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Dear America: Reflections on Race

2017-10-17 Performing Arts
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Release : 2017-10-17
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Synopsis Dear America: Reflections on Race by : Brad King

Download or read book Dear America: Reflections on Race written by Brad King. This book was released on 2017-10-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection takes the issue that most divides this country and moves it to the quiet, intimate stories of people from across the country. This collection isn't meant to advocate a position. Instead, we want the personal stories and reflections from people who come from diverse backgrounds and want to share their American story.

Dear America

2018-09-18 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2018-09-18
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 365/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Dear America by : Jose Antonio Vargas

Download or read book Dear America written by Jose Antonio Vargas. This book was released on 2018-09-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER “This riveting, courageous memoir ought to be mandatory reading for every American.” —Michelle Alexander, New York Times bestselling author of The New Jim Crow “l cried reading this book, realizing more fully what my parents endured.” —Amy Tan, New York Times bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club and Where the Past Begins “This book couldn’t be more timely and more necessary.” —Dave Eggers, New York Times bestselling author of What Is the What and The Monk of Mokha Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, called “the most famous undocumented immigrant in America,” tackles one of the defining issues of our time in this explosive and deeply personal call to arms. “This is not a book about the politics of immigration. This book––at its core––is not about immigration at all. This book is about homelessness, not in a traditional sense, but in the unsettled, unmoored psychological state that undocumented immigrants like myself find ourselves in. This book is about lying and being forced to lie to get by; about passing as an American and as a contributing citizen; about families, keeping them together, and having to make new ones when you can’t. This book is about constantly hiding from the government and, in the process, hiding from ourselves. This book is about what it means to not have a home. After 25 years of living illegally in a country that does not consider me one of its own, this book is the closest thing I have to freedom.” —Jose Antonio Vargas, from Dear America

White Like Me

2010-10-29 Social Science
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Release : 2010-10-29
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 910/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis White Like Me by : Tim Wise

Download or read book White Like Me written by Tim Wise. This book was released on 2010-10-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flipping John Howard Griffin's classic Black Like Me, and extending Noel Ignatiev's How The Irish Became White into the present-day, Wise explores the meanings and consequences of whiteness, and discusses the ways in which racial privilege can harm not just people of color, but also whites. Using stories instead of stale statistics, Wise weaves a narrative that is at once readable and yet scholarly; analytical and yet accessible.

A Journey to the New World: The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple, Mayflower, 1620 (Dear America)

2011-08-01 Juvenile Fiction
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Release : 2011-08-01
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
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Book Synopsis A Journey to the New World: The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple, Mayflower, 1620 (Dear America) by : Kathryn Lasky

Download or read book A Journey to the New World: The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple, Mayflower, 1620 (Dear America) written by Kathryn Lasky. This book was released on 2011-08-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newbery Honor author Kathryn Lasky's A JOURNEY TO THE NEW WORLD is now back in print with a gorgeous new package!Twelve-year-old Remember Patience Whipple ("Mem" for short) has just arrived in the New World with her parents after a grueling 65-day journey on the MAYFLOWER. Mem has an irrepressible spirit, and leaps headfirst into life in her new home. Despite harsh conditions, Mem is fearless. She helps to care for the sick and wants more than anything to meet and befriend a Native American.

Reflections Of An Affirmative Action Baby

1991-10-01 Social Science
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Release : 1991-10-01
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 715/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Reflections Of An Affirmative Action Baby by : Stephen L. Carter

Download or read book Reflections Of An Affirmative Action Baby written by Stephen L. Carter. This book was released on 1991-10-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a climate where whites who criticize affirmative action risk being termed racist and blacks who do the same risk charges of treason and self hatred, a frank and open discussion of racial preference is difficult to achieve. But, in the first book on racial preference written from personal experience, Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby, Stephen L. Carter, Cromwell Professor of Law at Yale University and self-described beneficiary (and, at times, victim) of affirmative action, does it.Using his own story of success and frustration as “an affirmative action baby” as a point of departure, Carter, who has risen to the top of his profession, provides an incisive analysis of one of the most incendiary topics of our day—as well as an honest critique of the pressures on black professionals and intellectuals to conform to the “politically correct” way of being black.Affirmative action as it is practiced today not only does little to promote racial equality, Carter argues, but also allows the nation to escape rather cheaply from its moral obligation to undo the legacy of slavery. Affirmative action, particularly in hiring often reinforces racist stereotypes by promoting the idea that the black professional cannot aspire to anything more than being “the best black.”Has the time come to abandon these programs? No--but affirmative action must return to its simpler roots, Carter argues: to provide educational opportunities for those who might not otherwise have them. Then the beneficiaries should demand to be held to the same standards as anyone else.

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