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"DC philanthropist Sloane Chase and Senator Whit Montgomery are ready to settle down. Sloane is also preparing for an upcoming hip replacement--the latest reminder of the lupus she's managed since her twenties. They decide that hiring a home health aide will give Sloane the support and independence she needs postsurgery. Seemingly a godsend, Athena tends to Sloane and even helps her run her charitable foundation. But Sloane becomes sicker, and her...
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"It's been two years since Aki Ito and her family were released from Manzanar detention center and resettled in Chicago with other Japanese Americans. Now the Itos have finally been allowed to return home to California--but nothing is as they left it. The entire Japanese American community is starting from scratch, with thousands of people living in dismal refugee camps while they struggle to find new houses and jobs in over-crowded Los Angeles. Aki...
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2024.
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English
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Tracing the legacy of slavery to the treatment of Black people's bodies and minds in our current healthcare system, a Peabody and Emmy award-winning journalist tells the 93-year-old history of Crownsville Hospital, one of the nation's last segregated asylums.
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The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
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1 online resource (xv, 337 pages) : illustrations.
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English
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"In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries imprisoned black women faced wrenching forms of gendered racial terror and heinous structures of economic exploitation. Exposed to violence and rape, subjugated on chain gangs and as convict laborers, and forced to serve additional time as domestic workers before they were allowed their freedom, black women faced a pitiless system of violence, terror, and debasement. Drawing upon black feminist...
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University Press of Florida
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©2012
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xii, 258 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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English
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"The legend of Madame Delphine Lalaurie, a wealthy society matron, has haunted the city of New Orleans for nearly two hundred years. When fire destroyed part of her home in 1834, the public was outraged to learn that behind closed doors Lalaurie routinely bound, starved, and tortured her slaves. Forced to flee the city, her guilt was unquestioned, and tales of her actions have become increasingly fanciful and grotesque over the decades. Even today,...
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