Almost Free: A Story about Family and Race in Antebellum Virginia, Paperback - Eva Sheppard Wolf

In Almost Free, Eva Sheppard Wolf uses the story of Samuel Johnson, a free black man from Virginia attempting to free his family, to add detail and...

Reducere. In one of the greatest engineering feats of his time, Claudius Crozet led the completion of Virginia's Blue Ridge Tunnel in 1858. Two centuries lat...

This study examines how slaves in antebellum Virginia, through physical confrontations with whites, fought to reassert some measure of control over...

DescriptionTales to Grow By will be the perfect companion in the exciting path of becoming, little by little, responsible and happy grownups. Fairy...

Reducere. DescriptionIn one of the greatest engineering feats of his time, Claudius Crozet led the completion of Virginia's Blue Ridge Tunnel in 1858. Two ce...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Sharon Egretta SuttonForeword by: James Stewart PolshekWhen Ivory Towers Were Black lies at the potent intersection of race...

Reducere. Argues that you can be honest and unflinching in your teaching about racism while also providing a compassionate learning environment that allows f...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Becoming Free, Becoming Black offers the first comparative study of law, race, and freedom in the Americas from the sixteenth to mid-nineteenth cen...

Reducere. New York Times-bestselling author Julie Klam's funny and moving story of the Morris sisters, distant relations with mysterious pasts. Ever since sh...

Reducere. Sam is concerned about keeping things orderly and "cool" at school. She thinks people need to have a tough skin in order to fit in and withstand ot...

Reducere. Jayla feels threatened by her classmate Sam, who has bullied her in the past for her "nerdy" love of astronomy and stars. Sam is now bullying Jayla...

Reducere. Phoebe's mom tells her the wonderful and unique story of how she came into being through egg donation. Along the way, Phoebe hears about the challe...

Moving from France to the Caribbean to the American continent, Creole Drama follows the people that created and sustained French theatre culture in...

Reducere. Things between me and Papa are so different to what me and Mum have. It's been that way since the first day. An invisible bond. Papa was the one wh...

Reducere. What do you wear to meet your father for the first time? In 2004, Hannah Pool knew more about next season's lipstick colors than she did about Afri...

A powerful anthology giving voice to the mental health struggles experienced by people of colour in the UK.Publisher: Pan MacmillanAuthor(s): Riann...

This monograph examines Caryl Phillips's The Nature of Blood (1997), a novel exploring recurring expressions of exclusion and discrimination throug...

Reducere. Since the earliest days of colonial America, the relationship between cotton and the African-American experience has been central to the history of...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

A novel about the potential of female friendship among people in their twenties and thirties, in which the characters struggle with emotional matur...

Reducere. DescriptionWidely recognized as "one of the nation's foremost scholars on the slave era" (Boston Globe), Bancroft Prize-winning historian Ira Berli...

The Freakonomics books have come to stand for something: challenging conventional wisdom; using data rather than emotion to answer questions; and l...

American ideas about race owe much to the notion of an undifferentiated "heathen world" held together by its need of assistance. This religious not...

She discusses early-twentieth century women whose musical lives were shaped by Ireland's struggles to become a nation; follows the career of Julia ...

Reducere. A provocative call to dislodge ethnic nationalism from Irish traditional music Just how "Irish" is traditional Irish music? Trad Nation combines et...

Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): Frankie MoffattIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 68Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 129 x 201 x 1...

Reducere. Ever since renowned literary critic Anatole Broyard's own parents, New Orleans Creoles, had moved to Brooklyn and began to "pass" in order to get w...

On a summer day in 1846--two years before the Seneca Falls convention that launched the movement for woman's rights in the United States--six women...

Reducere. DescriptionOn July 2, 1970, tourists in Australia spotted a smashed car, teetering precariously on a cliff edge, overlooking the raging ocean below...

Offers the first book-length portrait of punk as a musical style with an emphasis on how punk developed in relation to changing ideas of race in Am...

Taking in a wide range of film, television, and literature, this volume explores 21st century horror and its monsters from an intersectional perspe...

Reducere. Family is the fundamental unit of God's kingdom. Humanity is meant to live in community with one another. The family unit is a community in and of ...