1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451555603321

Autore

Frender Sam <1996->

Titolo

Brotherly feelings [[electronic resource] ] : me, my emotions, and my brother with Asperger's syndrome / / Sam Frender and Robin Schiffmiller ; illustrations by Dennis Dittrich

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2007

ISBN

1-280-92974-X

9786610929740

1-84642-594-8

Edizione

[1st pbk. ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (66 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SchiffmillerRobin <1957->

Disciplina

618.92/858832

Soggetti

Asperger's syndrome

Asperger's syndrome - Patients - Family relationships

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

COVER; Title Page; Contents; A Note for Parents and Professionals; Note From Sam; What is Asperger's Syndrome?; What are Feelings?; My Feelings; What I Do When I Can't Take It Anymore!; Letting My Feelings Out; A Final Note From Sam;

Sommario/riassunto

It isn't easy being eight years old and having an older brother whom other children often misunderstand. They don't realize that when he doesn't laugh at their jokes it's because he doesn't understand them. They don't know that when he doesn't speak to them or look at them it's because he doesn't know what to say or how to make eye contact. They don't realize that he behaves this way because he has something called Asperger's Syndrome. Sam knows that his brother Eric is different from him because his brain works differently. So, when the other children bully Eric, it makes Sam feel protective



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910790626803321

Autore

Reed Ishmael <1938->

Titolo

Going too far [[electronic resource] ] : essays about America's nervous breakdown / / Ishmael Reed

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montréal, : Baraka Books, 2012

ISBN

1-926824-59-8

1-926824-58-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (239 p.)

Disciplina

300

305.896073

Soggetti

African Americans - Social conditions - 21st century

African Americans in popular culture

Racism - United States

United States Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; INTRODUCTION; Going There; PART I Chief Executive and Chief Exorcist, Too?; President Obama and the New Secession; BLACK MEN AND THE WHITE LEFT Why Some White Progressives Make Me Sick; What Progressives Don't Understand About Obama; OBAMA, HIS "BASE" AND THE JIM CROW MEDIA Joan Walsh's Twitter Brawl With Herself; VOTING WITH HARD HATS Brown Shirts, Black Shirts, T-Shirts; Ethnic Studies in the Age of the Tea Party; My School Curricula; The Beginnings of Black Studies; The Age of the Tea Party; TWO TEA BAGGERS A Fly on the Wall

PART II "Coonery and Buffoonery"HOLLYWOOD'S ENDURING MYTH OF THE BLACK MALE SEXUAL PREDATOR The Selling of Precious; Fade to White; The NAACP House of Shame; The Wire Goes to College; Diminutive Playwright Tackles Criminal Justice Dragon; Trouble Beside the Bay; "She Wanted It"; PART III As Relayed By Themselves; BEING BLACK AND "DIFFICULT" IN HOLLYWOOD An Interview with Lou Gossett, Jr.1; At Work: Ishmael Reed on Juice!; THE RETURN OF THE NIGGER BREAKERS: A GHETTO READING AND WRITTING RAT RESPONDS TO HIS CRITICS Jill Nelson Interviews Ishmael Reed; An Interview with Terry



McMillan

MUSICIAN AND COMPOSER WITHOUT BORDERS An Interview with David Murray WHERE ARE THE "PIRATES" COMING FROM? An Interview with Nuruddin Farah; WATERMILL AT GDANSK The U.S. Puts Its Best Foot Forward

Sommario/riassunto

Challenging a prevailing attitude, this account disputes the idea that racism is no longer a factor in American life. Based on cultural and literary evidence-including Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn-it argues that, in some ways, the United States very much resembles the country of the 1850's. Not only are the representations of blacks in popular culture throwbacks to the days of minstrelsy, but politicians are also raising stereotypes reminiscent of those which fugitive slaves found it necessary to combat: that African Americans are lazy,