Minority Studies

An African American Dilemma offers the first social history of northern Black debates over school integration versus separation from the 1840s to the present. Since Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 Americans have viewed school integration as a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Gold Pen Awards (Anthology) 2001.Book InformationISBN 9781569472187Author Edwidge DanticatFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint SohoCrime,USPublisher Soho...

When Barack Obama won the presidency, many posited that we were entering into a post-racial period in American politics. Regrettably, the reality hasn't lived up to that expectation. Instead, Americans' political beliefs have become significantly more...

A poignant, multi-generational saga of a mixed-race family in the US West and South from the antebellum period through the rise of Jim Crow. When Samuel Townsend died at his home in Madison County, Alabama, in November 1856, the fifty-two-year-old...

Twenty years ago, Margaret Mulrooney's history of the community of Irish immigrant workers at the du Pont powder yards, Black Powder, White Lace, was published to wide acclaim. Now, as much of the materials Mulrooney used in her research are now...

Today is a difficult time to be both Arab and American. Since 9/11 there has been a lot of criticism of America's involvement in the middle east. Yet there has been little analysis of how America treats citizens of Arab or middle eastern origin within...

This book places the Aboriginal occupation of Australia within a broad framework of human evolution and habitation. The author discusses the pioneering studies that delve into the mists of antiquity, and he engages with current controversies, including...

Galicia, the region in the northwest corner of Spain contiguous with Portugal, is officially known as the Autonomous Community of Galicia. It is recognized as one of the historical nationalities making up the Spanish state, as legitimized by the Spanish...

In this book, Alfred Kazin, who for more than 30 years has been one of the central figures of America's intellectual life, takes us into his own life and times. His autobiography encompasses a personal story openly told; an inside look at New York's...

Blacks in Canada journeys from the introduction of slavery in 1628 to the first wave of Caribbean immigration in the 1950s and 1960s. Heralded in the Literary Review of Canada as one of the one hundred most important Canadian books, this enduring work by...

This is a book that challenges contemporary images of 'place'. Too often we are told about 'deprived neighbourhoods' but rarely do the people who live in those communities get to shape the agenda and describe, from their perspective, what is important to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925302936Author Ms Jacki FerroFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint ATF PressPublisher ATF PressWeight(grams) 340g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865545168Author N.Brent KennedyFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Mercer University PressPublisher Mercer University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671886271Author David RieffFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint TouchstonePublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 290gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 12mm

In this exploration of the way racism is translated from the print-only era to the cyber era the author takes the reader through a devastatingly informative tour of white supremacy online. The book examines how white supremacist organizations have...

Recent flashpoints in Black-Jewish relations-Louis Farrakhan's Million Man March, the violence in Crown Heights, Leonard Jeffries' polemical speeches, the O.J. Simpson verdict, and the contentious responses to these events-suggest just how wide the gap...

A century ago, the idea of indigenous people as an active force in the contemporary world was unthinkable. It was assumed that native societies everywhere would be swept away by the forward march of the West and its own peculiar brand of progress and...

This book examines the experiences and values which shaped working-class life in Britain in the half-century from 1880. It takes as its focus a region, Lancashire, which was central to the social and political changes of the period. The discussion...

In today's multicultural and multireligious societies, humour and comedy often become the focus of controversy over alleged racist or offensive content, as shown, for instance, by the intense debate of Sacha Baron Cohen's characters Ali G and Borat, and...

It's hard to imagine a place more central to American mythology today than Silicon Valley. To outsiders, the region glitters with the promise of extraordinary wealth and innovation. But behind this image lies another Silicon Valley, one segregated by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684844978Author Stephan ThernstromFormat PaperbackPage Count 708Imprint TouchstonePublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 1023gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374527150Author Maurice BergerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578827995Author Hang Thi Yen BlackFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Hang BlackPublisher Hang BlackWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

In the 1960s, on the heels of the Brown vs. Board of Education decision and in the midst of the growing Civil Rights Movement, Ku Klux Klan activity boomed, reaching an intensity not seen since the 1920s, when the KKK boasted over 4 million members. Most...

This edited volume examines how and where gay men of color find "home" and what kind of home they find, how they make sense of race and sexuality, and how their experiences reflect what it means to be "raced" and "sexed" in America. The contributors...

One of the greatest challenges during the enlargement process of the European Union towards the east is how the issue of the Roma or Gypsies is tackled. This ethnic minority group represents a much higher share by numbers, too, in some regions going...

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The Life of Paper offers a wholly original and inspiring analysis of how people facing systematic social dismantling have engaged in letter correspondence to remake themselves, from bodily integrity to subjectivity to collective and spiritual being...

Lawrence S. Grossman explores the far-reaching implications of the conflicts between subsistence and commodity production in developing countries. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices...

In the wake of recent upheavals across the Arab world, a simplistic media portrayal of the region as essentially homogenous has given way to a new though equally shallow portrayal, casting it as deeply divided along ethnic, linguistic, and religious...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874835335Author Frances M. MalpezziFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint August House PublishersPublisher August House PublishersWeight(grams) 431g

The island has historically played a special role in the cultural imagination – sometimes as a place of promise of tranquillity; at other times the remoteness has seemed attractive for more sinister reasons. Using islands for extreme exclusion has a long...

The main issues arising from the encounter between Roma people and surrounding European society since the time of their arrival in Medieval Europe until today are discussed in this work. The history of their persecution and genocide during the Nazi era,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738519562Author Aphrodite MatsakisFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 295g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738519081Author Vasili ShoumanovFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738518749Author Tammy Venable (Kuhn)Format PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 295g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798987991947Author Ray SchoenkeFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint Ray Schoenke LLCPublisher Ray Schoenke LLCWeight(grams) 680g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788178354194Author P.P. VijayanFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Kalpaz PublicationsPublisher Kalpaz Publications