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  • Pacific Pioneers

    Japanese Journeys to America and Hawaii, 1850-80

    by John E. Van Sant ...
    Series series Asian American Experience
    Shipwrecked sailors, samurai seeking a material and sometimes spiritual education, and laborers seeking to better their economic situation: these early Japanese travelers to the West occupy a little-known corner of Asian American studies. Pacific Pioneers profiles the first Japanese who resided in the United States or the Kingdom of Hawaii for a substantial period of time and the Westerners who ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Far East, Down South

    Asians in the American South

    by Raymond A. Mohl, John E. Van Sant, Chizuru Saeki, Chizuru Saeki, Greg Robinson, Wenxian Zhang, Vincent H. Melomo, John Jung0, Daniel Bronstein1, John Howard2, Karen J. Leong4, Christopher A. Airriess5, Wei Li6, Angela Chia-Chen Chen7, Verna M. Keith8 ...
    Series series The Modern South
    Offers a collection of ten insightful essays that illuminate the little-known history and increasing presence of Asian immigrants in the American southeastIn sharp contrast to the “melting pot” reputation of the United States, the American South—with its history of slavery, Jim Crow, and the civil rights movement—has been perceived in stark and simplistic demographic terms. In Far East, Down South ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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  • Four Hundred Souls

    A Community History of African America, 1619-2019

    Edited by Ibram X. Kendi, Keisha N. Blain ...
    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A chorus of extraordinary voices tells the epic story of the four-hundred-year journey of African Americans from 1619 to the present—edited by Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist, and Keisha N. Blain, author of Set the World on Fire.FINALIST FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post, Town & Country, ... Read more

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  • The Making of Asian America

    A History

    by Erika Lee ...
    A “comprehensive…fascinating” (The New York Times Book Review) history of Asian Americans and their role in American life, by one of the nation’s preeminent scholars on the subject, with a new afterword about the recent hate crimes against Asian Americans.In the past fifty years, Asian Americans have helped change the face of America and are now the fastest growing group in the United States. But ... Read more

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  • A Black Women's History of the United States

    by Daina Ramey Berry, Kali Nicole Gross ...
    Series Book 5 - ReVisioning History
    The award-winning Revisioning American History series continues with this “groundbreaking new history of Black women in the United States” (Ibram X. Kendi)—the perfect companion to An Indigenous People’s History of the United States and An African American and Latinx History of the United States.An empowering and intersectional history that centers the stories of African American women across 400+ ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • An African American and Latinx History of the United States

    by Paul Ortiz ...
    Series Book 4 - ReVisioning History
    An intersectional history of the shared struggle for African American and Latinx civil rightsSpanning more than two hundred years, An African American and Latinx History of the United States is a revolutionary, politically charged narrative history, arguing that the “Global South” was crucial to the development of America as we know it. Scholar and activist Paul Ortiz challenges the notion of ... Read more

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  • Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans (Updated and Revised)

    by Ronald Takaki ...
    In an extraordinary blend of narrative history, personal recollection, & oral testimony, the author presents a sweeping history of Asian Americans. He writes of the Chinese who laid tracks for the transcontinental railroad, of plantation laborers in the canefields of Hawaii, of "picture brides" marrying strangers in the hope of becoming part of the American dream. He tells stories of Japanese ... Read more

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  • The Chinese in America

    A Narrative History

    by Iris Chang ...
    A quintessiantially American story chronicling Chinese American achievement in the face of institutionalized racism by the New York Times bestselling author of The Rape of NankingIn an epic story that spans 150 years and continues to the present day, Iris Chang tells of a people’s search for a better life—the determination of the Chinese to forge an identity and a destiny in a strange land and, ... Read more

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  • Asian American Dreams

    The Emergence of an American People

    by Helen Zia ...
    The fascinating story of the rise of Asian Americans as a politically and socially influential racial groupThis groundbreaking book is about the transformation of Asian Americans from a few small, disconnected, and largely invisible ethnic groups into a self-identified racial group that is influencing every aspect of American society. It explores the junctures that shocked Asian Americans into ... Read more

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  • Lies My Teacher Told Me: Young Readers’ Edition

    Everything American History Textbooks Get Wrong

    by James W. Loewen, Rebecca Stefoff ...
    Now adapted for young readers ages 12 through 18, the national bestseller that makes real American history come alive in all of its conflict, drama, and complexityLies My Teacher Told Me is one of the most important—and successful—history books of our time. Having sold nearly two million copies, the book won an American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist ... Read more

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  • Mothers of Massive Resistance

    White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy

    by Elizabeth Gillespie McRae ...
    Why do white supremacist politics in America remain so powerful? Elizabeth Gillespie McRae argues that the answer lies with white women. Examining racial segregation from 1920s to the 1970s, Mothers of Massive Resistance explores the grassroots workers who maintained the system of racial segregation and Jim Crow. For decades in rural communities, in university towns, and in New South cities, white ... Read more

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