San Antonio College Library

The economy has been brutal to American workers for decades. The chance to give one's children a better life - the promise at the heart of the American Dream - is withering away. And yet, the groups who stand to gain the most from mobilizing politically appear the least motivated to act. The 2016 presidential election threw into sharp relief how little we know about how working-class people translate their grievances into politics. In We're Still...

The author's first encounter with a racialized America came at age seven, when her parents told her they named her Austin to deceive future employers into thinking she was a white man. She grew up in majority-white schools, organizations, and churches, and has spent her life navigating America's racial divide as a writer, a speaker, and an expert helping organizations practice genuine inclusion. While so many institutions claim to value diversity...

A history of American Indians, discussing events that characterized the struggles of Native Americans to survive and maintain their homes and traditions in each of six distinct time periods, from 1890 to 1997.

The American Indian Movement, founded in 1968 in Minneapolis, burst into that turbulent time with passion, anger, and radical acts of resistance. Spurred by the Civil Rights movement, Native people began to protest the decades -- centuries -- of corruption, racism, and abuse they had endured, arguing for political, social, and cultural change. The photographs of activist Dick Bancroft, a key documentarian of AIM, provide an intimate view of this major...