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Meth Moon: To Hell & Back (Native American Fiction)
The Birds of Concho, #2
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2015
Meth Moon: To Hell and Back
(Native American Fiction Story)
Methamphetamine destroys families, and the soul of a culture that struggles to take care of its children. In Apache County, Arizona, where Concho is a tiny enclave of extraordinary beauty and American history of Mexicans and...
by Kathleen Kuiper
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Even as contact with European cultures eroded indigenous lifestyles across North America, many Native American groups found ways to preserve the integrity of their communities through the arts, customs, languages, and religious traditions that animate Native American life. While their collective struggles...
by Carl C. Anthony
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
In this work, Carl Anthony shares his perspectives as an African-American child in post-World War II Philadelphia; a student and civil rights activist in 1960s Harlem; a traveling student of West African architecture; and an architect, planner, and environmental justice advocate in Berkeley. He contextualizes...
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2016
"A curious book, a mystical, glamourous story of today." - Edwin Clark of The New York Times
"[The Great Gatsby] leaves the reader in a mood of chastened wonder. . . a revelation of life . . . a work of art." - C. Ford of the Los Angeles Times
“. . . fascinating . . . His style fairly...
by Zitkala-Sa
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2003
A thought-provoking collection of searing prose from a Sioux woman that covers race, identity, assimilation, and perceptions of Native American culture
Zitkala-Sa wrestled with the conflicting influences of American Indian and white culture throughout her life. Raised on a Sioux reservation,...
The Other Slavery
The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
**“Long-awaited and important . . . No other book before has so thoroughly related the broad history of Indian slavery in the Americas.”—San Francisco Chronicle
“A necessary work . . . [Reséndez’s] reportage will likely surprise you.”—NPR
“One of the most profound contributions...
American Colonies
The Settling of North America (The Penguin History of the United States, Volume 1)
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2002
A multicultural, multinational history of colonial America from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Internal Enemy and American Revolutions
In the first volume in the Penguin History of the United States, edited by Eric Foner, Alan Taylor challenges the traditional story of colonial history...
The Best American Poetry 2012
Series Editor David Lehman
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Mark Doty brings the vitality and imagination that illuminate his own work to his selections for the twenty-fifth volume in the Best American Poetry series. He has chosen poems of high moral earnestness and poems in a comic register; poems that tell stories and poems that test the boundaries of innovative...
Damn Near White
An African American Family's Rise from Slavery to Bittersweet Success
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2010
Carolyn Wilkins grew up defending her racial identity. Because of her light complexion and wavy hair, she spent years struggling to convince others that she was black. Her family’s prominence set Carolyn’s experiences even further apart from those of the average African American. Her father and...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
During the first half of the 19th century, as many as 100,000 Native Americans were relocated west of the Mississippi River from their homelands in the East. The best known of these forced emigrations was the Cherokee Removal of 1838. Christened Nu-No-Du-Na-Tlo-Hi-Lu—literally “the Trail Where...
American Carnage
Wounded Knee, 1890
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
As the year 1890 wound to a close, a band of more than three hundred Lakota Sioux Indians led by Chief Big Foot made their way toward South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Reservation to join other Lakotas seeking peace. Fearing that Big Foot’s band was headed instead to join “hostile” Lakotas, U.S. troops...
Confronting the Odds
African American Entrepreneurship in Cleveland, Ohio
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2009
The history of African American entrepreneurship has produced a number of studies of economic development on the national level, but very few have examined this growth at the local level. Confronting the Odds was written to bridge that gap, and Bessie House-Soremekun provides this historical analysis...
Truth's Ragged Edge
The Rise of the American Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
From the acclaimed cultural historian Philip F. Gura comes Truth's Ragged Edge, a comprehensive and original history of the American novel's first century. Grounded in Gura's extensive consideration of the diverse range of important early novels, not just those that remain widely read today, this...
9/11
Topics in Contemporary North American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
The terrorist attacks on the twin towers of the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001 have had a profound impact on contemporary American literature and culture. With chapters written by leading scholars, 9/11: Topics in Contemporary North American Literature is a wide-ranging guide to literary...