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In My Father S House
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Author : Fox Butterfield
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2018-10-09
In My Father S House written by Fox Butterfield and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-09 with True Crime categories.
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist: a pathbreaking examination of our huge crime and incarceration problem that looks at the influence of the family--specifically one Oregon family with a generations-long legacy of lawlessness. The United States currently holds the distinction of housing nearly one-quarter of the world's prison population. But our reliance on mass incarceration, Fox Butterfield argues, misses the intractable reality: As few as 5 percent of families account for half of all crime, and only 10 percent account for two-thirds. In introducing us to the Bogle family, the author invites us to understand crime in this eye-opening new light. He chronicles the malignant legacy of criminality passed from parents to children, grandchildren, and even great-grandchildren. Examining the long history of the Bogles, a white family, Butterfield offers a revelatory look at criminality that forces us to disentangle race from our ideas about crime and, in doing so, strikes at the heart of our deepest stereotypes. And he makes clear how these new insights are leading to fundamentally different efforts at reform. With his empathic insight and profound knowledge of criminology, Butterfield offers us both the indelible tale of one family's transgressions and tribulations, and an entirely new way to understand crime in America.
In My Father S House
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Author : Kwame Anthony Appiah
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1993-05-27
In My Father S House written by Kwame Anthony Appiah and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-05-27 with Social Science categories.
The beating of Rodney King and the resulting riots in South Central Los Angeles. The violent clash between Hasidim and African-Americans in Crown Heights. The boats of Haitian refugees being turned away from the Land of Opportunity. These are among the many racially-charged images that have burst across our television screens in the last year alone, images that show that for all our complacent beliefs in a melting-pot society, race is as much of a problem as ever in America. In this vastly important, widely-acclaimed volume, Kwame Anthony Appiah, a Ghanaian philosopher who now teaches at Harvard, explores, in his words, "the possibilities and pitfalls of an African identity in the late twentieth century." In the process he sheds new light on what it means to be an African-American, on the many preconceptions that have muddled discussions of race, Africa, and Afrocentrism since the end of the nineteenth century, and, in the end, to move beyond the idea of race. In My Father's House is especially wide-ranging, covering everything from Pan Africanism, to the works of early African-American intellectuals such as Alexander Crummell and W.E.B. Du Bois, to the ways in which African identity influences African literature. In his discussion of the latter subject, Appiah demonstrates how attempts to construct a uniquely African literature have ignored not only the inescapable influences that centuries of contact with the West have imposed, but also the multicultural nature of Africa itself. Emphasizing this last point is Appiah's eloquent title essay which offers a fitting finale to the volume. In a moving first-person account of his father's death and funeral in Ghana, Appiah offers a brilliant metaphor for the tension between Africa's aspirations to modernity and its desire to draw on its ancient cultural roots. During the Los Angeles riots, Rodney King appeared on television to make his now famous plea: "People, can we all get along?" In this beautiful, elegantly written volume, Appiah steers us along a path toward answering a question of the utmost importance to us all.
Going To My Father S House
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Author : Patrick Joyce
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 2021-07-27
Going To My Father S House written by Patrick Joyce and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-27 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A historian's personal journey into the complex questions of immigration, home and nation From Ireland to London in the 1950s, Derry in the Troubles to contemporary, de-industrialised Manchester, Joyce finds the ties of place, family and the past are difficult to break. Why do certain places continue to haunt us? What does it mean to be British after the suffering of Empire and of war? How do we make our home in a hypermobile world without remembering our pasts? Patrick Joyce's parents moved from Ireland in the 1930s and made their home in west London. But they never really left the homeland. And so as he grew up among the streets of Paddington and Notting Hill and when he visited his family in Ireland he felt a tension between the notions of home, nation and belonging. Going to My Father's House charts the historian's attempt to make sense of these ties and to see how they manifest in a globalised world. He explores the places - the house, the street, the walls and the graves - that formed his own identity. He ask what place the ideas of history, heritage and nostalgia have in creating a sense of our selves. He concludes with a plea for a history that holds the past to account but also allows for dynamic, inclusive change.
The Hiding Place
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Author : Corrie ten Boom
language : en
Publisher: Chosen Books
Release Date : 2023-12-12
The Hiding Place written by Corrie ten Boom and has been published by Chosen Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-12 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Timeless, Bestselling True Story of a World War II Hero Corrie ten Boom was the first licensed female watchmaker in the Netherlands who became a heroine of the Resistance, a survivor of Hitler's concentration camps, and one of the most remarkable evangelists of the twentieth century. In World War II she and her family risked their lives to help Jews and underground workers escape from the Nazis. In 1944 their lives were forever altered when they were betrayed, arrested, and thrown into the infamous Nazi death camps. Only Corrie among her family survived. This is her incredible true story--and ultimately the story of how faith, hope, and love triumphed over unthinkable evil. Now in a beautiful deluxe edition, this beloved book continues to declare that God's love will overcome, heal, and restore. Because there is no pit so deep that God's love is not deeper still, and no darkness so thick that His light can't break through.
In My Father S House
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Author : Ernest J. Gaines
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2012-10-24
In My Father S House written by Ernest J. Gaines and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-24 with Fiction categories.
A compelling novel of a man brought to reckon with his buried past... In St. Adrienne, a small black community in Louisiana, Reverend Phillip Martin—a respected minister and civil rights leader—comes face to face with the sins of his youth in the person of Robert X, a young, unkempt stranger who arrives in town for a mysterious "meeting" with the Reverend. In the confrontation between the two, the young man's secret burden explodes into the open, and Phillip Martin begins a long-neglected journey into his youth to discover how destructive his former life was, for himself and for those around him. “…on every page there's an authentic moment, or a dead-right knot of conversation, or a truer-than-true turn of phrase…”—Kirkus Reviews
Leaving My Father S House
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Author : Marion Woodman
language : en
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Release Date : 1992-11-17
Leaving My Father S House written by Marion Woodman and has been published by Shambhala Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-11-17 with Psychology categories.
The renowned analyst and author here provides deep insight into the process required to bring feminize wisdom to consciousness in a patriarchal culture—as struggle in which many women are more fully engaged today that ever before. Presenting the personal journeys of three wise women as maps, she points the way to the state of inner wholeness and balance she calls "conscious femininity."
In My Father S House Are Many Mansions
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Author : Orville Vernon Burton
language : en
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Release Date : 2000-11-09
In My Father S House Are Many Mansions written by Orville Vernon Burton and has been published by Univ of North Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-11-09 with History categories.
Burton traces the evolution of Edgefield County from the antebellum period through Reconstruction and beyond. From amassed information on every household in this large rural community, he tests the many generalizations about southern black and white families of this period and finds that they were strikingly similar. Wealth, rather than race or class, was the main factor that influenced family structure, and the matriarchal family was but a myth.
In My Father S House
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Author : Ann Rinaldi
language : en
Publisher: Point
Release Date : 1993
In My Father S House written by Ann Rinaldi and has been published by Point this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
For two sisters growing up surrounded by the Civil War, there is conflict both outside and inside their house.
In My Father S House
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Author : Bodie Thoene
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
Release Date : 1993
In My Father S House written by Bodie Thoene and has been published by Macmillan Reference USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Fiction categories.
The unfolding story of ordinary people caught up in extraordinary events between two world wars. The Shiloh Legacy book 1.
In My Father S House
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Author : E. Lynn Harris
language : en
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Release Date : 2010-06-22
In My Father S House written by E. Lynn Harris and has been published by St. Martin's Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-22 with Fiction categories.
For his final new series, New York Times mega-bestselling author E. Lynn Harris introduces Bentley L. Dean, owner of the hottest modeling agency in Miami's sexy South Beach. Only the world's most beautiful models make the roster of Picture Perfect Modeling agency and they only do shoots for the most elite photographers and magazines. They are fashionista royalty—and the owners, Bentley L. Dean and his beautiful partner Alexandra, know it. But even Picture Perfect isn't immune from hard times, so when Sterling Sneed, a rich, celebrity party planner promises to pay a ludicrously high fee for some models, Bentley finds he can't refuse. Even though the job is not exactly a photo shoot, Bentley agrees to supply fifteen gorgeous models as eye candy for an "A" list party—to look good, be charming and, well, entertain the guests. They don't have to do anything they don't want to, but... His models are pros and he figures they can handle the pressure, until one drops out and Bentley asks his protégé Jah, a beautiful kid who Bentley treats as if he were his own son, to substitute. Suddenly, the stakes are much higher, particularly when Jah falls in love with the hottest African American movie star in America. Seth Sinclair is very handsome, very famous, and very married—and his closeted gay life makes him very dangerous as well. Can Bentley's fatherly guidance save Jah from making a fatal mistake?