White Flights: Race, Fiction, and the American Imagination, Paperback - Jess Row

DescriptionA bold, incisive look at race and reparative writing in American fiction, by the author of Your Face in MineWhite Flights is a meditatio...

Fully revised and updated since its original publication in 1997, Space and the American Imagination includes a reworked introduction and conclusio...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Melissa L. CooperDuring the 1920s and 1930s, anthropologists and folklorists became obsessed with uncovering connections be...

A gritty and moving portrayal of a young girl facing up to hardship and deprivation, written with warmth, humour and insight, Jessie Kesson's class...

Reducere. Oceans and decades apart, two women are inextricably bound by the secrets between them. Japan, 1957. Seventeen-year-old Naoko Nakamura's prearrange...

Focuses on three seminal works in the history of American culture: the first full-length narrative film, D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation; th...

Reducere. DescriptionReturn to the world of Mortal Engines in this new book of short stories about the rebellious young aviatrix, Anna Fang, illustrated by I...

A gift book for young children, celebrating creativity and how it applies to everyday lifeIllustrations: 12 Illustrations, unspecified

Reducere. Terrible beauty best describes the world of Imagination Prymm. Set in 1678 Ipswich, Massachusetts, against a dark backdrop of Puritan narrowness an...

Reducere. An award-winning constitutional law historian examines case-based evidence that reveals the Supreme Court's longstanding support for white supremac...

An indispensable corrective to the falsified version of black history presented by The 1619 Project, radical activists, and money-hungry "diversity...

Amid gloomy forecasts of the decline of the humanities and the death of poetry, Angus Fletcher, a wise and dedicated literary voice, sounds a note ...

Reducere. In Obeah, Race and Racism, Eugenia O'Neal vividly discusses the tradition of African magic and witchcraft, traces its voyage across the Atlantic an...

Contributor(s): Author: Willie James JenningsWhy has Christianity, a religion premised upon neighborly love, failed in its attempts to heal social ...

Explores how competing understandings of the US South in the first decades of the twentieth century have led us to experience musical forms, sounds...

This remarkable book has endured as a masterpiece of mathematical exposition. There are few mathematics books that are still so widely read and con...

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. "On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court unanimously declared that separate educational facilities for blacks and whites are inherently ""unequal"" and,...

Reducere. From New York Times bestselling author of the Tradd Street novels comes the sequel to Falling Home, a novel set in the picaresque town of Walton, G...

Reducere. This book was previously published under the title Playing Doctor. It has been extensively revised and lengthened.Dr. Abigail Westward is home afte...

Reducere. Winner, A Choice Outstanding Academic Book, 2002The history of Mexican Americans is a history of the intermingling of races--Indian, White, and Bla...

Reducere. The Nano Distillery is a compilation of how-to chapters and real-life experiences of distillers who successfully produce quality spirits on a small...

Reducere. In exploring an array of intimacies between global migrants Nayan Shah illuminates a stunning, transient world of heterogeneous social relations--d...

FLIGHTS, shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker International, is a novel about travel in the twenty-first century and human anatomy. Olga Tokarczuk p...

Description2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR TRANSLATED LITERATUREWINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZENAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2018 BY ENTE...

How do Black men imagine who they are and what they must do ...within their families, communities, and the world? Based in communication, and drawi...

DescriptionReveals the diversity crisis in children's and young adult media as not only a lack of representation, but a lack of imaginationStories ...

Reducere. Volume 59 in American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series The outpouring of Native American literature that followed the publication of N...

Reducere. Johari the Great is an early chapter book with full-color illustrations. It's an excellent transitional storybook. It's an engaging tale about a cl...

Broadway musicals are one of America's most beloved art forms and play to millions of people each year. But what do these shows, which are often th...

Reducere. DescriptionTHE YAKUB EXPERIMENT THE EXPLANATION OF RACISM. How can someone explain racism that is often demonic or otherwise unexplainable. The ans...

The first comprehensive reader on punk and race, from The Clash to Bad Brains.Publisher: Verso BooksIllustration(s): 36 BLACK-AND-WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS...

Reducere. In the sound of the 1960s and 1970s, nothing symbolized the rift between black and white America better than the seemingly divided genres of countr...

Reducere. National Book Critics Circle AwardWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award The Hairstons is the extraordinary story of the largest family i...

Meet Olivia Joules, a new heroine for the 21st century, from the bestselling author of Bridget Jones's Diary and The Edge of Reason.

A brilliant, sweeping history of the contemporary women's movement told through the lives and works of the literary women who shaped itPublisher: W...

Reducere. DescriptionThe last meals of death row convicts fascinate us because they offer an insight into a disturbed mind shortly before its owner's death. ...

Contributor(s): Author: Hayden WhiteSince its initial publication in 1973, Hayden White's Metahistory has remained an essential book for understand...

Reducere. No one in the small Maine town of Birch Crossing knows where ex-military Harlan Shea goes when he disappears for months at a time, but whenever he ...