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BOOKS - an easy way to contribute to WHRTF. Village Books - located in the Fairhaven District of Bellingham - is affiliated with WHRTF

When you order a book online, through our website - any book - not just the reading list books below - WHRTF receives a small percentage from the sale.
[When you "click through" from our site, there is a code that allows VB to know that you have arrived via WHRTF.]

Just Click on the picture or here to browse for books at Village Books.
NOTE: Bellingham and Local Residents:
You may pick your book up at the store. (rather than having it shipped)
...AND your book will be credited to your Village Books Book Club card. YES!

Below is the current WHRTF reading list

- a note from book group member and former WHRTF board member, Belle Shalom:

The WHRTF Book Group is going strong. We continue to read a variety of books that have added to our awareness of different cultures and perspectives.

We just completed "Mexican Labor and WWII: Braceros in the Pacific Northwest 1942-1945", by Ernesto Gambos.

Earlier this summer, we read "To Fish in Common", by Daniel Boxberger, who joined us for a discussion about the history of Lummi fishing and its deterioration due to highly mechanized corporate fisheries and canneries.

In recent months we have read books by bell hooks, Dalton Conley, Sapphire, Linda Hogan, Sherman Alexie, Derrick Bell, Vine Deloria, Richard Delgado, and others.

We continue to read and discuss. The group is open to all; anyone can jump in at anytime. The more perspectives the better. We meet once a month at a member's home.
Call the office for contact info or email

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WHRTF Books for 2005

[read about or order now] David Neiwert, Strawberry Days: How Internment Destroyed a Japanese American Community

"Strawberry Days tells the vivid and moving tale of the creation and destruction of a Japanese immigrant community.

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[ read about or order now] David Neiwert, Death on the Fourth of July: The Story of a Killing, a Trial, and Hate Crime in America
Real life story location is Washington's Ocean Shores. In" Death on the Fourth of July", veteran journalist David Neiwert explores the hard questions about hate crimes that few are willing to engage.

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David Neiwert, In God's Country: The Patriot Movement and the Pacific Northwest

Covering the timely topic of militia activity in the Northwest, this book is based on interviews with Patriot extremists and gives readers an understanding of their motivations by allowing them to speak for themselves.

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[order now] Howard Zinn, Voices of a People's History of the United States of America

"Voices of a People's History" is a symphony of our nation's original voices, rich in ideas and actions, an embodiment of the power of civil disobedience and dissent, wherein lies our nation's true spirit of defiance and resilience.

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[order now] Erasmo Gamboa, Mexican Labor and WWI; Braceros in the Pacific Northwest 1942-1945

September 23, 2003 book club meeting report:
Gamboa's book describes the use of Mexican immigration to help solve farm labor problems in the US during the early 1940s, and provides a glimpse into how the US Department of Labor developed over the years. Different government agencies competed for power, to the detriment of the farm laborers. Immigrant workers contributed billions of dollars in labor and were largely responsible for continued food production in the US during the war.

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[order now] Bell Hooks, Where We Stand: Class Matters, 2000

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Bill Lyne and Vernon Damani Johnson
Walkin' the Talk: An Anthology of African American Studies

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[order now] David Roediger, The Wages of Whiteness, 1999

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April and May 2004 book club choice:
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Patricia Williams
The Alchemy of Race and Rights

[order now] Derrick Bell, Faces at Bottom of the Well, 1993

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[order paperback ] Daniel L. Boxberger, To Fish in Common: The Ethnohistory of Lummi Indian Salmon Fishing, University of Washington Press. 1999

WHRTF Book club report:
Prof. Daniel Boxberger came to our August 2003 meeting. We had a great conversation and he answered questions we had. His is a valuable book and anyone interested in fishing in the NW, especially the Lummi fishing history, will find the information in TO FISH IN COMMON. Boxberger is a very accessible scholar.

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[order paperback or hardcover] Dalton Conley, Honky

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Dec 2, 2003 choice
Angela Davis, Any book by Ms. Davis.

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[order paperback or hardcover] Richard Delgado, The Rodrigo Chronicles: Conversations about Race in America, New York University Press, 1995.

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[order now] Richard Delgado, The Coming Race War? Tales of Affirmative Action and the Coming Apocalypse, New York University Press, 1996.

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