Sharon G. Flake

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

California

Thirteen-year-old Maleeka, uncomfortable because her skin is extremely dark, meets a new teacher with a birthmark on her face and makes some discoveries about how to love who she is and what she looks like.

The Skin I'm In

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John L. Comaroff

Jean. Comaroff

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

In Ethnicity, Inc. anthropologists John L. and Jean Comaroff analyze a new moment in the history of human identity: its rampant commodification. Through a wide-ranging exploration of the changing relationship between culture and the market, they address a pressing question: Wherein lies the future of ethnicity? Their account begins in South Africa, with the incorporation of an ethno-business in venture capital by a group of traditional African chiefs. But their horizons are global: Native American casinos; Scotland’s efforts to brand itself; a Zulu ethno-theme park named Shakaland; a world religion declared to be intellectual property; a chiefdom made into a global business by means of its platinum holdings; San “Bushmen” with patent rights potentially worth millions of dollars; nations acting as commercial enterprises; and the rapid growth of marketing firms that target specific ethnic populations are just some of the diverse examples that fall under the Comaroffs’ incisive scrutiny. These phenomena range from the disturbing through the intriguing to the absurd. Through them, the Comaroffs trace the contradictory effects of neoliberalism as it transforms identities and social being across the globe. Ethnicity, Inc. is a penetrating account of the ways in which ethnic populations are remaking themselves in the image of the corporation—while corporations coopt ethnic practices to open up new markets and regimes of consumption. Intellectually rigorous but leavened with wit, this is a powerful, highly original portrayal of a new world being born in a tectonic collision of culture, capitalism, and identity.

Ethnicity, Inc

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Sonia Nieto

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

The Sociopolitical Context of Multicultural Education

Grade level: k, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, p, e, i, s, t.

Affirming Diversity

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Peasants

Martha Harroun Foster

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Métis Identity in a Montana Community

The first book-length work to focus on the Montana Metis of predominantly Chippewa, Creek French, and Scottish descent, this volume explores the self-identity of a marginalized people.

We Know Who We Are

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Julie Schumacher

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

An Explanation for Chaos

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Thomas Kunkel

Harold Ross of The New Yorker

In a great paradox of American letters, the urbane and witty New Yorker was founded by a former tramp newspaperman from Colorado with a 10th grade e ducation. Yet Harold W. Ross revealed an irrepressible spirit, an insatiable curiosity and a bristling intellect--all the qualities that distinguished The New Yorker.

Genius in Disguise

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The Scalpel and the butterfly

Roberto G. Fernandez

Gustavo P. Firmat

Lourdes Gil

Jorge Guitart

Iraida Iturralde

Mercedes Limon

Pablo Medina

Elias M. Munoz

Ricardo P. Llosa

Los Atrevidos

Cuban American Writers

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Harry Bruinius

The Secret History of Forced Sterilization and America's Quest for Racial Purity

A timely and gripping history of the controversial eugenics movement in America–and the scientists, social reformers and progressives who supported it.In Better for All the World, Harry Bruinius charts the little known history of eugenics in America–a movement that began in the early twentieth century and resulted in the forced sterilization of more than 65,000 people. Bruinius tells the stories of Emma and Carrie Buck, two women trapped in poverty who became the test case in the 1927 supreme court decision allowing forced sterilization for those deemed unfit to procreate. From the reformers who turned local charities into government-run welfare systems promoting social and moral purity, to the influence the American policies had on Nazi Germany’s development of “racial hygiene,” Bruinius masterfully exposes the players and legislation behind one of America’s darkest secrets.

Better for All the World

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Edward Humes

Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash

A Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist takes readers on a surprising tour of America’s biggest export, our most prodigious product, and our greatest legacy: our trash The average American produces 102 tons of garbage across a lifetime and $50 billion in squandered riches are rolled to the curb each year. But our bins are just the starting point for a strange, impressive, mysterious, and costly journey that may also represent the greatest untapped opportunity of the century. In Garbology, Edward Humes investigates trash—what’s in it; how much we pay for it; how we manage to create so much of it; and how some families, communities, and even nations are finding a way back from waste to discover a new kind of prosperity. Along the way , he introduces a collection of garbage denizens unlike anyone you’ve ever met: the trash-tracking detectives of MIT, the bulldozer-driving sanitation workers building Los Angeles’ Garbage Mountain landfill, the artists residing in San Francisco’s dump, and the family whose annual trash output fills not a dumpster or a trash can, but a single mason jar. Garbology reveals not just what we throw away, but who we are and where our society is headed. Waste is the one environmental and economic harm that ordinary working Americans have the power to change—and prosper in the process. Garbology is raising awareness of trash consumption and is sparking community-wide action through One City One Book programs around the country. It is becoming an increasingly popular addition to high school and college syllabi and is being adopted by many colleges and universities for First Year Experience programs.

Garbology

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The Pregnancy Experts at Mayo Clinic

From Doctors Who Are Parents, Too!

Offers a reference guide to pregnancy and childbirth, discussing morning sickness, back pain, gestational diabetes and breast-feeding with a week-by-week guide to changes in both mother and baby. Original.

Mayo Clinic Guide to a Healthy Pregnancy

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January Harshe

The Judgment-Free Guide to Taking Charge of Your Pregnancy, Birth, and Postpartum

An inclusive, non-judgmental, and empowering guide to pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum life that puts mothers first, offering straightforward guidance on all the options and issues that matter most to them (and their partners) when preparing for a baby. In Birth Without Fear, January Harshe--founder of the global online community Birth Without Fear--delivers an honest, positive, and passionate message of empowerment surrounding everything that involves having a baby. It's a guide that fills in the considerable cracks in the information available to women and families when they're preparing to welcome a child--covering care provider choices, medical freedom, birth options, breastfeeding, intimacy, postpartum depression, and much more. Birth Without Fear shows moms, dads, partners, and families how to choose the best provider for them, how to trust in themselves and the birth process, and how to seek the necessary help after the baby has arrived. In addition, it will educate them about their rights--and how to use their voice to exercise them--as well as how to cope with the messy postpartum feelings many people aren't willing to talk about. Unlike other pregnancy books, Birth Without Fear will also help partners understand what mothers are going through, as well as discuss the challenges that they, too, will face--and how they can navigate them. Shattering long-held myths and beliefs surrounding pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum experience, Birth Without Fear is an accessible, reassuring, and ultimately inspiring guide to taking charge of pregnancy, childbirth, and beyond.

Birth Without Fear

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Ethnicity, Inc

Sonia Nieto

Affirming Diversity

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Peasants

Martha Harroun Foster

We Know Who We Are

Julie Schumacher

An Explanation for Chaos

Thomas Kunkel

Genius in Disguise

Deborah Rudacille

The Scalpel and the butterfly

Roberto G. Fernandez; Gustavo P. Firmat; Lourdes Gil; Jorge Guitart; Iraida Iturralde; Mercedes Limon; Pablo Medina; Elias M. Munoz; Ricardo P. Llosa

Cuban American Writers

Harry Bruinius

Better for All the World

Edward Humes

Garbology

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Mayo Clinic Guide to a Healthy Pregnancy

January Harshe

Birth Without Fear

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Sharon G. Flake

The Skin I'm In

John L. Comaroff; Jean. Comaroff

Ethnicity, Inc

Sonia Nieto

Affirming Diversity

Eric R. Wolf

Peasants

Martha Harroun Foster

We Know Who We Are

Julie Schumacher

An Explanation for Chaos

Thomas Kunkel

Genius in Disguise

Deborah Rudacille

The Scalpel and the butterfly

Roberto G. Fernandez; Gustavo P. Firmat; Lourdes Gil; Jorge Guitart; Iraida Iturralde; Mercedes Limon; Pablo Medina; Elias M. Munoz; Ricardo P. Llosa

Cuban American Writers

Harry Bruinius

Better for All the World

Edward Humes

Garbology

The Pregnancy Experts at Mayo Clinic

Mayo Clinic Guide to a Healthy Pregnancy

January Harshe

Birth Without Fear

Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture

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