Download Full eBooks in PDF
Dark Continent Of Our Bodies Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Dark Continent Of Our Bodies book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Author : E. Frances White
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439905449
A spirited and provocative engagement of black feminism.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:748358580
A spirited and provocative engagement of black feminism.
Author : Sihle Khumalo
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-28
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781415202937
In 2003 Sihle Khumalo decided to give up a lucrative job and a comfortable life style in Durban and to celebrate his 30th birthday by crossing the continent from south to north. Celebrating life with gusto and in inimitable style, he describes a journey fraught with discomfort, mishap, ecstasy, disillusionment, discovery and astonishing human encounters. A journey that would be acceptable madness in a white man is regarded by the author’s fellow Africans as an extraordinary and inexplicable expenditure of time and money. Newly conscious of language barriers and regional difference in a continent still unexplored by the majority of Africans, the author presents a strikingly original and highly enjoyable account of a unique adventure. Each chapter is prefaced by a description of the ‘father of the nation’ of the country in question and ends with a hilarious ‘important tip’.
Author : Winifred Breines
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2006-04-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0198039808
Inspired by the idealism of the civil rights movement, the women who launched the radical second wave of the feminist movement believed, as a bedrock principle, in universal sisterhood and color-blind democracy. Their hopes, however, were soon dashed. To this day, the failure to create an integrated movement remains a sensitive and contested issue. In The Trouble Between Us, Winifred Breines explores why a racially integrated women's liberation movement did not develop in the United States. Drawing on flyers, letters, newspapers, journals, institutional records, and oral histories, Breines dissects how white and black women's participation in the movements of the 1960s led to the development of separate feminisms. Herself a participant in these events, Breines attempts to reconcile the explicit professions of anti-racism by white feminists with the accusations of mistreatment, ignorance, and neglect by African American feminists. Many radical white women, unable to see beyond their own experiences and idealism, often behaved in unconsciously or abstractly racist ways, despite their passionately anti-racist stance and hard work to develop an interracial movement. As Breines argues, however, white feminists' racism is not the only reason for the absence of an interracial feminist movement. Segregation, black women's interest in the Black Power movement, class differences, and the development of identity politics with an emphasis on "difference" were all powerful factors that divided white and black women. By the late 1970s and early 1980s white feminists began to understand black feminism's call to include race and class in gender analyses, and black feminists began to give white feminists some credit for their political work. Despite early setbacks, white and black radical feminists eventually developed cross-racial feminist political projects. Their struggle to bridge the racial divide provides a model for all Americans in a multiracial society.
Author : Henry Morton Stanley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : AFRICA, CENTRAL--DESCRIPTION AND TRAVEL.
ISBN : UOM:39015019052797
Author : Henry Morton Stanley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Africa, Sub-Saharan
ISBN : EHC:148100509015Y
Author : Rachel Ida Buff
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008-08-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814789742
Punctuated by marches across the United States in the spring of 2006, immigrant rights has reemerged as a significant and highly visible political issue. Immigrant Rights in the Shadows of U.S. Citizenship brings prominent activists and scholars together to examine the emergence and significance of the contemporary immigrant rights movement. Contributors place the contemporary immigrant rights movement in historical and comparative contexts by looking at the ways immigrants and their allies have staked claims to rights in the past, and by examining movements based in different communities around the United States. Scholars explain the evolution of immigration policy, and analyze current conflicts around issues of immigrant rights; activists engaged in the current movement document the ways in which coalitions have been built among immigrants from different nations, and between immigrant and native born peoples. The essays examine the ways in which questions of immigrant rights engage broader issues of identity, including gender, race, and sexuality.
Author : Sir Henry Morton Stanley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 694 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Africa, Central
ISBN : NLI:3183461-10
Author : Henry Morton Stanley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11368103
Author : Henry M. Stanley
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780486319544
Volume 1 of great explorer's classic account of explorations of lakes of Central Africa, perilous journey down unexplored Congo River. Incredible hardships, perseverance. 90 black-and-white illustrations. Map.
Author : Mark Mazower
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307555502
An unflinching and intelligent alternative history of the twentieth century that provides a provocative vision of Europe's past, present, and future. "[A] splendid book." —The New York Times Book Review Dark Continent provides an alternative history of the twentieth century, one in which the triumph of democracy was anything but a forgone conclusion and fascism and communism provided rival political solutions that battled and sometimes triumphed in an effort to determine the course the continent would take. Mark Mazower strips away myths that have comforted us since World War II, revealing Europe as an entity constantly engaged in a bloody project of self-invention. Here is a history not of inevitable victories and forward marches, but of narrow squeaks and unexpected twists, where townships boast a bronze of Mussolini on horseback one moment, only to melt it down and recast it as a pair of noble partisans the next.
Author : C. Henderson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230115477
This volume explores issues of black female identity through the various "imaginings" of the black female body in print and visual culture. Contributions emphasize the ways in which the black female body is framed and how black women (and their allies) have sought to write themselves back into social discourses on their terms.
Author : Janell Hobson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781315299372
In this second edition of the remarkable, and now classic, cultural history of black women’s beauty, Venus in the Dark, Janell Hobson explores the enduring figure of the "Hottentot Venus" and the history of critical and artistic responses to her by black women in contemporary photography, film, literature, music, and dance. In 1810, Sara Baartman was taken from South Africa to Europe, where she was put on display at circuses, salons, museums, and universities as the "Hottentot Venus." The subsequent legacy of representations of black women’s sexuality—from Josephine Baker to Serena Williams to hip-hop and dancehall videos—refer back to her iconic image. Via a new preface, Hobson argues for the continuing influence of Baartman’s legacy, as her image still reverberates through the contemporary marketization of black women’s bodies, from popular music and pornography to advertising. A brand new chapter explores how historical echoes from previous eras map onto highly visible bodies in the twenty-first century. It analyzes fetishistic spectacles of the black "booty," with particular emphasis on the role of Beyoncé Knowles in the popularization of the "bootylicious" body, and the counter-aesthetic the singer has gone on to advance for black women’s bodies and beauty politics. By studying the imagery of the "Hottentot Venus," from the nineteenth century to now, readers are invited to confront the racial and sexual objectification and embodied resistance that make up a significant part of black women’s experience.
Author : Zakiya Luna,Whitney Pirtle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000452723
Black Feminist Sociology offers new writings by established and emerging scholars working in a Black feminist tradition. The book centers Black feminist sociology (BFS) within the sociology canon and widens is to feature Black feminist sociologists both outside the US and the academy. Inspired by a BFS lens, the essays are critical, personal, political and oriented toward social justice. Key themes include the origins of BFS, expositions of BFS orientations to research that extend disciplinary norms, and contradictions of the pleasures and costs of such an approach both academically and personally. Authors explore their own sociological legacy of intellectual development to raise critical questions of intellectual thought and self-reflexivity. The book highlights the dynamism of BFS so future generations of scholars can expand upon and beyond the book’s key themes.
Author : Brigitte Fielder,Jonathan Senchyne
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780299321505
The work of black writers, editors, publishers, and librarians is deeply embedded in the history of American print culture, from slave narratives to digital databases. While the printed word can seem democratizing, it remains that the infrastructures of print and digital culture can be as limiting as they are enabling. Contributors to this volume explore the relationship between expression and such frameworks, analyzing how different mediums, library catalogs, and search engines shape the production and reception of written and visual culture. Topics include antebellum literature, the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts Movement; “post-Black” art, the role of black librarians, and how present-day technologies aid or hinder the discoverability of work by African Americans. Against a Sharp White Background covers elements of production, circulation, and reception of African American writing across a range of genres and contexts. This collection challenges mainstream book history and print culture to understand that race and racialization are inseparable from the study of texts and their technologies.
