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Savior and Brittani 2

A South Dallas Love Affair

By: Traci B

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For eight years, Savior has managed to keep his darkest secret away from his wife. However, a slip up at his office causes his secret to be revealed. Once Brittani learns of Savior’s infidelity, she wastes no time leaving him and her once luxurious lifestyle behind. Determined to keep Brittani, Savior finally begins to fight for his marriage, but is it a little too late?

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Sullivan Group Publishing

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1648547354

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Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement

Workers, Consumers, and Civil Rights from the 1930s to the 1980s

By: Traci Parker

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Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement

Workers, Consumers, and Civil Rights from the 1930s to the 1980s

By: Traci Parker

In this book, Traci Parker examines the movement to racially integrate white-collar work and consumption in American department stores, and broadens our understanding of historical transformations in African American class and labor formation. Built on the goals, organization, and momentum of earlier struggles for justice, the department store movement channeled the power of store workers and consumers to promote black freedom in the mid-twentieth century. Sponsoring lunch counter sit-ins and protests in the 1950s and 1960s, and challenging discrimination in the courts in the 1970s, this movement ended in the early 1980s with the conclusion of the Sears, Roebuck, and Co. affirmative action cases and the transformation and consolidation of American department stores. In documenting the experiences of African American workers and consumers during this era, Parker highlights the department store as a key site for the inception of a modern black middle class, and demonstrates the ways that both work and consumption were battlegrounds for civil rights.

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UNC Press Books

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1469648687

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9781469648682

Wounds of the Spirit

Black Women, Violence, and Resistance Ethics

By: Traci C. West

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Wounds of the Spirit

Black Women, Violence, and Resistance Ethics

By: Traci C. West

A collection of first-person accounts documenting a historical legacy of violence against black women in the U.S. In Wounds of the Spirit, Traci West employs first person accounts-from slave narratives to contemporary interviews to Tina Turner's autobiography-to document a historical legacy of violence against black women in the United States. West, a black feminist Christian ethicist, situates spiritual matters within a discussion of the psycho-social impact of intimate assault against African American women. Distinctive for its treatment of the role of the church in response to violence against African American women, the book identifies specific social mechanisms which contribute to the reproduction of intimate violence. West insists that cultural beliefs as well as institutional practices must be altered if we are to combat the reproduction of violence, and suggests methods of resistance which can be utilized by victim-survivors, those in the helping professions, and the church. Interrogating the dynamics of black women's experiences of emotional and spiritual trauma through the diverse disciplines of psychology, sociology, and theology, this important work will be of interest and practical use to those in women's studies, African American studies, Christian ethics, feminist and womanist theology, women's health, family counseling, and pastoral care.

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NYU Press

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0814795102

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9780814795101

Solidarity and Defiant Spirituality

Africana Lessons on Religion, Racism, and Ending Gender Violence

By: Traci C. West

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Solidarity and Defiant Spirituality

Africana Lessons on Religion, Racism, and Ending Gender Violence

By: Traci C. West

How activists in Ghana, South Africa, and Brazil provide inspiration and strategies for combating the gender violence epidemic in the United States How can the U.S. learn from the perspectives of anti-gender violence activists in South America and Africa as we seek to end intimate violence in this country? The U.S. has consistently positioned itself as a moral exemplar, seeking to export its philosophy and values to other societies. Yet in this book, Traci C. West argues that the U.S. has much to learn from other countries when it comes to addressing gender-based violence. West traveled to Ghana, South Africa, and Brazil to interview activists involved in the struggle against gender violence. In each of these places, as in the United States, Christianity and anti-black racism have been implicated in violence against women. In Ghana and Brazil, in particular, their Christian colonial and trans-Atlantic slave trade histories directly connect with the socioeconomic development of the Americas and historic incidents of rape of black slave women. With a transnational focus on religion and racism, West brings a new perspective to efforts to systemically combat gender violence. Calling attention to forms of violence in the U.S. and international settings, such as marital rape, sex trafficking of women and girls, domestic violence, and the targeting of lesbians, the book offers an expansive and nuanced view of how to form activist solidarity in tackling this violence. It features bold and inspiring approaches by black women leaders working in each setting to uproot the myriad forms of violence against women and girls. Ultimately, West calls for us to learn from the lessons of Africana activists, drawing on a defiant Africana spirituality as an invaluable resource in the quest to combat the seemingly chronic problem of gender-based violence.

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1479833991

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The Settler Sea

California's Salton Sea and the Consequences of Colonialism

By: Traci Brynne Voyles

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The Settler Sea

California's Salton Sea and the Consequences of Colonialism

By: Traci Brynne Voyles

Can a sea be a settler? What if it is a sea that exists only in the form of incongruous, head-scratching contradictions: a wetland in a desert, a wildlife refuge that poisons birds, a body of water in which fish suffocate? Traci Brynne Voyles’s history of the Salton Sea examines how settler colonialism restructures physical environments in ways that further Indigenous dispossession, racial capitalism, and degradation of the natural world. In other words, The Settler Sea asks how settler colonialism entraps nature to do settlers’ work for them. The Salton Sea, Southern California’s largest inland body of water, occupies the space between the lush agricultural farmland of the Imperial Valley and the austere desert called “America’s Sahara.” The sea sits near the boundary between the United States and Mexico and lies at the often-contested intersections of the sovereign lands of the Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla and the state of California. Created in 1905, when overflow from the Colorado River combined with a poorly constructed irrigation system to cause the whole river to flow into the desert, this human-maintained body of water has been considered a looming environmental disaster. The Salton Sea’s very precariousness—the way it sits uncomfortably between worlds, existing always in the interstices of human and natural influences, between desert and wetland, between the skyward pull of the sun and the constant inflow of polluted water—is both a symptom and symbol of the larger precariousness of settler relationships to the environment, in the West and beyond. Voyles provides an innovative exploration of the Salton Sea, looking to the ways the sea, its origins, and its role in human life have been vital to the people who call this region home.

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U of Nebraska Press

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1496229622

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9781496229625

Native American Voices

By: Susan Lobo,Steve Talbot,Traci Morris Carlston

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Native American Voices

By: Susan Lobo,Steve Talbot,Traci Morris Carlston

This unique reader presents a broad approach to the study of American Indians through the voices and viewpoints of the Native Peoples themselves. Multi-disciplinary and hemispheric in approach, it draws on ethnography, biography, journalism, art, and poetry to familiarize students with the historical and present day experiences of native peoples and nations throughout North and South America–all with a focus on themes and issues that are crucial within Indian Country today. For courses in Introduction to American Indians in departments of Native American Studies/American Indian Studies, Anthropology, American Studies, Sociology, History, Women's Studies.

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Routledge

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1317346165

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Onward Southern Soldiers

Religion and the Army of Tennessee in the Civil War

By: Traci Nichols-Belt

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Onward Southern Soldiers

Religion and the Army of Tennessee in the Civil War

By: Traci Nichols-Belt

The Civil War was trying, bloody and hard-fought combat for both sides. What was it, then, that sustained soldiers low on supplies and morale? For the Army of Tennessee, it was religion. Onward Southern Soldiers: Religion and the Army of Tennessee in the Civil War explores the significant impact of religion on every rank, from generals to chaplains to common soldiers. It took faith to endure overwhelming adversity. Religion united troops, informing both why and how they fought and providing the rationale for enduring great hardship for the Confederate cause. Using primary source material such as diaries, letters, journals and sermons of the Army of Tennessee, Traci Nichols-Belt, along with Gordon T. Belt, presents the history of the vital role of the armys religious practices.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1614233349

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9781614233343

Savior and Brittani 3

A South Dallas Love Affair

By: Traci B

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Savior and Brittani 3

A South Dallas Love Affair

By: Traci B

A year has now passed, and Savior still struggles to move on after the divorce. After having to witness another man love his ex-wife and raise his child, Savior will stop at nothing to get his family back. As a man with plenty of power and resources, he doesn’t hesitate to use them to his advantage. What Savior fails to understand is the value of time. And time waits for no man – not even him. Drew wants nothing more than to give Brittani her ‘happily ever after’ since her first marriage fails to do so. Brittani wants to believe Drew is the man of her dreams. However, she unintentionally finds herself punishing Drew for Savior’s faults. It doesn’t help that Savior has made it a priority to win her back. Will she allow her ex-husband to destroy her chance at true happiness?

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1648547362

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Savior and Brittani

A South Dallas Love Affair

By: Traci B

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Savior and Brittani

A South Dallas Love Affair

By: Traci B

For as long as anyone can remember, Brittani Evans has always been ambitious. Though an attractive girl, she has cared more about her academics than her appearance. At the age of twenty-two, she works two jobs to cover her college tuition since higher education isn’t a top priority to her family. She knows what her long-term goals are, and she doesn’t mind taking food orders and selling shoes while she earns her degree. Sierra Jones and Brittani have been best friends since they were kids. Unbeknownst to Brittani, Sierra feels that she’s superior because she’s a talented hairstylist. She has definitely earned the title “The Hair Hustler” in all of Dallas. Sierra lives on her high horse and has no plans to come off. That is, until a guy by the name of Savior, inadvertently knocks her down. Savior Davis is the owner of two car dealerships in Dallas and Houston. At twenty-four, he is successful, single, and he doesn’t have any kids. Working six days out of the week between two locations leaves him no time to date. One day, a trip to DSW changes all of that. He is usually a busy man, but for Brittani, he’s certainly free. For the longest, Sierra has prospered due to her talent while Brittani has struggled to make ends meet. Within a year’s time, Savior upgrades Brittani’s life. Brittani goes from an aspiring FBI agent to a Dallas housewife. While Brittani enjoys the luxuries that come with being with Savior, Sierra plots on the low. Sierra finds herself wanting what Brittani has, or who she has. Brittani is forced to learn that there is no such thing as loyalty in the “Dirty D”!

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1648547370

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The Belly Burn Plan

Six Weeks to a Lean, Fit & Healthy Body

By: Traci D. Mitchell

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The Belly Burn Plan

Six Weeks to a Lean, Fit & Healthy Body

By: Traci D. Mitchell

Muffin tops, love handles and pot bellies have finally met their match. The Belly Burn Plan will help you shed belly fat fast and for good in just three steps: Eat Right for Your Body Type: Discover the best foods for your metabolism to lose weight naturally. Get Moving: Shorter, targeted, high-intensity interval training workouts tailored to your fitness level help improve glucose metabolism and fat burning. Stress Less, Sleep More: Make the lifestyle changes that will have a lasting impression on your body and overall health. Linked to heart disease, diabetes and metabolic syndrome, belly fat isn't just unsightly, it can be dangerous to your health. You have the power to not only change the way you look, but also how you feel. The Belly Burn Plan kicks off with an effective 3-Day Cleanse and includes sixty-five quick and easy recipes that will blow your taste buds away while shrinking your waistline. Prepare to say goodbye to belly fat and hello to a lean, healthy body.

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Harlequin

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1460346920

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9781460346921

Nocino Noir

A Private Investigator Cozy Mystery

By: Traci Andrighetti

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Nocino Noir

A Private Investigator Cozy Mystery

By: Traci Andrighetti

Franki's coffee shop noir is a hard nut to crack! It’s a slow, steamy summer in New Orleans’ French Quarter, but Franki Amato is busy planning her bridal shower—that is, until a hit-and-run outside a coffee shop gets her PI senses percolating. The victim is linked to crimes at a fancy society wedding in a haunted hotel where Franki’s fiancé’s family is staying. As for the java joint, it’s straight out of a hardboiled detective movie, and there’s something hinky about its walnut liqueur coffee. Franki’s Sicilian nonna says the macabre events are proof the malocchio has been cast on her impending marriage, and to her utter surprise, her future grandmother-in-law also suspects the evil eye. To save her wedding and solve the case, Franki must investigate some shady places, from a witch shop and bridal swap to a shack in the swamp. She has to uncover the identities of a femme fatale and a jewel thief and unravel the meaning of a deadly delivery. If she doesn’t, this noir mystery could turn Grimm fairy tale. Nocino Noir is book 9 in the Franki Amato Mysteries, but it can be read as a standalone story. If you like zany characters and laugh-out-loud humor with a splash of suspense, then you’ll drink up this fun series by USA Today Bestselling Author Traci Andrighetti. Cheers! FRANKI AMATO MYSTERIES: Limoncello Yellow (book 1) Prosecco Pink (book 2) Amaretto Amber (book 3) Campari Crimson (book 4) Galliano Gold (book 5) Marsala Maroon (book 6) Valpolicella Violet (book 7) Tuaca Tan (book 8) Nocino Noir (book 9) Sambuca Scarlet (book 10, coming in 2025!) To find out what Franki’s up to between the books, join Traci’s newsletter on her website to get the Franki Amato Mini Mysteries for FREE! “The good times roll in Traci Andrighetti’s Franki Amato series! Cleverly named with colorful Italian libations—and filled with equally colorful characters—these fast-paced and funny cozies feature a dryly witty sleuth and a New Orleans setting so well-rendered, you can taste the Hurricanes, cher.” ~ Rosie Genova, bestselling author “Traci Andrighetti’s Franki Amato Mysteries have me tickled pink! Her smart, sassy heroine, wacky cast of characters, and vividly original settings had me glued to the page. I can’t wait to read more from this author!” ~ Gemma Halliday, New York Times bestselling author “Andrighetti’s dialogue is genuine yet uproarious, and her glowing characters animatedly leap off the page. Her sparkling wit keeps the hijinks brimming with merriment.” ~ Long Island Book Reviews

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Limoncello Press

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1957200995

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Innovative Approaches to Individual and Community Resilience

From Theory to Practice

By: Darlyne G. Nemeth,Traci W. Olivier

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Innovative Approaches to Individual and Community Resilience

From Theory to Practice

By: Darlyne G. Nemeth,Traci W. Olivier

Resilience is a biopsychosocial phenomenon—it encompasses personal, interpersonal, and community experiences. Innovative Approaches to Individual and Community Resilience reviews the current research and details differing levels and approaches to resilience. On a microlevel, this book specifies how to develop appropriate coping strategies, maintain cognitive flexibility, and identify, label, and share feelings before acting upon them. On a macrolevel, it defines and explores environmental resilience, social resilience, community resilience, and family resilience. It focuses on the importance of family, community, and spiritual bonds, in order to share experiences and enhance posttraumatic healing. The need to be firmly grounded in today, while learning from yesterday, in order to cope with the requirements of tomorrow is the primary emphasis of this book. 2018 PROSE Awards - Winner, Award for Applied Social Work, Nursing and Allied Health: Association of American Publishers Explores aspects of resilience within the individual, community, and environment Outlines critical factors that allow people to not just survive, but to thrive Addresses the crucial role of the family in the development of resilience Reflects upon the helping professional's need to achieve and maintain resilience

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Academic Press

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0128039132

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9780128039137

Wastelanding

Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country

By: Traci Brynne Voyles

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Wastelanding

Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country

By: Traci Brynne Voyles

Wastelanding tells the history of the uranium industry on Navajo land in the U.S. Southwest, asking why certain landscapes and the peoples who inhabit them come to be targeted for disproportionate exposure to environmental harm. Uranium mines and mills on the Navajo Nation land have long supplied U.S. nuclear weapons and energy programs. By 1942, mines on the reservation were the main source of uranium for the top-secret Manhattan Project. Today, the Navajo Nation is home to more than a thousand abandoned uranium sites. Radiation-related diseases are endemic, claiming the health and lives of former miners and nonminers alike. Traci Brynne Voyles argues that the presence of uranium mining on Diné (Navajo) land constitutes a clear case of environmental racism. Looking at discursive constructions of landscapes, she explores how environmental racism develops over time. For Voyles, the “wasteland,” where toxic materials are excavated, exploited, and dumped, is both a racial and a spatial signifier that renders an environment and the bodies that inhabit it pollutable. Because environmental inequality is inherent in the way industrialism operates, the wasteland is the “other” through which modern industrialism is established. In examining the history of wastelanding in Navajo country, Voyles provides “an environmental justice history” of uranium mining, revealing how just as “civilization” has been defined on and through “savagery,” environmental privilege is produced by portraying other landscapes as marginal, worthless, and pollutable.

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U of Minnesota Press

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1452944490

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9781452944494

Black Diamond Mines Regional Preserve

By: Traci Parent,Karen Terhune

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Black Diamond Mines Regional Preserve

By: Traci Parent,Karen Terhune

From the 1860s to the turn of the 20th century, the Mount Diablo Coal Field was the largest coal-producing region in California and once boasted five thriving communities. With the decline of coal mining some residents turned to ranching. Later rich deposits of sand were mined for glass and foundry use. In 1973, the East Bay Regional Park District acquired the land. Today visitors to Black Diamond Mines Regional Preserve, located 45 miles east of San Francisco, can explore miles of trails, tour the Hazel-Atlas silica sand mine, and visit historic Rose Hill Cemetery.

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Arcadia Publishing

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073856995X

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9780738569956

The History of Trans Representation in American Television and Film Genres

By: Traci B. Abbott

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The History of Trans Representation in American Television and Film Genres

By: Traci B. Abbott

Due to the increase in transgender characters in scripted television and film in the 2010s, trans visibility has been presented as a relatively new phenomenon that has positively shifted the cis society’s acceptance of the trans community. This book counters this claim to assert that such representations actually present limited and harmful characterizations, as they have for decades. To do so, this book analyzes transgender narratives in scripted visual media from the 1960s to 2010s across a variety of genres, including independent and mainstream films and television dramatic series and sitcoms, judging not the veracity of such representations per se but dissecting their transphobia as a constant despite relevant shifts that have improved their veracity and variety. Already ingrained with their own ideological expectations, genres shift the framing of the trans character, particularly the relevance of their gender difference for cisgender characters and society. The popularity of trans characters within certain genres also provides a historical lineage that is examined against the progression of transgender rights activism and corresponding transphobic falsehoods, concluding that this popular medium continues to offer a limited and narrow conception of gender, the variability of the transgender experience, and the range of transgender identities.

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Springer Nature

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3030977935

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9783030977931

Make a Pretty Sound

A Story of Ella Jenkins—The First Lady of Children's Music

By: Traci N. Todd

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Make a Pretty Sound

A Story of Ella Jenkins—The First Lady of Children's Music

By: Traci N. Todd

A beautiful picture book biography about Ella Jenkins, “The First Lady of Children’s Folk Song,” and her contribution to children’s music education. Ella Jenkins is considered the first lady of children's music. At a time when children’s music was mostly novelty songs and movie soundtracks, she believed that music could be a powerful tool to teach. From the very beginning, she believed that a child’s natural curiosity and good nature could be fed by introducing them to the folk rhythms, music, and dance of cultures from all over the world. This book tells Ella’s story from the time she was a young child, first learning about music through her Uncle Flood playing harmonica, to her encounters with racial discrimination, and finally her involvement with the folk music movement and her discovery that music could be a powerful tool to teach children and bridge cultures, leading her to perform and work with children on all seven continents (including Antarctica!). LIVING LEGEND: The text draws heavily from personal interviews the author conducted with Ella and her manager, which does a great job of helping to tell Ella’s story in her own words. WE NEED DIVERSE BOOKS: Sings and celebrates today’s continued need for more diverse books! A GREAT GIFT: With rhythmic text and musical illustrations, this book makes a perfect present for anyone who loves music or nonfiction, or both! Perfect for: - Fans of Ella Jenkins - Teachers and librarians looking for their next picture book biography - Parents, teachers, and caregivers of children who love music or nonfiction, or both! - Gift givers looking for a beautiful, musical book

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Chronicle Books

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145217069X

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9781452170695

(In)Visible Presence: Feminist Counter-narratives of Young Adult Literature by Women of Color

By: Traci P. Baxley,Genyne Henry Boston

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(In)Visible Presence: Feminist Counter-narratives of Young Adult Literature by Women of Color

By: Traci P. Baxley,Genyne Henry Boston

Current school systems create a generation of students who experience institutional practices that honor other students’ needs—those students who share the values of those with power—and have pathologized other groups, specifically women of color. (In) Visible Presence intends to contribute to existing pedagogy, which empowers students, teachers, administrators, and policy makers to develop participatory membership in schools and among citizens who can begin to create an anti-oppressive society. (In) Visible Presence contains a holistic, thematic approach to exploring young adult (YA) novels written by women of color, while providing cultural and historical contexts for interpreting and analyzing their work through a feminist lens. Unlike other scholarship, (In) Visible Presence uses a feminist theoretical framework to create a space in which select literary works offer counter-narratives that can be analyzed and critically interpreted according to principles and ideas intended to validate women, thus making their triumph over racism, sexism, classism, and heterosexism and equity challenges a visible cause relegating consequential change for both young girls and women of color. (In) Visible Presence maintains current discourse dialogue through a concentration on the intersectionality of gender, race, and class identities and how these identifiers serve as criteria for privilege and marginalization, even in YA literature. (In) Visible Presence aims to explore YA literature written by women of color represented by African American, Asian American, Indian American, and Latina Americans. Our theoretical perspective focuses on the connection of race, gender, and class that is exclusive to women of color. The construction of “voice” and “space” is important for readers to hear from those once silenced.

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Springer

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9462096899

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9789462096899

Evergreen Cemetery of Santa Cruz

By: Traci Bliss with Randall Brown

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Evergreen Cemetery of Santa Cruz

By: Traci Bliss with Randall Brown

Created in 1858, the Evergreen Cemetery provided a final resting place for a multitude of Santa Cruz's adventurers, entrepreneurs and artists. The land was a gift from the Imus family, who'd narrowly escaped the fate of the Donner Party more than a decade earlier and had already buried two of their own. Alongside these pioneers, the community buried many other notables, including London Nelson, an emancipated slave turned farmer who left his land to the city schools, and journalist Belle Dormer, who covered a visit by President Benjamin Harrison and the women's suffrage movement. Join Traci Bliss and Randall Brown as they bring to life the tragedies and triumphs of the diverse men and women interred at Evergreen Cemetery.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1467143863

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The Movement and Technology Balance

Classroom Strategies for Student Success

By: Traci Lengel,Jenna Evans

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The Movement and Technology Balance

Classroom Strategies for Student Success

By: Traci Lengel,Jenna Evans

Educate students in mind and body—and optimize their success. There is no issue today that gets more attention and incites more debate than children’s use of technology. Technology offers exciting new opportunities and challenges to you and your students. Meanwhile, movement is essential to learning—it increases mental energy and helps brain cells develop. But screen time often comes at the expense of physical activity. How do you choose? You don’t! This blended instructional approach combines kinesthetic teaching methodologies with technological resources to meet content standards, increase achievement and test scores, and enrich the learning process. Here you’ll find A neuroscientific overview of the powerful brain-body connection Step-by-step instructions for balancing movement and the use of technology in the classroom Practical tools, templates, and vignettes to ensure successful implementation Classroom management tactics and useful remedies for common problems Educating the whole child means promoting social, physical, mental, emotional, and cognitive growth. By joining two powerful teaching tools, you’ll prepare students for a bright future—in school and in life—while growing your instructional expertise as well.

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Corwin Press

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1544350457

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9781544350455

Creating a New Racial Order

How Immigration, Multiracialism, Genomics, and the Young Can Remake Race in America

By: Jennifer L. Hochschild,Vesla M. Weaver,Traci R. Burch

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Creating a New Racial Order

How Immigration, Multiracialism, Genomics, and the Young Can Remake Race in America

By: Jennifer L. Hochschild,Vesla M. Weaver,Traci R. Burch

A groundbreaking exploration of how race in America is being redefined The American racial order—the beliefs, institutions, and practices that organize relationships among the nation's races and ethnicities—is undergoing its greatest transformation since the 1960s. Creating a New Racial Order takes a groundbreaking look at the reasons behind this dramatic change, and considers how different groups of Americans are being affected. Through revealing narrative and striking research, the authors show that the personal and political choices of Americans will be critical to how, and how much, racial hierarchy is redefined in decades to come. The authors outline the components that make up a racial order and examine the specific mechanisms influencing group dynamics in the United States: immigration, multiracialism, genomic science, and generational change. Cumulatively, these mechanisms increase heterogeneity within each racial or ethnic group, and decrease the distance separating groups from each other. The authors show that individuals are moving across group boundaries, that genomic science is challenging the whole concept of race, and that economic variation within groups is increasing. Above all, young adults understand and practice race differently from their elders: their formative memories are 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, and Obama's election—not civil rights marches, riots, or the early stages of immigration. Blockages could stymie or distort these changes, however, so the authors point to essential policy and political choices. Portraying a vision, not of a postracial America, but of a different racial America, Creating a New Racial Order examines how the structures of race and ethnicity are altering a nation.

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Princeton University Press

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0691152993

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Steve Biko

The Radical Gospel of Black Consciousness

By: Traci Wyatt

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The Radical Gospel of Black Consciousness

By: Traci Wyatt

During the mid-1960s to the late 1970s, black college students in South Africa became frustrated with apartheid, Bantu education policy, Bantustans, white liberal organizations, and European-branded Christianity. Their anger with white nationalism under apartheid caused them to mobilize, rise up, and fight against systemic oppression for their liberation. The timing was pregnant with purpose for the new generation of leaders to rise since the ANC and PAC were banned, creating an aboveground silence amongst black anti-apartheid revolutionaries. The reader will be lured into the struggle, blood, loss, tears, and victories of blacks fighting against apartheid in South Africa. Readers will learn about the ideology and way of life adopted by black youth known as black consciousness. The book analyzes how students became so devoted in their beliefs and application of the tenets of black consciousness that it was likened to the gospel message. It describes how the teachings of black consciousness were used as psychological weapons of war to liberate the minds of blacks, white liberals, and the white apartheid regime. The primary focus of this book is on the life, message, and journey of BC’s preeminent leader, Steve Biko, who led the radical movement along with his colleagues to empower his people and encourage the nation to seek and possess truer humanity. His message takes center stage while his life takes several unexpected turns as the system hunts him down. However, the most controversial yet surprising component of this work would be the comparison of Biko’s life and death with Jesus’s life and death at Calvary—from the cradle to the grave. Though Biko was not necessarily a professed Christian, his life’s work and message make chilling parallels to the life of Jesus Christ, which are captured here. This book is bound to awaken the soul and mind of the reader as they become raptured in the intersectionality of race, justice, and faith.

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Trading Democracy for Justice

Criminal Convictions and the Decline of Neighborhood Political Participation

By: Traci Burch

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Trading Democracy for Justice

Criminal Convictions and the Decline of Neighborhood Political Participation

By: Traci Burch

The United States imprisons far more people, total and per capita, and at a higher rate than any other country in the world. Among the more than 1.5 million Americans currently incarcerated, minorities and the poor are disproportionately represented. What’s more, they tend to come from just a few of the most disadvantaged neighborhoods in the country. While the political costs of this phenomenon remain poorly understood, it’s become increasingly clear that the effects of this mass incarceration are much more pervasive than previously thought, extending beyond those imprisoned to the neighbors, family, and friends left behind. For Trading Democracy for Justice, Traci Burch has drawn on data from neighborhoods with imprisonment rates up to fourteen times the national average to chart demographic features that include information about imprisonment, probation, and parole, as well as voter turnout and volunteerism. She presents powerful evidence that living in a high-imprisonment neighborhood significantly decreases political participation. Similarly, people living in these neighborhoods are less likely to engage with their communities through volunteer work. What results is the demobilization of entire neighborhoods and the creation of vast inequalities—even among those not directly affected by the criminal justice system. The first book to demonstrate the ways in which the institutional effects of imprisonment undermine already disadvantaged communities, Trading Democracy for Justice speaks to issues at the heart of democracy.

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University of Chicago Press

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022606509X

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BBQ Sauces, Rubs and Marinades For Dummies

By: Traci Cumbay

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BBQ Sauces, Rubs and Marinades For Dummies

By: Traci Cumbay

Think only master chefs can create the savory, succulent barbecue masterpieces you love to eat? Nonsense! BBQ Sauces, Rubs & Marinades For Dummies shows you everything you need to dig in, get your apron dirty, and start stirring up scrumptious sauces, magical marinades, and rubs to remember. Featuring 100 bold new recipes, along with lots of savvy tips for spicing up your backyard barbecue, this get-the-flavor guide a healthy dose of barbecue passion as it delivers practical advice and great recipes from some of America's best competition barbecue cooks. You get formulas for spicing up chicken, beef, pork, and even seafood, plus plenty of suggestions on equipment, side dishes, and much more. Discover how to: Choose the right types of meat Build a BBQ tool set Craft your own sauces Smoke and grill like a pro Marinate like a master Choose the perfect time to add sauce Rub your meat the right way Whip up fantastic sides Add flavor with the right fuel Plan hours (and hours) ahead Cook low and slow for the best results Avoid flavoring pitfalls Turn BBQ leftovers into ambrosia Complete with helpful lists of dos and don’ts, as well as major barbecue events and associations, BBQ Sauces, Rubs & Marinades For Dummies is the secret ingredient that will have your family, friends, and neighborhoods begging for more.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118052838

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Vitamins for Your Soul

By: Traci Mullins,Ann Spangler

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Vitamins for Your Soul

By: Traci Mullins,Ann Spangler

Traci Mullins and Ann Spangler offer two hundred practical suggestions, or "vitamins," to give us the needed boost and supplement that our hectic, everyday lives seem to leave no time for. From simple ideas, such as watching a movie that makes us laugh, to more introspective suggestions, such as considering our friendships, an entire awareness of our inner life is encouraged to grow and flourish." "Interspersed with quotes, each chapter is both uniquely soothing and challenging. Starting with the basics in "The Care and Feeding of Your Soul," we progress with simple, clear direction, discovering what our individual souls crave."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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The Friar and the Maya

Diego de Landa and the Account of the Things of Yucatan

By: Matthew Restall,Amara Solari,John F. Chuchiak,Traci Ardren

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The Friar and the Maya

Diego de Landa and the Account of the Things of Yucatan

By: Matthew Restall,Amara Solari,John F. Chuchiak,Traci Ardren

The Friar and the Maya offers a full study and new translation of the Relación de las Cosas de Yucatán (Account of the Things of Yucatan) by a unique set of eminent scholars, created by them over more than a decade from the original manuscript held by the Real Academia de la Historia in Madrid. This critical and careful reading of the Account is long overdue in Maya studies and will forever change how this seminal text is understood and used. For generations, scholars used (and misused) the Account as the sole eyewitness insight into an ancient civilization. It is credited to the sixteenth-century Spanish Franciscan, monastic inquisitor, and bishop Diego de Landa, whose legacy is complex and contested. His extensive writings on Maya culture and history were lost in the seventeenth century, save for the fragment that is the Account, discovered in the nineteenth century, and accorded near-biblical status in the twentieth as the first “ethnography” of the Maya. However, the Account is not authored by Landa alone; it is a compilation of excerpts, many from writings by other Spaniards—a significant revelation made here for the first time. This new translation accurately reflects the style and vocabulary of the original manuscript. It is augmented by a monograph—comprising an introductory chapter, seven essays, and hundreds of notes—that describes, explains, and analyzes the life and times of Diego de Landa, the Account, and the role it has played in the development of modern Maya studies. The Friar and the Maya is an innovative presentation on an important and previously misunderstood primary source.

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