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Beneath a Ruthless Sun
A True Story of Violence, Race, and Justice Lost and Found
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
**NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR and THE WASHINGTON POST
"Compelling, insightful and important, Beneath a Ruthless Sun exposes the corruption of racial bigotry and animus that shadows a community, a state and a nation. A fascinating examination of an injustice story all too familiar and...
by Derrick Jensen
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Derrick Jensen takes no prisoners in The Culture of Make Believe, his brilliant and eagerly awaited follow-up to his powerful and lyrical A Language Older Than Words. What begins as an exploration of the lines of thought and experience that run between the massive lynchings in early twentieth-century...
The Black Girl Next Door
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
A powerful, beautifully written memoir about coming of age as a black girl in an exclusive white suburb in "integrated," post-Civil Rights California in the 1970s and 1980s.
At six years of age, after winning a foot race against a white classmate, Jennifer Baszile was humiliated to hear her...
Hate Crime
The Story of a Dragging in Jasper, Texas
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
On June 7, 1998, James Byrd, Jr., a forty-nine-year-old black man, was dragged to his death while chained to the back of a pickup truck driven by three young white men. It happened just outside of Jasper, a sleepy East Texas logging town that, within twenty-four hours of the discovery of the murder,...
Intercultural Couples
Crossing Boundaries, Negotiating Difference
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2011
Despite the growing presence of intercultural couples in the United States and worldwide, their stories often go untold. In Intercultural Couples, Jill Bystydzienski provides a rare and comprehensive understanding of the multidimensional experiences of intercultural couples, drawing mainly upon in-depth...
Seizing Freedom
Slave Emancipation and Liberty for All
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Forceful and detailed account of the struggle for “freedom” after the American Civil War
How did America recover after its years of civil war? How did freed men and women, former slaves, respond to their newly won freedom? David Roediger’s radical new history redefines the idea of freedom...
Covering
The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2011
A lyrical memoir that identifies the pressure to conform as a hidden threat to our civil rights, drawing on the author’s life as a gay Asian American man and his career as an acclaimed legal scholar.
“[Kenji] Yoshino offers his personal search for authenticity as an encouragement for everyone...
The Ox and the Slave
A Satirical Music Drama in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2017
This interdisciplinary study sheds light on the communal creative process of music and discusses the process of music change in Bumba-meu-Boi, and provides an example of exo-semantic analysis in the quest for the truth of this folk drama in Brazil. It argues that Bumba-meu-Boi sheds light on eighteenth...
The Cafe de Move-on Blues
In Search of the New South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
In White Boy Running, Christopher Hope explored how it felt and looked to grow up in a country gripped by an 'absurd, racist insanity'. On a road trip thirty years later, Hope goes in search of today's South Africa; post the evils of apartheid, but also post the dashed hopes and dreams of Mandela,...
The Borders of Dominicanidad
Race, Nation, and Archives of Contradiction
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
In The Borders of Dominicanidad Lorgia García-Peña explores the ways official narratives and histories have been projected onto racialized Dominican bodies as a means of sustaining the nation's borders. García-Peña constructs a genealogy of dominicanidad that highlights how Afro-Dominicans, ethnic...
Cinderella Story
A Scholarly Sketchbook about Race, Identity, Barack Obama, the Human Spirit, and Other Stuff that Matters
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
Cinderella Story is an experimental autoethnography that explores critical racial issues in America through the media of language and images. Rolling asks, How do words and images-involving stories and paradigms, past and future, perceptions of beauty and ugliness-become flesh? How are they done and...
Smile Less
The Incomplete Range, #5
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2018
Smile Less is the 5th entry of Ethan Lesley's The Incomplete Range collection, followed immediately by Miles And Miles of Happy. In this collection, Ethan reflects upon current socio-political stances, race, confidence, contemporary work, and engages with critics.
by Paul Martínez Pompa
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2009
My Kill Adore Him is a collection of poems from Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize-winner Paul Martínez Pompa. With a unique, independent voice, Martínez Pompa interrogates masculinity, race, language, consumerism, and cultural identity in poems that honor los olvidados, the forgotten ones, who range...
Unlikely Friends
Bridging Ties and Diverse Friendships
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2010
There are those individuals who have established deep, lasting relationships with others from very different backgrounds of race, gender, sexual orientation, etc. Research indicates that such friendships are a relatively rare phenomenon. While many study the reasons for this pattern, the research...