LISTING OF OUTSTANDING BOOKS 1984-98

* Denotes Honorable Mention

Books are listed alphabetically by author:

A B C D E-F G-H I-K L-M N-P R-S T-Z

Ichioka, Yuji. (1988). The Issei. New York: Free Press. JAPANESE AMERICAN

Imig, Douglas. (1996). Poverty and Power: The Political Representation of Poor Americans. Lincoln: University of Nebraska. POVERTY/POLITICS

Ingalls, Robert. (1988). Urban Vigilantes in the New South, Tampa, 1882-1936. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. 

Ireland, Patricia. (1996). What Women Want. New York: Dutton/Penguin. WOMEN

Isasi-Diaz, Ada. (1996). Mujerista Theology: A Theology for the Twenty-First Century. Maryknoll: Orbis. LATINA/RELIGION

Isbister, John. (1996). The Immigration Debate: Remaking America. West Hartford, CT: Kumarian. IMMIGRATION

Jackson, Donald. (1992). Even the Children of Strangers: Equality Under the U. S. Constitution. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1992. INEQUALITY/LAW

Jackson, Jesse with Jackson, Jesse Jr. (1996). Legal Lynching: Racism, Injustice, and the Death Penalty. New York: Marlowe. RACISM/DEATH PENALTY

Jackson, Walter. (1990). Gunnar Myrdal and America's Conscience: Social Engineering and Racial Liberalism, 1938-1987. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. RACE RELATIONS

*Jacobson-Hardy, Michael. (1998). Behind the Razor Wire: Portrait of a Contemporary American Prison System, NYU Press. PRISON SYSTEM: U.S.

*Jaffe, Nina. (1997) A Voice for the People: The Life and Work of Harold Courlander. New York: Henry Holt & Company. (Youth Audience) MULTICULTURALISM 

*Jameson, Elizabeth & Susan Armitage, Eds. (1997) Writing the Range: Race, Class, and Culture. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. WOMEN’S HISTORY

Jaimes, M. Annette (Ed.). (1992). The State of Native America: Genocide, Colonization, and Resistance. Boston: South End Press. NATIVE AMERICAN

Jakeman, Robert. (1992). The Divided Skies: Establishing Segregated Flight Training at Tuskegee, Alabama, 1934-1942. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press. AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY

James, Joy. (1996). Resisting State Violence: Radicalism, Gender, and Race in U.S. Culture. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. RACISM/SEXISM

James, Thomas. (1987). Exile Within: The Schooling of Japanese Americans, 1942-1945. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. JAPANESE AMERICANS: EDUCATION

*Jay-Livermore Falls, Working Class History Project. (1998). Pain On Their Faces; Testimonies On The Paper Mill Strike, Jay, Maine, 1987-1988, Apex Press. LABOR ACTIVISM

Jeansonne, Glen. (1988). Gerald L.K. Smith: Minister of Hate. New Haven: Yale University Press. HATE

*Jenkins, Everett, Jr. (1997) Pan-African Chronology II: A Comprehensive Reference to the Black Quest for Freedom in Africa, the Americas, Europe and Asia, 1865-1915. McFarland & Co. (Reference Book) AFRICAN DIASPORA: HISTORY 

*Jenkins, Philip. (1997) Hoods and Shirts: The Extreme Right in Pennsylvania, 1925-1950. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina. ORGANIZED HATE

Jenkins, William. (1990). Steel Valley Klan: The Ku Klux Klan in Ohio's Mahoning Valley. Kent: Kent State University Press. ORGANIZED HATE/KKK

*Jenness, Valerie & Kendal Broad. (1997) Hate Crimes: New Social Movements and the Politics of Violence. New York: Aldine De Kruyter. HATE CRIMES

Jennings, James. (1992). The Politics of Black Empowerment: The Transformation of Black Activism in Urban America. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. AFRICAN-AMERICAN

Jhally, Sut & Lewis, Justin. (1992). Enlightened Racism: The Cosby Show, Audiences, and the Myth of the American Dream. Boulder: Westview. AFRICAN-AMERICAN/TELEVISION

Johannsen, Robert. (1985). Halls of the Montezumas. New York: Oxford University Press. HISTORY

_____. (1991). Lincoln, the South, and Slavery: The Political Dimension. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. SLAVERY

Jones, Jacqueline. (1985). Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow. New York: Basic Books. HISTORY/WORK/WOMEN

*_____. (1998). American Work: Four Centuries of Black and White Labor, W. W. Norton & Co. ECONOMIC AND RACE RELATIONS: U.S. 

Jones, Maxine & Richardson, Joe. (1990). Talledega College: The First Century. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. BLACK COLLEGES

Kahn, Kim. (1996). The Political Consequences of Being a Women: How Stereotypes Influence the Conduct and Consequences of Political Campaigns. New York: Columbia University Press. WOMEN/POLITICS

Kahn, Robert. (1996). Other People’s Blood: U.S. Immigration Prisons in the Reagan Decade. Boulder: Westview/HarperCollins. IMMIGRATION 

Kamel, Rachael; Wei, Deborah; American Friends Service Committee; & The Office of Curriculum Support School District of Philadelphia. (1998). Resistance in Paradise: Rethinking 100 Years of U.S. Involvement in the Caribbean and the Pacific. CARIBBEAN

Kaplan, Sidney, & Kaplan, Emma. (1989). The Black Presence in the Era of the American Revolution (rev. ed.). Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press. AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY

Kapur, Sudarshan. (1992). Raising Up A Prophet: The African-American Encounter with Gandhi. Boston: Beacon Press. AFRICAN-AMERICAN/GANDHI

Karst, Kenneth L. (1989). Belonging to America: Equal Citizenship and the Constitution. New Haven: Yale University Press. CITIZENSHIP

Katz, Montana, & Vieland, Veronica. (1993). Get Smart!: What You Should Know (But Won't Learn in Class) about Sexual Harassment and Sex Discrimination (2nd ed.). New York: Feminist Press. SEXUAL HARASSMENT

Katz, William. (1986). The Black West. Seattle: Open Hand. AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY: WEST

_____. (1986). Invisible Empire. Seattle: Open Hand, 1986. ORGANIZED HATE

Kelley, Robin. (1990). Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During The Great Depression. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. COMMUNISM/DEPRESSION

Kelley, Robin D. G. (1997) Yo’ Mama’s Disfunktional! Fighting the Culture Wars in Urban America. Boston: Beacon Press. RACE RELATIONS

Kennedy, Carolyn, & Alderman, Ellen. (1991). In Our Defense: The Bill of Rights in Action. New York: Morrow. CONSTITUTIONAL LAW

*Kennedy, Randall. (1997) Race, Crime and the Law. New York: Pantheon. CRIMINAL JUSTICE

Kennedy, Stetson. (1995). After Appomattox: How the South Won the War. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. HISTORY

Kesselman, Amy. (1990). Fleeting Opportunities: Women Shipyard Workers in Portland and Vancouver During World War II and Reconversion. Albany: State University of New York Press. WOMEN/WWII

Kessler, Lauren. (1993). Stubborn Twig: Three Generations in the Life of a Japanese American Family. New York: Random House. JAPANESE-AMERICAN 

*Kim, Elaine & Asian Women United, Eds. (1997) Making More Waves: New Writing by Asian American Women. Boston: Beacon Press, ASIAN AMERICAN: WOMEN

Kincheloe, Joe; Steinberg, Shirley & Gresson, Aaron III (Eds.). (1996). Measured Lies: "The Bell Curve" Examined. New York: St. Martin’s. RACIAL INTELLIGENCE

King, Richard. (1992). Civil Rights and the Idea of Freedom. New York: Oxford University Press. CIVIL RIGHTS

Kinsella, James. (1989). Covering the Plague: AIDS and the American Mecia. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. AIDS

Kirp, David L., et al. (1989). Learning by Heart: AIDS and Schoolchildren in America's Communities. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. AIDS EDUCATION

*Kirp, David L; John P. Dwyer; Larry A. Rosenthal. (1997) Our Town: Race, Housing and the Soul of Suburbs. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. HOUSING: RACE RELATIONS

Kitano, Harry L. (1986). Japanese Americans. Salt Lake City, UT: Utah University Press. JAPANESE-AMERICAN 

Kivel, Paul. (1996). Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice. Philadelphia: New Society. ANTIRACISM

*Kiyota, Minoru. (1997) Beyond Loyalty: Story of a Kibei. University of Hawaii Press. JAPANESE AMERICANS

Kly, Y. N. (1989). The Anti-Social Contract. Atlanta: Clarity. LAW

_____. (1990) International Law and the Black Minority in the U.S. (3rd ed.). Atlanta: Clarity. LAW

_____. (Ed.). 1995. A Popular Guide to Minority Rights. Atlanta: Clarity. EQUAL RIGHTS

Knaefler, Tomi Kaizawa. (1991). Our House Divided: Seven Japanese American Families in World War II. Honolulu: Hawaii University Press. JAPANESE-AMERICAN/WWII

Knopke, Harry, Norrell, Robert, & Rogers, Ronald (Eds.). (1991). Opening Doors: Perspectives on Race Relations in Contemporary America. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. RACE RELATIONS

Kohlhoff, Dean. (1995). When the Wind Was a River: Aleut Evacuation in World War II. Seattle: University of Washington Press. CANADIAN HISTORY

Kohn, Stephen. (1994). American Political Prisoners: Prosecutions Under the Espionage and Sedition Acts. Westport, CT: Greenwood. POLITICS/CRIMINAL JUSTICE

Kolchin, Peter. (1993). American Slavery, 1619-1877. New York: Hill and Wang. SLAVERY/HISTORY

Koppelman, Andrew. (1996). Antidiscrimination Law and Social Equality. New Haven: Yale University Press. LAW

Korman, Abraham. (1988). The Outsiders: Jews and Corporate America. Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath/Lexington Books. JEWS: U.S.

Kornbluh, Peter. (1987). Nicaragua, the Price of Intervention. Washington, DC: Institute for Policy Studies. U.S. FOREIGN POLICY

Kovel, Joel. (1984). Against a State of Nuclear Terror. Boston, MA: South End. ANTI-NUCLEAR WAR

Kujoory, Parvin. (1995). Black Slavery in America: An Annotated Mediagraphy. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow. AFRICAN-AMERICAN SLAVERY

Kull, Andrew. (1992). The Color-Blind Constitution. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. EQUAL CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS