Inherit the Land: Jim Crow Meets Miss Maggie's Will, Paperback - Gene Stowe

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Otis loves school. But when his usual teacher is away for the day and he has a supply teacher, Otis feels worried. Can Otis get to know the new tea...

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A timely paperback reissue of the stunning, prize-winning portrait of the Jim Crow South through unique first-person accounts Praised as "viscerall...

A delightful, rhyming picture book that's perfect for any little dragon who is about to become a big sister or brother.

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Publisher: The Crowood Press LtdAuthor(s): Benjamin StoweIllustration(s): 835 Halftones, colorNumber of pages: 208Publication date: 2022Dimensions:...

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DescriptionWilliam Evans, the award-winning poet and cofounder of the popular culture website Black Nerd Problems, offers an emotionally vulnerable...

Publisher: Penguin Putnam IncAuthor(s): Clarence A. HaynesNumber of pages: 144Collection: True HistoryPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 216 x...

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DescriptionBaseball Hall of Famer Leroy "Satchel" Paige (1906 - 1982) changed the face of the game in a career that spanned five decades. Much has ...

DescriptionThe New York Times bestseller. A profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans for equality after the Civil War and the vi...

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Reducere. For a hundred years after the end of the Civil War, a quarter of all Americans lived under a system of legalized segregation called Jim Crow. Toget...

The United States has the world's largest prison population, with more than two million behind bars. Alexander says this is mainly due to America's...

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For the first time, this book illustrates the most important Maggie's Centres in UK with precise itineraries, showing the importance of their role ...

Born near a dusty cement plant in the northeast Missouri village of Ilasco, close to Mark Twain Cave, Hannibal native Gregg Andrews draws on the vo...

A supernatural comedy adventure about a family of ghost hunters - Stranger Things meets Little Miss Sunshine - by the acclaimed scriptwriter of Hor...

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DescriptionDid American racism originate in the liberal North? An inquiry into the system of institutionalized racism created by Northern Jim Crow ...

Explores how African American men have been marketed, embodied, and imaged for the purposes of racial advancement during the first half of the 20th...

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Contributor(s): Author: C. Vann WoodwardWith: William S. McFeelyC. Vann Woodward, who died in 1999 at the age of 91, was America's most eminent Sou...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries imprisoned black women faced wrenching forms of gendered racial terror and heinous ...

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For centuries, Spain and the South have stood out as the exceptional "other" within US and European nationalisms. Brittany Powell Kennedy compares ...

Publisher: University of Minnesota PressAuthor(s): Brooks E. HefnerIllustration(s): 15 black & whilte illustrationsNumber of pages: 248Publication ...

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