White Like Her

White Like Her
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 376
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ISBN-10 : 9781510724150
ISBN-13 : 151072415X
Rating : 4/5 (50 Downloads)

Book Synopsis White Like Her by : Gail Lukasik

Download or read book White Like Her written by Gail Lukasik and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: White Like Her: My Family’s Story of Race and Racial Passing is the story of Gail Lukasik’s mother’s “passing,” Gail’s struggle with the shame of her mother’s choice, and her subsequent journey of self-discovery and redemption. In the historical context of the Jim Crow South, Gail explores her mother’s decision to pass, how she hid her secret even from her own husband, and the price she paid for choosing whiteness. Haunted by her mother’s fear and shame, Gail embarks on a quest to uncover her mother’s racial lineage, tracing her family back to eighteenth-century colonial Louisiana. In coming to terms with her decision to publicly out her mother, Gail changed how she looks at race and heritage. With a foreword written by Kenyatta Berry, host of PBS's Genealogy Roadshow, this unique and fascinating story of coming to terms with oneself breaks down barriers.

A Year with the Mother-play

A Year with the Mother-play
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Total Pages : 190
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ISBN-10 : HARVARD:HN3M1Y
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Rating : 4/5 (1Y Downloads)

Book Synopsis A Year with the Mother-play by : Andrea Hofer Proudfoot

Download or read book A Year with the Mother-play written by Andrea Hofer Proudfoot and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mother Stories

Mother Stories
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 234
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39076002642291
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Rating : 4/5 (91 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Mother Stories by : Maud Lindsay

Download or read book Mother Stories written by Maud Lindsay and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mother Stories

Mother Stories
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Total Pages : 236
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ISBN-10 : HARVARD:HN3K4Z
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Book Synopsis Mother Stories by : Maud McKnight Lindsay

Download or read book Mother Stories written by Maud McKnight Lindsay and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mother Brain

Mother Brain
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Publisher : Holt Paperbacks
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 9781250871428
ISBN-13 : 1250871425
Rating : 4/5 (28 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Mother Brain by : Chelsea Conaboy

Download or read book Mother Brain written by Chelsea Conaboy and published by Holt Paperbacks. This book was released on 2023-09-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health and science journalist Chelsea Conaboy explodes the concept of “maternal instinct” and tells a new story about what it means to become a parent. Conaboy expected things to change with the birth of her child. What she didn’t expect was how different she would feel. But she would soon discover what was behind this: her changing brain. Though Conaboy was prepared for the endless dirty diapers, the sleepless nights, and the joy of holding her newborn, she did not anticipate this shift in self, as deep as it was disorienting. Mother Brain is a groundbreaking exploration of the parental brain that untangles insidious myths from complicated realities. New parents undergo major structural and functional brain changes, driven by hormones and the deluge of stimuli a baby provides. These neurobiological changes help all parents—birthing or otherwise—adapt in those intense first days and prepare for a long period of learning how to meet their child’s needs. Pregnancy produces such significant changes in brain anatomy that researchers can easily sort those who have had one from those who haven't. And all highly involved parents, no matter their path to parenthood, develop similar caregiving circuitry. Yet this emerging science, which provides key insights into the wide-ranging experience of parenthood, from its larger role in shaping human nature to the intensity of our individual emotions, is mostly absent from the public conversation about parenthood. The story that exists in the science today is far more meaningful than the idea that mothers spring into being by instinct. Weaving the latest neuroscience and social psychology together with new reporting, Conaboy reveals unexpected upsides, generations of scientific neglect, and a powerful new narrative of parenthood.

Mother Stories

Mother Stories
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Publisher : 1st World Publishing
Total Pages : 122
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ISBN-10 : 9781421815923
ISBN-13 : 1421815923
Rating : 4/5 (23 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Mother Stories by : Maud Lindsay

Download or read book Mother Stories written by Maud Lindsay and published by 1st World Publishing. This book was released on 2005-10 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - One morning Jan waked up very early, and the first thing he saw when he opened his eyes was his great kite in the corner. His big brother had made it for him; and it had a smiling face, and a long tail that reached from the bed to the fireplace. It did not smile at Jan that morning though, but looked very sorrowful and seemed to say "Why was I made? Not to stand in a corner, I hope!" for it had been finished for two whole days and not a breeze had blown to carry it up like a bird in the air.

A Chair for My Mother

A Chair for My Mother
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Publisher : HarperCollins
Total Pages : 35
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ISBN-10 : 9780063222496
ISBN-13 : 0063222493
Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Book Synopsis A Chair for My Mother by : Vera B. Williams

Download or read book A Chair for My Mother written by Vera B. Williams and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic and heartwarming picture book was written and illustrated by the celebrated Vera B. Williams and was named a Caldecott Honor Book by the American Library Association. "A tender knockout. It's rare to find much vitality, spontaneity, and depth of feeling in such a simple, young book."—Kirkus Reviews Vera Williams tells of a young girl who, along with her waitress mother, saves coins in a big jar in hopes that they can someday buy a new chair for their apartment, the kind of chair her mother deserves after being on her feet all day in the Blue Tile Diner. Into the jar also goes the money Grandma saves whenever she gets a bargain at the market. There hasn't been a comfortable place to sit in the apartment since a fire in their previous apartment burned everything to "charcoal and ashes." Friends and neighbors brought furniture to their new apartment downstairs, but no one brought anything big or soft or comfortable. Finally the jar is full, the coins are rolled, and in the book's crowning moment, mother, daughter, and Grandma search four different furniture stores, and after carefully trying several chairs, like Goldilocks, they find the chair they've been dreaming of at last. Vera Williams enhances this story about family, community, and the power of working together toward a common goal with her signature folk art-inspired paintings. A Chair for My Mother has sold more than a million copies and is an ideal choice for reading and sharing at home and in the classroom. "A superbly conceived picture book expressing the joyful spirit of a loving family."—The Horn Book Vera B. Williams's beloved picture book favorites include: "More More More," Said the Baby Amber Was Brave, Essie Was Smart A Chair for Always A Chair for My Mother Cherries and Cherry Pits Music, Music for Everyone Something Special for Me Stringbean's Trip to the Shining Sea Three Days on a River in a Red Canoe