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FOCI eBook Series

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  • First Peoples

    Indigenous Cultures and their Futures

    by Jeffrey Sissons ...
    Series series FOCI
    First Peoples argues, controversially, that far from disappearing in the face of global capitalism, indigenous cultures today are as diverse as they ever were. Rather than being absorbed into a uniform modernity, indigenous peoples are anticipating alternative futures and appropriating global resources for their own, culturally specific needs. For Sissons, however, the traditional and the modern ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

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  • The Triple Package

    How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America

    by Amy Chua, Jed Rubenfeld ...
    "That certain groups do much better in America than others—as measured by income, occupational status, test scores, and so on—is difficult to talk about. In large part this is because the topic feels racially charged. The irony is that the facts actually debunk racial stereotypes. There are black and Hispanic subgroups in the United States far outperforming many white and Asian subgroups. Moreover ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • A Hope in the Unseen

    An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League

    by Ron Suskind ...
    The inspiring, true coming-of-age story of a ferociously determined young man who, armed only with his intellect and his willpower, fights his way out of despair.In 1993, Cedric Jennings was a bright and ferociously determined honor student at Ballou, a high school in one of Washington D.C.’s most dangerous neighborhoods, where the dropout rate was well into double digits and just 80 students out ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Howard Zinn on Race

    by Howard Zinn ...
    Howard Zinn on Race is Zinn’s choice of the shorter writings and speeches that best reflect his views on America’s most taboo topic. As chairman of the history department at all black women’s Spelman College, Zinn was an outspoken supporter of student activists in the nascent civil rights movement. In "The Southern Mystique," he tells of how he was asked to leave Spelman in 1963 after teaching ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • No Excuses

    Closing the Racial Gap in Learning

    by Stephan Thernstrom, Abigail Thernstrom ...
    Black and Hispanic students are not learning enough in our public schools, and their typically poor performance is the most important source of ongoing racial inequality in America today—thus, say Abigail and Stephan Thernstrom, the racial gap in school achievement is the nation's most critical civil rights issue and an educational crisis; it's no wonder that "No Child Left Behind," the 2001 ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Staying Power

    The History of Black People in Britain

    by Peter Fryer ...
    Series series Get Political
    Staying Power is recognised as the definitive history of black people in Britain, an epic story that begins with the Roman conquest and continues to this day. *BR**BR*In a comprehensive account, Peter Fryer reveals how Africans, Asians and their descendants, previously hidden from history, have profoundly influenced and shaped events in Britain over the course of the last two thousand years.*BR* ... Read more

    $28.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Breaking Ground

    The Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe and the Unearthing of Tse-whit-zen Village

    by Lynda V. Mapes ...
    Series series Capell Family Books
    In 2003, a backhoe operator hired by the state of Washington to work on the Port Angeles waterfront discovered what a larger world would soon learn. The place chosen to dig a massive dry dock was atop one of the largest and oldest Indian village sites ever found in the region. Yet the state continued its project, disturbing hundreds of burials and unearthing more than 10,000 artifacts at Tse-whit ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Pueblos, Spaniards, and the Kingdom of New Mexico

    by John L. Kessell ...
    For more than four hundred years in New Mexico, Pueblo Indians and Spaniards have lived “together yet apart.” Now the preeminent historian of that region’s colonial past offers a fresh, balanced look at the origins of a precarious relationship.John L. Kessell has written the first narrative history devoted to the tumultuous seventeenth century in New Mexico. Setting aside stereotypes of a Native ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Crossing Sidelines, Crossing Cultures

    Sport and Asian Pacific American Cultural Citizenship

    by Joel Franks ...
    Since Crossing Sidelines, Crossing Cultures was originally published in 2000, new findings in Asian Pacific American sports have come to light. Moreover, Americans of Asian Pacific ancestry have made the sports world incredibly more exciting than before. Crossing Sidelines, Crossing Cultures tells intriguing tales of athletes, now often forgotten-such as aquatic legend Duke Kahanamoku, diving gold ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • South of the Clouds

    Tales from Yunnan

    Edited by Lucien Miller ...
    Series series McLellan Endowed Series
    The tales included here represent all of Yunnan Province’s officially designated ethnic minorities, and include creation myths, romances, historical legends, tales explaining natural phenomena, ghost stories, and festival tales. The tales are peopled by memorable characters, such as the Tibetan mother who, reborn as a cow, comforts and helps her daughter into her harsh life as a slave girl; the ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • In Hope of Liberty

    Culture, Community and Protest Among Northern Free Blacks, 1700-1860

    by Lois E. Horton, James O. Horton ...
    Prince Hall, a black veteran of the American Revolution, was insulted and disappointed but probably not surprised when white officials refused his offer of help. He had volunteered a troop of 700 Boston area blacks to help quell a rebellion of western Massachusetts farmers led by Daniel Shays during the economic turmoil in the uncertain period following independence. Many African Americans had ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Homo Redneckus

    On Being Not Qwhite In America

    by William Matthew McCarter ...
    Discussing questions of race and class in America, we often skip those who are white but are treated as a different kind of "other."A professor of English and literature, Dr. William Matthew McCarter explores the realities of being "Not Qwhite in America" from a historical and literary perspective. He interweaves colloquial storytelling with advanced critical strategies in a unique and ... Read more

    $22.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus