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A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America
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Ronald T Takaki
Upon its first publication, A Different Mirror was hailed by critics and academics as a dramatic retelling of America's past. Beginning with the colonization of the New World, it recounted the history of America in the voice of the non-Anglo peoples of the United States - Native Americans, African Americans, Jews, Irish Americans, Asian Americans, ...
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Alex Cross's Trial
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James Patterson, Richard DiLallo
Detective Alex Cross tells an ancestor's story, in this astonishing account of one man's bold pursuit of justice in the face of racism and violence. Unlike any story Patterson has ever told before, "Alex Cross's Trial" still offers the astounding action and breakneck speed of any Alex Cross novel to date.
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Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: Revised Edition
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Beverly Daniel Tatum, Ph.D.
The fifth-anniversary edition of the best-selling work on the development of racial identity. . Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see black youth seated together in the cafeteria. Of course, it's not just the black kids sitting together-the white, Latino, Asian Pacific, and, in some regions, American Indian youth are clustered ...
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
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Douglas A Blackmon
Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history, the late 1870s through the 1940s when thousands of African-American men were arbitrarily arrested, hit with fines, charged for room and board in state and county jails, and then forced to work off the debt as unpaid laborers.
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Things Fall Apart
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Chinua Achebe
Things do indeed fall apart in the mid-20th-century world of West Africa when the British colonize the country, disrupting the ancient ways of life that have provided meaning and structure for the inhabitants of a rural Ibo village. The hero of the story is Okonwo, a revered community leader and the character Achebe frequently uses as a kind of ...
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White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son
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Tim Wise
Wise offers a highly personal examination of the ways in which racial privilege shapes the lives of most white Americans, overtly racist or not, to the detriment of people of color, themselves, and society. Using stories instead of stale statistics, Wise weaves a narrative that is at once readable yet scholarly, analytical, and accessible.
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Cry the Beloved Country
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Alan Paton
Often called the most important South African novel, this is the story of love and courage in the face of injustice.
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Race, Class, & Gender in the United States: An Integrated Study
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Paula S Rothenberg
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Roll of thunder, hear my cry
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Mildred D Taylor
'We have no choice of what colour we're born or who our parents are or whether we're rich or poor. What we do have is some choice over what we make of our lives once we're here.' The Mississippi of the 1930s was a hard place for a black child to grow up in, but still Cassie didn't understand why farming his own land meant so much to her father. ...
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Strangers to These Shores: Race and Ethnic Relations in the United States
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Dr. Vincent N Parrillo
The most up-to-date and comprehensive text available for the study of racial and ethnic relations in the United States. With the growing emphasis in courses on diversity in the United States, this book informs students about the nation's past and present multicultural realities. The book begins with an analysis of the stranger as a social ...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Mark Twain, Shelley Fisher Fishkin (Introduction by)
Newly repackaged and featuring a new Introduction, Twain's classic tales of life on the Mississippi capture both the complexities of American life while regaling the boyhood adventures of two of the most popular characters in American literature. Reissue.
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Race Matters
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Cornel West
The scholar, theologian, and activist who has been acclaimed as one of the most eloquent voices in our ongoing racial debate now bridges the gulf between black and white America in a work of enormous resonance and moral authority. West takes on the questions of politics, economics, ethics, and spirituality and addresses the crisis in black ...
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Race and Ethnic Relations: American and Global Perspectives
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Martin N Marger
Explores race and ethnic relations in a global context, while extensively covering groups and issues in the United States. The text's unique comparative approach is increasingly important and relevant in light of the growing ethnic diversity in a variety of societies.
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Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West
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Christopher Caldwell
Deadly terrorist attacks and rioting in Muslim neighborhoods have forced Europeans to confront the limits of their long-held liberal values. Caldwell reports that by underestimating the culture-shaping potential of religion, Europe has trapped itself in a problem to which it has no obvious solution.
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Racial and ethnic groups
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Richard T Schaefer
Grounded in a socio-historical perspective with engaging stories and first person accounts. Racial and ethnic relations in the United States are at a dynamic and exciting time. Major events are shaping our society, such as population and immigration changes, the election of the first African-American president, and increasing diversity throughout ...
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Privilege, Power, and Difference
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Allan G Johnson
This brief book is a groundbreaking tool for students and non-students alike to examine systems of privilege and difference in our society. Written in an accessible, conversational style, Johnson links theory with engaging examples in ways that enable readers to see the underlying nature and consequences of privilege and their connection to it. ...
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Passage to India
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E M Forster
In Forster's beautifully written novel about British India at the turn of the century, a simple misunderstanding erupts into hostility. The plot centers on Aziz, a young doctor who is initially tolerant of the British presence in India. However, when he takes a group of Americans to the Caves of Marabar and an American woman accuses him of raping ...
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American Ethnicity: The Dynamics and Consequences of Discrimination
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Adalberto Aguirre, Jr.
This brief and inexpensive text provides a concise introduction to the dynamics of racial and ethnic relations. After summarizing key concepts and theories, the authors develop a simple theoretical framework that guides the presentation of data on each of the prominent ethnic groups in America. As a result, the book examines each ethnic group from ...
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Black Like Me
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John Howard Griffin
In the fall of 1959, John Howard Griffin used medical treatments to darken the color of his skin and then set out on an odyssey through Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia, a white man travelling as a black man in order to find out first-hand what it was like "to be a Negro in the Deep South," as he wrote at the time. His eloquent and ...
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Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Class: The Sociology of Group Conflict and Change
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Dr. Joseph F Healey
Authors purpose: This text is an introduction to the sociology of minority-dominant relations and was written for students who do not have extensive backgrounds in the social sciences. I have tried to make the subject matter coherent to these students, in part by applying a unified set of themes and concepts throughout the text. The analysis is ...
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Hope on a Tightrope: Words and Wisdom
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Cornel West
Offering openhearted wisdom for modern times, this courageous collection of quotations, speech excerpts, letters, and photographs by the "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Democracy Matters" includes an original CD that highlights Dr. West's outstanding spoken-word artistry.
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Readings for Diversity and Social Justice: An Anthology on Racism, Sexism, Anti-Semitism, Heterosexism, Classism, and Ableism
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Ed Et Al Adams, Maurianne Adams (Editor), Ximena Zuniga (Editor)
The first reader to cover the scope of oppressions in America, contains a mix of short personal and theoretical essays and is designed as an introduction to the topics at hand. The selections include writings from such foremost names in the field - bell hooks, Cornel West, Michael Omi, Audre Lorde, Gloria Anzaldua and Michelle Fine.
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We Are All Welcome Here
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Elizabeth Berg
Three women struggle against overwhelming odds for her own kind of freedom in the summer of 1964 in Tupelo, Mississippi. Despite the difficulties thrust upon them, each will find her own path to independence, understanding, and peace.
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Black Rednecks and White Liberals
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Thomas Sowell
This book presents the kind of eye-opening insights into the history and culture of race for which Sowell has become famous. As late as the 1940s and 1950s, he argues, poor Southern rednecks were regarded by Northern employers and law enforcement officials as lazy, lawless, and sexually immoral. This pattern was repeated by blacks with whom they ...
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Rethinking the Color Line: Readings in Race and Ethnicity
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A Gallagher Charles
"Rethinking the Color Line" is a user-friendly text that does not sacrifice intellectual or theoretical rigor. This anthology of current research examines contemporary issues and explores new approaches to the study of race and ethnic relations. The featured readings effectively engage students by helping them understand theories and concepts, and ...
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