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Blood legacy : reckoning with a family's story of slavery / by Renton, Alex,1961-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.When British Caribbean slavery was abolished across most of the British Empire in 1833, it was not the newly liberated who received compensation, but the tens of thousands of enslavers who were paid millions of pounds in government money. The descendants of some of those slave owners are among the wealthiest and most powerful people in Britain today. Alex Renton explores what inheritance - political, economic, moral and spiritual - has been passed to the descendants of the slave owners and the descendants of the enslaved.
Subjects: Renton, Alex, 1961-; Compensation (Law); Distributive justice.; Slavery; Slavery; Slavery; Slavery;
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Evidence of things seen : true crime in an era of reckoning / by Weinman, Sarah,editor.;
Includes bibliographical references."In Evidence of Things Seen, fourteen of the most innovative crime writers working today cast a light on the cases that give crucial insight into our society. Wesley Lowery writes about a lynching left unsolved for decades by an indifferent police force and a family's quest for answers. Justine van der Leun reports on the thousands of women in prison for defending themselves from abuse. May Jeong reveals how the Atlanta spa shootings tell a story of America. Edited by acclaimed writer Sarah Weinman, and with an introduction by attorney and host of the Undisclosed podcast Rabia Chaudry, this anthology pulls back the curtain on how crime itself is a by-product of America's systemic harms and inequalities. And in doing so, it reveals how the genre of true crime can be a catalyst for social change. These works combine brilliant storytelling with incisive cultural examinations--and challenge each of us to ask what justice should look like. Evidence of Things Seen introduces the new classics of true crime"--
Subjects: Essays.; True crime stories.; Crime; Crime.;
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The Bill Gates problem : reckoning with the myth of the good billionaire / by Schwab, Tim(Journalist),author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."A powerful investigation of Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation, showing how he uses philanthropy to exercise enormous political power without accountability"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Gates, Bill, 1955-; Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Billionaires; Charities;
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Fetishized : A Reckoning with Yellow Fever, Feminism, and Beauty. by Yu, Kaila.;
From Kaila Yu, former pin-up model and lead singer of Nylon Pink, comes a deeply personal memoir-in-essays, reckoning with being an object of Asian fetish and how media, pop culture, and colonialism contributed to the oversexualization of Asian women.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory;
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Young heroes of the Soviet Union : a memoir and a reckoning / by Halberstadt, Alex,author.;
Can trauma be inherited? In this memoir of identity, exile, ancestry, and reckoning, an American writer returns to Russia to face a family history that still haunts him.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Halberstadt, Alex; Halberstadt, Alex; Jews, Soviet; Jews;
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How the word is passed : a reckoning with the history of slavery across America / by Smith, Clint,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Clint Smith's revealing, contemporary portrait of America as a slave owning nation. Beginning in his own hometown of New Orleans, Smith leads the reader through an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks - those that are honest about the past and those that are not - that offer an intergenerational story of how slavery has been central in shaping our nations collective history, and ourselves. It is the story of the Monticello Plantation in Virginia, the estate where Thomas Jefferson wrote letters espousing the urgent need for liberty while enslaving more than four hundred people. It is the story of the Whitney Plantation, one of the only former plantations devoted to preserving the experience of the enslaved people whose lives and work sustained it. It is the story of Angola, a former plantation-turned-maximum-security prison in Louisiana that is filled with Black men who work across the 18,000-acre land for virtually no pay. And it is the story of Blandford Cemetery, the final resting place of tens of thousands of Confederate soldiers. A deeply researched and transporting exploration of the legacy of slavery and its imprint on centuries of American history, this book illustrates how some of our country's most essential stories are hidden in plain view-whether in places we might drive by on our way to work, holidays such as Juneteenth, or entire neighborhoods like downtown Manhattan, where the brutal history of the trade in enslaved men, women, and children has been deeply imprinted. Informed by scholarship and brought to life by the story of people living today, here is a landmark of reflection and insight that offers a new understanding of the hopeful role that memory and history can play in making sense of our country and how it has come to be.
Subjects: African Americans.; History.; Discrimination.; Ethnology; Minorities; African Americans;
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Reunion : a novel / by Juska, Elise,author.;
"A novel about three friends' midlife reckonings at a college reunion in coastal Maine"--
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Class reunions; Friendship; Interpersonal relations; Secrecy;
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Land Girls. [videorecording] / by Bottomley, Christine.; Gemmell, Becci.; Hughes, Steve.; Moore, Roland.; Parker, Nathaniel,1962-; Strallen, Summer.; Ward, Sophie.; Woodcock, Jo.; BFS Entertainment & Multimedia Ltd.; British Broadcasting Corporation.;
Back to the land -- Displaced loyalties -- Final reckoning -- Fight the good fight -- Darkest hours.Music by Debbie Wiseman.Sophie Ward, Summer Strallen, Nathaniel Parker, Christine Bottomley, Jo Woodcock, Becci Gemmell, Susan Cookson.Set in England during the Second World War, a five-part drama that captures the sacrifices and experiences of four young women in the Women's Land Army. With the nation's men at war, three beautiful young English volunteers arrive at a farm to help the cause under the Land Girls program. Yet even the peaceful English countryside cannot escape the flames of the war and soon it touches them all in a way that will alter their lives forever.PG.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby digital.
Subjects: Great Britain. Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food; Women's Land Army (Great Britain); Female friendship; Television programs.; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
© c2011., BFS Entertainment & Multimedia,
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The Mandalorian. [videorecording] / by Favreau, Jon,creator.; Abtahi, Omid,actor.; Carano, Gina,1982-actor.; Esposito, Giancarlo,actor.; Herzog, Werner,1942-actor.; Pascal, Pedro,actor.; Swallow, Emily,1979-actor.; Weathers, Carl,actor.; Walt Disney Home Entertainment (Firm),production company.; Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm),distributor.;
Pedro Pascal, Gina Carano, Giancarlo Esposito, Emily Swallow, Carl Weathers, Omid Abtahi, Werner Herzog.After the fall of the Galactic Empire, lawlessness has spread throughout the galaxy. A lone bounty hunter (Pedro Pascal) belonging to the warrior culture known as the Mandalorians. In the years following the Empire's defeat, the Mandalorian becomes the unlikely guardian to a mysterious Force-wielding alien child, risking his own life to ensure his charge's safety.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.Described video for the blind and visually impaired.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; anamorphic wide screen format (2.39:1 aspect ratio) ; DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital 2.0.
Subjects: Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Science fiction television programs.; Television programs.; Mandalorian (Fictitious character); Grogu (Fictitious character); Bounty hunters; Extraterrestrial beings; Life on other planets; Interstellar travel; Guardian and ward;
For private home use only.
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Time of the Heathen. by Kass, Peter,film director.; Collins, Barry,actor.; Ayler, Ethel,actor.; Heffernan, John,actor.; White, Nathaniel,actor.; Steward, Orville,actor.; Heller, Stewart,actor.; Arbelos Films (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Barry Collins, Ethel Ayler, John Heffernan, Nathaniel White, Orville Steward, Stewart HellerOriginally produced by Arbelos Films in 1961.After happening upon the murder of a local maid, mysterious drifter Gaunt (John Heffernan, The Sting) soon finds himself framed for the attack. Forced to flee deep into the woods with the only witness to the crime, the maid’s young deaf mute son Jesse, the pair forge a complex bond that culminates in one of cinema’s most memorable and unclassifiable reckonings with the atomic age.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Motion pictures.; Drama.; Motion Pictures.; Crime.;
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