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The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
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 )
The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore
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 )
Suspicion Nation by Bloom Lisa
epub |eng | 2014-02-25 | Author:Bloom, Lisa [Bloom, Lisa]

EIGHT It’s Not Over WHY DID THE prosecution make so many blunders? Was it negligence or intentional? I can’t say they meant to throw the case. A few, like defense ...
( Category: Minority Studies March 26,2014 )
White Like Me: Reflections on Race From a Privileged Son by Tim Wise
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-12-21 | Author:Tim Wise

YOU MIGHT EXPECT that organizing a campaign against a neo-Nazi would be easy, especially in the sense of settling on the proper strategy for doing so. You might think that ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies March 25,2014 )
White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son by Tim Wise
mobi |eng | 2009-08-19 | Author:Tim Wise

Make no mistake, resisting injustice is never easy. Sometimes we don't have the faintest idea where to begin, or how to fight injustice, especially when the source of that injustice ...
( Category: Minority Studies March 25,2014 )
Dear White America: Letter to a New Minority by Tim Wise
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-01-01 | Author:Tim Wise

Nothing, of course, serves to inflate uncritical nationalistic hubris like nostalgia, nor does anything else so perfectly play to white fears concerning a changing nation, and it is this commodity, ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies March 25,2014 )
Butterfly's Way: Voices From the Haitian Dyaspora in the United States by Edwidge Danticat
mobi, epub |eng | 2001-05-15 | Author:Edwidge Danticat

WAITING FOR PRAYER It is clear that all art forms share the same technical concerns, such as form, composition, texture, rhythm, balance. All art forms share the same need to ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies March 25,2014 )
The Middle of Everywhere by Mary Pipher
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-11-30 | Author:Mary Pipher

Day 26—October 21, 1999 Class began with a stern lecture on politeness. The day before, a policeman had visited to answer questions about how the law worked. He was a ...
( Category: Minority Studies March 25,2014 )
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2013-06-02 | Author:James Baldwin

NO ONE SEEMS to know where the Nation of Islam gets its money. A vast amount, of course, is contributed by Negroes, but there are rumors to the effect that ...
( Category: Minority Studies March 25,2014 )
Amazing Grace in the Life of William Wilberforce by John Piper & Jonathan Aitken
mobi, azw3, epub, pdf |eng | 2006-01-02 | Author:John Piper & Jonathan Aitken

AmazingGraceLWW.48754.i04.qxd 12/6/06 1:59 PM Page 43 A Multitude of Christlike Causes 43 only of the clergy. In a chance meeting with James Boswell, Samuel Johnson’s biographer, he spent time into ...
( Category: Minority Studies March 25,2014 )
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston
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 )
The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore
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 )
Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama
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 )
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
mobi, epub |eng | 1997-03-04 | Author:Anne Fadiman

Glassrock Health Services will be by at 8:00 p.m. tonight. Give them prescription. Make sure to come to Clinic this Thursday Dec. 11 at 8:00 a.m. Keep egg crate mattress ...
( Category: Minority Studies March 25,2014 )
A Dreadful Deceit by Jacqueline Jones
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Jacqueline Jones [Jones, Jacqueline]

As whites shifted their depictions of blacks in the wake of Reconstruction, so, too, did black leaders remake their own political message. Vardaman’s virulent antiblack rhetoric played well among poor ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 25,2014 )

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