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Caste United States Ethnicity United States Interpersonal relations Interpersonal relations Fiction Man-woman relationships Fiction Power (Social sciences) United States Social stratification United States Television Production and direction Television Production and direction Fiction United States Race relationsWilkerson, Isabel
Summary: "This work is based on Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, copyright © 2020. Originally published in the United States in hardcover by Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC , New York, in 2020"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2022
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Summary: "Born into a "formerly untouchable manual-scavenging family in small-town India," Yashica Dutt was taught from a young age to not appear "Dalit looking." Although prejudice against Dalits, who compose 25% of the population, has been illegal since 1950, caste-ism in India is alive and well. Blending her personal history with extensive research and reporting, Dutt provides an incriminating...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2024
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Summary: The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and shows how people's lives today are still defined by a hierarchy of human divisions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 305.5 WILSummary: Every year, thousands die in India through caste-related violence, as untouchables and upper-castes alike stoop as low as they need to go to gain their aims. Seen through the lens of a veteran photojournalist, this program looks at both sides of the struggle between the upper-caste Ranvir militia and Dalit supporters of the Marxist-Leninists in Bihar. Professor Kanchia Eliah, of the University...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Jadhav, Narendra
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JADHAV, NARENDRA JADWilkerson, Isabel
Summary: ""As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to our assigned seats for a performance. The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power--whichgroups have it and which do not." In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 305.5 WILWilkerson, Isabel
Summary: ""As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to our assigned seats for a performance. The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power--whichgroups have it and which do not." In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 0000
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: BOOK CLUB KIT 305.5 WILGidla, Sujatha
Summary: "The stunning true story of an untouchable family who become teachers, and one, a poet and revolutionary. Like one in six people in India, Sujatha Gidla was born an untouchable. While most untouchables are illiterate, her family was educated by Canadian missionaries in the 1930s, making it possible for Gidla to attend elite schools and move to America at the age of twenty-six. It was only then...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 GIDTezuka, Osamu
Summary: In this third volume of the fictional biography of Siddhartha, Gautama Buddha, Prince Siddhartha undergoes hardship and ordeals in his search for enlightenment.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vertical 2006
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BUDTezuka, Osamu
Summary: This second volume of the fictional biography of Siddhartha, Gautama Buddha, covers his upbringing and early manhood. Unhappy with the injustice of the caste system, the prince leaves his life of luxury to find a way to fight it. He marries and fathers a child, but unable to live in his luxurious palace, he cuts off his hair and departs into the wilderness to become a monk.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vertical, Inc. 2006
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BUDKishimoto, Masashi
Summary: Naruto knows that the only way he will be able to defeat the Akatsuki is to decipher to code left behind by his mentor, but as Naruto struggles to unlock the hidden message, he begins to doubt his powers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media 2009
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1 available in Manga, Call number: YA FIC KISKishimoto, Masashi
Summary: Naruto, enraged when Sasuke is killed, seeks vengeance upon Haku, but he is not that sure he can finish the job.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viz 2004
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1 available in Manga, Call number: YA FIC KISSharma, Annika
Summary: "Kiran Mathur knows firsthand just how dangerous love can be. After all, her sister's marriage in India nearly destroyed Kiran's family. So she's decided to redeem romance herself-by not falling for anyone who might disappoint her parents. That is, until she meets her new neighbor Nash Hawthorne..."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Casablanca 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SHAIshikawa, Masaji
Summary: Half-Korean, half-Japanese, Masaji Ishikawa has spent his whole life feeling like a man without a country. This feeling only deepened when his family moved from Japan to North Korea when Ishikawa was just thirteen years old, and unwittingly became members of the lowest social caste. His father, himself a Korean national, was lured to the new Communist country by promises of abundant work,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: AmazonCrossing 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ISHIKAWA, MASAJI ISHSteel, Danielle
Summary: Building a huge following for her magazine column, Kait, a woman who prefers to focus on her career after two failed marriages, teams up with producer Zack to launch a television series with a colorful cast and crew, each marked by private eccentricities, heartaches and secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC STESteel, Danielle
Summary: "#1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel follows a talented and creative woman as she launches her first television series, helping to recruit an unforgettable cast that will bring a dramatic family saga to the screen. Kait Whittier has built her magazine column into a hugely respected read followed by fans across the country. She loves her work and adores her grown children,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC STECopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Steel 2018Alexander, Michelle.
Summary: "As the United States celebrates the nation's "triumph over race" with the election of Barack Obama, the majority of young black men in major American cities are locked behind bars or have been labeled felons for life. Although Jim Crow laws have been wiped off the books, an astounding percentage of the African American community remains trapped in a subordinate status - much like their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Press 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 364.973 ALESteel, Danielle
Summary: Kait Whittier has built her magazine column into a hugely respected read followed by fans across the country. She loves her work and adores her grown children, treasuring the time they spend together. After two marriages she prefers to avoid the complications and uncertainties of a new love. Then, after a chance meeting with Zack Winter, a television producer visiting Manhattan from Los...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, LLC 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Steel 2018Muslimgauze (Musical group)
Contents: Salaam alekum, bastard -- Dome of the rock -- Hebron massacre (short mix) -- Caste the first stone -- Poona eunuch (zealot mix) -- Haramzada -- Mandarin guerilla -- Cairopraktar -- Salaam alekum, bastard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soleilmoon Recordings 1995
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC MusliSummary: Taking inspiration from the spiritual concept of Shakti, the Great Mother or supreme female deity of the Hindu religion, this program celebrates the power of women to drive social and economic change in India. Female-centric activism propels an organization that combats the practice of child marriage, and another which has created a banking system for the poor. The video also examines a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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May, Peter
Summary: "In 1989, a killer dumped the body of twenty-year-old Lucie Martin into a picturesque lake in the west of France. Fourteen years later, during a summer heat wave, a drought exposed her remains--bleached bones amid the scorched mud and slime. No one was ever convicted of her murder. But now, forensic expert Enzo Macleod is reviewing this stone-cold case--the toughest of the seven he has been...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quercus 2017
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAYButters, MaryJane
Summary: "In her newest cookbook, MaryJane Butters offers 110-plus recipes for cooking in cast iron skillets, griddles, Dutch ovens, and other pans. Step-by-step instructions and beautiful photography accompany recipes such as Asparagus and Mushroom Quiche with Potato Crust, Chicken and Biscuit Skillet Pie, Ham Dinner on the Half Peel, and Rhubarb-Raspberry Pandowdy. The recipes for breads, breakfasts,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "This holy grail for both documentary and theater aficionados offers a tantalizingly rare glimpse behind the Broadway curtain. In 1970, right after the triumphant premiere of Stephen Sondheim's groundbreaking concept musical Company, the renowned composer and lyricist, his director Harold Price, the show's stars, and a large pit orchestra all went into a Manhattan recording studio as part of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ORIHall, Tarquin.
Summary: When Ram and Tulsi fall in love, the young woman's parents are dead set against the union. She's from a high-caste family. He's an Untouchable, from the lowest stratum of Indian society. Fortunately, India's Love Commandos, a group of volunteers dedicated to helping mixed-caste couples, come to the rescue. Just after they liberate Tulsi, Ram is mysteriously snatched from his hiding place. It...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2013