Specific Demographics
epub |eng | 2010-08-31 | Author:Maxine Hong Kingston [Kingston, Maxine Hong]

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 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-03-25 | Author:Wes Moore [Moore, Wes]

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 26,2014 )
epub, mobi | | 2010-06-21 | Author:X, Malcolm [Malcolm, X,]

M CHAPTER FOURTEEN BLACK MUSLIMS In the spring of nineteen fifty-nine-some months before Brother Johnson Hinton's case had awakened the Harlem black ghetto to us-a Negro journalist, Louis Lomax, then ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-07 | Author:Arnold Rampersad [Rampersad, Arnold]

CHAPTER 11 Dodging Blows, Fighting Back 1952–1955 What do you think of the booing? Why are they booing me? —Jackie Robinson (1953) DESPITE JACK’S GLOOMY talk about retiring, there was ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-06 | Author:Anne Moody [Moody, Anne]

I didn’t know what to say. I just knew that it would be best in the long run if I didn’t go back there to live. So I didn’t answer ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-17 | Author:Tom Reiss [Reiss, Tom]

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 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | 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 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1986-03-25 | Author:Maya Angelou [Angelou, Maya]

When our grinning faces appeared at Julian’s door, he tried waving his arms to distract us, but only succeeded in agitating the tell-tale odors of sage, oregano and fried pork. ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-09-21 | Author:Andrew Tobias [Tobias, Andrew]

Anyway, there I sat at Sporters, not realizing the plusses I had going for me, and staring holes through the fellow I wanted to meet. That was, more or less, ...
( Category: LGBT March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-11 | Author:Geoffrey Knight [Knight, Geoffrey]

§ § § Anne Anne, tell us the reactions you’ve had from people to the idea of Gay Romance in general, both good and bad. I’ve been surprised at how ...
( Category: LGBT March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-02-08 | Author:Peter Guralnick [Guralnick, Peter]

Louis Armstrong poses with two Tennessee fans, circa 1957. So this piece is by way of apology, some forty-six years later, and to note that when I hear him singing ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-11-17 | Author:Gayle Salamon

WAVE OF MUTILATION? The New York Times article is accompanied by two pictures of Shane Caya, a transman discussed in the article. The first is a shot of Shane, his ...
( Category: LGBT March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1993-03-25 | Author:Butler, Judith

Here the third person narrative voice and that of the Old Boys begin to merge, leaving imprecise who regards Jessica as a “languid bit of a thing.” From the start, ...
( Category: LGBT March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-14 | Author:Angela Y. Davis [Davis, Angela Y.]

* * * In January, 1868, when Susan B. Anthony published the first issue of Revolution, working women, whose ranks in the labor force had recently expanded, had begun to ...
( Category: Specific Demographics March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-14 | Author:Angela Y. Davis [Davis, Angela Y.]

The dynamics here are not entirely dissimilar from those characterizing the historical campaign waged by U.S. feminists for the right to birth control. It is easy to understand why that ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 26,2014 )