Under Our Skin

Author : Benjamin Watson
Publisher : NavPress
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781496413321

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Can it ever get better? This is the question Benjamin Watson is asking. In a country aflame with the fallout from the racial divide—in which Ferguson, Charleston, and the Confederate flag dominate the national news, daily seeming to rip the wounds open ever wider—is there hope for honest and healing conversation? For finally coming to understand each other on issues that are ultimately about so much more than black and white? An NFL tight end for the New Orleans Saints and a widely read and followed commentator on social media, Watson has taken the Internet by storm with his remarkable insights about some of the most sensitive and charged topics of our day. Now, in Under Our Skin, Watson draws from his own life, his family legacy, and his role as a husband and father to sensitively and honestly examine both sides of the race debate and appeal to the power and possibility of faith as a step toward healing.

Author : Linda Villarosa
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780385544894

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Under the Skin by Linda Villarosa Pdf

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 : Lisa T. Sarasohn
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421441382

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Getting Under Our Skin by Lisa T. Sarasohn Pdf

"Vermin are not only pestering; they shape the way people look at each other and are a way that some people get to feel superior to others"--

Author : Michel Faber
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781847673732

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Under The Skin by Michel Faber Pdf

With an introduction by David Mitchell Isserley spends most of her time driving. But why is she so interested in picking up hitchhikers? And why are they always male, well-built and alone? An utterly unpredictable and macabre mystery, Under the Skin is a genre-defying masterpiece.

Author : Sabine Durrant
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781476716282

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Under Your Skin by Sabine Durrant Pdf

If you loved Gone Girl, then make this page-turning debut next on your reading list: “Sabine Durrant offers more twists than a rollercoaster in her thriller Under Your Skin, which proves you can trust no one” (Good Housekeeping). Gaby Mortimer is the woman who has it all. But everything changes when she finds a body near her home. She’s shaken and haunted by the image of the lifeless young woman, and frightened that the killer, still at large, could strike again. Before long, the police have a lead. The evidence points to a very clear suspect. One Gaby never saw coming… Full of brilliant twists and turns, Under Your Skin is a dark and suspenseful psychological thriller that will make you second guess everything. Because you can never be too sure about anything, especially when it comes to murder.

Author : Donald McRae
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781847379672

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Under Our Skin by Donald McRae Pdf

Don McRae grew up in a South Africa where his father would call the black men he met 'boy' and where his mother insisted that their black servants used tin mugs, plates and cutlery as they ate the family's left-over food in the backyard of their grand suburban property. The McRaes, like so many white people, seemed oblivious to the violent injustices of apartheid. As the author grew up, the political differences between father and son widened and when Don refused to join up for National Service, risking imprisonment or exile overseas, the two were torn apart. It wasn't until years later that the author discovered that the father with whom he had fought so bitterly had later in his life transformed himself into a political hero. Risking everything one dark and rainy night Ian McRae travelled secretly into the black township of Soweto to meet members of Nelson Mandela's then banned African National Congress to discuss ways to bring power to black South Africa. He had no political ambitions; he was just a man trying to replace the worst in himself with something better. Under Our Skinis a memoir of these tumultuous years in South Africa's history, as told through the author's family story. It offers an intimate and penetrating perspective on life under apartheid, and tells a story of courage and fear, hope and desolation and love and pain, especially between a father and his son.

Author : James S McBride,Jim McBride
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1996-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0965046605

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The Clearing by James S McBride,Jim McBride Pdf

Author : Alessandra Lemma
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-02-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781135160982

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Under the Skin by Alessandra Lemma Pdf

Under the Skin considers the motivation behind why people pierce, tattoo, cosmetically enhance, or otherwise modify their body, from a psychoanalytic perspective. It discusses how the therapist can understand and help individuals for whom the manipulation of the body is felt to be psychically necessary, regardless of whether the process of modification causes pain.In this book, psychoanalyst Alessandra Lemma draws on her work in the consulting room, as well as films, fiction, art and clinical research to suggest that the motivation for extensively modifying the surface of th.

Author : Debbie Holsclaw Birdseye,Tom Birdseye
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Ethnic relations
ISBN : UOM:49015002672419

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Under Our Skin by Debbie Holsclaw Birdseye,Tom Birdseye Pdf

Six students aged twelve to thirteen openly discuss one of the most explosive issues of our time--race. Rosa, a Hispanic; Akram, an Arab; Jenny, an Asian; Tad, a Cacasian; Jason, an African American; and Janell, a Native American, describe in their own words how the traditions of their ethnic backgrounds affect their daily lives, their views on racial relations in America, and their own experiences with prejudice.These six young voices present a new perspective on an increasingly troubling topic. They celebrate the best of our multicultural society and offer words of wisdom and hope for the future.

Author : Bernadette Wegenstein
Publisher : Mit Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Computers
ISBN : UOM:39015063245073

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Getting Under the Skin by Bernadette Wegenstein Pdf

Tracing the evolution of contemporary body discourse, this book analyses the tension between a fragmented and holistic body concept in performance art, popular culture, media arts, and architecture. It covers contemporary body discourse in philosophy and cultural studies to its roots in twentieth-century thought.

Author : Carli Coetzee
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Apartheid
ISBN : 9781847012210

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Written Under the Skin by Carli Coetzee Pdf

Winner of the 2021 ALA Book of the Year Award - Scholarship The author uses the image of blood under the skin as a way of understanding cultural and literary forms in contemporary South Africa. Chapters deal with the bloodied histories of apartheid and blood as trope for talking about change.

Author : Janet McNaughton
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781443453004

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The Secret Under My Skin by Janet McNaughton Pdf

The Secret Under My Skin has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher.

Author : Karen Latchana Kenney
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781479586684

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Peeking Under Your Skin by Karen Latchana Kenney Pdf

"Illustrates the major systems of the human body and defines their roles"--

Author : Desmond Cole
Publisher : Anchor Canada
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780385686365

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The Skin We're In by Desmond Cole Pdf

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE 2020 TORONTO BOOK AWARD WINNER OF THE OLA EVERGREEN AWARD FINALIST FOR THE WRITERS' TRUST SHAUGNESSY COHEN PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE RAKUTEN KOBO EMERGING WRITER PRIZE *UPDATED with new foreword, postscript, and educator's guide* In this bracing, revelatory work of award-winning journalism, celebrated writer and activist Desmond Cole punctures the naive assumptions of Canadians who believe we live in a post-racial nation. Chronicling just one year in the struggle against racism in this country, The Skin We're In reveals in stark detail the injustices faced by Black Canadians on a daily basis: the devastating effects of racist policing, the hopelessness produced by an education system that fails Black children, the heartbreak of those separated from their families by discriminatory immigration laws, and more. Cole draws on his own experiences as a Black man in Canada, and locates the deep cultural, historical, and political roots of each event. What emerges is a personal, painful, and comprehensive picture of entrenched, systemic inequality. Updated with a new foreword, postscript, and an extensive educator's guide, The Skin We're In is essential reading for all Canadians, and a vital tool in the fight against racism.

Author : Kris Newby
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-14
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780062896292

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Bitten by Kris Newby Pdf

A riveting thriller reminiscent of The Hot Zone, this true story dives into the mystery surrounding one of the most controversial and misdiagnosed conditions of our time—Lyme disease—and of Willy Burgdorfer, the man who discovered the microbe behind it, revealing his secret role in developing bug-borne biological weapons, and raising terrifying questions about the genesis of the epidemic of tick-borne diseases affecting millions of Americans today. While on vacation on Martha’s Vineyard, Kris Newby was bitten by an unseen tick. That one bite changed her life forever, pulling her into the abyss of a devastating illness that took ten doctors to diagnose and years to recover: Newby had become one of the 300,000 Americans who are afflicted with Lyme disease each year. As a science writer, she was driven to understand why this disease is so misunderstood, and its patients so mistreated. This quest led her to Willy Burgdorfer, the Lyme microbe’s discoverer, who revealed that he had developed bug-borne bioweapons during the Cold War, and believed that the Lyme epidemic was started by a military experiment gone wrong. In a superb, meticulous work of narrative journalism, Bitten takes readers on a journey to investigate these claims, from biological weapons facilities to interviews with biosecurity experts and microbiologists doing cutting-edge research, all the while uncovering darker truths about Willy. It also leads her to uncomfortable questions about why Lyme can be so difficult to both diagnose and treat, and why the government is so reluctant to classify chronic Lyme as a disease. A gripping, infectious page-turner, Bitten will shed a terrifying new light on an epidemic that is exacting an incalculable toll on us, upending much of what we believe we know about it.