Minority Studies category: 588 books
by Eric J. Bailey
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2018
Can today's college students confront race relations issues directly and make positive changes? Yes, they can. This book provides students with a fresh, practical approach to address these serious issues—as individuals and as members of groups—and set off a new positive revolution in race and...
by Wonjung Min
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Este libro incluye una selección de artìculos presentados en el tercer y cuarto Seminario Internacional de Estudios Coreanos, realizados en la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile en los años 2010 y 2011. Este importante encuentro anual es organizado por el Centro de Estudios Asiáticos UC,...
by Wonjung Min
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Este libro es una compilación de los trabajos de académicos, que fueron presentados en la quinta y sexta versión del Seminario Internacional de Estudios Coreanos (2012-2013), evento organizado anualmente por el Centro de Estudios Asiáticos de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Las conferencias...
Bitch Doktrin
Gender, Macht und Sehnsucht
Language: German
Release Date: September 6, 2017
"Bitches get stuff done." Tina Fey Klug und provokant, witzig und kompromisslos sind Laurie Pennys herausragende Essays, die sie zu Recht zu einer der wichtigsten und faszinierenden Stimmen des zeitgenössischen Feminismus machen. Vom Schock der Trump-Wahl und den Siegen der extremen Rechten...
by Cristina da Costa Pereira
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: October 3, 2012
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: October 3, 2012
Hostilizados durante milênios e até hoje temidos por outras etnias, os ciganos se espalharam pelo mundo sem manter registros próprios sobre sua história e cultura. Não há nenhum censo oficial, mas alguns cálculos apontam 17 milhões em todo o mundo, 1,5 milhão na América Latina e cerca de...
by The Freedom Writers, Erin Gruwell
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2007
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER & NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE
Shocked by the teenage violence she witnessed during the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles, Erin Gruwell became a teacher at a high school rampant with hostility and racial intolerance. For many of these students–whose ranks included...
The Unknown American Revolution
The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2006
In this audacious recasting of the American Revolution, distinguished historian Gary Nash offers a profound new way of thinking about the struggle to create this country, introducing readers to a coalition of patriots from all classes and races of American society. From millennialist preachers to...
The Other Wes Moore
One Name, Two Fates
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his.
Two kids named Wes Moore were born blocks apart within a year of each other. Both grew up fatherless in similar Baltimore neighborhoods and had difficult childhoods; both hung out on...
African Americans in the Post-Emancipation South
The Outsiders' View
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
Historians and other scholars often use first-hand accounts, including contemporary observations, as sources for study of the past. These types of sources are valuable, especially when used in conjunction with other documents, as they help us to approximate the past. This study uses these types of...
United
Thoughts on Finding Common Ground and Advancing the Common Good
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • United States Senator and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker makes the case that the virtues of empathy, responsibility, and action must guide our nation toward a brighter future.
Raised in northern New Jersey, Cory Booker went to Stanford University...
American Chica
Two Worlds, One Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
In her father’s Peruvian family, Marie Arana was taught to be a proper lady, yet in her mother’s American family she learned to shoot a gun, break a horse, and snap a chicken’s neck for dinner. Arana shuttled easily between these deeply separate cultures for years. But only when she immigrated...
X-Men and the Mutant Metaphor
Race and Gender in the Comic Books
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
First appearing in 1963, The Uncanny X-Men had a rough start, lasting until 1970 when the comic book was canceled due to low sales. Following a relaunch in 1975, however, it found new popularity thanks to intricate scripting by Chris Claremont and the artwork of John Byrne. Within a few years, The...
Utah's Stolen Treasures
The Ancients Are Crying
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
Utahs Stolen Treasures is a book that was inspired by three American Indian shields discovered by author Gene Covingtons grandparents in Wayne County, Utah back in 1926.----Using the discovery of the shields as a point of departure, Covington provides a multi-layered tale, based primarily upon facts...
A Hope in the Unseen
An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2010
The inspiring, true coming-of-age story of a ferociously determined young man who, armed only with his intellect and his willpower, fights his way out of despair.
In 1993, Cedric Jennings was a bright and ferociously determined honor student at Ballou, a high school in one of Washington D.C.’s...