Nonfiction - Diverse Reads
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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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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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The Decolonial Imaginary: Writing Chicanas into History
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /"The Decolonial Imaginary is a smart, challenging book that disrupts a great deal of what we think we know . . . it will certainly be read seriou...
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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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Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America
PaperbackOriginal price $48.00 - Original price $48.00Original price $48.00$61.99$61.99 - $61.99Current price $61.99| /Racism Without Racists examines in detail how Whites talk, think, and account for the existence of racial inequality. The main argument of the bo...
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Semi Queer: Inside the World of Gay, Trans, and Black Truck Drivers
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /Long-haul trucking is linked to almost every industry in America, yet somehow the working-class drivers behind big rigs remain largely hidden fro...
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The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Notes From Your BooksellerThis book is a thoughtful examination of the forces that surround us, the choices we make, and how minute differences c...
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Unheard Voices
PaperbackOriginal price $55.64 - Original price $55.64Original price $55.64$69.99$69.99 - $69.99Current price $69.99| /The lives of African American gay men have greatly gone unnoticed in the American consciousness. Despite the fact that Black gay men have made grea...
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Attitudes Aren't Free: A Call to Action
HardcoverOriginal price $35.50Original price $35.50 - Original price $35.50Original price $35.50Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /In 2010, Attitudes Aren't Free: Thinking Deeply About Diversity in the US Armed Forces was published. In 2017, it was placed on the Air Force Chief...
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Frank Marshall Davis: The Fire and the Phoenix (a Critical Biography)
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Frank Marshall Davis: The Fire and the Phoenix (A Critical Biography) is a compelling historical biography about Frank Marshall Davis (1907-1987), ...
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Federico Villalba's Texas: The Story of a Mexican Pioneer's Life in the Big Bend
PaperbackOriginal price $24.00Original price $24.00 - Original price $24.00Original price $24.00Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /In the 1880s Federico Villalba left old San Ger nimo (Aldama, Chihuahua) and began ranching near the village of San Carlos, about fifteen miles sou...
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To Marry an Indian: The Marriage of Harriett Gold and Elias Boudinot in Letters, 1823-1839
PaperbackOriginal price $42.50 - Original price $42.50Original price $42.50$53.99$53.99 - $53.99Current price $53.99| /When nineteen-year-old Harriett Gold, from a prominent white family in Cornwall, Connecticut, announced in 1825 her intention to marry a Cherokee m...
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Imprisoned Apart: The World War II Correspondence of an Issei Couple
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /"Please don't cry," wrote Iwao Matsushita to his wife Hanaye, telling her he was to be interned for the duration of the war. He was imprisoned in F...
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The Other One Percent: Indians in America
PaperbackOriginal price $34.99 - Original price $34.99Original price $34.99$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /One of the most remarkable stories of immigration in the last half century is that of Indians to the United States. People of Indian origin make ...
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100 Years of Lynching
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Ginzburg compiles vivid newspaper accounts from 1886 to 1960 to provide insight and understanding of the history of racial violence.Product Details...
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Acres of Aspiration: The All-Black Towns of Oklahoma
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Beulah Land. Paradise. Shangri-la. Oklahoma seemed to be all of these in the hostile, racist, post-Civil War South. Seeking both refuge and respect...
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Assimilation Blues: Black Families in White Communities, Who Succeeds and Why
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /What does it mean to be Black in a white, middle-class community? Is it the ultimate symbol of success? Or will one pay in isolation, alienation, r...
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Indigenous Health Equity and Wellness
HardcoverOriginal price $170.00 - Original price $170.00Original price $170.00$204.99$204.99 - $204.99Current price $204.99| /This book focuses on promoting health equity and addressing health disparities among Indigenous peoples of the United States (U.S.) and associated ...
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Cornel West Reader (Revised)
PaperbackOriginal price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Cornel West is one of the nation's premier public intellectuals and one of the great prophetic voices of our era. Whether he is writing a scholarly...
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A Dream Deferred: The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /"Steele has given eloquent voice to painful truths that are almost always left unspoken in the nation's circumscribed public discourse on race." --...
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Reconstructing the Dreamland: The Tulsa Riot of 1921: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /The 1921 Tulsa Race Riot was the country's bloodiest civil disturbance of the century. Thirty city blocks were burned to the ground, perhaps 150 di...
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A History of the Guyanese Working People, 1881-1905
PaperbackOriginal price $34.00 - Original price $34.00Original price $34.00$46.99$46.99 - $46.99Current price $46.99| /Completed shortly before Walter Rodney's assassination in June 1980, A History of the Guyanese Working People, 1881-1905 provides an original, well...
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An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy, Volume 2
PaperbackOriginal price $69.95 - Original price $69.95Original price $69.95$89.99$89.99 - $89.99Current price $89.99| /In this landmark effort to understand African American people in the New World, Gunnar Myrdal provides deep insight into the contradictions of Amer...
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Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Now a TV series on FOX starring Morris Chestnut, Yaya DaCosta, Nadine Ellis, and Joe Morton. "Fascinating. . . . [Graham] has made a major contri...
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