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2) Clover
Author
Language
English
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Description
After her father dies within hours of being married to a white woman, a ten-year-old black girl learns with her new mother to overcome grief and to adjust to a new place in their rural black South Carolina community.
Author
Series
One thousand White women trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
An Indian request in 1854 for 1,000 white brides to ensure peace is secretly approved by the U.S. government in this alternate-history novel. Their journey west is described by May Dodd, a high-society woman released from an asylum where she was incarcerated by her family for an affair.
Author
Language
English
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Description
A distinguished Stanford law professor examines the steep decline in marriage rates among the African American middle class, and offers a paradoxical-nearly incendiary-solution.
Black women are three times as likely as white women to never marry.
That sobering statistic reflects a broader reality: African Americans are the most unmarried people in our nation, and contrary to public perception the racial gap in marriage is...
Black women are three times as likely as white women to never marry.
That sobering statistic reflects a broader reality: African Americans are the most unmarried people in our nation, and contrary to public perception the racial gap in marriage is...
Author
Publisher
Leapfrog Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"Colorado, 1919. Photographer Neal Stephens, home from the war, is blackmailed by the sheriff over his secret marriage to a black woman in France. When the sheriff is murdered and both Neal and his sister are named suspects, Neal's own investigation calls up memories of the trenches and his long search across war-ravaged France for his dead wife, as he untangles the connections among the murder, the coalminers' strike, and his mysterious anarchist...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
Middle schooler Ariel Goldberg's life changes when her big sister elopes following the 1967 Loving v. Virginia decision, and she's forced to grapple with both her family's prejudice and the antisemitism she experiences, as she defines her own beliefs. Twelve-year-old Ariel Goldberg's life feels like the moment after the final guest leaves the party. Her family's Jewish bakery runs into financial trouble, and her older sister has eloped with a young...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
1996.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
31 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
In spite of her upbringing, a young Japanese woman begins seeing an American soldier and finds that he is not like the foreigners her parents have taught her to avoid.
Author
Publisher
HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First HarperVia edition.
Physical Desc
279 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1927 South Africa, when the Immorality Act is passed, prohibiting sexual intercourse between Europeans (white people) and natives (Black people), married couple Alisa and Abram find their bond in tatters, which leads Alisa to commit a devastating act, one that will reverberate through their entire family's lives.
9) Otello
Author
Publisher
The Metropolitan Opera
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (144 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
Italiano
Description
The immortal tale of the noble Moor and his beautiful young wife, and of his lieutenant, whose jealousy and lust for power lead him to commit the ultimate treason.
Author
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
236 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Cara Meredith grew up in a colorless world. From childhood, she didn't think issues of race had anything to do with her. Then as an adult, Cara's life took on new, colorful hues. She realized that her generation, seeking to move beyond ancestral racism, had swung so far that they tried to act as if they didn't see race at all. But that picture neglected the unique cultural identity God gives each person. When Cara met and fell in love with the son...
13) Caucasia
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
1998.
Physical Desc
353 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
15) Othello
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Othello tells the story of a Moorish general in command of armed forces of Venice who earns enmity of his ensign Iago by passing him over for a promotion. Partly for revenge, and partly out of pure evil, Iago plots to convince Othello that Desdemona, his wife, has been unfaithful to him.
Author
Language
English
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Description
A stranger named Dunbar comes to the town of Dry Camp and goes to work at Rich Stanton's ranch. Shortly after Dunbar's arrival, he helps find the body of an old man named Ross Guilford. The foreman, Paul Kelso, picks a fight with a ranch hand named Willard Brumley. Dunbar intervenes, and Kelso fires him. As Dunbar asks around, he learns from Jack Brumley, Willard's father, that Guilford knew something about Brumley's wife, Louise, a beautiful woman...
Author
Publisher
United States Commission on Civil Rights
Physical Desc
1 online resource (2 pages).
Language
English
Description
Letter from 8 commissioners of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission to Hugh Collins, CEO of the Judiciary Commission of Louisiana, in response to the Judiciary Commission's decision not to discipline a Louisiana Justice of the Peace, Keith Bardwell for refusing to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple.
Author
Series
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xiii, 271 pages).
Language
English
Description
Botham argues that divergent Catholic and Protestant theologies of marriage and race, reinforced by regional differences between the West and the South, shaped the two pivotal cases that frame this volume, the 1948 California Supreme Court case of Perez v. Lippold (which successfully challenged California's antimiscegenation statutes on the grounds of religious freedom) and the 1967 U.S. Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia (which declared legal...
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