Author: Letitia Lehua Moffitt
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780984040599
Category : Families
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Sidewalk Dancing is a careful exploration of a diverse family's dynamics told with" the subtle wrist bends and brush strokes of a perpetual outsider. Multiple narratives told by a gifted multi-ethnic artist create a beautifully crooked mosaic. Miranda McGee, the daughter of shy, pragmatic Grace Chao and globetrotting dreamer George McGee, feels like a social pariah. She is a factory original, not bound to one land, nor one people. Miranda knows she doesn't entirely belong anywhere. She doesn't understand how her parents ever married, how they picked up and moved to Oahu. How, despite their cultural differences, they could start a new life, build a house, raise a child, and run a popular local diner. Miranda may feel like an outcast in Hawaii or New York, but it is her alienation from her family environment and her own identity that makes her realize that some people feel like outsiders no matter where they are, and this alone may be the one thing her family members have in common.
Sidewalk Dancing
Author: Letitia Lehua Moffitt
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780984040599
Category : Families
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Sidewalk Dancing is a careful exploration of a diverse family's dynamics told with" the subtle wrist bends and brush strokes of a perpetual outsider. Multiple narratives told by a gifted multi-ethnic artist create a beautifully crooked mosaic. Miranda McGee, the daughter of shy, pragmatic Grace Chao and globetrotting dreamer George McGee, feels like a social pariah. She is a factory original, not bound to one land, nor one people. Miranda knows she doesn't entirely belong anywhere. She doesn't understand how her parents ever married, how they picked up and moved to Oahu. How, despite their cultural differences, they could start a new life, build a house, raise a child, and run a popular local diner. Miranda may feel like an outcast in Hawaii or New York, but it is her alienation from her family environment and her own identity that makes her realize that some people feel like outsiders no matter where they are, and this alone may be the one thing her family members have in common.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780984040599
Category : Families
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Sidewalk Dancing is a careful exploration of a diverse family's dynamics told with" the subtle wrist bends and brush strokes of a perpetual outsider. Multiple narratives told by a gifted multi-ethnic artist create a beautifully crooked mosaic. Miranda McGee, the daughter of shy, pragmatic Grace Chao and globetrotting dreamer George McGee, feels like a social pariah. She is a factory original, not bound to one land, nor one people. Miranda knows she doesn't entirely belong anywhere. She doesn't understand how her parents ever married, how they picked up and moved to Oahu. How, despite their cultural differences, they could start a new life, build a house, raise a child, and run a popular local diner. Miranda may feel like an outcast in Hawaii or New York, but it is her alienation from her family environment and her own identity that makes her realize that some people feel like outsiders no matter where they are, and this alone may be the one thing her family members have in common.
Dancing the Politics of Pleasure at the New Orleans Second Line
Author: Rachel Carrico
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 025204715X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
On many Sundays, Black New Orleanians dance through city streets in Second Lines. These processions invite would-be spectators to join in, grooving to an ambulatory brass band for several hours. Though an increasingly popular attraction for tourists, parading provides the second liners themselves with a potent public expression of Black resistance. Rachel Carrico examines the parading bodies in motion as a form of negotiating and understanding power. Seeing pleasure as a bodily experience, Carrico reveals how second liners’ moves link joy and liberation, self and communal identities, play and dissent, and reclamations of place. As she shows, dancers’ choices allow them to access the pleasure of reclaiming self and city through motion and rhythm while expanding a sense of the possible in the present and for the future. In-depth and empathetic, Dancing the Politics of Pleasure at the New Orleans Second Line blends analysis with a chorus of Black voices to reveal an indelible facet of Black culture in the Crescent City.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 025204715X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
On many Sundays, Black New Orleanians dance through city streets in Second Lines. These processions invite would-be spectators to join in, grooving to an ambulatory brass band for several hours. Though an increasingly popular attraction for tourists, parading provides the second liners themselves with a potent public expression of Black resistance. Rachel Carrico examines the parading bodies in motion as a form of negotiating and understanding power. Seeing pleasure as a bodily experience, Carrico reveals how second liners’ moves link joy and liberation, self and communal identities, play and dissent, and reclamations of place. As she shows, dancers’ choices allow them to access the pleasure of reclaiming self and city through motion and rhythm while expanding a sense of the possible in the present and for the future. In-depth and empathetic, Dancing the Politics of Pleasure at the New Orleans Second Line blends analysis with a chorus of Black voices to reveal an indelible facet of Black culture in the Crescent City.
Good Housekeeping
First reader
Author: Sidney Grant Firman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Readers
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Readers
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Deadlock
Author: Sean Black
Publisher: SBD Publishing
ISBN: 1909062979
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
One prisoner. One bodyguard. One week to stay alive. The California State Prison at Pelican Bay houses three and a half thousand of America’s most dangerous prisoners. Three thousand, four hundred and ninety nine of them want the remaining inmate dead. Your job is to keep him alive until he testifies… Elite bodyguard Ryan Lock and his trusted friend, Ty Johnson, have just become convicted felons, sentenced to twenty years in Pelican Bay, California’s notorious supermax prison. Or at least that’s what the FBI and the United States Justice Department want everyone to believe. Read what others are saying about award-winning author, Sean Black: "Readers, meet Ryan Lock - a tough-guy hero for a new age" - Gregg Hurwitz, New York Times bestselling author of Orphan X" Sean Black writes with the pace of Lee Child and the heart of Harlan Coben" - Joseph Finder, New York Times bestselling author of Paranoia "Leaner and meaner with every book" - Meg Gardiner, New York Times bestselling author of The Nightmare Thief.
Publisher: SBD Publishing
ISBN: 1909062979
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
One prisoner. One bodyguard. One week to stay alive. The California State Prison at Pelican Bay houses three and a half thousand of America’s most dangerous prisoners. Three thousand, four hundred and ninety nine of them want the remaining inmate dead. Your job is to keep him alive until he testifies… Elite bodyguard Ryan Lock and his trusted friend, Ty Johnson, have just become convicted felons, sentenced to twenty years in Pelican Bay, California’s notorious supermax prison. Or at least that’s what the FBI and the United States Justice Department want everyone to believe. Read what others are saying about award-winning author, Sean Black: "Readers, meet Ryan Lock - a tough-guy hero for a new age" - Gregg Hurwitz, New York Times bestselling author of Orphan X" Sean Black writes with the pace of Lee Child and the heart of Harlan Coben" - Joseph Finder, New York Times bestselling author of Paranoia "Leaner and meaner with every book" - Meg Gardiner, New York Times bestselling author of The Nightmare Thief.
Western Journal of Education
The Winston Readers
Author: Sidney Grant Firman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Readers
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Readers
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
American Education
The McEvoy Magazine for School and Home
Author: Thomas Jefferson McEvoy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
Oh, Money! Money!
Author: Eleanor Hodgman Porter
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Though best remembered for her contributions to juvenile literature as the creator of the beloved Pollyanna novels, author Eleanor H. Porter also wrote a number of novels intended for general audiences. Her gift for creating memorable characters is on full display in Oh, Money Money , in which an idiosyncratic aristocrat decides to determine which of his relatives is worthy of being bequeathed his vast fortune by giving them each a large sum of money and observing their subsequent...
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Though best remembered for her contributions to juvenile literature as the creator of the beloved Pollyanna novels, author Eleanor H. Porter also wrote a number of novels intended for general audiences. Her gift for creating memorable characters is on full display in Oh, Money Money , in which an idiosyncratic aristocrat decides to determine which of his relatives is worthy of being bequeathed his vast fortune by giving them each a large sum of money and observing their subsequent...