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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J. D. Vance
epub |eng | 2016-06-28 | Author:J. D. Vance [Vance, J. D.]

Chapter 10 During my last year of high school, I tried out for the varsity golf team. For about a year, I’d taken golf lessons from an old golf pro. ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies April 29,2019 )
Meditations of the Heart by Howard Thurman
epub |eng | 1980-12-31 | Author:Howard Thurman [Thurman, Howard]

8. Thine is the Power! HOW many years ago, we do not know. The setting may have been a simple cell in an ancient monastery. A monk laboriously copied the ...
( Category: African-American Studies April 27,2019 )
The Grandees by Stephen Birmingham
epub |eng | | Author:Stephen Birmingham

12 LEGENDS AND LEGACIES Each of the old families has its favorite legend, and Aunt Elvira Nathan Solis knew them all. Some of the most romantic, to be sure, involved ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies April 25,2019 )
King and the Other America by Sylvie Laurent
epub |eng | | Author:Sylvie Laurent

The human services—medical attention, social services, neighborhood amenities of various kinds—are in scarce supply in this country, especially in localities of poverty. The traditional way of providing manpower for these ...
( Category: African-American Studies April 24,2019 )
We Speak for Ourselves: A Word From Forgotten Black America by D. Watkins
epub |eng | 2019-04-22 | Author:D. Watkins [Watkins, D.]

PART 3 NEVER PATRIOTS 10 I’M SICK OF WOKE “Big bruh, I got these #StayWoke shirts for twenty dollars!” said the dude I’ve bought my incense from for over five ...
( Category: African-American Studies April 24,2019 )
Stony the Road by Henry Louis Gates Jr
epub |eng | 2019-04-01 | Author:Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

The Frisco serves to deconstruct the black-male-as-lecher stereotype, revealing, as Bhabha puts it, that “the stereotype is at once a substitute and a shadow,” a substitute for white male rape ...
( Category: African-American Studies April 23,2019 )
Public Sex: The Culture of Radical Sex by Pat Califia
epub |eng | 2016-06-06 | Author:Pat Califia [PAT CALIFIA]

NOTES 1. Leidholdt, Dorchen. “Lesbian S/M: Sexual Radicalism or Reaction.” New Women’s Times, July/August 1982, 17. 2. Herlihy, Sean. “Porn Debate Continues: Dorchen vs. Civil Liberties Union.” Gay Community News, ...
( Category: LGBT April 20,2019 )
Native Country of the Heart by Cherríe Moraga
epub |eng | | Author:Cherríe Moraga

LIKE THE HERON We knew we had been functioning in the spirit of “last times” for a few years. Although the pretext was a family birthday, my mother’s last trip ...
( Category: Hispanic American Studies April 3,2019 )
Legacy by Suzanne Methot
epub |eng | 2019-03-18 | Author:Suzanne Methot

When it is functioning well and in balance, the human body works the same way everything else in the universe works: moving through cycles and engaging in constant transformation. When ...
( Category: Native American Studies March 31,2019 )
Home Coming (The Survivalist Book 10) by A. American
epub, mobi |eng | 2018-08-24 | Author:A. American [American, A.]

I walked around the pond and spread the seeds and skins in large handfuls. Naturally, the kids followed me and ended up splashing around in the pond, chasing minnows and ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 29,2019 )
A nation under our feet : Black political struggles in the rural South, from slavery to the great migration by Hahn Steven 1951-
epub |eng | 2003-03-28 | Author:Hahn, Steven, 1951-

religious bodies, and all other societies" to choose delegates according to the following plan of "apportionment": "Any organized religious body, one delegate; any Benevolent Society, one delegate; any Secret organization, ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 29,2019 )
Slavery, law, and politics : the Dred Scott case in historical perspective by Fehrenbacher Don E. (Don Edward) 1920-1997
epub |eng | 1981-03-28 | Author:Fehrenbacher, Don E. (Don Edward), 1920-1997

The Opinion of the Court Historians have been preoccupied with counting noses to determine “what the Court really decided” in the Dred Scott case, and with evaluating the charge of ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 29,2019 )
Don't Label Me: An Incredible Conversation for Divided Times by Irshad Manji
epub |eng | 2019-02-26 | Author:Irshad Manji

36 Lily for President? No bones about it, Lil, you’d be a sensational candidate for President of the United States—one nation, under Dog, irresistible, with jerky and justice for all. ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism March 26,2019 )
Ann Petry by Ann Petry
epub |eng | 2018-11-07 | Author:Ann Petry

7 * * * LINK HAD FINISHED EATING his breakfast. Abbie Crunch said, “I wish you’d—” stopped, said, “I—” and never finished what she was going to say. They both ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 25,2019 )
Proudly We Served by Kelly Mary Pat
epub |eng | | Author:Kelly, Mary Pat [Kelly, Mary Pat]

The two remarkable crewmen who kept their cool under record-breaking winds and waves to weld the broken Mason en route to safety. Arnold Gordon (center) clowns around with shipmates while ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 25,2019 )

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