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Author: Lon Kurashige Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 9780520227422 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 300
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A history of the struggles over identity within the Japanese American community, using ethnic festivals to reveal the conflicts from the 1930s (a period of wealthy Japanese enclaves) through the WWII internment to the late 20th century influx of investment from Japan.
Author: Barb Adams Publisher: Kansas City Star Books ISBN: 9780972273930 Category : Crafts & Hobbies Languages : en Pages : 140
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This much-talked about block-of-the-month project published in The Kansas City Star is available as a book! The patterns celebrate America's greatest virtues, such as Liberty, Opportunity, Diversity, Humor and more. Created by best-selling authors and the women of Blackbird Designs, the book also features six projects.
Author: Cheryl Jamison Publisher: Harvard Common Press ISBN: 9781558322912 Category : Cooking Languages : en Pages : 516
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Presents three hundred recipes for all-American standbys and regional favorites hot off the grill, along with recommended techniques and grilling lore.
Author: Peter Guttman Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1510778551 Category : Photography Languages : en Pages : 208
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A New Edition of Peter Guttman's Dazzling Photographic Treasury of Holiday Lights and Celebrations Nothing reminds us of the good things in life—family, friendship, food, and good cheer—more than Christmas. With stunning images and illuminating text, award-winning photographer Peter Guttman offers a dazzling overview of the wintry landscapes, traditions, ceremonies, spectacles, and pastimes of the holiday season throughout the United States. Delve into the landscapes and streetscapes of Christmas in America and you can almost smell the frosted scent of snow-covered pines, of chestnuts roasting, and of family meals being shared. In the East, we find the spirit of the season in a cozy Vermont country inn, or an “army of elves” in a Philadelphia parade, or the sweeping grace of the sugar plum fairies in the Nutcracker Suite. In the heartland, we dogsled through a crystal wilderness in Minnesota and discover blazing bonfires in Louisiana. The snowy cliffs of the Grand Canyon, steam trains weaving high amongst the Rockies, the textured pueblos of New Mexico, the almost heavenly night sky of Utah’s Monument Valley, and the indescribable glazed beauty of Yosemite reflect the West. Like the holiday season itself, Christmas in America is a treasure.
Author: Ralph Ellison Publisher: Modern Library ISBN: 0593242106 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 401
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The radiant, posthumous second novel by the visionary author of Invisible Man, featuring an introduction and a new postscript by Ralph Ellison's literary executor, John F. Callahan, and a preface by National Book Award-winning author Charles Johnson “Ralph Ellison’s generosity, humor and nimble language are, of course, on display in Juneteenth, but it is his vigorous intellect that rules the novel. . . . A majestic narrative concept.”—Toni Morrison In Washington, D.C., in the 1950s, Adam Sunraider, a race-baiting senator from New England, is mortally wounded by an assassin’s bullet while making a speech on the Senate floor. To the shock of all who think they know him, Sunraider calls out from his deathbed for Alonzo Hickman, an old black minister, to be brought to his side. The reverend is summoned; the two are left alone. “Tell me what happened while there’s still time,” demands the dying Sunraider. Out of their conversation, and the inner rhythms of memories whose weight has been borne in silence for many long years, a story emerges. Senator Sunraider, once known as Bliss, was raised by Reverend Hickman in a black community steeped in religion and music (not unlike Ralph Ellison’s own childhood home) and was brought up to be a preaching prodigy in a joyful black Baptist ministry that traveled throughout the South and the Southwest. Together one last time, the two men retrace the course of their shared life in an “anguished attempt,” Ellison once put it, “to arrive at the true shape and substance of a sundered past and its meaning.” In the end, the two men confront their most painful memories, memories that hold the key to understanding the mysteries of kinship and race that bind them, and to the senator’s confronting how deeply estranged he had become from his true identity. In Juneteenth, Ralph Ellison evokes the rhythms of jazz and gospel and ordinary speech to tell a powerful tale of a prodigal son in the twentieth century. At the time of his death in 1994, Ellison was still expanding his novel in other directions, envisioning a grand, perhaps multivolume, story cycle. Always, in his mind, the character Hickman and the story of Sunraider’s life from birth to death were the dramatic heart of the narrative. And so, with the aid of Ellison’s widow, Fanny, his literary executor, John Callahan, has edited this magnificent novel at the center of Ralph Ellison’s forty-year work in progress—its author’s abiding testament to the country he so loved and to its many unfinished tasks.
Author: Eric V. Copage Publisher: Quill ISBN: Category : African American cookery Languages : en Pages : 400
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Known as "first fruits of the harvest" in Swahili, Kwanzaa is an annual holiday of African American cultural heritage, celebrated between December 26 and New Year's Day. Now in paperback after its celebrated hardcover release two years ago, Kwanzaa is a complete guide to the holiday's history and food. Illus.
Author: Kate DePalma Publisher: Barefoot Books ISBN: 1782859373 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 42
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Lyrical, sensory nonfiction text and vibrant illustrations invite readers to experience a child’s-eye view of 13 holidays around the world, such as the Spring Festival in China, Inti Raymi in Peru, Eid al-Fitr in Egypt, Día de Muertos in Mexico and the New Yam Festival in Nigeria. Includes pronunciation guides, a global festival calendar and educational notes about why we celebrate.
Author: Kathy Allen Publisher: Capstone ISBN: 1404855424 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 18
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In the United States, the Fourth of July means picnics, parades, and fireworks. But it wasn't always so. The First Independence Day happened during a time of war. Here's the story.