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Author : Mary Hoffman
Publisher : Dial Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book My Grandma Has Black Hair written by Mary Hoffman and published by Dial Books. This book was released on 1988 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A child talks about her grandmother, who is definitely not like the grannies in storybooks.
Author : David R. Roediger
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 078672210X
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)
Download or read book Working Toward Whiteness written by David R. Roediger and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2006-08-08 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did immigrants to the United States come to see themselves as white? David R. Roediger has been in the vanguard of the study of race and labor in American history for decades. He first came to prominence as the author of The Wages of Whiteness, a classic study of racism in the development of a white working class in nineteenth-century America. In Working Toward Whiteness, Roediger continues that history into the twentieth century. He recounts how ethnic groups considered white today-including Jewish-, Italian-, and Polish-Americans-were once viewed as undesirables by the WASP establishment in the United States. They eventually became part of white America, through the nascent labor movement, New Deal reforms, and a rise in home-buying. Once assimilated as fully white, many of them adopted the racism of those whites who formerly looked down on them as inferior. From ethnic slurs to racially restrictive covenants-the real estate agreements that ensured all-white neighborhoods-Roediger explores the mechanisms by which immigrants came to enjoy the privileges of being white in America. A disturbing, necessary, masterful history, Working Toward Whiteness uses the past to illuminate the present. In an Introduction to the 2018 edition, Roediger considers the resonance of the book in the age of Trump, showing how Working Toward Whiteness remains as relevant as ever even though most migrants today are not from Europe.
Author : Mazo de la Roche
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459736176
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)
Download or read book The Mazo de la Roche Story 2-Book Bundle written by Mazo de la Roche and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2015-11-30 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mazo de la Roche, author of the acclaimed Jalna series, is revealed in the writings of two luminaries on the subject: author Heather Kirk, and Mazo herself. This bundle unites Kirk’s groundbreaking biography of de la Roche with the great Canadian author’s memoirs, rereleased now after their original 1957 publication. Includes: Ringing the Changes First published in 1957, Mazo de la Roche’s last autobiography is a vivid look at her life in Ontario, and a parting shot at her critics. A rare insight into the intimate thoughts of Mazo de la Roche, and the private life she normally kept hidden. The author confesses how strongly she connected with her character Finch Whiteoak, her struggles with wanting to be a boy, and her complicated relationship with her cousin and adoptive sibling, Caroline. Mazo de la Roche After the spectacular success of her novel Jalna in 1927, Mazo de la Roche went on to the top of bestseller lists with a series of sixteen novels expanding the story of a Canadian family named the Whiteoaks, living in a house called Jalna. Her success allowed her to travel the world and live in a mansion near Windsor Castle. Mazo created unforgettable characters who come to life for her readers, but she was secretive about her own life and tried to escape the public attention her fame brought.
Author : Gloria Naylor
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504052749
Total Pages : 655 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The Novels of Gloria Naylor written by Gloria Naylor and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 655 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three lyrical and unforgettable novels from the National Book Award–winning author of The Women of Brewster Place. After winning both the National Book Award and the American Book Award for her now iconic debut novel, The Women of Brewster Place, which was later made into a TV miniseries starring Oprah Winfrey, Gloria Naylor continued to garner acclaim as one of the most original voices in twentieth-century American literature with novels such as Mama Day, Linden Hills, and Bailey’s Cafe. Mama Day: On Willow Springs, an island off the coast between Georgia and South Carolina, superstition is more potent than any trappings of the modern world. Here, the formidable Mama Day uses her powers to heal. But her great-niece, Cocoa, can’t wait to escape to New York City. When Cocoa returns to the island with her husband, George, darker forces challenge the couple—and their only hope may be the mystical matriarch. Steeped in the folklore of the South and inspired by Shakespeare, Mama Day is one of Naylor’s “richest and most complex” novels (Providence Journal). “[A] wonderful novel, full of spirit and sass and wisdom, and completely realized.” —The Washington Post Linden Hills: For its wealthy African American residents, the exclusive neighborhood of Linden Hills is a symbol of making it. But what happens when the dream of material success turns out to be an empty promise? Using Dante’s Inferno as a model, Naylor reveals the true cost of success for the lost souls of Linden Hills—a hell of their own making. “Every page contains a brilliant insight, a fine description, some petty and human, some grandiloquent.” —Chicago Tribune Bailey’s Cafe: This “moving and memorable” national bestseller is set in post–World War II Brooklyn, on a quiet backstreet, where Bailey’s Cafe serves as a crossroads for a broad range of patrons, a place of limbo for tortured souls before they move on—or check out (Boston Globe). “A virtuoso orchestration of survival, suffering, courage and humor.” —The New York Times Book Review
Author : Rodney Macdonough
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Macdonough-Hackstaff Ancestry written by Rodney Macdonough and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Oneka LaBennett
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479826995
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)
Download or read book Global Guyana written by Oneka LaBennett and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2024-04-16 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book makes the bold claim that we must put the small, easily overlooked South American nation of Guyana on the map if we hope to understand the global threat of environmental catastrophe as well as the pernicious forms of erasure that structure Caribbean women's lives"--
Author : Clare Balding
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101623519
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)
Download or read book My Animals and Other Family written by Clare Balding and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-04-18 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I had spent most of my childhood thinking I was a dog, and suspect I had aged in dog years. By the time I was ten I had discovered the pain of unbearable loss. I had felt joy and jealousy. Most important of all, I knew how to love and how to let myself be loved. All these things I learned through animals. Horses and dogs were my family and my friends. This is their story as much as it is mine.” Clare Balding grew up in an unusual household. Her father a champion horse trainer, they shared their lives with more than one hundred thoroughbred racehorses, mares, foals, and ponies, as well as an ever-present pack of dogs, on a sprawling estate in the Hampshire Downs. As a child, Clare happily rode the legendary racehorse Mill Reef and received her first pony, Valkyrie, as a gift from Her Majesty the Queen of England. But Clare ranked low in the family pecking order—as a girl, she was decidedly below her younger brother, and both of them were certainly below the horses. Left to her own devices, she had to learn life’s toughest lessons through the animals, and through her adventures in the stables and the surrounding idyllic English countryside. From her struggles at boarding school to her triumphs as an amateur jockey and event rider, Clare weaves her own coming-of-age story through portraits of the beloved horses and dogs, from the protective Candy to the unruly Frank, who were her earliest friends. The running family joke was that “women ain’t people.” Clare has to prove them wrong, to make her voice heard—but first she had to make sure she had something to say. My Animals and Other Family is a witty, brave, and moving account of stumbling—often literally—into one’s true self.
Author : Josiah Gilbert Holland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine written by Josiah Gilbert Holland and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 1296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mrs. Molesworth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)
Download or read book "Grandmother Dear" and Two Little Waifs written by Mrs. Molesworth and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Fredrik Backman
Publisher : Sceptre
ISBN 13 : 1444775863
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (447 download)
Download or read book My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologises written by Fredrik Backman and published by Sceptre. This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FROM THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF A MAN CALLED OVE, NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING TOM HANKS Heartbreaking and hilarious in equal measure, this novel will charm and delight anyone who has ever had a grandmother. 'A touching, sometimes funny, often wise portrait of grief' Kirkus Everyone remembers the smell of their grandmother's house. Everyone remembers the stories their grandmother told them. But does everyone remember their grandmother flirting with policemen? Driving illegally? Breaking into a zoo in the middle of the night? Firing a paintball gun from a balcony in her dressing gown? Seven-year-old Elsa does. Some might call Elsa's granny 'eccentric', or even 'crazy'. Elsa calls her a superhero. And granny's stories, of knights and princesses and dragons and castles, are her superpower. Because, as Elsa is starting to learn, heroes and villains don't always exist in imaginary kingdoms; they could live just down the hallway. As Christmas draws near, even the best superhero grandmothers may have one or two things they'd like to apologise for. And, in the process, Elsa can have some breath-taking adventures of her own . . .
Author : Eva Antonia Wilbur-Cruce
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816511945
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (119 download)
Download or read book A Beautiful, Cruel Country written by Eva Antonia Wilbur-Cruce and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1990-05 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author recounts her life on a ranch in southern Arizona and describes the seasons of ranch life, folk medicine, and the region's ethnic roots.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 940 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Christian Work and the Evangelist written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 940 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carol Park
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0998295701
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (982 download)
Download or read book Memoir of a Cashier: Korean Americans, Racism, and Riots written by Carol Park and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Carol Park grew up in Los Angeles during the 1980s and 1990s, a time of ethnic strife. Now she seeks to give voice to the Korean American community both then and now. Memoir of a Cashier is more than just a description of young girl's life growing up while working in a bulletproof cashier's booth in Compton, California. Park tells the story of the Korean American experience leading up to and after the 1992 Los Angeles Riots. Intricately weaving the story of her mother into the text, she provides a bird's-eye view into the Korean American narrative from her own unique perspective. With candor and direct language, she recounts the racism and traumatic incidents she lived through. Park bore witness to shootings, robberies, and violence, all of which twisted her worldview and ultimately shaped her life. In this memoir, a Korean American woman recalls her experiences of Los Angeles during the 1992 riots and shares her journey of finding her identity.
Author : Erica James
Publisher : Orion
ISBN 13 : 1409159302
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Dandelion Years written by Erica James and published by Orion. This book was released on 2014-12-23 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gorgeous tale of friendship and love from Sunday Times bestseller Erica James. Ashcombe was the most beautiful house Saskia had ever seen as a little girl. A rambling pink cottage on the edge of the Suffolk village of Melbury Green, its enchanting garden provided a fairy-tale playground of seclusion, a perfect sanctuary to hide from the tragedy which shattered her childhood. Now an adult, Saskia is still living at Ashcombe and as a book restorer devotes her days tending to the broken, battered books that find their way to her, daydreaming about the people who had once turned their pages. When she discovers a notebook carefully concealed in an old Bible - and realising someone has gone to a great deal of trouble to hide a story of their own - Saskia finds herself drawn into a heart-rending tale of wartime love...
Author : Aishah Shahidah Simmons
Publisher : AK Press
ISBN 13 : 1849353530
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (493 download)
Download or read book Love WITH Accountability written by Aishah Shahidah Simmons and published by AK Press. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the current survivor-affirming awareness around sexual violence, child sexual abuse, most notably when it’s a family member or friend, is still a very taboo topic. There are approximately 42 million child sexual abuse survivors in the U.S. and millions of bystanders who look the other way as the abuse occurs and cover for the harm-doers with no accountability. Documentary filmmaker and survivor of child sexual abuse and adult rape, Aishah Shahidah Simmons invites diasporic Black people to join her in transformative storytelling that envisions a world that ends child sexual abuse without relying on the criminal justice system. Love WITH Accountability features compelling writings by child sexual abuse survivors, advocates, and Simmons’s mother, who underscores the detrimental impact of parents/caregivers not believing their children when they disclose their sexual abuse. This collection explores disrupting the inhumane epidemic of child sexual abuse, humanely.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 872 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Munsey's Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edith Watson
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 1645443116
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (454 download)
Download or read book Ramblings written by Edith Watson and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-02-03 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is authored by the late Edith Watson, whose husband facilitated its publication. The first part is autobiographical and describes her childhood and how it shaped her life. The second part explores the life journeys of herself and her lifelong friend, from that initial agonized and prayerful teenage search for divine guidance to the disparate course that defined each of their lives. It is not judgmental and is full of accurate and truthful detail. One is left knowing these two women having shared their most secret thoughts and life experiences.
