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Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 25 cm
Description
What happens when one attempts to exchange the life one is given for something better? Can we transform the possibilities we are born into?--Set in contemporary India and moving between the reality of this world and the shadow of another, this novel of multiple narratives; formally daring, fierce, but full of pity; delivers a devastating and haunting exploration of the unquenchable human urge to strive for a different life.
Series
Film Movement volume 2, film 4
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on a true story, The Middle of the World is the story of a couple and their five children -- ages ranging from 6 months to 14 years old -- as they travel 3,200 km by bicycle to chase a dream. Romao, an illiterate and unemployed truck driver, and his wife Rose, leave the State of Paraiba in Brazil, and over the course of six months, travel across five states to reach Rio de Janeiro, in a quest for a job and a decent life.
Publisher
Zeitgeist Video
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + guide (6 pages, fold-out)
Description
Every spring, China's cities are plunged into chaos as an astonishing 130 million migrant workers journey to their home villages for the New Year's holiday. This mass exodus is the largest human migration on the planet, an epic spectacle that reveals a country tragically caught between its rural past and industrial future. Working over several years in classic verite, Chinese-Canadian filmmaker Lixin Fan travels with one couple who have embarked on...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Studio, an imprint of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
46 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 x 29 cm
Description
"From a celebrated documentary artist, twelve portraits from the front lines of migration form an intimate record of why people leave behind the places they call home"--
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"Texas, 1934. Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as the crops are failing, the water is drying up, and dust threatens to bury them all. One of the darkest periods of the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl era, has arrived with a vengeance. In this uncertain and dangerous time, Elsa Martinelli-like so many of her neighbors-must make an agonizing choice: fight...
6) Departures
Publisher
E1 Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (131 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Daigo Kobayashi is a devoted cellist in an orchestra that has just been dissolved and finds himself without a job. He decides to move back to his old hometown with his wife to look for work and start over. He answers a classified ad entitled 'Departures' thinking it is an advertisement for a travel agency. He discovers that the job is actually for a 'Nokanshi' or 'encoffineer,' a funeral professional who prepares deceased bodies for burial and entry...
Publisher
UniCine
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 85 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Three cultures, three countries, three realities introduce us to the lives of three children that all share the same sentiment, dealing with the absence of a loved one and the need to bring them back home.
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
19 CDs (22 hrs., 55 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
From 1915 to 1970, roughly six million African-American citizens fled the South for improved lives in northern and western America. Comparing this rarely discussed exodus to other great migrations in history while culling data from interviews and historical records, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles the decades-long journey that greatly altered the cultural landscape of America.
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Description
From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. Wilkerson compares this epic migration to the migrations of other peoples in history. She interviewed more than a thousand people, and gained access to new data and official records, to write this definitive and vividly dramatic account of how these American journeys unfolded, altering our cities, our country, and ourselves. With stunning historical detail, Wilkerson...
10) The gold rush
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 115 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
At the end of 1853, San Francisco was a city on the move. It had twelve daily newspapers, nine insurance companies, consulates of twenty-seven foreign governments, and six-story buildings where sand dunes once stood. A few years earlier, San Francisco was just a sleepy little town. But the sight of gold in the rushing waters of the American River sent a ripple around the world and set the stage for an event that would forever change a city, a fledgling...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
263 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"The National Road is a collection of essays about American places, each dealing with contentious matters: religion, politics, sex, race, poverty, loss and the stubborn persistence of national pride, despite abundant reasons for cynicism. An important question lies at the heart of this collection: what does it mean to "belong" in America in the midst of an era when rootedness to a particular piece of ground means less than at any time during our history?...
Author
Publisher
Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xi, 179 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 24 cm
Description
"A powerful illustrated history of the Great Migration and its sweeping impact on Black and American culture, from Reconstruction to the rise of hip hop. Over the course of six decades, an unprecedented wave of Black Americans left the South and spread across the nation in search of a better life--a migration that sparked stunning demographic and cultural changes in twentieth-century America. Through gripping and accessible historical narrative paired...
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