Cultural History

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Bigotry on Broadway

An Anthology

In this hard-hitting anthology, Ishmael Reed and Carla Blank have invited a diverse group of informed and accomplished writers, both women and men, who are rarely heard to comment on the … ; 216 View
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Earthkeeping

love notes to tough times

The author of Alder Music, Gary Saunders returns with an evocative, lyrical, and immersive collection of personal essays on our relationship with nature and with each other. In nine sections, … 316 View
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Ghosts in a Photograph

In Ghosts in a Photograph, award-winning nonfiction writer Myrna Kostash delves into the lives of her grandparents, all of whom moved from Galicia, now present-day Ukraine, to Alberta at the turn … 304 View

On Nostalgia

On Nostalgia is a panoramic cultural history of nostalgia, exploring how a force that started as a psychological diagnosis of soldiers fighting far from home has come become a quintessentially … 161 View
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Thinking While Black

Translating the Politics and Popular Culture of a Rebel Generation

This uniquely interdisciplinary study of Black cultural critics Armond White and Paul Gilroy spans continents and decades of rebellion and revolution. Drawing on an eclectic mix of archival … 222 View

Uncle

Race, Nostalgia, and the Politics of Loyalty

Jackie Robinson, President Barack Obama, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, O. J. Simpson and Christopher Darden have all been accused of being an Uncle Tom during their careers. How, why, … 272 View
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Dumplings

Nearly every culture has a variation on the dumpling: histories, treatises, family legends, and recipes about the world’s favourite lump of carbs. ​​​​If the … ; 234 View
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Foreword

From: Earthkeeping

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Forward from Tom Dawe, St. John’s Poet Laureate from 2010-13. 1 $0.10 Add
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Foreword

From: Ghosts in a Photograph

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The forward reflects on the author’s connection to the past and connection to their family through old photographs, discussing emigration, immigration, the old country of Galicia, … 7 $0.70 Add
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From: Uncle

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In the introduction, the author discusses her lifelong fascination with the novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe. 10 $1.00 Add
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Play It Once Again

From: On Nostalgia

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The introduction discusses paradise as a place where nothing ever happens, as in the song "Heaven" by the Talking Heads. It also discusses the tension in nostalgia between the loss, the … 3 $0.30 Add
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From: Bigotry on Broadway

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Preface

From: What We Talk About When We Talk About Dumplings

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In the Preface editor John Lorinc provides a brief history of dumplings, the spread of dumplings across the globe,and a list of the types of dumplings discussed within the collection. 7 $0.70 Add
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From: Thinking While Black

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In this preface chapter the author detailed their own acedmic career in Canada, intentions for the book and exploring the rebel nation of the 1960s and 1970s. 9 $0.90 Add
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Is Broadway about Dollars and Cents?

From: Bigotry on Broadway

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The author explores bigotry on Broadway, highlighting various concerning statistics. 24 $2.40 Add
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Introduction

From: What We Talk About When We Talk About Dumplings

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In the Introduction Karon Liu describes his goal to map the dumplings of Toronto, highlighting culinary diversity in the multiethnic make up of the city, migration, tradition, Covid-19 and  … 6 $0.60 Add