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Category : Liberalism (Religion)
Languages : en
Pages : 428
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Little Liberia
Author: Jonny Steinberg
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0099524228
Category : Liberia
Languages : en
Pages : 307
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"In his latest book, Little Liberia: An African Odyssey in New York, Steinberg takes us to Park Hill Avenue on Staten Island, where a community of Liberians have made their home. Through interviews and shadowing of two community leaders, Steinberg strives to understand the peculiarities of this community; while it appears at times as if a piece of Liberia has been sliced off and dropped in New York, the Park Hill community is ravaged by conflict between different interest groups. To understand what is going on in 2008 New York, Steinberg travels back - back to Liberia and back to the country's tragic recent history of civil war, military coups and mass exterminations. The story of Liberia is a gruesome and miserable one but Steinberg's empathy for his subjects never allows the narrative to descend into voyeurism. The combination of hard nosed investigative journalism, a gift for storytelling and an obvious empathy for the characters that he shadows makes Steinberg an author who demands to be read, whatever the subject matter. A brilliant and important book which will delight Steinberg's thousands of followers and doubtless earn him many more"--Book Lounge.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0099524228
Category : Liberia
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
"In his latest book, Little Liberia: An African Odyssey in New York, Steinberg takes us to Park Hill Avenue on Staten Island, where a community of Liberians have made their home. Through interviews and shadowing of two community leaders, Steinberg strives to understand the peculiarities of this community; while it appears at times as if a piece of Liberia has been sliced off and dropped in New York, the Park Hill community is ravaged by conflict between different interest groups. To understand what is going on in 2008 New York, Steinberg travels back - back to Liberia and back to the country's tragic recent history of civil war, military coups and mass exterminations. The story of Liberia is a gruesome and miserable one but Steinberg's empathy for his subjects never allows the narrative to descend into voyeurism. The combination of hard nosed investigative journalism, a gift for storytelling and an obvious empathy for the characters that he shadows makes Steinberg an author who demands to be read, whatever the subject matter. A brilliant and important book which will delight Steinberg's thousands of followers and doubtless earn him many more"--Book Lounge.
Unity
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Category : Liberalism (Religion)
Languages : en
Pages : 428
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Category : Liberalism (Religion)
Languages : en
Pages : 428
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Our Little Adventures
Author: Tabitha Paige
Publisher: Paige Tate & Company
ISBN: 1950968014
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
"Follow along with Little Fox as he plans a surprise picnic for his friend Owl,"--
Publisher: Paige Tate & Company
ISBN: 1950968014
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
"Follow along with Little Fox as he plans a surprise picnic for his friend Owl,"--
The Public
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Languages : en
Pages : 1112
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Languages : en
Pages : 1112
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The Pilgrim's Progress
Author: John Bunyan
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Category : Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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Category : Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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Journal of Education
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1448
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1448
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The Crisis
Author: William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 906
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A record of the darker races.
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 906
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A record of the darker races.
Liberia, South Carolina
Author: John M. Coggeshall
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469640864
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
In 2007, while researching mountain culture in upstate South Carolina, anthropologist John M. Coggeshall stumbled upon the small community of Liberia in the Blue Ridge foothills. There he met Mable Owens Clarke and her family, the remaining members of a small African American community still living on land obtained immediately after the Civil War. This intimate history tells the story of five generations of the Owens family and their friends and neighbors, chronicling their struggles through slavery, Reconstruction, the Jim Crow era, and the desegregation of the state. Through hours of interviews with Mable and her relatives, as well as friends and neighbors, Coggeshall presents an ethnographic history that allows members of a largely ignored community to speak and record their own history for the first time. This story sheds new light on the African American experience in Appalachia, and in it Coggeshall documents the community's 150-year history of resistance to white oppression, while offering a new way to understand the symbolic relationship between residents and the land they occupy, tying together family, memory, and narratives to explain this connection.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469640864
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
In 2007, while researching mountain culture in upstate South Carolina, anthropologist John M. Coggeshall stumbled upon the small community of Liberia in the Blue Ridge foothills. There he met Mable Owens Clarke and her family, the remaining members of a small African American community still living on land obtained immediately after the Civil War. This intimate history tells the story of five generations of the Owens family and their friends and neighbors, chronicling their struggles through slavery, Reconstruction, the Jim Crow era, and the desegregation of the state. Through hours of interviews with Mable and her relatives, as well as friends and neighbors, Coggeshall presents an ethnographic history that allows members of a largely ignored community to speak and record their own history for the first time. This story sheds new light on the African American experience in Appalachia, and in it Coggeshall documents the community's 150-year history of resistance to white oppression, while offering a new way to understand the symbolic relationship between residents and the land they occupy, tying together family, memory, and narratives to explain this connection.
The African Repository
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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The Spirit of Missions
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Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 956
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Includes the proceedings of the annual meeting of the Society.
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Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 956
Book Description
Includes the proceedings of the annual meeting of the Society.