American Culture

Winner, American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation, 2012Super Black places the appearance of black superheroes alongside broad and sweeping cu...

Reducere. Generation Rising traces the development of Providence Youth Student Movement (PrYSM), a grassroots, LGBTQ+ youth-led organization of Southeast Asi...

Reducere. Thirteen of black America's most accomplished voices - from Spike Lee to Watler Mosley - share their vision for a self-determined, self-sufficient ...

Reducere. Alice Echols reveals the ways in which disco transformed popular music, propelling it into new sonic territory and influencing rap, techno, and tra...

DescriptionAmerican Indian customs, stories, and history come to life in this important and authoritative reference, artfully designed and packaged...

Reducere. Each life is fascinating in its own right, and each is used to brightly illuminate the historical context.

Reducere. Where can one go to get a comprehensive and entertaining account of the most significant events, individuals and social processes of African-Americ...

Reducere. Read Moustafa's Op-ed on Trump's Executive Order Against Muslims in The Guardian Winner of the 2016 Evelyn Shakir Non-Fiction Arab American Book Aw...

Reducere. Addressing the many unique academic challenges that face black males--from low self-esteem, absenteeism, fatherlessness, and gangs to not accepting...

The American prison system has gone off the rails. Originally started in the country by King George III, the pre-American Revolutionary prisons wer...

Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture, Paperback

America is becoming a class-based society.It is now conventional wisdom to focus on the wealth of the top 1 percent--especially the top 0.01 percen...

Reducere. Description From a Nickel to an Empire Before the gut-busting eating contests and franchise stores across the country, there was a single man, Nath...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Robert SullivanFor centuries the hunting of the whale was what defined the Makah, a Native American tribe in Neah Bay, but ...

Reducere. DescriptionRichard Conrad grew up in Washington, D.C., studied engineering and economics at Vanderbilt University, earned a master's degree in Econ...

Reducere. This provocative book chronicles the disappearance of the public intellectual in America. For over thirty years, the cultural landscape has been do...

Reducere. When Black Culture and Black Consciousness first appeared thirty years ago, it marked a revolution in our understanding of African American history...

Reducere. "An incisive look at immigration, assimilation, and national identity" (Kirkus Reviews) and the landmark immigration law that transformed the face ...

Reducere. An emerging cult classic about America's cultural meltdown--and a surprising solution. A prophetic examination of Western decline, The Twilight of ...

Reducere. Many American's today are taking note of the surprisingly strong political force that is the religious right. Controversial decisions by the govern...

Reducere. In the summer of 1978, the B-52's conquered the New York underground. A year later, the band's self-titled debut album burst onto the Billboard cha...

Reducere. The bestselling book that launched meth back into the nation's consciousness. Based on Reding's four years of reporting in the agricultural town of...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Doug GilesPUSS-I-FI-CA-TION: The act, or process, of a man being shamed, taught, lead, pastored, drugged or otherwise coerc...

DescriptionA finalist for the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction A New York Times Notable Book Bloomberg Best Book of 2018 The N...

Reducere. Over the past decade, Mary Pipher has been a great source of wisdom, helping us to better understand our family members. Now she connects us with t...

Reducere. Eschewing the conventional wisdom that places the origins of the American women s movement in the nostalgic glow of the late 1960s, Feminism Unfini...

Reducere. In the early nineteenth century, Protestant missionaries promoted the translation of evangelical hymns into the Ojibwe language, regarding this mus...

Reducere. In 1952, Jack Faragasso, a young art student, hired a model for a photo shoot. The model was Bettie Page before her career took off to the heights ...

Reducere. Grocery prices and the forsaken foods at the back of your fridge seem to increase weekly. After reading American Wasteland, you will never look at ...

Reducere. Soon after the fall of the Taliban, in 2001, Deborah Rodriguez went to Afghanistan as part of a group offering humanitarian aid to this war-torn na...

Reducere. For thousands of years, Native medicine was the only medicine on the North American continent. It is America's original holistic medicine, a powerf...

Reducere. Detroit City Is the Place to Be is one of Publishers Weekly's Top 10 Best Books of 2012Once America's capitalist dream town, Detroit is our country...

Reducere. Now in paperback, this New York Times bestselling work of undercover journalism offers "a compelling and cogent argument that eating healthily ough...

Reducere. After five centuries of Eurocentrism, many people have little idea that Native American tribes still exist, or which traditions belong to what trib...

Reducere. In Young, Black, Rich, and Famous, Todd Boyd chronicles how basketball and hip hop have gone from being reviled by the American mainstream in the 1...

The Latinx revolution in US culture, society, and politics

Reducere. No, it doesn't get any weirder than this: Thor Templar, Lord Commander of the Earth Protectorate, who claims to have killed ten aliens. Or April, t...

Reducere. Whet Your Appetites for A Fascinating History of American Food Terrific food journalism. Page uncovers the untold backstories of American food. A g...

Reducere. The fascinating story of the rise of Asian Americans as a politically and socially influential racial groupThis groundbreaking book is about the tr...

This compelling look at the wellsprings of cultural vitality during one of the most dehumanizing experiences in history provides a fresh perspectiv...

Reducere. The myth of the Trickster--ambiguous creator and destroyer, cheater and cheated, subhuman and superhuman--is one of the earliest and most universal...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Devon A. Mihesuah"Mihesuah's work should be required reading for elementary and upper level teachers, college instructors a...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * AN AMAZON BEST BOOK OF THE MONTH IN BIOGRAPHIES & MEMOIRSA new biography of Bunny Mellon, the style icon and...

Reducere. DescriptionInvite Your Children To Enjoy The Rich And Beautiful Culture Of African American Muslims. Bashirah And The Amazing Bean Pie Shares A Fan...

Astor. Rockefeller. McCormick. Belmont. All family names that still adorn buildings, streets and charity foundations. While the men blazed across A...

Reducere. In this engrossing journey into the lives of psychopaths and their infamously crafty behaviors, the renowned psychologist Kevin Dutton reveals that...

A brilliantly illuminating and darkly comic tale of the ongoing financial and political crisis in America The financial crisis that exploded in 200...

Reducere. A powerful polemic on the state of black America that savages the idea of a post-racial society America's great promise of equality has always rung...

Reducere. It has long been argued that women, especially black women, have been relegated to a second-class status in American society, and despite modern ad...

Reducere. The bestselling, comprehensive, and carefully researched guide to the ins-and-outs of the American class system with a detailed look at the definin...

Publisher: Beacon PressAuthor(s): Amanda FrostNumber of pages: 248Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 222 x 143 x 24Cover type: Paperback / softbackR...

Reducere. With more than 200 photographs and drawings, Edward S. Curtis chronicles the culture, hunts, and traditions of the Native American tribes through t...

Reducere. In this explosive account of wrongful acts and ensuing cover-ups, Jesse Ventura takes a systematic look at the wide gap between what the government...

DescriptionNative American religion and philosophy has always been recognized as highly spiritual and profound. Arthur C. Parker, Freemason, archae...

A work of narrative journalism exposing the complex roots and huge damage of the American opioid crisis. Perspectives take in the lives of doctors,...

Reducere. The relationship between self-esteem and student achievement is analyzed in this book.

DescriptionIn this "urgently relevant"* collection featuring the landmark essay "The Case for Reparations, " the National Book Award-winning author...

Reducere. Finalist for the J. Anthony Lukas Book PrizeFour undocumented Mexican American students, two great teachers, one robot-building contest . . . and a...

Reducere. Originally released in 1933, "The Mis-Education of the Negro" continues to resonate today, raising questions that readers are still trying to answe...

Reducere. Make a Beautiful Way is nothing less than a new way of looking at history-or more correctly, the reestablishment of a very old way. For too long, E...

Reducere. Adult Coloring Book - Beautiful IllustrationsNative American Coloring Book for Adults - Color Native American Symbols, People, AnimalsA beautiful a...

Reducere. THE HISTORY-MAKING CLASSIC ABOUT CROSSING THE COLOR LINE IN AMERICA'S SEGREGATED SOUTH -One of the deepest, most penetrating documents yet set down...

DescriptionPictures with Purpose, the seventh volume in the Double Exposure series, explores images from the NMAAHC's collection of nineteenth and ...

Reducere. Offers suggestions to correct the dehumanization of African American children, and tells how to ensure that African American boys grow up to be str...

Reducere. From what we eat and wear to how we spend our money and our leisure time, Americans have developed a unique culture that binds us together despite ...

Reducere. Native American Ceremony and the Use of Sacred Plants. This comprehensive guide to the sacred plants traditionally used by Native Americans and oth...

Providing useful definitions of respect in terms that are easily understood by youngsters, this picture book expresses the importance of valuing ad...

Reducere. *Includes pictures of important people and places. *Explains the Shawnee's role in colonial history and Tecumseh's life and legacy. *Explains the o...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes a Bibliography for further reading. "Of the hundreds of peoples that lived and flourished in native North America, few...

Reducere. *Includes pictures. *Explains the origins, culture, and social structure of the Navajo. *Includes a Bibliography for further reading. From the "Tra...