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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
DescriptionObama, the son of a white American mother and a black African father, writes an elegant and compelling biography this powerfully articulates America's racial battleground and tells of his search for his situate in black America. 8 pages of photos.
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ManufacturerTimes Books
Categories African-American & Black   Memoirs   General   Social Groups   Hardcover   Printed Books  
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race
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Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see Black youth seated mutually in the cafeteria. Of course, it’s not just the Black children sitting mutually—the White, Latino, Asian Pacific, and in some regions, American Indian youth, are clustered in their own groups, too. The same phenomenon can be observed in college dining halls, ...
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ManufacturerBasic Books
Categories Adolescent Psychology   Psychology   America   General   Social Groups   African-American Studies   Paperback   Printed Books  
Reviving Ophelia
DescriptionA clinical psychologist observes the psychological pitfalls faced by teenage girls growing up in a dangerous world in which violence, sexual harassment, eating disorders, promiscuity, and drug use have become the norm. At adolescence, says Mary Pipher, "girls become 'female impersonators' who fit their whole selves into small, crowded spaces." ...
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ManufacturerPutnam Adult
Categories Adolescent Psychology   Gender   General   Social Groups   Teenagers   Hardcover   Printed Books  
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
DescriptionAn authentic autobiographical account of slave life in the South from the 1820s to the 1840s. To escape sexual exploitation by her master, Brent ran away and hid in an attic crawl space this became her home for seven years of unbelievable physical hardship. Edited by L. Maria Kid; Introduction by Walter Teller.
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ManufacturerHarvest Books
Categories African-American & Black   General   History   Social Groups   African-American Studies   Paperback   Printed Books  
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Thinking Gender)
DescriptionButler examines the 'trouble' together with unproblematized appeals to sex/gender identities. She challenges a diversity of psychological assumptions concerning what it means to be a gender and provides re-readings of Lacan, Freud, and Kristeva. This book should be of interest to complex students of women's studies, gender studies, cultural studies, philosophy. In a ...
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ManufacturerOther
Categories General   Social Groups   Hardcover   Printed Books  
Iron John: A Book About Men
Descriptionn "a fascinating examination of myth, literature, psychology, and anthropology" (Newsday), National Book Prize-winning poet and translator Robert Bly proposes nothing less than a new vision of what it is to be a man. "Important and timely."--New York Times Book Review.
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ManufacturerVintage
Categories General   Social Groups   Paperback   Printed Books  
The Negro
DescriptionThis work, by one of the champions of the early civil rights movement in the U.S., pulls mutually the various elements of African history and highlights the unique and advanced cultures current in Africa before the slave trade, citing evidence of architectural development, iron working, writing, and numerous other cultural advances.
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ManufacturerDover Publications
Categories African-American & Black   General   Dubois, W. E. B.   Social Groups   African-American Studies   Paperback   Printed Books   Unabridged  
Real Boys: Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood
DescriptionBoys today are in crisis. On the surface, many boys may be visible tough, confident, and cheerful, but beneath, many of them are sad,
lonely, and confused. As the bestselling Reviving Ophelia took us into the worlds of girls, this groundbreaking book reveals the worlds of
boys to show how society's mixed messages to boys put extra of them at ...
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ManufacturerRandom House
Categories Adolescent Psychology   Gender   Children's Studies   Social Groups   General   Teenagers   Hardcover   Printed Books  
The Developing Person Through Childhood and Adolescence
DescriptionThis topic examines development inside the context of today's families, communities and culturally mixed societies. Giving exclusive emphasis to the continual interplay of heredity and setting, the importance of social ecologies, and the developmental variations arising from cultural variety, it offers comprehensive chronological coverage of ...
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ManufacturerWorth Pub
Categories General AAS   Adolescent Psychology   Psychology   General   Children   Social Groups   Child Development   Hardcover   Printed Books  
Falling Leaves: The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter
DescriptionBorn in 1937 in a port city a thousand miles north of Shanghai, Adeline Yen Mah was the youngest kid of an affluent Chinese family who enjoyed rare privileges during a time of political and cultural upheaval. But wealth and position could not shield Adeline from a childhood of appalling emotional abuse at the hands of a cruel and manipulative ...
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ManufacturerBroadway
Categories Chinese   General   Women   Social Groups   Paperback   Printed Books  
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