Blindsided
(eAudiobook)

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Published
Author's Republic, 2021.
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eAudiobook
ISBN
9781667933771
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2h 51m 3s
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English

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Dawn Downey., Dawn Downey|AUTHOR., Dawn Downey|READER., & Mark Theis|READER. (2021). Blindsided . Author's Republic.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Dawn Downey et al.. 2021. Blindsided. Author's Republic.

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Dawn Downey et al.. Blindsided Author's Republic, 2021.

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Dawn Downey, Dawn Downey|AUTHOR, Dawn Downey|READER, and Mark Theis|READER. Blindsided Author's Republic, 2021.

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Full titleblindsided
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Last Update2023-05-15 18:03:48PM
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Dawn Downey struggles to find her genuine self, as she navigates her white surroundings. She wages an internal war, her intuition recognizing bigotry and her intellect wanting-needing-to deny it. At the end of any given day, she is angry. She is weary. She despairs.

"You get to hopeless by sinking," she tells us.

"I sank through dreamlike images of shackles, chains, branding irons, whips, ropes, nightsticks, burning crosses, and fire hoses. Bloodhounds on my trail, police dogs at my throat. I crashed through all the places that are supposed to be safe: school yards, lunch counters, courthouses, and church basements. From nigger to nigra to colored to negro to black to african-american and back again. Strange fruit. Centuries-old images absorbed from textbooks. Civil rights marches flickering across the family television. Labels, passed down from one generation to the next, labels meant to hold me apart, the other."

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