Farrar, September 1998. 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, refugees from the.....
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.....
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.....
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.
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.....
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).