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- Alejandria fights back! = ¡La lucha de Alejandria! / by Hernández-Linares, Leticia,author.; Liu-Trujillo, Robert,illustrator.(CARDINAL)631272; Hernández-Linares, Leticia.Alejandria fights back!; Hernández-Linares, Leticia.Alejandria fights back!Spanish.; Rise-Home Stories Project,author.;
Nine-year-old Alejandria rallies her family and community to fight and save their neighborhood from rising rent prices and evictions.Ages 4-7.650L- Subjects: Fiction.; Picture books.; Community life; Immigrants; Landlord and tenant; Neighborhoods; Nicaraguan Americans; Spanish language materials;
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- Stateway's garden : stories / by Drain, Jasmon,author.(CARDINAL)823400;
"Before they were torn down in 2007, the Stateway Gardens public housing projects on Chicago's South Side were known as a hot-bed of poverty, drugs, gangs, and crime. But for some, like Tracy, the shy, intelligent young boy at the center of this enthralling collection of linked stories, they are simply home. Set in the mid-1980s and taking readers up to the point of the destruction of the infamous Cabrini Green housing projects -- similar to the Stateway Gardens projects to the South of them -- this collection gives an intimate look at the hopes, dreams, failures and fortunes of a group of people growing up with the deck always stacked against them. Through Jasmon Drain's sensitive and often playful prose, we see another side of what we have come to know as "the projects." Stateway's Garden is a coming-of-age story told in short stories, through the lens of a childhood made rough by the crush of poverty and violence, with the crack epidemic a looming specter ahead. And yet, through the experiences and ambitions of Tracy and other young characters, Drain reveals a vibrant community that creates its own ecosystem, all set in a series of massive, seemingly soulless concrete buildings. Not shying away from the darkness of life for his characters, Drain shows the full complexity of their human experiences." --- Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Short stories.; Fiction.; Community life; Public housing; Social classes; Nineteen eighties; High-rise apartment buildings;
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- Apollo 8 : the thrilling story of the first mission to the moon [sound recording] / by Kluger, Jeffrey,author.(CARDINAL)318697; Troxell, Brian,narrator.;
Read by Brian Troxell.The untold story of the historic voyage to the moon, this book takes us from Mission Control to the astronaut's homes, from the test labs to the launch pad. The race to prepare an untested rocket for an unprecedented journey paves the way for the hair-raising trip to the moon. Then, on Christmas Day, a nation that has suffered a horrendous year of assassinations and war is heartened by an inspiring message from the trio of astronauts in lunar orbit. And when the mission is over--after the first view of the far side of the moon, the first earth-rise, and the first re-entry through the earth's atmosphere following a flight to deep space--the impossible dream of walking on the moon suddenly seems within reach.- Subjects: Audiobooks.; Project Apollo (U.S.); Space flight to the moon.;
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- Reawakening our ancestors' lines : revitalizing Inuit traditional tattooing / by Johnston, Angela Hovak,author.(CARDINAL)678982;
"For thousands of years, Inuit practised the traditional art of tattooing. Created the ancient way, with bone needles and caribou sinew soaked in seal oil, sod, or soot, these tattoos were an important tradition for many Inuit women, symbols etched on their skin that connected them to their families and communities. But with the rise of missionaries and residential schools in the North, the tradition of tattooing was almost lost. In 2005, when Angela Hovak Johnston heard that the last Inuk woman tattooed in the old way had died, she set out to tattoo herself in tribute to this ancient custom and learn how to tattoo others. What was at first a personal quest became a project to bring the art of traditional tattooing back to Inuit women across Nunavut, starting with Johnston's home community of Kugluktuk. Collected in this beautiful book are moving photos and stories from more than two dozen women who participated in Johnston's project. Together, these women have united to bring to life an ancient tradition, reawakening their ancestors' lines and sharing this knowledge with future generations."--- Subjects: Tattooing; Inuit women; Tattoos.;
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- Apollo 8 [large print] : the thrilling story of the first mission to the moon / by Kluger, Jeffrey,author.(CARDINAL)318697;
Includes bibliographical references and index.In August 1968, NASA made a bold decision: in just sixteen weeks, the United States would launch humankind’s first flight to the moon. Only the year before, three astronauts had burned to death in their spacecraft, and since then the Apollo program had suffered one setback after another. Meanwhile, the Russians were winning the space race, the Cold War was getting hotter by the month, and President Kennedy’s promise to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade seemed sure to be broken. But when Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders were summoned to a secret meeting and told of the dangerous mission, they instantly signed on. <p> Written with all the color and verve of the best narrative non-fiction, Apollo 8 takes us from Mission Control to the astronaut’s homes, from the test labs to the launch pad. The race to prepare an untested rocket for an unprecedented journey paves the way for the hair-raising trip to the moon. Then, on Christmas Eve, a nation that has suffered a horrendous year of assassinations and war is heartened by an inspiring message from the trio of astronauts in lunar orbit. And when the mission is over—after the first view of the far side of the moon, the first earth-rise, and the first re-entry through the earth’s atmosphere following a flight to deep space—the impossible dream of walking on the moon suddenly seems within reach.- Subjects: Large print books.; Project Apollo (U.S.); Apollo 8 (Spacecraft); Space flight to the moon.;
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Mark Twain's America [videorecording]:
Art director, Joanne Marino ; editor, Silvio D'Alisera ; music, Robert Russell Bennett.Narrator: Howard Lindsay.Over 1,000 photos eloquently reveal Mark Twain's rich and varied life. The story spans his career as prolific writer, Mississippi riverboat pilot, drama critic, publisher, and world traveler, while at the same time watching the rise of America from frontier days to world power.DVD, Dolby digital stereo.- Subjects: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.; Authors, American; Documentary television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
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- High-risers : Cabrini-Green and the fate of American public housing / by Austen, Ben,author.(CARDINAL)678184; Gordon, Robert Philip,cartographer.(CARDINAL)496317;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-365) and index.Braids personal narratives, city politics, and national history to tell the timely and epic story of Chicago's Cabrini-Green, America's most iconic public housing project. Built in the 1940s atop an infamous Italian slum, Cabrini-Green grew to twenty-three towers and a population of 20,000--all of it packed onto just seventy acres a few blocks from Chicago's ritzy Gold Coast. Cabrini-Green became synonymous with crime, squalor, and the failure of government. For the many who lived there, it was also a much-needed resource--it was home. By 2011, every high-rise had been razed, the island of black poverty engulfed by the white affluence around it, the families dispersed. In this novelistic and eye-opening narrative, Ben Austen tells the story of America's public housing experiment and the changing fortunes of American cities. It is an account told movingly through the lives of residents who struggled to make a home for their families as powerful forces converged to accelerate the housing complex's demise. Beautifully written, rich in detail, and full of moving portraits, High-Risers is a sweeping exploration of race, class, popular culture, and politics in modern America that brilliantly considers what went wrong in our nation's effort to provide affordable housing to the poor--and what we can learn from those mistakes.- Subjects: Cabrini-Green Homes (Chicago, Ill.); Cabrini-Green High Impact Program; Public housing; Low-income housing; Urban poor; African Americans; Inner cities;
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- The hidden cost of being African American : how wealth perpetuates inequality / by Shapiro, Thomas M.,author.(CARDINAL)733284;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-230) and index.The color of the safety net -- The cost of being Black and the advantage of being white -- Inheritance : "that parent thing" -- Middle class in black and white : how level is the playing field? -- The homeownership crossroad -- Where people "choose" to live -- "Getting a decent middle-class American education" : pursuing advantage in schoolsThomas Shapiro blends personal stories, interviews, empirical data, and analysis to illuminate how family assets produce dramatic consequences in the everyday lives of ordinary citizens. This book will re-shape public understanding of racial inequality and will help us understand why new policies are necessary. Over the past three decades, racial prejudice in America has declined significantly and many African-American families have seen a steady rise in employment and annual income. Alongside these encouraging signs, Shapiro argues that fundamental levels of racial inequality persist, particularly in the area of asset accumulation. This book demonstrates how families use private wealth to leverage advantages in communities and schooling for themselves and their children. In this eye-opening volume, Shapiro uses a combination of in-depth interviews with almost 200 families from Los Angeles, Boston, and St. Louis, and national survey data with 10,000 families to show how racial inequality is passed down from generation to generation through the use of private family wealth. Shapiro adroitly illustrates the profound importance of assets--savings accounts, stocks, bonds, home equity, and other investments--to the past, present, and future lives of American families. For instance, young, white middle class-families typically purchase their first homes with substantial financial assistance from their extended family, and thus wealth accumulated from the past transforms opportunities into a substantial head start in life. This "wealthfare" is a legacy of past inequality visiting the present and may well project social injustice for generations into the future. An asset perspective, Shapiro shows, is a truer measure of the economic health of the black community--over half the black families fell below an asset poverty line in 1999. Moreover, an asset-based perspective, unlike currently used income-based approaches, gives insight into issues underlying debates ranging from school choice, welfare reform, and economic inequality- Subjects: Electronic books.; African Americans; African Americans; Wealth; Equality; Racism; Interviews; Racism.;
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- Redeeming justice : from defendant to defender, my fight for equity on both sides of a broken system / by Adams, Jarrett,author.;
I-Fall: Life after justice -- The neighborhood -- The party -- Intake -- The first trial -- Let them hang themselves -- Pawns -- Pops -- Lil Johnnie Cochran with the glasses -- Segregation -- Born at the scene of the crime -- Competence -- Innocence -- II-Rise: Home -- The door -- Loose ends -- Safe -- We need to talk -- So, what are you going to do? -- The return -- Forward."He was seventeen when an all-white jury sentenced him to prison for a crime he didn't commit. Now, in this unforgettable memoir, a pioneering lawyer recalls the journey that led to his exoneration-and inspired him to devote his life to fighting the many injustices in our legal system. Seventeen years old and facing nearly thirty years behind bars, Jarrett Adams sought to figure out the why behind his fate. Sustained by his mother and aunts who brought him back from the edge of despair through letters of prayer and encouragement, Adams became obsessed with our legal system in all its damaged glory. After studying how his constitutional rights to effective counsel had been violated, he solicited the help of the Wisconsin Innocence Project, an organization that exonerates the wrongfully convicted, and won his release after nearly ten years in prison. But the journey was far from over. Adams took the lessons he learned through his incarceration and worked his way through law school with the goal of helping those who, like himself, had faced our legal system at its worst. After earning his law degree, he worked with the New York Innocence Project, becoming the first exoneree ever hired by the nonprofit as a lawyer. In his first case with the Innocence Project, he argued before the same court that had convicted him a decade earlier-and won. In this cinematic story of hope and full-circle redemption, Adams draws on his life and the cases of his clients to show the racist tactics used to convict young men of color, the unique challenges facing exonerees once released, and how the lack of equal representation in our courts is a failure not only of empathy but of our collective ability to uncover the truth. Justice for Sale is an unforgettable firsthand account of the limits-and possibilities-of our country's system of law"--- Subjects: Autobiographies.; Adams, Jarrett.; Lawyers; African American lawyers; False imprisonment; Discrimination in criminal justice administration; Race discrimination;
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- The loneliest Americans / by Kang, Jay Caspian,1979-author.(CARDINAL)604135;
Includes bibliographical references and index.How We Got Here -- The Making of Asian America -- How the Asians Became White -- Koreatown -- Flushing Rising -- What Are We Talking About? -- The Rage of the MRAZNs -- Bruce and Me."A riveting blend of family history and original reportage by a conversation-starting writer for The New York Times Magazine that explores--and reimagines--Asian American identity in a Black and white world. In 1965, a new immigration law lifted a century of restrictions against Asian immigrants to the United States. Nobody, including the lawmakers who passed the bill, expected it to transform the country's demographics. But over the next four decades, millions arrived, including Jay Caspian Kang's parents, grandparents, aunts, and uncles. They came with almost no understanding of their new home, much less the history of "Asian America" that was supposed to define them. The Loneliest Americans is the unforgettable story of Kang and his family as they move from a housing project in Cambridge to an idyllic college town in the South and eventually to the West Coast. Their story unfolds against the backdrop of a rapidly expanding Asian America, as millions more immigrants, many of them working-class or undocumented, stream into the country. At the same time, upwardly mobile urban professionals have struggled to reconcile their parents' assimilationist goals with membership in a multicultural elite--all while trying to carve out a new kind of belonging for their own children, who are neither white nor truly "people of color." Kang recognizes this existential loneliness in himself and in other Asian Americans who try to locate themselves in the country's racial binary. There are the businessmen turning Flushing into a center of immigrant wealth; the casualties of the Los Angeles riots; the impoverished parents in New York City who believe that admission to the city's exam schools is the only way out; the men's right's activists on Reddit ranting about intermarriage; and the handful of protesters who show up at Black Lives Matter rallies holding "Yellow Peril Supports Black Power" signs. Kang's exquisitely crafted book brings these lonely parallel climbers together amid a wave of anti-Asian violence. In response, he calls for a new form of immigrant solidarity-one rooted not in bubble tea and elite college admissions but in the struggles of refugees and the working class"--- Subjects: Biographies.; Kang, Jay Caspian, 1979-; Kang family.; Korean Americans; Asian Americans; Korean Americans; Autobiographies.; Biographies.;
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