Their Own Voices


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In Their Own Voices


In Their Own Voices
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Author : Rhonda M. Roorda
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2000-04-27

In Their Own Voices written by Rhonda M. Roorda and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-04-27 with Social Science categories.


Nearly forty years after researchers first sought to determine the effects, if any, on children adopted by families whose racial or ethnic background differed from their own, the debate over transracial adoption continues. In this collection of interviews conducted with black and biracial young adults who were adopted by white parents, the authors present the personal stories of two dozen individuals who hail from a wide range of religious, economic, political, and professional backgrounds. How does the experience affect their racial and social identities, their choice of friends and marital partners, and their lifestyles? In addition to interviews, the book includes overviews of both the history and current legal status of transracial adoption.



Their Own Voices


Their Own Voices
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Author : Winston Adler
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2011-07-01

Their Own Voices written by Winston Adler and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-01 with History categories.


Beginning in the 1840s and continuing until his death, Dr. Asa Fitch (1809-1878) of Salem, NY, interviewed elderly neighbors, questioning them about the time of first European settlement, the Revolutionary War, and the first decades of the 19th century. Fitch was more than just a medical doctor. By the 1850s, he ranked as a world-famed entomologist, with important discoveries about insect life to his credit. He turned his precise, scientific mindset to good account in his oral history work. He seems to have functioned almost like a human tape recorder, transcribing and preserving vivid, colloquial statements from a wide range of individuals---most not fully literate people (that is, people who could read their Bible and sign their names but not write fluent accounts of the incidents of their lives.) Jeanne Winston Adler's excerpts from Fitch's manuscript ("Notes for a History of Washington County, NY," NY Genealogical & Biographical Soc., NYC; and elsewhere on microfilm) present the liveliest "voices" collected by the 19th-century scholar. Some portions of Adler's "Their Own Voices" (first published in 1983) were re-published in her "In the Path of War: Children of the American Revolution Tell Their Stories" (Cobblestone Publishing, 1998). A facsimile reprint of the 1983 book, containing all material originally excerpted from Fitch, is now offered here.



In Our Own Voices


In Our Own Voices
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Author : Rosemary Skinner Keller
language : en
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Release Date : 2000-01-01

In Our Own Voices written by Rosemary Skinner Keller and has been published by Westminster John Knox Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.


A rich collection of first-person renderings that both enhances and challenges traditional narratives of American religious life.



Girlhood Teens Around The World In Their Own Voices


Girlhood Teens Around The World In Their Own Voices
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Author : Masuma Ahuja
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2021-02-09

Girlhood Teens Around The World In Their Own Voices written by Masuma Ahuja and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-09 with Young Adult Nonfiction categories.


What does a teenage girl dream about in Nigeria or New York? How does she spend her days in Mongolia, the Midwest, and the Middle East? All around the world, girls are going to school, working, dreaming up big futures—they are soccer players and surfers, ballerinas and chess champions. Yet we know so little about their daily lives. We often hear about challenges and catastrophes in the news, and about exceptional girls who make headlines. But even though the health, education, and success of girls so often determines the future of a community, we don’t know more about what life is like for the ordinary girls, the ones living outside the headlines. From the Americas to Europe to Africa to Asia to the South Pacific, the thirty teens from twenty-seven countries in Girlhood share their own stories of growing up through diary entries and photographs, and the girls’ stories are put in context with reporting and research that helps us understand the circumstances and communities they live in. This full-color, exuberantly designed volume is a portrait of ordinary girlhood around the world, and of the world, as seen through girls’ eyes.



In Their Own Voices


In Their Own Voices
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Author : Adeola James
language : en
Publisher: James Currey Publishers
Release Date : 1990

In Their Own Voices written by Adeola James and has been published by James Currey Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Biography & Autobiography categories.


Interviews with a selection of African women writers. This book makes a strong and compelling statement about the position of women writers and women in contemporary Africa using the words of the writers themselves', says Dennis Duerden, the author of the earlier African WritersTalking.



Orange For The Sunsets


Orange For The Sunsets
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Author : Tina Athaide
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2019-04-02

Orange For The Sunsets written by Tina Athaide and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-02 with Juvenile Fiction categories.


* A Chicago Public Library’s Best of the Best Books of 2019 Selection * A Canadian Children’s Book Center Best Books for Kids & Teens Pick * From debut author Tina Athaide comes a soaring tale of empathy, hope, and resilience, as two best friends living under Ugandan President Amin’s divisive rule must examine where—and who—they call home. Perfect for fans of Half from the East and Inside Out and Back Again. Asha and her best friend, Yesofu, never cared about the differences between them: Indian. African. Girl. Boy. Short. Tall. But when Idi Amin announces that Indians have ninety days to leave the country, suddenly those differences are the only things that people in Entebbe can see—not the shared after-school samosas or Asha cheering for Yesofu at every cricket game. Determined for her life to stay the same, Asha clings to her world tighter than ever before. But Yesofu is torn, pulled between his friends, his family, and a promise of a better future. Now as neighbors leave and soldiers line the streets, the two friends find that nothing seems sure—not even their friendship. Tensions between Indians and Africans intensify and the deadline to leave is fast approaching. Could the bravest thing of all be to let each other go?



In Their Own Voices


In Their Own Voices
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Author : Patricia Ward Lockett
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999

In Their Own Voices written by Patricia Ward Lockett and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with African Americans categories.




In Their Own Voices


In Their Own Voices
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Author : Jim Silver
language : en
Publisher: Halifax, N.S. : Fernwood Pub.
Release Date : 2006

In Their Own Voices written by Jim Silver and has been published by Halifax, N.S. : Fernwood Pub. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Community development categories.


In Their Own Voices is an examination of the urban Aboriginal experience, based on the voices of Aboriginal people. It is set in Winnipeg's inner city, but has implications for urban Aboriginal people across Canada. While not glossing over the problems that confront urban Aboriginal people, the book focuses primarily on innovative community-based solutions being created and run by and for urban Aboriginal people. Separate chapters examine Aboriginal involvement in community development, adult education and the mainstream political process. The concluding chapter, based on in-depth interviews with 26 experienced, Aboriginal community development workers, describes a well-defined and very sophisticated form of Aboriginal community development that is holistic and is rooted in traditional Aboriginal values of community and sharing. Out of their often harsh urban experience, Aboriginal people are defining and creating their own, innovative community-building strategies. In cities with significant Aboriginal populations, these strategies are the basis of a better future, for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people alike.



In Their Own Voices


In Their Own Voices
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-03

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Speaking With Their Own Voices


Speaking With Their Own Voices
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Author : Jerzy Zdanowski
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2014-06-12

Speaking With Their Own Voices written by Jerzy Zdanowski and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-12 with History categories.


This book presents an analysis of the slavery and manumission practiced in the Persian Gulf region in the first half of the 20th century. It is unique as it exposes the life stories of several hundred slaves, speaking with their own voices. A striking aspect of the majority of studies on slavery is that they provide the reader with excellent statistics and describe the mechanism of enslavement, the routes of slave trading, and the economic and social conditions of enslaved people, but slaves themselves generally remain anonymous. The premise of this book is to give voice directly to the slaves by presenting in full-length their statements made at the British Agencies in Kuwait, Bahrain, Muscat, Sharjah, and Bushire. Altogether around 1,000 statements were made by slaves asking for manumission certificates, and the analysis of these statements sheds light on various aspects of social, economic and political life on the Arabian shore of the Gulf. Given that it uncovers new aspects of the every-day life of the Arabian Peninsula, this book will also be of help to people of this region who are looking for their roots.