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Author
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
On the morning of July 16, 1964, a white police officer in New York City shot and killed a black teenager, James Powell, across the street from the high school where he was attending summer classes. Two nights later, a peaceful demonstration in Central Harlem degenerated into violent protests. During the next week, thousands of rioters looted stores from Brooklyn to Rochester and pelted police with bottles and rocks. In the symbolic and historic heart...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
©1945
Language
English
Description
The dream of Cyrus K. Holliday for a great railroad in the Southwest was based on the fabulous legend of the old Santa Fe Trail over which, from the time of the Conquistadores, had come the riches of New Spain : embroidered shawls, the plumes of tropical birds, laces, sugar, wine and silk. Across the plains to the Missouri they came in ever-increasing quantities and found their way to the growing land east of the Mississippi. To Santa Fe the traders...
Author
Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The author relates the experiences of Arnovis, a 24-year-old Salvadoran man in search of asylum, to illustrate the current context and discussion of human migration into the United States, as well as other Western nations.
"The first comprehensive, in-depth book on the Trump administration's assault on asylum protections. Arnovis couldn't stay in El Salvador. If he didn't leave, a local gangster promised that his family would dress in mourning--that...
Publisher
Coffee House Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Overview: From the White Stripes' "The Big Three Killed My Baby" to Eminem's "Lose Yourself"; from the folk anthems of Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie to the poems of Walt Whitman and Amiri Baraka; from the stories of Willa Cather and Bret Lott to the rabble-rousing work of Michael Moore-this transcendent volume touches upon all aspects of working-class life. A collection about living while barely making one, about layoffs and picket lines, about farmers,...
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