Records how a racist beating in a small Mississippi town ripples through generations, changing forever the lives of everyone involved in the incident
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Language: en
Pages: 528
Pages: 528
Records how a racist beating in a small Mississippi town ripples through generations, changing forever the lives of everyone involved in the incident
Language: en
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Pages: 336
The New York Times Bestseller Trina is eighteen and suffers from bi-polar disorder, making her paranoid, wild, and violent. Frightened by her own child, Keri searches for help, quickly learning that the mental health community can only offer her a seventy-two hour hold. After these three days Trina is off
Language: en
Pages: 748
Pages: 748
Struggling with her own personal issues after the Los Angeles riots, Esther Jackson, a Black employee at a downtown bank, is heartened when a Black man is hired as senior vice-president, until he sexually harasses her white friend and coworker
Language: en
Pages: 276
Pages: 276
"Potent . . . Unforgettable." --Bharati Mukherjee The New York Times Book Review "A REMARKABLE ACHIEVEMENT . . . . While Sweet Summer is infused with experiences unique to African-American culture, it speaks to the universals of human experience." --The Philadelphia Inquirer Written with the narrative force of fiction and
Language: en
Pages: 316
Pages: 316
This edited collection contends that if women are to enter into leadership positions at equal levels with their male colleagues, then sexism in all its forms must be acknowledged, attended to, and actively addressed. This interdisciplinary collection—Surviving Sexism in Academia: Strategies for Feminist Leadership—is part storytelling, part autoethnography, part action
