Cultural History
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From ![]() NEW! The Hong Kong Bakery’s Magic DoorThe Filling |
Naomi Duguid reflects on her love for the food of Hong Kong, her tai chi instructor Madame Tsang, the Hong Kong Bakery, and jiaozi. | Naomi Duguid | 6 | 2022 | $0.60 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! The Knedelík, Warts and AllThe Filling |
Eric Geringas reflects on his relationship to Knedlík, a Czech style of dumplings, his time in Czechoslovakia teaching English, Czech beer, poverty cuisine, and the culture of Prague. | Eric Geringas | 5 | 2022 | $0.50 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! The Life RuralPart One From: Earthkeeping |
Part One contains the sections: A Place in Time, Meditating in the Country, Robinsong, and I Miss My Barbers. Topics discussed include the Acadian culture and farming, the Acadian Expulsion, the … | Gary Saunders | 19 | 2022 | $1.90 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! The One True DumplingThe Sauce |
Navneet Alang reflects on the authenticity of cuisine from various and massive diasporas, ownership over food, cultural appropriation and the dismissal of so-called ‘foreign’ food, … | Navneet Alang | 6 | 2022 | $0.60 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! The Perogy Bees of the PrairiesThe Sauce |
Julie Van Rosendaal reflects on her relationship with perogies and its ties to her prairie upbringing, Baba’s Homestyle Perogies in Saskatoon, Eastern European migration in Western Canada, … | Julie Van Rosendaal | 5 | 2022 | $0.50 Add |
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From ![]() The Reconstruction of Uncle TomFrom: Uncle |
In this chapter, Thompson examines the "Mammy" figure, another stock character who was first depicted in Uncle Tom’s Cabin. The chapter also touches on Confederate monuments, and … | Cheryl Thompson | 11 | 2021 | $1.10 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! The Round AmbassadorJenniferThe Sauce |
Jennifer Jordan explores Austrian Dumplings and the 2005 appointment of the ‘Dumpling Manager’, dumpling maps of Upper Austria, dumplings ties to both elite and poverty cuisine, … | Jennifer Jordan | 10 | 2022 | $1.00 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! The Spirit Lives On: Recognition, An Apology and SettlementFrom: The Spirit of Africville |
This chapter outlines the impacts of Halifax’s destruction of Africville in the 1960s, and how advocates went on to challenge municipal neglect, eventually earning official apologies. | The Africville Genealogy Society | 7 | 2026 | $0.70 Add |
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From ![]() The Unbearable Whiteness of Oklahoma!From: Bigotry on Broadway |
The author explores the ways in which Okahoma! is about whiteness. | Soraya Nadia McDonald | 10 | 2021 | $1.00 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Theories in MotionMapping the Roots and Routes of a Rebel Generation From: Thinking While Black |
In this chapter the author introduced the work of Paul Gilroy, a British scholar of global African American Studies and Armond White, an American music and film critic. | Daniel McNeil | 18 | 2022 | $1.80 Add |
![]() 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 |
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From ![]() Topsy-Turvy Dolls and Shirley TempleFrom: Uncle |
In this chapter, Thompson examines another character from Uncle Tom’s Cabin who became a stock figure, Topsy. | Cheryl Thompson | 12 | 2021 | $1.20 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Two Writers Named KostashchukPart One From: Ghosts in a Photograph |
Chapter Two is about a writer named Vasyl (Andriovych) Kostashchuk, a writer and relative who remained in Galicia. Discussing his books Volodar dum selians’kykh (Ruler of Peasant Dreams) and Tam, … | Myrna Kostash | 17 | 2022 | $1.70 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Two Writers Named KostashchukPart Two From: Ghosts in a Photograph |
Chapter Four focuses on the second Vasyl (Mykolaiovych) Kostashchuk, another relative unknown to them. Discussing his time as a sharpshooter in the post-Second-World-War underground army known as … | Myrna Kostash | 13 | 2022 | $1.30 Add |
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From ![]() Ukraine’s Galizien SSFrom: Family Ties |
This chapter discusses how Ukrainian Nationalists formed an alliance with Nazi occupiers, and the creation of the Galizien SS Division in 1943. | Peter McFarlane | 11 | 2024 | $1.10 Add |
![]() 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, … | 272 | View |











