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Language
English
Description
Miss Jane Pittman is celebrating her 110th birthday. As the civil rights movement heats up, Miss Jane, a former slave, recounts her memories of the black experience from picking potatoes on a southern plantation to fetching water for soldiers in the Civil War to her views on the current and turbulent equal rights movement.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Durante generaciones, las mujeres de color han tenido que luchar contra las poderosas fuerzas del sexismo, el racismo y el clasismo; una lucha bastante solitaria. Cuando Prisca Dorca Mojicas fundó Latina Rebels, creó también una comunidad que las ayuda a pelear juntas. Lo hizo de nuevo con este libro. Para chicas fuertes, de corazón tierno y piel canela ofrece sabiduría y caminos de liberación, maneras poderosas de enfrentar diversos...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
1110L
Language
English
Description
A clear-sighted, carefully researched account of two surprisingly parallel lives and how they intersected at a critical moment in U.S. history.
3230) Cotton's queer relations: same-sex intimacy and the literature of the southern plantation, 1936-1968
Author
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
3234) A lesson before dying
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
A frustrated teacher in a southern town, whose education is being underutilized, finds his own purpose in helping bring meaning to the last days of a young man due to be executed. In teaching one person to die with dignity, he redeems himself.
3239) The Ocean-Hill Brownsville conflict: intellectual struggles between Blacks and Jews at mid-century
Author
Publisher
Lexington Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
