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Receive Our Memories: The Letters of Luz Moreno, 1950-1952
ISBN: 9780199340422 / Angielski / Twarda / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Receive our Memories is a rare study of an epistolary relationship for individuals whose migration from Mexico has been looked at en masse, but not from such a personal and human angle. The heart of the book consists of eighty translated and edited versions of letters from Luz Moreno, a poor, uneducated Mexican sharecropper, to his daughter, a recent emigre to California, in the 1950s. These are contextualized and framed in light of immigration and labor history, the histories of Mexico and the United States in this period, and family history. Although Moreno's letters include...
Receive our Memories is a rare study of an epistolary relationship for individuals whose migration from Mexico has been looked at en masse, b...
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586,30 |
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Receive Our Memories: The Letters of Luz Moreno, 1950-1952
ISBN: 9780199340439 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Receive our Memories is a rare study of an epistolary relationship for individuals whose migration from Mexico has been looked at en masse, but not from such a personal and human angle. The heart of the book consists of eighty translated and edited versions of letters from Luz Moreno, a poor, uneducated Mexican sharecropper, to his daughter, a recent emigre to California, in the 1950s. These are contextualized and framed in light of immigration and labor history, the histories of Mexico and the United States in this period, and family history. Although Moreno's letters include many of the...
Receive our Memories is a rare study of an epistolary relationship for individuals whose migration from Mexico has been looked at en masse, but not fr...
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131,53 |
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A Bridge with Three Spans: An Indian Muslim Boy Lives through Major Events of the Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9781491791936 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Bridge with Three Spans: An Indian Muslim Boy Lives through Major Events of the Twentieth Century tells the threefold story of a boy who grew up in Bihar, India, attended college and worked as a civil servant in Pakistan, and then traveled abroad through his years working for the International Center of Public Enterprises and the United Nations. Chronicling his early life in rural and small town India, Ahmed then recalls his life as a college student and civil servant in Pakistan. It was a time of intensifying communal conflicts set within the backdrop of major historical events,... A Bridge with Three Spans: An Indian Muslim Boy Lives through Major Events of the Twentieth Century tells the threefold story of a boy who grew up ... |
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57,61 |
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Pine Ridge Coal Camp: A Journey From Appalachia
ISBN: 9781533292551 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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22,22 |
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Cast From The Herd: Memories of Matriarchal Malaysia
ISBN: 9781532871962 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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80,72 |
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Promise of Better Days: A Farm Boy's Odyssey Through North Carolina's "Tobacco Way of Life"
ISBN: 9781530788798 / Angielski / Miękka / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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80,72 |
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Seasons Out of Time: A Captivating Analysis of Ancestors and Destiny of Descendants
ISBN: 9781491791165 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The river ran red with blood. It was as if God had taken a giant can of paint and indiscriminately brushed the exposed clay banks with broad streaks of crimson. Bodies lay motionless in heaps all around, while still others floated strangely serene-like downstream. The sound of human moaning, crying out in pain and desperately seeking attention, could be heard in the distance. Walking briskly, the sickening stench alternated between the smells of burnt gunpowder and rotting flesh. This was no place for a lady." (excerpt from Seasons Out of Time) Jackson King goes back in time 165... "The river ran red with blood. It was as if God had taken a giant can of paint and indiscriminately brushed the exposed clay banks with broad strea... |
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73,14 |
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Displaced, Replaced, Forgotten
ISBN: 9781478772910 / Angielski / Miękka / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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86,10 |
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G Street Lion: Stalking a Dream
ISBN: 9781491792544 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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76,88 |
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G Street Lion: Stalking a Dream
ISBN: 9781491792568 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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115,42 |
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Remembering ZEOLA
ISBN: 9781498474795 / Angielski / Miękka / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The stories Zeola told about herself show aspects of her character that was budding at age four and five, for example learning to clean and care for her home and to beautify it. She expressed her love of husband and children as she labored daily to take care of them. Preparing three meals daily, washing and cleaning as well as teaching and training her children to work and care for the home are all expressions of her love without using words. She loved her home and cultivated many flowers and trees on the outside. She worked hard to clean and beautify the home on the inside too. For example...
The stories Zeola told about herself show aspects of her character that was budding at age four and five, for example learning to clean and care for h...
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71,17 |
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I Can And I Will: Autobiography of Yash Gupta MBE
ISBN: 9781533045829 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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122,20 |
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The Half-Life of a Free Radical: Growing Up Irish Catholic in Jim Crow Memphis
ISBN: 9780975884690 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A bravely honest and richly detailed account of growing up in Jim Crow Memphis on the white side of the color line in the midst of a large Irish-Catholic family in the Baptist Bible Belt. Glimpses of Ida B. Wells, Mother Jones, Boss Crump, Dorothy Day Martin Luther King, Jr., and Elvis Presley give historical context to one woman's dogma-defying 1950s childhood and 1960s coming-of-age in the turmoil of the Civil Rights Movement, the Sanitation Workers' Strike, and the Viet Nam War. Beginning with an overview of her ancestral past, from survivors of The Great Hunger, the Civil War, and... A bravely honest and richly detailed account of growing up in Jim Crow Memphis on the white side of the color line in the midst of a large Irish-Ca... |
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61,47 |
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The Black Calhouns: From Civil War to Civil Rights with One African American Family
ISBN: 9780802126276 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In The Black Calhouns, Gail Lumet Buckleydaughter of actress Lena Hornedelves deep into her family history, detailing the experiences of an extraordinary African-American family from Civil War to Civil Rights.
Beginning with her great-great grandfather Moses Calhoun, a house slave who used the rare advantage of his education to become a successful businessman in post-war Atlanta, Buckley follows her family s two branches: one that stayed in the South, and the other that settled in Brooklyn. Their paths intersected with many prominent figures including Frederick Douglass, Booker T.... In The Black Calhouns, Gail Lumet Buckleydaughter of actress Lena Hornedelves deep into her family history, detailing the experiences of an ext...
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73,22 |
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Born at the Battlefield of Gettysburg: An African American Family Saga
ISBN: 9781558763326 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A story in which the protagonist's mother, a daughter of free blacks in Philadelphia, was kidnapped from her parents by slave catchers. After the kidnapping, she was enslaved on a Virginia tobacco plantation for 37 years before making her escape to Gettysburg. She was nine months pregnant - and determined that her child would not be born a slave.
A story in which the protagonist's mother, a daughter of free blacks in Philadelphia, was kidnapped from her parents by slave catchers. After the kidn...
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81,78 |
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Ol' Joe's Boy: Episodes in the life of an Asheboro, NC country boy
ISBN: 9781523402267 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An autobiographical story of life experiences of an Asheboro Country-boy in Asheboro and the various places where he traveled as a career Naval Officer and back to North Carolina.
An autobiographical story of life experiences of an Asheboro Country-boy in Asheboro and the various places where he traveled as a career Naval Office...
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60,69 |
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Affirmative Action and Black Entrepreneurship
ISBN: 9781138880887 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume isolates the cause of continuing disparities not only between blacks and whites, but amongst blacks as well. Key factors discussed include the current state of the economy the influence of public policies, the persistence of urban poverty, economic opportunities, changes in family and social structure and equal opportunities. The city of Atlanta is used as a case study focusing on the emergence of the new black entrepreneur, with data on black businesses drawn from records of almost 1000 black owned firms.
This volume isolates the cause of continuing disparities not only between blacks and whites, but amongst blacks as well. Key factors discussed include...
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244,84 |
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Facing The Real Me: Run John Run
ISBN: 9781523682287 / Angielski / Miękka / 394 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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60,69 |
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Sounding Thunder: The Stories of Francis Pegahmagabow
ISBN: 9781611862256 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Francis Pegahmagabow (1889-1952), an Ojibwe of the Caribou clan, was born in Shawanaga First Nation, Ontario. Enlisting at the onset of the First World War, he served overseas as a scout and sniper and became Canada's most decorated Indigenous soldier. After the war, Pegahmagabow settled in Wasauksing First Nation, Ontario, where he married and raised six children. He served his community as both Chief and Councillor and was a founding member of the Brotherhood of Canadian Indians, the first national Indigenous political organization. In 1949 and 1950, he was elected the Supreme Chief of the...
Francis Pegahmagabow (1889-1952), an Ojibwe of the Caribou clan, was born in Shawanaga First Nation, Ontario. Enlisting at the onset of the First Worl...
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144,09 |
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Hazel's Little Bud
ISBN: 9781535560214 / Angielski / Miękka / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Born with cerebral palsy, Zach Cooley tells the story of his life with bits of historical information on the town of Austinville, Virginia intermingled throughout his work, which was also home to Hazel Stoots, his great-great aunt who served as the family matriarch despite having no children of her own, thanks to her undying sense of family. Hazel was also well-known as a worker for the local recreation center for more than 25 years, making her a popular citizen of the community. Later, to Zach, she was the center of his world. Her passing nearly led him down a destructive path. It would be...
Born with cerebral palsy, Zach Cooley tells the story of his life with bits of historical information on the town of Austinville, Virginia intermingle...
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56,65 |
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