A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life, Hardcover

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This is the first full-length study of contemporary American fiction of passing. Its takes as its point of departure the return of racial and gende...

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Reducere. In September 1944, seven-year old Elin, her mother and grandmother fled Estonia ahead of the advancing Soviet Army escaping the risk of deportation...

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Publisher: Fordham University PressIllustration(s): 8 b/w illustrationsNumber of pages: 334Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 153 x 230 x 27Cover ty...

Reducere. According to accepted historical wisdom, the goal of the African Colonization Society (ACS), founded in 1816 to return freed slaves to Africa, was ...

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The American Civil War: A Racial Reckoning provides a concise but comprehensive overview of the American Civil War, placing race at the center of t...

Reducere. About the AuthorJ. F. Riordan has worked in opera, in the classroom, and in philanthropy, but her first love is writing. She is the author of four ...

Reducere. For some in our society, diversity is a threat. Others feel society should be more inclusive, if only out of fairness. But as Johnnetta Cole argues...

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Winner of the 1964 Pulitzer Prize in Non-Fiction. In this award-winning classic work of consensus history, Richard Hofstadter, author of The Age of...

Reducere. The Holocaust in American Life, Paperback

This unique collection of diaries and letters offers a vivid, personal account of the experiences of a Jewish couple living parallel lives - Else e...

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*Now a Netflix Original Series* In the satirical tradition of the New York Times bestseller Stuff White People Like comes this witty companion book...

Reducere. In their daily struggles to forge lives of dignity and meaning within an inhuman system, slaves in the Antebellum South demonstrated creativity, re...

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Reducere. The American family has undergone a series of transformations from its socially sanctified role as the center of society to today's private, indepe...

Reducere. Explore the Captivating Life of George PattonGeneral George S. Patton remains a household name to this day even though he died decades ago. Not onl...

A sweeping history of transformative, radical, and abolitionist movements in the United States that places the struggle for racial justice at the c...

Reducere. In this authoritative and engrossing full-scale biography, Walter Isaacson, bestselling author of Einstein and Steve Jobs, shows how the most fasci...

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Publisher: Lawrence & Wishart LtdAuthor(s): Marika SherwoodNumber of pages: 240Collection: Radical Black Women SeriesPublication date: 2021Dimensio...

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Reducere. The American imagination still exalts the Founders as the prime movers of the Revolution, and the War of Independence has become the stuff of legen...

See the times as they were, the people, the places, the food, the importance of events as they happened. From Columbus boyhood to his discovery voy...

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In this book, Jason A. Staples proposes a new paradigm for how the biblical concept of Israel developed in Early Judaism and how that concept impac...