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- Almost brown : a mixed-race family memoir / by Gill, Charlotte,1971-author.;
"An award-winning writer retraces her dysfunctional, biracial, globe-trotting family's journey as she reckons with ethnicity and belonging, diversity and race, and the complexities of life within a multicultural household. Charlotte Gill's father is Indian. Her mother is English. They meet in 1960's London when the world is not quite ready for interracial love. Their union, a revolutionary act, results in a total meltdown of familial relations, a lot of immigration paperwork, and three children, all in varying shades of tan. Together they set off on a journey from the United Kingdom to Canada and to the United States in elusive pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness--a dream that eventually tears them apart. Almost Brown is an exploration of diasporic intermingling involving parents of two different races and their half-brown children as they experience the paradoxes and conundrums of life as it's lived between race checkboxes. Eventually, her parents drift apart because they just aren't compatible. But as she finds herself distancing from her father too--why is she embarrassed to walk down the street with him and not her mom?--she doesn't know if it's because of his personality or his race. As a mixed-race child, was this her own unconscious bias favoring one parent over the other in the racial tug-of-war that plagues our society? Almost Brown looks for answers to questions shared by many mixed-race people: What are you? What does it mean to be a person of color when the concept is a societal invention and really only applies halfway if you are half white? And how does your relationship with your parents change as you change and grow older? In a funny, turbulent, and ultimately heartwarming story, Gill examines the brilliant messiness of ancestry, "diversity," and the idea of "race," a historical concept that still informs our beliefs about ethnicity today"--- Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Gill, Charlotte, 1971-; Gill, Charlotte, 1971-; Identity (Psychology); Immigrants; Race awareness in children.; Racially mixed families; Racially mixed families; Racially mixed people; Racially mixed people; Racially mixed women; Women authors, Canadian; Race;
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- Raising them right : the untold story of America's ultraconservative youth movement and its plot for power / by Spencer, Kyle,1970-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."In the wake of the Obama presidency, a group of young charismatic conservatives catapulted onto the American political and cultural scenes, eager to thwart nationwide pushes for greater equity and inclusion. They dreamed of a cultural revolution-online and off-that would offer a forceful alternative to the progressive politics that were dominating American college campuses. In Raising Them Right, a gripping, character-driven read and investigative tour de force, Kyle Spencer chronicles the people and organizations working to lure millions of unsuspecting young American voters into the far-right fold-revealing their highly successful efforts to harness social media in alarming ways and capitalize on the democratization of celebrity culture. These power-hungry new faces may look and sound like antiestablishment renegades, but they are actually part of a tightly organized and heavily funded ultraconservative initiative to transform American youth culture and popularize fringe ideas. There is Charlie Kirk, the swashbuckling Trump insider and founder of the right-wing youth activist group Turning Point USA, who dreams of taking back the country's soul from weak-kneed liberals and becoming a national powerbroker in his own right. There is the acid-tongued Candace Owens, a Black ultraconservative talk-show host and Fox News regular who is seeking to bring Black America to the GOP and her own celebritydom into the national forefront. And there is the young, rough-and-tumble libertarian Cliff Maloney, who built the Koch-affiliated organization Young Americans for Liberty into a political force to be reckoned with, while solidifying his own power and pull inside conservative circles. Chock-full of original reporting and unprecedented access, Raising Them Right isa striking prism through which to view the extraordinary shifts that have taken place in the American political sphere over the last decade. It establishes Kyle Spencer as the premier authority on a new generation of young conservative communicators who are merging politics and pop culture, social media and social lives, to bring cruel economic philosophies, skeletal government, and dangerous antidemocratic ideals into the mainstream. Theirs is a crusade that is just beginning"--- Subjects: Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ); Campaign funds; Christianity and politics; Identity politics; Political action committees; Radicalism; Right and left (Political science); Right-wing extremists; Youth; Youth;
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- Spaghetti westerns [videorecording (DVD)] / by Danton, Ray,1931-1992.; Harrison, Richard,1935-; Van Cleef, Lee,1925-1989.; Oates, Warren,1928-1982.; Lee, Chen; Hunter, Jeffrey,1925-1969.; Hilton, George,1934-; Palance, Jack,1919-2006.; Damon, Mark,1933-; Gemma, Giuliano,1938-; Mitchell, Cameron,1918-1994.; Madison, Guy; Widmark, Robert; Kinski, Klaus; Shatner, William; Stegani, Giorgio; Piehl, Vern; Baldanello, Gianfranco; Blasco, Ricardo; Petroni, Giulio; Tessari, Duccio,1926-; Santi, Giancarlo; Cicero, Nando; Lupo, Michele; Corbucci, Sergio,1926-1990.; Briz, Jose; Hellman, Monte,1932-; Brandt, Tony; Lucidi, Maurizio; Parolini, Gianfranco,1930-; Caiano, Mario,1933-; Girolami, Marino; Carnimeo, Giuliano; Freda, Riccardo; Mill Creek Entertainment.;
Disc 1. Beyond the law / Giorgio Stegani (director) 1968 (109 min.) -- Apache blood / Vern Piehl (director) 1975 (89 min.) -- This man can't die / Gianfranco Baldanello (director) 1967 (90 min.) -- Gunfight at Red Sands / Ricardo Blasco (director) 1964 (95 min.).Disc 2. Death rides a horse / Giulio Petroni (director) 1968 (114 min.) -- Sundance and the Kid / Duccio Tessari (director) 1969 (83 min.) -- Grand duel / Giancarlo Santi (director) 1974 (90 min.) -- Twice a Judas / Nando Cicero (director) 1969 (92 min.).Disc 3. The man from nowhere / Michele Lupo (director) 1966 (114 min.) -- Minnesota clay / Sergio Corbucci (director) 1965 (85 min.) -- White Comanche / José Briz Méndez 1968 (94 min.) -- China 9, Liberty, 37 / Monte Hellman, Tony Brandt (directors) 1978 (92 min.).Disc 4. It can be done, amigo / Maurizio Lucidi (director) 1973 (98 min.) -- God's gun / Gianfranco Parolini (director) 1975 (97 min.) -- The fighting fists of Shanghai Joe / Mario Caiano (director) 1972 (94 min.) -- Between God, the devil and a Winchester / Marino Girolami (director) 1968 (98 min.).Disc 5. Trinity and Sartana / Mario Siciliano (director) 1972 (102 min.) -- Find a place to die / Giuliano Carnimeo (director) 1968 (89 min.) -- Johnny Yuma / Riccardo Freda (director) 1966 (100 min.) -- Fistful of lead / Giuliano Carnimeo (director) 1970 (93 min.).Ray Danton, Richard Harrison, Lee Van Cleef, Warren Oates, Chen Lee, Jeffrey Hunter, George Hilton, Jack Palance, Mark Damon, Giuliano Gemma, Cameron Mitchell, Guy Madison, Robert Widmark, Klaus Kinski, William Shatner, and other actors.Canadian home video rating : R- Subjects: Spaghetti Westerns.; Revenge; Western films.;
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