Non-Fiction Book Project

Non-Fiction Book Project

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  Non-Fiction Book Project Freshman Program
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  Ethnicity Why are allthe Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria “Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see black youth seated together in the cafeteria. Of course, it's not just the black kids sitting together-the white, Latino, Asian Pacific, and, in some regions, American Indian youth are clustered in their own groups, too. What is going on here? Beverly Daniel Tatum, a renowned authority on the psychology of racism, asserts that we do not know how to talk about our racial differences.”
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  Media and Minorities BlackNoise Hip Hop Wars The New Jim Crow Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago Nat Turner The Chinese Americans Asian American Dreams Home Bound: Filipino American Lives Latino in America The Latina Advantage Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience The New Kids: Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a High School for Immigrant Teens Other Titles for Ethnicity
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  Gender The Body Project:An Intimate History of American Girls “A hundred years ago, women were lacing themselves into corsets and teaching their daughters to do the same. The ideal of the day, however, was inner beauty: a focus on good deeds and a pure heart. Today American women have more social choices and personal freedom than ever before. But fifty-three percent of our girls are dissatisfied with their bodies by the age of thirteen, and many begin a pattern of weight obsession and dieting as early as eight or nine. Why? In The Body Project, historian Joan Jacobs Brumberg answers this question, drawing on diary excerpts and media images from 1830 to the present.”
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  Beauty Queens Ink stainedAmazons and Cinematic Warriors Men and Feminism Half the Sky The Beauty Myth Race, Class & Gender Pretty in Punk: Girls’ Gender Resistance in a Boy’s Subculture Other Titles for Gender
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  Genocide & TheHolocaust Night “Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. In the preface, Elie reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate dedication to ensuring that the world never forgets man's capacity for inhumanity to man. Night offers much more than a litany of the daily terrors, everyday perversions, and rampant sadism at Auschwitz and Buchenwald; it also eloquently addresses many of the philosophical as well as personal questions implicit in any serious consideration of what the Holocaust was, what it meant, and what its legacy is and will be.”
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  Genocide A Long WayGone Lost Boy, Lost Girl We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families Up for Sale Human Trafficking: A Global Perspective Slavery Today 5000 years of Slavery Other Titles for Genocide & The Holocaust
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  Pop Culture Supergirls: Fashion,Feminism and the History of Comic Book Heroines “Has Wonder Woman hit the comic book glass ceiling? Is that the one opposition that even her Amazonian strength can’t defeat? Entertaining and informative, The Supergirls explores iconic superheroines and what it means for the culture when they do everything the superhero does, only in thongs and high heels. This much-needed alternative history of American comic book icons—from Wonder Woman to Supergirl and beyond—delves into where these crime-fighting females fit in popular culture and why, and what their stories say about the role of women in society from their creation to now, and into the future.”
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  The Good, theBad and the Barbie Alien Encounters: Pop Culture in Asian America Asian American and the Media African American and the Media Media & Minorities Lation Images in Film Good Girls and Wicked Witches: Women in Disney’s Feature Animation From Mouse to Mermaid: The Politics of Film, Gender and Culture Black Dance in America Rap Music and Culture Super Black: American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes From Girls to Grrlz: A History of Women’s Comics from Teens to Zines Other Titles for Pop Culture
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  Religion & Science SugarChanged the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom and Science “When this award-winning husband-and-wife team discovered that they each had sugar in their family history, they were inspired to trace the globe- spanning story of the sweet substance and to seek out the voices of those who led bitter sugar lives. The trail ran like a bright band from religious ceremonies in India to Europe’s Middle Ages, then on to Columbus, who brought the first cane cuttings to the Americas. Sugar was the substance that drove the bloody slave trade and caused the loss of countless lives but it also planted the seeds of revolution that led to freedom in the American colonies, Haiti, and France. With songs, oral histories, maps, and over 80 archival illustrations, here is the story of how one product allows us to see the grand currents of world history in new ways.”
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  Sugar Changed theWorld: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom and Science The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks How I Killed Pluto and Why it had it coming Stiff Medical Apartheid The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion The Origin of Satan Almost Christian No God but God Keep Your Head Up: America’s New Black Christian Leaders, Social Consciousness, & the Cosby Conversation Other Titles for Religion & Science
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  Social Issues The PregnancyProject: A Memoir “Growing up, Gaby Rodriguez was often told she would end up a teen mom. After all, her mother and her older sisters had gotten pregnant as teenagers; from an outsider’s perspective, it was practically a family tradition. Gaby had ambitions that didn’t include teen motherhood. But she wondered: how would she be treated if she “lived down” to others’ expectations? In The Pregnancy Project, Gaby details how she was able to fake her own pregnancy—hiding the truth from even her siblings and boyfriend’s parents—and reveals all that she learned from the experience. But more than that, Gaby’s story is about fighting stereotypes, and how one girl found the strength to come out from the shadow of low expectations to forge a bright future for herself.”
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  Pregnancy Project Nickled andDimed No Choir Boys Short History of Immigration Denied, Detained, Deported Remix: Conversations with Immigrant Teenagers Food Inc. Sugar, Salt, Fat Women without Class The Price of Inequality Someplace Like America: Tales from the New Great Depression Gay America: Struggle for Equality Gay Power! The Stonewall riots and the Gay Rights Movement Queer America: A GLBT History of the 20th Century Other Titles for Social Issues
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  Sports Far from Home:Latino Baseball Players in America “The book captures all the flash and glory of being a major-league star at the top of his game...as well as the struggles faced by other hopefuls who have to take a longer, tougher road. For many of these men, the realities of the system—and the tension of illegal immigration—intrude on the dream. Discover what becomes of them, and explore the rich background of baseball and the Latin American world, in Far From Home. With sports interest for the baseball fan...timely issues for the history buff...and great images for the photography enthusiast...it is perfectly positioned for Father’s Day and a must-read for all who love the national game.”
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  We are theShip Forty Million Dollar Slaves League of Denial Fourth and Long Nike is a Goddess Let Me Play Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team and A Dream Outcasts United: A Refugee Team, An American Town Negro League Baseball Black College Football 1892-1992 The Unlevel Playing Field Taboo: Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We’re Afraid to Talk About It Other Titles for Sports