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  • Growing Up Native American

    Stories of oppression and survival, of heritage denied and reclaimed -- twenty-two American writers recall childhood in their native land.This essential collection of Indigenous voices explores:Coming of Age Stories: From the forced assimilation of boarding schools to the quiet strength of oral tradition, these personal narratives chronicle the turbulent passage into adulthood.Cultural Reclamation ... Read more

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  • Telling to Live

    Latina Feminist Testimonios

    Series series Latin America Otherwise
    Telling to Live embodies the vision that compelled Latina feminists to engage their differences and find common ground. Its contributors reflect varied class, religious, ethnic, racial, linguistic, sexual, and national backgrounds. Yet in one way or another they are all professional producers of testimonios—or life stories—whether as poets, oral historians, literary scholars, ethnographers, or ... Read more

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  • Entre Guadalupe y Malinche

    Tejanas in Literature and Art

    Mexican and Mexican American women have written about Texas and their lives in the state since colonial times. Edited by fellow Tejanas Inés Hernández-Ávila and Norma Elia Cantú, Entre Guadalupe y Malinche gathers, for the first time, a representative body of work about the lives and experiences of women who identify as Tejanas in both the literary and visual arts.The writings of more than fifty ... Read more

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  • Reading Native American Women

    Critical/Creative Representations

    Series series Contemporary Native American Communities
    This new collection reveals the vitality of the intellectual and creative work of Native women today. The authors examine the avenues that Native American women have chosen for creative, cultural, and political expressions, and discuss the points of convergence between Native American feminisms and other feminisms. Individual contributors articulate their positions around issues such as identity, ... Read more

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    The Essential History of Residential Schools from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Edited and Abridged

    Series Book 1 - Perceptions on Truth and Reconciliation
    “It can start with a knock on the door one morning. It is the local Indian agent, or the parish priest, or, perhaps, a Mounted Police officer.” So began the school experience of many Indigenous children in Canada for more than a hundred years, and so begins the history of residential schools prepared by the Truth & Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC). Between 2008 and 2015, the TRC provided ... Read more

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  • The Awakening

    Series Book 189 - Standard eBooks
    The Awakening charts Edna Pontellier’s journey of self-discovery. The time spent with a younger friend on a summer holiday on Grand Isle in Lousiana unlocks a feeling in her that she can’t close away again. On returning to her family home in New Orleans, she starts to transition from unthinking housewife and mother into something freer and more confident, although this doesn’t meet with the full ... Read more

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  • Cuba beyond the Beach

    Stories of Life in Havana

    Havana is Cuba’s soul: a mix of Third World, First World, and Other World. After over a decade of visits as a teacher, researcher, and friend, Karen Dubinsky looks past political slogans and tourist postcards to the streets, neighbourhoods, and personalities of a complicated and contradictory city. Her affectionate, humorous vignettes illustrate how Havana’s residents—old Communist ladies, their ... Read more

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  • The Mother of All Questions

    A collection of feminist essays steeped in "Solnit's unapologetically observant and truth-speaking voice on toxic, violent masculinity" ( The Los Angeles Review).In a timely and incisive follow-up to her national bestseller Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit offers sharp commentary on women who refuse to be silenced, misogynistic violence, the fragile masculinity of the literary canon, the ... Read more

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  • The Lady Matador's Hotel

    A Novel

    National Book Award finalist Cristina García delivers a powerful and gorgeous novel about the intertwining lives of the denizens of a luxurious hotel in an unnamed Central American capital in the midst of political turmoil.The lives of six men and women converge over the course of one week. There is a Japanese-Mexican-American matadora in town for a bull-fighting competition; an ex-guerrilla now ... Read more

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  • American Holocaust

    Columbus and the Conquest of the New World

    For four hundred years--from the first Spanish assaults against the Arawak people of Hispaniola in the 1490s to the U.S. Army's massacre of Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee in the 1890s--the indigenous inhabitants of North and South America endured an unending firestorm of violence. During that time the native population of the Western Hemisphere declined by as many as 100 million people. Indeed, as ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Paradise Beneath Her Feet

    How Women Are Transforming the Middle East

    Now with a new Preface and Afterword by the author“Outstanding . . . [Isobel Coleman] takes us into remote villages and urban bureaucracies to find the brave men and women working to create change in the Middle East.”—Los Angeles TimesInthis timely and important book, Isobel Coleman shows how Muslim women and men across the Middle East are working within Islam to fight for women’s rights in a ... Read more

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  • King of Cuba

    A Novel

    A “darkly hilarious” (Elle) novel about a fictionalized Fidel Castro and an octogenarian Cuban exile obsessed with seeking revenge by the National Book Award finalist Cristina García, this “clever, well-conceived dual portrait shows what connects and divides Cubans inside and outside of the island” (Kirkus Reviews).Vivid and teeming with life, King of Cuba transports readers to Cuba and Miami, and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD