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Our Fathers
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Discovering the Real America
Discovering the Real America examines the often overlooked history of white privilege, racism and discrimination in the United States. The text explains how the media have played a big part in maintaining the status quo. The book offers solutions to overcoming the obstacles of bigotry so that people can finally discover that the richness in the real America is in the long-overlooked diversity of this nation's multiethnic, multiracial, multicultural, multinational, multitalented people.
Discrimination
This must-have collection of essays discusses the issue of discrimination against women, African Americans, and Arab Americans in the United States. Readers will evaluate the practices of racial profiling and affirmative action. They will also explore such topics as gay marriage, ethnic team names, and race-based humor. Essayists include Marie Gryphon, Linda Chavez, Salim Muwakkil, and the U.S. Department of Justice.
My Work Is That of Conservation
George Washington Carver (ca. 1864-1943) is at once one of the most familiar and misunderstood figures in American history. In My Work Is That of Conservation, Mark D. Hersey reveals the life and work of this fascinating man who is widely--and reductively--known as the African American scientist who developed a wide variety of uses for the peanut. Carver had a truly prolific career dedicated to studying the ways in which people ought to interact with the natural world, yet much of his work has been largely forgotten. Hersey rectifies this by tracing the evolution of Carver's agricultural and environmental thought starting with his childhood in Missouri and Kansas and his education at the Iow...
To Save Her Life
Part human rights drama, part political thriller, part love story, this riveting narrative chronicles the disappearance of one woman as it tells the larger story of the past fifty years of violence and struggle for social justice and democracy, and U.S. intervention in Guatemala. Maritza Urrutia was abducted from a middle-class neighborhood while taking her son to school in 1992. To Save Her Life tells the story of her ordeal which included being interrogated in secret by army intelligence officers about her activities as part of a political opposition group. Chained to a bed, blindfolded, and deprived of sleep, Maritza was ultimately spared because her family was able to contact influential...
Black Journalists
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Prescription for Evil: Major Case #185; Most Horrific Murder for Profit Case in FBI History
The incredible story of the only pharmacist in the history of American medicine to dilute critical chemotherapy treatments for desperately ill cancer patients; as a result, at least 40 patients are known to have died. The FBI moved into the investigation, and this case became the highest priority case in the nation until the terror attacks of 9/11! There has been no similar case in the 98 years history of the FBI. This was a crime so awful that FBI investigators initially could not imagine that such a crime could take place. Nevertheless, the criminal pharmacist, Robert Ray Courtney, was sent to prison.
