wyszukanych pozycji: 4
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The Lure of America: Of Caribbean Immigrants and the Stories they tell.
ISBN: 9781482610239 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Very little is written about the Caribbean immigrant experience in America. This story is told through the eyes of two friends of the writer, young Orson Meyers and his aunt, Elsie Meyers. They emigrated from Barbados to America, Elsie in the fifties and Orson in the sixties. Paving the way for the latter, President Lyndon B. Johnson had just opened the doors a bit wider with the Immigration Act of 1965. It was a radical break from the policies of the past which selectively favored those of Northern and Western Europe but now welcomes the skilled and educated indiscriminately. These...
Very little is written about the Caribbean immigrant experience in America. This story is told through the eyes of two friends of the writer, young Or...
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57,26 zł |
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Return to Little England: A Love Story ... and more
ISBN: 9781091823167 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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48,41 zł |
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There once was a Little England: A Story about Man's Obsession with 'Colour and Class'
ISBN: 9781470007546 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Inspired by a true story. In Barbados in the 1950s in a stratified society of whites, blacks, and half-whites, the son of a working-class family is shot and killed. It happens on the private property of an English landlord. The Englishman claims he mistook the boy for a monkey and, for his defense in a court of law, he turns to a Barbadian lawyer, a member of the race he deems inferior to his own. The lawyer is faced with his own private dilemma. Should he defend the Englishman, face the scorn of the people and pander to the upper-class to which he yearns to belong? Is it worth the...
Inspired by a true story. In Barbados in the 1950s in a stratified society of whites, blacks, and half-whites, the son of a working-class family is sh...
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61,68 zł |
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A Caribbean Odyssey (2nd Ed): Stories of the Thirties through the Independent Years
ISBN: 9781543085518 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Stories of the Fifties through the Independent Years in Barbados, the 50-year-old Nation.
Stories of the Fifties through the Independent Years in Barbados, the 50-year-old Nation.
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57,26 zł |