2. Ethnicity
Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria
“Walk into any racially mixed high
school and you will see black youth
seated together in the cafeteria. Of
course, it's not just the black kids
sitting together-the white, Latino, Asian
Pacific, and, in some regions,
American Indian youth are clustered in
their own groups, too. What is going on
here?
Beverly Daniel Tatum, a renowned
authority on the psychology of racism,
asserts that we do not know how to
talk about our racial differences.”
3. Media and Minorities
Black Noise
Hip Hop Wars
The New Jim Crow
Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago
Nat Turner
The Chinese Americans
Asian American Dreams
Home Bound: Filipino American Lives
Latino in America
The Latina Advantage
Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience
The New Kids: Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a High School for Immigrant Teens
Other Titles for Ethnicity
4. Gender
The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls
“A hundred years ago, women were lacing
themselves into corsets and teaching their
daughters to do the same. The ideal of the
day, however, was inner beauty: a focus on
good deeds and a pure heart. Today
American women have more social choices
and personal freedom than ever before.
But fifty-three percent of our girls are
dissatisfied with their bodies by the age of
thirteen, and many begin a pattern of weight
obsession and dieting as early as eight or
nine. Why? In The Body Project, historian
Joan Jacobs Brumberg answers this
question, drawing on diary excerpts and
media images from 1830 to the present.”
5. Beauty Queens
Ink stained Amazons and Cinematic Warriors
Men and Feminism
Half the Sky
The Beauty Myth
Race, Class & Gender
Pretty in Punk: Girls’ Gender Resistance in a Boy’s Subculture
Other Titles for Gender
6. Genocide & The Holocaust
Night
“Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid,
horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical
account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi
death camps. In the preface, Elie reflects on the
enduring importance of Night and his lifelong,
passionate dedication to ensuring that the world
never forgets man's capacity for inhumanity to
man.
Night offers much more than a litany of the daily
terrors, everyday perversions, and rampant
sadism at Auschwitz and Buchenwald; it also
eloquently addresses many of the philosophical
as well as personal questions implicit in any
serious consideration of what the Holocaust
was, what it meant, and what its legacy is and
will be.”
7. Genocide
A Long Way Gone
Lost Boy, Lost Girl
We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families
Up for Sale
Human Trafficking: A Global Perspective
Slavery Today
5000 years of Slavery
Other Titles for Genocide & The Holocaust
8. Pop Culture
Supergirls: Fashion, Feminism and the History of Comic
Book Heroines
“Has Wonder Woman hit the comic book glass
ceiling? Is that the one opposition that even her
Amazonian strength can’t defeat? Entertaining
and informative, The Supergirls explores iconic
superheroines and what it means for the culture
when they do everything the superhero does,
only in thongs and high heels.
This much-needed alternative history of
American comic book icons—from Wonder
Woman to Supergirl and beyond—delves into
where these crime-fighting females fit in
popular culture and why, and what their stories
say about the role of women in society from
their creation to now, and into the future.”
9. The Good, the Bad and the Barbie
Alien Encounters: Pop Culture in Asian America
Asian American and the Media
African American and the Media
Media & Minorities
Lation Images in Film
Good Girls and Wicked Witches: Women in Disney’s Feature Animation
From Mouse to Mermaid: The Politics of Film, Gender and Culture
Black Dance in America
Rap Music and Culture
Super Black: American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes
From Girls to Grrlz: A History of Women’s Comics from Teens to Zines
Other Titles for Pop Culture
10. Religion & Science
Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice,
Slavery, Freedom and Science
“When this award-winning husband-and-wife team
discovered that they each had sugar in their family
history, they were inspired to trace the globe-
spanning story of the sweet substance and to seek
out the voices of those who led bitter sugar lives. The
trail ran like a bright band from religious ceremonies
in India to Europe’s Middle Ages, then on to
Columbus, who brought the first cane cuttings to the
Americas.
Sugar was the substance that drove the bloody slave
trade and caused the loss of countless lives but it
also planted the seeds of revolution that led to
freedom in the American colonies, Haiti, and France.
With songs, oral histories, maps, and over 80 archival
illustrations, here is the story of how one product
allows us to see the grand currents of world history in
new ways.”
11. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom and Science
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
How I Killed Pluto and Why it had it coming
Stiff
Medical Apartheid
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion
The Origin of Satan
Almost Christian
No God but God
Keep Your Head Up: America’s New Black Christian Leaders, Social Consciousness,
& the Cosby Conversation
Other Titles for Religion & Science
12. Social Issues
The Pregnancy Project: A Memoir
“Growing up, Gaby Rodriguez was often told she
would end up a teen mom. After all, her mother and
her older sisters had gotten pregnant as teenagers;
from an outsider’s perspective, it was practically a
family tradition. Gaby had ambitions that didn’t
include teen motherhood. But she wondered: how
would she be treated if she “lived down” to others’
expectations?
In The Pregnancy Project, Gaby details how she
was able to fake her own pregnancy—hiding the
truth from even her siblings and boyfriend’s
parents—and reveals all that she learned from the
experience. But more than that, Gaby’s story is
about fighting stereotypes, and how one girl found
the strength to come out from the shadow of low
expectations to forge a bright future for herself.”
13. Pregnancy Project
Nickled and Dimed
No Choir Boys
Short History of Immigration
Denied, Detained, Deported
Remix: Conversations with Immigrant Teenagers
Food Inc.
Sugar, Salt, Fat
Women without Class
The Price of Inequality
Someplace Like America: Tales from the New Great Depression
Gay America: Struggle for Equality
Gay Power! The Stonewall riots and the Gay Rights Movement
Queer America: A GLBT History of the 20th Century
Other Titles for Social Issues
14. Sports
Far from Home: Latino Baseball Players in America
“The book captures all the flash and glory of
being a major-league star at the top of his
game...as well as the struggles faced by
other hopefuls who have to take a longer,
tougher road. For many of these men, the
realities of the system—and the tension of
illegal immigration—intrude on the dream.
Discover what becomes of them, and explore
the rich background of baseball and the Latin
American world, in Far From Home.
With sports interest for the baseball
fan...timely issues for the history buff...and
great images for the photography
enthusiast...it is perfectly positioned for
Father’s Day and a must-read for all who love
the national game.”
15. We are the Ship
Forty Million Dollar Slaves
League of Denial
Fourth and Long
Nike is a Goddess
Let Me Play
Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team and A Dream
Outcasts United: A Refugee Team, An American Town
Negro League Baseball
Black College Football 1892-1992
The Unlevel Playing Field
Taboo: Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We’re Afraid to Talk About It
Other Titles for Sports
Editor's Notes
Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see black youth seated together in the cafeteria. Of course, it's not just the black kids sitting together-the white, Latino, Asian Pacific, and, in some regions, American Indian youth are clustered in their own groups, too. What is going on here? Beverly Daniel Tatum, a renowned authority on the psychology of racism, asserts that we do not know how to talk about our racial differences: Whites are afraid of using the wrong words and being perceived as "racist" while parents of color are afraid of exposing their children to painful racial realities too soon. Using real-life examples and the latest research, Tatum presents strong evidence that straight talk about our racial identities-whatever they may be-is essential if we are serious about facilitating communication across racial and ethnic divides.
A hundred years ago, women were lacing themselves into corsets and teaching their daughters to do the same. The ideal of the day, however, was inner beauty: a focus on good deeds and a pure heart. Today American women have more social choices and personal freedom than ever before. But fifty-three percent of our girls are dissatisfied with their bodies by the age of thirteen, and many begin a pattern of weight obsession and dieting as early as eight or nine. Why?
In The Body Project, historian Joan Jacobs Brumberg answers this question, drawing on diary excerpts and media images from 1830 to the present. Tracing girls' attitudes toward topics ranging from breast size and menstruation to hair, clothing, and cosmetics, she exposes the shift from the Victorian concern with inner beauty to our modern focus on outward appearance--in particular, the desire to be model-thin and sexy. Compassionate, insightful, and gracefully written, The Body Project explores the gains and losses adolescent girls have inherited since they shed the corset and the ideal of virginity for a new world of sexual freedom and consumerism--a world in which the body is their primary project.
Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. Elie reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate dedication to ensuring that the world never forgets man's capacity for inhumanity to man. Night offers much more than a litany of the daily terrors, everyday perversions, and rampant sadism at Auschwitz and Buchenwald; it also eloquently addresses many of the philosophical as well as personal questions implicit in any serious consideration of what the Holocaust was, what it meant, and what its legacy is and will be.
Has Wonder Woman hit the comic book glass ceiling? Is that the one opposition that even her Amazonian strength can’t defeat? Entertaining and informative, The Supergirls explores iconic superheroines and what it means for the culture when they do everything the superhero does, only in thongs and high heels.
This much-needed alternative history of American comic book icons—from Wonder Woman to Supergirl and beyond—delves into where these crime-fighting females fit in popular culture and why, and what their stories say about the role of women in society from their creation to now, and into the future.
When this award-winning husband-and-wife team discovered that they each had sugar in their family history, they were inspired to trace the globe-spanning story of the sweet substance and to seek out the voices of those who led bitter sugar lives. The trail ran like a bright band from religious ceremonies in India to Europe’s Middle Ages, then on to Columbus, who brought the first cane cuttings to the Americas. Sugar was the substance that drove the bloody slave trade and caused the loss of countless lives but it also planted the seeds of revolution that led to freedom in the American colonies, Haiti, and France. With songs, oral histories, maps, and over 80 archival illustrations, here is the story of how one product allows us to see the grand currents of world history in new ways.
Growing up, Gaby Rodriguez was often told she would end up a teen mom. After all, her mother and her older sisters had gotten pregnant as teenagers; from an outsider’s perspective, it was practically a family tradition. Gaby had ambitions that didn’t include teen motherhood. But she wondered: how would she be treated if she “lived down” to others’ expectations? Would everyone ignore the years she put into being a good student and see her as just another pregnant teen statistic with no future? These questions sparked Gaby’s high school senior project: faking her own pregnancy to see how her family, friends, and community would react. What she learned changed her life forever—and made international headlines in the process.
In The Pregnancy Project, Gaby details how she was able to fake her own pregnancy—hiding the truth from even her siblings and boyfriend’s parents—and reveals all that she learned from the experience. But more than that, Gaby’s story is about fighting stereotypes, and how one girl found the strength to come out from the shadow of low expectations to forge a bright future for herself.
From Argentina and Venezuela to the Dominican Republic and the rest of the Caribbean, thousands of boys grow up playing sandlot ball and planning a big-league career. Inspired by Latino greats who paved the way, young men head north in hopes of baseball success—but often find themselves in far different situations. Photographer José Luis Villegas and sportswriter Tim Wendel dramatically reveal the energy, talent, and hard-driving ambition of these determined players, both the few who make it and the many who don’t. Yet this isn’t just another compendium of highlights—it’s a bold and sometimes heartbreaking look at the ups and downs of chasing a dream.
The book captures all the flash and glory of being a major-league star at the top of his game...as well as the struggles faced by other hopefuls who have to take a longer, tougher road. For many of these men, the realities of the system—and the tension of illegal immigration—intrude on the dream. Discover what becomes of them, and explore the rich background of baseball and the Latin American world, inFar From Home. With sports interest for the baseball fan...timely issues for the history buff...and great images for the photography enthusiast...it is perfectly positioned for Father’s Day and a must-read for all who love the national game.