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  • From Orphan to Adoptee

    U.S. Empire and Genealogies of Korean Adoption

    by SooJin Pate ...
    Series series Difference Incorporated
    Since the 1950s, more than 100,000 Korean children have been adopted by predominantly white Americans; they were orphans of the Korean War, or so the story went. But begin the story earlier, as SooJin Pate does, and what has long been viewed as humanitarian rescue reveals itself as an exercise in expanding American empire during the Cold War.Transnational adoption was virtually nonexistent in ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • The Souls of Black Folk

    by W.E.B. Du Bois ...
    The Souls of Black Folk is a classic work of American literature by W. E. B. Du Bois. It is a seminal work in the history of sociology, and a cornerstone of African-American literary history.The book, published in 1903, contains several essays on race, some of which had been previously published in Atlantic Monthly magazine. Du Bois drew from his own experiences to develop this groundbreaking work ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Learning to Love Amy

    The foster carer who saved a mother and a daughter

    by Mia Marconi ...
    Series series HarperTrue Life – A Short Read
    The second in a series of true short stories from foster carer Mia Marconi.India was a child who was destined to end up in care. She came to foster carer Mia Marconi’s house when she was three; she’d already been in care for five months by then. But her mum Amy didn’t get on with her carer and threatened to kill her so India was moved.But no matter how inadequate parents are, children in care love ... Read more

    $5.49 USD

  • Battlers and Billionaires

    The Updated Story of Inequality in Australia

    by Andrew Leigh ...
    Series Book 1 - Redback Quarterly
    Unpacking inequality in Australia by renowned economist and MP Andrew LeighIs Australia fair enough? And why does inequality matter anyway?From egalitarian beginnings, Australian inequality rose through the nineteenth century. Then we became more equal again, with inequality falling markedly from the 1920s to the 1970s. Now, inequality is returning to the heights of the 1820s. The housing and cost ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • America's Original Sin

    Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America

    by Jim Wallis ...
    America's problem with race has deep roots, with the country's foundation tied to the near extermination of one race of people and the enslavement of another. Racism is truly our nation's original sin."It's time we right this unacceptable wrong," says bestselling author and leading Christian activist Jim Wallis. Fifty years ago, Wallis was driven away from his faith by a white church that ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Color of Success

    Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority

    by Ellen D. Wu ...
    Series series Politics and Society in Modern America
    The Color of Success tells of the astonishing transformation of Asians in the United States from the "yellow peril" to "model minorities"--peoples distinct from the white majority but lauded as well-assimilated, upwardly mobile, and exemplars of traditional family values--in the middle decades of the twentieth century. As Ellen Wu shows, liberals argued for the acceptance of these immigrant ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • Driven Out

    The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans

    by Jean Pfaelzer ...
    A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKThe brutal and systematic “ethnic cleansing” of Chinese Americans in California and the Pacific Northwest in the second half of the nineteenth century is a shocking–and virtually unexplored–chapter of American history. Driven Out unearths this forgotten episode in our nation’s past. Drawing on years of groundbreaking research, Jean Pfaelzer reveals how, beginning in ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Racial Formation in the United States

    by Michael Omi, Howard Winant ...
    Twenty years since the publication of the Second Edition and more than thirty years since the publication of the original book, Racial Formation in the United States now arrives with each chapter radically revised and rewritten by authors Michael Omi and Howard Winant, but the overall purpose and vision of this classic remains the same: Omi and Winant provide an account of how concepts of race are ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • The New CEOs

    Women, African American, Latino, and Asian American Leaders of Fortune 500 Companies

    by Richard L. Zweigenhaft, G. William Domhoff ...
    The New CEOs looks at the women and people of color leading Fortune 500 companies, exploring the factors that have helped them achieve success and their impact on the business world and society more broadly. As recently as fifteen years ago, there had only been three women CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, and no African Americans. By now there have been more than 100 women, African American, Latino, ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

  • Water Tossing Boulders

    How a Family of Chinese Immigrants Led the First Fight to Desegregate Schools inthe Jim Crow South

    by Adrienne Berard ...
    A generation before Brown v. Board of Education struck down America’s “separate but equal” doctrine, one Chinese family and an eccentric Mississippi lawyer fought for desegregation in one of the greatest legal battles never toldOn September 15, 1924, Martha Lum and her older sister Berda were barred from attending middle school in Rosedale, Mississippi. The girls were Chinese American and ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Native American Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories

    by Sarah Hernandez, Rita J. Simon ...
    Native American Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories presents twenty interviews with Native American adoptees raised in non-Native homes. Through the in-depth interviews they conduct with each participant, the authors explore complex questions of cultural identity formation.The participants of the study represent a range of positive and negative experiences of transracial adoption. Regardless ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • The Chinese Must Go

    Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America

    by Beth Lew-Williams ...
    Winner of the Ray Allen Billington PrizeWinner of the Ellis W. Hawley PrizeWinner of the Sally and Ken Owens AwardWinner of the Vincent P. DeSantis Book PrizeWinner of the Caroline Bancroft History Prize“A powerful argument about racial violence that could not be more timely.”—Richard White“A riveting, beautifully written account…that foregrounds Chinese voices and experiences. A timely and ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

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