A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life, Paperback - Allyson Hobbs

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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...

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

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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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Reducere. Madison Grant is largely forgotten today, but in the early 20th century, he was a leading environmentalist. He spearheaded the effort to save Ameri...

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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. 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 ...

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. DescriptionIn Uplift Cinema, Allyson Nadia Field recovers the significant yet forgotten legacy of African American filmmaking in the 1910s. Like th...

Reducere. God's Free-Man is a historical presentation guided by God that delineates the capture of Harry and Kate Freeman, who were the co-founders of the ci...

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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...

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

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Reducere. Explore the Captivating Life of Aaron Burr and His Duel with Alexander HamiltonBased on his early achievements, Aaron Burr Jr. should have become a...

Reducere. Harriet Tubman served a pivotal role in leading slaves to freedom in the decade before the Civil War. This biography offers a demythologized chroni...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Rana A. HogarthIn 1748, as yellow fever raged in Charleston, South Carolina, doctor John Lining remarked, "There is somethi...

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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Just Medicine offers us a new, effective, and innovative plan to regulate implicit biases and eliminate the inequalities they cause, and to save th...

Publisher: Nobrow LtdNumber of pages: 216Collection: Curse of the ChosenPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 239 x 464 x 21Cover type: Paperback / sof...

Reducere. This moving novel of pioneer life in Arizona has become a classic. Based on the life of the author's mother, it overturns every stereotype of weste...

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Reducere. Larry Audlaluk has seen incredible changes in his lifetime. Born in northern Quebec, he relocated with his family to the High Arctic in the early 1...

Reducere. Forsyth County, Georgia, at the turn of the twentieth century, was home to a large African American community that included ministers and teachers,...

Reducere. In 1996 less than half of all eligible voters even bothered to vote. Fewer citizens each year follow government and public affairs regularly or eve...

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Spring is coming to the small towns of Michigan, but the snow still covers the land when Scripps O'Neil sets of for Chicago, decides to stop a whil...

Reducere. In October 1999 during a trip to Cairo, Cyrus Kadivar, an exiled Iranian living in London, visited the tomb of the last shah and opened a Pandora's...

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania PressAuthor(s): Patricia Tyson StroudIllustration(s): 11 color, 48 b/wNumber of pages: 292Publication date: 2...

Reducere. This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition combines the two most important African American slave narratives into one volume. Frederick Douglas...

Reducere. Legal Passing offers a nuanced look at how the lives of undocumented Mexicans in the US are constantly shaped by federal, state, and local immigrat...

An important addition to extant scholarship on the border U.S Southwest, Forging Arizona recovers a forgotten case that reminds readers that the bo...

If you want to discover the captivating life of Walt Disney, then keep reading...A man truly lives on even after his death if he leaves a legacy th...

Life in America. An introduction to the study of contemporary american culture. Editia a 2-a - Ovidiu Leonte

Publisher: BiblioLifeAuthor(s): Howard Seavoy LeachIllustration(s): Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 12Publication date: 2009Dimensions: 218 x ...

Reducere. A complex and troubled history defines the borders of upstate New York beyond the physical boundaries of its rivers and lakes. The United States an...

A spiritual journey from the Jewish faith to Christianity, told with whit and warmth.