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The Book of the Vision Quest by Steven Foster
epub |eng | | Author:Steven Foster

You Must Leave Everything Behind Little lamb, who made thee? Dost thou know who made thee? —William Blake, “Songs of Innocence ” Having ventured forth across the threshold of birth, ...
( Category: Native American Studies February 22,2020 )
Irish Immigrants in New York City, 1945-1995 by Almeida Linda Dowling;
epub |eng | 2017-02-21 | Author:Almeida, Linda Dowling;

6 Who Are the Irish? Irish Americans are no more Irish than black Americans are Africans. —Bob Geldof, musician, quoted in Irish Echo, 19871 What defines the Irish? What is ...
( Category: Minority Studies February 22,2020 )
American in Black and White by Stephan Thernstrom & Abigail Thernstrom
epub |eng | 1997-07-15 | Author:Stephan Thernstrom & Abigail Thernstrom

TRACKING If standardized tests are unfair to blacks—or more broadly to students from other than middle-class homes—it follows that using them to assign students to particular courses or academic tracks ...
( Category: African-American Studies February 21,2020 )
CHOCOLATE for a WOMAN'S SPIRIT by KAY ALLENBAUGH
epub |eng | 2001-03-27 | Author:KAY ALLENBAUGH

ANN ALBERS THE ICE STORM I was teaching students between the ages of twelve and seventeen in an alternative education program. I had gotten this job after a five-year hiatus ...
( Category: Inspirational February 21,2020 )
Reading From Behind by Jonathan A. Allan
epub |eng | 2016-02-20 | Author:Jonathan A. Allan

CHAPTER 6 Unlocking Delmira Agustini’s “El Intruso” IN THIS CHAPTER, I TURN TO POETRY, MORE EXPLICITLY to one of the most canonical examples of Latin American modernist poetry, Delmira Agustini’s ...
( Category: LGBT February 21,2020 )
Police Brutality by Jill Nelson
epub |eng | 2014-02-20 | Author:Jill Nelson

“What Did I Do to Be So Black and Blue?”* Police Violence and the Black Community KATHERYN K. RUSSELL But that was not all there was to see. —Toni Morrison, ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism February 21,2020 )
The ABC's of LGBT+ by Ashley Mardell
epub |eng | 2016-10-28 | Author:Ashley Mardell

Although gender and gender expression are not inherently linked, I feel most comfortable dressing in an androgynous manner. This contributes to my appearance sometimes confusing strangers, who are unable to ...
( Category: LGBT February 21,2020 )
Big Little Man by Alex Tizon
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Alex Tizon [Tizon, Alex]

So I vow and fail. I keep watching movies. I keep flipping on the television. I smile inwardly at the small advances, and I swear under my breath at the ...
( Category: Asian American Studies February 21,2020 )
The Underground Railroad Records by William Still;Quincy T. Mills; & Ta-Nehisi Coates & Quincy T. Mills
epub |eng | 2019-09-23 | Author:William Still;Quincy T. Mills; & Ta-Nehisi Coates & Quincy T. Mills

SALT-WATER FUGITIVE. This was an exceptional case, as this passenger did not reach the Vigilance Committee of Philadelphia, yet to exclude him on this account, would be doing an injustice ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism February 20,2020 )
THE BLACK PANTHER by DAVID HILLIARD
epub |eng | 2007-07-15 | Author:DAVID HILLIARD

All Power to the People by Craig L. Rice One day in the late 1960s, without fanfare, several brothers dressed in the outfits that would become eternal symbols of their ...
( Category: African-American Studies February 20,2020 )
Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour by Peniel E. Joseph
epub |eng | | Author:Peniel E. Joseph

10 DARK DAYS, BRIGHT NIGHTS In 1969 the Black Panthers were the major radical organization targeted by a maze of official authority, from local police departments and special services bureaus ...
( Category: African-American Studies February 20,2020 )
The Famine Ships by Edward Laxton
epub |eng | | Author:Edward Laxton

13 Flags for Convenience During the 19th century, thousands of ships plied the seaways, rivers and canals, loaded with cargoes and passengers. Sea transport was a haphazard and ill-regulated trade ...
( Category: Minority Studies February 20,2020 )
Black Dawn, Bright Day by Sun Bear
epub |eng | | Author:Sun Bear

Creating Imbalance In the fall of 1973 in northern California, 100 million mice invaded Tule Lake. The folks who lived there were asking for people to send cats. They were ...
( Category: Native American Studies February 20,2020 )
This Light of Ours by Leslie G. Kelen
epub |eng | 2011-02-19 | Author:Leslie G. Kelen

The Photographers Interviews and Biographies Tamio Wakayama Tamio Wakayama was born on April 3, 1941, a few months before the outbreak of the Pacific War. He and his family were ...
( Category: Photo Essays February 20,2020 )
The Book of Pride by Mason Funk
epub |eng | 2019-04-04 | Author:Mason Funk

Another time, a woman’s possessions had been put into the street, and my little sister came home and said, “Let’s go down there. It’s all in the garbage.” Well, they ...
( Category: LGBT February 19,2020 )

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