White Oleander is a painfully beautiful first novel about a young girl growing up the hard way It is a powerful story of mothers & daughters their ambiguous alliances their selfish love & cruel behaviour & the search for love & identity Astrid has been raised by her mother a beautiful headstrong poet Astrid forgives her everything as her world revolves around this beautiful creature until Ingrid murders a former lover & is imprisoned for life Astrid's fierce determination to survive & be loved makes her an unforgettable figure'LIQUID POETRY'
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Immigrating to the United States Italians like all others arriving on America's shores were made to fill out a standardized immigration form In the box for race they faced two choices North Italian or South Italian On the line requesting information on color they wrote simply white By World War II the only option they had for race & color questions was white This identification is suggestive of the many ways in which Italians became white on arrival in the United States as Thomas A Guglielmo demonstrates in this prize-winning book While many suffered from racial prejudice & discrimination they were nonetheless viewed as white with all the privileges this color classification bestowed in the corridors of American power-from judges to journalists from organized labor to politicians from race scientists to realtors Taking the mass Italian immigration of the late 19th century as his starting point & drawing on dozens of oral histories & a diverse array of primary sources in English & Italian Guglielmo focuses on how perceptions of Italians' race & color were shaped in one of America's great centers of immigration & labor Chicago His account skillfully weaves together the major events of Chicago immigrant history-the Chicago Color Riot of 1919 the rise of Italian organized crime & the rise of industrial unionism-with national & international events-such as the rise of fascism & the Italian-Ethiopian War of 1935-36-to present the story of how Italians approached learned & lived race By tracking their evolving position in the city's racial hierarchy Guglielmo reveals the impact of racial classification-both formal & informal-on immigrants' abilities to acquire homes & jobs start families & gain opportunities in America Carefully drawing the distinction between race & color Guglielmo argues that whiteness proved Italians' most valuable asset for making it in America Even so Italians were reluctant to identify themselves explicitly as white until World War II By separating examples of discrimination against Italians from the economic & social advantages they accrued from their acceptance as whites Guglielmo counters the claims of many ethnic Americans that hard work alone enabled their extraordinary success especially when compared to non-white groups whose upward mobility languished A compelling story White on Arrival contains profound implications for our understanding of race & ethnic acculturation in the United States as well as twentieth-century immigration urban & political history ...

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play A waitress in a White Palace fast-food restaurant meets a young recently widowed Jewish advertising executive at a bar They "tentatively" & "uncertainly" start an affair which turns torrid very rapidly & eventually leads to her leaving town & him quitting his job abandoning his old life & following her Actors Susan Sarandon James Spader Eileen Brennan Kathy Bates Rachel Levin Renee Taylor Corey Parker & Steven Hill Director Luis Mandoki Certificate 18 years & over Year 1990 Languages English Duration 1 hour & 39 minutes (approx) Region Region 2
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When Tom Headley enlists underage in the Great War he & his childhood friends head straight to the front line as tunnellers In tragic circumstances Tom is blamed for the deaths of his comrades His family & sweetheart back home are shunned by the community Eighty years later a young schoolgirl sets out to research her great grandparents as part of a Poppy Day project She uncovers shocking truths & in doing so rights a wrong that has lasted for generations & rewrites history Engaging accessible dialogue Many cross-curricular links Perfect for exploring the relevance of history today ...

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Examining racial profiling in American policing Naomi Zack argues against white privilege discourse while introducing a new theory of applicative justice Zack draws clear lines between rights & privileges & between justice & existing laws to make sense of the current crisis This urgent & immediate analysis of the killings of unarmed black men by police officers shows how racial profiling matches statistics of the prison population with disregard for the constitutional rights of the many innocent people of all races Moving the discussion from white privilege discourse to the rights of blacks from ideas of white supremacy to legally protected police impunity & from ideal & non-ideal justice theory to existing injustice White Privilege & Black Rights examines the legal structure that has permitted the killings of Trayvon Martin Michael Brown Eric Garner Tamir Rice & others Deepening understanding without abandoning hope Zack shows why it is more important to consider black rights than white privilege as we move forward through today's culture of inequality ...