Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race, Paperback - Matthew Frye Jacobson

Boston Book ReviewAmerica's racial odyssey is the subject of this remarkable work of historical imagination. Matthew Frye Jacobson argues that race...

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Between 2009 and 2014, as the US contemplated the election of Barack Obama and endured the effects of the Great Recession, Matthew Frye Jacobson se...

DescriptionWhen 20-year-old Odetta Holmes-classically trained as a vocalist and poised to become "the next Marian Anderson"-veered away from both o...

Reducere. Horse of a Different Color ends the "roving days" of young Ralph Moody. His saga began on a Colorado ranch in Little Britches and continued at poin...

Reducere. How a new American identity was forged by immigration and expansion a century ago.In Barbarian Virtues, Matthew Frye Jacobson offers a keenly argue...

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"Check your privilege" is not a request for a simple favor. It asks white people to consider the painful dimensions of what they have been socializ...

DescriptionSome say a child is fortunate to grow up in a community with eccentric characters and plenty of opportunities to explore nature. Fran oi...

Reducere. DescriptionSome say a child is fortunate to grow up in a community with eccentric characters and plenty of opportunities to explore nature. Fran oi...

Reducere. Since the beginning, much of Italian cinema has been sustained by transforming literature into moving images. This tradition of literary adaptation...

Publisher: Museum of Modern Art in WarsawAuthor(s): Monika TalarczykNumber of pages: 384Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 196 x 140 x 20Cover type:...

The Alchemy of Empire unravels the non-European origins of Enlightenment science. Focusing on the abject materials of empire-building, this study t...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is ...

Reducere. The acclaimed work that debunks our myths and false assumptions about race in AmericaMaurice Berger grew up hypersensitized to race in the charged ...

Reducere. What has it meant to be Jewish in a nation preoccupied with the categories of black and white? The Price of Whiteness documents the uneasy place Je...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Architecture of Sound and Alchemy of Transcendence spawned from a simple transmission during meditation. The message; "Sound is a Pl...

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.Author(s): Aida SalazarNumber of pages: 48Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 212 x 287 x 16Cover type: HardbackIllustrator...

Reducere. Madison Grant is largely forgotten today, but in the early 20th century, he was a leading environmentalist. He spearheaded the effort to save Ameri...

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

The Alchemy of Happiness' was written by Al-Ghazzali-a Persian theologian and philosopher. Upon its release, 'The Alchemy of Happiness' allowed Al ...

Gilroy examines the ways in which media and commodity culture have become preeminent in our lives in the years since the 1960s and especially in th...

Reducere. The quest for happiness and fulfilment lies at the very heart of all human life, and in the teaching of one of the world's greatest mystical writer...

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Reducere. DescriptionThe Alchemy of Happiness' was written by Al-Ghazzali-a Persian theologian and philosopher. Upon its release, 'The Alchemy of Happiness' ...

Publisher: University of Minnesota PressAuthor(s): Ruth FrankenbergNumber of pages: 302Publication date: 1993Dimensions: 151 x 228 x 21Cover type: ...

Reducere. In this groundbreaking study, Julian Carter demonstrates that between 1880 and 1940, cultural discourses of whiteness and heterosexuality fused to ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Amanda (Canterbury Christ Church University, UK) SpaldingNumber of pages: 232Publication date: 2022D...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Ekaterina Sedia Mattie, an intelligent automaton skilled in the use of alchemy, finds herself caught in the middle of a con...

Reducere. In The Souls of Black Folks, W.E.B. DuBois wrote that the question whites wanted to ask him was: How does it feel to be a problem? In The Heart of ...

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Reducere. With Mexican Americans constituting a large and growing segment of U.S. society, their assimilation trajectory has become a constant source of deba...

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Reducere. The Gospel of Matthew tells the story of Jesus. Jesus was a Jewish teacher who was not afraid to speak truth to power, challenge social boundaries,...

DescriptionThe Alchemy of Things represents the swing of the decorating pendulum away from the instant gratification of popular culture through the...

Publisher: Rockpool PublishingAuthor(s): Flavia Kate PetersIllustration(s): 20 1c line illustrationsNumber of pages: 384Publication date: 2022Dimen...

- The #1 guide to sex and mysticism, redesigned in full color for the new millennium. - More than 600 illustrations of the erotic sentiment, 200 in...

Publisher: University of Nebraska PressAuthor(s): Matthew G. StanardIllustration(s): 10 photographs, 1 chartNumber of pages: 406Publication date: 2...

Adopting an ethnographic approach in the study of community participation and power and the significance of 'race' in three ethnically diverse neig...

DescriptionWith the development of the first skyscrapers in the 1880s, urban built environments could expand vertically as well as horizontally. Ta...

In lucid dreams, spiritual traditions across the world teach that within the dreaming state there resides a more serene experience of pure consciou...

At a time of renewed anti-immigrant sentiment and newly emerging infectious diseases, Quarantine! provides a historical context for considering som...

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 ...

Taoist techniques for replenishing our internal energy with universal cosmic energy - Shows how to transform excess sexual energy (Ching Chi) into ...

Reducere. The Alchemy of Architecture: Memories and Insights from Ken Tate by Ken and Duke Tate is celebrated architect Ken Tate's creative memoir about his ...

Reducere. Abu Hāmed Mohammad Al-Ghazzālī was born in the city of Tus, Persia, in the year 1058. Al Ghazali was a polymath and wrote authoritatively on jurisp...

Reducere. DescriptionAn unforgettable memoir about a mixed-race Jewish woman who, after fifteen years of estrangement from her racist great-aunt, helps bring...