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Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
Directory of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution
Author: A Confiscated Memory
Author: Yfaat WeissPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231526261
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
Yfaat Weiss tells the story of an Arab neighborhood in Haifa that later acquired iconic status in Israeli memory. In the summer of 1959, Jewish immigrants from Morocco rioted against local and national Israeli authorities of European origin. The protests of Wadi Salib generated for the first time a kind of political awareness of an existing ethnic discrimination among Israeli Jews. However, before that, Wadi Salib existed as an impoverished Arab neighborhood. The war of 1948 displaced its residents, even though the presence of the absentees and the Arab name still linger. Weiss investigates the erasure of Wadi Salib's Arab heritage and its emergence as an Israeli site of memory. At the core of her quest lies the concept of property, as she merges the constraints of former Arab ownership with requirements and restrictions pertaining to urban development and the emergence of its entangled memory. Establishing an association between Wadi Salib's Arab refugees and subsequent Moroccan evacuees, Weiss allegorizes the Israeli amnesia about both eventual stories that of the former Arab inhabitants and that of the riots of 1959, occurring at different times but in one place. Describing each in detail, Weiss uncovers a complex, multilayered, and hidden history. Through her sensitive reading of events, she offers uncommon perspective on the personal and political making of Israeli belonging.
Sapphire's Grave
Author: Hilda Gurley HighgatePublisher: Crown
ISBN: 076790883X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
The debut of a major new talent, SAPPHIRE'S GRAVE tells the stories of several generations of African-American women, bringing their spirit and their sorrow to life with a power, sensitivity, and immediacy. In 1749 in Sierra Leone, a woman of fierce dignity is captured and forced onto a slave ship. On the harrowing voyage to the Americas, she is beaten for her unrelenting will and staunch pride. When she arrives, she gives birth to a daughter who is called Sapphire because of the "black-blue-black" complexion she shares with her mother. Sapphire has also inherited her mother's strength and defiant spirit, and despite a life of poverty and opression, she grows up to mother several daughters of her own. Even when tragedy strikes and part of Sapphire dies, her strength gives rise to a legend that will sustain the women who follow her, "each carrying something of her mother, her grandmother, her aunts; each passing on to her own daughters blessing and cursing, the consequences of her own choosing. Through the lives of Sapphire and her descendants, Hilda Gurley-Highgate not only creates a poignant and engrossing saga of black women in America, she brilliantly illuminates the meaning of roots and the links between women and their female ancestors, a tie that often appears tenuous, undefined, and distant, but is strong, palpable, and much closer than we imagine. Written in luminous prose, SAPPHIRE'S GRAVE is an astonishing work by an author poised to take the literary world by storm.
Bulletin
Author: National Catholic Welfare Council (U.S.)Publisher:
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Category : Catholic Action
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
The Drama
Author: DAUGHTERS OF VICTORY STREET
Author: PAM. HOWESPublisher:
ISBN: 9781800197497
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Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Who's who Among the Women of California
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
Text consists of biographical entries for California women and women's clubs; essays on women in specific occupations; a state-wide register of approximately 60,000 representative women of California with names and addresses alphabetically and geographically arranged; a list of more than 790 women's organizations with an explanatory key indicating each woman's membership affiliation; and indexes to text, illustrations, and advertisers. Includes portraits of biographees and photographs of many of the buildings in which the clubs met.
The English Journal of Education
Author: The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Author: Joseph StevensonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
The Patrons of Erin; Or, Some Account of St. Patrick and St. Brigid
Author: William Gouan TODDPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian saints
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description