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Author
Publisher
Vintage Classic
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
236 pages ; 20 cm
Description
The problems of everyday living accumulate and begin to torture Joy, who blames her problems not on her work or on the accidental drowning of her illicit lover, but on herself. While painful and deeply serious, this is a novel of great warmth and energy: it's the wit and irony found in moments of despair that prove to be Joy's salvation. First published by Polygon in 1989 and Dalkey Archive Press in 1994, now available again.
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xiii, 302 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
In this unprecedented deep dive into inner-city gang life, Mark Bowden takes readers inside a Baltimore gang, offers an in-depth portrait of its notorious leader, and chronicles the 2016 FBI investigation that landed eight of its members in prison. Sandtown is one of the deadliest neighborhoods in the world; it earned Baltimore its nickname "Bodymore, Murderland," and was made notorious by David Simon's classic HBO series The Wire. Drug deals dominate...
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Series
Publisher
Crocodile Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
"Although they are told that wrestling is for boys, preteen girls Noelia and Wara put on traditional costumes of the Aymara women of Bolivia and head to the fighting ring as Cholitas (or luchadoras). During the week they train physically and develop their fighting styles, and although they realize they can't wrestle forever, they both will use the lessons they've learned in the ring to follow their other dreams."--
Author
Publisher
MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
256 pages.
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Description
"Latino" is the most open-ended and loosely defined of the major race categories in the United States. Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of "Latino" assembles the Pulitzer Prize winner Héctor Tobar's personal experiences as the son of Guatemalan immigrants and the stories told to him by his Latinx students to offer a spirited rebuke to racist ideas about Latino people. Our Migrant Souls decodes the meaning of "Latino"...
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Series
Publisher
Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
121 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Description
El coronel no tiene quien le escriba fue escrita por Gabriel García Márquez durante su estancia en París, adonde había llegado como corresponsal de prensa y con la secreta intención de estudiar cine, a mediados de los años cincuenta. El cierre del periódico para el que trabajaba le sumió en la pobreza, mientras redactaba en tres versiones distintas esta excepcional novela, que fue rechazada por varios editores antes de su publicación. Tras...
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.
8) Drylongso
Series
Criterion collection volume 1190
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2023.
Formats
Description
A rediscovered treasure of 1990s DIY filmmaking, Cauleen Smith's Drylongso embeds an incisive look at racial injustice within a lovingly handmade buddy movie/murder mystery/romance. Alarmed by the rate at which the young Black men around her are dying, brash Oakland art student Pica attempts to preserve their existence in Polaroid snapshots, along the way forging a friendship with a woman in an abusive relationship and experiencing love, heartbreak,...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Description
According to Confucius, “an educated woman is a worthless woman,” but Tan Yunxian—born into an elite family, yet haunted by death, separations, and loneliness—is being raised by her grandparents to be of use. Her grandmother is one of only a handful of female doctors in China, and she teaches Yunxian the pillars of Chinese medicine, the Four Examinations—looking, listening, touching, and asking—something a man can never do with a female...
10) Hoop dreams
Series
Criterion collection volume 289
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Formats
Description
This documentary follows two inner-city basketball phenoms' lives through high school as they chase their dreams of playing in the NBA.
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"The Spinning Jenny was invented in 1770, and with that, a new era of manufacturing and industry changed lives everywhere within a generation. A world filled with unrest wrestles for control over this new world order: A mother's husband is killed in a work accident due to negligence; a young woman fights to fund her school for impoverished children; a well-intentioned young man unexpectedly inherits a failing business; one man ruthlessly protects...
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Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
ix, 308 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Growing up as a Black girl in America, Deborah Mouton felt alienated from the stories she learned in class. She yearned for stories she felt connected to--true ones of course--but also fables and mythologies that could help explain both the world and herplace in it. What she encountered was almost always written by white writers who prospered in a time when human beings were treated as chattel, such as the Greek and Roman myths, which felt as dusty...
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Publisher
HarperPerennial
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
218 pages ; 21 cm
Description
In the days before Homeira Qaderi gave birth to her son, Siawash, the road to the hospital in Kabul would often be barricaded because of the frequent suicide explosions. With the city and the military on edge, it was not uncommon for an armed soldier to point his gun at the pregnant woman's bulging stomach, terrified that she was hiding a bomb. Propelled by the love she held for her soon-to-be-born child, Homeira walked through blood and wreckage...
Publisher
Dial Press
Pub. Date
[2005].
Physical Desc
824 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Description
Historical events of the last three centuries come alive through these women's correspondences--often their only form of public expression. In 1775, Rachel Revere tries to send financial aid to her husband, Paul, in a note that is confiscated by the British; First Lady Dolley Madison tells her sister about rescuing George Washington's portrait during the War of 1812; one week after JFK's assassination, Jacqueline Kennedy pens a heartfelt letter to...
Author
Publisher
New York University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
vii, 283 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
There is an obesity epidemic in this country and poor Black women are particularly stigmatized as “diseased” and a burden on the public health care system. This is only the most recent incarnation of the fear of fat Black women, which Sabrina Strings shows took root more than two hundred years ago. Strings weaves together an eye-opening historical narrative ranging from the Renaissance to the current moment, analyzing important works of art, newspaper...
Author
Publisher
B
Pub. Date
[arzo de 2023]
Physical Desc
223 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Este libro es una guía fundamental hacia la educación antirracista. A través de apuntes teóricos e históricos, reflexiones, consejos y ejercicios para analizar nuestros comportamientos, la activista Desirée Bela-Lobedde -autora de Ser mujer negra en España y Minorías- recoge los principios básicos del antirracismo y nos invita a poner en marcha de manera práctica alternativas para contribuir activamente a un cambio real.
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Pub. Date
2023.
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Description
When a high school student started a private Instagram account that used racist and sexist memes to make his friends laugh, he thought of it as “edgy” humor. Over time, the edge got sharper. Then a few other kids found out about the account. Pretty soon, everyone knew. Ultimately no one in the small town of Albany, California, was safe from the repercussions of the account’s discovery. Not the girls targeted by the posts. Not the boy who created...
18) The servant
Series
Criterion collection volume 1182
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The prolific, ever-provocative Joseph Losey, blacklisted from Hollywood and living in England, delivered a coolly modernist shock to the system of that nation's cinema with this mesmerizing dissection of class, sexuality, and power. A dissolute scion of the upper crust finds the seemingly perfect manservant to oversee his new London townhouse. But not all is as it seems, as traditional social hierarchies are gradually, disturbingly destabilized. Lustrously...
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"--
Publisher
Greenwich Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A dark comedy about gentrification in which a socially progressive man's attempt to improve his Tel Aviv neighborhood goes unexpectedly awry. A satirical parable about the insidious ways in which privilege can unleash prejudice within.
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