Marilyn Robinson: 5 books

Book cover of Making a Way

Making a Way

Ulysses Byas, First Black School Superintendent in the Southeast, and His Fight for Educational Reform

by Marilyn Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013

Making a Way traces the life of Ulysses Byas from childhood through his tenure as the first black superintendent of the Macon County (Alabama) Schools, as told to coauthor Marilyn Robinson. This biography relies on extensive interviews that Dr. Robinson conducted with Dr. Byas, as well as an examination...
Book cover of Museum Philosophy for the Twenty-First Century
by Robert R. Archibald, Patrick J. Boylan, David Carr
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2006

What underlying philosophy and mission should museums pursue in the first half of the twenty-first century? In Museum Philosophy, twenty-four authors use the lenses of a variety of disciplines to answer this essential question. Museum professionals offer their answers alongside philosophers, historians,...
Book cover of Telling Tales About Dementia

Telling Tales About Dementia

Experiences of Caring

by Lucy Whitman, Brian Baylis, Rosemary Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009

How does it feel when someone you love develops dementia? How do you cope with the shock, the stress and the grief? Can you be sure that you and your family will receive the support you need? In Telling Tales About Dementia, thirty carers from different backgrounds and in different circumstances...
Book cover of Race and Reconciliation in America
by William S. Cohen, Janet Langhart Cohen, Enola Gay Aird
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009

Race and racism have played a divisive and defining role throughout much of America's history. Slavery, Jim Crow laws, segregation, and Ku Klux Klan terrorism have inflicted deep psychic wounds, social disparities, and economic disadvantages that have diminished the promise of equal rights and opportunities...
Book cover of The Politics of Richard Wright

The Politics of Richard Wright

Perspectives on Resistance

by Richard Wright, Lewis R. Gordon, Cedric Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018

A pillar of African American literature, Richard Wright is one of the most celebrated and controversial authors in American history. His work championed intellectual freedom amid social and political chaos. Despite the popular and critical success of books such as Uncle Tom's Children (1938), Black...
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