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Black Yellowdogs
WND Books 2013; US$ 12.95It has often been said, What you don't know won't hurt you. Not true. Ignorance is deadly. Have you ever heard of the phrase forty acres and a mule? Do you know how slavery actually began in America? Did you know the KKK lynched over a thousand white people? Do you know why? Have you ever wondered, What do African Americans want? Why they vote... more...
The Power of Latino Leadership
Berrett-Koehler Publishers 2013; US$ 19.95The first book squarely focused on describing the principles and practices of a unique Latino leadership model, written by a long-time, exceptionally well-connected Latino leader and active speaker and marketer. more...
Citizenship Excess
NYU Press 2013; US$ 75.00"Drawing on the Athenian tradition of wielding citizenship as a weapon to defend a contingently defined polis, Hector Amaya has crafted an elegant and sophisticated analysis of the contemporary policies designed to contain and criminalize Latina/os. Citizenship Excess demonstrates that he is one of the leading Latina/o Media... more...
Citizens of Asian America
NYU Press 2013; US$ 49.00During the Cold War, Soviet propaganda highlighted U.S. racism in order to undermine the credibility of U.S. democracy. In response, incorporating racial and ethnic minorities in order to affirm that America worked to ensure the rights of all and was superior to communist countries became a national imperative. In Citizens of Asian America , Cindy... more...
Becoming Melungeon
UNP - Nebraska 2013; US$ 35.00Appalachian legend describes a mysterious, multiethnic population of exotic, dark-skinned rogues called Melungeons who rejected the outside world and lived in the remote, rugged mountains in the farthest corner of northeast Tennessee. The allegedly unknown origins of these Melungeons are part of what drove this legend and generated myriad exotic origin... more...
Lanterns
Beacon Press 2013; US$ 28.00Marian Wright Edelman, "the most influential children's advocate in the country" ( The Washington Post ), shares stories from her life at the center of this century's most dramatic civil rights struggles. She pays tribute to the extraordinary personal mentors who helped light her way: Martin Luther King, Jr., Robert F. Kennedy, Fannie Lou Hamer,... more...
The United States of the United Races
NYU Press 2013; US$ 75.00“This provocative, ambitious, and important book rewrites U.S. history, placing foundational leaders, unheralded prophets, insurgent social movements, pivotal judicial decisions, and central cultural values within an unfolding story of ongoing appeals to interracial mixing as a positive good. Deeply researched, deftly argued, and impressively... more...
Looking for Leroy
NYU Press 2013; US$ 65.00Mark Anthony Neal’s Looking for Leroy is an engaging and provocative analysis of the complex ways in which black masculinity has been read and misread through contemporary American popular culture. Neal argues that black men and boys are bound, in profound ways, to and by their legibility. The most “legible” black male bodies are... more...
We Will Shoot Back
NYU Press 2013; US$ 40.00"Ranging from Reconstruction to the Black Power period, this thoroughly and creatively researched book effectively challenges long-held beliefs about the Black Freedom Struggle. It should make it abundantly clear that the violence/nonviolence dichotomy is too simple to capture the thinking of Black Southerners about the forms of effective resistance."... more...
Stuck in Place
University of Chicago Press 2013; US$ 30.00In the 1960s, many believed that the civil rights movement’s successes would foster a new era of racial equality in America. Four decades later, the degree of racial inequality has barely changed. To understand what went wrong, Patrick Sharkey argues that we have to understand what has happened to African American communities over the... more...









