Author: Carnegie Library of PittsburghPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Sun Moon Daughter
Author: David FixSame Family, Different Colors
Author: Lori L. TharpsPublisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807076791
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Weaving together personal stories, history, and analysis, Same Family, Different Colors explores the myriad ways skin-color politics affect family dynamics in the United States. Colorism and color bias—the preference for or presumed superiority of people based on the color of their skin—is a pervasive and damaging but rarely openly discussed phenomenon. In this unprecedented book, Lori L. Tharps explores the issue in African American, Latino, Asian American, and mixed-race families and communities by weaving together personal stories, history, and analysis. The result is a compelling portrait of the myriad ways skin-color politics affect family dynamics in the United States. Tharps, the mother of three mixed-race children with three distinct skin colors, uses her own family as a starting point to investigate how skin-color difference is dealt with. Her journey takes her across the country and into the lives of dozens of diverse individuals, all of whom have grappled with skin-color politics and speak candidly about experiences that sometimes scarred them. From a Latina woman who was told she couldn’t be in her best friend’s wedding photos because her dark skin would “spoil” the pictures, to a light-skinned African American man who spent his entire childhood “trying to be Black,” Tharps illuminates the complex and multifaceted ways that colorism affects our self-esteem and shapes our lives and relationships. Along with intimate and revealing stories, Tharps adds a historical overview and a contemporary cultural critique to contextualize how various communities and individuals navigate skin-color politics. Groundbreaking and urgent, Same Family, Different Colors is a solution-seeking journey to the heart of identity politics, so that this more subtle “cousin to racism,” in the author’s words, will be exposed and confronted.
Catalogue of Books in the Children's Department of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Author: Carnegie Library of PittsburghPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Klara and the Sun
Author: Kazuo IshiguroPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0593318188
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Once in a great while, a book comes along that changes our view of the world. This magnificent novel from the Nobel laureate and author of Never Let Me Go is “an intriguing take on how artificial intelligence might play a role in our futures ... a poignant meditation on love and loneliness” (The Associated Press). • A GOOD MORNING AMERICA Book Club Pick! Here is the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, who, from her place in the store, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass on the street outside. She remains hopeful that a customer will soon choose her. Klara and the Sun is a thrilling book that offers a look at our changing world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator, and one that explores the fundamental question: what does it mean to love?
Graded and Annotated Catalogue of Books in the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Author: Carnegie Library of PittsburghPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
The Iowa Normal Monthly
Author: Among Our Books
Author: Carnegie Library of PittsburghPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Bulletin
Author: Dover Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Classified
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
The Evangelist
Author: The Cumulative Book Index
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
A world list of books in the English language.