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.....

Robverto Rodriguez, 1998. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 195 pages. Signed and dated, Aug. 20, '98, by the author on front free endpaper. Limited edition, #108/1000, First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in illustrated black wrappers (paperback).

Back Bay Books, February 2020. Trade Paperback. By turns heartbreaking and hilarious, troubling and uplifting, these "electric" essays come together to create a provocative, conversation-sparking, multivocal portrait of modern America (The Washington Post). From Trump's proposed border wall and travel ban to the marching of white supremacists in Charlottesville, America.....

Community Documentation Press, January 2007. Trade Paperback. This book's story was inspired by the true life experience of a Mexican American family's participation in the United States Federal Government Immigration Repatriation program motivated by the Great Depression in the 1930's. The father in the family, lacking work, returned to Mexico.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

Companhia das Letras, 1993. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 287 pages. A significant work on Brazilian views on race, later translated into English as The Spectacle of the Races. Text in Portuguese. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Inscribed by the author to Stephen Jay Gould, 'With.....

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.....

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.....

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.....