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Author
Language
English
Description
The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power-- which groups have it and which do not. Wilkerson explores how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human rankings. Linking the caste systems of America, India, and Nazi Germany, Wilkerson explores eight pillars that underlie caste systems across civilizations, including divine will, bloodlines, stigma, and...
2) Omar rising
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Seventh-grader Omar must contend with being treated like a second-class citizen when he gets a scholarship to an elite boarding school in Pakistan.
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
552 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Florrie Buckley is an orphan, living on the wind-blasted moors of Cornwall. It's a hard existence but Florrie is content; she runs wild in the mysterious landscape. She thinks her destiny is set in stone. But when Florrie is fifteen, she inherits a never-imagined secret. She is related to a wealthy and notorious London family, the Graces. Overnight, Florrie's life changes and she moves from country to city, from poverty to wealth. Cut off from everyone...
Author
Language
English
Description
The wretched and landless poor have existed from the time of the earliest British colonial settlement. They were alternately known as "waste people, " "offals, " "rubbish, " "lazy lubbers, " and "crackers." By the 1850s, the downtrodden included so-called "clay eaters" and "sandhillers, " known for prematurely-aged children distinguished by their yellowish skin, ragged clothing, and listless minds. Surveying political rhetoric and policy, popular...
Author
Language
English
Description
"A boy on the run. A girl determined to find him. All light in Chattana is created by one man--the Governor, who appeared after the Great Fire to bring peace and order to the city. For Pong, who was born in Namwon Prison, the magical lights represent freedom, and he dreams of the day he will be able to walk among them. But when Pong escapes from prison, he realizes that the world outside is no fairer than the one behind bars. The wealthy dine and...
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (91 min.) : silent, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
None
Description
After losing the man of her dreams, Diana reluctantly weds another man. These dubious marital beginnings become even more questionable when her new husband takes his own life. Immediately, all eyes turn to Diana, and her free-spirited lifestyle is deemed his unofficial cause of death. Socially chastised, Diana decides to live up to her reputation and ventures on a series of foreign affairs. Things really begin to unfold when Diana is reunited with...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In nearly every realm of daily life--from health care to education, highways to home security--there is an invisible velvet rope rising, separating Americans into two radically different experiences of life. On one side of the velvet rope is a friction-free existence where, for a price, needs are anticipated and catered to. Red tape is cut, lines are jumped, appointments are secured, and doors are opened. On the other side of the rope, friction is...
Series
Indicator volume 018
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1933 on a German luxury liner sailing from Mexico to Germany, the separate but interlocking stories of the various passengers begins to unfold. Among the many passengers is a divorcee desperate for love and lost youth, a Spanish noblewoman being deported as a political prisoner, an aging alcoholic ballplayer, and a budding Nazi whose brutishness foreshadows the holocaust to come.
9) Dark girls
Publisher
One Village Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (71 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Examines the cultural phenomenom of "colorism", the prejudice or discrimination based on the relative darkness or lightness of skin generally within one's own ethnic or racial group, specifically as it pertains to women and girls of color in America and other parts of the world.
10) Dark girls
Author
Publisher
Amistad/HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
174 pages : color illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Black has never been more beautiful, witnessed by this magnificent collection featuring accomplished dark skinned-women from all walks of life. In Dark Girls, celebrities such as Lupita Nyong'o, Vanessa Williams, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Judge Mablean Ephriam, Brandi and Karli Harvey, and over seventy-five other outstanding women share intimate insights into what their dark skin means to them." -- Amazon.com
11) Alice Adams
Publisher
Turner Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Social climber Alice tries to push her clodhopper family to the background and assumes airs to win the love of an amiable, wealthy young man.
12) My fair lady
Language
English
Description
A professor takes a wager to turn a London flower girl into someone presentable in high society.
Special features: British premiere ; Rex Harrison BFI honor ; More loverly than ever: The making of My Fair Lady then & now ; Behind the scene photos ; Comments on a lady ; Rex Harrison Golden Globe acceptance speech ; Academy Awards ceremony highlights 4/5/65 ; Alternate Audrey Hepburn vocals ; Production tests ; Los Angeles premiere ; 1963 production...
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
7 Blu-rays (753 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Gladiator: A former Roman general sets out to exact vengeance against the corrupt emperor who murdered his family and sent him into slavery.
The English patient: At the close of World War II, a young nurse tends to a badly-burned plane crash victim. His past is shown in flashbacks, revealing an involvement in a fateful love affair.
American beauty: A sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
8 Blu-rays (939 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Breakfast at Tiffany's: A young New York socialite becomes interested in a young man who has moved into her apartment building, but her past threatens to get in the way.
Funny face: An impromptu fashion shoot at a book store brings about a new fashion model discovery in the shop clerk.
My fair lady: In 1910s London, snobbish phonetics professor Henry Higgins agrees to a wager that he can make crude flower girl Eliza Doolittle presentable in high...
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