Specific Demographics
epub |eng | 2011-05-26 | Author:Percival Everett

It was the middle of July and Washington was a big bowl of soup. I was parked in the study, counting time to the air-conditioning unit in the window. I ...
( Category: African-American Studies May 27,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-23 | Author:Wilbur H. Siebert [Siebert, Wilbur H.]

RUSH R. SLOANE, of Sandusky, Ohio, fined $3000 and costs for assisting runaways to Canada. THADDEUS STEVENS, M.C., who befriended fugitives in southeastern Pennsylvania, and appeared for them in court. ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism May 26,2015 )
epub |eng | 2009-05-24 | Author:Wangari Maathai [Maathai, Wangari]

LOOKING BACK TO MOVE FORWARD When all these forms of corruption, along with the more usual graft and theft, become embedded, the societal machine grinds to a halt. I'm not ...
( Category: African-American Studies May 25,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Reeves, Richard

7 “LOYALS” AND “DISLOYALS” TULE LAKE: SEPTEMBER 1943 After his Easter conversion, Stanley Hayami returned to his diary, now worried by newly published stories of Japanese Imperial Army atrocities in ...
( Category: Asian American Studies May 25,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-03-11 | Author:A.M. Arthur

Chapter Seven WE NEVER really agreed that Jeremy was staying for the night. It just happened. After our actual, edible dessert, we watched a bad movie on cable and then ...
( Category: LGBT April 25,2015 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2013-10-15 | Author:Amartya Sen [Sen, Amartya]

11 Women and Men* Many Faces of Gender Inequality Inequality between women and men can appear in many different forms – it has many faces.1 Gender disparity is, in fact, ...
( Category: Native American Studies April 23,2015 )
epub, mobi | | 2010-08-13 | Author:Sudhir Venkatesh [Venkatesh, Sudhir]

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 April 23,2015 )
epub |eng | 2009-08-05 | Author:James L. Watson [Watson, James L.]

McDonald's phenomenal success has attracted a great deal of media attention in Taiwan, not all of it favorable. During the 1970s, radical writers and intellectuals had accused the government of ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies April 12,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Roediger, David

FROM THE EMANCIPATION OF SLAVES TO THE EMANCIPATION OF WOMEN If any antebellum political demand rivaled that of immediate emancipation of slaves for sheer impossibility, it was that of women’s ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism April 11,2015 )
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Roediger, David [Roediger, David]

FROM THE EMANCIPATION OF SLAVES TO THE EMANCIPATION OF WOMEN If any antebellum political demand rivaled that of immediate emancipation of slaves for sheer impossibility, it was that of women’s ...
( Category: African-American Studies April 11,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Duke, Bill; Moses, Shelia

“There were no dark girls on TV and no dark-skinned dolls in the stores in Cleveland, but my mother filled the house with Ebony, Jet, and Essence magazines.” —CARLA B. ...
( Category: Photo Essays April 10,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-05-31 | Author:Jill Ker Conway

7. THE NARDOO STONES IN THE 1950S, ONE’S first vision of the University of Sydney from its main gates was of a graceful sweep of lawn curving up a gentle ...
( Category: Women April 5,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1996-12-31 | Author:Julia Alvarez

The student variation Lou Castellucci had made good. Tall, handsome with the winning smile of a pro whose team is headed for the championships, Lou had won almost every game ...
( Category: Hispanic American Studies April 5,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-04-22 | Author:Becker, Jo [Becker, Jo]

On a personal level, Eric Holder had never liked DOMA. Neither had Tony West. Both were African Americans who saw distinct parallels between the civil rights battles of the past ...
( Category: LGBT April 5,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2000-08-01 | Author:John Phillip Santos

At the founding of many American cities lurk unsavory tales of invasion and mayhem, usually whitewashed or forgotten. Whether it’s the hoary presence of old buildings or a nebula of ...
( Category: Minority Studies April 5,2015 )