One World, February 2022. Trade Paperback. A new copy. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD - One of today's most insightful and influential thinkers offers a powerful exploration of inequality and the lesson that generations of Americans have failed to learn: Racism has a cost.....
University of California Press, August 2008. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Driven Out exposes a shocking story of ethnic cleansing in California and the Pacific Northwest when the first Chinese Americans were rounded up and purged from more than three hundred communities by lawless citizens and duplicitous politicians. From 1848.....
One World, February 2022. Trade Paperback. A new copy. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD - One of today's most insightful and influential thinkers offers a powerful exploration of inequality and the lesson that generations of Americans have failed to learn: Racism has a cost.....
One World, February 2021. Hardcover. A new copy. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD - One of today's most insightful and influential thinkers offers a powerful exploration of inequality and the lesson that generations of Americans have failed to learn: Racism has a cost for.....
Californians for Justice, n.d., ca. 1990. Poster. Poster, oblong format, 11 x 17 inches, printed in black on chartreuse. Address at poster bottom: '1611 Telegraph Ave., #206, Oakland, CA 94612.' A fine copy.
Random House Publishing Group, March 2021. Trade Paperback. A new copy. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST - NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER - ONE OF TIME'S 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE - A ruthlessly honest, emotionally charged, and utterly original exploration of Asian American consciousness "Brilliant...
Arte Publico Press, 2010. First Edition. Trade Paperback. First paperback edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Inscribed by the editor, Carmen Tafolla, to a previous owner. In his memoir that he began in 1908, Santiago Tafolla recalls finding himself--along with his fellow Mexican Confederate soldiers--terrorized by.....
Beacon Press, January 2010. Trade Paperback. A new copy. In 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., isolated himself from the demands of the civil rights movement, rented a house in Jamaica with no telephone, and labored over his final manuscript. In this prophetic work, which has been unavailable for more.....
College of Ethnic Studies, Western Washington State College, 1974. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 124 pages. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
Little Brown & Co, 1993. Hardcover. "A Different Mirror" is a dramatic new retelling of our nation's history, a powerful larger narrative of the many different peoples who together compose the United States of America. In a lively account filled with the stories and voices of people previously left out.....
Beacon Press, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. 204 pages. B/W illustrations First edition (first printing). Near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, April 2012. Trade Paperback. When three-month-old Lia Lee arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion from which neither she nor her parents, Foua and Nao Kao, were part of a large Hmong community in Merced.....
Picador, 2016. Trade Paperback. 192 pages. "THE SMARTEST BOOK OF THE YEAR" (THE WASHINGTON POST) In these provocative, powerful essays acclaimed writer/journalist Jeff Chang (Can't Stop Won't Stop, Who We Be) takes an incisive and wide-ranging look at the recent tragedies and widespread protests that have shaken the country. Through.....
Cambridge University Press, June 1999. Trade Paperback. Douglass, Ellison and Marley lived on racial frontiers. Their interactions with mixed audiences made them key figures in an interracial consciousness and culture, integrative ancestors who can be claimed by more than one group. An abolitionist who criticized black racialism; the author of.....
University of New Mexico Press, August 1999. Trade Paperback. Capirotada, Mexican bread pudding, is a mysterious mixture of prunes, peanuts, white bread, raisins, milk, quesadilla cheese, butter, cinnamon and cloves, Old World sugar--all this, writes Alberto Rios, and things people will not tell you. Like its Mexican namesake, this memoir.....
Simon & Schuster, August 1995. Hardcover.
Picador, May 2000. Hardcover. A riveting account of exile from Turkish genocide, brought to light for the first time ever in Sano Halo's personal story "Not Even My Name" exposes the genocide carried out during and after WW I in Turkey, which brought to a tragic end the 3000-year history.....
University of Texas Press, September 1991. Hardcover. In 1907, a seventeen-year-old Scotch-Irish girl named Mae Munro Watkins met nineteen-year-old Tiam Hock Franking of Amoy, China, while attending high school in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Their growing love intensified later while both were students at the University of Michigan, where Mae studied.....
Scribner, January 2004. Trade Paperback. This New York Times bestseller intimately depicts urban life in a gripping book that slips behind cold statistics and sensationalism to reveal the true sagas lurking behind the headlines of gangsta glamour. In her extraordinary bestseller, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc immerses readers in the intricacies of.....
Paluba Publishing House, 1926. First Edition. Pamphlet. 20 pages. 440 proverbs in Polish. A scarce Polish-American imprint, with four holdings in OCLC (37661586). The publisher was apparently short-lived, as this is the only book recorded with this imprint. First edition (first printing). Staples rusting, else a near fine copy in.....
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(1950s). Ephemera. A 1950s-era real photo postcard of a still from the film Little Mister Jim starring Lee as a Chinese cook who imparts wisdom to an orphan boy. Lee was a native of San Francisco's Chinatown, born there in 1901. He acted in several films, including The Good Earth.....
(1950s). Ephemera. A real photo postcard of a still from the film adaptation of The Good Earth, based on Pearl Buck's best-known book. Lee was a native of San Francisco's Chinatown, born there in 1901. He acted in several films, including The Good Earth and The Flower Drum Song. Most.....
Columbia University Press, 1997. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 238 pages. This book recounts the story of how interracial vice districts were formed and reconstructs the social experiences of the people who inhabited them. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Interzones is an innovative account of.....
(Acorn Press), 1942. First Edition. Pamphlet. 28 pages. Adamic, a Slovene-American, explains the complex situation in Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia and Slovenia in the year after the United States entered the Second World War. He favors the guerrilla leader 'Mikhailovich' (Draza Mihailovic) over Tito's Partisans. Published as a limited edition supplement to.....
University of California Press, 1953. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 167 pages. Folklore Studies no. 2. English and Spanish on facing pages. A traditional Christmas play; this version previously translated as Los Pastores by M. R. Cole. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback).