A Thug S Life Revisited

Author : Yani
Publisher : The Author-Yani
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780996966641

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A Thug's Life Revisited by Yani Pdf

What do you do when the system you've sworn to serve and protect marks you for death? Jamal, D-Ball and Andre are back for an EXPLOSIVE spin-off to the A Thug's Redemption series, only this time, one of them is not making it out alive! Jamal was positive that he'd seen the last of corrupt police officers when he took down Kristoff and every dirty cop that was working with him. But a new discovery puts him in even more danger than before. After a bomb is planted in his car nearly killing him and his partner Dante, Jamal is made aware that a hit has been put out on him by none other than his brothers in blue. While trying to protect his partner, Dante runs into another problem when a teenager catches a police shooting of an unarmed Black man on his phone which puts a target on his own back. Dante must choose between being "Detective" Dante the cop or "D-Ball" the no non-sense having thug wit zero fucks to give in order to save this kid as well as his partner. Who will make it out of this drama-filled street novel alive?

Author : Bonnie J. Leadbeater,Niobe Way
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2007-02-12
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780814752128

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Urban Girls Revisited by Bonnie J. Leadbeater,Niobe Way Pdf

Urban Girls, published in 1996, was one of the first volumes to showcase the lives of girls growing up in contexts of urban poverty and sometimes racism and violence. It spoke directly to young women who, often for the first time, were seeing their own stories and those of their friends explained in the materials they were asked to read. The volume has helped to shape the way in which we study girls and understand their development over the past decade. Urban Girls Revisited explores the diversity of urban adolescent girls' development and the sources of support and resilience that help them to build the foundations of strength that they need as they enter adulthood. Urban girls are frequently marginalized by poverty, ethnic discrimination, and stereotypes suggesting that they have deficits compared to their peers. In fact, urban girls do often“grow up fast,” taking on multiple adult roles and responsibilities in contexts of high levels of adversities. Yet a majority of these girls show remarkable strengths in the face of challenges, and their families and communities provide many assets to support their development. This new volume showcases these strengths. Contributors:Amy Alberts, Natasha Alexander, Murray Anderson, Elizabeth Banister, Cecilia Benoit, Kristen Boelcke-Stennes, Ana Mari Cauce, Elise D. Christiansen, Brianna Coffino, Catherine L. Costigan, Karin Coyle, Anita Davis, Jill Denner, Sumru Erkut, Kenyaatta Etchison, Michelle Fine, Yulika Forman, Emily Genao, Mikael Jansson, Chalene Lechuga, Stacey J. Lee, Richard M. Lerner, Nancy Lopez, Ann S. Masten, Jennifer McCormick, Jennifer Pastor, Erin Phelps, Leslie Prescott, Jean E. Rhodes, Ritch C. Savin-Williams, Anne Shaffer, Renee Spencer, Pamela R. Smith, Carl S. Taylor, Jill McLean Taylor, Virgil A. Taylor, Maria Elena Torre, Allison J. Tracy, Carmen N. Veloria, Martina C. Verba, and Janie Victoria Ward.

Author : Marcus Gray
Publisher : Random House
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-29
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781409076612

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Route 19 Revisited by Marcus Gray Pdf

Twenty-eight years after its original release, The Clash's London Calling was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. It has topped polls for the best album of the seventies (and of the eighties). It regularly makes the top five in Best of British album polls; and its always there in the polls for the Greatest Albums of All Time. Now Marcus Gray tells the story of when, how and where this iconic album was made, detailing the stories behind its songs, revealing contexts for the album both personal and political, and considering the effects since on the members of the band and on our culture.

Author : Sir Richard Francis Burton
Publisher : London : C. K. Paul & Company
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Arabian Peninsula
ISBN : UCAL:B3851272

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The Land of Midian (revisited) by Sir Richard Francis Burton Pdf

Author : Eero Tarasti,Paul Forsell,Richard Littlefield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015057535992

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Musical Semiotics Revisited by Eero Tarasti,Paul Forsell,Richard Littlefield Pdf

Author : Michael P. Jeffries
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226395869

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Thug Life by Michael P. Jeffries Pdf

Hip-hop has come a long way from its origins in the Bronx in the 1970s, when rapping and DJing were just part of a lively, decidedly local scene that also venerated b-boying and graffiti. Now hip-hop is a global phenomenon and, in the United States, a massively successful corporate enterprise predominantly controlled and consumed by whites while the most prominent performers are black. How does this shift in racial dynamics affect our understanding of contemporary hip-hop, especially when the music perpetuates stereotypes of black men? Do black listeners interpret hip-hop differently from white fans? These questions have dogged hip-hop for decades, but unlike most pundits, Michael P. Jeffries finds answers by interviewing everyday people. Instead of turning to performers or media critics, Thug Life focuses on the music’s fans—young men, both black and white—and the resulting account avoids romanticism, offering an unbiased examination of how hip-hop works in people’s daily lives. As Jeffries weaves the fans’ voices together with his own sophisticated analysis, we are able to understand hip-hop as a tool listeners use to make sense of themselves and society as well as a rich, self-contained world containing politics and pleasure, virtue and vice.

Author : Russell Crandall
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0742550486

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Gunboat Democracy by Russell Crandall Pdf

In this balanced and thought-provoking study, Russell Crandall examines the American decision to intervene militarily in three key episodes in American foreign policy: the Dominican Republic, Grenada, and Panama. Drawing upon previously classified intelligence sources and interviews with policymakers, Crandall analyzes the complex deliberations and motives behind each intervention and shows how the decision to intervene was driven by a perceived threat to American national security. By bringing together three important cases, Gunboat Democracy makes it possible to interpret and compare these examples and study the political systems left in the wake of intervention. Particularly salient in today's foreign policy arena, this work holds important lessons for questions of regime change and democracy by force.

Author : Lia Ross
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-02-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443820233

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Revisiting Decadence by Lia Ross Pdf

This volume is an introduction to the fifteenth century through chronicles and personal recollections of a diverse group of its French- and English-speaking writers. It revisits some of the principal events and personalities of that era through anecdotes illustrating interpersonal behavior. It examines how writers evaluated the conduct of their contemporaries and how some of their pessimistic conclusions may have contributed to the reputation for decadence of their century.

Author : Shannon Lewis-Simpson
Publisher : St. John's, N.L. : Historic Sites Association of Newfoundland and Labrador
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : America
ISBN : WISC:89082468745

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Vinland Revisited by Shannon Lewis-Simpson Pdf

Author : David Berry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317063520

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Revisiting the Frankfurt School by David Berry Pdf

What has become known as the Frankfurt School is often reduced to a small number of theorists in media communication and cultural studies. Challenging this limitation, Revisiting The Frankfurt School introduces a wider theoretical perspective by introducing critical assessments on a number of writers associated with the school that have been mostly marginalized from debate. This book therefore expands our understanding by addressing the writings of intellectuals who were either members of the school, or were closely associated with it, but often neglected. It thus brings together the latest research of an international team of experts to examine the work of figures such as the social psychologist Erich Fromm, the philosophy of Siegfried Kracauer, the writer on media and communication Leo Lowenthal, introducing Hans Magnus Enzenberger to the debate, whilst also shedding new light on the work of Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, Walter Benjamin and Jürgen Habermas. A critical reassessment of the contributions of the Frankfurt School and its associates to cultural, media and communication studies, as well as to our modern understanding of new media technology and debate within the public sphere, this book will appeal to those with interests in sociology, philosophy, social psychology, social theory, media and communication, and cultural studies.

Author : Winifred Whitehead
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015024982806

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Old Lies Revisited by Winifred Whitehead Pdf

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Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789087908430

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In the Spirit of Ubuntu by Anonim Pdf

“This is an excellent and timely book ... In the Spirit of Ubuntu: Stories of Teaching and Research represents a seminal educational intervention that should re-direct the way we see and interact with learning and pedagogical projects and relationships. The book is well organized, is written in non-alienating, humanist language, and should be very useful for students, researchers, and the general public. Students in the West, who are not familiar with the philosophy of ubuntu, should be exposed to the contents of this book.”—Ali A Abdi, in Alberta Journal of Educational Research, Vol. 58, No. 4

Author : Ralph Melnick
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 685 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814345030

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Life and Work of Ludwig Lewisohn, Volume II by Ralph Melnick Pdf

An imposing literary figure in America and Europe during the first half of the twentieth century, Ludwig Lewisohn (1882–1955) struggled with feelings of alienation in Christian America that were gradually resolved by his developing Jewish identity, a process reflected in hundreds of works of fiction, literary analysis, and social criticism. This second volume portrays Lewisohn's last decades as an outspoken opponent of Nazi Germany, a leading promoter of Jewish resettlement in Palestine, a member of Brandeis University's first faculty, and one of the earliest voices advocating Jewish renewal in America. Despite his activism, Lewisohn was no longer welcome in Zionist circles by 1948 as a result of his "unacceptable" opinions concerning British intransigence, organizational politics, and, particularly, Jewish cultural and religious decline. However, the invitation to join the newly established Brandeis University as its only full professor provided him with the opportunity he sought to contribute to the reshaping of American Jewry. Lewisohn's efforts would later bear fruit in the Jewish renewal movement of the next generation.

Author : Verity Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1781 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1997-03-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135314255

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Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature by Verity Smith Pdf

A comprehensive, encyclopedic guide to the authors, works, and topics crucial to the literature of Central and South America and the Caribbean, the Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature includes over 400 entries written by experts in the field of Latin American studies. Most entries are of 1500 words but the encyclopedia also includes survey articles of up to 10,000 words on the literature of individual countries, of the colonial period, and of ethnic minorities, including the Hispanic communities in the United States. Besides presenting and illuminating the traditional canon, the encyclopedia also stresses the contribution made by women authors and by contemporary writers. Outstanding Reference Source Outstanding Reference Book

Author : Bryan J. McCann
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780817319489

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The Mark of Criminality by Bryan J. McCann Pdf

Illustrates the ways that the “war on crime” became conjoined—aesthetically, politically, and rhetorically—with the emergence of gangsta rap as a lucrative and deeply controversial subgenre of hip-hop In The Mark of Criminality: Rhetoric, Race, and Gangsta Rap in the War-on-Crime Era, Bryan J. McCann argues that gangsta rap should be viewed as more than a damaging reinforcement of an era’s worst racial stereotypes. Rather, he positions the works of key gangsta rap artists, as well as the controversies their work produced, squarely within the law-and-order politics and popular culture of the 1980s and 1990s to reveal a profoundly complex period in American history when the meanings of crime and criminality were incredibly unstable. At the center of this era—when politicians sought to prove their “tough-on-crime” credentials—was the mark of criminality, a set of discourses that labeled members of predominantly poor, urban, and minority communities as threats to the social order. Through their use of the mark of criminality, public figures implemented extremely harsh penal polices that have helped make the United States the world’s leading jailer of its adult population. At the same time when politicians like Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and Bill Clinton and television shows such as COPS and America’s Most Wanted perpetuated images of gang and drug-filled ghettos, gangsta rap burst out of the hip-hop nation, emanating mainly from the predominantly black neighborhoods of South Central Los Angeles. Groups like NWA and solo artists (including Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, and Tupac Shakur) became millionaires by marketing the very discourses political and cultural leaders used to justify their war on crime. For these artists, the mark of criminality was a source of power, credibility, and revenue. By understanding gangsta rap as a potent, if deeply imperfect, enactment of the mark of criminality, we can better understand how crime is always a site of struggle over meaning. Furthermore, by underscoring the nimble rhetorical character of criminality, we can learn lessons that may inform efforts to challenge our nation’s failed policies of mass incarceration.