Black Man in a White Coat: a Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine
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I came to appreciate how the medical system itself is sometimes just as sick as its patients.
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Jun 7 2015
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9781250044631
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Cheer the Eff Up #6
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May 2 2015
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Taking Flight: from War Orphan to Star Ballerina
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Apr 24 2015
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9780385755139
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Land of Love and Drowning
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Apr 4 2015
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9780698168800
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Tiny Pretty Things
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Mar 4 2015
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9780062275325
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Behind the Mountains
Danticat tells a story similar to her own, but set about twenty years later and with plenty of other elements to differentiate it from a fictionalized memoir, about a Haitian girl, Celiane, moving to the US and reuniting her family.
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Dec 19 2013
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0-439-37299-2
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One Flight Up
Even though this tale of four women in their late thirties is strictly an extra sexed-up romance novel that's not particularly compelling and has some weird quasi-feminist politics, I stuck with it because I like stories about people who are different from me. One of the characters is Jewish, but of the other three, two are Black and one is Colombian, but what makes their lives even more noticeably different than mine is that they're all filthy rich.
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Six years later, she no longer dated snakes; she accessorized with them. She had a brilliant career, her dignity, and a closet full of reptile purses--the spoils of her victory over herself.
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Aug 28 2013
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978-1-4391-2490-1
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Wench
White masters bring their slaves to an Ohio resort for the summer. The story is mostly about Lizzie a house slave who is even more deeply enslaved to her owner because she loves him and has two children with/for him. Lizzie's story is deep and complex, as is that of her friends.
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Aug 8 2013
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078-0-06-196635-4
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32 Candles
Davidia, who doesn't speak for most of her Mississippi childhood after being beaten by her drunk of a mom, develops an insane crush on the BMOC at her school about ten years into her silence. Being a psychologically mute school weirdo without a single friend, that doesn't go particularly well for her.
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May 22 2013
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978-0-06-200005-7
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Friends, the
West Indian immigrant Phyllisia Cathy has been plopped down in Harlem with her proud, larger-than-life father, dying mother and pretty, compliant sister.
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May 18 2013