Dancing Down The Barricades

Author : Matthew Frye Jacobson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 9780520391802

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Dancing Down the Barricades by Matthew Frye Jacobson Pdf

"Through the lens of Sammy Davis Jr.'s six-decade career in show business-from vaudeville to Vegas to Broadway, Hollywood, and network TV-Dancing Down the Barricades examines the workings of race in American culture. The title phrase holds two contradictory meanings regarding Davis's cultural politics: did he dance the barricades down, as he liked to think, or did he simply dance down them, as his more radical critics would have it? Sammy Davis Jr. was at once a pioneering, barrier-busting, anti-Jim Crow activist and someone who was widely associated with accommodationism and wannabe whiteness. Historian Matthew Jacobson attends to both threads, analyzing how industry norms, productions, scripts, roles, and audience expectations and responses were all framed by race, against a backdrop of a changing America. In the spirit of better understanding Davis's life and career, Dancing Down the Barricades examines the complexities of his constraints, freedoms, and choices for what they reveal about Black history and American political culture"--

Author : Matthew Frye Jacobson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2002-05-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0520233425

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Special Sorrows by Matthew Frye Jacobson Pdf

Special Sorrows carefully delineates the centrality of Jewish, Polish and Irish supporters in the United States to national liberation movements abroad and details how such movements shaped immigrant life in the United States.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Ballet
ISBN : IND:32000000110058

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Ballet Today by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lydia Davis
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374711436

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Can't and Won't by Lydia Davis Pdf

A new collection of short stories from the woman Rick Moody has called "the best prose stylist in America" Her stories may be literal one-liners: the entirety of "Bloomington" reads, "Now that I have been here for a little while, I can say with confidence that I have never been here before." Or they may be lengthier investigations of the havoc wreaked by the most mundane disruptions to routine: in "A Small Story About a Small Box of Chocolates," a professor receives a gift of thirty-two small chocolates and is paralyzed by the multitude of options she imagines for their consumption. The stories may appear in the form of letters of complaint; they may be extracted from Flaubert's correspondence; or they may be inspired by the author's own dreams, or the dreams of friends. What does not vary throughout Can't and Won't, Lydia Davis's fifth collection of stories, is the power of her finely honed prose. Davis is sharply observant; she is wry or witty or poignant. Above all, she is refreshing. Davis writes with bracing candor and sly humor about the quotidian, revealing the mysterious, the foreign, the alienating, and the pleasurable within the predictable patterns of daily life.

Author : Grace Li Xiu Woo
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774818902

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Ghost Dancing with Colonialism by Grace Li Xiu Woo Pdf

Some assume that Canada earned a place among postcolonial states in 1982 when it took charge of its Constitution. Yet despite the formal recognition accorded to Aboriginal and treaty rights at that time, Indigenous peoples continue to argue that they are still being colonized. Grace Woo assesses this allegation using a binary model that distinguishes colonial from postcolonial legality. She argues that two legal paradigms governed the expansion of the British Empire, one based on popular consent, the other on conquest and the power to command. Ghost Dancing with Colonialism casts explanatory light on ongoing tensions between Canada and Indigenous peoples.

Author : Ian McGuire
Publisher : Random House
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593133897

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The Abstainer by Ian McGuire Pdf

“This is Dickens in the present tense, Dickens for the twenty-first century.”—Roddy Doyle, The New York Times Book Review An Irishman in nineteenth-century England is forced to take sides when his nephew joins the bloody underground movement for independence in this propulsive novel from the acclaimed author of The North Water. NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY CHICAGO TRIBUNE AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times • The New York Public Library • New Statesman • Publishers Weekly Manchester, England, 1867. The rebels will be hanged at dawn, and their brotherhood is already plotting its revenge. Stephen Doyle, an Irish-American veteran of the Civil War, arrives in Manchester from New York with a thirst for blood. He has joined the Fenians, a secret society intent on ending British rule in Ireland by any means necessary. Head Constable James O’Connor has fled grief and drink in Dublin for a sober start in Manchester. His job is to discover and thwart the Fenians’ plans whatever they might be. When a long-lost nephew arrives on O’Connor’s doorstep looking for work, he cannot foresee the way his fragile new life will be imperiled—and how his and Doyle’s fates will become fatally intertwined. In this propulsive tale of the underground war for Irish independence, the author of The North Water once again transports readers to a time when blood begot blood. Moving from the dirt and uproar of industrial Manchester to the quiet hills of rural Pennsylvania, The Abstainer is a searing novel in which two men, haunted by their pasts and driven forward by the need for justice and retribution, must fight for life and legacy.

Author : Richard Hofstadter
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008-06-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780307388445

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The Paranoid Style in American Politics by Richard Hofstadter Pdf

This timely reissue of Richard Hofstadter's classic work on the fringe groups that influence American electoral politics offers an invaluable perspective on contemporary domestic affairs.In The Paranoid Style in American Politics, acclaimed historian Richard Hofstadter examines the competing forces in American political discourse and how fringe groups can influence — and derail — the larger agendas of a political party. He investigates the politics of the irrational, shedding light on how the behavior of individuals can seem out of proportion with actual political issues, and how such behavior impacts larger groups. With such other classic essays as “Free Silver and the Mind of 'Coin' Harvey” and “What Happened to the Antitrust Movement?, ” The Paranoid Style in American Politics remains both a seminal text of political history and a vital analysis of the ways in which political groups function in the United States.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Photography
ISBN : UOM:39015028436403

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Dancing on Fire by Anonim Pdf

Provides a pictorial chronicle of Haiti and its tumultuous history, and of the Haitian people and their struggle for freedom and modest prosperity.

Author : Jon Sack
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781781688014

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La Lucha by Jon Sack Pdf

A front-line human rights defender fighting murderous impunity in the Mexican borderlands The Mexican border state of Chihuahua and its city Juárez have become notorious the world over as hotbeds of violence. Drug cartel battles and official corruption result in more murders annually in Chihuahua than in wartorn Afghanistan. Thanks to a culture of impunity, 97 percent of the killings in Juárez go unsolved. Despite a climate of fear, a small group of human rights activists, exemplified by the Chihuahua lawyer and organizer Lucha Castro, works to identify the killers and their official enablers. This is the story of La Lucha, illustrated in beautiful and chilling comic book art, rendering in rich detail the stories of families ripped apart by disappearances and murders—especially gender-based violence—and the remarkably brave advocacy, protests, and investigations of ordinary citizens who turned their grief into resistance.

Author : Randi Pink
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-10
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781250821294

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Angel of Greenwood by Randi Pink Pdf

A piercing, unforgettable love story set in Greenwood, Oklahoma, also known as the “Black Wall Street,” and against the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921.

Author : Cormac McCarthy
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007-03-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307267450

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The Road by Cormac McCarthy Pdf

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A searing, post-apocalyptic novel about a father and son's fight to survive, this "tale of survival and the miracle of goodness only adds to McCarthy's stature as a living master. It's gripping, frightening and, ultimately, beautiful" (San Francisco Chronicle). • From the bestselling author of The Passenger A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food—and each other. The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, "each the other's world entire," are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation. Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest bestselling novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris.

Author : Matt Gallagher,Roy Scranton
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780306821776

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Fire and Forget by Matt Gallagher,Roy Scranton Pdf

Fire and Forget includes the title story from Redeployment by Phil Klay, 2014 National Book Award Winner in Fiction These stories aren't pretty and they aren't for the faint of heart. They are realistic, haunting and shocking. And they are all unforgettable. Television reports, movies, newspapers and blogs about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have offered images of the fighting there. But this collection offers voices -- powerful voices, telling the kind of truth that only fiction can offer. What makes the collection so remarkable is that all of these stories are written by those who were there, or waited for them at home. The anthology, which features a Foreword by National Book Award winner Colum McCann, includes the best voices of the wars' generation: award-winning author Phil Klay's "Redeployment" Brian Turner, whose poem "Hurt Locker" was the movie's inspiration; Colby Buzzell, whose book My War resonates with countless veterans; Siobhan Fallon, whose book You Know When the Men Are Gone echoes the joy and pain of the spouses left behind; Matt Gallagher, whose book Kaboom captures the hilarity and horror of the modern military experience; and ten others.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Social sciences
ISBN : STANFORD:36105049185668

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Holt Social Studies Curriculum: The humanities in three cities by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mike Doughty
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780306820502

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The Book of Drugs by Mike Doughty Pdf

Recounts the addiction and recovery of the world-renowned solo artist and former lead singer and songwriter of Soul Coughing.

Author : Edwin Fenton,John M. Good
Publisher : Steck-Vaughn
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Athens (Greece)
ISBN : 0030768357

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The Humanities in Three Cities by Edwin Fenton,John M. Good Pdf