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A collection of short and inspirational Native American proverbs.Sayings of time-honored truth and contemporary wisdom from the Native American tribes: Why will you take by force what you may obtain by love? We will be known forever by the tracks we...

Movies matter - that is the message of Reel to Real, bell hooks' classic collection of essays on film. They matter on a personal level, providing us with unforgettable moments, even life-changing experiences and they can confront us, too, with the most...

This title is part of American Studies Now and available as an e-book first. Visit ucpress.edu/go/americanstudiesnow to learn more. In the wake of the murder of unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin in 2012 and the exoneration of his killer, three black women...

12 Million Black Voices, first published in 1941, combines Wright's prose with startling photographs selected by Edwin Rosskam from the Security Farm Administration files compiled during the Great Depression. The photographs include works by such giants...

Global Raciality expands our understanding of race, space, and place by exploring forms of racism and anti-racist resistance worldwide. Contributors address neoliberalism; settler colonialism; race, class, and gender intersectionality; immigrant rights;...

The small island of Igloolik lies between the Melville Peninsula and Baffin Island at the northern end of Hudson Bay north of the Arctic Circle. It has fascinated many in the Western world since 1824, when a London publisher printed the narratives by...

"A colorful, beautiful book which teaches us about ourselves as much as about one of North America's native peoples."-Vancouver SunRarely accessible to the general public, Ojibway mythology is as rich in meaning, as broad, as deep, and as innately...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681342146Author Anton TreuerFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Minnesota Historical Society PressPublisher Minnesota Historical Society...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681341545Author Anton TreuerFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Minnesota Historical Society PressPublisher Minnesota Historical Society...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of 20 weeks on the B.C. Bestsellers list in 2016 & 2017 (Canada). Short-listed for First Nation Communities READ ' Periodical Marketers of Canada Aboriginal...

An extraordinary compilation of the plants used by North American native peoples for medicine, food, fiber, dye, and a host of other things. Anthropologist Daniel E. Moerman has devoted 25 years to the task of gathering together the accumulated...

This seminal book established Churchill as an intellectual force to be reckoned with in indigenous land rights debates. Required reading for anyone interested in Native North America and ecological justice. Revised and expanded edition. Ward Churchill...

Selected by the San Francisco Chronicle's as one of the top 100 western nonfiction books of the twentieth century."Beautifully imagined and written."-Alice WalkerOne of the most ground-breaking and highly-acclaimed titles that Heyday has published, The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551524252Author Daniel FrancisFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Arsenal Pulp PressPublisher Arsenal Pulp PressWeight(grams) 440gDimensions(mm) 231mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age.Book InformationISBN 9780679781424Author Piri ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher...

In Feels Right Kemi Adeyemi presents an ethnography of how black queer women in Chicago use dance to assert their physical and affective rights to the city. Adeyemi stages the book in queer dance parties in gentrifying neighborhoods, where good feelings...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374537449Author James FormanFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)...

"Mr. Baker perceives the harlem Renaissance as a crucial moment in a movement, predating the 1920's, when Afro-Americans embraced the task of self-determination and in so doing gave forth a distinctive form of expression that still echoes in a broad...

Commentators from Bill Crosby to Barack Obama have observed the phenomenon of black schoolchildren accusing studious classmates of "acting white". How did this contentious phrase, with roots in Jim Crow-era racial discord, become a part of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679741459Author Toni MorrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint PantheonPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 132mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375702631Author Leon F. LitwackFormat PaperbackPage Count 610Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 588g

In Birth of an Industry, Nicholas Sammond describes how popular early American cartoon characters were derived from blackface minstrelsy. He charts the industrialization of animation in the early twentieth century, its representation in the cartoons...

If you want to know why American Indians have the highest rates of poverty of any racial group, why suicide is the leading cause of death among Indian men, why native women are two and a half times more likely to be raped than the national average and...

The world of the Crow Indians comes to life in this extraordinary collection of stories from respected elder and famed storyteller Joseph Medicine Crow. Raised by traditional grandparents, who remembered life before the reservation days, Medicine Crow as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780547053493Author Jabari AsimFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton Mifflin

Beginning with the arrival of the first Africans in the English colonies, Eileen Southern weaves a fascinating narrative of intense musical activity. As singers, players, and composers, black American musicians are fully chronicled in this landmark book...

These narratives by four black women - Louisa Picquet, Susie King Taylor, Bethany Veney, and Nancy Prince - testify to their struggles to maintain dignity and independence in the hostile, and frequently violent, society of antebellum America. Picquet and...

Black politics are key to recognizing the most important social dynamics of the United States. Over the past forty years, no commentator has been as deeply insightful about the paradoxes and personalities of Black American public life as the journalist...

Advice for parents, educators, community, and church members is provided in this guide for ensuring that African American boys grow up to be strong, committed, and responsible African American men. This book answers such questions as Why are there more...

First published in 1954 and now reissued with a new foreword by Hilda Kuper, this autobiography of a shrewd, humorous and courageous personality remains a classic in the field of African studies and a uniquely valuable account of a Muslim society in West...

For millennia, plants and their habitats have been fundamental to the lives of Indigenous Peoples - as sources of food and nutrition, medicines, and technological materials - and central to ceremonial traditions, spiritual beliefs, narratives, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374527259Author Professor of Sociology Mitchell DuneierFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and...

In "Slave in a Box," M. M. Manring investigates why the troubling figure of Aunt Jemima has endured in American culture. The author traces the evolution of the mammy from her roots in Old South slave reality and mythology, through...

Part history, part political analysis, and part memoir, Mexifornia is an intensely personal work by one of our most important writers. Victor Davis Hanson, known for his military histories and his social commentary, is a fifth-generation Californian who...

Few Americans identify slavery with the cultivation of rice, yet rice was a major plantation crop during the first three centuries of settlement in the Americas. Rice accompanied African slaves across the Middle Passage throughout the New World to...

Twenty years after his assassination, what is it about Malcolm X's life and words that speaks so powerfully to so many? In Making Malcolm, Michael Eric Dyson probes the myths and meanings of Malcolm X for our time. From Spike Lee's film biography to...

A work of prime importance...its publication represents a major addition to our knowledge of the Lakotas. Journal of American Folklore Provides raw narratives without any pretension of synthesis or analysisProvides raw narratives without any pretension...

An outpouring of memorial tributes and public expressions of grief followed the death of the Tejana recording artist Selena Quintanilla Perez in 1995. The Latina superstar was remembered and mourned in documentaries, magazines, websites, monuments,...

Asians have migrated to North America for centuries, in search of opportunities and conveyed by increasingly dense, international circuits of trade, labor markets, and family networks. Drawn by the riches promised by the relatively undeveloped, but not...

In Collective Courage, Jessica Gordon Nembhard chronicles African American cooperative business ownership and its place in the movements for Black civil rights and economic equality. Not since W. E. B. Du Bois's 1907 Economic Co-operation Among Negro...