Автор: Lalami, Laila Название: The Other Americans ISBN: 1524747149 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781524747145 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 2386.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: From the Pulitzer Prize finalist, author of The Moor's Account--a timely and powerful new novel about the suspicious death of a Moroccan immigrant that is at once a family saga, a murder mystery, and a love story, all of it informed by the treacherous fault lines of American culture. Late one spring night, Driss Guerraoui, a Moroccan immigrant in California, is walking across a darkened intersection when he is killed by a speeding car. The repercussions of his death bring together a diverse cast of characters: Guerraoui's daughter Nora, a jazz composer who returns to the small town in the Mojave she thought she'd left for good; his widow Maryam, who still pines after her life in the old country; Efra n, an undocumented witness whose fear of deportation prevents him from coming forward; Jeremy, an old friend of Nora's and a veteran of the Iraq war; Coleman, a detective who is slowly discovering her son's secrets; Anderson, a neighbor trying to reconnect with his family; and the murdered man himself. As the characters--deeply divided by race, religion or class--tell their stories, connections among them emerge, even as Driss's family confronts its secrets, a town faces its hypocrisies, and love, messy and unpredictable, is born.
Описание: Examines how the media influenced ideas of race and beauty among African American women from the Harlem Renaissance to World War II.
Between the Harlem Renaissance and the end of World War II, a complicated discourse emerged surrounding considerations of appearance of African American women and expressions of race, class, and status. Brown Beauty considers how the media created a beauty ideal for these women, emphasizing different representations and expressions of brown skin.
Haidarali contends that the idea of brown as a "respectable shade" was carefully constructed through print and visual media in the interwar era. Throughout this period, brownness of skin came to be idealized as the real, representational, and respectable complexion of African American middle class women. Shades of brown became channels that facilitated discussions of race, class, and gender in a way that would develop lasting cultural effects for an ever-modernizing world.
Building on an impressive range of visual and media sources--from newspapers, journals, magazines, and newsletters to commercial advertising--Haidarali locates a complex, and sometimes contradictory, set of cultural values at the core of representations of women, envisioned as "brown-skin." She explores how brownness affected socially-mobile New Negro women in the urban environment during the interwar years, showing how the majority of messages on brownness were directed at an aspirant middle-class. By tracing brown's changing meanings across this period, and showing how a visual language of brown grew into a dynamic racial shorthand used to denote modern African American womanhood, Brown Beauty demonstrates the myriad values and judgments, compromises and contradictions involved in the social evaluation of women. This book is an eye-opening account of the intense dynamics between racial identity and the influence mass media has on what, and who we consider beautiful.
Автор: Anwarzai Ayoubi Laila Название: Niki`s Honor ISBN: 1634179145 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781634179140 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 1786.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Alloo Nushin Название: The Adventures of Laila and Ahmed in Syria ISBN: 0692110941 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780692110942 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 4137.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
The Adventures of Laila and Ahmed in Syria is a light-hearted, humorous story of adventure, travel, and appreciation for a pre-war Syria. It's a story that builds a bridge between those who long for their homeland and those who wish to discover the beauty of a lasting civilization and all its rich culture. More so, it's a tale that uncovers the hidden wanderlust in both children and adults, providing a great introduction to the rich heritage of Syria. The story is illustrated using oil paintings by a Syrian refugee artist.
Описание: Each set of student workbooks includes 10 student booklets, divided by grade level and area of emphasis (short stories, poetry, nonfiction). Corresponding to the activities in Jacob`s Ladder, Grade 4 (2nd ed.), students read high-interest passages, then complete skill ladders connected to the readings to move them from concrete thinking skil
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