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Ethnic Studies

African-American Soldiers in the U.S. Civil War
Black Troops, White Commanders, and Freedmen during the Civil War
  by Howard C. Westwood

On the Altar of Freedom: A Black Soldier's Civil War Letters from the Front
  by Corporal James Henry Gooding, edited by Virginia Matzke Adams

History of Black Americans: From the Compromise of 1850 to the End of the Civil War
  by Philip S. Foner


Hispanic American Literature
Hispanic-American Writers
 edited by Harold Bloom

U.S. Latino Literature: A Critical Guide for Students and Teachers
 edited by Harold Augenbraum & Margarite Fernández Olmos

European Perspectives on Hispanic Literature of the United States
 edited by Genvieve Fabre


Treatment of Japanese-Americans During World War II
The Managed Casualty: The Japanese-American Family in World War II
 by Leonard Broom & John I. Kitsuse

Whispered Silences: Japanese Americans and World War II
 by Gary Y. Okihiro & Joan Myers

Racism, Dissent, and Asian Americans from 1850 to the Present: A Documentary History
 edited by Philip S. Foner & Daniel Rosenberg

Imprisoned Apart: The World War II Correspondence of an Issei Couple
 by Louis Fiset


Portrayals of African-Americans in Huckleberry Finn
Satire Or Evasion? Black Perspectives on Huckleberry Finn
 edited by James S. Leonard, Thomas A. Tenney, & Thadious M. Davis

Black, White, and Huckleberry Finn: Re-Imagining the American Dream
 by Elaine Mensh & Harry Mensh

The Jim Dilemma: Reading Race in Huckleberry Finn
 by Jocelyn Chadwick-Joshua


Images of Native Americans in Popular Culture
Native Americans in the News: Images of Indians in the Twentieth Century Press
 by Mary Anne Weston

Reimagining Indians: Native Americans through Anglo Eyes, 1880-1994
 by Sherry L. Smith

Shape-Shifting: Images of Native Americans in Recent Popular Fiction
 by Andrew Macdonald, Gina Macdonald, & MaryAnn Sheridan

Dressing in Feathers: The Construction of the Indian in American Popular Culture
 by S. Elizabeth Bird


The Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance: The One and the Many
 by Mark Helbling

Pages from the Harlem Renaissance: A Chronicle of Performance
 by Anthony D. Hill

Black Culture and the Harlem Renaissance
 by Cary D. Wintz

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