African American Studies

Make your time with Mexicans, as an educator, business person or peer, mutually effective, productive, and rewarding. Here are the answers you need to make positive changes to your academic, business, and social success stories. You know what you want to...

In the tradition of Being Digital and The Tipping Point, Steven Johnson, acclaimed as a cultural critic with a poet's heart (The Village Voice), takes readers on an eye-opening journey through emergence theory and its applications. A NEW YORK TIMES...

Fresh, lively, accessible, Grosso brings the issues of gentrification, deindustrialization, homelessness, and militarized policing, so easily ignored, to the fore.Joseph Grosso traces the history of New York's transformation back into a gilded city, and...

Embodying Dixie offers a critical exploration into how race-based identities are formed in and around the educative bodies of the US South. Using historiographic and ethnographic methods to analyze the pedagogies and practices at the University of...

THE FIGHT FOR IMMIGRATION REFORM: A VIEW FROM THE GRASSROOTSThe dramatic story of Elvira Arellano, an undocumented mother who took sanctuary in a Chicago church in August of 2006 in order to stay with her U.S. -citizen son-. Her highly publicized year in...

Eliminating Race-Based Mental Health Disparities offers concrete guidelines and evidence-based best practices for addressing racial inequities and biases in clinical care.Perhaps there is no subject more challenging than the intricacies of race and...

A lyrical and haunting depiction of American racial violence and lynching, evoked through stunning full-color artwork In late May 1918 in Valdosta, Georgia, ten Black men and one Black woman--Mary Turner, eight months pregnant at the time--were lynched...

Captivating Stories of the Gods, Goddesses, Monsters and MortalsThis book on Egyptian mythology is part of the best-selling series "Norse Mythology - Egyptian Mythology - Greek Mythology." In this ultimate guide on Egyptian Mythology, you will discover...

Enjoy Captivating Stories of the Gods, Goddesses, Monsters, and MortalsFrom what we know of history, Egypt, along with Sumer, were the foundations of civilization. The Fertile Crescent, which stretched from the Nile Valley to the twin rivers in...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. This book is about a strange object-strange in part because it is something that we all have been, and that many of us eat. Nicole Walker's Egg...

"Edward R. Roybal: The Mexican American Struggle for Political Empowerment" showcases Roybal's accomplishments as a leader in the political struggles of his time and inspires us all to work for the betterment of our communities.

Heading south to the big city of Los Angeles, Sharon Berryharper abandons her plans of attending a local junior college and, works in factories instead. All the time she works as a machinist, she has one dream-to become a cop. Sharon's opportunity comes...