Ethnic studies / Ethnicity Books
CreateSpace Booker T. Washington
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Union Square & Co. The Rise of Issa Igwe
Book SynopsisDelightfully creepy. Ghostly good fun. A school for magic like no other. Despite a lifetime of breaking the rules, twelve-year-old Issa Igwe never expected to land in witch prison. At least that's what she calls The Siren School outside of its hallowed halls. It's actually the country's most prestigious boarding school for magically gifted girls, and Issa's parents insist that she attend . . . even though the school's creepy history is the stuff of legend. When a devastating loss overturns Issa's world, Issa decides to break one of her new school's biggest rules of all: she's going to use bitter magic to turn back time. To succeed, she must snatch sleep-inducing feathers from the backs of magical creatures, sneak out while avoiding the Night Childrenwhoever they areand even raise the dead. Her nighttime explorations bring the school's darkest secrets to light, and reveal a new power within Issa herself. It turns out that a rule-breaker might be just what The Siren School needs to
£14.24
Grand Central Publishing The 1997 Masters My Story
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£24.00
Pelican Publishing Company Antoine of Oak Alley
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£17.95
Arcadia Publishing (SC) Old West Baltimore Images of America
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£21.24
Arcadia Publishing (SC) Japanese Americans of Florin Images of America
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£21.24
Arcadia Publishing (SC) Ventura County Images of America
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£21.24
Arcadia Publishing Italian Americans of the Greater Mahoning Valley
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£21.24
Arcadia Publishing Armenians of the Merrimack Valley Images of
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£19.99
Arcadia Publishing Inc. San Franciscos Chinatown A Revised Edition Images
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£19.99
Arcadia Publishing Civil Rights on Long Island Images of America
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£21.24
Arcadia Publishing Slave Escapes the Underground Railroad in North
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£18.69
Arcadia Publishing San Joses Japantown Images of America
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£21.24
Arcadia Publishing Italians of Brooklyn
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£21.24
Arcadia Publishing Mexican American Baseball in Kansas City
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£21.24
Arcadia Publishing African Americans in Culpeper Orange Madison and
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£21.24
Arcadia Publishing African Americans in El Paso Images of America
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£21.24
Arcadia Publishing Howard University in the World Wars
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£20.39
History Press Harriet Jacobs in New Bedford
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£18.69
History Press Lost Restaurants of Galvestons African American
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£18.69
Arcadia Publishing Banished from Johnstown Racist Backlash in
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£20.39
History Press New Mexicos Stolen Lands
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£20.39
Arcadia Publishing German Influences in Louisville
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£18.69
History Press Californias Pioneering Punjabis
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£33.96
History Press Abolition the Underground Railroad in Chester
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£18.69
History Press Black Antietam
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£18.69
History Press Desegregation in Northern Virginia Libraries
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£20.39
History Press Cajun Country Chronicles
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£19.99
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina The Color of Christ The Son of God and the Saga
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe authors' breadth of research is impressive, and their incorporation of material culture is a model for future scholarship." - Journal of American History"[A] compelling study. . . . This work will captivate readers of American religious and racial history." - Library Journal"Thoroughly fascinating." - Booklist
£33.72
Royal Collins Publishing Company Echoes of Wisdom Chinese and ASEAN Proverbs
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£23.33
Royal Collins Publishing Company ChinaLaos Railway A Strategic Link Within the
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£22.96
Tyndale House Publishers A Sea Between Us
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£15.19
Kensington Publishing The Divine Nine
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£19.76
Simon & Schuster My Soul Looks Back
Book SynopsisIn this captivating new memoir, award-winning writer Jessica B. Harris recalls her youth “surrounded by some of the most famous creative minds of the seventies and eighties…James Baldwin, Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, Nina Simone” (New York magazine)—in a vibrant, lost era of New York City.In the Technicolor glow of the early seventies, Jessica B. Harris debated, celebrated, and danced her way from the jazz clubs of the Manhattan’s West Side to the restaurants of Greenwich Village, living out her buoyant youth alongside the great minds of the day—luminaries like Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, and Toni Morrison. My Soul Looks Back is her tribute to that fascinating social circle and their shared commitment to activism, intellectual engagement, and each other. With “simmering warmth” (The New York Times), Harris paints evocative portraits of her illustrious friends: Baldwin as he read aloud an earlyTrade Review"[N]ever, to this reader, uninteresting ... “My Soul Looks Back” has a simmering warmth." —The New York Times"Eloquent and infinitely delightful." —Essence"Harris intimately reflects on her friendships with these fascinating individuals and their social circle, capturing an era that was vibrant with creativity, art, activism, and intellectual life." —Buzzfeed"My Soul Looks Back is a great New York City memoir; I thought of James Wolcott’s Lucking Out and Patti Smith’s Just Kids, both documents of the city in the seventies, as well as books from an earlier New York, like Anatole Broyard’s Kafka Was the Rage and Mary Cantwell’s Manhattan, When I Was Young ... I finished the book eager to find a noisy neighborhood restaurant where the wine is served in mismatched glasses and the specials are under twenty dollars." —Epicurious"[Harris] is a born storyteller and her memoir is a joy to read—a beautiful portrait of a remarkable era." —Charleston Gazette-Mail"A friend of celebrated authors Maya Angelou and James Baldwin, Harris was part of a fascinating social circle in the early ’70s. She shares a unique look at their lives and work, while also opening up about her own career and relationship with one of Baldwin’s colleagues. As a bonus, each chapter has a related recipe." —Bustle"Harris's culinary expertise winds through her stories, and each chapter ends with a recipe, including her mother's Sunday roast chicken and Goujonnettes de Sole with Ersatz Sauce Gribiche, inspired by her favorite after-opera meal. No doubt a few of Harris's friends have been saying for years that she had to write this memoir, and if so, they were right." —Shelf Awareness"This is a lively, entertaining, and informative recounting of a time and place that shaped and greatly enriched American culture." —Publishers Weekly"Scenic and engaging, My Soul Looks Back recounts the years author Jessica B. Harris spent on the periphery of a circle of friends that included literary powerhouses James Baldwin, Maya Angelou, and Toni Morrison. The memoir spans the globe and several decades to describe the fascinating group." —Kirkus Reviews"Come for the insight into the circle of friends that first resolved around James Baldwin, then shifted orbit to revolve around Maya Angelou. Stay because you're enraptured by the candid, passionate woman narrating from the periphery. This is an intimate look at an inner circle of Black writers, scholars, and glamazons moving through the middle of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first, told with bold tenderness by a woman who grew up in their company, under their gaze." —Alice Randall, author of Ada's Rules and The Wind Done Gone"At table, before a lectern, or on the page, no matter where we encounter Jessica B. Harris, she commands our attention. My Soul Looks Back, her most intimate book, showcases an era when the Black artistic elite flowered and Jessica, along with her love Sam Floyd, lunched with Maya Angelou in California, shared popcorn with James Baldwin in the South of France, and nurtured a social aesthetic that spangled, all too briefly, beneath the kliegs." —John T. Edge, author of The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South"In My Soul Looks Back, Jessica Harris uses her amazing griot voice and exquisite writing skills to take the reader with her on a serendipitous journey filled with everything from a sampling of her unique culinary creations to up-close-and-personal looks at some of the world's most renowned arists—from James Baldwin, aka Jimmy, to the inner circle she was allowed into by her mysterious lover, Sam. A tour de force that holds its own among the great memoirs of all time." —Charlayne Hunter-Gault, Emmy Award-winning journalist and author of In My Place"Jessica Harris takes you on a magical journey through the streets of New York, through a distinctive and historical era." —Pat Mikell, of Mikell's jazz club"I devoured Jessica B. Harris's My Soul Looks Back as though it were one of the feasts she describes in its pages—brimming with food, wine, wit, and wisdom. This luminouus and illuminating memoir is also a song of love and praise to the heyday of bohemian, intellectual New York, and especially to the African American arts and literature community that has supplied the city with so much of its brilliance and vibrancy." —Rosie Schaap, author of Drinking with Men
£16.42
University of Minnesota Press Onigamiising: Seasons of an Ojibwe Year
Book SynopsisLong before it came to be known as Duluth, the land at the western tip of Lake Superior was known to the Ojibwe as Onigamiising, “the place of the small portage.” There the Ojibwe lived in keeping with the seasons, moving among different camps for hunting and fishing, for cultivating and gathering, for harvesting wild rice and maple sugar. In Onigamiising Linda LeGarde Grover accompanies us through this cycle of the seasons, one year in a lifelong journey on the path to Mino Bimaadiziwin, the living of a good life. In fifty short essays, Grover reflects on the spiritual beliefs and everyday practices that carry the Ojibwe through the year and connect them to this northern land of rugged splendor. As the four seasons unfold—from Ziigwan (Spring) through Niibin and Dagwaagin to the silent, snowy promise of Biboon—the award-winning author writes eloquently of the landscape and the weather, work and play, ceremony and tradition and family ways, from the homey moments shared over meals to the celebrations that mark life’s great events. Now a grandmother, a Nokomis, beginning the fourth season of her life, Grover draws on a wealth of stories and knowledge accumulated over the years to evoke the Ojibwe experience of Onigamiising, past and present, for all time.Trade Review"Reading Linda LeGarde Grover’s inspiring essays feels like having tea with a generous Ojibwe elder, as she threads traditional teachings through family vignettes and tribal stories. In clear-eyed, compassionate prose, Grover’s reflections demonstrate how Ojibwe culture and values continue to thrive despite the challenges of modern-day life. Onishishin!"—Diane Wilson, executive codirector, Dream of Wild Health"Reading these essays is like quietly listening to a thoughtful elder telling tales, spinning stories, and subtly offering wise guidance to her descendants, as well as to anyone else fortunate enough to hear."—Foreword Reviews"A finely nuanced reflection on the spiritual and the mundane, the everyday and the extraordinary, the seasons of the year and the seasons of a life."—Indian Country Today"Fascinating stuff. Perhaps the best reason to spend 200 pages with Grover, though, is her sense of humor."—Star Tribune"This book covers a lot of everyday ordinariness and a smattering of Indian history and culture. Its stories are told with a fable-like quality that readers may find appealing."—The Circle"Grover’s bittersweet stories of family and the passage of time are sure to tug on a few heart strings and encourage careful contemplation."—Riveter Magazine
£12.34
University of Minnesota Press Verge 9.2
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£999.99
University of Minnesota Press SwedishAmerican Studies 75
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£999.99
University of Minnesota Press Verge 10.2
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£999.99
University of Minnesota Press NorwegianAmerican Studies 42
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£999.99
University of Minnesota Press Verge 11.2
£999.99
University of Minnesota Press SwedishAmerican Studies 76
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Rowman & Littlefield Years of Rage: White Supremacy in the United
Book SynopsisYears of Rage is a revealing—and frightening—history of the many and varied white supremacist groups that have operated in the United States from the rebirth of the Klan in 1915 through to the rise of the alt-right and the presidency of Donald J. Trump. Historian D. J. Mulloy explores the motivations and underlying beliefs of these racists, their fears of displacement, their propaganda, their propensity to commit acts of violence and terrorism, and their deep and unwavering sense of rage. He also considers the important role played by women within the movement, as well white supremacy’s deep roots in American society. Indeed, Mulloy demonstrates that rather than being consigned to the margins of American history, at times—the 1920s; the 1950s; the presidency of Trump—white supremacy has been remarkably close to the center. Wide-ranging yet accessible, Years of Rage examines a host of fascinating topics and events including the skillful promotion of the Klan by professional salesmen during the 1920s, the vicious campaign of violence directed against the civil rights movement during the 1950s and 1960s, the development of a Nazi-Klan alliance during the 1970s, the centrality of esoteric religious beliefs like Identity Christianity to many white supremacists, the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995, and the critical role played by the Internet, social media, and Donald Trump to the startling resurgence of far right in our own time.
£38.05
Basic Books We Refuse
£15.29
Vehicule Press Whiteout: How Canada Cancels Blackness
Book SynopsisIn Whiteout: How Canada Cancels Blackness, his new and essential collection of essays, George Elliott Clarke exposes the various ways in which the Canadian imagination demonizes, excludes, and oppresses Blackness. Clarke’s range is extraordinary: he canvasses African-Canadian writers who have tracked Black invisibility, highlights the racist bias of our true crime writing, reveals the whitewashing of African-Canadian perspectives in universities, and excoriates the political failure to reckon with the tragedy of Africville, the once-thriving, "Africadian" community whose last home was razed in 1970. For Clarke, Canada’s relentless celebration of itself as a site of “multicultural humanitarianism” has blinded White leaders and citizens to the country’s many crimes, at home and abroad, thus blacking out the historical record. These essays yield an alternate history of Canada, a corrective revision that Clarke describes as “inking words on snow, evanescent and ephemeral.”
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Exile Editions Gambling with Failure
Book SynopsisThis unique look at learned and acquired cultures explores the power and weaknesses of society, especially as it applies to those of Italian heritage. A strong argument is made for ethnic, cultural, and political independence; the importance of failure in relation to culture is also stressed.Trade ReviewGambling with Failure strikes me as an essential book for anyone interested in the problems facing Canada in regard to its minority populations." —Eugene Mirabelli, author, The World at Noon
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Fulcrum Inc.,US Boxing for Cuba: An Immigrant's Story
Book SynopsisIn 1961, fearing the communist rule of Fidel Castro, Guillermo Vicente Vidal's family sent him to America through Operation Peter Pan. He arrived in Colorado and was sent to an orphanage with his brothers, and his family reunited four years later. Fifty years later, he served as Denver's mayor. This is his story of overcoming incredible odds.Trade Review"I really enjoyed it." —President Bill Clinton "The book is lovely, beautifully written and so evocative of a time and place." —Anna Quindlen "Growing up in a wealthy, privileged family in Havana in the 1950s, Guillermo seemed to lead an idyllic life, but, in fact, he and his brothers lay awake for hours as their parents raged at each other long into the night. Then Castro came to power, and, in 1961, Guillermo's parents sent the boys to the U.S. with more than 14,000 other Cuban children on Operation Peter Pan. When relatives in Miami failed to meet the Vidal brothers, they found themselves in an orphanage in Denver, where they suffered brutal abuse. After many years, their parents joined them; Vidal grew up to be mayor of Denver, and today he is a Hispanic business leader. Cuban Americans will certainly take pride in the successful immigrant story here, but the candor of the personal drama at home gives the book added depth and resonance. Paralleling the broader context of political uproar in Cuba and the missile crisis are the raging battles between the parents, from which there wasno escape." --Booklist
£16.10
Fulcrum Inc.,US Boxeando por Cuba: La Historia de un Immigrante
Book SynopsisIn 1961, fearing the communist rule of Fidel Castro, Guillermo Vicente Vidal's family sent him to America through Operation Peter Pan. He arrived in Colorado and was sent to an orphanage with his brothers, and his family reunited four years later. Fifty years later, he served as Denver's mayor. This is his story of overcoming incredible odds.Trade Review"I really enjoyed it." --President Bill Clinton "The book is lovely, beautifully written and so evocative of a time and place." --Anna Quindlen "Growing up in a wealthy, privileged family in Havana in the 1950s, Guillermo seemed to lead an idyllic life, but, in fact, he and his brothers lay awake for hours as their parents raged at each other long into the night. Then Castro came to power, and, in 1961, Guillermo's parents sent the boys to the U.S. with more than 14,000 other Cuban children on Operation Peter Pan. When relatives in Miami failed to meet the Vidal brothers, they found themselves in an orphanage in Denver, where they suffered brutal abuse. After many years, their parents joined them; Vidal grew up to be mayor of Denver, and today he is a Hispanic business leader. Cuban Americans will certainly take pride in the successful immigrant story here, but the candor of the personal drama at home gives the book added depth and resonance. Paralleling the broader context of political uproar in Cuba and the missile crisis are the raging battles between the parents, from which there wasno escape." --Booklist "Una historia que inspira." --Ken Salazar, Secretario del Interior de Estados Unidos "Un libro lirico y magico." --John Hickenlooper, gobernador de Colorado "Una historia inquietante sobre la transicion a la adultez, que recuerda una novela 'dickensiana', aunque...totalmente veridica." --Helen Thorpe, periodista
£16.10
Graywolf Press,U.S. Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists,
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£25.50
