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  • Catherine Cater

    An Elegant Rise Above Race and Gender as Scholar and Professor

    by Robert V. Dodge ...
    Catherine Cater's infectious love of ideas inspired students, colleague and friends. A distinguished teacher and intellectual specializing in English literature and philosophy, Dr. Cater faced barriers of race and gender when she entered the academic world and moved to the North. She elevated the level of scholarship at universities and their communities in both the South and North, most notably ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Andrea and Sylvester

    Challenging Marriage Taboos and the Road to a Same-Sex Marriage Decision

    by Robert V. Dodge ...
    In 1941 a young couple met and fell in love; but one of them was considered Black while the other was considered White. Laws against intermarriage between races had been upheld by every court in the United States since Reconstruction, after the Civil War. Andrea and Sylvester - a Mexican-American woman and an African-American man - challenged these laws and won, and their success inspired changes ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Grand Mal

    A Life with Late Onset Epilepsy

    by Robert V. Dodge ...
    After developing epilepsy as an adult, Robert Dodge experienced increasingly dangerous seizures and was seen by specialists on five continents. His firsthand account of adapting to life with epilepsy begins with an overview of this often misunderstood neurological disorder--still attributed to demonic possession in some parts of the world--and recounts his struggle as his seizures became life ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Catherine Cater

    by Robert V Dodge ...
    Catherine Cater's infectious love of ideas inspired students, colleague and friends. A distinguished teacher and intellectual specializing in English literature and philosophy, Dr. Cater faced barriers of race and gender when she entered the academic world and moved to the North. She elevated the level of scholarship at universities and their communities in both the South and North, most notably ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD

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  • Working Toward Whiteness

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