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• The Narrative of a Japanese (two volumes), by Joseph Heco, ed. by James Murdoch (HTML at LOC)
• The Argonauts of Forty-Nine, by David Rohrer Leeper (illustrated HTML at LOC)
• California All the Way Back to 1828, by Michael Claringbud White (HTML at LOC)
• The Life and Adventures in California of Don Agustín Janssens, 1834-1856, by Agustín Janssens, trans. by Francis Price (HTML at LOC)
• Touching Incidents in the Life and Labors of a Pioneer on the Pacific Coast Since 1853, by Joseph Wilkinson Hines (HTML at LOC)
• California: A Pleasure Trip from Gotham to the Golden Gate, by Mrs. Frank Leslie, contrib. by Madeleine B. Stern (PDF at LOC)
• California: A Pleasure Trip from Gotham to the Golden Gate (New York: G. W. Carleton and Co.; London: S. Low, Son and Co., 1877), by Mrs. Frank Leslie (page images at HathiTrust)
• California and the West, 1881, and Later, by Lloyd Vernon Briggs (HTML at LOC)
• Life and Adventures of Col. L. A. Norton, by Lewis Adelbert Norton (HTML at LOC)
• Old Californian Days, by James W. Steele (HTML at LOC)
• A Start in Life. A Journey Across America. Fruit Farming in California., by Charles Finch Dowsett (HTML at LOC)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Last of the Great Scouts: The Life Story of William F. Cody, "Buffalo Bill", by Helen Cody Wetmore
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text

• The Secret Museum of Mankind (originally published 1935) (illustrated HTML with commentary at macky.net)

• Warlike and Peaceful Societies: The Interaction of Genes and Culture (Cambridge, UK et al.: Open Book Publishers, c2017), by Agner Fog (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Tobacco Use Among U.S. Racial/Ethnic Minority Groups: African Americans, American Indians and Alaska Natives, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, and Hispanics: A Report of the Surgeon General (1998), by United States Department of Health and Human Services (PDF files with commentary at cdc.gov)

• Distinction and Denial: Race, Nation, and the Critical Construction of the African American Artist, 1920-40 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Mary Ann Calo (page images at HathiTrust)

• Guide to the Papers of African American Artists, by Archives of American Art (illustrated HTML at Smithsonian)

• Archivos Virtuales: Papers of Latino and Latin American Artists, by Archives of American Art (HTML at the Smithsonian)

• Decorative Art of the Southwestern Indians (New York: Dover Publications, 1961), by Dorothy Smith Sides, contrib. by Clarice Martin Smith and Frederick Webb Hodge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stone Ornaments Used by Indians in the United States and Canada: Being a Description of Certain Charm Stones, Gorgets, Tubes, Bird Stones and Problematical Forms (Andover, MA: The Andover Press, 1917), by Warren K. Moorehead, contrib. by Arthur C. Parker and Edward Higginson Williams
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Thème Décoratif de la Double Courbe Dans l'Art des Algonquins du Nord-Est (in French; Ottawa: Ministère des Mines, Commission Géologique, 1915), by Frank G. Speck (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Native Paths: American Indian Art from the Collection of Charles and Valerie Diker (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1998), ed. by Allen Wardwell, contrib. by Janet Catherine Berlo, Bruce Bernstein, Ted J. Brasser, N. Scott Momaday, and W. Richard West (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)
• Color and Shape in American Indian Art (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1983), by Zena Pearlstone (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• Before Cortés: Sculpture of Middle America (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1970), by Elizabeth Kennedy Easby and John F. Scott, contrib. by Thomas Hoving and Dudley T. Easby (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• The Bird-Stone Ceremonial (Saranac Lake : A. I. Vosburgh, 1899), by Warren K. Moorehead (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Writing on the Wall: The Work of Joane Cardinal-Schubert (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2017), ed. by Lindsey V. Sharman (PDF files with commentary at University of Calgary)

• Native Paths: American Indian Art from the Collection of Charles and Valerie Diker (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1998), ed. by Allen Wardwell, contrib. by Janet Catherine Berlo, Bruce Bernstein, Ted J. Brasser, N. Scott Momaday, and W. Richard West (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• Coded Territories: Tracing Indigenous Pathways in New Media Art (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2014), ed. by Steve Loft and Kerry Swanson, contrib. by Archer Pechawis, Jackson 2bears, Jason Edward Lewis, Steven Foster, Candice Hopkins, and Cheryl L'Hirondelle (PDF at University of Calgary)

• Almost White (New York and London: Macmillan, c1963), by Brewton Berry (page images at HathiTrust)

• Louisa Picquet, the Octoroon: or, Inside Views of Southern Domestic Life (New York: The author, 1861), by Louisa Picquet and Hiram Mattison (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• America Beyond Black and White: How Immigrants and Fusions Are Helping Us Overcome the Racial Divide (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Ronald Fernandez (page images at HathiTrust)

• American Sensations: Class, Empire, and the Production of Popular Culture (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2002), by Shelley Streeby (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Writing Tricksters: Mythic Gambols in American Ethnic Literature (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), by Jeanne Rosier Smith (HTML at UC Press)
• Italian Signs, American Streets: The Evolution of Italian American Narrative (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1996), by Fred L. Gardaphé (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Study of Natio-Racial Mental Differences (Genetic Psychology Monographs v1 #3-4; 1926), by Nathaniel D. Mttron Hirsch (page images at Harvard)
• Circumstantial Deliveries (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981), by Rodney Needham (HTML at UC Press)
• The Basis of Social Relations: A Study in Ethnic Psychology (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1902), by Daniel G. Brinton, ed. by Livingston Farrand (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Mind of Primitive Man (New York: Macmillan, 1911), by Franz Boas (page images at Google; US access only)
• Paideuma: Umrisse einer Kultur- und Seelenlehre (in German; Munich: Beck, 1921), by Leo Frobenius
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Military Morale of Nations and Races (Kansas City, MO: Franklin Hudson Pub. Co., 1912), by Charles Young (page images at HathiTrust)

• Getting Inside Your Head: What Cognitive Science Can Tell Us about Popular Culture (prepublication version, 2012), by Lisa Zunshine (PDF at MLA Commons)
• Singing the Land, Signing the Land: A Portfolio of Exhibits (online edition; originally published 1989), by Helen Watson, Yolngu Community at Yirrkala, and David Wade Chambers (illustrated HTML at indigenousknowledge.org)

• The Dilemma of Context (New York and London: New York University Press, c1989), by Ben-Ami Scharfstein (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• The Authoritarian Personality (c1950), by Theodor W. Adorno, Else Frenkel-Brunswik, Daniel J. Levinson, and Nevitt Sanford (PDF files at ajcarchives.org)

• Socialization as Cultural Communication: Development of a Theme in the Work of Margaret Mead (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980), ed. by Theodore Schwartz (HTML at UC Press)
• Homo Schizo (2 volumes), by Alfred De Grazia (PDF files at grazian-archive.com)

• Ontological Terror: Blackness, Nihilism, and Emancipation (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018), by Calvin L. Warren
  • PDF at Open Emory
  • multiple formats via Figshare
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Modern Peoplehood: On Race, Racism, Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Identity (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c2004), by John Lie (HTML and PDF with commentary at UC Press)

• Dungeons and Dreamers: A Story of How Computer Games Created a Global Community (second edition; Pittsburgh: ETC Press, 2014), by Brad King and John Borland (PDF with commentary at CMU)
• Nerd Ecology: Defending the Earth with Unpopular Culture (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, c2016), by Anthony Lioi (HTML with commentary at Bloomsbury)
• The Pirate's Dilemma: How Youth Culture is Reinventing Capitalism (free download requires name and email (kept private); New York et al.: Free Press, 2008), by Matt Mason (PDF with commentary at thepiratesdilemma.com)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.