Life Under The Microscope As An African American
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Life Under the Microscope as an African American
Author | : James M. Mosley |
Publsiher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2011-10-06 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781465351098 |
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I hope this book will prove useful to all who read it. When you examine a life closely, the positive events clearly outweigh the negative ones. I want to share my story primarily with my children, grand-children and great-grand-children. My journey is a part of their history. This is a story of a “negro” as we were called at the time, brought up in poverty and motivated by the desire to make my parents proud of me and to attempt to reach my full potential in life as a citizen of the United States. My life will be divided into three major eras. The period from my birth in 1929 until 1948 when I went into the military, the twenty years I served on active duty in the United States Navy until 1968 and remained in the reserves until 1978, and the period of my civilian employment with a major defense contractor until I retired in 1991 and life in my retirement years.
Mixed Race America and the Law
Author | : Kevin R. Johnson |
Publsiher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 523 |
Release | : 2003-02 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780814742563 |
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This ground-breaking anthology examines the mixed race experience and the impact of law on mixed race citizens in America.
The Sellout
Author | : Paul Beatty |
Publsiher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2015-03-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780374712242 |
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Winner of the Man Booker Prize Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction Winner of the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature New York Times Bestseller Los Angeles Times Bestseller Named One of the 10 Best Books of the Year by The New York Times Book Review Named a Best Book of the Year by Newsweek, The Denver Post, BuzzFeed, Kirkus Reviews, and Publishers Weekly Named a "Must-Read" by Flavorwire and New York Magazine's "Vulture" Blog A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, Paul Beatty's The Sellout showcases a comic genius at the top of his game. It challenges the sacred tenets of the United States Constitution, urban life, the civil rights movement, the father-son relationship, and the holy grail of racial equality—the black Chinese restaurant. Born in the "agrarian ghetto" of Dickens—on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles—the narrator of The Sellout resigns himself to the fate of lower-middle-class Californians: "I'd die in the same bedroom I'd grown up in, looking up at the cracks in the stucco ceiling that've been there since '68 quake." Raised by a single father, a controversial sociologist, he spent his childhood as the subject in racially charged psychological studies. He is led to believe that his father's pioneering work will result in a memoir that will solve his family's financial woes. But when his father is killed in a police shoot-out, he realizes there never was a memoir. All that's left is the bill for a drive-thru funeral. Fueled by this deceit and the general disrepair of his hometown, the narrator sets out to right another wrong: Dickens has literally been removed from the map to save California from further embarrassment. Enlisting the help of the town's most famous resident—the last surviving Little Rascal, Hominy Jenkins—he initiates the most outrageous action conceivable: reinstating slavery and segregating the local high school, which lands him in the Supreme Court.
The Case of Rose Bird
Author | : Kathleen A. Cairns |
Publsiher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2016-11-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780803295445 |
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Rose Elizabeth Bird was forty years old when in 1977 Governor Edmund G. “Jerry” Brown chose her to become California’s first female supreme court chief justice. Appointed to a court with a stellar reputation for being the nation’s most progressive, Bird became a lightning rod for the opposition due to her liberalism, inexperience, and gender. Over the next decade, her name became a rallying cry as critics mounted a relentless effort to get her off the court. Bird survived three unsuccessful recall efforts, but her opponents eventually succeeded in bringing about her defeat in 1986, making her the first chief justice to be removed from the California Supreme Court. The Case of Rose Bird provides a fascinating look at this important and complex woman and the political and cultural climate of California in the 1970s and 1980s. Seeking to uncover the identities and motivations of Bird’s vehement critics, Kathleen A. Cairns traces Bird’s meteoric rise and cataclysmic fall. Cairns considers the instrumental role that then-current gender dynamics played in Bird’s downfall, most visible in the tensions between second-wave feminism and the many Americans who felt that a “radical” feminist agenda might topple long-standing institutions and threaten “traditional” values.
The American Journal of Microscopy and Popular Science
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 588 |
Release | : 1880 |
Genre | : Microscopes |
ISBN | : HARVARD:32044081507246 |
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How Did You Get To Be Mexican
Author | : Kevin Johnson |
Publsiher | : Temple University Press |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2010-06-21 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781592138180 |
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A readable account of a life spent in the borderlands between racial identity.
Proposed Federal Motion Picture Commission Hearings on H R 4094 and H R 6233 Apr 14 May 4 1926
Author | : United States. U.S. Congress. House. Committee on Education |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 1926 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105021064170 |
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Hearings Before the Committee on Education House of Representatives 69th Congress First Session on H R 4094 and H R 6233 Bills to Create a Commission to be Known as the Federal Motion Picture Commission and Defining Its Powers and Duties
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 1926 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : HARVARD:HNURQW |
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