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Marginalized Populations
Search Starters: Marginalized People
Browse the library's books about different marginalized populations. Or use these keywords to start your own search!
- African Americans
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- Older People
- Overweight Persons
- People with Disabilities
- People with HIV/AIDS
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- Poor People
- Pregnant Teens
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- Transgender People
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Search Starters: Types of Marginalization
Online Collections about Marginalized Populations
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- Dictionaries for Politics & Social SciencesFind dictionary and encyclopedia entries for various marginalized populations.
- EBSCOhost Research DatabasesSearch thousands of magazines, journals, newspapers, pamphlets and periodicals for information on marginalized populations.
- Issues & ControversiesFind out about various issues involving marginalized populations such as women, religious groups, and racial minorities.
- World News DigestFind news articles about current events relating to marginalized populations.
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Fiction Books about Marginalized People
In 1922 Petey, who has cerebral palsy, is misdiagnosed as an idiot and institutionalized; sixty years later, still in the institution, he befriends a boy and shares with him the joy of life.
Marginalized Populations: Peoples with Physical Disabilities
Marginalized Populations: Peoples with Physical Disabilities
Frustrated at life with an autistic brother, twelve-year-old Catherine longs for a normal existence but her world is further complicated by a friendship with an young paraplegic.
Marginalized Populations: Peoples with Mental Disabilities
Marginalized Populations: Peoples with Mental Disabilities
Thirteen-year-old Emmy, grieving over her mother who died of AIDS, resentful of having to live with her father and pregnant stepmother, and despairing about her future, finds hope at a summer camp for HIV-positive girls like herself. Includes facts about Elizabeth Glaser, one of the founders of the Pediatric AIDS Foundation.
Marginalized Populations: People Who Are HIV Positive
Marginalized Populations: People Who Are HIV Positive
Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression.
Marginalized Populations: Immigrant and Migrant Workers in America
Marginalized Populations: Immigrant and Migrant Workers in America
Three years after being released from Camp Green Lake, Armpit is trying hard to keep his life on track, but when his old pal X-Ray shows up with a tempting plan to make some easy money scalping concert tickets, Armpit reluctantly goes along.
Marginalized Population: Former Criminals (Ex-Cons and Juvenile Delinquents)
Marginalized Population: Former Criminals (Ex-Cons and Juvenile Delinquents)
With warmth, humor, and a voice blending street smarts and innocent naivete, Simms' melodious words draw listeners into the world of unwed parenthood, the struggle for a better life, and the deepening friendship between LaVaughn and Jolly.
Marginalized Population: Unwed Teen Mothers in Poverty
Marginalized Population: Unwed Teen Mothers in Poverty
Fourteen-year-old Nadira, her sister, and their parents leave Bangladesh for New York City, but the expiration of their visas and the events of September 11, 2001, bring frustration, sorrow, and terror for the whole family.
Marginalized Population: Muslim Immigrants in America
Marginalized Population: Muslim Immigrants in America
In Moundville, Alabama, in 1917, twelve-year-old Dit hopes the new postmaster will have a son his age, but instead he meets Emma, who is black, and their friendship challenges accepted ways of thinking and leads them to save the life of a condemned man.
Marginalized Populations: African Americans
Marginalized Populations: African Americans
Alternates three interrelated stories about the problems of young Chinese Americans trying to participate in the popular culture. Presented in comic book format.
Marginalized Population: Chinese Americans
Marginalized Population: Chinese Americans
Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.
Marginalized Populations: Native Americans
Marginalized Populations: Native Americans
Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi leaves her poor mountain home in Nepal thinking that she is to work in the city as a maid only to find that she has been sold into the sex slave trade in India and that there is no hope of escape.
Marginalized Population: Women & Girls in Poverty
Marginalized Population: Women & Girls in Poverty
In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.
Marginalized Population: Jews in Denmark during Nazi rule
Marginalized Population: Jews in Denmark during Nazi rule
In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother, and brother are pulled from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where her father is sentenced to death in a prison camp while she fights for her life, vowing to honor her family and the thousands like hers by burying her story in a jar on Lithuanian soil.
Marginalized Population: Baltic Peoples during Stalin era
Marginalized Population: Baltic Peoples during Stalin era
Seventeen-year-old Troy, depressed, suicidal, and weighing nearly 300 pounds, gets a new perspective on life when a homeless teenager who is a genius on guitar wants Troy to be the drummer in his rock band.
Marginalized Population: Obese Peoples
Marginalized Population: Obese Peoples
When her best friend falls victim to a vicious hate crime, sixteen-year-old Cat sets out to discover the culprits in her small North Carolina town.
Marginalized Population: Homosexuals
Marginalized Population: Homosexuals
Non-Fiction Books about Marginalized Populations
Presents historical anecdotes from each of the fifty states, with an emphasis on women and ethnic minorities.
Marginalized Populations: Women and Ethnic Minorities
Marginalized Populations: Women and Ethnic Minorities
Looks at how the mentally ill have been treated throughout history, focusing on advances made in the 19th and 20th centuries regarding mental hospitals, medications, and social acceptance.
Marginalized Populations: Peoples with Mental Disabilities
Marginalized Populations: Peoples with Mental Disabilities
"Respecting her family's wishes, the author chooses anonymity to recall the time 10 years earlier when her brother-in-law was diagnosed with HIV/AIDS, and she intersperses her account with questions and answers about the disease." - Joanna K. Fabicon, SLJ Reviews from November 2009
Marginalized Populations: People Who Are HIV Positive
Marginalized Populations: People Who Are HIV Positive
Explores the efforts of American women, minorities, Native Americans, Latinos, Asians and people with disabilities to be treated equally under the law.
Marginalized Populations: Women and Ethnic Minorities
Marginalized Populations: Women and Ethnic Minorities
Describes the years of conflict between Native Americans and European settlers, and briefly mentions some attempts by the United States government to make amends for some of the injustices the Indians have suffered.
Marginalized Populations: Native Americans
Marginalized Populations: Native Americans
Presents ten stories of teenagers facing all of the usual challenges of school, parents, boyfriends and girlfriends, plus the additional complications that come with having a physical or psychological disability.
Marginalized Populations: Peoples with Physical or Mental Disabilities
Marginalized Populations: Peoples with Physical or Mental Disabilities
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