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Out of Africa: And Shadows on the Grass (Vintage International)
by Isak Dinesen  Publisher Comments At the age of twenty-seven, Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) left Denmark and sailed for East Africa to marry her Swedish cousin, Baron Bror Blixen. Together they bought a four-thousand-acre coffee plantation in Kenya. From 1914 to 1931 she managed the...
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (Penguin American Library)
by Frederick Douglass Publisher Comments Written more than a century ago by Frederick Douglass, a former slave who went on to become a famous orator, U.S. minister, and a leader of his people, this masterpiece is one of the most eloquent indictments of slavery ever recorded. Douglass's shocking...
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Ecology of a Cracker Childhood (99 Edition)
by Janisse Ray 
Publisher Comments Janisse Ray grew up in a junkyard along U.S. Highway 1, hidden from Florida-bound vacationers by the hedge at the edge of the road and by hulks of old cars and stacks of blown-out tires. Ecology of a Cracker Childhood tells how a childhood spent in rural...
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Postville: A Clash of Cultures in Heartland America
by Stephen G Bloom
Powells.com Staff Pick "You have got to read this book. The clash of cultures portrayed in this small town in Iowa is illuminating and riveting. When Orthodox Jews move into Postville and open a kosher slaughterhouse, local (and non-Jewish) Iowans figure this is just...
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After Silence : Rape and My Journey Back (98 Edition)
by Nacy Vernable Raine Publisher Comments "Silence has the rusty taste of shame. The words "shut up are the most terrible words I know. . . . The man who raped me spat these words out over and over during the hours of my attack--when I screamed, when I tried to talk him out of what he was doing,...
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Ethnicity (96 Edition)
by John Hutchinson Publisher Comments Although the term "ethnicity" is recent, the sense of kinship, group solidarity, and common culture to which it refers is as old as the historical record. Ethnic communities have been present in every period and on every continent, and have played an...
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Up from Slavery (Signet Classics)
by Booker T Washington Publisher Comments A MAN WHO OVERCAME THE BONDS OF SLAVERY TO BECOME A SPOKESMAN FOR HIS PEOPLE.<P>Historically acknowledged as one of America's most powerful and persuasive orators, Booker T. Washington consistently challenged the forces of racial prejudice at a...
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Down These Mean Streets, 30TH Anniversary Edition (97 Edition)
by Piri Thomas Publisher Comments Piri Thomas's classic memoir of the barrio of Spanish Harlem celebrates its thirtieth anniversary of publication. Down These Mean Streets captures both the harrowing facts of his life and the irrepressible rhythms of his voice. As Thomas recounts his...
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China : Global Studies (12TH 08 Edition)
by Annual Edition Publisher Comments GLOBAL STUDIES is a unique series designed to provide comprehensive background information and selected world press articles on the regions and countries of the world. Each GLOBAL STUDIES volume includes an annotated listing of World Wide Web sites...
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Autobiography of a Fat Bride: True Tales of a Pretend Adulthood
by Laurie Notaro
Publisher Comments The author of the New York Times bestseller The Idiot Girls’ Action-Adventure Club tackles her biggest challenge yet: grown-up life. In Autobiography of a Fat Bride, Laurie Notaro tries painfully to make the transition from all-night partyer and...
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Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 1: 1884-1933
by Blanche Wiesen Cook Publisher Comments Cook hit a nerve with her portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt--the brave, fierce, passionate, political heroine of our century. A national bestseller, her authoritative biography has been celebrated by feminists, historians, politicians, potential first ladies,...
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Black Boy: American Hunger a Record of Childhood and Youth (Perennial Classics)
by Richard Wright Publisher Comments Plot Summary "Black Boy is Richard Wright's memoir of his life from early childhood to the launching of his career as a writer. His father abandoned the family soon after they moved to Memphis, leaving Wright, his mother and brother in dire straits...
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Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village
by Elizabeth Wa Fernea Publisher Comments A delightful, well-written, and vastly informative ethnographic study, this is an account of Fernea's two-year stay in a tiny rural village in Iraq, where she assumed the dress and sheltered life of a harem woman....
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Meaning of Difference : American Constructions of Race, Sex and Gender, Social Class, and Sexual Orientation (4TH 06 - Old Edition)
by Karen E. Rosenblum Publisher Comments "The Meaning of Difference" is a text-reader about the social construction of difference as it operates in American formulations of race, sex and gender, social class, and sexual orientation. The book is based on the conviction that similar processes are...
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White Like Me
by Tim J. Wise Publisher Comments Wise offers a highly personal examination of the ways in which racial privilege shapes the lives of most white Americans, overtly racist or not, to the detriment of people of color, themselves, and society. Using stories instead of stale statistics, Wise...
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Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life
by Charles Capper Publisher Comments With this first volume of a two-part biography of the Transcendentalist critic and feminist leader, Margaret Fuller, Capper has launched the premier modern biography of early America's best-known intellectual woman. Based on a thorough examination of all...
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Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race
by Matthew Fr Jacobson Publisher Comments America's racial odyssey is the subject of this remarkable work of historical imagination. Matthew Frye Jacobson argues that race resides not in nature but in the contingencies of politics and culture. In ever-changing racial categories we glimpse the...
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Welcome to My Country
by Lauren Slater Publisher Comments Lauren Slater, a brilliant writer and a young therapist, chronicles her remarkable personal and professional journeys in this extraordinary memoir of her work with mentally and emotionally ill patients. Closing the distance between "us" and "them...
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Crosswicks Journal #4: Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage
by Madeleine Lengle Publisher Comments Chapter One Crosswicks is a typical New England farmhouse, built sometime in the middle of the eighteenth century, so it is well over two hundred years old. Its square central section has been added to haphazardly over the years, white clapboard somehow...
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American Apartheid : Segregation and the Making of the Underclass (93 Edition)
by Douglas S. Massey Publisher Comments significance in the United States today....
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