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Asian Americans: An Interpretive History (Immigrant Heritage of America Series)

Asian Americans: An Interpretive History (Immigrant Heritage of America Series)

by Sucheng Chan

Series Editor: Thomas Archdeacon, University of Wisconsin-Madison This series presents concise histories of individual ethnic groups and their impact on American life and culture. With comprehensive examinations of the immigrant experience, it serves as a resource for both young students and experienced researchers. Each book in the series is written by a qualified scholar and includes notes, references, a... (more)

Dear Self: A Year In The Life Of A Welfare Mother

Dear Self: A Year In The Life Of A Welfare Mother

by Imam Zaid Shakir

Dear Self is the penetrating journal of Richelene Mitchell, a young African American mother of seven struggling to raise her children while wrestling with the burden of poverty, callous public policy, and both overt and subtle manifestations of entrenched, institutionalized racism America. Mitchell was born in the rural south, the daughter of an African American sharecropper. She would venture to the northern... (more)

A Cultural History of the Native Peoples of Southern New England: Voices from Past and Present

A Cultural History of the Native Peoples of Southern New England: Voices from Past and Present

by Moondancer, Strong Woman

Very few books on the history and culture of the southern New England Native peoples have been written by the Natives themselves. Standard academic books read like a clinical autopsy of a dead culture from many years ago. Contrary to this, A Cultural History of the Native Peoples of Southern New England provides an understanding of the ways, customs, and language of the southern New England American Indians from... (more)

Passing It On

by Yuri Kochiyama

Recipient of the 2004 Gustavus Meyers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights Outstanding Book Award At the age of 77, Yuri Nakahara Kochiyama began to write her memoir for her family. Passing it On is the account of an extraordinary Asian American woman who spoke out and fought shoulder-to-shoulder with African Americans, Native Americans, Latinos, Asian Americans, and Whites for social... (more)

The Polynesian Family System in Ka`U, Hawai'IE. S. Craighill Handy, Mary Kawena Pukui

The Polynesian Family System in Ka`U, Hawai'I

by Mary Kawena Pukui, Edward Smith Craighill Handy

This insightful study of the Hawaiian family explores the manner and customs accompanying all circles of life.

Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans Au of...

Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans Au of...

by Ronald Takaki

In an extraordinary blend of eloquent narrative history, vivid personal recollection, and oral testimony, Ronald Takaki relates the diverse 150-year history of Asian Americans. Through richly detailed vignettes--by turns bitter, funny, and inspiring--he offers a stunning panorama of a neglected part of Americanhistory. 16 pages of photographs.

The Souls of Black Folk

by W. E. B. Du Bois

The Souls of Black Folk , by W. E. B. Du Bois, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics : New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and... (more)

The Frugal Gourmet on Our Immigrant Ancestors: Recipes You Should Have Gotten from Your Grandmother

The Frugal Gourmet on Our Immigrant Ancestors: Recipes You Should Have Gotten from Your Grandmother

by Jeff Smith

Television's well-known Frugal Gourmet presents a collection of authentic recipes brought to the United States from around the world, including dishes from Mexico, Italy, France, Germany, Spain, Sweden, the Middle East, Asia, and others. Reprint.

Dispatches from the Ebony Tower

What constitutes black studies and where does this discipline stand at the end of the twentieth century? In this wide-ranging and original volume, Manning Marable -one of the leading scholars of African American history -gathers key materials from contemporary thinkers who interrogate the richly diverse content and multiple meanings of the collective experiences of black folk. Here are numerous voices... (more)

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