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by Booker T. Washington  Publisher Comments For the 50 years that followed its publication in 1901, Up from Slavery was the most widely known book written by an African American. The life of Booker T. Washington embodied the legendary rise of an American self-made man, and his autobiography gave... (read more)  List Price $9.95 Your price $6.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Frances Esquibel Tywoniak Publisher Comments In the long tradition of the "testimonio," or personal narrative, Migrant Daughter is a deeply affecting memoir of a Mexican-American woman's coming-of-age during the 1930s-1950s, moving from rural New Mexico to life as a farm laborer in California, and... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by James K Cneley Publisher Comments The study of Holy Wind In Navajo Philosophy is based on a combination of field interviews with Navajo informants and library research, both conducted during 1970-1972 from a base at many Farms, Arizona, in the central part of the Navajo Nation.... (read more) Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ko-lin Chin Publisher Comments In Chinatown Gangs, Ko-lin Chin penetrates a closed society and presents a rare portrait of the underworld of New York City's Chinatown. Based on first-hand accounts from gang members, gang victims, community leaders, and law enforcement authorities... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ernesto Galarza Synopsis In this book, Galarza tells of his progress from a Mexican village so small its main street didn't have a name, to Sacramento, California. He describes the difficulties of finding work in a strife-torn nation, in securing an education and in keeping his... (read more) List Price $18.25 Your price $12.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ronald H. Bayor Publisher Comments Featuring essays by leading historians, this brief history is a timely introduction to the interrelated themes of race, ethnicity, and immigration in American history. The book is comprehensive both chronologically -- spanning from 1600 to 2000 and... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Larry Mcmurtry Publisher Comments Legends cloud the life of Crazy Horse, a seminal figure in American history but an enigma even to his own people in his own day. This superb biography looks back across more than 120 years at the life and death of this great Sioux warrior who became a... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Stuart Seely (ed.) Sprague Publisher Comments "Surpasses all previous slave narratives.... Usually we need to invent our American heroes. With the publication of Parker's extraordinary memoir, we seem to have discovered the genuine article". -- Joseph J. Ellis, Civilization John P. Parker is one of... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Catherine Clinton Publisher Comments This is a long-overdue historical work on one of the most important figures in American history, written by an acclaimed historian of the antebellum era. Harriet Tubman was the first and only woman, fugitive slave, and black to work as a conductor on the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Joseph F. Healey Publisher Comments How should we respond to the challenges of diversity? Are there limits to how much diversity we should tolerate before societal unity is threatened? Race, Ethnicity, and Gender: Selected Readings addresses such questions and examines how the United... (read more) List Price $46.95 Your price $30.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Scott Reynolds Nelson Publisher Comments The ballad John Henry is the most recorded folk song in American history and John Henry--the mighty railroad man who could blast through rock faster than a steam drill--is a towering figure in our culture. In Steel Drivin' Man, Scott Reynolds Nelson... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Colette Guillaumin Publisher Comments "Racism, Sexism, Power and Ideology" argues that there is nothing "obvious" or "natural" about our ideas of sex and race. The books looks at the evolution of these ideas, with Colette Guillaumin contending that the slow crystallization of ideas on human "... (read more) List Price $51.95 Your price $39.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ellyn Bache Review "[P]ortrays the conflict between the need to develop self-reliance among the refugees and the impulse to provide total support for them." Wall Street... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price $2.60 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael Alexander Publisher Comments By the 1920s, Jews were--by all economic, political, and cultural measures of the day--making it in America. But as these children of immigrants took their places in American society, many deliberately identified with groups that remained excluded... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $12.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Naomi Zack Publisher Comments THINKING ABOUT RACE offers a concise, provocative introduction to the often overlooked, yet ever-salient body of philosophical thought regarding the nature and impact of race on our lives. Not only does the book address the essence of race and ethnicity... (read more) List Price $61.95 Your price $39.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Maureen T. Reddy Publisher Comments 'A combination of literary analysis, autobiography, and ethnography housed within a broadly defined black feminist framework... Reddy's greatest insights come from her experiences within an interracial family, and these serve to reinforce her indictment... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $17.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Dorothy Wordsworth Publisher Comments This is perhaps one of the best-loved journals in English literature. Dorothy Wordsworth began it in 1800 to give her poet-brother pleasure, and for three years she noted walks and weather, friends, and neighbors on the roads of Grasmere. The journals... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $3.60 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by David Remnick 
Publisher Comments Succeeds more than any previous book in bringing Ali into focus . . . as a starburst of energy, ego and ability whose like will never be seen again.--The Wall Street Journal Best Nonfiction Book of the Year--Time Penetrating . . . reveal s] details that... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $7.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Joe R. Feagin Publisher Comments <P style=MARGIN: 0px>Drawing on a broad array of sources, <I>Racial and Ethnic Relation, 8/e, </I>examines the “what”, “why”, and “how” of racial and ethnic oppression and... (read more) List Price $136.25 Your price $89.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Amy H. Kirschke Publisher Comments Aaron Douglas (1899-1979) is the leading visual artist of the Harlem Renaissance, the first African-American to explore modernism and to reflect African art in his paintings, murals, and illustrations. His work is a vivid record both of his achievement... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price $14.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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