Ethnic studies

Winner of 2020 International Latino Book Awards in the category "e; Best Political/Current Affairs Book - English"e;2019 Finalist for INDIES Book of the YearThis book is an insider's history and memoir of the battle for The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986: its evolution, passage, impact, and its legacies for the future of immigration reform.

At a literal crossroads in the South, there are two speakers in these poems - the descendant, who has traveled here to try to find her ancestors in the archives, records, and receipts of their violent and near-unrecorded history, and the ancestors, who are alternately bemused, angry, and tender with their descendant.

Runner-up for 2015 Russian Booker Prize.

A sassy tortilla, so light she jumps off the griddle, leads an elaborate game of chase through the desert while taunting a passel of critters-two horned toads, three donkeys, four jackrabbits, five rattlesnakes, and six buckaroos.

No two persons in the United States have written with as much passion and power about the bond between human beings and the natural world as Thoreau of WALDEN and Muir of MOUNTAINS OF CALIFORNIA.

That art should once have been markedwith this delicacy: always only oneof each thing made, so that your poemhas its one life on the sheetyou have chosen for it, or the snapshotof the birthday party, everythingin the room upended by the children'sjubilation, survives onlyin the single defended piece of glass.

I have never been particularly interested in slavery, perhaps because it is such an obvious fact of my family's history.

In the early months of 1965, the killings of two civil rights activists inspired the Selma-to-Montgomery marches, which became the driving force behind the passage of the Voting Rights Act.

In MY WATERY SELF: AN AQUATIC MEMOIR, author/scientist Stephen Spotte traces a fascinating trail through a life that began in West Virgina coal camps, drifted through reckless bohemian times of countercultural indulgence in Beach Haven, New Jersey, and led to a career as a highly-respected marine biologist.

"e;A MUST-READ FOR ANYONE INTERESTED IN UNDERSTANDING AND DISMANTLING MASS INCARCERATION.

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One of America's foremost prose poets, Richard Garcia's The Chair simultaneously takes place in the natural world and a speculative world rich in the fabulist tradition: historical figures roam like ghosts, time is pulled and twisted, and narrative spins effortlessly out of language.

Book of My Nights is the first poetry collection in ten years by one of the world's most acclaimed young poets.

"e;It has true spiritual importance for contemporary American literature.

Ferguson might be the worst, but it is not the first.

New Materialism and Intersectionality advances the interplay of intersectionality theories and feminist new materialisms, arguing that co-constitutive influences between these fields will provide feminist and gender studies scholars with improved tools to analyse markers of difference and identity in 21st-century realities.

Mireille Gansel grew up in the traumatic aftermath of her family losing everythingincluding their native languagesto Nazi Germany.

Expanding the social justice discourse surrounding reproductive rights to include issues of environmental justice, incarceration, poverty, disability, and more, this crucial anthology explores the practical applications for activist thought migrating from the community into the academy.

An anthology of Asian diasporic writers musing on the notion of "e;home.

A "e;poignant, painful, and gorgeous"e; memoir that explores siblinghood, adolescence, and grief for a family shattered by loss (Alicia Garza, cocreator, Black Lives Matter).

American Book Award Winner: A ';mesmerizing' memoir about identity from the daughter of an Irish-Catholic mother and a Sindhi-Indian father (Chandra Prasad, editor of Mixed).

"e;David Martinez is like an algebra problem invented by Americahe's polynomial, and fractioned, full of identity variables and unsolved narrative coefficients.

The poems in this, Kiki Petrosino's second collection, fulfill the promise of her debut effort, Fort Red Border, and further extend the terms of our expectations for this extraordinary young poet.

Black Elk (1863-1950), the Lakota holy man, is beloved by millions of readers around the world.

Sometime in August 1913, two Sioux warriors, Old Buffalo and Swift Dog, met with Frances Densmore at a makeshift recording site in McLaughlin, South Dakota.

From the time of its emergence in the United States in 1852, the Young Men's Christian Association excluded blacks from membership in white branches but encouraged them to form their own associations and to join the Christian brotherhood on "e;separate but equal"e; terms.

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Pagans in the Promised Land provides a unique, well-researched challenge to U.

Erotica at its gritty best, Power of the P is the seductive story of an entrepreneur who wields his powerful status in unimaginable and sometimes unethical ways.

This second novel from acclaimed author Sharron Doyle opens with Petie still regulating, but this time from down south.

The Spirit of Indian Women provides a unique glimpse into a world that is almost inaccessible in our time.

This beautifully illustrated book presents a vivid account of the American Indian experience as seen through the eyes of Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa), the first and greatest of the Native American authors.

The work of Edward Curtis captures forever the images, myths, and histories of a vanishing age.

Tagalog is a language spoken by twenty-two million people in the Philippines.

The poems in this highly anticipated second book are elegiac poems, as concerned with honoring our dead as they are with praising the living.

This monograph examines the ideological legacy of the the apparently innocent kinship metaphors of "e;mother tongue"e; and "e;native speaker"e; by historicizing their linguistic development.

Out of Place offers an in-depth exploration of Nuraan Davids, experience as a Muslim ,coloured, woman, traversing a post-apartheid space.

Why did African men leave their homes to work on the mines of the Witwatersrand?

People usually think of discrimination as being against black or other ethnic minorities.

"e;THEY"e; Cripple Society Volume 1 is an expose consisting of true to life stories of discrimination in society against fine, smart, well cultured people.

*;Finalist, Hilary Weston Writers Trust Prize for Non-FictionWhen Candace Savage and her partner buy a house in the romantic little town of Eastend, she has no idea what awaits her.

One of three volumes responding to the 7 October attack, Universities focuses on the heartland of contemporary antisemitic thinking, which is scholarship; and its reflection in student discourse on campus.

A collection of newspaper columns by Marty Gervais, published in The Windsor Star.

A Narrative of the Adventures and Sufferings of John R.

First Published in 1992, this classic David Suzuki title is now available with a new introduction.

Als junger Knabe empfing der Oglala Lakota Sioux Black Elk eine mächtige Vision, die ihn auf eine persönliche Reise führen sollte.

As a young child of the Oglala Lakota Sioux, Black Elk had been given a mighty vision which would lead him on a personal journey that lasted his entire life.

In this compelling book, respected lawyer and Native rights advocate Thomas Berger surveys the history of the Americas since their "e;discovery"e; by Christopher Columbus in 1492.