Author: Osagie Obasogie
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804789274
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Colorblindness has become an integral part of the national conversation on race in America. Given the assumptions behind this influential metaphor—that being blind to race will lead to racial equality—it's curious that, until now, we have not considered if or how the blind "see" race. Most sighted people assume that the answer is obvious: they don't, and are therefore incapable of racial bias—an example that the sighted community should presumably follow. In Blinded by Sight,Osagie K. Obasogie shares a startling observation made during discussions with people from all walks of life who have been blind since birth: even the blind aren't colorblind—blind people understand race visually, just like everyone else. Ask a blind person what race is, and they will more than likely refer to visual cues such as skin color. Obasogie finds that, because blind people think about race visually, they orient their lives around these understandings in terms of who they are friends with, who they date, and much more. In Blinded by Sight, Obasogie argues that rather than being visually obvious, both blind and sighted people are socialized to see race in particular ways, even to a point where blind people "see" race. So what does this mean for how we live and the laws that govern our society? Obasogie delves into these questions and uncovers how color blindness in law, public policy, and culture will not lead us to any imagined racial utopia.
Author: James B. Stewart
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684865637
Category : Current Events
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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The author of "Den of Thieves" traces the path of Michael Swango--who seemed a model young doctor until his patients began dying in suspicious circumstances. The doctor is thought by the FBI to be the most successful serial killer in the nation's history. Second serial to New York "Daily News".
Author: Marcia Fine
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1434302636
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353
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In parallel stories set in 15th century Portugal and the 1990s, two women explore their identities. Set against historical events, this novel creates a sweeping narrative about a family expelled from Spain connecting across time to a modern woman of Cuban descent.
Author: Lou DeCaro
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1499075421
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 109
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Temporarily blinded in Vietnam, a wounded soldier falls in love with a nurse in a Saigon hospital. Separated by forces beyond their control, this is the story about a soldier’s search for his true love forty-five years later. Heartwarming as well as heartbreaking, The Blind Eye of Love is a must read for all romantics. “Lou DeCaro has once again crafted a brilliant and poignant love story.” —Ray Buurma
Author: Osha, Sanya
Publisher: Langaa RPCIG
ISBN: 9956764205
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 245
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At the end of his tether, Solomon Wenku contemplates a life gone awry amid widespread postcolonial squalor. Tani enters his life supposedly as a contrast to his encroaching existential gloom only to speed up the pace of his total collapse. Sanya Osha’s cult novel beams a searchlight on what it feels like to survive personally and collectively in unyielding tropical malaise. This web of a narrative pits the rural versus the urban, tradition against modernity with a gallery of immortal characters and with a yearning that sings lushly of freedom.
Author: Maurice de La Sizeranne
Publisher:
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Category : Blind
Languages : en
Pages : 182
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Author: Arthur Somers Roche
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Author: Richard Dawkins
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393315707
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 386
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Reprint of the 1987 original with a new introduction and preface. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Alison Prince
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192753403
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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This is an atmospheric thriller, set in London in the first half of the 19th century. It combines an exciting murder mystery plot with strong period detail, Dickensian characters, and a real sense of everyday life among poor people in Southwark.
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Category : Blind
Languages : en
Pages : 568
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