Social Sciences
mobi |eng | 2011-11-01 | Author:Kenji Yoshino

SEX-BASED COVERING The portraits that range the walls of this Yale Law School classroom are, with one exception, of men. They figure honored graduates—judges, professors, and deans. As the seats ...
( Category: Asian March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-01-02 | Author:T. J. English

11 THE FEDS AND LITTLE AL CAPONE In the wake of the Whitehead homicide, the Intelligence cops began their most concerted initiative yet. Ironically, it had nothing to do with ...
( Category: Organized Crime March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-07-01 | Author:Marie Arana

THE EARTH WAS always moving in those days. Pachamama was temperamental, moody, shifting her weight heavily beneath us, tossing from side to side. My mother and father were pricked with ...
( Category: Hispanic American Studies March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1977-01-02 | Author:Maxine Hong Kingston

At the Western Palace When she was about sixty-eight years old, Brave Orchid took a day off to wait at San Francisco International Airport for the plane that was bringing ...
( Category: Minority Studies March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2011-01-10 | Author:Amy Chua

19 How You Get to Carnegie Hall Sophia and her taskmaster (with my father watching) My heart sank. The score looked disappointingly sparse, a few staccato notes here and there, ...
( Category: Specific Demographics March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-08-15 | Author:Wes Moore

As I sat on the other end of the line, listening to my mother talk about “sacrifice,” I had no idea what my grandparents had given up. The five minutes ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2005-01-30 | Author:Frederick Douglass; Brent Hayes Edwards

Kbb CHAPTER XVIII. NEW RELATIONS AND DUTIES CHANGE OF MASTERS—BENEFITS DERIVED BY THE CHANGE—FAME OF THE FIGHT WITH COVEY—RECKLESS UNCONCERN—AUTHOR’S ABHORRENCE OF SLAVERY—ABILITY TO READ A CAUSE OF PREJUDICE—THE HOLIDAYS—How ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-01-15 | Author:Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh

As the Chicago winter began to settle in, Ms. Bailey asked me to help her with a clothing drive. Tenants and squatters in her building needed winter coats, she said, ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-01-09 | Author:Barack Obama

Ten days later, Auma and I sat in the hard plastic seats of an airport terminal, looking out at the planes through the high wall of glass. I asked her ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-04-30 | Author:McGill, Jerry [McGill, Jerry]

INT. HOSPITAL ROOM—DAY JEROME sits up in his wheelchair in front of a canvas. He is painting. He wears a splint on his right wrist and a paintbrush has been ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-01-22 | Author:Manning Marable

Home from Detroit the morning of April 13, Malcolm barely had time to bid his wife and followers good-bye before catching a flight to Cairo that evening. He flew under ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-07 | Author:Maya Angelou

Power of the Word Many things continue to amaze me, even well into the sixth decade of my life. I’m startled or taken aback when people walk up to me ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-08-18 | Author:Sojourner Truth

“An everlasting temple, And saints arrayed in white, There serve their great Redeemer And dwell with him in light. “The meanest child of glory Outshines the radiant sun; But who ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-09-18 | Author:Tom Reiss

Napoleon had developed an identification with Egypt from the time he was twelve, reading about Alexander the Great. At the end of his life, having gained and lost control of ...
( Category: American Revolution March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-05-04 | Author:Christopher McDougall

CHAPTER 23 WE WHEEZED into Creel well after nightfall, the bus shuddering to a stop with a hiss from the brakes like a sigh of relief. Outside the window, I ...
( Category: Native American Studies March 25,2014 )