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Who Writes for Black Children?

African American Children’s Literature before 1900

Edited by Katharine Capshaw, Anna Mae Duane ...

Until recently, scholars believed that African American children’s literature did not exist before 1900. Now, Who Writes for Black Children? opens the door to a rich archive of largely overlooked literature read by black children. This volume’s combination of analytic essays, bibliographic materials, and primary texts offers alternative histories for early African American literary studies and ... Read more

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Until recently, scholars believed that African American children’s literature did not exist before 1900. Now, Who Writes for Black Children? opens the door to a rich archive of largely overlooked literature read by black children. This volume’s combination of analytic essays, bibliographic materials, and primary texts offers alternative histories for early African American literary studies and
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Child Slavery before and after Emancipation

An Argument for Child-Centered Slavery Studies

Edited by Anna Mae Duane ...

Series series Slaveries since Emancipation
If we are to fully understand how slavery survived legal abolition, we must grapple with the work that abolition has left undone, and dismantle the structures that abolition has left in place. Child Slavery before and after Emancipation seeks to enable a vital conversation between historical and modern slavery studies - two fields that have traditionally run along parallel tracks rather than in ... Read more

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If we are to fully understand how slavery survived legal abolition, we must grapple with the work that abolition has left undone, and dismantle the structures that abolition has left in place. Child Slavery before and after Emancipation seeks to enable a vital conversation between historical and modern slavery studies - two fields that have traditionally run along parallel tracks rather than in
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Global Warming

Compilation of Poems Regarding Climate Change

by Kate Bustin, TERRY BRINKMAN, Alex Andy Phuong, Gwen Hart, Joan Gibb Engel, Dr. Sandip Saha, sophie wagner, Artemis Fernihough, Ethan Stokes, Elsa Bonstein, Deborah Hickerson, Joel Holland, Hamid Khan, Meghana Tatavarthy, Nebula and the Velvet Queen, Vanessa Watters, The Poet Mj, Duane Herrmann, Tanya Schmid, Tiffany Lindfield, Elizabeth Jorgensen, Leander Jones, Donny Winter, Donald Guadagni, AJ Bartholomew, Margie Griffin, Pragya Dhiman, Erin Cowart, Fareh Malik, MistyRose Bosworth, Jensen Kyle Anderson, Dr. Ken Davis, Emmanuel Odekunle, Marilyn M. London, anna johnson, Barbara L. Svoboda, Neha Yadav, Erika B. Girard, George Cook, Shomade Abdulazeez, Samantha Terrell, B.A. O'Connell, Siobhán Mullan, Jim Armstrong ...

This anthology of poems is an emotional exploration of climate change and its underlying attitudes. The poems lie at the intersection of climate change due to global warming and inner transformation. The poems are meaningful, powerful, and thought-provoking. The reader goes on a journey from despair and chaos, ending in a place of quiet optimism. This is a book for the sensitive, the conscious, ... Read more

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This anthology of poems is an emotional exploration of climate change and its underlying attitudes. The poems lie at the intersection of climate change due to global warming and inner transformation. The poems are meaningful, powerful, and thought-provoking. The reader goes on a journey from despair and chaos, ending in a place of quiet optimism. This is a book for the sensitive, the conscious,
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Jumbled Part 2

Collection of Poems

by Julie Nyhus, Duane Herrmann, Jeffrey Privette, Sophia Hartwick, JANIS THOMPSON, Lee Broda, Thomas Walrod, Anna Johnson, Alex Dako, Peter Prizel, Edwin Anderson, Katya Nyangi, Dawne Leiker, Nico Crabtree, Diana Raab, Mark Dixon, Charnjit Gill, Michael Riordan, Elizabeth Iannaci, Lawrence Bridges, Brent Cassan, Kimberly Malinowski, Duncan Wu, Stephen Ground, Leah Milenkova, Aaron Chan, Ranjith Sivaraman, Ralf Schrader, Rick Hilles, Elizabeth Griffin, Sharona Kenwrick, Esme DeVault, Elizabeth Buttimer, Nadine Dunseith, Lucy Heuschen, Mukund Gnanadesikan, Monica Viera, Elisha Aaron, Alyssa Morales, Josh Hagy, yasin ertas, Lindsay Clayton Day, Jerome Berglund, Glenna Cook, Robert Eugene Rubino, Paul Rousseau, Amelia Mwale Eilertsen, KARTIKEY GROVER ...

Poets Choice is a poetry book publishing brand registered and having its head office in Mumbai, India. We are on the verge of setting up our offices in USA as well.We have been around since 2010.Our writers hail from over 48 countries across the world. To view the complete list visit our website.We welcome book reviews on our website – www.poetschoice.in . Books can also be ordered directly from ... Read more

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Poets Choice is a poetry book publishing brand registered and having its head office in Mumbai, India. We are on the verge of setting up our offices in USA as well.We have been around since 2010.Our writers hail from over 48 countries across the world. To view the complete list visit our website.We welcome book reviews on our website – www.poetschoice.in . Books can also be ordered directly from
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Suffering Childhood in Early America

Violence, Race, and the Making of the Child Victim

by Anna Mae Duane ...

Nothing tugs on American heartstrings more than an image of a suffering child. Anna Mae Duane goes back to the nation’s violent beginnings to examine how the ideal of childhood in early America was fundamental to forging concepts of ethnicity, race, and gender. Duane argues that children had long been used to symbolize subservience, but in the New World those old associations took on more meaning. ... Read more

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Nothing tugs on American heartstrings more than an image of a suffering child. Anna Mae Duane goes back to the nation’s violent beginnings to examine how the ideal of childhood in early America was fundamental to forging concepts of ethnicity, race, and gender. Duane argues that children had long been used to symbolize subservience, but in the New World those old associations took on more meaning.
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The Children's Table

Childhood Studies and the Humanities

by Annette Ruth Appell, James Marten, John Wall, Karen Sánchez-Eppler, Lesley Ginsberg, Lucia Hodgson, Lynne Vallone, Robin Bernstein, Roy Kozlovsky, Sarah E. Chinn, Sophie Bell, Susan Honeyman, Carol J. Singley ...

Like the occupants of the children's table at a family dinner, scholars working in childhood studies can seem sidelined from the "adult" labor of humanities scholarship. The Children's Table brings together scholars from architecture, philosophy, law, and literary and cultural criticism to provide an overview of the innovative work being done in childhood studies—a transcript of what is being said ... Read more

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Like the occupants of the children's table at a family dinner, scholars working in childhood studies can seem sidelined from the "adult" labor of humanities scholarship. The Children's Table brings together scholars from architecture, philosophy, law, and literary and cultural criticism to provide an overview of the innovative work being done in childhood studies—a transcript of what is being said
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Educated for Freedom

The Incredible Story of Two Fugitive Schoolboys Who Grew Up to Change a Nation

by Anna Mae Duane ...

This "revealing dual biography . . . succeeds in lifting up two underappreciated figures of the antislavery movement" ( Publishers Weekly).In the 1820s, few Americans could imagine a viable future for black children. In Educated for Freedom, Anna Mae Duane tells the story of James McCune Smith and Henry Highland Garnet, two black children who came of age and into freedom as their country struggled ... Read more

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This "revealing dual biography . . . succeeds in lifting up two underappreciated figures of the antislavery movement" ( Publishers Weekly).In the 1820s, few Americans could imagine a viable future for black children. In Educated for Freedom, Anna Mae Duane tells the story of James McCune Smith and Henry Highland Garnet, two black children who came of age and into freedom as their country struggled
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The Use of the International Phonetic Alphabet in the Choral Rehearsal

by Susan Bender, Rene Clausen, Dan Dressen, Christine Ericsdotter, Agnes Farkas, Sue Goodenow, Anna Helwing, Heather M. Garbes, Thomas Goleeke, Joshua Habermann, Martha Herr, Gotzon Ibarretxe, Harald Jers, Soojeong Lee, Min Li, Jaakko Mantyjarvi, Wladimi Mattos, Kathleen Maurer, John Nix, Clayton Parr, Andrew Schmidt, Sten Ternstrom, David M. Thomas, George Olivier Toni, Areti Topouzides, Kathleen Wilson, Minoru Yamada, Mei Zhong ...

“The fusion of text with music is one of the most powerful methods by which a composer can express emotion to an audience, yet, all too often, the diction of choral groups is lacking to such a degree as to make the text unintelligible.” So argues Duane R. Karna, who in The Use of the International Phonetic Alphabet in the Choral Rehearsal brings together 30 essays by experts from around the world ... Read more

$115.99 CAD

“The fusion of text with music is one of the most powerful methods by which a composer can express emotion to an audience, yet, all too often, the diction of choral groups is lacking to such a degree as to make the text unintelligible.” So argues Duane R. Karna, who in The Use of the International Phonetic Alphabet in the Choral Rehearsal brings together 30 essays by experts from around the world
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Educated for Freedom

The Incredible Story of Two Fugitive Schoolboys who Grew Up to Change a Nation

by Anna Mae Duane ...

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In the 1820s, few Americans could imagine a viable future for black children. Even abolitionists saw just two options for African American youth: permanent subjection or exile. Educated for Freedom tells the story of James McCune Smith and Henry Highland Garnet, two black children who came of age and into freedom as their country struggled to grow from a slave nation into a free country. Smith and ... Read more

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In the 1820s, few Americans could imagine a viable future for black children. Even abolitionists saw just two options for African American youth: permanent subjection or exile. Educated for Freedom tells the story of James McCune Smith and Henry Highland Garnet, two black children who came of age and into freedom as their country struggled to grow from a slave nation into a free country. Smith and
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Scenes of Subjection

Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America

by Saidiya Hartman, Marisa J. Fuentes, Sarah Haley, Cameron Rowland, Torkwase Dyson ...

The groundbreaking debut by the award-winning author of Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, revised and updated.Saidiya Hartman has been praised as “one of our most brilliant contemporary thinkers” (Claudia Rankine, New York Times Book Review) and “a lodestar for a generation of students and, increasingly, for politically engaged people outside the academy” (Alexis Okeowo, The New Yorker). In ... Read more

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The groundbreaking debut by the award-winning author of Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, revised and updated.Saidiya Hartman has been praised as “one of our most brilliant contemporary thinkers” (Claudia Rankine, New York Times Book Review) and “a lodestar for a generation of students and, increasingly, for politically engaged people outside the academy” (Alexis Okeowo, The New Yorker). In
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Black on Both Sides

A Racial History of Trans Identity

by C. Riley Snorton ...

Winner of the John Boswell Prize from the American Historical Association 2018Winner of the William Sanders Scarborough Prize from the Modern Language Association 2018Winner of an American Library Association Stonewall Honor 2018Winner of Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction 2018Winner of the Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies from the Center for Lesbian and Gay StudiesThe ... Read more

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Winner of the John Boswell Prize from the American Historical Association 2018Winner of the William Sanders Scarborough Prize from the Modern Language Association 2018Winner of an American Library Association Stonewall Honor 2018Winner of Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction 2018Winner of the Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies from the Center for Lesbian and Gay StudiesThe
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Frederick Douglass

Prophet of Freedom

by David W. Blight ...

* Selected as One of the Best Books of the 21st Century by The New York Times * Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History *“Extraordinary…a great American biography” (The New Yorker) of the most important African American of the 19th century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era.As a young man ... Read more

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* Selected as One of the Best Books of the 21st Century by The New York Times * Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History *“Extraordinary…a great American biography” (The New Yorker) of the most important African American of the 19th century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era.As a young man
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