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Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
383 pages ; 21 cm
Description
2019, The Year of Return. It has been exactly 400 years since the first slave ships left Ghana for America. Ghana has now opened its doors to Black diasporans, encouraging them to return and get to know the land of their ancestors. Elton, Vincent, and Scott arrive from America to visit preserved sites from the transatlantic slave route, and to explore the country's underground queer scene. Their activities are narrated by their two combative guides:...
Author
Publisher
Lumen
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
225 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"Hubo un momento en Espana en el que todo parecia posible para las mujeres: estudiar, salir de sus casas, tejer hilos de amistad y plantar una pequena semilla que, a pesar de la guerra y de la posguerra, germino en poemas, libros y cartas. Una historia que transcurrio en entornos como la Residencia de Senoritas o el Lyceum Club Femenino, que seguiria a menudo en el exilio, y que entrelaza las vidas de creadoras como Emilia Pardo Bazan, Carmen Baroja,...
Publisher
Ember
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xviii, 121 pages ; 23 cm
Description
"The seventeen . . . essays in [this book], all written by disabled people, offer . . . insight into the . . . disability experience, examining life's ableism and inequality, its challenges and losses, and celebrating its wisdom, passion, and joy"--Book Depository.
Author
Publisher
Biblioasis
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
167 pages ; 20 cm
Description
"A funny, fast-paced, and poignant take on Franco-African history, as told through the eyes of three African security guards in Paris. All over the city, they are watching: Black men paid to stand guard, invisible amongst the rich white flaneurs--and yet the only ones who truly see. From Les Grands Moulins and the sales at Camaieu to a Sephora on the Champs-Elysees, Ferdinand, Ossiri, and Kassoum, two generations of Ivoirians, seek their way as undocumented...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xxv, 286 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Roxane Gay has continued to tackle big issues embroiling society—state-sponsored violence and mass shootings, women’s rights post-Dobbs, online disinformation, and the limits of empathy—alongside more individually personalized matters: can I tell my co-worker her perfume makes me sneeze? Is it acceptable to schedule a daily 8 am meeting? In her role as a New York Times opinion section contributor and the publication’s...
Author
Publisher
Pushkin Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
191 pages : 1 illustration ; 22 cm
Description
"Cooking is thinking! The spatter of sauce in a pan, a cook's subtle deviation from a recipe, the careful labour of cooking for loved ones: these are not often the subjects of critical enquiry. Cooking, we are told, has nothing to do with serious thought; the path to intellectual fulfilment leads directly out of the kitchen. In this electrifying, innovative memoir, Rebecca May Johnson rewrites the kitchen as a vital source of knowledge and revelation....
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Mexico
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
302 pages ; 23 cm
Description
"The cultural battle transcends all generations, and in his second book with HarperCollins Mexico, author Agustin Laje enumerates, analyzes and details the social variants that affect the new generation of young people and the political implication in an evolving society in favor of preserving youth and family"--
9) Pinocchio
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A classic tale is reborn through the inspired imagination of cinematic dream-weaver Guillermo del Toro, directing alongside Mark Gustafson. Realized through boundary-pushing, breathtakingly intricate stop-motion animation, this dark rendering of the fable of the puppet boy and his maker, which won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, daringly transfers the story to Fascist Italy, where the irrepressible Pinocchio gradually learns what it means...
10) Servants
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (81 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In Czechoslovakia, 1980, the totalitarian Communist regime demands allegiance from all its subjects, including the clergy. This film follows Michal and Juraj, two conflicted novitiates whose seminary is under increasing pressure by the Party to mold its students into satisfactory citizens. With the school on the brink of dissolution, and its head priest a target for blackmail, Michal and Juraj will have to choose between collaborating with the government...
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Formats
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An incisive, innovative, and inviting take on fighting oppression and fighting for racial justice.Racism is a real and present danger. But how can you fight it if you don't know how it works or where it comes from? Using a compelling mix of memoir, cultural criticism, and anti-oppressive theory, Khodi Dill breaks down how white supremacy functions in North America and gives readers tools to understand how racism impacts their lives. From dismantling...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"In 2007, Saket Soni received an anonymous phone call from an Indian migrant worker inside a Mississippi labor camp. He and 500 other men were living in squalor in Gulf Coast "man camps," surrounded by barbed wire, watched by armed guards, crammed into cold trailers with putrid portable toilets, forced to eat moldy bread and frozen rice. Worse, lured by the promise of good work and green cards, the men had desperately scraped together up to 20,000...
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Series
Show me a sign volume 3
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Description
"As a young teacher on Martha's Vineyard, Mary Lambert feels restless and adrift. So when a league of missionaries invite her to travel abroad, she knows it's a once in a lifetime opportunity. Paris is home to a pioneering deaf school where she could meet its visionary instructors Jean Massieu and Laurent Clerc--and even bring back their methods to help advance formal deaf education in America! But the endeavor comes at a cost: The missionaries'...
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Description
"Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion Prison Castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found theCarlisle Industrial School for Indians, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture, and identity. A generation later, Star's son, Charles, is sent to the school, where he...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xiv, 656 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Description
"When Ed Goodwin moved with his parents to Greenwood, Tulsa, his family joined a growing community on the cusp of becoming the center of Black life in the West. But, just a few years later, on May 31, 1921, the teenaged Ed hid in a bathtub as a white mob descended on his neighborhood. They laid waste to 35 blocks and murdering as many as 300 people. The Tulsa Race Massacre was one of the worst acts of racist violence in United States history. The...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
x, 581 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
Shows how changes in work, family structure, women's roles, and other factors have caused people to become increasingly disconnected from family, friends, neighbors, and democratic structures--and how they may reconnect.
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xii, 334 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"Kensington, Philadelphia, is distinguished only by its poverty. It is home to Ryan, Giancarlos, and Emmanuel, three Puerto Rican children who live among the most marginalized children and families in the United States. This is their coming-of-age story. It is also the story of families beset by violence-the violence of homelessness, hunger, incarceration, stray bullets, sexual and physical assault, the hypermasculine logic of the streets, and the...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
29 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
"Meet Claudie Wells. She is 9 years old and is surrounded by artists, writers, dancers, and the culture of the Harlem Renaissance during 1922. Everyone seems to be good at something, but Claudie can't find her special talent"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xv, 368 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"A heartrending true story about racial injustice, residential schools and a path forward Divided by a beautiful valley and 150 years of racism, the Waywayseecappo reserve and the town of Rossburn have been neighbours nearly as long as Canada has been a country. Their story reflects much of what has gone wrong in relations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Canadians. It also offers, in the end, an uncommon measure of hope. In the town of Rossburn,...
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