Cultural History
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| Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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 Bigotry on BroadwayAn 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 … | Carla Blank; Ishmael Reed | 216 | 2021 | View |
 NEW! Earthkeepinglove 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, … | Gary Saunders | 316 | 2022 | View |
 NEW! 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 … | Myrna Kostash | 304 | 2022 | 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 … | David Berry | 161 | 2020 | View |
 NEW! Thinking While BlackTranslating 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 … | Daniel McNeil | 222 | 2022 | View |
 UncleRace, 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, … | Cheryl Thompson | 272 | 2021 | View |
 NEW! 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 … | John Lorinc; Karon Liu | 234 | 2022 | View |
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From NEW! ForewordFrom: Earthkeeping |
Forward from Tom Dawe, St. John’s Poet Laureate from 2010-13. | Tom Dawe | 1 | 2022 | $0.10 Add |
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From NEW! ForewordFrom: Ghosts in a Photograph |
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, … | Myrna Kostash | 7 | 2022 | $0.70 Add |
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From IntroductionFrom: Uncle |
In the introduction, the author discusses her lifelong fascination with the novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe. | Cheryl Thompson | 10 | 2021 | $1.00 Add |
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From IntroductionPlay It Once Again From: On Nostalgia |
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 … | David Berry | 3 | 2020 | $0.30 Add |
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From IntroductionFrom: Bigotry on Broadway |
Ishmael Reed | 13 | 2021 | $1.30 Add | |
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From NEW! Preface |
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. | John Lorinc | 7 | 2022 | $0.70 Add |
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From NEW! PrefaceFrom: Thinking While Black |
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. | Daniel McNeil | 9 | 2022 | $0.90 Add |
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From ForewordIs Broadway about Dollars and Cents? From: Bigotry on Broadway |
The author explores bigotry on Broadway, highlighting various concerning statistics. | Carla Blank | 24 | 2021 | $2.40 Add |
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From NEW! Introduction |
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 … | Karon Liu | 6 | 2022 | $0.60 Add |
