Lisa Larsen
Author
Publisher
Midpoint Trade Books Inc
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Fame is a dangerous game.
As her brother lies in a coma after a near-fatal car accident, twenty-two-year-old Grace Brighton climbs the Hollywood Sign to make a desperate wish for his recovery. She loses her footing and plummets to the ground below-only there is no impact. Instead, she finds herself the center of attention at a film studio... in 1953 Hollywood. Everyone believes she's Alice Montgomery, a rising star she bears an eerie resemblance to,...
Author
Publisher
Polity Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Mounting attacks on the once-obscure legal theory of "critical race theory" are upending public schooling, legislating censorship, driving elections, and cleaving communities. Goldberg cuts to the heart of the claims expressed in the attacks. He illustrates the enduring nature of structural racism, even as a conservative insistence on colour-blindness serves to silence the possibility of doing anything about it. He argues that targeting CRT is unleashing...