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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “fran leeper buss”
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  • La Partera

    Story of a Midwife

    by Fran Leeper Buss ...
    Series series Women And Culture Series
    Jesusita Aragon earned the title "la partera," or midwife, at the age of fourteen. Apprenticed to her grandmother, she learned the traditional Hispanic methods of assisting childbirth. She won the coveted title by performing her first delivery when an expectant mother went into labor in her grandmother's absence. In the years that followed, she was often the only source of medical care available ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Redemptive Memory

    Women Activists and the Search for Justice

    by Fran Leeper Buss ...
    Choice 2025 Outstanding Academic TitleThis powerful last work by pioneering oral historian Fran Leeper Buss examines how painful memories of traumatic experiences can be transformed into positive action for social good. In her more than 40 years gathering the life stories of working-class women, Buss found commonalities in the ways in which her subjects faced structural inequalities of race, class ... Read more

    $85.09 USD

  • Memory, Meaning, and Resistance

    Reflecting on Oral History and Women at the Margins

    by Fran Leeper Buss ...
    Fran Leeper Buss, a former welfare recipient who earned a PhD in history and became a pioneer in the field of oral history, has for forty years dedicated herself to the goal of collecting the stories of marginal and working-class U.S. women. Memory, Meaning, and Resistance is based on over 100 oral histories gathered from women from a variety of racial, ethnic, and geographical backgrounds, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Moisture of the Earth

    Mary Robinson, Civil Rights and Textile Union Activist

    Edited by Fran Leeper Buss ...
    Series series Class : Culture
    In Moisture of the Earth, Mary Robinson recounts her journey from picking cotton in rural Alabama to becoming an outspoken community leader and labor activist. The daughter of sharecroppers, Robinson came of age at the peak of the civil rights movement and took a job in J. P. Stevens's Montgomery plant when the textile manufacturing giant was forced to admit African American workers. She soon ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

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  • The Circuit

    Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child

    by Francisco Jiménez ...
    Series Book 1 - The Circuit
    "'La frontera'...I heard it for the first time back in the late 1940s when Papa and Mama told me and Roberto, my older brother, that someday we would take a long trip north, cross la frontera, enter California, and leave our poverty behind." So begins this honest and powerful account of a family's journey to the fields of California -- to a life of constant moving, from strawberry fields to cotton ... Read more

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  • The Warmth of Other Suns

    The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

    by Isabel Wilkerson ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR • TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S FIVE BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY • A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE CENTURY • LOS ANGELES TIMES’S #1 NONFICTION BOOK OF THE LAST 30 YEARS • AN OPRAH DAILY BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE ... Read more

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  • Planting His Dream

    by Andrew Grey ...
    Series series Planting Dreams
    Planting Dreams: Book OneFoster dreams of getting away, but after his father's death, he has to take over the family dairy farm. It soon becomes clear his father hasn't been doing the best job of running it, so not only does Foster need to take over the day-to-day operations, he also needs to find new ways of bringing in revenue.Javi has no time to dream. He and his family are migrant workers, and ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Mountains We Call Home

    The Book Woman's Legacy

    by Kim Michele Richardson ...
    From the New York Times bestselling author of The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek comes a triumphant tale of a librarian's fight to bring literacy to the prisons of Kentucky and the underserved neighborhoods of downtown Louisville, revealing a story of fierce love, quiet strength, and the healing power of books.When Cussy Lovett, a Packhorse Librarian famed for bringing books to the people of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Breaking Through

    by Francisco Jiménez ...
    Series Book 2 - The Circuit
    At the age of fourteen, Francisco Jiménez, together with his older brother Roberto and his mother, are caught by la migra. Forced to leave their home in California, the entire family travels all night for twenty hours by bus, arriving at the U.S. and Mexican border in Nogales, Arizona. In the months and years that follow during the late 1950s-early 1960s, Francisco, his mother and father, and his ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Jaguar's Children

    A Novel

    by John Vaillant ...
    This "extraordinary" novel of one man's border crossing reveals "a human history of sorrow and suffering, all of it beginning with the thirst to be free" (NPR).Héctor is trapped. The water truck, sealed to hide its human cargo, has broken down. The coyotes have taken all the passengers' money for a mechanic and have not returned.Héctor finds a name in his friend César's phone: AnniMac. A name with ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Coming of Age in Mississippi

    The Classic Autobiography of Growing Up Poor and Black in the Rural South

    by Anne Moody ...
    The unforgettable memoir of a woman at the front lines of the civil rights movement—a harrowing account of black life in the rural South and a powerful affirmation of one person’s ability to affect change.“Anne Moody’s autobiography is an eloquent, moving testimonial to her courage.”—Chicago TribuneBorn to a poor couple who were tenant farmers on a plantation in Mississippi, Anne Moody lived ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Day the Rebels Came to Town

    by Robert Hough ...
    Series series Good Reads
    This high-interest, low-vocabulary novella is intended for adult basic education (ABE) and English as a Second Language (ESL) readers. The year is 1920, and all of Mexico is at war with itself. Gangs of rebels roam the country, stealing money, food, and horses. Carlos is twenty-eight years old. He works in his father's cafe. One day, a gang rides into Carlo's village. When the gang leaves, they ... Read more

    $4.99 USD