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Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Pub. Date
©1994.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xvi, 193 pages)
Language
English
Description
"Why do white people have vaginas?" asks Maureen Reddy's two-year-old son. "Why do boys have curly hair?" These are the questions Reddy grapples with on her journey, as a white mother of black children, toward an internalized understanding of race - particularly whiteness - and of racism. Moving from memoir to race theory, to literary analysis, to interviews with friends, Reddy places this personal journey in a broad cultural context. Reddy writes...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
viii, 230 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"From Tony Hsieh to Amy Chua to Jeremy Lin, Chinese Americans are now arriving at the highest levels of American business, civic life, and culture. But what makes this story of immigrant ascent unique is that Chinese Americans are emerging at just the same moment when China has emerged - and indeed may displace America - at the center of the global scene. What does it mean to be Chinese American in this moment? And how does exploring that question...
19) Alandra's lilacs
Author
Publisher
Gallaudet University Press
Pub. Date
©1999
Physical Desc
1 online resource (viii, 150 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
The hearing mother of a deaf child recounts her experiences and provides advice for other parents in a similar situation. Author tells of her 25-year struggle through divorce, poverty, & intractable physicians & educators to raise Alandra her deaf daughter, & the bond she now has with her deaf grandchildren.
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
179 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
A stirring narrative of memory and parental love, Richard Ford tells of his mother, Edna, a feisty Catholic girl with a difficult past, and his father, Parker, a sweet-natured soft-spoken traveling salesman, both born at the turn of the twentieth century in rural Arkansas. For Ford, the questions of what his parents dreamed of and how they loved each other and him became a striking portrait of American life in the mid-century. With his celebrated...
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