The author recounts his childhood in Depression-era Brooklyn as the child of Irish immigrants who decide to return to worse poverty in Ireland when his infant sister dies. Read by Frank McCourt. Book available.
Yale historian Jacobson traces the historical process by which American, 'non-white' immigrants literally became Caucasian. A stellar contribution to the emerging field of 'whiteness studies,' this book traces the fluidity of racial categories through literature, popular culture, politics, legal his ...
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For thirty years, the late Thomas McGrath labored over his narrative epic poem, Letter to an Imaginary Friend, first publishing Part One in 1963, and finishing with Part Four in 1985. All previous editions of the individual parts contained errors which the poet intended to correct in a definitive ed ...
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