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Carby family Dalits India Biography Great Britain Colonies Emigration and immigration History Großbritannien Jamaicans Great Britain History 20th century Jamaika Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948 Juvenile literature Nationalists India Biography Juvenile literature Slavery Jamaica History Statesmen India Biography Juvenile literatureDutt, Yashica
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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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DUTT, YASHICA DUTJadhav, 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 JADGidla, 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 GIDLucado, Max.
Summary: Inspiring selections offer a compelling look at the most high-impact moments in the biblical narrative, featuring stories about Mary, Peter, Matthew, Job, and other biblical characters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Belief Christ LucadoLovell, Mary S.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5486 LOVCoffey, Maria
Contents: Moments of perfection -- High times, hard contact -- In thrall -- The transcendence zone -- Voices I : the shadow falls -- The mourning work -- Badges of honor -- Masters of denial -- Voices II : an absence of light -- The lingering shadow -- The brilliance beyond.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martins Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.522 COFCarby, Hazel V.
Summary: "A haunting and evocative history of British empire, told through one woman's family story 'Where are you from?' Hazel Carby was continually asked as a girl, at a time when being Black and being British was understood to be an impossibility. To answer that question properly, eminent scholar Hazel Carby finds she needs to trace not just the family history of her Jamaican father and her Welsh...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Verso 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 929.2 CARDemi
Summary: Illustrated biography of Mahatma Gandhi, who vowed to instigate social and political change through nonviolent means and succeeded in changing India's prejudicial caste system and winning India's independence from Great Britain
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret McElderry Books 2001