Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril Among the Black Middle Class, Paperback - Mary Pattillo

Reducere. First published in 1999, Mary Pattillo's Black Picket Fences explores an American demographic group too often ignored by both scholars and the medi...

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DescriptionIn Black on the Block, Mary Pattillo--a Newsweek Woman of the 21st Century--uses the historic rise, alarming fall, and equally dramatic ...

Reducere. In their own words, the subjects of this book present a rich portrait of the modern black middle-class, examining how cultural consumption is a cri...

This book analyses how racism and anti-racism affects Black British middle class cultural consumption, incorporating insights from critical race th...

Publisher: Cornell University PressAuthor(s): Hagen KooIllustration(s): 1 Maps; 13 ChartsNumber of pages: 162Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 ...

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From the author of When You Read This, a smart, sharply observed novel about gender and class on a college campus in the spirit of The Female Persu...

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Reducere. Black Americans have been among the hardest hit by the rapid deindustrialization and accompanying economic decline that have become so synonymous w...

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Reducere. Blackness is a term which has been understood differently based upon time and geography. The authors of this book explore how the term was understo...

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Reducere. Spanning over 250 years of history, Black Ink traces black literature in America from Frederick Douglass to Ta-Nehisi Coates in this "breathtaking ...

A school comedy, part of the }Black Cats{ series of short novels for those building reading confidence. Ages: 9+

Reducere. DescriptionThis book is the first to present fictions about the medieval world to serious students of history. Instead of merely listing myths and ...

A classic history of the role of Black working-class struggles throughout the twentieth centuryIn this pioneering history, Ron Ramdin traces the ro...

An instant New York Times bestseller Charlamagne Tha God--the self-proclaimed "Prince of Pissing People Off, " cohost of Power 105.1's The Breakfas...

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Publisher: HarperCollinsAuthor(s): Anais GranofskyNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 154 x 228 x 24Cover type: PaperbackRedescop...

Publisher: HarperCollinsAuthor(s): Anais GranofskyNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 153 x 228 x 18Cover type: PaperbackRedescop...

Reducere. DescriptionA brilliant and insightful exploration of the rise and fall of the American middle class by New York Times bestselling author, Barbara E...

Reducere. For this rousing, revisionist history, the former head of exhibitions at England's National Maritime Museum has combed original documents and recor...

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Reducere. "A masterful book...reaffirms the urgency of the current state of Black people in America and the power we all have to win transformative change." ...

Renowned economist Jeff Faux explains why neither party's leaders have a plan to remedy America's unemployment, inequality, or long economic slideA...

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A timely and unprecedented examination of how the modern Middle East unravelled, and why it started with the pivotal year of 1979. Shortlisted for ...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the plague written by survivors across Europe *Includes a bibliography for further reading "The trend of r...

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Reducere. A vivid character-driven narrative, fused with important new economic and political reporting and research, that busts the myths about middle class...

Born into a musical family, the author is a feisty tomboy who could hold her own when it came to sparring with her brothers and anyone else brave e...

Reducere. The first collection of James Boggs' essays, which became seminal texts for the Civil Rights and Black Power Movement activism of the 1960s James B...

Reducere. Groundbreaking Book Explores the Black Impact on Classical Music Earl Ofari Hutchinson meticulously details in his It's Our Music Too The Black Exp...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Frederick TaylorNumber of pages: 432Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 197 x 131 x 28Cover type: Pape...

Reducere. DescriptionMillions of Americans are stressed over money. They are broke, struggling and afraid. Jobs are disappearing and the black community has ...

Drawing from an arts-based research and humanizing methodologies, Dywanna Smith documents transformative and liberatory spaces in ELA middle level ...

Reducere. Butterfly Grandma: Black Swallowtail reads like a charming, playful, rhyming conversation between grandma and grandchild Last summer, grandma and g...

An anthology of writings by legendary poet Tristan Tzara (1896-1963). It includes a critical introduction, an account of variants, and an essay set...

Reducere. Bestselling Van Life author Foster Huntington shares his experiences -- as well as others -- living by his own rules in this aspirational book fill...

Reducere. Young, Gifted, and Black is a unique joint effort by three leading African-American scholars to radically reframe the debates swirling around the a...

Health Communication and Breast Cancer among Black Women: Cancer, Identity, Spirituality, and Strength analyzes information collected from focus gr...

Reducere. DescriptionFor more than a century, the city of Atlanta has been associated with black achievement in education, business, politics, media, and mus...