Ethnic category: 7100 books
An Organizer's Tale
Speeches
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2008
The first major collection of writings by civil rights leader Cesar Chavez
One of the most important civil rights leaders in American history, Cesar Chavez was a firm believer in the principles of nonviolence, and he effectively employed peaceful tactics to further his cause. Through his efforts,...
The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches
Essays and Sketches
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
The Souls of Black Folk is the seminal work by Du Bois on race in late 19th-century North America. The way we think about and examine race today stems from his ideas. He spoke of the "double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others," and of the progress and obstacles to progress of the black American.
Words of Power
Reading Shakespeare and the Bible
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
"Shakespeare and the Bible are two of the icons of world culture. They are interwoven into the language and customs of much of the English-speaking world, from turns of phrase which people instinctively borrow to express their own feelings, to the grand state occasions which bolster their own...
Colonize This!
Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2019
Newly revised and updated, this landmark anthology offers gripping portraits of American life as seen through the eyes of young women of color
It has been decades since women of color first turned feminism upside down, exposing the feminist movement as exclusive, white, and unaware of the concerns...
by Gustavo Arellano
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
DEAR MEXICAN:
WHAT IS ¡ASK A MEXICAN! ?
Questions and answers about our spiciest Americans. I explore the clichés of lowriders, busboys, and housekeepers; drunks and scoundrels; heroes and celebrities; and most important, millions upon millions of law-abiding, patriotic American citizens...
White Fragility
Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality.
In this “vital, necessary, and beautiful book” (Michael Eric Dyson), antiracist educator...
by Amy Chua
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
“[E]ntertaining, bracingly honest and, yes, thought-provoking.”—The New York Times Book Review
At once provocative and laugh-out-loud funny, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother ignited a global parenting debate with its story of one mother’s journey in strict parenting. Amy Chua argues...
Tong Wars
The Untold Story of Vice, Money, and Murder in New York's Chinatown
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
A mesmerizing true story of money, murder, gambling, prostitution, and opium in a "wild ramble around Chinatown in its darkest days." (The New Yorker)
Nothing had worked. Not threats or negotiations, not shutting down the betting parlors or opium dens, not house-to-house searches...
Harvest of Empire
A History of Latinos in America
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
A sweeping history of the Latino experience in the United States- thoroughly revised and updated.
The first new edition in ten years of this important study of Latinos in U.S. history, Harvest of Empire spans five centuries-from the first New World colonies to the first decade of the new millennium....
In Search of Sisterhood
Delta Sigma Theta and the Challenge of the Black Sorority Movement
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
This history of the largest block women's organization in the United States is not only the story of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority (DST), but also tells of the increasing involvement of black women in the political, social, and economic affairs of America. Founded at a time when liberal arts education...
Coming Apart
The State of White America, 1960-2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Coming Apart - an acclaimed bestseller that explains why white America has become fractured and divided in education and class.
In Coming Apart, Charles Murray explores the formation of American classes that are different in kind from anything we have ever known, focusing on whites as a way...
When Mexicans Could Play Ball
Basketball, Race, and Identity in San Antonio, 1928–1945
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
In 1939, a team of short, scrappy kids from a vocational school established specifically for Mexican Americans became the high school basketball champions of San Antonio, Texas. Their win, and the ensuing riot it caused, took place against a backdrop of shifting and conflicted attitudes toward Mexican...
Nothing to Envy
Ordinary Lives in North Korea
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2009
An eye-opening account of life inside North Korea—a closed world of increasing global importance—hailed as a “tour de force of meticulous reporting” (The New York Review of Books)
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST
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In this landmark addition...
Red and Yellow, Black and Brown
Decentering Whiteness in Mixed Race Studies
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
Red and Yellow, Black and Brown gathers together life stories and analysis by twelve contributors who express and seek to understand the often very different dynamics that exist for mixed race people who are not part white. The chapters focus on the social, psychological, and political situations...