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Hombre
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Elmore Leonard |
This book is the basis for the Paul Newman movie of the same name. Set in 19th century Arizona, it's about a white man raised Apache who rides a stagecoach that is robbed en route. The varied charact… |
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Silent partner
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Stephen W. Frey |
In the world of high finance, it's all about risk and return. With big risks come big rewards . . . and even bigger dangers. And no one knows this better than Stephen Frey. From the New York Times b… |
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A Different Vision
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Thomas D. Boston |
This work brings together for the first time the ideas, philosophies and interpretations of North America's leading African American economists, demonstrating that racial inequality has had an immens… |
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Dangerous skies
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Suzanne Fisher Staples |
Hypocrisy and prejudice twist events in such a way as to implicate two children, one from a prominent white family and the other an Afro-American, in a murder. |
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White heat, white ashes
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Ted Simmons |
Following his arrest on suspicion of arson, sixteen-year-old Pete is practically kidnapped by a white-supremacist group while seeking the friend who could clear his name, then tries not only to help … |
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Viva la raza
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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. |
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Race and reconciliation
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John B. Hatch |
"In this book, John B. Hatch analyzes various public discourses that have attempted to address the racialized legacy of slavery, from West Africa to the United States, and in doing so, proposes a rhe… |
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I'd rather we got casinos, and other Black thoughts
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Larry Wilmore |
Within these pages are the musings, the revelations, the ruminations, and the reflections of Daily Show comic Larry Wilmore--from why black weathermen make him feel happy (or sad) and why brothas don… |
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Culture shock and Japanese-American relations
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Sadao Asada |
"Examines historical episodes in the interactions between the United States and Japan from 1890 to 2006, focusing on naval stategy before and during World War II and transpacific racism. Asada analye… |
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Love prescription
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Jeffrey Roger Gardere |
Clinical psychologist Dr. Jeffrey Gardere believes that it's war out there. And as a guest on major national TV shows, and as a therapist in private practice, "Dr. Jeff" is on the front lines. He hea… |
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Generosity
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Richard Powers |
From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. About halfway into Powers's follow-up to his National Book Award–winning The Echo Maker, a Nobel Prize-winning author, during a panel discussion, talks about h… |
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The Tattooed Girl
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Joyce Carol Oates |
Celebrated but reclusive author Joshua Seigl must hire an assistant due to failing health. But he doesn't expect Alma Busch -- an attractive woman with bizarre tattoos covering much of her body. Naiv… |
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Race
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Marc Aronson |
Race. You know it at a glance: he's black; she's white. They're Asian; we're Latino. Racism. I'm better; she's worse. Those people do those kinds of things. We all know it's wrong to make these judgm… |
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Affairs of State
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Dominique Manotti |
Dominique Manotti is back on form with a tale of intrigue and corruption. A call-girl whose black book lists her elite international clients is found murdered in an underground garage; a plane bound … |
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Right-wing extremism in contemporary Germany
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Gerard Braunthal |
"This study of the German right-extremist movement looks at the three rightist political parties, neo-Nazi groups, skinhead gangs, and New Right intellectuals. It poses the question whether, at a tim… |
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The Savage City
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T. J. English |
The safest big city in America? That would be the question a certain generation of New Yorkers would ask someone who praises New York for it's safety and prosperity. A generation that has experienced… |
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America in black and white
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Stephan Thernstrom |
The "American Dilemma," Gunnar Myrdal called the problem of race in his classic 1944 book. More than half a century later, race remains the issue that dwarfs all others - the problem that doesn't get… |
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Racism and ethnic bias
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Linda Jacobs Altman |
Explores the issues of racism and stereotyping in modern American society, including religious or political beliefs, or sexual orientation. |
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Rebound
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Bob Krech |
Determined to make the varsity basketball team, seventeen-year-old Ray finds his efforts to play both hindered and helped by the atmosphere of racism in his town. |
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The persistence of the color line
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Randall Kennedy |
"Timely--as the 2012 presidential election nears--and controversial for its bracing iconoclasm, The Persistence of the Color Line is the first book by a major African-American public intellectual on … |
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