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When a crocodile eats the sun
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Peter Godwin |
After his father's heart attack in 1984, Peter Godwin began a series of pilgrimages back to Zimbabwe, the land of his birth, from Manhattan, where he now lives. On these frequent visits to check on h… |
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Indian work
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Daniel H. Usner |
202 pages : 25 cm |
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Honky
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Dalton Conley |
"This memoir is the coming-of-age story of a white boy growing up in a neighborhood of predominantly African American and Latino housing projects on New York's Lower East Side. Vividly evoking the de… |
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Awakening to equality
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Karl E. Lutze |
"In 1945, Karl Lutze was a young white pastor assigned to an African American church in Muskogee, Oklahoma. His experiences ministering to black congregations there and, later, in Tulsa provide a uni… |
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Light, bright, and damned near white
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Stephanie Rose Bird |
The election of America's first biracial president brings the question dramatically to the fore. What does it mean to be biracial or tri-racial in the United States today? Anthropologist Stephanie Bi… |
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Scraping by
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Seth Rockman |
"Enslaved mariners, white seamstresses, Irish dockhands, free black domestic servants, and native-born street sweepers. All navigated the low-end labor market in post-revolutionary Baltimore. Seth Ro… |
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