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Despite what it said in the New York Times or the Congressional Record, not everybody in America got the word right away about the civil rights movement. Thus it was…

Standing Rock Sioux Vine Deloria Jr. has achieved an eminence amongst Native Americans that New York Times reviewer Dee Brown has likened to the impact of Sitting Bull a century…

Peter Hayes is the Theodore Zev Weiss Holocaust Educational Foundation Professor of Holocaust Studies at Northwestern University. Hayes specializes in the history of Germany in the 20th century, particularly the…

With the exception of the larger African states, Brazil contains the largest negro population in the world. The living conditions of this group and their integration into the predominantly Caucasian…

Elaine and Harry Mensh argue that by using tests to decide whether or not a child should receive a quality education, schools can continue to apportion superior and inferior educational…

In this quietly provocative and poignant collection of poems, Waniek records the history of her family, beginning with her great-great-grandmother’s experiences as a slave in the South, through her father’s…

“My first memories,” writes Kwame Anthony Appiah in the preface to In My Father’s House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture (1992), “are of a place called ‘Mbrom,’ a small…

Mexican American writer, poet, and ardent feminist, Sandra Cisneros writes stories that are seldom heard in mainstream America-those of the diverse experiences of Hispanic women in contemporary urban society. Her…

The overwhelming response to The Language of the Goddess from artists, women, mythologists and many others was, for Marija Gimbutas, a complete surprise. When The Civilization of the Goddess appeared…

Poet and novelist Ortiz Cofer offers her readers an affecting view of Puerto Rican New York in this autobiographical assortment of essays and poems. Her stories celebrate, mourn, and honor…

The life of scholar, philosopher, activist and historian, W.E.B. Du Bois, is examined in David Levering Lewis’ W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963. Fifteen…

Takaki was the author and editor of more than 20 books, including Iron Cages: Race and Culture in 19th Century America (1979), Strangers From a Different Shore: A History of…

This critically acclaimed work provides a comprehensive history that both illuminates and clarifies events past and present. It surveys Africa’s history from its earliest beginnings to the present day, exploring…

Gibbons’s first novel takes place in east Texas in 1910 during the time of white rule-not by law but by lynch mob. Amid the suffocating racism and fear, half-Choctaw, half-white…

Few issues have been the focus of so much concern as the interrelated problems of race relations and violence in America. Two presidential commissions investigated these subjects exhaustively; both tried…

In this evocative memoir, Brent Staples poses some compelling questions: Where does the family end the self begin? What do we owe our families and what do we owe ourselves?…

This book is not, and does not pretend to be, a sociological analysis of the Mexican-American ethnic group or minority. Rather, Mr. Steiner, who is already known for his popular…

Like Gould’s The Mismeasure of Man, Tucker’s book debunks the application of “race science” to social problems and notions about the heritability of intelligence. Tucker’s accessible book focuses on the…

This book tells the story of the late colonial and early reservation history of the Seneca Indians, and of the prophet Handsome Lake, his visions, and the moral and religious…