A Nation Within

Author : Komozi Woodard
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2005-10-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780807876176

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A Nation within a Nation by Komozi Woodard Pdf

Poet and playwright Amiri Baraka is best known as one of the African American writers who helped ignite the Black Arts Movement. This book examines Baraka's cultural approach to Black Power politics and explores his role in the phenomenal spread of black nationalism in the urban centers of late-twentieth-century America, including his part in the election of black public officials, his leadership in the Modern Black Convention Movement, and his work in housing and community development. Komozi Woodard traces Baraka's transformation from poet to political activist, as the rise of the Black Arts Movement pulled him from political obscurity in the Beat circles of Greenwich Village, swept him into the center of the Black Power Movement, and ultimately propelled him into the ranks of black national political leadership. Moving outward from Baraka's personal story, Woodard illuminates the dynamics and remarkable rise of black cultural nationalism with an eye toward the movement's broader context, including the impact of black migrations on urban ethos, the importance of increasing population concentrations of African Americans in the cities, and the effect of the 1965 Voting Rights Act on the nature of black political mobilization.

Author : Ezra Rosser
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108833936

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A Nation Within by Ezra Rosser Pdf

Examines land-use patterns and economic development on the Navajo Nation, telling a story about resource exploitation and tribal sovereignty.

Author : Tom Coffman
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822373988

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Nation Within by Tom Coffman Pdf

In 1893 a small group of white planters and missionary descendants backed by the United States overthrew the Kingdom of Hawai‘i and established a government modeled on the Jim Crow South. In Nation Within Tom Coffman tells the complex history of the unsuccessful efforts of deposed Hawaiian queen Lili‘uokalani and her subjects to resist annexation, which eventually came in 1898. Coffman describes native Hawaiian political activism, the queen's visits to Washington, D.C., to lobby for independence, and her imprisonment, along with hundreds of others, after their aborted armed insurrection. Exposing the myths that fueled the narrative that native Hawaiians willingly relinquished their nation, Coffman shows how Americans such as Theodore Roosevelt conspired to extinguish Hawai‘i's sovereignty in the service of expanding the United States' growing empire.

Author : Glenn Feldman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0813064481

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Nation Within a Nation by Glenn Feldman Pdf

From the Constitutional Convention to the Civil War to the civil rights movement, the South has exerted an outsized influence on American government and history while being distinctly anti-government. It continues to do so today with Tea Party politics. Southern states have profited immensely from federal projects, tax expenditures, and public spending, yet the region's relationship with the central government and the courts can, at the best of times, be described as contentious. Nation within a Nation features cutting-edge work by lead scholars in the fields of history, political science, and human geography, who examine the causes--real and perceived--for the South's perpetual state of rebellion, which remains one of its most defining characteristics. Nation within a Nation features cutting-edge work by lead scholars in the fields of history, political science, and human geography who examine the causes--real and perceived--of the South's perpetual state of rebellion, which remains one of its most defining characteristics.

Author : Chris Hayes
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780393254235

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A Colony in a Nation by Chris Hayes Pdf

New York Times Bestseller New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice "An essential and groundbreaking text in the effort to understand how American criminal justice went so badly awry." —Ta-Nehisi Coates, author of Between the World and Me In A Colony in a Nation, New York Times best-selling author and Emmy Award–winning news anchor Chris Hayes upends the national conversation on policing and democracy. Drawing on wide-ranging historical, social, and political analysis, as well as deeply personal experiences with law enforcement, Hayes contends that our country has fractured in two: the Colony and the Nation. In the Nation, the law is venerated. In the Colony, fear and order undermine civil rights. With great empathy, Hayes seeks to understand this systemic divide, examining its ties to racial inequality, the omnipresent threat of guns, and the dangerous and unfortunate results of choices made by fear.

Author : Alejandro de la Fuente
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0807898767

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A Nation for All by Alejandro de la Fuente Pdf

After thirty years of anticolonial struggle against Spain and four years of military occupation by the United States, Cuba formally became an independent republic in 1902. The nationalist coalition that fought for Cuba's freedom, a movement in which blacks and mulattoes were well represented, had envisioned an egalitarian and inclusive country--a nation for all, as Jose Marti described it. But did the Cuban republic, and later the Cuban revolution, live up to these expectations? Tracing the formation and reformulation of nationalist ideologies, government policies, and different forms of social and political mobilization in republican and postrevolutionary Cuba, Alejandro de la Fuente explores the opportunities and limitations that Afro-Cubans experienced in such areas as job access, education, and political representation. Challenging assumptions of both underlying racism and racial democracy, he contends that racism and antiracism coexisted within Cuban nationalism and, in turn, Cuban society. This coexistence has persisted to this day, despite significant efforts by the revolutionary government to improve the lot of the poor and build a nation that was truly for all.

Author : John Ernest
Publisher : Government Institutes
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781566639170

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A Nation Within a Nation by John Ernest Pdf

John Ernest offers a comprehensive survey of the broad-ranging and influential African American organizations and networks formed in the North in the late eighteenth century through the end of the Civil War. He examines fraternal organizations, churches, conventions, mutual aid benefit and literary societies, educational organizations, newspapers, and magazines. Ernest argues these organizations demonstrate how African Americans self-definition was not solely determined by slavery as they tried to create organizations in the hope of creating a community.

Author : Karen Dubinsky,Adele Perry,Henry Yu
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442666504

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Within and Without the Nation by Karen Dubinsky,Adele Perry,Henry Yu Pdf

In some ways, Canadian history has always been international, comparative, and wide-ranging. However, in recent years the importance of the ties between Canadian and transnational history have become increasingly clear. Within and Without the Nation brings scholars from a range of disciplines together to examine Canada’s past in new ways through the lens of transnational scholarship. Moving beyond well-known comparisons with Britain and the United States, the fifteen essays in this collection connect Canada with Latin America, the Caribbean, and the wider Pacific world, as well as with other parts of the British Empire. Examining themes such as the dispossession of indigenous peoples, the influence of nationalism and national identity, and the impact of global migration, Within and Without the Nation is a text which will help readers rethink what constitutes Canadian history.

Author : Mark E. Nackman
Publisher : Port Washington, N.Y. : Kennikat Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X000289906

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A Nation Within a Nation by Mark E. Nackman Pdf

Author : Thomas Bender
Publisher : Hill and Wang
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006-12-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1429927593

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A Nation Among Nations by Thomas Bender Pdf

A provocative new book that shows us why we must put American history firmly in a global context--from 1492 to today Americans like to tell their country's story as if the United States were naturally autonomous and self-sufficient, with characters, ideas, and situations unique to itself. Thomas Bender asks us to rethink this "exceptionalism" and to reconsider the conventional narrative. He proposes that America has grappled with circumstances, doctrines, new developments, and events that other nations, too, have faced, and that we can only benefit from recognizing this. Bender's exciting argument begins with the discovery of the Americas at a time when peoples everywhere first felt the transforming effects of oceanic travel and trade. He then reconsiders our founding Revolution, occurring in an age of rebellion on many continents; the Civil War, happening when many countries were redefining their core beliefs about the nature of freedom and the meaning of nationhood; and the later imperialism that pitted the United States against Germany, Spain, France, and England. Industrialism and urbanization, laissez-faire economics, capitalism and socialism, and new technologies are other factors that Bender views in the light of global developments. A Nation Among Nations is a passionate, persuasive book that makes clear what damage is done when we let the old view of America alone in the world falsify our history. Bender boldly challenges us to think beyond our borders.

Author : G. Aloysius
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015041774798

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Nationalism Without a Nation in India by G. Aloysius Pdf

This book is a hard-hitting sociological critique of India's nationalist historiography. The National Movement is also examined critically. Students of sociology, social anthropology, political science, and Indian history will take an interest in this volume.

Author : Steven Grosby,Steven Elliott Grosby
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2005-09-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192840981

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Nationalism: A Very Short Introduction by Steven Grosby,Steven Elliott Grosby Pdf

Throughout history, humanity has borne witness to the political and moral challenges that arise when people place national identity above allegiance to geo-political states or international communities. This book discusses the concept of nations and nationalism from social, philosophical, geological, theological and anthropological perspectives. It examines the subject through conflicts past and present, including recent conflicts in the Balkans and the Middle East, rather than exclusively focusing on theory. Above all, this fascinating and comprehensive work clearly shows how feelings of nationalism are an inescapable part of being human.

Author : Eric D. Duke
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813063720

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Building a Nation by Eric D. Duke Pdf

Caribbean Studies Association Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Award - Honorable Mention The initial push for a federation among British Caribbean colonies might have originated among colonial officials and white elites, but the banner for federation was quickly picked up by Afro-Caribbean activists who saw in the possibility of a united West Indian nation a means of securing political power and more. In Building a Nation, Eric Duke moves beyond the narrow view of federation as only relevant to Caribbean and British imperial histories. By examining support for federation among many Afro-Caribbean and other black activists in and out of the West Indies, Duke convincingly expands and connects the movement's history squarely into the wider history of political and social activism in the early to mid-twentieth century black diaspora. Exploring the relationships between the pursuit of Caribbean federation and black diaspora politics, Duke convincingly posits that federation was more than a regional endeavor; it was a diasporic, black nation-building undertaking--with broad support in diaspora centers such as Harlem and London--deeply immersed in ideas of racial unity, racial uplift, and black self-determination. A volume in this series New World Diasporas, edited by Kevin A. Yelvington

Author : Vine Deloria, Jr.
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780307831842

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The Nations Within by Vine Deloria, Jr. Pdf

The message of The Nations Within is an urgent on, and should be read by anyone concerned with American Indian affairs today. “Those of us who try to understand what is happening in North American Indian communities have learned to see Vine Delora, Jr., both as an influential actor in the ongoing drama and also as its most knowledgeable interpreter. This new book on Indian self-rule is the most informative that I have seen in my own half-century of reading. Deloria and his co-author focus on John Collier’s struggle with both the U.S. Congress and the Indian tribes to develop a New Deal for Indians fifty years ago. It is a blow-by-blow historical account, perhaps unique in the literature, which may be the only way to show the full complexity of American Indian relations with federal and state governments. This makes it possible in two brilliant concluding chapters to clarify Indian points of view and to build onto initiatives that Indians have already taken to suggest which of these might be most useful for them to pursue. The unheeded message has been clear throughout history, but now we see how—if we let Indians do it their way—they might more quickly than we have imagined rebuild their communities.” —Sol Tax, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, University of Chicago

Author : Ian F. W. Beckett,Keith Simpson
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2004-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473816626

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A Nation in Arms by Ian F. W. Beckett,Keith Simpson Pdf

The Great War was the first conflict to draw men and women into uniform on a massive scale. From a small regular force of barely 250,000, the British Army rapidly expanded into a national force of over five million. A Nation in Arms brings together original research into the impact of the war on the army as an institution, gives a revealing account of those who served in it and offers fascinating insights into its social history during one of the bloodiest wars.