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Why are the heroes always white? : columns / by Sheryl McCarthy New York Newsday.
LIBRA Rare F128.9.N3 M33 1995 Banks copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McCarthy, Sheryl.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--New York (State)--New York--Social conditions.
- African Americans.
- Social conditions.
- New York (N.Y.)--Social conditions.
- New York (N.Y.).
- National Book Committee.
- African Americans--Social conditions.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- ix pages, 1 unnumbered page, 198 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Kansas City : Andrews and McMeel, a Universal Press Syndicate Company, 1995.
- Contents:
- Chapter One: "Where does Sheryl McCarthy get off writing about black people, when she's Irish?"
- Chapter Two: Women and men
- Chapter Three: Lawyers, rubbers and football heroes: a reasonable expectation of justice
- Chapter Four: No books, no brains, no chance
- Chapter Five: What's up with this? Young and in trouble
- Chapter Six: Why are the heroes always white?
- Chapter Seven: Lawmakers, heartbreakers
- Chapter Eight: New York stories: The garden is still green.
- Notes:
- "Designed by Barrie Maguire."
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- ISBN:
- 0836270495 :
- 9780836270495
- OCLC:
- 31900613
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