Category: Books

  • Know It by Heart Northwestern University Press June 2003 256 pages 5.5 x 8.5 Trade Paper ISBN: 978-1-880684-95-5 Karl Luntta, Director of Media Relations The State University of New York, Albany When a racially mixed family moves into an all-white neighborhood in East Hartford, Connecticut, in 1961, lives are altered forever. Karl Luntta’s Know It by…

  • Selected Plays Northwestern University Press April 2011 272 pages 6 x 9 Trade Paper ISBN: 978-0-8101-2751-7 Alice Childress (1916—1994) Edited by: Kathy A. Perkins, Professor of Theatre University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill As the first African American woman to have a play professionally produced in New York City (Gold Through the Trees, in 1952)…

  • Duncan McDonald: Flathead Indian Reservation Leader and Cultural Broker, 1849-1937 University of Nebraska Press 2016-03-31 256 pages 28 illustrations, 6 maps, index Paperback ISBN: 978-1-934594-15-5 Robert Bigart, Librarian Emeritus Salish Kootenai College, Pablo, Montana Joseph McDonald, President Emeritus (and grandnephew of Duncan McDonald) Salish Kootenai College, Pablo, Montana Duncan McDonald (1849–1937) led a remarkable life…

  • Redefining Japaneseness: Japanese Americans in the Ancestral Homeland Rutgers University Press 2017-01-24 224 pages 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-7637-4 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-7636-7 Web PDF ISBN: 978-0-8135-7639-8 ePub ISBN: 978-0-8135-7638-1 Jane H. Yamashiro, Visiting Scholar Asian American Studies Center University of California, Los Angeles There is a rich body of literature on the experience of…

  • “(Un)Making Race and Ethnicity: A Reader,” edited by Michael O. Emerson, Jenifer L. Bratter, and Sergio Chávez, helps instructors and students connect with primary texts in ways that are informative and interesting, leading to engaging discussions and interactions.

  • One of the Coast Guard’s great heroes and the secret he kept hidden

  • From undocumented men named Angel, to angels falling from the sky, Natalie Scenters-Zapico’s gripping debut collection, The Verging Cities, is filled with explorations of immigration and marriage, narco-violence and femicide, and angels in the domestic sphere. Deeply rooted along the US-México border in the sister cities of El Paso, Texas, and Cd. Juárez, Chihuahua, these…

  • “The Other California” is the story of working-class communities and how they constituted the racially and ethnically diverse social landscape of Baja California.

  • Remapping Race on the Human Genome: Commercial Exploits in a Racialized America Praeger January 2017 310 pages 6.125 x 9.25 Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4408-3063-1 eBook ISBN: 978-1-4408-3064-8 Judith Ann Warner, Professor of Sociology Texas A&M International University, Laredo, Texas Do the commercial applications of the human genome in ancestry tracing, medicine, and forensics serve to further…

  • In the Name of the Mother: Italian Americans, African Americans, and Modernity from Booker T. Washington to Bruce Springsteen Dartmouth College Press 2017-01-03 296 pages 10 illus. 6 1/8 x 9 1/4″ Paperback ISBN: 978-1-5126-0019-3 Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-5126-0018-6 Ebook ISBN: 978-1-5126-0020-9 Samuele F. S. Pardini, Associate Professor of Italian Department of World Languages and Cultures…