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  • Portrait of Maxine Hong Kingston
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    Maxine Hong Kingston

    …in Berkeley, and on a layover in Hawai’i, found cause to stay. The family eventually moved to the small island of Lana’i, then mostly a pineapple plantation, where the isolation…

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    Beyond the Melting Pot

    Nathan Glazer

    …legislation, including an employment program. After Kennedy’s assassination, President Johnson declared the War on Poverty, but Moynihan’s ideas for a job creation program were ignored. Moynihan’s differences with the Johnson…

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    The Woman Warrior

    Maxine Hong Kingston

    …in Chinese emigration, labor, and toils in the United States. Maxine Hong Kingston was born in 1940 to Chinese immigrants who owned and operated a laundry in California, having left…

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    Kachinas

    Barton Wright

    …village was Old Oraibi, Hopi Third Mesa. He attended the Phoenix Indian School. It is because of his rich knowledge of his clan and ceremonial affiliations and kachina carvings that…

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    CIFF STREAMS + AWBA Film Selections

    September 29 – October 4, 2020

    …internet speed. If your internet connection is poor or inconsistent you may experience problems during playback. If you’re on Wi-Fi, try moving closer to your router. Are CIFF Streams +…

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    CANCELLED: 2025 Winners Announcement Event with Kaveh Akbar & Hanif Abdurraqib

    April 10, 2025, 7:30 pm

    …will receive an email from Writers Center Stage with more information. Hanif Abdurraqib will be in conversation with Kaveh Akbar in place of Tommy Orange, who is unable to attend….

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    Half American

    Matthew F. Delmont

    …white veteran assassinated Evers in 1963.  “For Black Americans, in World War II and in other time periods as well, patriotism and dissent went hand in hand,” Delmont told the…

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    Ishmael Reed

    …heritage,” Reed is quoted in The New Yorker. “You may think it’s scummy and low-down and funky and homespun, but it’s there. I think it’s beautiful. I’d invite it to…

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    Alive at the End of the World

    Saeed Jones

    …of writers, its reasonable rents, its cozy bookstores, its kind, Midwestern vibe. And something else: “I walked into the McDonald’s and a group of old black men sat at a…

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    Punishment Without Crime

    S. Andhil Fineberg

    Punishment Without Crime, subtitled What You Can Do About Prejudice, is intended to be a handbook in the struggle against intolerance. Dr. Fineberg does not waste time in denouncing bias…

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    Handbook on Race Relations

    South African Institute of Race Relations

  • Cover of A Many-Splendored Thing
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    A Many-Splendored Thing

    Han Suyin

    …than fourteen additional books that combine social commentary, autobiography, and biography of persons such as Communist revolutionary Chou En-lai. Suyin was born in Sinyang, China in 1917. She received her…

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    The New World of Negro Americans

    Harold R. Isaacs

    …strength of Isaacs’ work, in addition to the verbatim reporting of the interviews upon which the book is based, lies in its historical grasp of what is important in the…

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    The Fortunes

    Peter Ho Davies

    …first published story, “Mountain,” arrived in print when he was 21. Now teaching creative writing and playing indoor soccer in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Davies is drawn to questions of authenticity…

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    Feeding Ghosts

    Tessa Hulls

    …Feeding Ghosts, is a compendious multi-generational epic combining a sweeping history of twentieth century China with an intimate, extraordinary family story. Stories indeed – our most precious inheritance – lie…

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    The Family Chao

    Lan Samantha Chang

    …“We integrated our town. We arrived in the mid-60s. We had a roller-coaster assimilation in Wisconsin. I learned a lot of complicated things growing up that I’d never put in…

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    The Healing of a Nation

    David Loye

    Social psychologist, systems-theorist, and futurist David Loye is the author of widely respected books on the use of the brain and mind in prediction, political leadership, race relations, and is the…

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    The United States Governed By Six Hundred Thousand Despots: A True Story of Slavery

    Jonathan D. S. Schroeder

    …John Jacobs has a life story that is as global as it is American. Born into slavery, by 1855, he had fled both the South and the United States altogether,…

  • Portrait of Ralph Ellison
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    Ralph Ellison

    …II pilot captured by the Nazis. But in 1945, while still at work on that project, Ellison wrote a single sentence on a piece of paper: “I am an invisible…

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    The Jazz Palace

    Mary Morris

    …her other books and stories were translated into Japanese, Italian, Spanish, German and Dutch. A celebrated travel writer, Morris is deeply interested in the tensions of home and away, which…