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Author: Arami Walker Publisher: ISBN: 9780578248899 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 94
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Story 400 is a collection of poetry written by writer and musician, A.C. Walker. In August 2019, she began writing this book at 25 years old with the intention of reflecting on history and modernity. In 1619, the first group of African people were taken to North America. 400 years later A.C.Walker reflects on 1/12 of this historical timeline with roots in Africa and Europe. Her reflections are on love, progress, trauma, celebration, ecology, music, history, and the promise for tomorrow. I found these lyrics and poems in the midst of transformation, a global pandemic, struggle, fear, joy, love, and deep introspection. In the years to come, I hope we all remember who we are and the importance of our intimate communities and the environment.
Author: Arami Walker Publisher: ISBN: 9780578248899 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 94
Book Description
Story 400 is a collection of poetry written by writer and musician, A.C. Walker. In August 2019, she began writing this book at 25 years old with the intention of reflecting on history and modernity. In 1619, the first group of African people were taken to North America. 400 years later A.C.Walker reflects on 1/12 of this historical timeline with roots in Africa and Europe. Her reflections are on love, progress, trauma, celebration, ecology, music, history, and the promise for tomorrow. I found these lyrics and poems in the midst of transformation, a global pandemic, struggle, fear, joy, love, and deep introspection. In the years to come, I hope we all remember who we are and the importance of our intimate communities and the environment.
Author: Nancy Isenberg Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 110160848X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 482
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The New York Times bestseller A New York Times Notable and Critics’ Top Book of 2016 Longlisted for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction One of NPR's 10 Best Books Of 2016 Faced Tough Topics Head On NPR's Book Concierge Guide To 2016’s Great Reads San Francisco Chronicle's Best of 2016: 100 recommended books A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2016 Globe & Mail 100 Best of 2016 “Formidable and truth-dealing . . . necessary.” —The New York Times “This eye-opening investigation into our country’s entrenched social hierarchy is acutely relevant.” —O Magazine In her groundbreaking bestselling history of the class system in America, Nancy Isenberg upends history as we know it by taking on our comforting myths about equality and uncovering the crucial legacy of the ever-present, always embarrassing—if occasionally entertaining—poor white trash. “When you turn an election into a three-ring circus, there’s always a chance that the dancing bear will win,” says Isenberg of the political climate surrounding Sarah Palin. And we recognize how right she is today. Yet the voters who boosted Trump all the way to the White House have been a permanent part of our American fabric, argues Isenberg. The wretched and landless poor have existed from the time of the earliest British colonial settlement to today's hillbillies. They were alternately known as “waste people,” “offals,” “rubbish,” “lazy lubbers,” and “crackers.” By the 1850s, the downtrodden included so-called “clay eaters” and “sandhillers,” known for prematurely aged children distinguished by their yellowish skin, ragged clothing, and listless minds. Surveying political rhetoric and policy, popular literature and scientific theories over four hundred years, Isenberg upends assumptions about America’s supposedly class-free society––where liberty and hard work were meant to ensure real social mobility. Poor whites were central to the rise of the Republican Party in the early nineteenth century, and the Civil War itself was fought over class issues nearly as much as it was fought over slavery. Reconstruction pitted poor white trash against newly freed slaves, which factored in the rise of eugenics–-a widely popular movement embraced by Theodore Roosevelt that targeted poor whites for sterilization. These poor were at the heart of New Deal reforms and LBJ’s Great Society; they haunt us in reality TV shows like Here Comes Honey Boo Boo and Duck Dynasty. Marginalized as a class, white trash have always been at or near the center of major political debates over the character of the American identity. We acknowledge racial injustice as an ugly stain on our nation’s history. With Isenberg’s landmark book, we will have to face the truth about the enduring, malevolent nature of class as well.
Author: Fred Bowen Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101642661 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 40
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Ted Williams hit .406 for the season in 1941? a feat not matched since. In this inspirational picture book, authentic sportswriting and rich, classic illustrations bring to life the truly spectacular story of the Red Sox legend, whose hard work and perseverance make him the perfect role model for baseball enthusiasts of all ages.
Author: Chris Formant Publisher: Permuted Press+ORM ISBN: 1682618331 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 329
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Two young men enlist in the Maryland Militia during the Revolutionary War in this action-packed tale based on the lost story of “America’s 400 Spartans.” On a marshy Brooklyn battlefield on August 27, 1776, four hundred men from Baltimore, Maryland assembled to do battle against a vastly superior British army. Seemingly overnight, these young soldiers had matured from naïve teenagers to perhaps the most important, yet most forgotten, citizen soldiers in all of American history: “America’s 400 Spartans.” Saving Washington follows young Joshua Bolton and his childhood friend Ben Wright, a freed Black man, as they witness British tyranny firsthand, become enraptured by the cause, and ultimately enlist to defend their new nation in a battle that galvanized the American nation on the eve of its birth. Chris Formant’s gripping tale blends real-life historical figures and events with richly developed fictional characters in a multi-dimensional world of intrigue, romance, comradeship, and sacrifice, transporting us two-and-a-half centuries back in time to the bustling streets of Baltimore and the bloody, smoke-filled carnage of battle in Brooklyn. Praise for Saving Washington “An extraordinary and riveting read from cover to cover, Saving Washington is a skillfully crafted and original novel by an author with a distinctive and thoroughly engaging narrative storytelling style.” —Midwest Book Review “Meticulously researched. . . . This is among the finest period pieces ever to chronicle the events that gave birth to American independence. A pitch-perfect study of the grit that defined a fledgling America and a historical thriller extraordinaire.” —BookTrib
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