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It’s the last day of sophomore year. Luis Menendez would love to spend his summer vacation creating content about local bands for social media to bolster his music journalism dreams. But hot days in Queens, full of dishwashing and food deliveries for his family’s Cuban restaurant, the Havana Express, derail those plans. No matter how hard he works, Luis can’t seem to shake off his overbearing father’s constant criticism, leading to lots of conflict for the “second-generation kid in a working-cla

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It’s the last day of sophomore year. Luis Menendez would love to spend his summer vacation creating content about local bands for social media to bolster his music journalism dreams. But hot days in Queens, full of dishwashing and food deliveries for his family’s Cuban restaur...

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Bias Comparison — SECOND GENERATION BLUES

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Center: It’s the last day of sophomore year. Luis Menendez would love to spend his summer vacation creating content about local bands for social media to bolster his music journalism dreams. But hot days in Queens, full of dishwashing and food deliveries for his family’s Cuban restaurant, the Havana Express, derail those plans. No matter how hard he works, Luis can’t seem to shake off his overbearing father’s constant criticism, leading to lots of conflict for the “second-generation kid in a working-cla
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Historical Context

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Police used a water cannon and stun grenades on the protesters after they failed to comply with dispersal orders and took the five arrested suspects for further questioning.

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A CRITICAL CONJUNCTION

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Tricia Miles owns Haven’t Got a Clue bookstore, and her sister, Angelica Miles, owns several other businesses—and she’s planning to open even more under the name Nigela Ricita, so no one will know she’s the one behind all the development. The sisters have recently purchased Stoneham Stoneware from Leona Ferguson, who was on the verge of bankruptcy, but now Leona is insisting that they let her buy it back. Angelica refuses, hoping that with the help of Tricia’s boyfriend, David Price, a librarian

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NIGHT RIDE

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A twisting, abstract staircase dominates the captivating opening spread as a Black cyclist carries a bike down, down, down. Below, friends wait astride their own bicycles, ready to ride. The group embarks on a jubilant nighttime ride across New York City, whizzing through the streets with hands in the air. New Yorkers will delight in spotting iconic landmarks, including the New York Public Library’s lions, the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, the Guggenheim, and the glowing marquees of Broadway. The cyclis

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THE CITY WITHOUT JEWS

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Before World War I, Vienna was, for several decades, “one of the cradles of modernism,” writes Smith, a historian and translator as well as the author of Rasputin (2016) and Former People (2012). But the city was also the crucible of antisemitism. In this powerful and well-researched history of the city, Smith traces the roots of Vienna’s antisemitic society from the late-19th through mid-20th centuries. Beginning with the vicious policies of the city’s mayor, Karl Lueger, at the turn of the cen

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