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Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
"From Dhaka to Jersey City, ... a candid and moving account of growing up and a meditation on why people leave their homes and why they sometimes find it difficult to return. This unforgettable memoir will resonate with anyone carving out a place for herself in the world, straddling two cultures while trying to find a place to belong"--Provided by publisher.
985) Do all Indians live in tipis?: questions and answers from the National Museum of the American Indian
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Second edition.
Language
English
Description
"Debunking common myths and providing information about everything from katsina dolls to casinos and Pocahontas to powwows, Native staff members at the National Museum of the American Indian have handled a wide array of questions over the years. This bookpresents nearly 100 of their answers. This accessible and informative book counters deeply embedded stereotypes while providing a lively introduction to diverse Native histories and contemporary cultures...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"From the decks of the Mayflower straight through to Donald Trump's "American carnage," class has always played a role in American life. In this remarkable work, Steve Fraser twines our nation's past with his own family's history, deftly illustrating how class matters precisely because Americans work so hard to pretend it doesn't. He examines six signposts of American history--the settlements at Plymouth and Jamestown; the ratification of the Constitution;...
990) I am another you
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
"When Chinese filmmaker Nanfu Wang (Hooligan Sparrow) first came to America, Florida seemed like an exotic frontier full of theme parks, prehistoric swamp creatures, and sunburned denizens. As she travels wide-eyed from one city to another, she eventually encounters a charismatic young drifter named Dylan. Fascinated by his rejection of society's rules and unsure of his past, Nanfu follows Dylan with her camera on a journey that spans years, takes...
Pub. Date
©2005, ©2002.
Language
Arabic
Description
This film concerns a Palestinian named E.S. (played in utter silence with Keatonesque melancholy by director Suleiman) who observes the petty, hilariously repetitive neighbor-to-neighbor grievances of a community of middle-class Nazarenes. His father drives through the mostly Arab Israeli city, smiling and waving to his neighbors as he curses them under his breath. The Jerusalem dwelling son meets his Ramallah-based lover in an empty lot near an Israeli...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"America's preeminent law firms, investment banks, and management consultant firms are known for being difficult workplaces. Between long, stressful hours on the job, low odds of promotions, often-unrewarding work assignments, and "up-or-out" personnel practices, most people who begin their careers in these institutions leave within several years of starting. But life in these firms is especially difficult for Black professionals, who leave elite...
Pub. Date
2013
Language
Deutsch
Description
From the very beginning of his incandescent career, the New German Cinema enfant terrible Rainer Werner Fassbinder refused to play by the rules. His politically charged, experimental first films were influenced by the work of the antiteater, an avant-garde stage troupe that he had helped form in Munich. Collected her are five of those fascinating and confrontational works: Love is Colder than Death; Katzelmacher; Gods of the Plague; The American Soldier;...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Description
"In this memoir, Christine Suggs explores a trip they took to Mexico to visit family, as Christine embraces and rebels against their heritage and finds a sense of belonging"--
"Sixteen-year-old Christine takes their first solo trip to Mexico to spend a few weeks with their grandparents and tía. At first, Christine struggles to connect with family they don't yet share a language with. Seeing the places their mom grew up--the school she went to,...
998) A nation of outsiders: how the white middle class fell in love with rebellion in postwar America
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
1000) $5 a day
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
After being released from jail for a crime his dad committed, Ritchie Flynn Parker, the son of a thrifty conman, begrudgingly joins his father on the road, after years of separation. Ritchie Flynn is a reformed conman who doesn't want anything to do with his father. He also feels he is being conned into joining his father on the road, but soon learns the real reason for this, and the lessons he learns will change his life. Conman Nat Parker wants...
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