce Publisher Comments Since it was first published in 1932, "A Frontier Lady" has held a high and special place in the literature of Americas westward migration. Written in the 1880s at the request of her son, the philosopher and educator Josiah Royce, Sarah Royce's narrative... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael Lemay Publisher Comments This dynamic book uses a multidisciplinary approach, yet stays consistent in its theme and style. It integrates materials and approaches from several perspectives smoothly and effectively to make the content more comprehensive and interesting... (read more) List Price $96.25 Your price $52.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Steven Selden Publisher Comments In this remarkable book, Steven Selden tells the story of the eugenics movement in America during the early decades of the twentieth century. Complete with fascinating archival photographs, Inheriting Shame provides a powerful historical account and... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $18.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Timothy W Mason Publisher Comments Translated from the German by John Broadwin This book analyzes the attitudes and policies of the Nazi leadership towards the German working class. The author argues that the regime did not securely integrate the working class and was thus less successful... (read more) Your price $126.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Thomas Streissguth Publisher Comments While the acts themselves have occurred throughout... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Arnold Rampersad Publisher Comments The extraordinary life of Jackie Robinson is illuminated as never before in this full-scale biography by Arnold Rampersad, who was chosen by Jack's widow, Rachel, to tell her husband's story, and was given unprecedented access to his private papers. We... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $5.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Wahneema Lubiano Publisher Comments Like Race Matters and Playing in the Dark, The House That Race Built is a cutting-edge work that confronts, honestly and passionately, the most critical issues facing American culture today along the fissure of race. In these essays, brought together by... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Leroy Vail Publisher Comments Despite a quarter century of "nation building," most African states are still driven by ethnic particularism--commonly known as "tribalism." The stubborn persistence of tribal ideologies despite the profound changes associated with modernization has... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $13.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Helen Colijn Publisher Comments Thrown into the whirlwind of dark forces unleashed with the onset of World War II, a young woman, Helen Colijn, her sisters, and father flee the oncoming Japanese army. Helen Colijn's account of her wartime experiences is a window into a largely... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Harry L. Kitano Publisher Comments Kitano uses his own experiences as a Japanese American—including growing up in a World War II concentration camp—as one motivation behind this book. He views race relations from an Asian-American perspective so that many of the models and... (read more) List Price $63.50 Your price $41.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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