Social Science - Minority Studies

Ginzburg compiles vivid newspaper accounts from 1886 to 1960 to provide insight and understanding of the history of racial violence.First published in 1962, 100 Years of Lynchings, is as relevant today as it was then. It presents the reader with vivid newspaper accounts of...

Winner of an English PEN Award 2021! "A feminist narrative of how decolonization is a never-ending struggle!"--Veronica Gago, co-author of A Feminist Reading of Debt For too long feminism has been co-opted by the forces they seek to dismantle. In this powerful manifesto, Francoise...

Ronald Takaki's beloved revisionist history of America, praised by Howard Zinn as "a bold and refreshing new approach to our national history," now featuring a foreword from Clint Smith, author of the award-winning #1 bestseller How the Word Is Passed. Ronald Takaki's "brilliant revisionist...

Essays that challenge, discomfort, disorient, galvanize, and inspire all of us to evolve now, for our shared future.Author: Sun Yung ShinPublisher: Minnesota Historical Society PressPublished: 04/01/2016Pages: 240Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.80dISBN: 9781681340029About the AuthorAlthough her first dream was to be...

Upper-middle-class white women have long been heralded as "experts" on feminism. They have presided over multinational feminist organizations and written much of what we consider the feminist canon, espousing sexual liberation and satisfaction, LGBTQ inclusion, and racial solidarity, all while branding the language of...

A comprehensive and insightful examination of the representation of diverse viewpoints and perspectives in American cinema throughout the 20th and 21st centuries America on Film: Representing Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality at the Movies, now in its third edition, is an authoritative and lively...

"A powerful - even startling - book...Its analysis of police violence and the threat of fascism are as important now as they were at the end of the 1970s." - Peter James Hudson, Black Agenda Report In a time of movements like Black Lives...

From the bestselling author of Brown Is the New White, an explosive new argument for draining the swamp of white male privilege"Steve Phillips situates our present crisis exactly where it belongs-within the long, unfinished struggle to make real the promise that all are created...

The fascinating story of the rise of Asian Americans as a politically and socially influential racial groupThis groundbreaking book is about the transformation of Asian Americans from a few small, disconnected, and largely invisible ethnic groups into a self-identified racial group that is influencing...

This timely special edition, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party, features a new preface by the authors that places the Party in a contemporary political landscape, especially as it relates to Black Lives Matter and other struggles...

An eloquent document of the civil rights movement that remains a work of profound social relevance 50 years after it was first published.A revolutionary work since its publication, Black Power exposed the depths of systemic racism in this country and provided a radical political...

This explosive new book challenges many of the long-prevailing assumptions about blacks, about Jews, about Germans, about slavery, and about education. Plainly written, powerfully reasoned, and backed with a startling array of documented facts, Black Rednecks and White Liberals takes on not only the...

A completely revised and updated handbook of eye-opening--and frequently myth-busting--facts and figures about the real lives of Black Americans today, called "a gift of knowledge" by Susan Taylor, former editor-in-chief of Essence magazine There's no defeating white supremacist myths without real data. Hailed as...

As the heyday of the Chicano Movement of the late 1960s to early 70s fades further into history and as more and more of its important figures pass on, so too does knowledge of its significance. Thus, Chicano Movement For Beginners is an important...

This is the companion volume to the critically acclaimed, four-part documentary series of the same title, which is now available on video following its national airing on the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Aimed at a broad general audience as well as college and high...

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER - The bestselling author of The Woman Warrior chronicles the lives of several generations of Chinese men in America, woven from memory, myth and fact. "A history at once savage and beautiful, a combination of bone-grinding reality and luminous fantasy."--The...

Creating Culture, Performing Community explores the ways in which the people of Santo Santiago de Angahuan, a P'urhépecha community in the state of Michoacán, México, create and curate their cultural practices and how, by doing so, they perform what it means to be an...

In his new preface to this paperback edition, the author observes, "The Indian world has changed so substantially since the first publication of this book that some things contained in it seem new again." Indeed, it seems that each generation of whites and Indians...

2022 NATIONAL INDIE EXCELLENCE AWARDS WINNER -- LGBTQIA NONFICTION "The author offers an empowering perspective for people whose identities are often marginalized in the health and wellness industry." --Manhattan Book Review Become the healthiest and happiest version of yourself using wellness tools designed specifically...

A practical, illustrated guide to using the tools of design to create feelings of inclusion, collaboration, and respect in groups of any type or size--a classroom, a work team, an international organization--from Stanford University's d.school. "This is a beautiful book. Wise has applied the...