Author: Stovall
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780998930053
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
SWIRL GIRL: Coming of Race in the USA reveals how a hard-headed, Mixed-race, "Black Power Flower Child" battles society-and sometimes her closest loved ones-to forge her identity on her own terms. As the USA undergoes its own racial growing pains, from the 1968 riots to the historic 2008 election, TaRessa Stovall challenges popular stereotypes and fights nonstop pressures to contort, disguise, or deny her uncomfortable truths
Swirl Girl
Author: Stovall
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780998930053
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
SWIRL GIRL: Coming of Race in the USA reveals how a hard-headed, Mixed-race, "Black Power Flower Child" battles society-and sometimes her closest loved ones-to forge her identity on her own terms. As the USA undergoes its own racial growing pains, from the 1968 riots to the historic 2008 election, TaRessa Stovall challenges popular stereotypes and fights nonstop pressures to contort, disguise, or deny her uncomfortable truths
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780998930053
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
SWIRL GIRL: Coming of Race in the USA reveals how a hard-headed, Mixed-race, "Black Power Flower Child" battles society-and sometimes her closest loved ones-to forge her identity on her own terms. As the USA undergoes its own racial growing pains, from the 1968 riots to the historic 2008 election, TaRessa Stovall challenges popular stereotypes and fights nonstop pressures to contort, disguise, or deny her uncomfortable truths
Swirly
Author: Sara Saunders
Publisher: Review and Herald Pub Assoc
ISBN: 0828026815
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 27
Book Description
Lila, born in the Blue Country and having lived in the Yellow Country, then the Red, has swirls of all of those colors in her but wonders if she belongs in any one place until a swirly boy's mother tells of Jesus, who was also swirly and has prepared a home for them all.
Publisher: Review and Herald Pub Assoc
ISBN: 0828026815
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 27
Book Description
Lila, born in the Blue Country and having lived in the Yellow Country, then the Red, has swirls of all of those colors in her but wonders if she belongs in any one place until a swirly boy's mother tells of Jesus, who was also swirly and has prepared a home for them all.
Girl
Author: Camille Laurens
Publisher: Other Press, LLC
ISBN: 1635421020
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
From the acclaimed author of Little Dancer Aged Fourteen, a deeply personal and insightful account of being a girl, woman, and mother in a world that sees the feminine as less than. Born in 1959 to a middle-class family, Laurence Barraqué grows up with her sister in the northern city of Rouen. Her father is a doctor, her mother a housewife. She understands from an early age, by way of language and her parents’ example, that a girl’s place in life is inferior to a boy’s: Asked for the 1964 census whether he has any children, her father promptly responds, “No. I have two daughters.” When Laurence eventually becomes a mother herself in the nineties, she grapples with the question of what it means to be a girl, to have a girl, and what lessons she should try to pass down or undo. Masterful in her analysis of the subtle and obvious ways women are undermined by a sexist society, Camille Laurens lays out her experiences of the past forty years in this poignant, powerful book. Girl is at once intimate and sweeping in its depiction of the great challenges we face, such as equalizing the education system and transmitting feminist values to the younger generations.
Publisher: Other Press, LLC
ISBN: 1635421020
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
From the acclaimed author of Little Dancer Aged Fourteen, a deeply personal and insightful account of being a girl, woman, and mother in a world that sees the feminine as less than. Born in 1959 to a middle-class family, Laurence Barraqué grows up with her sister in the northern city of Rouen. Her father is a doctor, her mother a housewife. She understands from an early age, by way of language and her parents’ example, that a girl’s place in life is inferior to a boy’s: Asked for the 1964 census whether he has any children, her father promptly responds, “No. I have two daughters.” When Laurence eventually becomes a mother herself in the nineties, she grapples with the question of what it means to be a girl, to have a girl, and what lessons she should try to pass down or undo. Masterful in her analysis of the subtle and obvious ways women are undermined by a sexist society, Camille Laurens lays out her experiences of the past forty years in this poignant, powerful book. Girl is at once intimate and sweeping in its depiction of the great challenges we face, such as equalizing the education system and transmitting feminist values to the younger generations.
The Mare
Author: Mary Gaitskill
Publisher: Pantheon
ISBN: 0307379744
Category : Dominican Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
Taken in by a near-alcoholic artist and a jaded academic, a young Dominican girl in Brooklyn's Fresh Air Fund program explores the contrasts between her inner-city life and her hosts' privileged world and finds her realities powerfully shaped by her relationship with a horse.
Publisher: Pantheon
ISBN: 0307379744
Category : Dominican Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
Taken in by a near-alcoholic artist and a jaded academic, a young Dominican girl in Brooklyn's Fresh Air Fund program explores the contrasts between her inner-city life and her hosts' privileged world and finds her realities powerfully shaped by her relationship with a horse.
Swirl by Swirl
Author: Joyce Sidman
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 054731583X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 45
Book Description
Celebrates the shape of a spiral in nature, from rushing rivers to flower buds and even the shape of an ear. Additional factual information about spirals and the plants and animals pictured, follows the text.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 054731583X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 45
Book Description
Celebrates the shape of a spiral in nature, from rushing rivers to flower buds and even the shape of an ear. Additional factual information about spirals and the plants and animals pictured, follows the text.
The Bad Girl's Guide to Getting Personal
Author: Cameron Tuttle
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 9780811842013
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
In her fourth hot book, reigning Bad Girl Tuttle dishes out more irreverent, inspiring attitude. Special features include, "Notes to Self," "Personal Power Steering," and hundreds of essential tips, tricks, and wisdom.
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 9780811842013
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
In her fourth hot book, reigning Bad Girl Tuttle dishes out more irreverent, inspiring attitude. Special features include, "Notes to Self," "Personal Power Steering," and hundreds of essential tips, tricks, and wisdom.
Rainbow Swirl
Author: Helen Perelman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442457767
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
Raini the Gummy Fairy is disappointed that her friends do not care as much as she does about winning first prize at the upcoming Candy Fair, but when a big storm disrupts Raini's plans, her friends are loyal and true.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442457767
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
Raini the Gummy Fairy is disappointed that her friends do not care as much as she does about winning first prize at the upcoming Candy Fair, but when a big storm disrupts Raini's plans, her friends are loyal and true.
The Bad Girls
Author: Tuttle Cameron
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 9780811838801
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 6
Book Description
Inside greeting: Ha ha ha ha ha, ha ha ha ha.
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 9780811838801
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 6
Book Description
Inside greeting: Ha ha ha ha ha, ha ha ha ha.
Be a Bad Girl
Author: Cameron Tuttle
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 9780811831918
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 9780811831918
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
The Bad Girl's Guide to Getting What You Want
Author: Cameron Tuttle
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 9780811828963
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
This hilarious follow-up to the wildly popular Bad Girl's Guide to the Open Road is the ultimate guide to getting itanything and everythingin Bad Girl style. Delayed gratification is a thing of the past with this inspired collection of tips and tricks for scoring love, fame, money, power, parking spaces, and other essentials. With sure-fire schemes for everything from free food and airline miles to insider lingo for paving pesky resume gaps, The Bad Girl's Guide to Getting What You Want shows how to fake it fabulously. But spin and strategy are just the beginningthe truth can be an even more wicked weapon. Learn the secrets of men's hair, the landlord's Achilles' heel, and the maitre d's darkest desires, and the dream date, great apartment, and best table are yours! Racy bad-girl confessions and edgy illustrations make this indispensable volume even dishier. Ethics are overratedit's the results that count! Pack this sassy package in your purse and knowing what you want is as good as getting it.
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 9780811828963
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
This hilarious follow-up to the wildly popular Bad Girl's Guide to the Open Road is the ultimate guide to getting itanything and everythingin Bad Girl style. Delayed gratification is a thing of the past with this inspired collection of tips and tricks for scoring love, fame, money, power, parking spaces, and other essentials. With sure-fire schemes for everything from free food and airline miles to insider lingo for paving pesky resume gaps, The Bad Girl's Guide to Getting What You Want shows how to fake it fabulously. But spin and strategy are just the beginningthe truth can be an even more wicked weapon. Learn the secrets of men's hair, the landlord's Achilles' heel, and the maitre d's darkest desires, and the dream date, great apartment, and best table are yours! Racy bad-girl confessions and edgy illustrations make this indispensable volume even dishier. Ethics are overratedit's the results that count! Pack this sassy package in your purse and knowing what you want is as good as getting it.