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First Fruits of Freedom: The Migration of Former Slaves and Their Search for Equality in Worcester, Massachusetts, 1862-1900
ISBN: 9780807871041 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A moving narrative that offers a rare glimpse into the lives of African American men, women, and children on the cusp of freedom, First Fruits of Freedom chronicles one of the first collective migrations of blacks from the South to the North during and after the Civil War.
Janette Thomas Greenwood relates the history of a network forged between Worcester County, Massachusetts, and eastern North Carolina as a result of Worcester regiments taking control of northeastern North Carolina during the war. White soldiers from Worcester, a hotbed of abolitionism, protected refugee... A moving narrative that offers a rare glimpse into the lives of African American men, women, and children on the cusp of freedom, First Fruits of F...
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156,09 |
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I Was a Slave in America Until 2009
ISBN: 9781441534910 / Angielski / Miękka / 52 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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64,17 |
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The Blooming Rose: A Tribute to Rose Sibusisiwe Matutu 1.03.53 to 3.12.07
ISBN: 9781425190750 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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87,00 |
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Parallel Worlds: The Remarkable Gibbs-Hunts and the Enduring (In)Significance of Melanin
ISBN: 9780813928876 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When William Henry Hunt married Ida Alexander Gibbs in the spring of 1904, their wedding was a dazzling Washington social event that joined an Oberlin-educated diplomat's daughter and a Wall Street veteran who could trace his lineage to Jamestown. Their union took place in a world of refinement and privilege, but both William and Ida had mixed-race backgrounds, and their country therefore placed severe restrictions on their lives because at that time, -one drop of colored blood- classified anyone as a Negro. This -stain- of melanin pushed the couple's achievements to the margins of... When William Henry Hunt married Ida Alexander Gibbs in the spring of 1904, their wedding was a dazzling Washington social event that joined an Ober... |
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121,89 |
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Dancing in the Heart of the Dragon: A Memoir of China
ISBN: 9780993924217 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Can a woman in mid-life embark on her own "hero's journey"? Can such a journey give her access to the higher purpose she personally has been called to fulfill? Author and teacher Ramona McKean would say yes. In early 2004, disenchanted with just about everything, she responded to an inner voice telling her she was "going to China." She had a feeling something of high significance lay in store. Had she known what, she may not have gone. In this compelling true story, Dancing in the Heart of the Dragon, Ramona takes the reader along with her as she ventures into the heart of a China not seen in...
Can a woman in mid-life embark on her own "hero's journey"? Can such a journey give her access to the higher purpose she personally has been called to...
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60,15 |
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Black Officer in a Buffalo Soldier Regiment: The Military Career of Charles Young
ISBN: 9780803213852 / Angielski / Miękka / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An unheralded military hero, Charles Young (1864 1922) was the third black graduate of West Point, the first African American national park superintendent, the first black U.S. military attache, the first African American officer to command a Regular Army regiment, and the highest-ranking black officer in the Regular Army until his death. Black Officer in a Buffalo Soldier Regiment tells the story of the man who willingly or not served as a standard-bearer for his race in the officer corps for nearly thirty years, and who, if not for racial prejudice, would have become the first...
An unheralded military hero, Charles Young (1864 1922) was the third black graduate of West Point, the first African American national park superinten...
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82,88 |
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Test Ride on the Sunnyland Bus: A Daughter's Civil Rights Journey
ISBN: 9780803217126 / Angielski / Miękka / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Test Ride on the Sunnyland Bus chronicles the story of an American family against the backdrop of one of the civil rights movement s lesser-known stories. In January 1957, Joseph Spagna and five other young men waited to board a city bus called the Sunnyland in Tallahassee, Florida. Their plan was simple but dangerous: ride the bus together three blacks and three whites get arrested, and take their case to the U.S. Supreme Court. Fifty years later Ana Maria Spagna sets off on a journey to understand what happened and why.Spagna travels from her remote mountain home in the Pacific...
Test Ride on the Sunnyland Bus chronicles the story of an American family against the backdrop of one of the civil rights movement s lesser-kno...
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76,25 |
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Korean Youth Transitions: Korean Youth Bearing the Future of Korean Community in the United States
ISBN: 9781596890992 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This important book contains autobiographies of seven Korean youth in the United States, with differing immigration experiences. It provides important primary source documentation for Korean history, immigration history, U.S. history, ethnic history, and Asian-American studies.
This important book contains autobiographies of seven Korean youth in the United States, with differing immigration experiences. It provides important...
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91,50 |
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Korean Youth Transitions: Korean Youth Bearing the Future of Korean Community in the United States (Hardcover)
ISBN: 9781596890886 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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240,79 |
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Hollywood's Unhappiest Endings: Legends Never Die
ISBN: 9781441584274 / Angielski / Twarda / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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136,40 |
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Hollywood's Unhappiest Endings: Legends Never Die
ISBN: 9781441584267 / Angielski / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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90,92 |
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Black Like Me White Like Me
ISBN: 9781441540034 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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136,40 |
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Black Like Me White Like Me
ISBN: 9781441540027 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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90,92 |
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The Black Metropolis in the Twenty-First Century: Race, Power, and Politics of Place
ISBN: 9780742543294 / Angielski / Miękka / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book brings together key essays that seek to make visible and expand our understanding of the role of government (policies, programs, and investments) in shaping cities and metropolitan regions; the costs and consequences of uneven urban and regional growth patterns; suburban sprawl and public health, transportation, and economic development; and the enduring connection of place, space, and race in the era of increased globalization. Whether intended or unintended, many government policies (housing, transportation, land use, environmental, economic development, education, etc.) have...
This book brings together key essays that seek to make visible and expand our understanding of the role of government (policies, programs, and investm...
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204,87 |
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Recompense: Streams, Summits and Reflections
ISBN: 9781441545565 / Angielski / Miękka / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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80,22 |
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Recompense: Streams, Summits and Reflections
ISBN: 9781441545572 / Angielski / Twarda / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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144,43 |
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Objects of Remembrance: A Memoir of American Opportunities and Viennese Dreams
ISBN: 9789639776593 / Angielski / Miękka / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An autobiography of how to become an American during the 1940-50's.
An autobiography of how to become an American during the 1940-50's.
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229,02 |
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A Boot and a Shoe
ISBN: 9781441599063 / Angielski / Miękka / 52 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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64,17 |
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African American Women Trailblazers
ISBN: 9781441585172 / Angielski / Twarda / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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144,43 |
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African American Women Trailblazers
ISBN: 9781441585165 / Angielski / Miękka / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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80,22 |
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