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A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America (A Back Bay Book)
by Ronald Takaki
From its colonization to the Los Angeles riots, this book recounts the history of America from a multicultural point of view, while detailing the involvements and achievements of the non-Anglo participants who helped create it. Reprint.
White Racism
by Joe R. Feagin
White Racism is fully revised and updated for the 21st Century. Taking issue with those who claim the significance of races is declining, this edition probes the dynamic of white-on-black racism in contemporary American society. Focusing on a series of notorious racial incidents, including the Rodney King beating, the authors reveal this "dirty little secret of American life" as a fundamental social practice... (more)