Category - History
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Africanisms in American Culture, Second Edition / Edition 2
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /An important work in the field of diaspora studies for the past decade, this collection has inspired scholars and others to explore a trail blaze...
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Incarcerating the Crisis: Freedom Struggles and the Rise of the Neoliberal State
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /The United States currently has the largest prison population on the planet. Over the last four decades, structural unemployment, concentrated ur...
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Outcaste Bombay: City Making and the Politics of the Poor
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$44.99$44.99 - $44.99Current price $44.99| /Over the course of the twentieth century, Bombay’s population grew twentyfold as the city became increasingly industrialized and cosmopolitan. Ye...
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The Mirror At Midnight: A South African Journey
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /History lies heavily on South Africa, and Adam Hochschild brings to bear a lifetime's familiarity with the country in an eye-opening work that bl...
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Reforging the White Republic: Race, Religion, and American Nationalism, 1865-1898
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /During Reconstruction, former abolitionists in the North had a golden opportunity to pursue true racial justice and permanent reform in America. ...
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Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /"Powerful and important . . . an instant classic." —The Washington Post Book WorldThe award-winning look at an ugly aspect of American racism by ...
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Before Mestizaje: The Frontiers of Race and Caste in Colonial Mexico
PaperbackOriginal price $31.99Original price $31.99 - Original price $31.99Original price $31.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /This book opens new dimensions on race in Latin America by examining the extreme caste groups of colonial Mexico. In tracing their experiences, a...
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Clean and White: A History of Environmental Racism in the United States
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Clean and White offers a history of environmental racism in the United States focusing on constructions of race and hygieneWhen Joe Biden attempt...
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We Fed Them Cactus
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /Prior to statehood, the Llano Estacado, the great plains of northeastern New Mexico and northwestern Texas, were colonized by Hispanic ranchers. ...
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Double Victory: A Multicultural History of America in World War II
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A powerful multicultural history of Americans in World War II, from the acclaimed author of A Different Mirror. A history of America in World Wa...
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Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese American Internment Experience
PaperbackOriginal price $26.00Original price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /The definitive anthology of Japanese American internment. "In these stories are lifted up our humanity, our indomitable spirit and dignity, an im...
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China Men: National Book Award Winner
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /The author chronicles the lives of three generations of Chinese men in America, woven from memory, myth and fact. Here's a storyteller's tale of ...
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Chicano!: The History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /BASED ON THE 1996 PBS SERIES of the same name, Chicano! details the struggle of the Mexican-American community for social and legal equality, pol...
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Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /The “riveting”* true story of the fiery summer of 1970, which would forever transform the town of Oxford, North Carolina—a classic portrait of th...
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How the Irish Became White / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /'...from time to time a study comes along that truly can be called 'path breaking, ' 'seminal, ' 'essential, ' a 'must read.' How the Irish Becam...
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American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /This sweeping history of twentieth-century America follows the changing and often conflicting ideas about the fundamental nature of American soci...
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Gospel According to the Klan: The KKK's Appeal to Protestant America, 1915-1930
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /To many Americans, modern marches by the Ku Klux Klan may seem like a throwback to the past or posturing by bigoted hatemongers. To Kelly Baker, ...
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Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /No blacks allowed, especially after dark. This was the unwritten rule in a "sundown" town. In his trademark revelatory style, bestselling author ...
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Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /In his new preface to this paperback edition, the author observes, "The Indian world has changed so substantially since the first publication of ...
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Inventing Irish America: Generation, Class, and Ethnic Identity in a New England City, 1880-1928
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Like many American cities, Worcester, Massachusetts, is an enclave of cultural tradition and ethnic pride. Through the intensive analysis of this...
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History of the Finns in Michigan
PaperbackOriginal price $36.99 - Original price $36.99Original price $36.99$51.99$51.99 - $51.99Current price $51.99| /A history of the Finnish people in Michigan published in English for the first time. Michigan's Upper Peninsula was a major destination for Finns...
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Anti-Semitism and Schooling Under the Third Reich
PaperbackOriginal price $52.95 - Original price $52.95Original price $52.95$69.99$69.99 - $69.99Current price $69.99| /This book investigates the anti-Semitic foundations of Nazi curricula for elementary schools, with a focus on the subjects of biology, history, a...
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The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Combining classical Marxism, psychoanalysis, and the new labor history pioneered by E. P. Thompson and Herbert Gutman, David Roediger's widely accl...
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Transnational Culture in the Iranian Armenian Diaspora
HardcoverOriginal price $110.00 - Original price $110.00Original price $110.00$129.99$129.99 - $129.99Current price $129.99| /Transnational Culture studies the ways that diasporic Iranian Armenian authors and artists negotiate their identities as minoritized population wit...
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