I'm Chocolate, You're Vanilla: Raising Healthy Black and Biracial Children in a Race-Conscious World -- by Marguerite Wright (Author) (Book)
"A child's concept of race is quite different from that of an adult. Young children perceive skin color as magical--even changeable--and unlike adults, are incapable of understanding adult predjudices...
All Ages
Age groups: Preschool/Kindergarten (3-5), School Age (6-12), Adolescence (13-21)
Why Survive?: Being Old in America -- by Robert Butler (Author) (Book)
"Butler questions the value of long life for its own sake; modern medicine, he says, has ironically created 'a huge group of people for whom survival is possible but satisfaction in living elusive.'...
All Ages
Age groups: Adulthood (22+)
Harry Sue -- by Sue Stauffacher (Author) (Book - Parent/Child)
Product Description "Harry Sue Clotkin is tough. Her mom's in the slammer and she wants to get there, too, as fast as possible, so they can be together. But it's not so easy to become a juvenile...
All Ages
Age groups: School Age (6-12), Adolescence (13-21)
Schooling Children with Down Syndrome: Toward an Understanding of Possibility -- by Christopher Kliewer (Author) (Book - Parent)
"This engrossing volume explores Down syndrome and disability in the cultural context of school. Some of the issues addressed include literacy and language, friendship, behavior, and the cultural...
All Ages
Age groups: Preschool/Kindergarten (3-5), School Age (6-12), Adolescence (13-21)
Little Women and the Feminist Imagination : Criticism, Controversy, Personal Essays -- by Beverly Clark (Author) (Book)
"Raising key questions about race, class, sexuality, age, material culture, intellectual history, pedagogy, and gender, this book explores the myriad relationships between feminist thinking and Little...
All Ages
Age groups: Adolescence (13-21)
Listening to Olivia: Violence, Poverty, and Prostitution -- by Jody Raphael (Author) (Book)
"Listening to Olivia is the compelling account of her descent into poverty and abuse together with her hard fought recovery. By assimilating new research on the women and girls in prostitution?in...
All Ages
Age groups: Adulthood (22+)
Discrimination Law -- by Sandra Fredman (Author) (Book)
"Sandra Fredman provides an introduction to discrimination law which is accessible, yet challenging and thought provoking. The concepts of equality and discrimination are elucidated by relating the...
All Ages
Age groups: Adulthood (22+)
Amache: The Story of Japanese Internment in Colorado during World War II -- by Robert Harvey (Author) (Book)
"On February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order No. 9066, forcing the evacuation of more than 100,000 Japanese-Americans from the West Coast to "settlement camps" inland....
All Ages
Children of Color: Psychological Interventions with Culturally Diverse Youth -- by Jewelle Taylor Gibbs (Author) (Book - Parent)
"Children of Color is the thoroughly revised and expanded edition of the classic and definitive guide to the unique problems and special needs of minority youth experiencing psychological and...
All Ages
Age groups: Infancy (<1), Toddlerhood (1-3), Preschool/Kindergarten (3-5), School Age (6-12), Adolescence (13-21), Adulthood (22+)
Christian Science on Trial: Religious Healing in America -- by Rennie Schoepflin (Author) (Book)
"In Christian Science on Trial, historian Rennie B. Schoepflin shows how Christian Science healing became a viable alternative to medicine at the end of the nineteenth century. Christian Scientists...
All Ages
Age groups: Adulthood (22+)