American Skin

Author : Don De Grazia
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684862220
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Skin written by Don De Grazia and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2000-04-06 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timeless story about a young man's need to find comfort and a sense of belonging, as well as a stunning portrait of the class and racial tensions that pervade our society, "American Skin" "is the American story American literature is not complete without. . . . Full of images and humor and action and questions" (Carolyn Chute, author of "The Beans of Egypt, Maine."

Author : Ken Bruen
Publisher : Justin, Charles & Co.
ISBN 13 : 1932112499
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Skin written by Ken Bruen and published by Justin, Charles & Co.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bruen's most composed and visceral vision of Irish noir yet. A mythic tale of two cultures, and a dark homage to the American dream of freedom, individuality, and scarifying violence.

Author : Ken Bruen
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497665469
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Skin written by Ken Bruen and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the beginning of Bruen’s dark tribute to the Irish fascination with the American dream, Stephen Blake is on the run after a bank heist, hoping to disappear in the desert near Tucson. Blake has the money and his girlfriend, Siobhan, knows how to launder it. All he has to do is change his accent and his skin and pass as an American. But John A. Stapleton, contract killer for the IRA, wants more than his share of the swag—and the psychotic Dade, obsessively devoted to the music of Tammy Wynette, is wandering the Southwest like a slaughter wagon. Noir master Bruen (The Guards) effortlessly moves his storyline back and forth in time, all his trademark pop-culture references in place, the banshee of existential agony wailing loudly.

Author : Leon E. Wynter
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Skin written by Leon E. Wynter and published by Crown. This book was released on 2002 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Race has always been America’s first standard and central paradox. From the start, America based its politics on the principle of white supremacy, but it has always lived and dreamed of itself in color. The truth beneath the contradiction has finally emerged and led us to the threshold of a transformation of American identity as profound as slavery was defining. We live in a country where the “King of Pop” was born black and a leading rap M.C. is white, where salsa outsells ketchup and cosmetics firms advertise blond hair dye with black models. Whiteness is in steep decline as the primary measure of Americanness. The new, true American identity rising in its place is transracial, defined by shared cultural and consumer habits, not skin color or ethnicity. And this unprecedented redefinition of what “American” sounds, looks, and feels like is not being driven by the politics of protest or liberal multiculturalism but by a more basic American instinct: the profit motive. Smart marketers discovered that the inherent, subversive appeal of transracial American culture was the perfect boombox for breaking through the noise of a crowded marketplace: Nike and the NBA used unambiguous black style to create modern sports marketing; Pepsi validated Michael Jackson as a superstar while adding millions to its own bottom li≠ Hollywood turned a taboo into a lucrative cliché with black-white buddy films; Oprah Winfrey created the model for the ultimate individual corporate br∧ and Budweiser created a signature series of commercials built around four ordinary black men signaling something ineffably American with one word—“Wassup?” In the end, this is a hopeful but clear-eyed argument that while we fall short of true equality, we are opting to carry on that struggle together within a common American cultural skin. "There’s been a radical shift in the place of race and ethnicity in America. Near revolutionary developments in advertising, media, marketing, technology, and global trade have in the last two decades of the twentieth century nearly obliterated walls that have stood for generations between nonwhites and the image of the American dream. The mainstream, heretofore synonymous with what is considered average for whites, is now equally defined by the preferences, presence, and perspectives of people of color. The much-maligned melting pot, into which generations of European-American identities are said to have dissolved, is bubbling again, but on a higher flame; this time whiteness itself is finally being dissolved into a larger American identity. On its surface, this book tells the story of how and why big business turned up that flame, and a brief history of race and pop culture leading up to this watershed. But at its core American Skin is about the revolution that higher heat on American identity is bringing about: the end of ‘white’ America. This book begins, and my arguments and insights ultimately rest on, one premise and guiding belief about this country: We have always been, and will ever be, of one race—human—and of one culture—American." —From the Introduction

Author : Stanley Crouch
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 030755421X
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The All-American Skin Game, or Decoy of Race written by Stanley Crouch and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-08-04 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this brilliantly acerbic collection of essays--a New York Times Notable Book in 1995--Stanley Crouch confirms that he is one of the most eloquent and unpredictable commentators on race and culture in American society--something already known to anyone who's seen him on 60 Minutes or read his columns in The Village Voice and The New Republic. 288 pp. National media appearances.

Author : Linda Villarosa
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385544898
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Under the Skin written by Linda Villarosa and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2022-06-14 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • "A stunning exposé of why Black people in our society 'live sicker and die quicker'—an eye-opening game changer."—Oprah Daily From an award-winning writer at the New York Times Magazine and a contributor to the 1619 Project comes a landmark book that tells the full story of racial health disparities in America, revealing the toll racism takes on individuals and the health of our nation. In 2018, Linda Villarosa's New York Times Magazine article on maternal and infant mortality among black mothers and babies in America caused an awakening. Hundreds of studies had previously established a link between racial discrimination and the health of Black Americans, with little progress toward solutions. But Villarosa's article exposing that a Black woman with a college education is as likely to die or nearly die in childbirth as a white woman with an eighth grade education made racial disparities in health care impossible to ignore. Now, in Under the Skin, Linda Villarosa lays bare the forces in the American health-care system and in American society that cause Black people to “live sicker and die quicker” compared to their white counterparts. Today's medical texts and instruments still carry fallacious slavery-era assumptions that Black bodies are fundamentally different from white bodies. Study after study of medical settings show worse treatment and outcomes for Black patients. Black people live in dirtier, more polluted communities due to environmental racism and neglect from all levels of government. And, most powerfully, Villarosa describes the new understanding that coping with the daily scourge of racism ages Black people prematurely. Anchored by unforgettable human stories and offering incontrovertible proof, Under the Skin is dramatic, tragic, and necessary reading.

Author : Carrie Anton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1683371062
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Skin & Nails Book written by Carrie Anton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-08-27 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it comes to skin and nails, you've probably seen plenty of ads for lotions and potions. The truth is, healthy skin and nails start from within, including what you eat and drink and how well you sleep each night. In this book, you'll learn the basics of skin hygiene, including the right tools and tricks for your skin type, staying safe in the sun, attacking pimples if they pop up, and shaving tips for when you're ready for razors. You'll find tips for keeping nails clean and neat, too.

Author : Nina G. Jablonski
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520275896
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Skin written by Nina G. Jablonski and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013-02-20 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rich cultural canvas of the skin is placed within its broader biological context in a complete guidebook to the pliable covering that makes humans who they are.

Author : Elma Baron
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1848823282
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Light-Based Therapies for Skin of Color written by Elma Baron and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-06-12 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Light-based therapies have been a major component of dermatologic practice. Historically, these treatment modalities have been mainly tailored to the treatment of patients with light skin. Principles governing use of light therapies in skin of color are less defined. However, there is a tremendous need to understand the benefits and limitations of these therapeutic options for dark-skinned patients as well. Demographic data in the United States alone indicate that the population and recipients of health care are rapidly changing with regard to skin phototype. Physicians who are involved in the delivery of care for patients with cutaneous problems that can be addressed by light treatments need to be able to fully understand the mechanisms, applications, risks, efficacy, adverse events, and other pertinent issues in considering treatment options for their patients with pigmented skin.

Author : Peter Viertel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Skin written by Peter Viertel and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: