Ethnic studies / Ethnicity Books
UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press La Raza
Book SynopsisLa Raza, launched in 1967 in the basement of an Eastside LA church, was conceived as a tool for community-based organizing during the early days of the Chicano movement. The all-volunteer staff of the newspaperand the magazine that followedinformed readers and exhorted them to action through images and articles that showcased protests and demonstrations and documented pervasive social inequity and police abuse. La Raza's photographers played a critical role as artists, journalists, and activists, creating an unparalleled record of the determination, resilience, and achievements of the Chicano community during a period of profound social change.This catalog presents photographs from the La Raza exhibition at the Autry Museum of the American West and the more than 25,000 images in the La Raza Photograph Collection at the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center. The essays offer not only scholarly assessments of the role of Chicanx photographers in so
£29.45
UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press The Chicanao Education Pipeline
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UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press Barrio Harmonics
Book SynopsisThis collection explores Chicano, Mexican, and Cuban musical forms and styles and their transformation in the United States. Employing musical, historical, and sociocultural analyses, Loza addresses issues such as marginality, identity, intercultural conflict and aesthetics, reinterpretation, postnationalism, and mestizajethe mixing of race and culturein the production and reception of Chicano/Latino music. Barrio Harmonics opens with a comprehensive overview that begins with music in the US Southwest in the seventeenth century and ends with the Grammy Awards for Latin American music in the first decade of the twenty-first century. In the following chapters, Loza discusses artists whose music ranges from sones, rancheros, and corridos to Latin jazz, R & B, and rock and roll. Among those he considers in depth are Pancho Sánchez, Lalo Guerrero, Tito Puente, and Los Lobos. He also surveys the contributions of scores of other individuals and groups who have shaped the current contour of Ch
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UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press The Aztlan Mexican Studies Reader 19742016
Book SynopsisThis set of essays explores the ongoing cultural and political connections between Chicana/o and Mexican history. Edited and introduced by Héctor Calderón, The Aztlán Mexican Studies Reader, 19742016 presents thirteen previously published essays together with three essays written specifically for this collection, making a rigorous case for the contributions of Chicana/o studies to the transnational study of Mexico. The first essay, by Tomás Almaguer, which was also the first to be published, sets the stage with a historical overview that relates how the Chicano movement was rooted in the soil of conquest and colonialism in Mexico. Subsequent essays discuss a range of topics that stress interconnections between Chicana/os and Mexicans: transborder issues such as immigration and labor; Chicana/o and Mexican fiction; femicide and racism in Mexico and their reverberations on both sides of the border; and the development of Mexican art formsincluding muralism, cinema, and musicin Mexico and
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UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press Jos233 Montoya
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UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press The Artist as Eyewitness
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UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press Christina Fernandez
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Ohio University Press African Intellectuals and Decolonization
Book SynopsisDecades after independence for most African states, the struggle for decolonization is still incomplete, as demonstrated by the fact that Africa remains associated in many Western minds with chaos, illness, and disorder.Trade Review“A knowledge of old school Black intellectualism in the Americas and Africa may serve as a prerequisite to these readings, but one can still enjoy this work without a prior awareness of the history. This book is must for all aspiring and functional Black intellectuals!” * Examiner.com *
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African American Images Bringing the Black boy to Manhood
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Chicago Review Press Building Atlanta
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Not many people alive in Atlanta today can look back and say they were involved with Dr. King, but Herman can do that. He's been an important person in the history of this city." --Arthur Blank, cofounder, the Home Depot; owner, Atlanta Falcons"Herman has been one of the pillars of the Atlanta community for many years, as a businessperson but also as a caring, concerned citizen. He's made a lasting contribution, not just to Atlanta but to the nation." --John Lewis, U.S. representative, Georgia fifth congressional district"I think that Herman Russell had as much to do with the rise of Atlanta as Ted Turner. Ted did a tremendous job in taking Atlanta all over the world via CNN and Herman did the same with his building empire." --Hank Aaron, Hall-of-Fame baseball player"Mr. Russell is a towering figure in the city of Atlanta, and I can't think of Atlanta without him. His name in telephone's address book is simply 'Great Man.'" --Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed"Herman Russell is one of that group of African Americans in Atlanta, Horatio Alger types, who are proof of the American Dream." --Jane Fonda"Here's a man who, from his humble start working in his father's plastering business, has gone on to reshape the urban landscape of many of America's greatest cities." --Earl Graves, founder and publisher of Black EnterpriseTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction by Former US Ambassador Andrew YoungProloguePART I: Growing, Working, and Learning1. Life, One Word at a Time2. High School Hero3. Tuskegee Institute: An Educated ClassPART II: H. J. Russell & Company: Atlanta’s Do-It-All Contractor4. Black Entrepreneurship Takes Hold, Part 15. Otelia Hackney: A Black Woman EmergesPART III: Dr. King and the Civil Rights Movement6. Swimming at the Deep End of Social Change7. Black Entrepreneurship Takes Hold, Part 28. My Big Greek Brother (From Another Mother)9. Desegregating the Good Ol’ Boys10. A Leg Up and Over: Joint VenturesPART IV: It’s a Living11. Before Takeoff and Landing, Visit Us at Concessions International12. The Beer Years13. The H. J. Russell Institute of Good Common Sense14. Mixing Business and PoliticsPART V: Family First15. The Wonders of Otelia16. Born Leaders17. . . . And Hello to SylviaPART VI: Sixty Years Later18. All the Rest of My DaysAcknowledgmentsIndexAbout the Authors
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African American Images Motivating and Preparing Black Youth for Success
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African American Images Up Against the Wall
Book SynopsisOffers a discussion of the social pressures on teens-peer pressure, drug awareness, sexuality, and rites of passage in the African-American culture.
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African American Images Kill Them Before They Grow
Book SynopsisHere is an examination of how African-American males end up in dead-end classes and what must be done to change this trend.
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African American Images Black College Student Survival Guide
Book SynopsisProvides guidance on topics ranging from choosing the right college to excelling in academics.
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African American Images 24 Reasons Why African Americans Suffer
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African American Images The Miseducation of the Negro
Book SynopsisOriginally released in 1933, The Mis-Education of the Negro continues to resonate today, raising questions that readers are still trying to answer. The impact of slavery on the Black psyche is explored and questions are raised about our education system, such as what and who African Americans are educated for, the difference between education and training, and which of these African Americans are receiving. Woodson provides solutions to these challenges, but these require more study, discipline, and an Afrocentric worldview. This new edition contains a biographical profile of the author, a new introduction, and study questions.
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African American Images Conspiracy to Destroy Black Women
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African American Images Restoring the Village
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African American Images Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys
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African American Images Solutions for Black America
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MP-OKL Uni of Oklahoma Circulaci243n Movement of Ideas Art and People
Book SynopsisIn this beautifully illustrated volume, an international group of scholars present recent research on the movement of goods, art, and artists - and the circulation of ideas and ideologies - that shaped culture in Spanish America from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the first half of the nineteenth century.
£23.76
Heritage Books slavegenealogy
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BOA Editions, Limited Next
Book SynopsisFinalist, 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Clifton mythologizes herself: that is, she illuminated her surroundings and history from within in a way that casts light on much beyond.--The Women''s Review of Books
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BOA Editions Quilting
Book SynopsisBrilliantly honed language, sharp rhythms and striking syntax empower Lucille Clifton''s personal and artistic odyssey. Hers is poetry of birth, death, children, community, history, sexuality and spirituality, and she addresses these themes with passion, humor, anger and spiritual awe.
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Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada Indian Art Culture
Book SynopsisArt and Culture of the Northwest Coast Indians. The Northwest Coast is the land whose aboriginal in habitants are distinguished by their large rectangular wooden houses, totems and dug-out canoes, and their dependence upon the products of the sea for their food. They placed great value upon purity of family descent and the virtue of benevolence in the disposition of property; but most conspicuous of all their traits is their highly original art.
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Whitford Press,U.S. Indian Wisdom and Its Guiding Power
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Wings Press Frieze Complete Works of Cecile Pineda series
Book SynopsisThis poetic narrative discusses the creative life of a 9th century Indian stonecarver who is drafted at an early age to spend his entire life working on the thousands of statues that fill the niches of an Indonesian temple. Exploring the muse-artist relationship as few works of fiction have done, this novel is an intensely political work.Trade Review“A singular, absorbing book.” —The New Yorker“As delicately phrased as a prose poem. . . . A parable that opposes the pride and power of the state to the slow resistance of human life.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review“Cecile Pineda is a writer of the utmost artistic integrity.” —J. M. Coetzee, author, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
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Seattle Art Museum Barbara Earl Thomas
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Red Sea Press,U.S. Humanitarianism Under Siege
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Black Classic Press,U.S. We the Black Jews
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Center for American Architecture & Design John S ChaseThe Chase Residence
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Maryland Historical Society African American Leaders of Maryland A Portait
Book SynopsisA collection of approximately forty portraits with mini biographies of Maryland's extraordinary African American men and women. It includes luminaries such as Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Baby Joe Gans, Leon Day, Lillie Carroll Jackson, and Thurgood Marshall.
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The University of Michigan Press The Shade of Blossoms
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The Library of America W.E.B. Du Bois Writings Loa 34 The Suppression of
Book SynopsisHistorian, sociologist, novelist, editor, and political activist, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was the most gifted and influential black intellectual of his time. This Library of America volume presents his essential writings, covering the full span of a restless life dedicated to the struggle for racial justice.The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade to the United States 1638–1870 (1896), his first book, renders a dispassionate account of how, despite ethical and political opposition, Americans tolerated the traffic in human beings until a bloody civil war taught them the disastrous consequences of moral cowardice.The Souls of Black Folk (1903), a collection of beautifully written essays, narrates the cruelties of racism and celebrates the strength and pride of black America. By turns lyrical, historical, and autobiographical, Du Bois pays tribute to black music and religion, explores the remarkable history of the Reconstruction Fre
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Clear Light Publishers Reuben Snake Your Humble Serpent Indian visionary
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Kala Press Uzo Egonu An African Artist in the West
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Hansib Publications Limited From Where I Stand
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Trolley Books Jarret Schecter Hermanovce
Book SynopsisJarret Schecter is an independent documentary photographer. He is the author of several books that address socio-political subjects. He lives in New York.
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Alexander Vassiliev The Shield Russia and the Jewish Question Russian Intellectuals on AntiSemitism
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Dormouse Press When I Was a Child
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Ohio University Special Publications Soulful Bobcats
Book SynopsisDuring the 1950s, a group of ambitious young African Americans enrolled at Ohio University, a predominantly white school in Athens, Ohio. Years later, eighteen of them decided to share their stories, recalling the joys and challenges of living on a white campus before the civil rights era.Trade Review“Soulful Bobcats… is a valuable, highly readable collection of oral histories from African-American students during the postwar years…. (It) should be on every Bobcat’s shelf. Indeed, it should be of interest to all who care about the history of African Americans in higher education.” * Ohio Today *“Soulful Bobcats makes clear that while OU was making progress against institutional racism in the years after World War II, it still had a long road to travel…. While it's clear that being treated as second-class citizens or worse was infuriating and demeaning, the Soulful Bobcats' memories are sometimes funny, sometimes rueful, and relentlessly upbeat. They patiently fielded questions from curious white classmates about what it's like to be black, and took insults from professors as a spur to do even better in class. Most of all, they relied on each other.” * The Athens News *“Thank you for Soulful Bobcats. Like found treasure, it captures a valuable glimpse into the decade of black Bobcats who set the stage for my own generation's adventures in Athens. As I thumb through its pages I am constantly reminded of how much we stood on their shoulders in order to get to where we are now.”
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MP-ARK University of Arkansas Race Relations in the Natural State
Book SynopsisUsing personal stories to provide an understanding of the price of racism in Arkansas, this book presents a depiction of the struggles of race and class in Arkansas. It explores the experiences of Hispanics in the state.
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New City Community Press Espejos y Ventanas Mirrors and Windows historias
Book SynopsisOral histories of Mexican farmworkers in the Philadelphia region
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Ron Papandrea Spinning Spider Haiku of Ron Papandrea
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African American Images Closing the Racial Academic Achievement Gap
Book SynopsisWith the arrival of the No Child Left Behind act, the so-called 'racial achievement gap' has attracted more concern and controversy than ever before. This work aims to offer a solution for almost every problem raised, culminating in a plan for closing the supposed racial achievement gap for good.
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African American Images Black Son Rising
Book SynopsisBased upon the author's experience as a youth counsellor and prison volunteer, this work offers a portrayal of black men and the contemporary obstacles they face in American society. This assessment of the plight of black men views them in relation to controversial topics, such as the prison system, drugs, education, and parenting.Table of ContentsPart 1 - The Cause; Part 2 - The Effects; Part 3 - The Solution; Part 4 - The Three Black Kings; Part 5 - The Final Call!
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African American Images Developing Strong Black Male Ministries
Book SynopsisA guidebook for church officers on how to increase the involvement of African American males in the ministry. From drugs and prison to health and homosexuality, this book investigates the needs and trends of African American males, the steps the church has taken to address these issues, and modern troubles relating to involvement in the church.
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University of Washington Press Roger Shimomura
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction / Chris Bruce Remix Culture: Roger Shimomura in Stereo / Anne Collins Goodyear Interview with Roger Shimomura / Anne Collins Goodyear Exhibition Checklist Acknowledgments
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