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Book cover for "An Indian among los Indígenas"
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THE AUTHOR, A NATIVE AMERICAN, JOINS THE PEACE CORPS AND TRAVELS TO BOLIVIA IN THE 1990s.
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"Memoir by Ursula Pike (Karuk) of her time serving with the Peace Corps in Bolivia. Focusing on international travel from a California Indian perspective, the memoir asks what it means to be both colonizer and colonized, and inquires into the challenges of building relationships between Indigenous groups from very different places"--
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REVISITING SOME OF THE SITES FEATURED IN THE ORIGINAL GREEN BOOK.
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"The first book to explore the historical role and residual impact of the Green Book, a travel guide for black motorists. Published from 1936 to 1966, the Green Book was hailed as the "black travel guide to America." At that time, it was very dangerous and difficult for African-Americans to travel because black travelers couldn't eat, sleep, or buy gas at most white-owned businesses. The Green Book listed hotels, restaurants, gas stations, and other...
Book cover for "Travels with Charley"
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JOHN STEINBECK TRAVELS THE BACK ROADS AND INTERSTATES OF AMERICA IN 1960 WITH HIS DOG, CHARLEY.