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Pyre / by Perumāḷmurukan̲,author.(CARDINAL)807272; Aniruddhan Vasudevan,translator.(CARDINAL)802620;
Saroja and Kumaresan, a young married couple, return to Kumaresan's family village where they hope to build a happy life. But they have a dangerous secret: Saroja is from a different caste than Kumaresan, and if the villagers find out, they will both be in danger. Will they--and their marriage--survive?
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Caste-based discrimination; Newlyweds; Social classes;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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A River in Darkness : One Man's Escape from North Korea. [sound recording] by Ishikawa, Masaji.(CARDINAL)686389;
Performed by Brian Nishii.The harrowing true story of one man's life in--and subsequent escape from--North Korea, one of the world's most brutal totalitarian regimes. Half-Korean, half-Japanese, Masaji Ishikawa has spent his whole life feeling like a man without a country. This feeling only deepened when his family moved from Japan to North Korea when Ishikawa was just thirteen years old, and unwittingly became members of the lowest social caste. His father, himself a Korean national, was lured to the new Communist country by promises of abundant work, education for his children, and a higher station in society. But the reality of their new life was far from utopian. In this memoir translated from the original Japanese, Ishikawa candidly recounts his tumultuous upbringing and the brutal thirty-six years he spent living under a crushing totalitarian regime, as well as the challenges he faced repatriating to Japan after barely escaping North Korea with his life. A River in Darkness is not only a shocking portrait of life inside the country but a testament to the dignity and indomitable nature of the human spirit
Subjects: Caste-based discrimination; Ishikawa, Masaji.; Multiracial people;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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A river in darkness : one man's escape from North Korea / by Ishikawa, Masaji,author.(CARDINAL)686389; Kobayashi, Risa,translator.(CARDINAL)851254; Brown, Martin,translator.(CARDINAL)809340;
Half-Korean, half-Japanese, Masaji Ishikawa's family moved from Japan to North Korea when he was just thirteen years old, and unwittingly became members of the lowest social caste. His father, himself a Korean national, was lured to the new Communist country by promises of abundant work, education for his children, and a higher station in society. But the reality of their new life was far from utopian. Ishikawa candidly recounts his tumultuous upbringing and the brutal thirty-six years he spent living under a crushing totalitarian regime, as well as the challenges he faced repatriating to Japan after barely escaping North Korea with his life.
Subjects: Biographies.; Ishikawa, Masaji.; Multiracial people; Caste-based discrimination; Totalitarianism.;
Available copies: 14 / Total copies: 15
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Coming out as Dalit : a memoir of surviving India's caste system / by Dutt, Yashica,author.(CARDINAL)888442;
Includes bibliographical references and index.The Early Years -- The Caste System : How It Began -- Education and Financial Strife -- Humiliation in Mussoorie -- The Reality of Untouchability -- The Long Road to St. Stephen's -- The Argument for Reservation -- Culture Cache and Onward to Columbia -- Dalit Movements and Ambedkar's Legacy -- My Introduction to Ambedkar -- Dalit Women's Movements -- The Danger of the Single Narrative -- Silicon Valley, Model Minority, and the Myth of Caste-lessness -- The Reckoning of Caste in Tech."Born into a "formerly untouchable manual-scavenging family in small-town India," Yashica Dutt was taught from a young age to not appear "Dalit looking." Although prejudice against Dalits, who compose 25% of the population, has been illegal since 1950, caste-ism in India is alive and well. Blending her personal history with extensive research and reporting, Dutt provides an incriminating analysis of caste's influence in India over everything from entertainment to judicial systems and how this discrimination has carried over to US institutions. Published in India in 2019 to acclaim, this expanded edition includes 2 new chapters covering how the caste system traveled to the US, its history here, and the continuation of bias by South Asian communities in professional sectors. Amid growing conversations about caste discrimination prompting US institutions including Harvard University, Brandeis University, the University of California system, and the NAACP to add caste as a protected category to their policies, Dutt's work sheds essential light on the significant influence caste-ism has across many aspects of US society." --"For readers of Caste, the coming-of-age story of a Dalit individual that illuminates systemic injustice in India and its growing impact on U.S. society"--
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Dutt, Yashica.; Dalit women; Dalits; Dalits; Caste-based discrimination; East Indian Americans;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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This great hemisphere : a novel / by Askaripour, Mateo,author.(CARDINAL)846577;
"Despite the odds, Sweetmint, a young invisible woman, has done everything right her entire life--school, university, and now a highly sought-after apprenticeship with one of the Northwestern Hemisphere's premier inventors, a non-invisible man belonging to the dominant population who is as eccentric as he is enigmatic. But the world she has fought so hard to build after the disappearance of her older brother comes crashing down when authorities claim that not only is he well and alive, he's also the main suspect in the murder of the Chief Executive of the Northwestern Hemisphere. A manhunt ensues, and Sweetmint, armed with courage, intellect, and unwavering love for her brother, sets off on a mission to find him before it's too late. With five days until the hemisphere's big election, Sweetmint must dodge a relentless law officer who's determined to maintain order and an ambitious politician with sights set on becoming the next Chief Executive by any means necessary"--Dust jacket flap."From the award-winning and bestselling author of Black Buck: A speculative novel about a young woman--invisible by birth and relegated to second-class citizenship--who sets off on a mission to find her older brother, whom she had presumed dead but who is now the primary suspect in a high-profile political murder"--
Subjects: Science fiction.; Dystopian fiction.; Detective and mystery fiction.; Novels.; Invisibility; Caste-based discrimination; Murder; Political crimes and offenses; Siblings; Quests (Expeditions); Imaginary places; Inventors; Eccentrics and eccentricities; Siblings.;
Available copies: 23 / Total copies: 31
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This great hemisphere : [large print] a novel / by Askaripour, Mateo,author.(CARDINAL)846577;
"Despite the odds, Sweetmint, a young invisible woman, has done everything right her entire life--school, university, and now a highly sought-after apprenticeship with one of the Northwestern Hemisphere's premier inventors, a non-invisible man belonging to the dominant population who is as eccentric as he is enigmatic. But the world she has fought so hard to build after the disappearance of her older brother comes crashing down when authorities claim that not only is he well and alive, he's also the main suspect in the murder of the Chief Executive of the Northwestern Hemisphere. A manhunt ensues, and Sweetmint, armed with courage, intellect, and unwavering love for her brother, sets off on a mission to find him before it's too late. With five days until the hemisphere's big election, Sweetmint must dodge a relentless law officer who's determined to maintain order and an ambitious politician with sights set on becoming the next Chief Executive by any means necessary"--Dust jacket flap."From the award-winning and bestselling author of Black Buck, a speculative novel about a young woman--invisible by birth and relegated to second-class citizenship--who sets off on a mission to find her older brother, whom she had presumed dead but who is now the primary suspect in a high-profile political murder"--
Subjects: Science fiction.; Dystopian fiction.; Detective and mystery fiction.; Novels.; Large print books.; Invisibility; Caste-based discrimination; Missing persons; Murder; Political crimes and offenses; Siblings; Quests (Expeditions); Imaginary places; Inventors; Elections; Eccentrics and eccentricities; Siblings.;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 5
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The new Jim Crow [sound recording] : mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness / by Alexander, Michelle,author.(CARDINAL)344219; Chilton, Karen,narrator.(CARDINAL)660076;
Narrated by Karen Chilton.Argues that the War on Drugs and policies that deny convicted felons equal access to employment, housing, education, and public benefits create a permanent under caste based largely on race.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; African American prisoners; Criminal justice, Administration of; Race discrimination;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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Always outnumbered, always outgunned [videorecording] / by Mosley, Walter,(CARDINAL)294052; Apted, Michael,; Franti, Michael,1966-; Fishburne, Laurence,III,1961-actor(CARDINAL)434940; Cobbs, Bill,actor(CARDINAL)434768; Cole, Natalie,1950-2015.actor(CARDINAL)349076; Metcalf, Laurie,1955-actor(CARDINAL)530376; Nunn, Bill,1952-2016.actor; Tyson, Cicely,actor(CARDINAL)842444; Mosley, Walter.Always outnumbered always outgunned,autor; HBO Video (Firm)dst(CARDINAL)347268; Home Box Office (Firm)(CARDINAL)165002;
Director of photography, John Bailey; production design, Keith Brian Burns; editor, Rick Shane; music, Michael Franti.Laurence Fishburne, Bill Cobbs, Natalie Cole, Laurie Metcalf, Bill Nunn, Cicely Tyson.Originally broadcast on television in 1998.An ex-con moves to L.A. to find work and creates a disturbance by fighting for a position. More importantly he touches the lives of many of his neighbors including an older man dying of cancer, a young married couple whose husband is too proud to accept a lesser position which causes strife with his wife, and a young boy on the verge of getting in trouble with street gangs.MPAA rating: R.DVD Dolby digital surround.
Subjects: Feature films.; Fiction films.; Crime films.; Mosley, Walter; Ex-convicts; Discrimination in employment; Interpersonal relations; Films for the hearing impaired.;
For private home use only.
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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To kill a mockingbird [videorecording] / by Alford, Phillip.(CARDINAL)843738; Badham, Mary,1952-(CARDINAL)843733; Megna, John.(CARDINAL)848025; Mulligan, Robert,1925-2008.(CARDINAL)843736; Pakula, Alan J.,1928-1998.(CARDINAL)842054; Peck, Gregory,1916-2003.(CARDINAL)155015; White, Ruth,1914-1969.(CARDINAL)843400; Brentwood Productions, Inc.(CARDINAL)848057; Pakula-Mulligan Productions.(CARDINAL)848056; Universal Pictures (Firm)(CARDINAL)318695;
Music, Elmer Bernstein.Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Phillip Alford, John Megna, Ruth White, Paul Fix, Brock Peters, Frank Overton, Rosemary Murphy, Collin Wilcox.In a small Alabama town in the thirties, a softly-spoken lawyer defends a black sharecropper against a charge of raping a white woman.Blu-ray disc, widescreen (1.85:1); DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, DTS 2.0 mono. (English), DTS-HD 2.0 mono. (French); 1080p High Definition; requires Blu-ray player.
Subjects: Feature films.; Fiction films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Race discrimination; Trials (Rape);
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Machiavelli for women : defend your worth, grow your ambition, and win the workplace / by Vanek Smith, Stacey,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction -- Machiavelli's playbook -- Money -- Confidence -- Respect -- Support -- Title -- The parent trap -- Women and the dark arts -- You can go your own way -- A lady's guide to negotiation -- Machiavelli's final lesson: fortune's gift."From the NPR host of The Indicator podcast and correspondent for Planet Money comes a guide for how today's women can apply the principles of 16th-century philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli to their work lives and finally shatter the glass ceiling once and for all-perfect for fans of Feminist Fight Club, Lean In, and Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office. Women have been making strides towards equality for decades, or so we're so often told. They've been increasingly entering male-dominated areas of the workforce and consistently surpassing their male peers in grades, university attendance, and degrees. They've recently stormed the political arena with a vengeance. But despite all of this, the payoff is-quite literally-not there: the gender pay gap has held steady at about 20% since 2000. And the number of female CEOs for Fortune 500 companies has actually been declining. So why, in the age of #MeToo and #TimesUp, is the glass ceiling still holding strong? And how can we shatter it for once and for all? Stacy Vanek Smith's advice: ask Machiavelli. Using The Prince as a guide and with charm and wit, Smith applies Renaissance politics to the 21st century, and demonstrates how women can take and maintain power in careers where they have long been cast as second-best. Based on the latest research, tips from successful women across many industries, and experiences from Smith's own life, Machiavelli for Women is a powerful, entertaining, and inspirational guide for a new generation of successful women"--
Subjects: Handbooks and manuals.; Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527.; Women; Sex discrimination in employment.; Equal pay for equal work.; Success in business.; Women; Women's rights.; Women; Women.; Womyn.;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 7
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