Ancestry, Heritage, and Genealogy: Heritage Books and eBooks

WMC Library
Using the voices of women homesteaders, agrarian socialists, Jewish farmers, Mexican meatpackers, New Dealers, and Native Americans, this book creates a sweeping survey of contested race relations, radical politics, and agricultural prosperity and decline during the twentieth century.

WMC Library
Appealing to broad audiences, this book links the construction of racial categories and ethnic identities to the larger process of nation-state building along the U.S.-Mexico border, and illustrates how ethnicity can both bring people together and drive them apart.

WMC Library
Through a focus on Otto Huiswoud, the sole African American charter member of the Communist Party, and his wife, Hermina, Turner exposes the complex developments within the socialist and communist parties on the question of race. The account ranges beyond Harlem to Europe, Africa, and the Soviet Union to reveal the breadth, depth, and nearly global reach of the Afro-Caribbean activists' activities.

WRV Center
The author explores and clarifies the core meanings and the shifting ground of the contested concept of ethnicity. He shows how race, ethnicity and nation must be regarded as distinguishable at the margins but otherwise representing a closely related set of images and realities. From here he raises the question of the centrality of ethnic difference: Does it matter? When does it matter? Is it as important as many have assumed?

PDC Library
Expressing New Mexico contributes to a present-day renaissance of research on Nuevomexicano culture by assembling eleven original and noteworthy essays. Many of the articles deal with recent events or with recent reverberations of important historical events, which imbues the collection with a sense of immediacy. Rituals, traditions, community commemorations, self-concepts, and historical revisionism all play key roles.

SCC Library
The text discusses groups such as the Yankees in New England, Old Order Amish in Ohio, African Americans in the plantation South, Navajos in the Southwest, Russians in California, and several other peoples and places.

PDC and LCC Library
""The Language of Blood" reveals different and important developments in racial identity, American nationalism, and the relationship of region to nation in the Southwest often disregarded or deemed insignificant by the dominant Northeastern and Southern histories that comprise the field of American history."

SCC Library
America is now an inescapably multiracial society, discovering day by day how perceptions of race affect the fabric of human relationships, but deep divisions and frustrations persist in minds and hearts if not in the laws of the land. This landmark book offers a view of real-world conflict and aspiration, pain and resolution of a country torn apart and brought together by its attitudes towards race.

Hopi Center
Essays on representative ethnic groups in the United States include African-Americans, American Indians, Arabs, Asian Indians, Chinese, Dominicans, Filipinos, Germans, Haitians, Irish, Italians, Jews, Koreans, Mexicans, Poles, Scandinavians, and the Vietnamese.

Despite the fact that 565 federally recognized tribes exist on the continent of North America, non-Native Americans typically know very little about the modern world of American Indians.The uneasy coexistence of the two cultures has served to create controversy, such as fake Indians fraudulently leveraging ethnicity-based benefits, U.S. officials disposing of nuclear waste near reservations, and sports clubs basing mascots on cultural stereotypes.

A groundbreaking book about how ancient DNA has profoundly changed our understanding of human history. Geneticists like David Reich have made astounding advances in the field of genomics, which is proving to be as important as archeology, linguistics, and written records as a means to understand our ancestry. Reich allows readers to discover how the human genome provides not only all the information a human embryo needs to develop but also the hidden story of our species.