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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
Summary |
A collection of the author's observations on race, culture, and belonging before and after the September 11 attacks discusses his childhood memories of a Muslim fellow student and his international research into colonial histories. |
Contents |
Color Me English -- Homeland Security -- Ground Zero -- American Tribalism -- "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses" -- American Stories, American Silence -- American Dispatches -- Colored People -- Men at Sea: African American Sailors -- Literature: The New Jazz? -- Warren Beatty's Bulworth -- "O": All alone in Charleston -- Luther Vandross (1951-2005) -- Strange Fruit -- Growing Pains -- A Life in Ten Chapters -- 1978 -- Northern Soul -- Necessary Journeys -- "Rude am I in my speech" -- Overtures -- E.R. Braithwaite -- John La Rose -- Claude McKay -- Beginners -- Water -- Blood -- Fire -- Outside In -- Belonging to Israel -- Chinua Achebe: Out of Africa -- Shausaku Endo: Confessions of a True Believer -- England, Half English -- The Pleasures of Exile -- A Familial Conversation -- James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket -- Ha Jin: Exile on Main Street -- Lafcadio Hearn: The Wanderer -- Distant shores -- France: Strangers in a Strange Land -- Sierra Leone: Distant Voices -- Ghana: Border Crossings -- Belgium: The Silenced Minority -- Kilimanjaro: The Height of Obsession -- Sierra Leone: Bunce Island. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Phillips, Caryl.
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Phillips, Caryl. |
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Authors, English -- 21st century -- Biography.
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Authors, English. |
Chronological Term |
21st century |
Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Subject |
West Indians -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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West Indians. |
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Great Britain. |
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West Indians -- United States -- Biography.
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United States. |
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Immigrants -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Immigrants. |
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Immigrants -- United States -- Biography.
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Outsiders in literature.
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Outsiders in literature. |
Chronological Term |
2000-2099 |
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Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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ISBN |
9781595586902 (electronic book) |
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1595586903 (electronic book) |
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