Minority Studies category: 588 books
The Rhetoric of Black Mayors
In Their Own Words
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2010
The Rhetoric of Black Mayors explores the rhetorical and practical efforts of Black mayors in building coalitions to win elections and govern cities. Atwater discusses and analyzes the process of creating coalitions by each mayor by dealing with the news coverage of the mayors by both the black and...
by Jason Bost Sr
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
From high school dropout and convicted drug dealer, to successful entertainment industry executive, eventual law school graduate, and college professor, this is an explosively emotional inspirational journey exploring the ups & downs of growing up bi-racial in America. Born just a few years after...
Thirteen Senses
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
A daring memoir of love, magic, adventure, and miracles, Victor Villaseñor's Thirteen Senses continues the exhilarating family saga that began in the widely acclaimed bestseller Rain of Gold, delivering a stunning story of passion, family, and the forgotten mystical senses that stir within us all.
Thirteen...
White Innocence
Paradoxes of Colonialism and Race
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
In White Innocence Gloria Wekker explores a central paradox of Dutch culture: the passionate denial of racial discrimination and colonial violence coexisting alongside aggressive racism and xenophobia. Accessing a cultural archive built over 400 years of Dutch colonial rule, Wekker fundamentally challenges...
The Assassination of Theo van Gogh
From Social Drama to Cultural Trauma
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2008
In November 2004, the controversial Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh was killed on a busy street in Amsterdam. A twenty-six-year-old Dutch citizen of Moroccan descent shot van Gogh, slit his throat, and pinned a five-page indictment of Western society to his body. The murder set off a series of reactions,...
by Kurt Kaltreider, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1998
American Indian Prophecies: Conversations with Chasing Deer tells of indigenous American culture, values, and spirituality as seen through their prophecies. The book is a series of conversations between young John Peabody of the New England gentry and Chasing Deer, an aged Cheyenne/Lakota and keeper...
Shadow Tribe
The Making of Columbia River Indian Identity
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2011
Shadow Tribe offers the first in-depth history of the Pacific Northwest�s Columbia River Indians -- the defiant River People whose ancestors refused to settle on the reservations established for them in central Oregon and Washington. Largely overlooked in traditional accounts of tribal dispossession...
by Henry A. Giroux
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Facing a crisis unlike that of any other generation, young people are caught between the discourses of consumerism and a powerful crime-control-complex, and are viewed increasingly as commodities or are subjected to the dictates of an ever expanding criminal justice system. Drawing upon critical analyses,...
Heat Wave
A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
On Thursday, July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day in which the temperature would reach 106 degrees. The heat index, which measures how the temperature actually feels on the body, would hit 126 degrees by the time the day was over. Meteorologists had been warning residents about a two-day...
America Behind The Color Line
Dialogues with African Americans
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
Renowned scholar and "New York Times" bestselling author Gates delivers a stirring and authoritative companion to the major new PBS documentary "America Behind the Color Line." The book includes thought-provoking essays from Colin Powell, Morgan Freeman, Russell Simmons, Vernon Jordan, Alicia Keys, Bernie Mac, and Quincy Jones.
Others
Writers on the power of words to help us see beyond ourselves
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2019
Features a prestigious list of contributors including Kamila Shamsie, Noam Chomsky, A. L. Kennedy, Matt Haig, Louise Doughty and Preti Taneja among others.
Charles Fernyhough is a professor of psychology at Durham University.
He is also the acclaimed author of The Baby in the Mirror...
The Corner
A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
The crime-infested intersection of West Fayette and Monroe Streets is well-known--and cautiously avoided--by most of Baltimore. But this notorious corner's 24-hour open-air drug market provides the economic fuel for a dying neighborhood. David Simon, an award-winning author and crime reporter, and...
by Kim Mahood
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Winner of the NSW Premier's Literary Awards Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction,The Age Book of the Year Award for Non-fiction, The Dobbie Prize for Best First Book.
A lyrical memoir from a first-time author that has won critical acclaim Australia-wide. In the tradition of Drusilla Modjeska's...
Outlaw Woman
A Memoir of the War Years, 1960–1975, Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
In 1968, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz helped found the Women’s Liberation Movement, part of what has been called the second wave of feminism in the United States. Along with a small group of dedicated women in Boston, she produced the first women’s liberation journal, No More Fun and Games.
Dunbar-Ortiz...