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by Maria De Los Reyes Castillo Bueno  Publisher Comments Maria de los Reyes Castillo Bueno (1902-1997), a black woman known as Reyita, recounts her life in Cuba over the span of ninety years. Reyita's voice is at once dignified, warm, defiant, strong, poetic, principled, and intelligent. Her story--as told to... (read more)  List Price $16.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Karla Goldman Publisher Comments Exegesis -- interpretation and explanation of sacred texts -- is the quintessence of rabbinic thought. Through such means and methods, the written words of Hebrew Scripture have been extended since antiquity, and given new voices for new times. In this... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $9.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Healey Publisher Comments Joseph F. Healey's Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Class, Fifth Edition builds upon the bestselling status of the four prior editions, praised for the author's writing style and the various effective pedagogical features that ensure students engage with... (read more) List Price $79.95 Your price $60.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Roberta L. Coles Publisher Comments `The author provided interesting, original examples which I found engaging. . . . I think the biggest strength is avoiding the 'one ethnicity per chapter' approach found in so many books on family diversity. I like the structural approach' - Hilary A... (read more) List Price $69.95 Your price $51.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Charlayne Hunter-Gault Publisher Comments In this direct, winning memoir, Charlayne Hunter-Gault tells the story of her life from her birth in a Deep South still living out the legacy of the Civil War to her historic role in desegregating the University of Georgia, a high point in the Civil... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $2.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Myron W. Lustig Publisher Comments AmongUS presents readings from individuals whose intercultural experiences give insights on how to achieve a fair multicultural society where cultural identities are celebrated and maintained. The essays provide a rich source of materials to teach a... (read more) List Price $71.65 Your price $58.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Andrew Hacker Publisher Comments "Challenging...The real value of this book is in Mr. Hacker's calm, analytical eye, his unblinking view of American history and his unwillingness to accept cant and 'common sense' as facts." --Tom Wicker The New York Times Book Review Why does race... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $3.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Christopher Michael Spence Publisher Comments This book discusses the role that sport participation plays in the lives of black male high-school students and strives to counteract the problems associated with students who place sport participation ahead of academic achievement.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael S. Kimmel Publisher Comments In this second edition, The Gendered Society Reader has been revised to include many new readings. These selections, both classic and contemporary, focus on the two major issues in gender studies--gender difference and male domination. They examine such... (read more) List Price $41.25 Your price $27.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Farley Publisher Comments Majority-Minority Relations, Fifth Edition, helps to develop understanding of the principles and processes that shape the patterns of relations between racial, ethnic, and other groups in society: Organized by topic, this book provides an integrated... (read more) List Price $110.65 Your price $89.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Matthew Frye Jacobson Publisher Comments America's racial odyssey is the subject of this remarkable work of historical imagination. Matthew Frye Jacobson argues that race resides not in nature but in the contingencies of politics and culture. In ever-changing racial categories we glimpse the... (read more) List Price $29.25 Your price $17.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore Publisher Comments Gilmore sets out . . . to reinterpret turn-of-the-century southern politics from the perspective of middle-class black women activists. She succeeds brilliantly. The book not only reclaims the long-buried stories of a group of richly compelling... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Andrew Morton Publisher Comments Behind the headlines, there was one fascinating woman. This is her story. Monica Lewinsky. You know her name, you know her face, and you think you know her story: the pretty young intern who began an illicit affair with the President of the United States-... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Endesha Ida Mae Holland 
Publisher Comments After being raped by a white employer at the age of 11, Holland became a rebel, turning to prostitution and delinquency. But when she stumbled across the civil rights movement, the trouble-maker found herself developing into a leader -- only to encounter... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $11.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Stephen (ed.) Stern Publisher Comments This volume explores how ethnic groups creatively adapt their folklore in response to living in a complex and changing pluralistic society.... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $17.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Eric Anderson Publisher Comments Eric Anderson clarifies a confusing, uneven period of promise from the emancipation to the disfranchisement of black Americans. He examines regional and national history in his record of one of the most remarkable centers of black political influence in... (read more) Your price $24.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Seymour Reit Publisher Comments In 1861, when war erupted between the States, President Lincoln made an impassioned plea for volunteers. Determined not to remain on the sidelines, Emma Edmonds cropped her hair, donned men’s clothing, and enlisted in the Union Army. Posing in turn... (read more) List Price $6.00 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jane Addams Publisher Comments An extended musing on the role of memory and myth in women's lives.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $7.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Langston Hughes Publisher Comments Introduction by Arnold Rampersad. Langston Hughes, born in 1902, came of age early in the 1920s. In "The Big Sea" he recounts those memorable years in the two great playgrounds of the decade--Harlem and Paris. In Paris he was a cook and waiter in... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by David A. Hollinger Publisher Comments Sympathetic with the new ethnic consciousness, Hollinger argues that the conventional liberal toleration of all established ethnic groups no longer works because it leaves unchallenged the prevailing imbalance of power. Yet the multiculturalist... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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