- Americans First
- K. Scott Wong
- World War II was a watershed event for many of America's minorities, but its impact on Chinese Americans has been largely ignored. Utilizing extensive archival research as well as oral histories and letters from over one hundred informants, Wong explores how Chinese Americans carved a newly respected and secure place for themselves in American society during the war years.
- Hardcover 2005
- Between Voice and Silence
- Jill McLean Taylor
- Carol Gilligan
- Amy Sullivan
- When adolescent girls silence or censor themselves to maintain relationships, they often become depressed and develop a range of psychological problems. When they remain outspoken they are labeled as troublemakers. If this is true in an affluent suburban setting, where much of this groundbreaking research took place, what of girls from poor and working-class families? In Between Voice and Silence, Taylor, Gilligan, and Sullivan grapple with these questions.
- Paperback 1997 / Hardcover
- China's Forty Millions
- June Teufel Dreyer
- Hardcover 1976
- Diversity in America
- Peter H. Schuck
- In this magisterial book, Peter H. Schuck explains how Americans have understood diversity, how they have come to embrace it, how the government regulates it now, and how we can do better. He mobilizes a wealth of conceptual, historical, legal, political, and sociological analysis to argue that diversity is best managed not by the government but by families, ethnic groups, religious communities, employers, voluntary organizations, and other civil society institutions.
- Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2006
- Off the Books
- Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh
- In this revelatory book, Sudhir Venkatesh takes us into Maquis Park, a poor black neighborhood on Chicago's Southside, to explore the desperate and remarkable ways in which a community survives. The result is a dramatic narrative of individuals at work, and a rich portrait of a community. But while excavating the efforts of men and women to generate a basic livelihood for themselves and their families, Off the Books offers a devastating critique of the entrenched poverty that we so often ignore in America, and reveals how the underground economy is an inevitable response to the ghetto's appalling isolation from the rest of the country.
- Hardcover 2006 / Paperback 2009
- One of Us
- Alice Domurat Dreger
- One of Us views conjoined twinning and other "abnormalities" from the point of view of people living with such anatomies, and considers these issues within the larger historical context of anatomical politics. This deeply thought-provoking and compassionate work exposes the extent of the social frame upon which we construct the "normal."
- Hardcover 2004 / Paperback 2005
- The Other Latinos
- Edited by José Luis Falconi
- Edited by José Antonio Mazzotti
- The Other Latinos addresses an important topic: the presence in the United States of Latin American and Caribbean immigrants from countries other than Mexico, Cuba, and Puerto Rico. Focusing on the Andes, Central America, and Brazil, the book brings together essays by a number of accomplished scholars, hoping that this introductory work will inspire others to construct a more complete understanding of the realities of Latin American migration into the United States.
- Paperback 2008
- Prejudice in Politics
- Lawrence D. Bobo
- Mia Tuan
- In Prejudice in Politics, Lawrence Bobo and Mia Tuan explore a lengthy controversy surrounding the fishing, hunting, and gathering rights of the Chippewa Indians in Wisconsin. The book uses a carefully designed survey of public opinion to explore the dynamics of prejudice and political contestation, and to further our understanding of how and why racial prejudice enters into politics in the United States.
- Hardcover 2006
- Racism on Trial
- Ian F. Haney López
- Haney López tells the compelling story of the Chicano movement in Los Angeles by following two criminal trials, including one arising from the student walkouts of 1968. He demonstrates how racial prejudice led to police brutality and judicial discrimination that in turn spurred Chicano militancy. By tracing the fluid position of Mexican Americans on the divide between white and nonwhite, describing the role of legal violence in producing racial identities, and detailing the commonsense nature of race, he offers a much needed way to rethink race in the United States.
- Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2004
- We Are All Multiculturalists Now
- Nathan Glazer
- Where not very long ago Americans sought assimilation, they now pursue multiculturalism. Nowhere has this transformation been more evident than in the public schools. In a book that brings clarity and reason to this highly charged issue, Nathan Glazer explores these changes and offers an incisive account of why we all have become multiculturalists.
- Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 1998