General Books


No Disrespect Best Price: $7.89 Sistah Souljah created an honest look at the truths of society. To call her a racist for being...	The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts Best Price: $3.84 The women ancestors of a geeky Chinese-American girl pile up impressive resumes, no worries ! ...	Understanding Arabs: A Guide for Modern Times Best Price: $6.88 This book circulated (dog-eared) among my rank-peers in Baghdad in 2007. It was highly-regarded...	Racial and Ethnic Groups, 10th Edition Best Price: $35.00 I appreciate the time frame in which this book was shipped to me. It arrived in about 1 wk or...	The Quilts of Gee's Bend: Masterpieces from a Lost Place Best Price: $29.36 I was fortunate enough to see the Gee's Bends quilts when they toured in Houston, and they are...



A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America Best Price: $8.53 Yes.... if you are a card carrying member of the white race desperate to cling to the myth that...	Neither Wolf nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads with an Indian Elder Best Price: $8.47 This was a book club selection, and we all enjoyed it. The author, Kent Nerburn ,lives in...	Japanamerica: How Japanese Pop Culture Has Invaded the U.S. Best Price: $8.95 As an American who is fascinated with Japan, but frustrated with books about the relationship...	The Japanese Mind: Understanding Contemporary Culture Best Price: $7.98 This is yet another one of these 'Guides to Japaneseness' that continue to enjoy widespread...	How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America Best Price: $5.45 This is a fantastic book to use in college classrooms. I had great success teaching it to three...



The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race In America Best Price: $4.39 The book is illuminating, especially on the the psychological problem of perceived inferiority...	Confucius Lives Next Door: What Living in the East Teaches Us About Living in the West Best Price: $6.15 Refreshing! Like a cool summer breeze. It's not only fun to read but also informative. It's...	West of Kabul, East of New York: An Afghan American Story Best Price: $5.00 My first exposure to Afghani literature was "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini....	Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America Best Price: $3.50 The book is in excellent condition -shipped on time and the book is just great to catch up of...	Nisei Daughter Best Price: $5.95 Great book. Classic first person narrative of the times surrounding Japanese-American...

The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society Best Price: $7.98 The controversy over whether and to what extent America should be a multicultural nation rings...	Bad Boys: Public Schools in the Making of Black Masculinity (Law, Meaning, and Violence) Best Price: $14.50 Two chapters from this book were required reading in a doctoral class I'm taking. Not only were...	Genocide of the Mind: New Native American Writing (Nation Books) Best Price: $7.45 I am still reading this addictive collection of personal essays about being a native american in...	Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese American Internment Experience Best Price: $1.23 For World War II history buffs, this book is an excellent view from the eyes of Japanese...	Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese American Internment Experience Best Price: $1.23 For World War II history buffs, this book is an excellent view from the eyes of Japanese...

Immigrant America: A Portrait Best Price: $13.99 I bought this book in the beginning of September. They gave me about 20 days time span for...	In Their Own Words: Letters from Norwegian Immigrants Best Price: $11.10 Zempel's work in compiling and translating this book of letters is a tribute to the Norwegian...	Half and Half: Writers on Growing Up Biracial and Bicultural Best Price: $7.84 This is a wonderful collection of essays on growing up biracial and bicultural. It is a little...	Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism (Live Girls) Best Price: $7.38 Initially, I wanted to respond to the person who wrote 'racist' to say, that he's an ignorant...	Pretty-shield (Second Edition): Medicine Woman of the Crows (Second Edition) Best Price: $8.17 This biographical information about Pretty Shield, a Wise One of the Crow was originally...

Barefoot Heart: Stories of a Migrant Child Best Price: $7.88 My book club chose "Barefoot Heart," and we all thoroughly enjoyed it. Our discussion...	Keeping Heart on Pine Ridge: Family Ties, Warrior Culture, Commodity Foods, Rez Dogs and the Sacred Best Price: $5.41 I cannot begin to imagine or suggest the effect this book will have upon another reader nor to...	Black Cuban, Black American: A Memoir (Recovering the Us Hispanic Literary Heritage) Best Price: $8.94 Ybor City, Florida, was once a thriving factory town populated by cigar-makers, mostly emigrants...	"Our Crowd": The Great Jewish Families of New York (Modern Jewish History) Best Price: $11.96 This was a very interesting account of the German-Jewish experience in the United States from...	Pretty-shield (Second Edition): Medicine Woman of the Crows (Second Edition) Best Price: $8.17 This biographical information about Pretty Shield, a Wise One of the Crow was originally...

The Souls of Black Folk (Norton Critical Editions) Best Price: $10.98 This was required reading for a graduate course in the Humanities. William Edward Burghardt Du...	The Middle of Everywhere: Helping Refugees Enter the American Community Best Price: $6.00 Great introduction to how and where our country brings in people from all over the world. Good...	In Their Own Words: Letters from Norwegian Immigrants Best Price: $11.10 Zempel's work in compiling and translating this book of letters is a tribute to the Norwegian...	Were You Always an Italian?: Ancestors and Other Icons of Italian America Best Price: $7.00 Male or Female, 1st, 2nd, or 3rd generation this book is a must read. I think I might be a...	Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity (Narrating Native Histories) Best Price: $16.50 In the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act (HHCA) of 1921, the U.S. Congress defined "native...

Perilous Memories: The Asia-Pacific War(s) Best Price: $21.00 Perilous Memories makes a groundbreaking and critical intervention into debates about war...	Chicano!: The History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement (Hispanic Civil Rights) Best Price: $15.61 Chicano!: The History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement records with power the...	Chicano!: The History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement (Hispanic Civil Rights) Best Price: $15.61 Chicano!: The History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement records with power the...	1001 Things Everyone Should Know About Irish American History Best Price: $7.76 Overall a very good book and a very scholarly work. The book's Introduction provides us a brief...	The Aztecs (Peoples of America) Best Price: $17.83 I've read a few books on Aztecs and this one is somewhat unique in that in addition to using...

The Cinema of Naruse Mikio: Women and Japanese Modernity Best Price: $16.00 One of the most prolific and respected directors of Japanese cinema, Naruse Mikio (1905-69) made...	Still Life With Rice Best Price: $3.95 This book was recommended to me, and although I was warned about some of the...	Irish America: Coming Into Clover Best Price: $4.40 Most Irish Americans interviewed for this book apologized to the author because they felt like...	Black Identities: West Indian Immigrant Dreams and American Realities (Russell Sage Foundation Books at Harvard University Press) Best Price: $21.15 because a great many of the interview subjects were teachers. I can see how the author would...	Race and Arab Americans Before and After 9/11: From Invisible Citizens to Visible Subjects (Arab American Writing) Best Price: $18.44 Bringing the rich terrain of Arab American histories to bear on conceptualizations of race in...

I Begin My Life All Over: The Hmong and the American Immigrant Experience Best Price: $12.66 My criteria for a great book are that it is well written, interesting and thought provoking. ...	Walking Stars: Stories of Magic and Power Best Price: $3.99 While not his best writing, this is true to Villasenor's spirit. A quick read with laughter and...	Bullwhip Days: The Slaves Remember: An Oral History Best Price: $5.75 "Bullwhip Days - The Slaves Remember, An Oral History" is essential reading for anyone...	Immigrant Voices: New Lives in America, 1773-1986 Best Price: $12.93 If you're trying to find great individual stories of immigrants to America from many parts of...	Black Picket Fences : Privilege and Peril Among the Black Middle Class Best Price: $11.31 Members of Duke University's Sigma Nu fraternity are thugs. At least, one could get that...

Melungeons: The Last Lost Tribe In America (Melungeon Series) Best Price: $12.02 A complete insult to the Melungeons of Eastern Tn.	Remaking the American Mainstream: Assimilation and Contemporary Immigration Best Price: $18.70 I recommend this book for anyone interested in a contemporary reformulation and revamping of...	Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race Best Price: $4.60 when I saw the price of the book, I immediately thought it was a piece of junk. However, when I...	Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality Best Price: $21.54 Aihwa Ong uses the example of the international (and now transnational) diaspora of...	Walls and Mirrors: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the Politics of Ethnicity Best Price: $19.00 David Gutierrez' book is one of the most informative, thorough books available on the Chicano...

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