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The Hong Kong Bakery’s Magic Door
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The Hong Kong Bakery’s Magic Door

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From: What We Talk About When We Talk About Dumplings

Naomi Duguid reflects on her love for the food of Hong Kong, her tai chi instructor Madame Tsang, the Hong Kong Bakery, and jiaozi. 6 $0.60 Add
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The Knedelík, Warts and All
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The Knedelík, Warts and All

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From: What We Talk About When We Talk About Dumplings

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. 5 $0.50 Add
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The Life Rural
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The Life Rural

Part 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 … 19 $1.90 Add
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The One True Dumpling
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The One True Dumpling

The Sauce

From: What We Talk About When We Talk About Dumplings

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, … 6 $0.60 Add
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The Perogy Bees of the Prairies
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The Perogy Bees of the Prairies

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From: What We Talk About When We Talk About Dumplings

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, … 5 $0.50 Add
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The Reconstruction of Uncle Tom

The Reconstruction of Uncle Tom

From: 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 … 11 $1.10 Add
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The Round AmbassadorJennifer
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The Round AmbassadorJennifer

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From: What We Talk About When We Talk About Dumplings

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, … 10 $1.00 Add
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The Unbearable Whiteness of <i>Oklahoma!</i>

The Unbearable Whiteness of Oklahoma!

From: Bigotry on Broadway

The author explores the ways in which Okahoma! is about whiteness. 10 $1.00 Add
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Theories in Motion
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Theories in Motion

Mapping 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. 18 $1.80 Add
Thinking While Black
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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
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Topsy-Turvy Dolls and Shirley Temple

Topsy-Turvy Dolls and Shirley Temple

From: Uncle

In this chapter, Thompson examines another character from Uncle Tom’s Cabin who became a stock figure, Topsy. 12 $1.20 Add
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Two Writers Named Kostashchuk
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Two Writers Named Kostashchuk

Part 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, … 17 $1.70 Add
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Two Writers Named Kostashchuk
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Two Writers Named Kostashchuk

Part 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 … 13 $1.30 Add
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Ukraine’s Galizien SS

Ukraine’s Galizien SS

From: Family Ties

This chapter discusses how Ukrainian Nationalists formed an alliance with Nazi occupiers, and the creation of the Galizien SS Division in 1943. 11 $1.10 Add
Uncle

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