A Nation’s Undesirables

"In a moving blend of family history and cutting-edge scholarship, Tracey Owens Patton’s A Nation’s Undesirables synthesizes work in rhetorical postmemory studies, critical adoption studies, Afrofuturism, and more to tell the story of her mother and aunt, Lore and Lilli. Two of thousands of children...

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A Nation’s Undesirables
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Black Studies (Global)
Language Arts & Disciplines
Rhetoric
History
Europe
Germany
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Language Arts & Disciplines
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Germany
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bic Book Industry Communication::C Language::CF linguistics::CFG Semantics, discourse analysis, etc
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