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Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pub. Date
©2010.
Language
English
Description
How are children--and their parents--affected by the world's most influential corporation? Giroux explores the surprisingly diverse ways in which Disney strives to dominate global media and shape the desires, needs, and futures of today's children.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper and Row
Pub. Date
1964.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the struggles of successive waves of immigrants who came to America and includes the President's plea for a complete revision of our immigration law. The late President expounds the need for an enlargement of our narrow immigration laws. His book expresses an ideal defined by Washington in the first years of the Republic: that America should always be a "propitious asylum for the unfortunates of other countries."
Author
Publisher
New York University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"When #BlackLivesMatter went viral in 2013, it shed a light on the urgent, daily struggles of Black Americans to combat racial injustice. The message resonated with millions across the country. Yet many of our political, social, and economic institutions are still embedded with racist policies and practices that devalue Black lives. Stay Woke directly addresses these stark injustices and builds on the lessons of racial inequality and intersectionality...
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"White Flights is a meditation on whiteness in American fiction and culture from the end of the civil rights movement to the present. At the heart of the book, Jess Row ties "white flight"--the movement of white Americans into segregated communities, whether in suburbs or newly gentrified downtowns--to white writers setting their stories in isolated or emotionally insulated landscapes, from the mountains of Idaho in Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The relationship between Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg--Republican and Democrat, Christian and Jew, western rancher's daughter and Brooklyn girl--transcends party, religion, region, and culture. Strengthened by each other's presence, these groundbreaking judges, the first and second to serve on the highest court in the land, have transformed the Constitution and America itself, making it a more equal place for all women. Linda Hirshman's...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
At a time when standardized testing businesses are raking in huge profits, when many schools are struggling, and students and educators everywhere are suffering under the strain, Ken Robinson argues for an end to our outmoded industrial educational system. He proposes instead a highly personalized, organic approach that draws on today's unprecedented technological and professional resources to engage all students, develop their love of learning, and...
8) Rogues
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"A thrilling collection of twenty-one original stories by an all-star list of contributors--including a new A Game of Thrones story by George R.R. Martin! The latest story collection from #1 New York Times bestselling author George R.R. Martin and award-winning editor Gardner Dozois is filled with subtle shades of gray. Twenty-one all-original stories, by an all-star list of contributors, will delight and astonish you in equal measure with their cunning...
Author
Series
Avon volume W213
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
1988
Language
English
Description
The author speaks for his people in this witty confutation of almost everything the white man "knows" about Native Americans.
In Custer Died for your Sins, the author observes, "The Indian world has changed so substantially since the first publication of this book that some things contained in it seem new again." Indeed, it seems that each generation of whites and Indians will have to read and reread Vine Deloria's Manifesto for some time to come,...
Publisher
Abrams Image
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Pride is a photography book capturing the parades and protests in the gay community, with publication set to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, which took place on June 28, 1969. On June 28, 1970, the first gay pride marches took place in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Chicago commemorating the anniversary of the riots. Similar marches were organized in other cities-acting as both a celebration of gay culture and...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"At the end of the 19th century, everyone knew that people were defined by their race and sex and were fated by birth and biology to be more or less intelligent, able, nurturing, or warlike. But one rogue researcher looked at the data and decided everyone was wrong. Franz Boas was the very image of a mad scientist: a wild-haired immigrant with a thick German accent. By the 1920s he was also the foundational thinker and public face of a new school...
Author
Series
History of the American cinema volume 1
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
©1990
Language
English
Description
This volume examines the development of film and the film industry from its development through 1906 and the political and economic background that influenced it.
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