Cultural Literature

Book of the Week, Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) Children's Book Award Notable, International Reading Association (IRA) Original Art Show, Society of Illustrators Youth List, Collaborative Summer Library ProgramSearching his Harlem...

Uncovers the science behind our unintentional biases using real world stories underpinned by scientific theories and research. Experiments have shown that our brains categorize people by race in less than one-tenth of a second, about 50 milliseconds...

How does a language community sustain their language in the face of ever-increasing forces of language shift? This volume, both a textbook and a handbook, is the result of ten years of reflection by the authors in light of SIL International's 80 years of...

Sustainable: The WAR on Free Enterprise, Private Property and Individuals describes in detail the process being used at every level of government to reorganize our society under the excuse of environmental protection. Author Tom DeWeese pulls back the...

Many thought the election of our first African American president put an end to the conversation about race in this country, and that America had moved into a post-racial era of equality and opportunity. Then, on the night of February 26, 2012, a black...

Revered restaurateur Jiro Ono's (Jiro Dreams of Sushi) extended chat on all things sushi shocked the industry and aficionados alike when it was first published in 1997 and has remained indispensable over the years thanks to his nonchalant revelation of...

'Susegad' is a Konkani word that has no exact translation in English. Goans use it to convey the sense of contentment, fulfilment, and relaxation that everyone associates with Goa and its culture. Clyde D'Souza, bestselling author and proud Goan, shows...

Surviving Twice is the story of five Vietnamese Amerasians born during the Vietnam War to American soldiers and Vietnamese mothers. Unfortunately, they were not among the few thousand Amerasian children who came to the United States before the war's end...

A stirring and powerful memoir from black cultural critic Rebecca Carroll recounting her painful struggle to overcome a completely white childhood in order to forge her identity as a black woman in America. Rebecca Carroll grew up the only black person...

It opens with the author's harrowing and courageous account of her rape and includes the stories of the author's own family's response, plus the voices of black men who have supported rape survivors.

Surviving in Black SkinBy: Webster E. MooreSurviving in Black Skin is about growth, revelations, going into the unknown, becoming more than everything we've ever learned, and simply loving the desire and pleasure of discovery. This book is about Webster...

After moving to the United States by herself to pursue an education and promising career for herself, Nyocca Farquharson shares her own personal story of the accomplishments and struggles that came with starting a new life in a country she was not...

"In this stunning memoir, which is also very much a work of history, Anne-Marie Foltz tells the astonishing story of her family's displacement and survival from World War II Norway. Memory can be a tumultuous, mysterious, often hidden storehouse with no...