Yonnondio
Yonnondio

Author: Tillie Olsen

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2004-10-01

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 9780803286214

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Yonnondio follows the heartbreaking path of the Holbrook family in the late 1920s and the Great Depression as they move from the coal mines of Wyoming to a tenant farm in western Nebraska, ending up finally on the kill floors of the slaughterhouses and in the wretched neighborhoods of the poor in Omaha, Nebraska. Mazie, the oldest daughter in the growing family of Jim and Anna Holbrook, tells the story of the family's desire for a better life – Anna's dream that her children be educated and Jim's wish for a life lived out in the open, away from the darkness and danger of the mines. At every turn in their journey, however, their dreams are frustrated, and the family is jeopardized by cruel and indifferent systems.

Yonnondio: from the Thirties
Yonnondio: from the Thirties

Author: Tillie Olsen

Publisher: [New York] : Delacorte Press

Published: 1974

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13:

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The story of the Holbrook family as they migrate from coal-mining town to farm to industrial city, struggling for a more tolerable existence. Their lives, made unforgettably real, reveal both the maiming power of circumstance and the sources of human endurance and hope.

Critical Race Theory
Critical Race Theory

Author: Kimberlé Crenshaw

Publisher: The New Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 530

ISBN-13: 1565842715

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In the past few years, a new generation of progressive intellectuals has dramatically transformed how law, race, and racial power are understood and discussed in America. Questioning the old assumptions of both liberals and conservatives with respect to the goals and the means of traditional civil rights reform, critical race theorists have presented new paradigms for understanding racial injustice and new ways of seeing the links between race, gender, sexual orientation, and class. This reader, edited by the principal founders and leading theoreticians of the critical race theory movement, gathers together for the first time the movement's most important essays.