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""As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to our assigned seats for a performance. The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power--which groups have it and which do not." In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched...
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2024.
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English
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"Peabody Award–winning journalist Michele Norris offers a transformative dialogue on race and identity in America, unearthed through her decade-long work at The Race Card Project. The prompt seemed simple: Race. Your Thoughts. Six Words. Please Send. The answers, though, have been challenging and complicated. In the twelve years since award-winning journalist Michele Norris first posed that question, over half a million people have submitted their...
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North Atlantic Books
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English
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"A guide for white parents of transracially or transnationally adopted children. The White Fragility for transracial adoption--practical tools for nurturing identity, unlearning white saviorism, and fixing the mistakes you don't even know you're making."--
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Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008, c2007
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English
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Jake, a handsome lovelorn fishmonger who has spent nearly a decade trying to win back his ex-girlfriend, gets involved in a romantic case of mistaken ethnicity. He is convinced that a beautiful Italian woman would never date a non-Italian.
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PBS
Pub. Date
2014
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English
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In the hot and deadly summer of 1964, the nation could not turn away from Mississippi. Over ten memorable weeks known as Freedom Summer, more than 700 student volunteers joined with organizers and local African Americans in a historic effort to shatter the foundations of white supremacy in one of the nation's most segregated states, even in the face of intimidation, physical violence, and death.
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Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"In Roots Quest, sociologist Jackie Hogan digs into our current genealogy boom to ask why we are so interested in our family history. She shows how the surging popularity of genealogy is a response to large-scale social changes, and she explores the way our increasingly rootless society fuels the quest for an elemental sense of belonging--for roots."--Provided by publisher.
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Scholastic Press
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2017.
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IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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In 1983 seventh-grader David Da-Wei Horowitz has a lot to worry about--his bar mitzvah is coming soon, his Jewish and Chinese grandmothers argue about everything, his teammates for the upcoming trivia contest, Scott and Hector, do not like each other, he is beginning to notice girls, and Scott has persuaded him to begin digging a fallout shelter just in case the Cold War heats up.
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Africa security brief volume no. 4
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Africa Center for Strategic Studies
Pub. Date
[2010]
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English
15) Saga: volume 2
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Saga (Brian K. Vaughan) volume 2
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Image
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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After battling assassins, rampaging armies, and aliens, little Hazel faces something truly frightening--her grandparents.
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U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Economics and Statistics Administration, U.S. Census Bureau
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[2001]
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English
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"This report, part of a series that analyzes population and housing data collected from Census 2000, provides a portrait of the Two or more races population in the United States and discusses its distribution at both the national and subnational levels."
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Saga (Brian K. Vaughan) volume 1
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Image Comics
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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"When two soldiers from opposite sides of a never-ending galactic war fall in love, they risk everything to bring a fragile new life into a dangerous old universe" -- pages [4] of cover.
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Saga (Brian K. Vaughan) volume 5
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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"While Gwendolyn and Lying Cat risk everything to find a cure for The Will, Marko makes an uneasy alliance with Prince Robot IV to find their missing children, who are trapped on a strange world with terrifying new enemies"--Page 4 of cover.
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