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Race and racism in literature / by Wilson, Charles E.,1961-(CARDINAL)293388;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-148) and index.Mark Twain, The adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) -- Richard Wright, Native son (1940) -- Harper Lee, To kill a mockingbird (1960) -- Jose Antonio Villarreal, Pocho (1959) -- Sandra Cisneros, The house on Mango Street (1984) -- Margaret Craven, I heard the owl call my name (1973) -- Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony (1977) -- Arlene J. Chai, The last time I saw mother (1995) -- Nora Okja Keller, Fox girl (2002) -- Rita Ciresi, Sometimes I dream in Italian (2000) -- Chaim Potok, The chosen (1967) -- Amy Wilentz, Martyrs' crossing (2001).
Subjects: American literature; Literature and society; Race in literature.; Racism in literature.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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How to read now : essays / by Castillo, Elaine,author.(CARDINAL)355362; Castillo, Elaine.Reading teaches us empathy, and other fictions.; Castillo, Elaine.Honor the treaty.; Castillo, Elaine.Limits of white fantasy.; Castillo, Elaine.Main character syndrome.; Castillo, Elaine."Reality is all we have to love."; Castillo, Elaine.Autobiography in Asian film, or what we talk about when we talk about representation.; Castillo, Elaine.Children of Polyphemus.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-340).Author's note, or a Virgo clarifies things -- How to read now -- Reading teaches us empathy, and other fictions -- Honor the treaty -- The limits of white fantasy -- Main character syndrome -- "Reality is all we have to love" -- Autobiography in Asian film, or what we talk about when we talk about representation -- The children of Polyphemus."An exploration and manifesto investigating the power of reading--and our potential to become radically better readers in the world"--
Subjects: Essays.; Reading.; Literature and society.; Literature and race.; Imperialism in literature.; Books and reading;
Available copies: 16 / Total copies: 16
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12 epic races / by Slingerland, Janet,author.(CARDINAL)396231;
Includes bibliographical references and index.760LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Racing; Contests; Adventure and adventurers;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Deans and truants : race and realism in African American literature / by Jarrett, Gene Andrew,1975-(CARDINAL)474785;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-215) and index.
Subjects: American literature; African Americans; African Americans in literature.; African American aesthetics.; Race in literature.; Realism in literature.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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White flights : race, fiction, and the American imagination / by Row, Jess,author.(CARDINAL)466477;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-308).White Flights is a meditation on whiteness in American fiction and culture from the end of the civil rights movement to the present. At the heart of the book, Jess Row ties "white flight"--the movement of white Americans into segregated communities, whether in suburbs or newly gentrified downtowns--to white writers setting their stories in isolated or emotionally insulated landscapes, from the mountains of Idaho in Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping to the claustrophobic households in Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections. Row uses brilliant close readings of work from well-known writers such as Don DeLillo, Annie Dillard, Richard Ford, and David Foster Wallace to examine the ways these and other writers have sought imaginative space for themselves at the expense of engaging with race. White Flights aims to move fiction to a more inclusive place, and Row looks beyond criticism to consider writing as a reparative act. What would it mean, he asks, if writers used fiction "to approach each other again"? Row turns to the work of James Baldwin, Dorothy Allison, and James Alan McPherson to discuss interracial love in fiction, while also examining his own family heritage as a way to interrogate his position. A moving and provocative book that includes music, film, and literature in its arguments, White Flights is an essential work of cultural and literary criticism.
Subjects: American literature; Caucasian race in literature.; Race in literature.;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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The South in Black and white : race, sex, and literature in the 1940s / by Jenkins, McKay,1963-(CARDINAL)685110;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-212) and index.
Subjects: Percy, William Alexander, 1885-1942; Smith, Lillian (Lillian Eugenia), 1897-1966; McCullers, Carson, 1917-1967; Cash, W. J. (Wilbur Joseph), 1900-1941.; American literature; Literature and society; African Americans in literature.; Race in literature.; Sex in literature.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Toni Morrison : playing with difference / by Fultz, Lucille P.,1937-(CARDINAL)669959;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Who will play with Jane? : Toni Morrison's invitation to her readers -- Playing with difference : the other as subject -- Slips of sorrow : narrating the pain of difference and the rhetoric of healing -- Playing with narrative : figuring the reader, refiguring history -- Reflections on the ethics of difference.
Subjects: Morrison, Toni; Difference (Psychology) in literature.; Race in literature.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The militant black writer in Africa and the United States / by Cook, Mercer,1903-1987.(CARDINAL)194216; Henderson, Stephen,1925-1997.;
Bibliography: pages 57-62. Bibliographical footnotes.Foreword -- African voices of protest / Mercer Cook -- "Survival motion": a study of the Black writer and the Black revolution in America / Stephen E. Henderson.Here, two distinguished and articulate black intellectuals view the Black Revolution in terms of the black writer. Cook traces the development of black African consciousness through the works of representative black African writers, from the nineteenth century to the present. In exploring basic themes--independence, civilization, identity, African personality, and African socialism--he draws interesting parallels and notes some telling dissimilarities in the American and African movements. Henderson, choosing the phrase "survival motion" as rubric, examines the intricate interrelationship among black writers, the Black Revolution, and Black Consciousness in America--and their effects upon (and influencing by) established, white, middle-class cultural values. The responsibility of the black writer, he suggessts, is to free his people from racist mythology and stimulate their emergent self-respect into an instrumentality of wisdom. Together, these remarkable essays form some profound connections for all who seek a greater understanding, not only of the American Black Revolution, but of the larger, international Black movement which forms an illuminating context for the American experience.
Subjects: American literature; African literature; Black race;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Race in American science fiction / by Lavender, Isiah,III.(CARDINAL)500888;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: mapping the Blackground -- Racing science fiction -- Meta-slavery -- Jim Crow extrapolations -- Ailments of race -- Ethnoscapes -- Technologically derived ethnicities -- Epilogue: science fictioning race.
Subjects: Science fiction, American; Race in literature.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Fast cars / by Graham, Ian,1953-(CARDINAL)318722;
Includes bibliographical references (page 32) and index."Describes in detail how high-performance sports cars and supercars are designed to drive faster than average cars"--Provided by publisher.Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Automobiles, Racing; Automobiles, Racing; Automobiles;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 9
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