Help Me to Find My People: The African American Search for Family Lost in Slavery, Paperback - Heather Andrea Williams

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Heather Andrea WilliamsAfter the Civil War, African Americans placed poignant "information wanted" advertisements in newspa...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Heather Andrea WilliamsIn this previously untold story of African American self-education, Heather Andrea Williams moves ac...

Reducere. "Demonstrates that the 'emancipation generation' bequeathed values, ethical frameworks, and identities to multiple ensuing generations, shaping rel...

Reducere. In The Orange Trees of Baghdad, Leilah Nadir journeys to uncover her lost family roots in war-torn Iraq. Born to an Iraqi father and an English mot...

Reducere. In the late 1930s, the federal government embarked on an unusual project. As a part of the Works Progress Administration's efforts to give jobs to ...

Reducere. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, basketball legend and the NBA's alltime leading scorer, champions a lineupof little-known African-American inventors in this l...

Reducere. Black churches and their leaders are at the front line of a war for the lives of people bound by fear, anger, and idolatry. Sociologists, politicia...

I Freed Myself: African American Self-Emancipation in the Civil War Era - David Williams

Betafo, a rural community in central Madagascar, is divided between the descendants of nobles and descendants of slaves. Anthropologist David Graeb...

Reducere. Explore Captivating Stories and Facts about African American History! The history of African Americans is a long and tragic chronicle of events. Th...

Reducere. Finding Family: My Search for Roots and the Secrets in My DNA is the highly suspenseful account of an adoptee trying to reclaim the biological fami...

Reducere. Well after slavery was abolished, its legacy of violence left deep wounds on African Americans' bodies, minds, and lives. For many victims and witn...

Find your favourite royals as they travel to glamorous locations around the globe - from Buckingham Palace to Times Square! Can you spot the new ro...

Reducere. NAACP Image Award nominee for Outstanding Biography/Autobiography In her own words, Cyntoia Brown-Long shares the riveting and redemptive story of ...

Discover the REAL truth behind African American History.You will be amazed to learn about some of the great African Americans and their legacies.He...

Emmy Award-winning producer and New York Times bestselling author Lionel Friedberg has spent 50 years making films as diverse as full-length theatr...

A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'Esther Safran Foer has written of her family in a way that is both uniquely and heartbreakingly her story and a dee...

Reducere. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, basketball legend and the NBA's alltime leading scorer, champions a lineupof little-known African-American inventors in this l...

Reducere. Drawing on architecture, performance art, history and visual theory, In Search of African American Space explores the creative relationship between...

Reducere. A new shipment of animals was on its way to the zoo. The silly driver dropped them off at Old Ms Martha's Farm instead. The zoo animals must go to ...

DescriptionTake Charge of Your Life without Being "Aggressive" or "Pushy" What if you could find your voice - the one inside you that you've been h...

By the grace of God, I am here today to tell my story; a tribute to God to shout to the world how awesome he is and the determination I had to find...

A vivid, groundbreaking history of the legacies of slavery in an elite Northern town as told by its Black residents I Hear My People Singing shines...

Reducere. It is often taken as a simple truth that the Civil War and the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution ended slavery in the United States. In the ...

Reducere. In this gorgeously written and "vividly fascinating" (Elle) account, a prize-winning journalist digs deep into his ancestry looking for the origins...

Reducere. For enslaved and newly freed African Americans, attaining freedom and citizenship without health for themselves and their families would have been ...

A truly original story of life in and after care. A unique account of trans-racial fostering which focuses on identity, family history and loss. Ca...

Reducere. Everyone thinks their own family is crazy. In these 101 stories of crazy, embarassing, annoying and dysfunctional families, Chicken Soup for the So...

The irresistibly funny and very moving story of one woman's quest to find out if self-help really can change her life.

Reducere. "DON'T believe the naysayers. The American Dream--the fable that says if you work hard and follow the rules, you'll make it--is alive and well."--N...

Reducere. When the Italian-born economist Luigi Zingales came to the United States in the 1980s, he embraced the American Dream: the belief that what brings ...

Reducere. This book explores the formation of the African-American identity through the theory of cultural trauma. The trauma in question is slavery, not as ...