General African American Studies

A groundbreaking look at the NSA surveillance scandal, from the reporter who broke the story, Glenn Greenwald, star of Citizenfour, the Academy Award-winning documentary on Edward Snowden In May 2013, Glenn Greenwald set out for Hong Kong to meet an...

Why do black and brown shades of humanity result in so much intimidation and fear? A supposed threat to America that whose history many hold as sacred and dear. Four hundred years later still fighting for liberty and justice for all; Only to become...

Why do black and brown shades of humanity result in so much intimidation and fear? A supposed threat to America that whose history many hold as sacred and dear. Four hundred years later still fighting for liberty and justice for all; Only to become...

Now updated with a new introduction and afterword, this award-winning examination of the nation's largest juvenile criminal justice system in Los Angeles by a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist is "an important book with a message of great urgency,...

No Land No Mule No Freedom is the second of three intriguing books written by James Wright that probe into the heart of America's apartheid consciousness. It is about broken promises and old cliques America has made and still purports to make to African...

Inspiring and eye-opening...-- *starred* Booklist review "A compassionate and expert window into the netherworlds of immigration...--Lauren Markham, author of The Far Away Brothers Now in paperback, with a new afterword by the author, an immigration...

No Hood Required is a factual, sometimes comical, and emotional look at how racism in the USA has come full circle. There is no longer a reason to hide the hate of racism in this atmosphere of tolerance bolstered by the return to public displays of hate...

This journal is a few hundred pages of unpopular opinion, I wrote this ball of rage between 2014-2016 and I planned to give to my gender studies professor after I took her class. When I left her class I noticed that there's a lot of misleading...

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Teenage Allen Maruyama internalized the hostility directed at Japanese/Japanese Americans subsequent to the Pearl Harbor attack. He says he learned to hate himself and ""felt subhuman,"" but Presbyterians in his home state of Colorado ""befriended"" him...

Warriors of myth and legend, ninja are a fascinating, mysterious presence in our world. Through generations of disinformation and, more recently, their place in popular culture, the origins, tools, and methodology of the ninja have been shrouded in...

In 1979, the Frente Sandinista de Liberacion Nacional (FSLN) overthrew the US-sponsored dictatorship that had ruled the Central American Republic Nicaragua. The revolutionaries were Marxists, and they worked together with Cuba and the Soviet Union. The...

Culture Smart! New Zealand offers insights into a country that is reflecting on its identity, having shed its colonial past and now moving from a bicultural society (Maori and European) toward a new multiculturalism. Despite the challenges ahead, New...

Who among us cannot testify to the possibilities of the night? To the mysterious, shadowed intersections of music, smoke, money, alcohol, desire, and dream? The hours between dusk and dawn are when we are most urgently free, when high meets low, when...

Pulitzer Prize Finalist and Anisfield-Wolf Award Winner In New York Burning, Bancroft Prize-winning historian Jill Lepore recounts these dramatic events of 1741, when ten fires blazed across Manhattan and panicked whites suspecting it to be the work a...