Pantheon, June 1998. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. Fading on spine. How do you measure someone's race or culture? Half this, quarter that, born here, raised there. What name do you give that? These eighteen essays, joined by a shared sense of duality, address both the difficulties of not.....
Princeton University Press, August 2022. Trade Paperback. A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). The racist legacy behind the Western idea of freedom The era of the Enlightenment, which gave rise to our modern conceptions of freedom and democracy, was also the height of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. America, a......
High Road Books, October 2022. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Over the course of more than twenty years, James D. Richardson and his wife, Lori, retraced the steps of his ancestor, George Richardson (1824-1911), across nine states, uncovering letters, diaries, and more memoirs hidden away. Their.....
Brazos Press, February 2017. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. America's problem with race has deep roots, with the country's foundation tied to the near extermination of one race of people and the enslavement of another. Racism is truly our nation's original sin. "It's time we right this unacceptable wrong,".....
Laurel Leaf, March 1983. Mass Market Paperback. Very good paperback copy. Jeanne Wakatsuki was seven years old in 1942 when her family was uprooted from their home and sent to live at Manzanar internment camp--with 10,000 other Japanese Americans. Along with searchlight towers and armed guards, Manzanar ludicrously featured cheerleaders.....
Routledge, January 1995. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). '...from time to time a study comes along that truly can be called 'path breaking, ' 'seminal, ' 'essential, ' a 'must read.' How the Irish Became White is such a study.' John Bracey, W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American.....
Academic Studies Press, 2014. Hardcover. A fine copy; no dust jacket. In the late nineteenth century, a group of radical Jewish youths from Odessa attempted to create an agricultural commune on the Oregon frontier, and in so doing developed from assimilated revolutionaries to American Jews. Theodore Friedgut relates the story.....
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 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.....
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...
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.....
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.....
Scribner, January 2015. Hardcover. The dramatic and never-before-told story of a secret FDR-approved American internment camp in Texas during World War II, where thousands of families--many US citizens--were incarcerated. From 1942 to 1948, trains delivered thousands of civilians from the United States and Latin America to Crystal City, Texas, a......
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.....
Fontana / Collins, (1972). First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. 192 pages. First edition (first printing). A paperback original. A fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
Simon & Schuster, August 1995. Hardcover.
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.....
(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.....