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1 sty 1994 · A winner of the Chicago Tribune ’s Heartland Award and the Lillian Smith Prize, Colored People is a pungent and poignant masterpiece of recollection, a work that extends and deepens our sense of African American history even as it entrances us with its bravura storytelling. Show more.
4 maj 2019 · This book is a historical introduction to the African and African-American nations. It covers such themes as slavery and emancipation, daily life during slavery and after, travel and migration, migration patterns, labor markets and industries, educational opportunities for both blacks and whites at different times in our nation's history but ...
11 kwi 1995 · The author recounts conversations among his aunts and uncles--conversations to which no white people would ever have been privy. The subjects are diverse--culinary things, people's impressions of the appearances of the children who were escorted by the Army to Central High School in Little Rock, AR in 1957 after Brown v.
Novels Featuring Miniature People. Any story that involves life-sized people interacting with fictitiously small, thinking peoples with language and culture on a par with humans, if not derived from humanity themselves. Examples: The Indian in the Cupboard, The Littles, Honey I Shrunk the Kids.
In 1833, President Andrew Jackson used a recess appointment to name Roger B. Taney, who was serving as Attorney General, as the Secretary of the Treasury.Jackson wanted Taney to help him dismantle the Second Bank of the United States.He helped Jackson draft a statement on the veto of the bank's renewal, and agreed to withdraw money from the bank. [2] In an ensuing fight, the Senate rejected ...
19 cze 2018 · In Nafissa Thompson-Spires’s debut short story collection, Heads of the Colored People, a doctor suggests that an adolescent girl’s sudden and overwhelming bout of hyperhidrosis is caused by anxiety, and then asks, “Is there a history of trauma?”.
10 kwi 2018 · A bold new voice, at once insolently sardonic and incisively compassionate, asserts itself amid a surging wave of young African-American fiction writers. In her debut story collection, Thompson-Spires flashes fearsome gifts for quirky characterization, irony-laden repartee, and edgy humor.
