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Casta painting : images of race in eighteenth-century Mexico / by Katzew, Ilona.(CARDINAL)306081;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-237) and index.Painters and paintings: a visual tradition and its historiography -- "A marvelous variety of colors?": racial ideology and the Sistema de Castas -- The rise of Casta painting: exoticism and Creole pride, 1711-1760 -- Changing perspectives: Casta painting in the era of the Bourbon reforms, 1760-1790 -- The theater of marvels: Casta paintings in the textual microcosmos.
Subjects: Casta painting.; Multiracial people in art; Race in art.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Imagining identity in New Spain : race, lineage, and the colonial body in portraiture and casta paintings / by Carrera, Magali Marie,1950-author.(CARDINAL)855756; University of Texas Press,publisher.(CARDINAL)332320;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 174-183) and index.
Subjects: Casta painting.; Multiracial people in art;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Three lives. by Stein, Gertrude,1874-1946.(CARDINAL)138304;
The stories of three young ordinary working class women are portrayed. In these stories, Gertrude Stein put into practice certain theories about prose composition that paralleled the ideas expressed in the art of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painters. The three stories are independent of each other, but all are set in Bridgepoint, a fictional town based on Baltimore.
Subjects: Fiction.; Arranged marriage; Household employees; Immigrants; Man-woman relationships; Married people; Multiracial people; Short stories, American; Social classes; Women; Working class women;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Fractured path / by Cervantes, J. C.(Jennifer C.),author.(CARDINAL)497866;
In San Francisco in 1965, eighteen-year-old Blake Estancia searches the city for magical relics tied to her family's curse, reclaiming her dormant abilities along the way and barely managing to keep a step ahead of a murderous secret society.Grades 10-12.Ages 14-18.
Subjects: Novels.; Fantasy fiction.; Young adult fiction.; Blessing and cursing; Magic; Ability; Art; Secret societies; Multiracial people;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 7
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Mad, bad & dangerous to know / by Ahmed, Samira(Fiction writer),author.(CARDINAL)792970;
Includes bibliographical references.Told in alternating narratives that bridge centuries, the latest novel from bestselling author Samira Ahmed traces the lives of two young women fighting to write their own stories and escape the pressure of familial burdens and cultural expectations in worlds too long defined by men.Ages 14.Grades 10-12.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Detective and mystery fiction.; Young adult fiction.; Young adult fiction.; Young adult fiction.; Art; Muslims; Multiracial people; Americans;
Available copies: 23 / Total copies: 23
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Colour blind / by Cookson, Catherine1906-1998-(local)tlcaut5024199064873400; Grint, Alan,director.(DLC)no 89015801; Marshall, Ray,producer.(DLC)nb2011021459(CARDINAL)428171; Hann, Gordon,screenwriter.(DLC)no2007011121; Cusack, Niamh.(DLC)no 98068968; Ejogo, Carmen,1974-(DLC)no2001075019(CARDINAL)344821; Armatrading, Tony.(local)tlcaut9212362926900; KOCH Vision (Firm)(DLC)nr2001020626(CARDINAL)834878;
Niamh Cusack, Carmen Ejogo, Tony Armatrading, Art Malik.Bridget seriously offends her conservative family by marrying an African sailor. After being accused of murder, her husband is forced to leave town. As their daughter grows up, she must learn to cope with the racism surrounding her.DVD; Dolby Digital.
Subjects: Romance fiction.; Feature films.; Racism; Multiracial people; Television programs.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The bone people : a novel / by Hulme, Keri,Author(DLC)n 85023621 ;
The powerful, visionary, Booker Award-winning novel about the complicated relationships between three outcasts of mixed European and Maori heritage In a tower on the New Zealand sea lives Kerewin Holmes: part Maori, part European, asexual and aromantic, an artist estranged from her art, a woman in exile from her family. One night her solitude is disrupted by a visitor--a speechless, mercurial boy named Simon, who tries to steal from her and then repays her with his most precious possession. As Kerewin succumbs to Simon's feral charm, she also falls under the spell of his Maori foster father Joe, who rescued the boy from a shipwreck and now treats him with an unsettling mixture of tenderness and brutality. Out of this unorthodox trinity Keri Hulme has created what is at once a mystery, a love story, and an ambitious exploration of the zone where indigenous and European New Zealand meet, clash, and sometimes merge. Winner of both a Booker Prize and Pegasus Prize for Literature, The Bone People is a work of unfettered wordplay and mesmerizing emotional complexity.
Subjects: Psychological fiction; Romance fiction; Novels; Māori (New Zealand people); Commitment (Psychology); Multiracial people; Social isolation; Mute persons; Shipwrecks; Widowers;
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Juan de Pareja : Afro-Hispanic painter in the age of Velázquez / by Pullins, David,author.(CARDINAL)867184; Méndez Rodríguez, Luis,author.(CARDINAL)865455; Rowe, Erin Kathleen,1974-author.(CARDINAL)865666; Valdés, Vanessa Kimberly,author.(CARDINAL)867147; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),publisher,host institution.(CARDINAL)147619;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 160-172) and index."This exhibition offers an unprecedented look at the life and artistic achievements of seventeenth-century Afro-Hispanic painter Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608-1670). Largely known today as the subject of The Met's iconic portrait by Diego Vel̀zquez, Pareja was enslaved in Vel̀zquez's studio for over two decades before becoming an artist in his own right. This presentation is the first to tell his story and examine the role of enslaved artisanal labor and a multiracial society in the art and material culture of Spain's so-called "Golden Age." Representations of Spain's Black and Morisco populations in works by Francisco de Zurbar̀n, Bartolom̌ Esteban Murillo, and Vel̀zquez join works that chart the ubiquity of enslaved labor across media, from sculpture to silver. The Met's portrait, executed by Vel̀zquez in Rome in 1650, is contextualized by his other portraits from this period and the original document whereby Pareja was freed upon return to Madrid. The exhibition culminates in the first gathering of Pareja's rarely seen paintings, some of enormous scale, which engage with the canons of Western art while reverberating throughout the African diaspora. Harlem Renaissance collector and scholar Arturo Schomburg was vital to the recovery of Pareja's work and serves as a thread connecting seventeenth-century Spain with twentieth-century New York, providing a lens through which to view the multiple histories that have been written about Pareja."
Subjects: Exhibition catalogs.; Pareja, Juan de, 1606-1670; Velázquez, Diego, 1599-1660; Artists, Black; Black people in art; Painters, Black; Painting, Spanish; Slavery in art;
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The last two crayons / by Freeman-Haskin, Leah,author(CARDINAL)869030; Robinson, Shantala,illustrator(CARDINAL)804494;
"Sienna looks forward to drawing a picture for her school's spring art show, until she ends up with the last two crayons ... By the time Sienna arrives at the art table in her classroom, all the crayons are gone except dark brown and light brown. Now how can she make a special picture for the art show? Andy teases that all she'll be able to draw is mud and dog poop. Her teacher tries to cheer her up, telling her that lots of wonderful things are brown. So Sienna imagines some of her favorite things -- her grandma's rose garden, her new bicycle, rainbows -- but none of them are brown! Her friends remind her that chocolate ice cream is brown, and so is the grizzly bear at the zoo. Sienna draws both, with the help of her friends, but neither picture seems special enough. In the end, inspired by an early memory, Sienna comes up with her own idea for a drawing that's perfect for the art show. The Last Two Crayons looks at the beautiful world of brown, with a heartwarming and empowering ending that celebrates diversity, creativity and family."--
Subjects: Fiction.; Picture books.; Brown; Colors; Crayons; Families; Human skin color; Multiracial people;
Available copies: 9 / Total copies: 9
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The ninja daughter / by Eldridge, Tori,1960-author.(CARDINAL)817437;
"After her sister is raped and murdered, Lily Wong dedicates her life and ninja skills to the protection of women. But her mission is complicated. Not only does she live above the Chinese restaurant owned by her Norwegian father and inspired by the recipes of her Chinese mother, but she has to hide her true self from her Hong Kong tiger mom who is already disappointed in her daughter's less than feminine ways... But when a woman and her son she escorted safely to an abused women's shelter return home to dangerous consequences, Lily is forced to not only confront her family and her past, but team up with a mysterious-and very lethal-stranger to rescue them."--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Gangster fiction.; Martial arts fiction.; Novels.; Chinese American women; Martial artists; Multiracial people; Sisters; Vigilantes; Women martial artists;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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