Most states now fund merit-based financial aid programs, the effects of which depend on how strongly students react to changes in college…
In the 1970s, the United States faced challenges on a number of fronts. By nearly every measure, American power was no longer unrivalled.…
This book documents a worrisome gap between principles and practice in democratic governance. The State of Access is a comparative, cross-…
“Narrated by a young Native American living on the Fort Belknap Reservation in Montana, Winter in the Blood is the story of a man living…
“In 1985 an ambitious young Mexican-American from California’s rural San Joaquin Valley became one of the few Latinos to enter America’s…
“A multi-generational saga of the Sioux Indians, mixing magic and reality. Set in the Dakotas, it begins in the 1860s with the tragic…
“In the mid-1950s, the town of Lacey in the Mississippi hill country is a place where the lives of blacks and whites, though seemingly…
“Antonio Marez is six years old when Ultima comes to stay with his family in New Mexico. She is a curandera, one who cures with herbs and…
“Eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove, an African-American girl in an America whose love for blonde, blue-eyed children can devastate all…