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Growing Up White In Brassfield A Memoir
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Book Synopsis Growing up White in Brassfield a Memoir by : Sally Pearson Congleton
Download or read book Growing up White in Brassfield a Memoir written by Sally Pearson Congleton and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-10-05 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing Up White in Brassfield 1946: Every room in the funeral home was full. I guess Daddy knew about everybody in the county and the town. The grown men carried on something awful, laughing and talking about tobacco stripping and hog prices. Didn't they know my Daddy was dead? I always appreciated the fact that there was one entire room full of colored people at daddy's funeral. The entire community must have come out. Of course this was long before integration. They had no choice to where they sat. Seeing the whole collective bunch of neighbors there together made a great impact on my heart
Book Synopsis Growing Up Black in White by : Kevin D. Hofmann
Download or read book Growing Up Black in White written by Kevin D. Hofmann and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-03-15 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing Up Black in White is author Kevin Hofmann's gift to the American public seeking answers to so many questions about what it is to be raised in a racially diverse household. Born to a white mother and black father in Detroit in 1967, only weeks before the terrible race riots that brought a major city to its knees, the author was taken to a foster home and then adopted by a white minister and his wife, already the parents of three biological children. In this fascinating memoir, Hofmann reveals the difficulties and joys of being part of this family, particularly during a time and in a location where acceptance was tentative and emotions regarding race ran high and hot.--P. 4 of cover.
Book Synopsis When I Was White by : Sarah Valentine
Download or read book When I Was White written by Sarah Valentine and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stunning and provocative coming-of-age memoir about Sarah Valentine's childhood as a white girl in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, and her discovery that her father was a black man. At the age of 27, Sarah Valentine discovered that she was not, in fact, the white girl she had always believed herself to be. She learned the truth of her paternity: that her father was a black man. And she learned the truth about her own identity: mixed race. And so Sarah began the difficult and absorbing journey of changing her identity from white to black. In this memoir, Sarah details the story of the discovery of her identity, how she overcame depression to come to terms with this identity, and, perhaps most importantly, asks: why? Her entire family and community had conspired to maintain her white identity. The supreme discomfort her white family and community felt about addressing issues of race–her race–is a microcosm of race relationships in America. A black woman who lived her formative years identifying as white, Sarah's story is a kind of Rachel Dolezal in reverse, though her "passing" was less intentional than conspiracy. This memoir is an examination of the cost of being black in America, and how one woman threw off the racial identity she'd grown up with, in order to embrace a new one.
Book Synopsis Growing Up White in America by : Bem Allen
Download or read book Growing Up White in America written by Bem Allen and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-04 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How experiences in rural Texas, Houston, Mississippi, and Western Illinois shaped a white male's view of America's problem with race. My other books include Social Behavior: Fact and Falsehood, Personality Theories, World War II 1939-1948: A Novel About the Aftermath of a Nazi Victory and Coping with Life in the 21st Century. Growing covers experiences in high school, college, grad school, and as a professor.
Book Synopsis You'll Always Be White to Me by : Garon Wade
Download or read book You'll Always Be White to Me written by Garon Wade and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Every once in a while a book comes along at a time when its message is most needed. Garon Wade's memoir is, without a doubt, one of those books."--Patrício de Sousa "Garon Wade's memoir is a welcome addition to today's important conversation about race & globalism. His story is one not often experienced, let alone told, of the challenges as well as the immense beauty that can result from the colliding of races, ethnicities, nations, and worlds. Told with compassion for the complexity and diversity of the human experience and a passion for a life lived across the globe, YABWTM will transport you, teach you, and move you."--Anna Kawar Three years in to Sri Lanka's bloody civil war, an abandoned baby ends up in the adopted arms of a white American couple living in a Colombo home that doubles as a CIA safe house. They take him on an extraordinary journey around the globe as he's launched into the diplomatic world of ambassadors, UN workers, and international schools. Each summer he returns to the bayous of his parents' small-town Louisiana, as exotic to him as the golden South African savannahs of his early childhood. He's curious to know this America, a country he may someday be a part of. But with sincere love comes racism wrapped in the drawling sweetness of his grandparents' good intentions. Garon Wade's transcendent memoir is an international coming-of-age story that explores how the heart of an orphan grew to love a world that didn't always love him back. You'll Always Be White To Me asks us who we are, what our common humanity is, and if it's possible to look beyond our color and find our way there.
Download or read book Where We Stand written by bell hooks and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on both her roots in Kentucky and her adventures with Manhattan Coop boards, Where We Stand is a successful black woman's reflection--personal, straight forward, and rigorously honest--on how our dilemmas of class and race are intertwined, and how we can find ways to think beyond them.
Book Synopsis Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin by : Benjamin Franklin
Download or read book Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin written by Benjamin Franklin and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-03-01 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1859. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Book Synopsis Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin by : Benjamin Franklin
Download or read book Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin written by Benjamin Franklin and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Faces Behind the Chains: Thousands of Interviews, Memoirs & Life Stories of Former Slaves by : Aphra Behn
Download or read book The Faces Behind the Chains: Thousands of Interviews, Memoirs & Life Stories of Former Slaves written by Aphra Behn and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-12-25 with total page 10328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat presents to you this carefully created collection of thousands memoirs & life stories of former slaves. "The Faces Behind the Chains" strongly conveys the circumstances and brutal reality of a slave's life to a reader. This unique collection consists of the most influential narratives of former slaves, including many recorded testimonies and original photos of former slaves long after Civil War. It is designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Content: Recorded Life Stories of Former Slaves from 17 different US States Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 12 Years a Slave (Solomon Northup) The Underground Railroad Harriet Jacobs: The Moses of Her People Up From Slavery (Booker T. Washington) The Willie Lynch Letter: The Making of Slave! The History of Mary Prince Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom (William & Ellen Craft) The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano Behind The Scenes: 30 Years a Slave & 4 Years in the White House (Elizabeth Keckley) Father Henson's Story of His Own Life (Josiah Henson) Fifty Years in Chains (Charles Ball) Twenty-Two Years a Slave and Forty Years a Freeman (Austin Steward) The Story of Mattie J. Jackson (L. S. Thompson) A Slave Girl's Story (Kate Drumgoold) From the Darkness Cometh the Light (Lucy A. Delaney) Life of Henry Box Brown, Who Escaped in a 3x2 Feet Box Buried Alive Documents: The History of the Abolition of African Slave-Trade History of American Abolitionism from 1787-1861 Pictures of Slavery in Church and State Report of the Proceedings at the Examination of Charles G. Davis, Esq., on the Charge of Aiding and Abetting in the Rescue of a Fugitive Slave Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases The Duty of Disobedience to the Fugitive Slave Act Emancipation Proclamation Gettysburg Address XIII Amendment Civil Rights Act of 1866 XIV Amendment ...
Book Synopsis Guests of the Ayatollah by : Mark Bowden
Download or read book Guests of the Ayatollah written by Mark Bowden and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times–bestselling author of Black Hawk Down delivers a “suspenseful and inspiring” account of the Iranian hostage crisis of 1979 (The Wall Street Journal). On November 4, 1979, a group of radical Islamist students, inspired by the revolutionary Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini, stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran. They took fifty-two Americans captive, and kept nearly all of them hostage for 444 days. In Guests of the Ayatollah, Mark Bowden tells this sweeping story through the eyes of the hostages, the soldiers in a new special forces unit sent to free them, their radical, naïve captors, and the diplomats working to end the crisis. Bowden takes us inside the hostages’ cells and inside the Oval Office for meetings with President Carter and his exhausted team. We travel to international capitals where shadowy figures held clandestine negotiations, and to the deserts of Iran, where a courageous, desperate attempt to rescue the hostages exploded into tragic failure. Bowden dedicated five years to this research, including numerous trips to Iran and countless interviews with those involved on both sides. Guests of the Ayatollah is a detailed, brilliantly recreated, and suspenseful account of a crisis that gripped and ultimately changed the world. “The passions of the moment still reverberate . . . you can feel them on every page.” —Time “A complex story full of cruelty, heroism, foolishness and tragic misunderstandings.” —Pittsburgh Post-Gazette “Essential reading . . . A.” —Entertainment Weekly
Book Synopsis The Story of My Boyhood and Youth by : John Muir
Download or read book The Story of My Boyhood and Youth written by John Muir and published by Binker North. This book was released on 1913 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Muir (1838-1914), whose writings about the natural world have shaped the conservation and environmental movements for more than a century, wrote this autobiographical account near the end of his life about his childhood in Dunbar, Scotland, his immigration to America (1849), his adolescence on a pioneer farmstead near Kingston, Wisconsin, and his student years at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. The Story of My Boyhood and Youth reveals the evolution of Muir's scientific curiosity and the beginnings of his reverential attitude towards nature. Treating his encounters with wildlife as high adventure, he gives especially informed attention to bird life in both Scotland and Wisconsin.
Book Synopsis The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by : Benjamin Franklin
Download or read book The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin written by Benjamin Franklin and published by Google Auto-narrated Demo. This book was released on 2019-12-31 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Franklin's Autobiography has received widespread praise, both for its historical value as a record of an important early American and for its literary style. This work has become one of the most famous and influential examples of an autobiography ever written. This title is based on the Harvard Classics edition.
Book Synopsis Hawaii's Story by : Liliuokalani (Queen of Hawaii)
Download or read book Hawaii's Story written by Liliuokalani (Queen of Hawaii) and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons by : Marilyn Hacker
Download or read book Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons written by Marilyn Hacker and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1995-03-17 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This critically acclaimed sonnet sequence is the passionately intense story of a love affair between two women, from the electricity of their first acquaintance to the experience of their parting.
Book Synopsis Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin by : Benjamin Franklin
Download or read book Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin written by Benjamin Franklin and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Life of George Washington by : John Marshall
Download or read book The Life of George Washington written by John Marshall and published by . This book was released on 1805 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis List of Emigrants to America from Liverpool, 1697-1707 by : Liverpool (England)
Download or read book List of Emigrants to America from Liverpool, 1697-1707 written by Liverpool (England) and published by Baltimore : Genealogical Publishing. This book was released on 1962 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A list of over 1500 names found in the Records of the Corporation of Liverpool, the English port from which emigres bound for America departed.
