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A bite-sized history of France: gastronomic tales of revolution, war, and enlightenment
Par Stéphane Henaut, Jeni Mitchell. 2018
A French cheesemonger and American academic examine the history of France back to the Gauls through the lens of their…
gastronomic traditions. Wines, cheeses, liquors, truffles, vegetables, fruits, seafood, meats, and more are analyzed as part of the exploration of facts and myths. 2018Life at the Dakota: New York's most unusual address
Par Stephen Birmingham. 2016
Author of California Rich (DB 18450) and America's Secret Aristocracy (DB 27656) profiles residents and goings-on at the legendary New…
York City apartment house, the Dakota. Details its construction in the 1880s and what life was like working and living there through the twentieth century. 1979America is in the heart: a personal history (Classics of Asian American Literature)
Par Carlos Bulosan. 2014
Memoir by Filipino poet reflecting on his life in the Philippines and America. Describes the poverty his family faced and…
the loss of family members through sickness and other events. Examines the experience of immigrants to America who are made to feel as if they are criminals. Some violence. 1946Oye, Trump
Par Andrés Manuel López Obrador. 2017
En 2017, el político mexicano Andrés Manuel López Obrador (conocido comúnmente como AMLO) recorrió los Estados Unidos y publicó estas…
reflexiones sobre la inmigración y la política, en parte en respuesta a la administración de Trump. En 2018, AMLO fue elegido presidente de México en una victoria aplastante. Epílogo de Elena PoniatowskaDark emu: Aboriginal Australia and the birth of agriculture
Par Bruce Pascoe. 2018
Examination of the ways aboriginal Australians developed the land to support their societies long before colonization of the continent by…
European explorers. Topics include agriculture, aquaculture, population and housing, storage and preservation, fire, cultural norms, non-Aboriginal agriculture techniques, and understanding history to improve the future. 2018Dinner in Camelot: the night America's greatest scientists, writers, and scholars partied at the Kennedy White House
Par Joseph A. Esposito. 2018
Account of a dinner on April 29, 1962, hosted by President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy for Nobel laureates, writers,…
scientists, historians, and artists. Discusses the historical context of the dinner, notable interactions, and the many repercussions in the years following the dinner. 2018Examines the lives of five African American athletes who were teammates on the UCLA football team in the late 1930s,…
a time when most college athletic programs were entirely white. Chronicles the discrimination they faced, and how they helped to transform college sports. Some strong language. 2017Our stories, our voices: 21 YA authors get real about injustice, empowerment, and growing up female in America
Par Ellen Hopkins, Hannah Moskowitz, Stephanie Kuehnert, Amy Reed, Jenny Torres Sanchez, Martha Brockenbrough, Maurene Goo, Julie Murphy, Alexandra Duncan, Brandy Colbert, Aisha Saeed, Jaye Robin Brown, Sona Charaipotra, Amber Smith, Sandhya Menon, Nina LaCour, Christine Day, Anna-Marie McLemore, Ilene I. W. Gregorio, Somaiya Daud, Tracy Deonn. 2018
A collection of essays from twenty-one Young Adult authors exploring their experiences of injustice, empowerment, and growing up female in…
America. Includes an editor's note identifying a few essays that deal with sensitive subject matter. Strong language and some violence. For senior high and older readers. 2018An anthology of the works of American expatriate author Paul Bowles (1910-1999). Includes The Delicate Prey and Other Stories (1950),…
A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard (1962), Things Gone and Things Still Here (1977), Midnight Mass (1981), and more. Edited by Daniel Halpern. Some strong language. 2002Face: One Square Foot of Skin
Par Justine Bateman. 2021
Writer/director/producer Justine Bateman examines the aggressive ways that society reacts to the aging of women's faces. Face is a book…
of fictional vignettes that examines the fear and vestigial evolutionary habits that have caused women and men to cultivate the imagined reality that older women’s faces are unattractive, undesirable, and something to be ""fixed"". Based on ""older face"" experiences of the author, Justine Bateman, and those of dozens of women and men she interviewed, the book presents the listener with the many root causes for society’s often negative attitudes toward women’s older faces. In doing so, Bateman rejects those ingrained assumptions about the necessity of fixing older women’s faces, suggesting that we move on from judging someone’s worth based on the condition of her face. With impassioned prose and a laser-sharp eye, Bateman argues that a woman's confidence should grow as she ages, not be destroyed by society's misled attitude about that one square foot of skin.Queen of bebop: the musical lives of Sarah Vaughan
Par Elaine M. Hayes. 2017
Music historian explores the life and legacy of jazz singer Vaughan (1924-1990). Draws on interviews with friends and former colleagues…
to chronicle her career highs and lows, as well as the marriages that took their toll on her both emotionally and financially. Some strong language. 2017Leveling the playing field: the story of the Syracuse 8 (Sports and Entertainment)
Par David Marc. 2015
Account of the African American players who petitioned for racial equality on the 1969-1970 Syracuse University football team. The charges…
of racial discrimination were contested by white players and the head coach, but the petition sparked nationwide protests. Includes interviews with surviving members of the Syracuse Eight. 2015Well-behaved women seldom make history
Par Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. 2007
Historian--and coiner of the title phrase embraced by feminists--explores women who made their mark on history, defying societal expectations and…
challenging the very way that history is written. She gives examples of such women, including warriors, artists, writers, slaves, and modern feminists. 2007Driven: The Secret Lives of Taxi Drivers (Untold Lives)
Par Marcello Di Cintio. 2021
In conversations with drivers ranging from veterans of foreign wars to Indigenous women protecting one another, Di Cintio explores the…
borderland of the North American taxi. “The taxi,” writes Marcello Di Cintio, “is a border.” Occupying the space between public and private, a cab brings together people who might otherwise never have met—yet most of us sit in the back and stare at our phones. Nowhere else do people occupy such intimate quarters and share so little. In a series of interviews with drivers, their backgrounds ranging from the Iraqi National Guard, to the Westboro Baptist Church, to an arranged marriage that left one woman stranded in a foreign country with nothing but a suitcase, Driven seeks out those missed conversations, revealing the unknown stories that surround us. Travelling across borders of all kinds, from battlefields and occupied lands to midnight fares and Tim Hortons parking lots, Di Cintio chronicles the many journeys each driver made merely for the privilege to turn on their rooflight. Yet these lives aren’t defined by tragedy or frustration but by ingenuity and generosity, hope and indomitable hard work. From night school and sixteen-hour shifts to schemes for athletic careers and the secret Shakespeare of Dylan’s lyrics, Di Cintio’s subjects share the passions and triumphs that drive them. Like the people encountered in its pages, Driven is an unexpected delight, and that most wondrous of all things: a book that will change the way you see the world around you. A paean to the power of personality and perseverance, it’s a compassionate and joyful tribute to the men and women who take us where we want to go.Thick: and other essays
Par Tressie McMillan Cottom. 2019
Eight essays exploring the author's experiences as a black woman. "In the Name of Beauty" examines the reactions to an…
essay she wrote regarding Miley Cyrus in which she called herself unattractive. Strong language and some descriptions of sex. 2019The British in India: a social history of the Raj
Par David Gilmour. 2018
Examines day-to-day life among the British who chose to reside in India and how it changed across several centuries of…
English presence and rule. Reveals the country through the eyes of these inhabitants and the limits of that perspective. 2018Against white feminism: Notes on disruption
Par Rafia Zakaria. 2021
A radically inclusive, intersectional, and transnational approach to the fight for women’s rights. Upper-middle-class white women have long been heralded…
as "experts" on feminism. They have presided over multinational feminist organizations and written much of what we consider the feminist canon, espousing sexual liberation and satisfaction, LGBTQ inclusion, and racial solidarity, all while branding the language of the movement itself in whiteness and speaking over Black and Brown women in an effort to uphold privilege and perceived cultural superiority. An American Muslim woman, attorney, and political philosopher, Rafia Zakaria champions a reconstruction of feminism in Against White Feminism , centering women of color in this transformative overview and counter-manifesto to white feminism’s global, long-standing affinity with colonial, patriarchal, and white supremacist ideals. Covering such ground as the legacy of the British feminist imperialist savior complex and "the colonial thesis that all reform comes from the West" to the condescension of the white feminist–led "aid industrial complex" and the conflation of sexual liberation as the "sum total of empowerment," Zakaria follows in the tradition of intersectional feminist forebears Kimberlé Crenshaw, Adrienne Rich, and Audre Lorde. Zakaria ultimately refutes and reimagines the apolitical aspirations of white feminist empowerment in this staggering, radical critique, with Black and Brown feminist thought at the forefront.Afropean: Notes from black europe
Par Johny Pitts. 2019
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Afropean written and read by Johny Pitts. In the face of growing racial discrimination,…
anti-immigrant sentiment and the spectre of terrorism looming large over an economically stricken continent, Afropean is an on-the-ground documentary of areas where Europeans of African descent are juggling their multiple allegiances and forging new identities: too indelibly woven into Europe to identify with Africa and yet struggling with outdated ideas of what it means to be European. Afropean will plot an alternative map of the continent, taking the reader to places like Cova Da Moura, the Cape Verdean shantytown on the outskirts of Lisbon with its own underground economy, and Rinkeby, the area of Stockholm that is eighty per cent Muslim. The author visits the former Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow, where West African students are still making the most of Cold War ties with the USSR, and Clichy Sous Bois in Paris, which gave birth to the 2005 riotsEntertaining race: Performing blackness in america
Par Michael Eric Dyson. 2021
This program is read by the author From the New York Times bestselling author of Tears We Cannot Stop For…
more than thirty years, Michael Eric Dyson has played a prominent role in the nation as a public intellectual, university professor, cultural critic, social activist and ordained Baptist minister. He has presented a rich and resourceful set of ideas about American history and culture. Now for the first time he brings together the various components of his multihued identity and eclectic pursuits. Entertaining Race is a testament to Dyson's consistent celebration of the outsized impact of African American culture and politics on this country. Black people were forced to entertain white people in slavery, have been forced to entertain the idea of race from the start, and must find entertaining ways to make race an object of national conversation. Dyson's career embodies these and other ways of performing Blackness, and in these pages, he entertains race with his pen, voice and body, and occasionally, alongside luminaries like Cornel West, David Blight, Ibram X. Kendi, Master P, MC Lyte, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Alicia Garza, John McWhorter, and Jordan Peterson. Most of this work will be new to listeners, a fresh light for many of his long-time fans and an inspiring introduction for newcomers. Entertaining Race offers a compelling vision from the mind and heart of one of America's most important and enduring voices. A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Press " Entertaining Race is a splendid way to spend quality time reading one of the most remarkable thinkers in America today." — Speaker Nancy Pelosi "To read Entertaining Race is to encounter the life-long vocation of a teacher who preaches, a preacher who teaches and an activist who cannot rest until all are set free." — Senator Reverend Raphael WarnockCarefree black girls: A celebration of black women in popular culture
Par Zeba Blay. 2021
Carefree Black Girls is an exploration and celebration of black women's identity and impact on pop culture, as well as…
the enduring stereotypes they face, from a film and culture critic for HuffPost . In 2013, Zeba Blay was one of the first people to coin the viral term "carefreeblackgirls" on Twitter. It was, as she says, "a way to carve out a space of celebration and freedom for black women online." In this collection of essays, Blay expands on that initial idea by looking at the significance of influential black women throughout history, including Josephine Baker, Michelle Obama, Rihanna, and Cardi B. Incorporating her own personal experiences as well as astute analysis of these famous women, Blay presents an empowering and celebratory portrait of black women and their effect on American culture. She also examines the many stereotypes that have clung to black women throughout history, whether it is the Mammy, the Angry Black Woman, or more recently, the Thot