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bibliography biography Essays. letter Personal correspondence. Records and correspondence.Holton, Carlotta G.
Summary: "As women, we are constantly evolving. Changing attitudes toward our gender have accommodated many, but not all. Still, we are told, it is progress. Women can now enter career paths never before considered. They can choose not to marry, not to have children, or become a single parent. Women can marry someone of the same sex, younger or older, regardless of race, ethnicity or religion. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dorrance Publishing Co 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.42 HOLPopcorn, Faith.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.834 POPMcRae, Elizabeth Gillespie
Summary: "They are often seen in photos of crowds in the mid-century South--white women shooting down blacks with looks of pure hatred. Yet it is the male white supremacists who have been the focus of the literature on white resistance to Civil Rights. This groundbreaking first book recovers the daily workers who upheld the system of segregation and Jim Crow for so long--white women. Every day in rural...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.5 MCRDaniels, Jessie
Summary: "In Nice White Ladies Jessie Daniels addresses white women's complicity in racial discrimination in the US but also in their unique potential to resist and dismantle the white nationalism that threatens us all. Daniels is a white woman seeking to call infellow white women to think together and act rather than simply call out and criticize. Ultimately, she shows how white women can be more than...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seal Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 DANSummary: A collection of letters--to ancestors, to children five generations from now, to strangers in grocery lines, to any and all who feel weary and discouraged--written by award-winning novelists, poets, political thinkers, and activists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 816 RADKoven, Suzanne
Summary: "A poignant, funny, personal exploration of authenticity in work and life by a woman doctor. In 2017, Dr. Suzanne Koven published an essay describing the challenges faced by women doctors, including her own personal struggle with "imposter syndrome"-a long-held, secret belief that she was not smart enough or good enough to be a "real" doctor. Accessed nearly 300,000 times by readers around the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2021