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Have you ever felt strangely out of place? Have you ever thought you didn't truly belong?
Weird Culture Kids is a memoir about growing up in and between different cultures and experiencing the world through international lenses. It goes deep into the author's journey from birth to adolescence, navigating the different cultures she lived in, encountered, and consciously chose as part of her identity. Sprinkled with conversations with other, culturally-speaking,...
22) Come On In
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This exceptional and powerful anthology explores the joys, heartbreaks and triumphs of immigration, with stories by critically acclaimed and bestselling YA authors who are shaped by the journeys they and their families have taken from home—and to find home.
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From some of the most exciting bestselling and up-and-coming YA authors writing today…journey from Ecuador to New York City and Argentina to Utah…from Australia to Harlem and India...
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When Everelle finds herself fleeing her burning world with no memory of her past, she joins seven strangers escaping the inferno. Is this truly her only hope . . . to follow the mysterious Mentula, a man who unerringly leads them to a strange, different world straight up a cavernous wall?
Why were they chosen to come to Isle of Foote? Who believed these eight strangers could save this mysterious island above Mother Earth? While struggling to answer...
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Three months after the US war on Iraq in 2003, I decided to travel to my home town, Mosul in northern Iraq just to embrace my family members and close friends. While I was walking around Mosul streets seeking what has been left of my childhood, a US patrol stopped me to ask : "Where are you from? Why are you here?" Immediately, I burst out into laughter. The soldier turned to a sergeant next to him and wondered: "Is he mad?" Then, he angrily asked,...
25) Cosmopolitanisms
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An indispensable collection that re-examines what it means to belong in the world.
"Where are you from?" The word cosmopolitan was first used as a way of evading exactly this question, when Diogenes the Cynic declared himself a "kosmo-polites," or citizen of the world. Cosmopolitanism displays two impulses-on the one hand, a detachment from one's place of origin, while on the other, an assertion of membership in some larger, more compelling collective....
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"Explores the extent to which historical definitions of race continue to shape contemporary racial identities and lived experiences of racial difference"--
In the United States, a Black person is defined as any person with even one drop of Black blood. Blay explores how historical definitions of race continue to shape contemporary racial identities and lived experiences of racial difference. The contributors represent twenty-five countries, and provide...
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When Beatrice C. Volkmann realized in her teens that she had a passion to improve her vocal ability, she embarked on a journey that would take her to Germany to pursue her passion for singing. The book describes Beatrice's life in the United States and Germany in the 1930s. At the start of her journey, Beatrice was both innocent and idealistic. In search of becoming a professional singer, her life was influenced by a number of people from all walks...
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"What are you?-Excuse me?-You know, like where are you from?-Nebraska.-No, I mean like, what are you?" I've been asked this question more times than I can count. And I always know what the person is trying to ask, but I have to admit I kind of like to see them struggle. It shouldn't be so hard to ask, "Hey, what race are you?" But it is. Especially when the person doesn't fit nicely into one box. This is the plight of every ethnically ambiguous-looking...
29) 1984
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A chilling portrait of a totalitarian society under the ever-watchful gaze of Big Brother, where love, privacy, and individuality are banned. The year 1984 has come and gone, but George Orwell's nightmare vision from 1949 of the world we are becoming is timelier that ever. 1984 is the great modern classic of a 'negative utopia' - a startlingly original and haunting novel that creates an imaginary world that is completely convincing
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Provides quick, accurate answers to hundreds of question about the historical background and setting of 300 often-studied literary works, including novels, plays, poems, speeches and short stories.
Contains profiles of three hundred notable literary works written from ancient times through the end of the twentieth century, relating them to the historical context in which they were written and in which they are set; arranged alphabetically by title...
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