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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Melonhead	Katy Kelly	DANNY'S TALL AND skinny. Even though he's not built, his arms are long enough to give his pitch a power so fierce any college scout would sign him on the spot. A 95 mph fastball, but the boy's not ev…	OL11764312W
Viva la raza	Yolanda Alaniz	"A history of Chicana and Chicano militancy that explores the question of whether this social movement is a racial or a national struggle"--Provided by publisher.	OL11919062W
Being Arab	Paul Eid	xvi, 255 pages ; 24 cm	OL13184233W
To live in two worlds	Brent K. Ashabranner	boring	OL15001040W
Multiethnic teens and cultural identity	Bárbara Cruz	Discusses the many issues facing teens of multiethnic descent, including discrimination and the search for ethnic identity in an unsympathetic culture.	OL15844198W
A German generation	Thomas August Kohut	"Germans of the generation born just before the outbreak of World War I lived through a tumultuous and dramatic century. This book tells the story of their lives and, in so doing, offers a new histor…	OL15941942W
Indian voices	Alison Owings	A contemporary oral history documenting what Native Americans from 16 different tribal nations say about themselves and the world around them.	OL15975618W
Anti-Italianism	William J. Connell	"There has been an odd reluctance on the part of historians of the Italian American experience to confront the discrimination faced by Italians and Americans of Italian ancestry. This volume is a bol…	OL16113253W
The genealogical construction of the Kyrgyz Republic	David Gullette	In this important new study on the peoples of the Kyrgyz Republic (Kyrgyzstan), David Gullette exposes significant misconceptions that have hitherto shaped Western understanding about the role of kin…	OL16125544W
Black subjects in Africa and its diasporas	Benjamin Talton,Quincy T. Mills	"Through the research and experiences of scholars whose native homes span ten countries, this collection shifts the discussion of belonging and affinity within Africa and its diaspora toward local pe…	OL16175679W
Slavery in the Cherokee Nation	Patrick Neal Minges	This work explores the dynamic issues of race and religion within the Cherokee Nation and to look at the role of secret societies in shaping these forces during the nineteenth century.	OL16952142W
Kartina slavi︠a︡nskogo mira : vzgli︠a︡d iz Vostochnoǐ Evropy	Aleksandr Sergeevich Mylʹnikov	398 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.	OL1726315W
Obsessed With Language A Sociolinguistic History Of Quebec	Chantal Bouchard	"Did the Quebec "habitant" of the nineteenth century speak "Parisian French" or "French-Canadian patois?" And does this matter? And is the joual of the 1960s a language or a sub-standard version of F…	OL17393135W
Helmi Mavis, a Finnish-American girlhood	Mavis Hiltunen Biesanz	The author describes her life between the ages of eight and twelve and the effect of conflicting Finnish and American values on her childhood.	OL1826565W
New cosmopolitanisms	Shailja Sharma	xii, 172 pages ; 24 cm	OL18288432W
Mirror writing	Thomas Claviez,Maria Moss	PETER BOLZ The Lakota Sun Dance Between 1883 and 1997: The Outlawing and Revival of a Cultural Symbol KARIN BERNING The Messenger Feast: Myth and Cultural Identity HANS-ULRICH SANNER Confessions …	OL18857921W
A Chinaman's chance	Eric Liu	"From Tony Hsieh to Amy Chua to Jeremy Lin, Chinese Americans are now arriving at the highest levels of American business, civic life, and culture. But what makes this story of immigrant ascent uniqu…	OL19669596W
Eating in the side room	Mark S. Warner	Warner uses the archaeological data on food remains recovered from excavations in Annapolis, Maryland, as the point of departure for a broader look at the centrality of material culture in the constr…	OL20018464W
Latin numbers	Brian Eugenio Herrera	"Latin Numbers is a work of performance history, examining the way in which Latino actors on the 20th century stage and screen communicated and influenced American ideas about race and ethnicity. Bri…	OL20021083W
Mestizos come home!	Robert Con Davis	"Chronicles important ways Mexican Americans have changed American culture for the better since the 1960s including attitudes towards mestizo (mixed-race) identity and the creation of a new cultural …	OL20055222W