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Administering freedom : the state of emancipation after the Freedmen's Bureau / by Kretz, Dale,author.(CARDINAL)880117;
Includes bibliographical references and index."This book offers the definitive history of how formerly enslaved men and women pursued federal benefits from the Civil War to the New Deal and, in the process, transformed themselves from a stateless people into documented citizens. As claimants, Black southerners engaged an array of federal agencies. Their encounters with the more familiar Freedmen's Bureau and Pension Bureau are presented here in a striking new light, while their struggles with the long-forgotten Freedmen's Branch appear in this study for the very first time"--
Subjects: United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands; United States. Pension Bureau; African Americans; African Americans; Freed persons;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Just here trying to save a few lives : tales of life and death from the ER / by Grim, Pamela.(CARDINAL)432482;
Subjects: Biographies.; Grim, Pamela.; Emergency physicians; Hospitals;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 5
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Why I make art : contemporary artists' stories about life & work : from the sound & vision podcast by Brian Alfred / by Alfred, Brian,1974-interviewer.; Pellerin, Ananda,editor.;
This compelling volume explores the practices and life stories of artists across multiple mediums, including painting, photography, sculpture and land art. Offering readers an intimate, contemplative view of each remarkable creator, Why I Make Art examines themes as varied as music and skateboarding, immigration and statelessness, community and identity. Gathered from the archives of Sound & Vision, a podcast directed by American artist and educator Brian Alfred, Why I Make Art presents interviews with artists conducted between 2016 and 2020, four tumultuous years in America and around the world.
Subjects: Interviews.; Art; Artists;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Somewhere in the unknown world : a collective refugee memoir / by Yang, Kao Kalia,1980-author.(CARDINAL)488912;
"A themed collection of stories of refugees from around the world who have converged on Minneapolis, collected and told by the award-winning author of The Latehomecomer and The Song Poet"--Part I: Other people's children. From Irina to Irene -- Strongest love story -- Adjustments to the plan -- Up close, it is different -- Part II: Certificates of humanity. When the rebels attacked -- Leaving with no good-byes -- In the valley of peace -- Certificate of humanity -- Part III: Please remember. Officially unconfirmed -- Natalis: same old tired world -- Sisters on the other side of the river -- Part IV. Edge of the Horizon. A burial and a birth -- Revival -- Never going home again -- For my children -- Logistics of refugee resettlement -- Perspectives from refugee resettlement agencies.Although Minnesota is not famous for its diversity, the state has welcomed more refugees per capita than any other. Yang-- herself a Hmong refugee-- has gathered stories of the stateless who today call the Twin Cities home. In their retelling, these stories of refugee journeys restore history and humanity to America's strangers and redeem its long tradition of welcome. -- adapted from front flap
Subjects: Refugees; Immigrants;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The hidden globe : how wealth hacks the world / by Abrahamian, Atossa Araxia,author.(CARDINAL)623027;
Includes bibliographical references (pages [315]-324)."Borders draw one map of the world; money draws another. A journalist's riveting account exposes a parallel universe exempt from the laws of the land, and how the wealthy and powerful benefit from it. The map of the globe depicts the world we think we know: neatly delineated sovereign nations that bestow and restrict the rights of the citizens and entities within their borders. For wealthy individuals and corporations, however, borders are porous, and the globe is pockmarked with thousands of special zones that exist beyond any nation's control, for their benefit. And for those at the opposite end of privilege, the map fails to prevent exploitation by foreign powers, or willfully creates cracks where refugees fleeing war and hardship can be captured and kept in stateless limbo indefinitely. In this fast-paced and fascinating narrative, Atossa Abrahamian explores this parallel universe. Starting in thirteenth-century Switzerland, where a confederation of poor cantons marketed the commodity they had - bodies, in the form of mercenaries - she stalks the legacy of statelessness around world, from an Emirati-owned port in Somalia to the new charter cities, semi-autonomous city-states in poor countries like Honduras that are controlled by foreign governments ormultinational corporations, to Luxembourg, which wants to use its tiny perch to send capitalism into outer space via asteroid mining. Along the way, we meet the shadowy CEOs, visionary statesmen, eccentric theorists, prize-winning economists, and alarming ideologues who are the masterminds of this parallel order. By mapping the hidden geography that increasingly determines who wins and who loses in the new global order - and how it might be otherwise - The Hidden Globe fascinates, enrages, and inspires"--
Subjects: Wealth.; Income distribution.; Rich people; Boundaries;
Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 8
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The coin : a novel / by Zaher, Yasmin,author.(CARDINAL)897105;
"The Coin's narrator is a wealthy Palestinian woman with impeccable style and meticulous hygiene. And yet the ideal self, the ideal life, remains just out of reach: her inheritance is inaccessible, her homeland exists only in her memory, and her attempt to thrive in America seems doomed from the start. In New York, she strives to put down roots. She teaches at a school for underprivileged boys, where her eccentric methods cross boundaries. She befriends a homeless swindler, and the two participate in an intercontinental scheme reselling Birkin bags. In an unforgettable denouement, her childhood memories converge with her material and existential statelessness, and the narrator unravels spectacularly"--
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Palestinian Americans; Palestinian American women; Teachers; Psychic trauma;
Available copies: 20 / Total copies: 21
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Moneyland : the inside story of the crooks and kleptocrats who rule the world / by Bullough, Oliver,1977-author.(CARDINAL)565892;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-285) and index.From ruined towns on the edge of Siberia, to Bond-villain lairs in London and Manhattan, something has gone wrong. Kleptocracies, governments run by corrupt leaders that prosper at the expense of their people, are on the rise. Join the investigative journalist Oliver Bullough on a journey into Moneyland--the secret country of the lawless, stateless superrich. Learn how the institutions of Europe and the United States have become money-laundering operations, attacking the foundations of many of the world's most stable countries. Meet the kleptocrats. Meet their awful children. And find out how heroic activists around the world are fighting back.
Subjects: Money laundering investigation; Money laundering investigation; Money laundering; Racketeering.; Organized crime.; Political corruption.;
Available copies: 10 / Total copies: 12
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Look : poems / by Sharif, Solmaz,author.(CARDINAL)350733; Amazon Literary Partnership,funder.; Minnesota State Arts Board,funder.(CARDINAL)273800; Wells Fargo Foundation Minnesota,funder.;
"Solmaz Sharif's astonishing first book, Look, asks us to see the ongoing costs of war as the unbearable loss of human lives and also the insidious abuses against our everyday speech. In this virtuosic array of poems, lists, shards, and sequences, Sharif assembles her family's and her own fragmented narratives in the aftermath of warfare. Those repercussions echo into the present day, in the grief for those killed in America's invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, and in the discrimination endured at the checkpoints of daily encounter. At the same time, these poems point to the ways violence is conducted against our language. Throughout this collection are words and phrases lifted from the Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms; in their seamless inclusion, Sharif exposes the devastating euphemisms deployed to sterilize the language, control its effects, and sway our collective resolve. But Sharif refuses to accept this terminology as given, and instead turns it back on its perpetrators. "Let it matter what we call a thing," she writes. "Let me look at you""--Amazon.com.National Book Award finalist.
Subjects: Poetry.; Poetry.; Political poetry.; War poetry.; American poetry; American poetry; War;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 6
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Israel's defense line : her friends and foes in Washington / by Kenen, Isaiah L.(CARDINAL)162879;
Introduction -- Autobiography -- American Jews close ranks -- We protect the past -- Stateless and nameless -- Truman has fine eyesight -- The battle for the Negev -- We begin to lobby -- The downgrading of Israel -- Organization of the lobby -- The Arab lobby -- Arms for the Arabs -- none for Israel -- The Suez War and the threat of sanctions -- The collapse of containment -- Aid for Arabs up -- aid for Israel down -- The issue of discrimination -- The freedom of the seas -- A multitude of promises -- Israel's Texas friend -- The road to war -- We travel a lonely road -- The great divide -- Erosion and attrition -- The Rogers plan -- The violent and violated truce -- Sadat trades allies? -- We strengthen Israel -- An end to carrot and stick -- Soviet Jews -- Complacency -- The Yom Kippur War -- My final year -- Conclusion.1280L
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Kenen, Isaiah L.; Zionists;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
On-line resources: Suggest title for digitization;
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Villa triste / by Modiano, Patrick,1945-(CARDINAL)708623; Cullen, John,1942-translator.(CARDINAL)390434;
The narrator of Villa Triste, an anxious, roving, stateless young man of eighteen, arrives in a small French lakeside town near Switzerland in the early 1960s. He is fleeing the atmosphere of menace he feels around him and the fear that grips him. Fear of war? Of imminent catastrophe? Of others? Whatever it may be, the proximity of Switzerland, to which he plans to run at the first sign of danger, gives him temporary reassurance. The young man hides among the other summer visitors until he meets a beautiful young actress named Yvonne Jacquet, and a strange doctor, René Meinthe. These two invite him into their world of soirees and late-night debauchery. But when real life beckons once again, he finds no sympathy from his new companions.
Subjects: Fiction.; Alienation (Social psychology); Identity (Psychology);
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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