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Giant Robot : thirty years of defining Asian American pop culture

Nakamura, Eric, editor.

Publication Date

2024

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Books

Call Number

305.895073 GIA

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SD_ILS:790454

The collected essays of Ralph Ellison

Ellison, Ralph, author.

Publication Date

2024

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814.54 ELL

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SD_ILS:710159

Bone of the bone [CD] : essays on America by a daughter of the working class

Smarsh, Sarah, author, narrator.

Publication Date

2024

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CDs

Call Number

305.5620973 SMA

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SD_ILS:788327

We're all in this together... : so make some room

Papa, Tom, author.

Publication Date

2023

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Call Number

818.602 PAP

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SD_ILS:684194

The nineties : a book

Klosterman, Chuck, 1972- author.

Publication Date

2022

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306.0973 KLO

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SD_ILS:635920

Illustrating Spain in the US

Merino, Ana, 1971- editor.

Publication Date

2022

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973.0468 MER

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SD_ILS:638698

The end of solitude : selected essays on culture and society

Deresiewicz, William, 1964- author.

Publication Date

2022

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Call Number

814.6 DER

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SD_ILS:655286

Entertaining race : performing Blackness in America

Dyson, Michael Eric, author.

Publication Date

2021

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305.896073 DYS

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SD_ILS:621308

American happiness and discontents : the unruly torrent, 2008-2020

Will, George F., author.

Publication Date

2021

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973.93 WIL

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SD_ILS:632970

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Nothing personal

Baldwin, James, 1924-1987, author.

Publication Date

2021

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305.800973 BAL

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SD_ILS:724417

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You're doing great! [CD] : and other reasons to stay alive

Papa, Tom, author, narrator.

Publication Date

2020

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818 PAP

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SD_ILS:558809

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The eye you see with : selected nonfiction

Stone, Robert, 1937-2015, author.

Publication Date

2020

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814.54 STO

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Baldwin, James, 1924-1987, author.

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