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L'ethnicité et ses frontières
Deuxième édition revue et mise à jour
Language: French
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Bien des choses ont changé depuis la publication de L’ethnicité et ses frontières en 1999. Le marxisme a perdu de son lustre, le tournant constructiviste s’est imposé, les recherches et revues scientifiques se sont multipliées. Mais l’ethnicité demeure un objet polémique qui attire et...
by Omero Marongiu-Perria
Language: French
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Language: French
Release Date: March 16, 2017
« Dans vingt ans une bonne partie des églises seront des mosquées. » « L’islam opprime les femmes. » Il est « inadapté a un mode de vie moderne », « incompatible avec les valeurs de la République française. » « Les salafistes sont tous des terroristes. » Les clichés et idées reçues...
Space Between the Stars
My Journey to an Open Heart
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2009
Deborah Santana is best known for her marriage to music icon Carlos Santana–a thirty-year bond that endures to this day. But as a girl growing up in San Francisco in the 1960s, daughter of a white mother and a black father–the legendary blues guitarist Saunders King–her life was charged with...
The Hardest Working Man
How James Brown Saved the Soul of America
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2008
The untold story of the night a divide nation turned to James Brown—and he delivered hope and calm in the form of an immortal concert
Since James Brown's death in December 2006, the Godfather of Soul has received many stirring tributes. Yet few have addressed his contribution in the darkest...
The Echo from Dealey Plaza
The true story of the first African American on the White House Secret Service detail and his quest for justice after the assassination of JFK
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2008
From the first African American assigned to the presidential Secret Service detail comes a gripping and unforgettable true story of bravery and patriotism in the face of bitter hatred and unthinkable corruption.
Abraham Bolden was a young African American Secret Service agent in Chicago when...
Untouchables
My Family's Triumphant Journey Out of the Caste System in Modern India
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2005
Every sixth human being in the world today is an Indian, and every sixth Indian is an untouchable. For thousands of years the untouchables, or Dalits, the people at the bottom of the Hindu caste system, have been treated as subhuman. Their story has rarely been told. This remarkable book achieves...
The Love Prison Made and Unmade
My Story
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2019
With echoes of Just Mercy and An American Marriage, a remarkable memoir of a woman who falls in love with an incarcerated man**—a poignant story of hope and disappointment that lays bare the toll prison takes not only on those behind bars, but on their families and relationships.**
Ebony’s...
by eBios
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Oprah Winfrey is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist. Winfrey is best known for her multi-award-winning talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show which was the highest-rated program of its kind in history and was nationally syndicated from 1986 to 2011....
The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings
Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2003
Completely revised and edited with an introduction and notes by Vincent Carretta
An exciting and often terrifying adventure story, as well as an important precursor to such famous nineteenth-century slave narratives as Frederick Douglass's autobiographies, Olaudah Equiano's The Interesting...
James Baldwin
The FBI File
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
The FBI’s secret dossier on the legendary and controversial writer, obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.
Decades before Black Lives Matter returned James Baldwin to prominence, J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI considered the Harlem-born author the most powerful broker between black art...
When They Call You a Terrorist
A Black Lives Matter Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER.
New York Times Editor’s Pick.
Library Journal Best Books of 2019.
TIME Magazine's "Best Memoirs of 2018 So Far."
O, Oprah’s Magazine’s “10 Titles to Pick Up Now.”
Politics & Current Events 2018 O.W.L. Book Awards Winner
The Root Best of...
Under Fire
Reporting from the Front Lines of the Trump White House
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
Veteran White House reporter April Ryan thought she had seen everything in her two decades as a White House correspondent. And then came the Trump administration.
In Under Fire, Ryan takes us inside the confusion and chaos of the Trump White House to understand how she and other reporters adjusted...
Rising Out of Hatred
The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
From a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, the powerful story of how a prominent white supremacist changed his heart and mind
Derek Black grew up at the epicenter of white nationalism. His father founded Stormfront, the largest racist community on the Internet. His godfather, David Duke, was a...
Master of the Mountain
Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
Is there anything new to say about Thomas Jefferson and slavery? The answer is a resounding yes. Master of the Mountain, Henry Wiencek's eloquent, persuasive book—based on new information coming from archaeological work at Monticello and on hitherto overlooked or disregarded evidence in Jefferson's...