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Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Quijana is a biracial girl, desperately trying to understand the changes that are going on in her life; her mother rarely gets home before bedtime, her father suddenly seems to be trying to get in touch with his Guatemalan roots (even though he never bothered to teach Quijana Spanish), she is about to start seventh grade in the Texas town where they live and she is worried about fitting in--and Quijana suspects that her parents are...
67) Keep quiet
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
As vice-president of Hungary's far-right extremist party, Csanad Szegedi espoused anti-Semitic rhetoric and Holocaust denials, and founded the Hungarian Guard, a now-banned militia inspired by a pro-Nazi group complicit in the murder of thousands of Jews during WWII. But his life was soon upended when Szegedi's maternal grandparents were revealed to be Jewish and his beloved grandmother an Auschwitz survivor who had hidden her faith, fearing further...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"In Kinds Come First, the distinguished psychologist Jerome Kagan argues that; contrary to the common assumption; age, gender, social class, and ethnicity affect the outcomes of psychological measures, and he questions the popular practice that uses statistical procedures to remove the effects of these categories to confirm a favored predictor-outcome relation. The idea that psychological measures have meanings that transcend the kinds of subjects,...
70) Magical habits
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Monica Huerta draws on her experiences growing up in her family's Mexican restaurants and her life as an academic to sketch out habits of living that allow us to consider what it means to live with history as we are caught up in it and how those histories bear on our capacities to make sense of our lives"--
73) I'm new here
Author
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
Describes a young Salvadoran girl's experience integrating into an American school.
75) MLK/FBI
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered today as an American hero: a bridge-builder, a shrewd political tactician, and a moral leader. Yet throughout his history-altering political career, he was often treated by U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies like an enemy of the state. This documentary lays out a detailed account of the FBI surveillance that dogged King's activism throughout the '50s and '60s, fueled by the racist and red-baiting...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Your identity can be a lot of things: your heritage, gender, hometown, school, faith, or even what you've been through. The awesome thing is nobody is just one thing! Your identity can grow and change as you do! This book explores all the different parts of identity: who you are, what you love, and what's true about you. Jimmy Gomez--or better known as Taboo Nawasha--is a husband, father, cancer survivor, MC, performer, writer, creator, and Indigenous...
77) New immigrant literatures in the United States: a sourcebook to our multicultural literary heritage
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Author
Series
Saga (Brian K. Vaughan) volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Description
"When two soldiers from opposite sides of a never-ending galactic war fall in love, they risk everything to bring a fragile new life into a dangerous old universe" -- p. [4] of cover.
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