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Out Of America
Author | : Keith B Richburg |
Publsiher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2009-09-22 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780465021017 |
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Keith B. Richburg was an experienced and respected reporter who had paid his dues covering urban neighborhoods in Washington D.C., and won praise for his coverage of Southeast Asia. But nothing prepared him for the personal odyssey that he would embark upon when he was assigned to cover Africa. In this powerful book, Richburg takes the reader on an extraordinary journey that sweeps from Somalia to Rwanda to Zaire and finally to South Africa. He shows how he came to terms with the divide within himself: between his African racial heritage and his American cultural identity. Are these really my people? Am I truly an African-American? The answer, Richburg finds, after much soul-searching, is that no, he is not an African, but an American first and foremost. To those who romanticize Mother Africa as a black Valhalla, where blacks can walk with dignity and pride, he regrets that this is not the reality. He has been there and witnessed the killings, the repression, the false promises, and the horror. "Thank God my nameless ancestor, brought across the ocean in chains and leg irons, made it out alive," he concludes. "Thank God I am an American."
Out of America
Author | : Keith B. Richburg |
Publsiher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Africa, Sub-Saharan |
ISBN | : 0156005832 |
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This soul-searching personal journey into the African-American identity, written by an award-winning reporter for the "Washington Post", takes readers behind today's cultural battlefields. Map.
Hollowed Out
Author | : Jeremy S. Adams |
Publsiher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2021-08-03 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9781684511983 |
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Do teachers have a front row seat to America’s decline? Jeremy S. Adams, a teacher at both the high school and college levels, thinks so. Adams has spent decades trying to instill wisdom, ambition, and a love of learning in his students. And yet, as he notes, when teachers get together, they often share an arresting conclusion: Something has gone terribly wrong. Something essential is missing in our young people. Their curiosity seems stunted, their reason undeveloped, their values uninformed, their knowledge lacking, and most worrying of all, their humanity diminished. Digital hermits of a sort unfamiliar to an older generation, they have little interest in marriage and family. They largely dismiss—and are shockingly ignorant of—religion. They sneer at patriotism, sympathize with riots and vandalism, and regard American society and civilization as so radically flawed that it must be dismantled. Often friendless and depressed, they eat alone, study alone, and even “socialize” alone. Educators like Adams see a generation slipping away. The problems that have hollowed out our young people have been festering for years. A year of COVID-19 lockdowns and social distancing have magnified them. The result could be a generation—and our nation’s future—lost in a miasma of alienation and stupefaction. In his stunning new book, Hollowed Out, Jeremy S. Adams reveals why students have rejected the wisdom, culture, and institutions of Western civilization—and what we can do to win them back. Poignant, frightening, and yet inspiring, this is a book for every parent, teacher, and patriot concerned for our young people and our country
Down and Out in America
Author | : Peter H. Rossi |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2013-11-22 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780226162324 |
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The most accurate and comprehensive picture of homelessness to date, this study offers a powerful explanation of its causes, proposes short- and long-term solutions, and documents the striking contrasts between the homeless of the 1950s and 1960s and the contemporary homeless population, which is younger and contains more women, children, and blacks.
Out of Hiding A Holocaust Survivor s Journey to America With a Foreword by Alan Gratz
Author | : Ruth Gruener |
Publsiher | : Scholastic Inc. |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 2020-10-20 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781338627473 |
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With a foreword by Alan Gratz, New York Times bestselling author of Refugee. Ruth Gruener was a hidden child during the Holocaust. At the end of the war, she and her parents were overjoyed to be free. But their struggles as displaced people had just begun.In war-ravaged Europe, they waited for paperwork for a chance to come to America. Once they arrived in Brooklyn, they began to build a new life, but spoke little English. Ruth started at a new school and tried to make friends -- but continued to fight nightmares and flashbacks of her time during World War II.The family's perseverance is a classic story of the American dream, but also illustrates the difficulties that millions of immigrants face in the aftermath of trauma.This is a gripping and human account of a survivor's journey forward with timely connections to refugee and immigrant experiences worldwide today.
America Out Loud
Author | : Alan Axelrod |
Publsiher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2008-08-17 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9781440515767 |
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"Give me liberty or give me death." "Houston, we have a problem." "I did not have sexual relations with that woman." American ears ring with these and hundreds of other declarations, spun out of history. Walt Whitman claimed to "hear America singing," but, mostly, we hear America talking. Out loud. This book features more than 300 quotations from influential Americans, including Benjamin Franklin, Muhammad Ali, George W. Bush, Paris Hilton, and many more! This book chronologically records the historical timeline of America—one voice at a time.
America Sold Out
Author | : Ray Hope |
Publsiher | : Xulon Press |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2003-12 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781594671579 |
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Getting Out
Author | : Mark Ehrman |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2009-02-01 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 1934170453 |
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Many people are thinking about it; this book shows how it's done.