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Motherhood so white a memoir of race, gender, and parenting in America Nefertiti Austin

Author:
Austin, Nefertiti  Search this
Physical description:
290 pages illustrations 24 cm
Type:
Biography
Autobiographies
Biographies
Place:
United States
Date:
2019
Topic:
Adoptive parents  Search this
African American adoptive parents  Search this
Single parents  Search this
African American single mothers  Search this
African American parents--Social conditions  Search this
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / African American & Black  Search this
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs  Search this
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Adoption & Fostering  Search this
Adoption  Search this
African American families  Search this
African American mothers  Search this
African American women  Search this
Mother and child  Search this
Motherhood  Search this
Parenting  Search this
Racism  Search this
Single mothers  Search this
Mother-child relationship  Search this
Race relations  Search this
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1153485

George Rickey a life in balance Belinda Rathbone

Author:
Rathbone, Belinda  Search this
Physical description:
x, 451 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates illustrations (some color) 24 cm
Type:
Biography
Biographies
Place:
United States
États-Unis
Date:
2021
Topic:
Sculptors  Search this
Sculpteurs  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1155123

Child of the flower-song people Luz Jiménez, daughter of the Nahua written by Gloria Amescua ; illustrated by Duncan Tonatiuh

Title:
Luz Jiménez, daughter of the Nahua
Author:
Amescua, Gloria  Search this
Illustrator:
Tonatiuh, Duncan  Search this
Subject:
Jiménez, Doña Luz 1897-1965  Search this
Jiménez, Doña Luz 1897-1965  Search this
Physical description:
1 volume (unpaged) illustrations (chiefly color) 27 cm
Type:
Juvenile literature
Fiction
Ouvrages pour la jeunesse
Biography
Picture books
History
Biographies
JUVENILE NONFICTION / Biography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional
JUVENILE NONFICTION / People & Places / Mexico
JUVENILE NONFICTION / Biography & Autobiography / Art
Juvenile works
Biographical fiction
Livres d'images
Place:
Mexique
Mexico
Date:
2021
20th century
20e siècle
Topic:
Nahuas  Search this
Indians of Mexico  Search this
Nahua (Indiens)  Search this
Indiens d'Amérique  Search this
JUVENILE NONFICTION / Biography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional  Search this
JUVENILE NONFICTION / People & Places / Mexico  Search this
JUVENILE NONFICTION / Biography & Autobiography / Art  Search this
Native Americans  Search this
History  Search this
Histoire  Search this
Data Source:
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1156858

William Alexander Henry Is Born to Joseph and Harriet Henry

Subject:
Henry, Joseph 1797-1878  Search this
Henry, Harriet A. 1808-1882  Search this
Henry, William Alexander 1831-1862  Search this
Place:
Albany (N.Y.)
Date:
October 1831
Topic:
Biography  Search this
Births  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Archives - History Div
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sic_12468

Mary Anna Henry Is Born to Joseph and Harriet Henry

Subject:
Henry, Mary Anna 1834-1903  Search this
Henry, Joseph 1797-1878  Search this
Henry, Harriet A. 1808-1882  Search this
Date:
1834
Topic:
Biography  Search this
Births  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Archives - History Div
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sic_12472

Helen Louisa Henry Is Born to Joseph and Harriet Henry

Subject:
Henry, Joseph 1797-1878  Search this
Henry, Harriet A. 1808-1882  Search this
Henry, Helen Louisa 1836-1912  Search this
Date:
1836
Topic:
Biography  Search this
Births  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Archives - History Div
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sic_12485

Caroline Henry Is Born to Joseph and Harriet Henry

Subject:
Henry, Joseph 1797-1878  Search this
Henry, Harriet A. 1808-1882  Search this
Henry, Caroline 1839-1920  Search this
Date:
August 18, 1839
Topic:
Biography  Search this
Births  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Archives - History Div
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sic_12512

Beyond freedom's reach : a kidnapping in the twilight of slavery / Adam Rothman

Title:
Kidnapping in the twilight of slavery
Author:
Rothman, Adam 1971-  Search this
Subject:
Herrera, Rose approximately 1835-  Search this
Physical description:
263 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Type:
Biography
Case studies
Place:
Louisiana
United States
Cuba
Date:
2015
19th century
Topic:
African American women  Search this
Freed persons  Search this
Kidnapping--History  Search this
African Americans--Legal status, laws, etc  Search this
Custody of children  Search this
Mother and child  Search this
Slavery--History  Search this
Data Source:
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1058281

Africans in the old South : mapping exceptional lives across the Atlantic world / Randy J. Sparks

Author:
Sparks, Randy J.  Search this
Physical description:
204 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Type:
Biography
History
Place:
Southern States
Atlantic Ocean Region
Date:
2016
18th century
19th century
Topic:
African Americans  Search this
Black people  Search this
Slaves  Search this
Slave trade--History  Search this
Women slaves  Search this
History  Search this
Data Source:
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1100035

Your silence will not protect you / Audre Lorde

Author:
Lorde, Audre  Search this
Subject:
Lorde, Audre  Search this
Physical description:
xii, 227 pages ; 20 cm
Type:
Poetry
Biography
Autobiographies
Essays
Date:
2017
20th century
Topic:
Lesbianism  Search this
Feminism  Search this
American poetry  Search this
African American women  Search this
Women, Black  Search this
Black people--Race identity  Search this
Poets, American  Search this
Data Source:
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1105222

Three roads to Magdalena coming of age in a Southwest borderland, 1890-1990 David Wallace Adams

Author:
Adams, David Wallace  Search this
Physical description:
xiii, 437 pages illustrations, map 24 cm
Type:
Books
Biography
Biographies
History
Place:
New Mexico
Magdalena
Magdalena (N.M.)
Date:
2016
Topic:
Cultural pluralism--History  Search this
Hispanic Americans--Social life and customs  Search this
White people--Social life and customs  Search this
Navajo Indians--Social life and customs  Search this
School children--History  Search this
Coming of age--History  Search this
Intercultural communication--History  Search this
Interviews  Search this
Ethnic relations  Search this
History  Search this
Data Source:
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1110796

Turn it up! (I can't hear the words) : singer/songwriters then & now Bob Sarlin

Author:
Sarlin, Bob  Search this
Physical description:
222 pages illustrations 21 cm
Type:
Biography
Biographies
Criticism, interpretation, etc
Place:
United States
États-Unis
Date:
1992
Topic:
Popular music--History and criticism  Search this
Composers  Search this
Singers  Search this
Musique populaire--Histoire et critique  Search this
Compositeurs  Search this
Chanteurs  Search this
Popular music  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1113642

To speak for the trees my life's journey from ancient Celtic wisdom to a healing vision of the forest Diana Beresford-Kroeger

Author:
Beresford-Kroeger, Diana 1944-  Search this
Physical description:
295 pages 22 cm
Type:
Biography
Biographies
Autobiographies
Folklore
Date:
2019
Topic:
Botanists  Search this
Biochemists  Search this
Celts  Search this
Forest ecology  Search this
Forests and forestry--Folklore  Search this
Trees--Ecology  Search this
Trees--Folklore  Search this
Botanistes  Search this
Biochimistes  Search this
Celtes  Search this
Écologie forestière  Search this
Forêts--Folklore  Search this
Arbres--Écologie  Search this
Arbres--Folklore  Search this
Forests and forestry  Search this
Trees  Search this
Data Source:
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1114515

Barbara Hepworth art & life Eleanor Clayton ; foreword by Ali Smith

Title:
Barbara Hepworth art and life
Art & life
Author:
Clayton, Eleanor  Search this
Author:
Hepworth, Barbara 1903-1975 Works Selections  Search this
Host institution:
Hepworth Wakefield (Gallery)  Search this
Physical description:
288 pages illustrations (some color) 25 cm
Type:
Biography
Exhibitions
Biographies
Place:
Great Britain
Grande-Bretagne
Date:
2021
Topic:
Sculptors  Search this
Artists  Search this
Sculpteurs  Search this
ART / Sculpture  Search this
Data Source:
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1157142

Bob Thompson this house is mine Diana Tuite, editor

Title:
This house is mine
Editor:
Tuite, Diana  Search this
Host institution:
Colby College Museum of Art  Search this
Physical description:
214 pages illustrations 28 cm
Type:
Biography
Exhibitions
Biographies
Exhibition catalogs
Date:
2021
Topic:
African American painters--History and criticism  Search this
African American artists  Search this
Black people in art  Search this
Peintres noirs américains--Histoire et critique  Search this
Artistes noirs américains  Search this
Personnes noires dans l'art  Search this
Data Source:
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1157155

No more words : a journal of my mother, Anne Morrow Lindbergh / Reeve Lindbergh

Author:
Lindbergh, Reeve  Search this
Subject:
Lindbergh, Anne Morrow 1906-2001 Last years  Search this
Lindbergh, Reeve Family  Search this
Physical description:
174 p. ; 22 cm
Type:
Biography
Place:
United States
Date:
2001
C2001
20th century
Topic:
Aging parents--Family relationships  Search this
Authors, American  Search this
Women air pilots  Search this
Parent and adult child  Search this
Mothers and daughters  Search this
Data Source:
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_748403

Lucy's child ; the discovery of a human ancestor / by Donald Johanson and James Shreeve

Author:
Johanson, Donald C  Search this
Shreeve, James  Search this
Subject:
Johanson, Donald C  Search this
Physical description:
318 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm
Type:
Biography
Place:
United States
Africa, East
Date:
1989
Topic:
Anthropologists  Search this
Australopithecus afarensis  Search this
Fossil man  Search this
Call number:
GN50.6.J64 A3 1989X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_381946

Homes of American statesmen [microform] : with anecdotical, personal, and descriptive sketches / by various writers ; illustrated with engravings on wood, from drawings by Döpler and daguerreotypes: and facsimiles of autograph letters

Physical description:
viii, 469 p., [23] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm
Type:
Microforms
Biography
Place:
United States
Date:
1981
1854
Topic:
Statesmen  Search this
Historic buildings  Search this
Call number:
TR15 .H5810 no. 995
mfm 814
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_376580

Incidents in the life of a slave girl : written by herself / by Harriet A. Jacobs ; edited by L. Maria Child ; edited and with an introduction by Jean Fagan Yellin

Author:
Jacobs, Harriet A (Harriet Ann) 1813-1897  Search this
Child, Lydia Maria 1802-1880  Search this
Yellin, Jean Fagan  Search this
Subject:
Jacobs, Harriet A (Harriet Ann) 1813-1897  Search this
Physical description:
xxxiii, 306 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm
Type:
Biography
Place:
United States
Date:
1987
Topic:
Slaves--Social conditions  Search this
Slaves  Search this
Call number:
E444.J17 A3 1987X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_389711

The ten : Frank W. Benson, Joseph R. DeCamp, Thomas W. Dewing, Childe Hassam, Willard L. Metcalf, Robert Reid, Edward Simmons, Edmund C. Tarbell, John H. Twachtman, J. Alden Weir and William Merritt Chase (who replaced Twachtman, 1902) / written by Patricia Jobe Pierce ; introduction, Richard H. Love

Author:
Pierce, Patricia Jobe  Search this
Physical description:
x, 201 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 31 cm
Type:
Biography
Place:
United States
Date:
1976
19th century
20th century
Topic:
Impressionism (Art)  Search this
Painters  Search this
Painting, American  Search this
Call number:
ND210.5.I4 P5X
759.1 .P53
ND210.5.I4P5X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_90754

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