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Hella Town

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Author : Mitchell Schwarzer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520391535
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Hella Town written by Mitchell Schwarzer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hella Town reveals the profound impact of transportation improvements, systemic racism, and regional competition on Oakland’s built environment. Often overshadowed by San Francisco, its larger and more glamorous twin, Oakland has a fascinating history of its own. From serving as a major transportation hub to forging a dynamic manufacturing sector, by the mid-twentieth century Oakland had become the urban center of the East Bay. Hella Town focuses on how political deals, economic schemes, and technological innovations fueled this emergence but also seeded the city’s postwar struggles. Toward the turn of the millennium, as immigration from Latin America and East Asia increased, Oakland became one of the most diverse cities in the country. The city still grapples with the consequences of uneven class- and race-based development-amid-disruption. How do past decisions about where to locate highways or public transit, urban renewal districts or civic venues, parks or shopping centers, influence how Oaklanders live today? A history of Oakland’s buildings and landscapes, its booms and its busts, provides insight into its current conditions: an influx of new residents and businesses, skyrocketing housing costs, and a lingering chasm between the haves and have-nots.

Billy Ball

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Author : Dale Tafoya
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493043633
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Billy Ball written by Dale Tafoya and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1970s, the Oakland Athletics became only the second team in major-league baseball history to win three consecutive World Series championships. But as the decade came to a close, the A's were in free fall, having lost 108 games in 1979 while drawing just 307,000 fans. Free agency had decimated the A’s, and the team’s colorful owner, Charlie Finley, was looking for a buyer. First, though, he had to bring fans back to the Oakland Coliseum. Enter Billy Martin, the hometown boy from West Berkeley. In Billy Ball, sportswriter Dale Tafoya describes what, at the time, seemed like a match made in baseball heaven. The A’s needed a fiery leader to re-ignite interest in the team. Martin needed a job after his second stint as manager of the New York Yankees came to an abrupt end. Based largely on interviews with former players, team executives, and journalists, Billy Ball captures Martin’s homecoming to the Bay area in 1980, his immediate embrace by Oakland fans, and the A’s return to playoff baseball. Tafoya describes the reputation that had preceded Martin—one that he fully lived up to—as the brawling, hard-drinking baseball savant with a knack for turning bad teams around. In Oakland, his aggressive style of play came to be known as Billy Ball. A’s fans and the media loved it. But, in life and in baseball, all good things must come to an end. Tafoya chronicles Martin’s clash with the new A’s management and the siren song of the Yankees that lured the manager back to New York in 1983. Still, as the book makes clear, the magical turnaround of the A’s has never been forgotten in Oakland. Neither have Billy Martin and Billy Ball. During a time of economic uncertainty and waning baseball interest in Oakland, Billy Ball filled the stands, rejuvenated fans, and saved professional baseball in the city.

Black Roses

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Author : Harold Green
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0063135558
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (631 download)

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Download or read book Black Roses written by Harold Green and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poet and founder of the music collective Flowers for the Living pays tribute to all Black women by focusing on visionaries and leaders who are making history right now, including Ava DuVernay, Janelle Monae, Kamala Harris, Misty Copeland, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Robin Roberts, Roxane Gay, and Simone Biles—with this compilation of celebratory odes featuring full-color illustrations by Melissa Koby. Black women are exceptional. To honor how Black women use their minds, talent, passion, and power to transform society, Harold Green began writing love letters in verse which he shared on his Instagram account. Balm for our troubled times, his tributes to visionaries and leaders quickly went viral and became a social media sensation. Now, in this remarkable collection, Green brings together many of these popular odes with never-before-seen works. A timely celebration of contemporary Black figures who are making history and shaping our culture today, Black Roses is divided into five sections—advocates, curators, innovators, luminaries, trailblazers—reflecting the diversity of Black women’s achievements and the depth of their reach. These inspiring changemakers are leaving their mark on the world by creating new beauty in their respective art forms, heading movements, fighting for equality and to change the status quo, and championing new definitions of what’s possible in every meaningful way. Green lifts them up to create meaningful connections between these figures and our own lives and experiences. Black Roses spotlights and urges readers to learn more about Allyson Felix, Angelica Ross, Ava DuVernay, Bisa Butler, Bozoma Saint John, Charisma Sweat-Green, Dr. Eve Ewing, Dr. Janice Jackson, Dr. Johnnetta Cole, Eunique Jones-Gibson, Issa Rae, Janelle Monae, Jennifer Hudson, Jessica Matthews, Kamala Harris, Keisha Bottoms, Kimberly Bryant, Kimberly Drew, Lisa Green, Lizzo, Mandilyn Graham, Mellody Hobson, Michelle Alexander, Misty Copeland, Naomi Beckwith, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Phylicia Rashad, Rapsody, Raquel Willis, Robin Roberts, Roxane Gay, Shellye Archambeau, Simone Biles, Stacey Abrams, Tabitha Brown, Tamika Mallory, Tarana Burke, Tasha Bell, Tomi Adeyemi, and Tracee Ellis Ross.

Abandoned East Bay San Francisco

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Author : Xan Blood Walker
Publisher : America Through Time
ISBN 13 : 9781634992718
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Abandoned East Bay San Francisco written by Xan Blood Walker and published by America Through Time. This book was released on 2020-11-09 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The San Francisco East Bay is home to a large and expanding variety of graffiti artists. In this collection of cities, you can find their expressions and experimentations in secret places that hold surprising bursts of color, pattern, and texture. This area is centered in two bustling cities: Oakland and Berkeley. These two adjacent cities hold a diverse population of over 500,000 people. But to locals, it also includes tiny Emeryville, which is pocketed in between these two cities; the quaint island city of Alameda, which is a short bridge away from Oakland; San Leandro on the outskirts of Oakland to the South; and the gritty city of Richmond to the north of Berkeley. This geographic area is lovingly called "the East Bay." Xan Blood Walker resonates strongly with the aesthetic these artists bring to the area. Coming from a background of being a homeless, drug addicted punk rocker in the 80s, she transformed herself into a recovering psychotherapist, art therapist, and photographer. In these hidden spaces, she finds the magic and tragic beauty that was once her world.

Marked by Scorn

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Author : Dominica Malcolm
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780980508451
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Marked by Scorn written by Dominica Malcolm and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-31 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of stories and poems that explore the experiences of people in nontraditional family roles and in different cultures.

In the Shadow of Obscurity

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Author : Pete Elman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book In the Shadow of Obscurity written by Pete Elman and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-10 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the Shadow of Obscurity: Toiling in a Reluctant Society" is of historical value in content not only for people of color, but also for society. This book not only tells the stories of many of our great sports figures in history, it addresses their pain on the road to greatness. It is a must read to understand why we must stay focused, and make this society understand that we must all commit to a just society and make things better for generations to come.

Boy @ the Window

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Author : Donald Earl Collins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780989256131
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (561 download)

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Download or read book Boy @ the Window written by Donald Earl Collins and published by . This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a preteen Black male growing up in Mount Vernon, New York, there were a series of moments, incidents and wounds that caused me to retreat inward in despair and escape into a world of imagination. For five years I protected my family secrets from authority figures, affluent Whites and middle class Blacks while attending an unforgiving gifted-track magnet school program that itself was embroiled in suburban drama. It was my imagination that shielded me from the slights of others, that enabled my survival and academic success. It took everything I had to get myself into college and out to Pittsburgh, but more was in store before I could finally begin to break from my past. "Boy @ The Window" is a coming-of-age story about the universal search for understanding on how any one of us becomes the person they are despite-or because of-the odds. It's a memoir intertwined with my own search for redemption, trust, love, success-for a life worth living. "Boy @ The Window" is about one of the most important lessons of all: what it takes to overcome inhumanity in order to become whole and human again.

Oakland

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Author : Beth Bagwell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615629162
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (291 download)

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Download or read book Oakland written by Beth Bagwell and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Flavors of Oakland

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Author : Elazar Sontag
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780964435278
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Flavors of Oakland written by Elazar Sontag and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flavors of Oakland will take you on a culinary tour through one of America's most vibrant cities. In each of the 20 chapters you will meet an Oakland resident who shares their story and a treasured recipe from their culture. Magnificent photos of the people and recipes bring the Flavors of Oakland to your own kitchen wherever you may be.

Summary Report on a Survey of the Oakland Public Library, Including the Oakland Art Gallery, the Oakland Public Museum, the Snow African Collection

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Author : Oakland Free Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Summary Report on a Survey of the Oakland Public Library, Including the Oakland Art Gallery, the Oakland Public Museum, the Snow African Collection written by Oakland Free Library and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Annual Report of the Oakland Public Library, the Oakland Public Museum, the Snow Museum of Natural History, the Oakland Art Gallery, for the Year ...

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Author : Oakland (Calif.) Library Department
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Annual Report of the Oakland Public Library, the Oakland Public Museum, the Snow Museum of Natural History, the Oakland Art Gallery, for the Year ... written by Oakland (Calif.) Library Department and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Historic Photos of Oakland

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Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1618584162
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (185 download)

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Download or read book Historic Photos of Oakland written by and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Its place directly opposite San Francisco Bay from one of the world’s most visited cities has left Oakland to struggle against comparison from the start. It has greeted that challenge by asserting its identity as an effervescent international port city with a richly diverse, uniquely creative, and highly resilient population. Oakland consistently finds itself at the forefront of the rapid pace of change that California has helped to drive, with its history of daring experiments in social, scientific, and cultural innovation. The camera has preserved glimpses into the impacts of that change—and the ways in which Oakland has adapted to sustain itself as a charming and welcoming gateway to the Pacific. Historic Photos of Oakland collects a small fraction of the record the cameras have left behind, providing a compelling view of the colorful past of the "second” City by the Bay.

Public Libraries

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 866 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Public Libraries written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Library Bulletin, Public Library of the City of Oakland

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Author : Oakland Free Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Library Bulletin, Public Library of the City of Oakland written by Oakland Free Library and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Survey of Children's Work in the Oakland Public Library

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Author : Mary Rinehart Lucas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Survey of Children's Work in the Oakland Public Library written by Mary Rinehart Lucas and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Oakland Public Schools; Superintendent's Bulletin

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Author : Oakland (Calif.). Board of Education
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Oakland Public Schools; Superintendent's Bulletin written by Oakland (Calif.). Board of Education and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cumulative List of Organizations Described in Section 170 (c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 894 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Cumulative List of Organizations Described in Section 170 (c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 894 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: