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  • Black Swan

    A Koorie woman's life

    A frank and powerful memoir of the life of an Aboriginal woman, from her early years on the Lake Tyers mission to discovery of her talent as a painter.'It's bad luck to catch a black swan.'Eileen Harrison grew up at the Lake Tyers Aboriginal Mission Station in the 1950s as one of eleven children in a tight-knit and loving family. When the new assimilation policy comes in, they are wrenched from ... Leer más

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  • Freedom Lessons

    A Novel

    Told alternately, by Colleen, an idealistic young white teacher; Frank, a black high school football player; and Evelyn, an experienced black teacher, Freedom Lessons is the story of how the lives of these three very different people intersect in a rural Louisiana town in 1969. Colleen enters into the culture of the rural Louisiana town with little knowledge of the customs and practices. She is ... Leer más

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  • Audiolibro

    Freedom Lessons - A Novel

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    Freedom Lessons begins in Louisiana 1969 as Colleen, a white northern teacher, enters into the unfamiliar culture of a small Southern town and its unwritten rules as the town surrenders to mandated school integration. She meets Frank, a black high school football player, who is protecting his family with a secret. And Evelyn, an experienced teacher and prominent member of the local black community ... Leer más

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  • Stamped from the Beginning

    The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

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  • In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens

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  • Sing for Your Life

    A Story of Race, Music, and Family

    **The New York Times bestseller about a young black man's journey from violence and despair to the threshold of stardom: "A beautiful tribute to the power of good teachers" (Terry Gross, Fresh Air)."One of the most inspiring stories I've come across in a long time." —Pamela Paul, New York Times Book Review**Ryan Speedo Green had a tough upbringing in southeastern Virginia: his family lived in a ... Leer más

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  • The Lucky Ones

    One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America

    de Mae Ngai ...
    This rags-to-riches history of three generations offers a "terrifically readable, compelling" look at the Chinese middle class and the immigrant experience ( Publishers Weekly).In 1864, at the age of twelve, Jeu Dip left southern China for America. In San Francisco, he reinvented himself as Joseph Tape, an immigration broker whose new life allowed his family to become one of the first of a brand ... Leer más

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  • James Douglas

    Father of British Columbia

    Series Libro 25 - Quest Biography
    James Douglas's story is one of high adventure in pre-Confederation Canada. It weaves through the heart of Canadian and Pacific Northwest history when British Columbia was a wild land, Vancouver didn't exist, and Victoria was a muddy village.Part black and illegitimate, Douglas was born in British Guiana (now Guyana) in 1803 to a Scottish plantation owner and a mixed-race woman. After schooling in ... Leer más

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    How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America

    This "extraordinary history" of the influential black newspaper is "deeply researched, elegantly written [and] a towering achievement" (Brent Staples, New York Times Book Review).In 1905, Robert S. Abbott started printing The Chicago Defender, a newspaper dedicated to condemning Jim Crow and encouraging African Americans living in the South to join the Great Migration. Smuggling hundreds of ... Leer más

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  • Workable Sisterhood

    The Political Journey of Stigmatized Women with HIV/AIDS

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  • Black Women, Writing and Identity

    Migrations of the Subject

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