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American In The Making - The Life Story Of An Immigrant

by M. E. Ravage

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 At the turn of the twentieth century, M E Ravage set off in steerage for America, one of almost two million Jews who, like millions of others from eastern and southern Europe, were lured by tales of worldly success. This title contributes to a broader understanding of the global notion of 'America', and challenges ideas of national identity.
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Empire And The Literature Of Sensation - An Anthology Of Nineteenth-Century Popular Fiction

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 An anthology that includes some of the popular and sensational writings published before the Civil War. It is a collection of transvestite adventures, forbidden love, class conflict, and terrifying encounters with racial "others."
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Shadowed Dreams - Women''S Poetry Of The Harlem Renaissance

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 The first edition of Shadowed Dreams was a groundbreaking anthology that brought to light the contributions of women poets to the Harlem Renaissance. This revised and expanded version contains twice the number of poems found in the original, many of them never before reprinted, and adds eighteen new voices to the collection to once again strike new ground in African American literary history. Also new to this edition are nine period illustrations and updated biographical introductions for each poet. Shadowed Dreams features new poems by Gwendolyn Bennett, Anita Scott Coleman, Mae Cowdery, Blanche Taylor Dickinson, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Jessie Fauset, Angelina Weld Grimke, Gladys Casely Hayford (a k a Aquah Laluah), Virginia Houston, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Helene Johnson, Effie Lee Newsome, Esther Popel, and Anne Spencer, as well as writings from newly discovered poets Carrie Williams Clifford, Edythe Mae Gordon, Alvira Hazzard, Gertrude Parthenia McBrown, Beatrice Murphy, Lucia Mae Pitts, Grace Vera Postles, Ida Rowland, and Lucy Mae Turner, among others. Covering the years 1918 through 1939 and ranging across the period's major and minor journals, as well as its anthologies and collections, Shadowed Dreams provides a treasure trove of poetry from which to mine deeply buried jewels of black female visions in the early twentieth century.
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Comedy: American Style - Jessie Redmon Fauset

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 Presents the tragic tale of a family's destruction - the story of a mother who denies her clan its heritage.
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Suffering For Science - Reason And Sacrifice In Modern America

by Rebecca Herzig

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 Explores the rise of an ethic of self-sacrifice in American science. This work describes when and how science came to rely on an investigator willing to embrace toil, danger, and even lethal dismemberment. It examines the suffering scientist as a way to understand the transformation of American life between the Civil War and World War I.
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Postnationalism In The Caribbean

by Charles V. Carnegie

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 This volume suggests that for Caribbean people, migration is simply one of many ways to pursue a better future. It show not only that the nation-state is an exhausted form of political organization, but that in the Caribbean the ideological reach of the nation-state has always been tenuous.
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An American In The Making - The Life Story Of An Immigrant

by M.E. Ravage

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 At the turn of the twentieth century, M E Ravage set off in steerage for America, one of almost two million Jews who, like millions of others from eastern and southern Europe, were lured by tales of worldly success. This title contributes to a broader understanding of the global notion of 'America', and challenges ideas of national identity.
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Comedy: American Style

by Jessie Redmon Fauset

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 Presents the tragic tale of a family's destruction - the story of a mother who denies her clan its heritage.
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Comedy: American Style

by Jessie Redmon Fauset

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 Presents the tragic tale of a family's destruction - the story of a mother who denies her clan its heritage.
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The Grand Gennaro

by Garibaldi M. Lapolla

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 An illiterate Calabrian in southern Italy owes money to his church and mayor. He skips town for the bustling streets of New York. Meeting an old friend, a fellow immigrant, he thanks him for help getting settled, and then steals his money. By pluck, luck, and unscrupulous business practices, this cunning character 'makes America'.
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The Naked Truth - Why Hollywood Doesn'T Make X-Rated Movies

by Kevin S. Sandler

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 From parents and teachers to politicians and policymakers, there is a din of voices participating in the debate over how young people are affected by violence, strong language, and explicit sexual activity in films. This work argues that perhaps even more than viewers, ratings protect the Hollywood film industry.
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Film Talk - Directors At Work

by Wheeler Winston Dixon

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 What 1970s Hollywood filmmaker influenced Quentin Tarantino? How have contemporary Japanese horror films inspired Takashi Shimizu, director of the huge box office hit "The Grudge"? This title offers answers to these questions, along with a behind-the-scenes look at filmmaking.
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Empire And The Literature Of Sensation - An Anthology Of Nineteenth-Century Popular Fiction

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 An anthology that includes some of the popular and sensational writings published before the Civil War. It is a collection of transvestite adventures, forbidden love, class conflict, and terrifying encounters with racial "others."
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Haunted Life - Visual Culture And Black Modernity

by David Marriott

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 Examines the complex interplay between racial fears and anxieties and the political-visual cultures of suspicion and state terror. This work helps readers to consider how media technologies are "haunted" by the phantom of racial slavery. It is an exploration of the legacies of black visual culture and the political, deeply sexualized violence.
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Transcultural Bodies - Female Genital Cutting In Global Context

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 Bringing together thirteen essays, this work provides an exploration of female genital cutting (FGC) among African diasporas in the United Kingdom, Europe, and Australia. It analyzes the changes in ideologies of gender and sexuality in immigrant communities, and the frequent marginalization of African women's voices in debates over FGC.
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Cottages And Mansions Of The Jersey Shore

by Caroline Seebohm

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 The Jersey Shore is many things to many people. From wraparound porches, to elaborate gables, to wooden turrets that offer stunning views, this book showcases the fascinating and eclectic architecture that makes the Jersey Shore the beautiful, classy, tough, and diverse place that it is.
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Laughing Mad - The Black Comic Persona In Post-Soul America

by Bambi Haggins

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 Focuses on the ways in which the comic persona is constructed and changes across media, from stand-up, to the small screen, to film. This title examines the comic televisual and cinematic personae of Dick Gregory, Bill Cosby, Flip Wilson, and Richard Pryor and considers how these figures set the stage for black comedy.
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Body Evidence - Intimate Violence Against South Asian Women In America

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 Uncovers the unique challenges faced by victims of domestic violence in South Asian American communities. This work covers topics that include cultural obsession with women's chastity and virginity; the silence surrounding intimate violence among women who identify themselves as lesbian, bisexual, or transgender; and more.
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Making Democracy Matter - Identity And Activism In Los Angeles

by Karen Brodkin

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 What makes a social movement a movement? Where do the contagious energy, vision, and sense of infinite possibility come from? This book seeks to answer these questions through conversations and interviews with a generation of activists who came of political age in Los Angeles during the 1990s.
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History Walks In New Jersey

by Lucy D. Rosenfeld e Marina Harrison

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 New Jersey has a varied and fascinating history - from its earliest Native American settlements, through its central role in the Revolutionary War, to its strategic position in the major events of our country's past. This guidebook includes information on forty-eight of the best sites for historical walks in New Jersey.
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Einstein On Race And Racism - Einstein On Race And Racism, First Paperback Edition

by Fred Jerome e Rodger Taylor

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 Presents a collection of writings by Einstein on the topic of race. This book tells how he spoke out vigorously against racism both in the United States and around the world. It brings attention to Einstein's antiracist public activities, and provides insight into antiracist struggles in America.
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Chinatown Family

by Lin Yutang

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 Aims to bring humor and wisdom to issues of culture, race, and religion. This work tells the story of an immigrant, working-class Chinese American family that settled in New York City during the 1930s and 1940s. It paints a portrait of the wonder and the woe of settling into a new land.
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Shadowed Dreams - Women'S Poetry Of The Harlem Renaissance

by Maureen Honey

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 Features poems by Gwendolyn Bennett, Anita Scott Coleman, Mae Cowdery, Blanche Taylor Dickinson, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Jessie Fauset, Angelina Weld Grimke, Gladys Casely Hayford and others. This work covers the years 1918 through 1939 and ranging across the period's major and minor journals, as well as its anthologies and collections.
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An American In The Making - The Life Story Of An Immigrant

by M.E. Ravage

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 At the turn of the twentieth century, M E Ravage set off in steerage for America, one of almost two million Jews who, like millions of others from eastern and southern Europe, were lured by tales of worldly success. This title contributes to a broader understanding of the global notion of 'America', and challenges ideas of national identity.
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