Ethnic Studies

Publisher Description: Learn To Communicate Without Words With These Authentic Signs! Learn Over 525 Signs Developed By The Sioux, Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Arap...

"Carefully balancing cool observation and compassion, Chong writes extraordinary history and gives voice to the Chinese immigrant experience."—ALA Booklis...

Bogart paints an indelible portrait of a complex man, from the privilege and abuse he experienced in childhood to his triumphant 1935 acting breakthrough i...

A Bustle Most Anticipated Debut of the Year"Freshly fascinating. [Lawton] is a particularly astute observer of the psychological dislocation caused by growi...

This new Readers Circle edition includes a reading group guide and a conversation between Firoozeh Dumas and Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner.” I...

Product Description #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story ...

In The Bad Guys Won, award-winning former Sports Illustrated baseball writer Jeff Pearlman returns to an innocent time when a city worshipped a man named ...

This is the moving and powerful account of two  remarkable boys struggling to survive in Chicago's  Henry Horner Homes, a public housing complex  disfigur...

Traces the role of utopian thinking as the rationale for religious wars, genocide, enslavement, plunder, economic domination, and campaigns of world conques...

Now in paperback, the national bestselling riches-to-rags true story of an advertising executive who had it all, then lost it all—and was finally redeemed...

Adults have a wide array of books to help explore earth-based spirituality. But what if they want to include their children? Here is a handbook to help par...

Anthropological and psychological analysis by Radin Kereny and Jung of the voraciously uninhibited episodes of the Winnebego Trickster cycle. ...

Blending numerous heritages, wisdoms, and teachings, this powerfully wrought book encourages people to take charge of their lives, heal themselves, and gro...

"Daniel Tudor covers all the important issues, yet does not simply tell the more familiar stories, but looks deeper and wider to give the full story of Kore...

An awe-inspiring, often hilarious, and unerringly honest story of one mother's exercise in extreme parenting, revealing the rewards-and the costs-of raisin...

Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, SISTER OUTSIDER celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-centu...

400 Kilometres is the third play in Drew Hayden Taylor’s hilarious and heart-wrenching identity-politics trilogy. Janice Wirth, a thirty-something urb...

Working as a correspondent for 20/20 and Good Morning America, John Stossel confronted dozens of scam artists: from hacks who worked out of their basement...

"A great read."―Whoopi Goldberg, The ViewHow the clash between the civil rights firebrand and the father of modern conservatism continues to illuminate A...

In May 1995, a photograph and an anonymous note arrived at The Harvard Crimson that said "Keep this picture. There will soon be a very juicy story involving...

Bringing together classic and new writings of the trailblazing feminist theorist Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Feminism without Borders addresses some of the mo...

Interviews with religious leaders from various Indian tribes share their world viewsCategories: Literature & FictionMythology & Folk Tales

With the same audacity with which John Steinbeck wrote about migrant worker conditions in The Grapes of Wrath and T.C. Boyle in The Tortilla Curtain, Viramo...

Like Native Children Forced By Law To Attend Schools Across Canada And The United States, Sellars And Other Students Of St. Joseph's Mission Were Allowed Ho...

The untold story of the slaying of a Southern town’s ex-slaves and a white lawyer’s historic battle to bring the perpretators to justice Following the Ci...

in The Early Morning Of November 7, 1976, I Climbed Into A Pickup Truck In Front Of The Holiday Inn In Kenora, Ontario, And Set Out On A Journey That Would ...

A powerful, raw and eloquent memoir about the abuse former First Nations chief Edmund Metatawabin endured in residential school in the 1960s, the resulting...

Even though the Portuguese are relatively new to Canada, they have made major contributions to the cultural mosaic of the country. Containing many new essa...

Sacred Hoops Revisited -- Foreword / Senator Bill Bradley -- Introduction -- 1. The Second Coming -- 2. A Journey Of A Thousand Miles Starts With One Breath...

Narrated by the visionary founding member, Hell's Angel provides a fascinating all-access pass to the secret world of the notorious Hell's Angels Motorcyc...

In March of 1992, the highest–ranking member of the Mafia in America ever to break his oath of silence testified against his boss, John Gotti. He is Salva...

Embraced with zeal by a wide array of activists and policymakers, the restorative justice movement has made promises to reduce the disproportionate rates ...

Psychology has had a number of things to say about black and coloured people, none of them favourable, and most of which have reinforced stereotyped and der...

How could an urban American Indian tribe, having survived relentless earlier governmental attempts to declare its culture extinct, be once again on the verg...

Frank Ching. Parallel Title In Chinese Characters. Map On Lining Papers. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 471-511.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences...

Near The Ontario-michigan Border, Canada's Densest Concentration Of Chemical Manufacturing Surrounds The Aamjiwnaang First Nation. Living In The Polluted He...

This anthology reconsiders the meanings of multiculturalism in the West. In introducing a new conceptual language, the volume stresses the importance of dis...

Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet...

The Critically Lauded Author Of The Beast Side And The Cook Up Returns With An Existential Look At Life In Low-income Black Communities, While Also Offering...

Migration and Urbanization (World Anthropology)Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Social SciencesCultural & Ethnic Studies

Children's author Bobbie Kalman's new series Native Nations of North America is an ongoing series that looks at the lives of the indigenous peoples of Nort...

The health disparities affecting Indigenous peoples in Canada might well be understood as a national epidemic. Although progress has been made in the last d...

Ever since its emergence in colonial-era Cuba, Afro-Cuban Santería (or Lucumí) has displayed a complex dynamic of continuity and change in its institution...

Andrea Tone. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: Law SpecialtiesLabor Law

In the Deep South of the 1950s, journalist John Howard Griffin decided to cross the color line. Using medication that darkened his skin to deep brown, he ...

A powerful, often funny, always inspiring memoir from a beloved comedian, professional orator, actor, entertainer, gone all too soon.Candy Palmater loved to...

More Relationship Advice In This Much Anticipated Follow-up To The #1 New York Times Bestseller And International Sensation, Act Like A Lady, Think Like A M...

With A Poet's Gifted Ear, A Novelist's Sense Of Narrative, And A Journalist's Unsentimental Eye, Mitchell S. Jackson Candidly Explores His Tumultuous Youth ...