Making Our Way Home: The Great Migration and the Black American Dream, Hardcover - Blair Imani

DescriptionA powerful illustrated history of the Great Migration and its sweeping impact on Black and American culture, from Reconstruction to the ...

Reducere. Where Black people live has long been an important determinant of their ability to participate in political processes. The Great Migration signific...

Reducere. Around the time of WWI, large numbers of African Americans began leaving their homes in the rural South in search of employment in the industrial c...

Contributor(s): Author: Blair ImaniForeword by: Tegan and SaraIllustrator: Monique LeAn inspiring and radical celebration of 70 women, girls, and g...

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Pulitzer PrizeThis is the epic story of how African-Americans, in the six decades following slavery, transformed themselves into a political people...

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Reducere. A rich and revelatory memoir of a young woman confronting her fears and finding home in the North.Blair Braverman fell in love with the North at an...

Reducere. DescriptionThe untold story of how America once created the most successful economy the world has ever seen and how we can do it again.The American...

Architect Gil Schafer illustrates how he blends classical architecture, interior decoration, and landscapes to create homes with a feeling of histo...

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Description"Homelands helps us to see ourselves in each other, and in so doing it gets at the genius of a country that has always aspired to be one...

The book's premise is that a 100 Years War started in 1914 that rages ever onward onto the present day. It began as a European Civil War that event...

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Publisher: Harvard University PressAuthor(s): Brian McCammackIllustration(s): 7 MapsNumber of pages: 376Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 155 x 234...

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From Brian D. McLaren, champion of the emerging/progressive church movement, a follow-up to the much-admired We Make the Road by Walking: a re-imag...

Reducere. On February 11, 1780, a British army led by General Sir Henry Clinton came ashore on Johns Island, South Carolina. By the end of March, the British...

The story of the dynamic, driven, and sometimes despised third wheel in the creation of America's iconic theme park While the success of Disneyland...

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A powerful, compelling monograph that reveals the reality of the unseen and forgotten contemporary America.Publisher: Thames & Hudson LtdAuthor(s):...

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Contributor(s): Author: Bonnie SerratoreAuthor: Werner DisseComposer: Werner DisseThe Way Back Home is the first book devoted exclusively to what E...

Reducere. A prize-winning journalist upends our centuries-long assumptions about migration through science, history, and reporting--predicting its lifesaving...

The complexion of labour migration in the European Union (EU) has altered in recent years. Not only has there been a shift in the length of time la...

Why does a disease that killed only a handful of Americans like ebola provoke panic, but the flu-which kills tens of thousands each year-is dismiss...

Reducere. We were one family among the many thousands. Mama and Daddy leaving home, coming to the city, with their hopes and their courage, their dreams and ...

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In a world of great noise, disruption, and dysfunction, it's hard to be heard or know how to make a difference. But master the principal underlying...

Reducere. The steady immigration of black populations from Africa and the Caribbean over the past few decades has fundamentally changed the racial, ethnic, a...

- This book is the journal of French filmmaker Benoit Cohen's pursuit of his "American dream" by becoming a New York taxi driver French filmmaker B...

A magisterial sweep through 1500 years of Christian history with a groundbreaking focus on the missionary role of migrants in its spread. Human mig...

At one of the lowest points in his life, Henri Nouwen gave a series of lectures on the importance of following Jesus in an age of anxiety. This new...

DescriptionIn 2014 Sonya Bilocerkowycz is a tourist at a deadly revolution. At first she is enamored with the Ukrainians' idealism, which reminds h...

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The story of the notorious Jewish gangster who ascended from impoverished beginnings to the glittering Las Vegas strip "Fast-paced and absorbing. ....

Reducere. This book explores the evolution of Americans' first way of war, to show how war waged again Indian noncombatant population and agricultural resour...

Reducere. Who had the right to live within the newly united states of America?In the country's founding decades, federal and state politicians debated which ...

Reducere. As America struggles to point its way out of the COVID-19 pandemic, we can't lose sight of the economic problems that existed before the crisis. Ev...

In 1997 Gary Younge explored the American South by retracing the route of the original Freedom Riders of the 1960s. His road trip was a remarkable ...

Reducere. A little girl and her grandpa come across a monkey, an alligator, a zebra, a tiger and a hippo. They will swing, dance, tap and bounce together on ...

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Reducere. A Vietnamese Refugee, a Viral Video, and the United Airlines Scandal That Started It All"His refusal to give up his seat on a United Airlines fligh...

Reducere. DescriptionAn award-winning food writer takes us on a global tour of what the world eats--and shows us how we can change it for the betterFood is o...