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Author : Anonim
Publisher : AK Press
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781849350761
A comparative study of the porous intellectual and political borders between a colonial power and the colonized.
Author : Cheylon Woods,Kiwana Tiffany McClung
Publisher : University of Louisiana
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Matriarchy
ISBN : 1946160741
Through Mama's Eyes: Unique Perspectives in Southern Matriarchy looks at the concept of Southern matriarchy and how it has influenced American society. In 2016, the Ernest J. Gaines Center hosted a public program that explored the way women use physical space in literature. That program created many discussions of how the term matriarch is understood and applied, especially in the southern regions of the United States. Southern matriarchy is something that has been idolized and parodied in popular formats, such as movies and film, and the purpose of this book is to explore all of the faceted interpretations of southern matriarchy and its impact on our society. This book contains 17 interdisciplinary essays that each look at the way standard tropes of southern matriarchy are interpreted and challenged through literature, history, and the sciences. Like the program that inspired the book, each essay can be used as an invitation to engage in deeper conversations and research about southern matriarchy and its perceptions as a whole. This book is a compilation of curiosity and intrigue surrounding a societal structure that has influenced so many aspects of so many cultures across America--the Southern Matriarch.
Author : Guy Zona
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1996-04-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780684800189
Zona, who has collected the proverbs of Italy, Africa, and Native Americans, now presents the reflections on life, the sage advice, and the eye-opening observations expressed in common Latino sayings and proverbs from Mexico, Central America, and South America. While highlighting the values and traditions of individual cultures, these wise sayings also remind readers of the universality of human behavior and beliefs, fears and hopes.
Author : Jon Else
Publisher : Penguin Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 110198094X
"[TRUE SOUTH] does several things at once. On one level, it's a biography . . . On another, it's a lucid recap of many of the signal events of the civil rights movement . . . A warm and intelligent book."--The New York Times "No one is better suited to write this moving account of perhaps the greatest American documentary series ever made. . . . [Else] tells the story with the compassion and eloquence it deserves."--Adam Hochschild, author of KING LEOPOLD'S GHOST, BURY THE CHAINS, and TO END ALL WARS The inside story of Eyes on the Prize, one of the most important and influential TV shows in history. Published on the 30th anniversary of the initial broadcast, which reached 100 million viewers. Henry Hampton's 1987 landmark multipart television series, Eyes on the Prize, an eloquent, plainspoken chronicle of the civil rights movement, is now the classic narrative of that history. Before Hampton, the movement's history had been written or filmed by whites and weighted heavily toward Dr. King's telegenic leadership. Eyes on the Prize told the story from the point of view of ordinary people inside the civil rights movement. Hampton shifted the focus from victimization to strength, from white saviors to black courage. He recovered and permanently fixed the images we now all remember (but had been lost at the time)--Selma and Montgomery, pickets and fire hoses, ballot boxes and mass meetings. Jon Else was Hampton's series producer and his moving book focuses on the tumultuous eighteen months in 1985 and 1986 when Eyes on the Prize was finally created. It's a point where many wires cross: the new telling of African American history, the complex mechanics of documentary making, the rise of social justice film, and the politics of television. And because Else, like Hampton and many of the key staffers, was himself a veteran of the movement, his book braids together battle tales from their own experiences as civil rights workers in the south in the 1960s. Hampton was not afraid to show the movement's raw realities: conflicts between secular and religious leaders, the shift toward black power and armed black resistance in the face of savage white violence. It is all on the screen, and the fight to get it all into the films was at times as ferocious as the history being depicted. Henry Hampton utterly changed the way social history is told, taught, and remembered today.
Author : Zora Neale Hurston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1937
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0800074149
Author : Joan Didion
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781524732806
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “One of contemporary literature’s most revered essayists revives her raw records from a 1970s road trip across the American southwest ... her acute observations of the country’s culture and history feel particularly resonant today.” —Harper’s Bazaar Joan Didion, the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Let Me Tell You What I Mean, has always kept notebooks—of overheard dialogue, interviews, drafts of essays, copies of articles. Here are two extended excerpts from notebooks she kept in the 1970s; read together, they form a piercing view of the American political and cultural landscape. “Notes on the South” traces a road trip that she and her husband, John Gregory Dunne, took through Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. Her acute observations about the small towns they pass through, her interviews with local figures, and their preoccupation with race, class, and heritage suggest a South largely unchanged today. “California Notes” began as an assignment from Rolling Stone on the Patty Hearst trial. Though Didion never wrote the piece, the time she spent watching the trial in San Francisco triggered thoughts about the West and her own upbringing in Sacramento. Here we not only see Didion’s signature irony and imagination in play, we’re also granted an illuminating glimpse into her mind and process.
Author : Minoli Salgado
Publisher : Peepal Tree Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Indian Ocean Tsunami, 2004
ISBN : 1845232402
It is the late 1980s in southern Sri Lanka. Bradley Sirisena's father is tortured and abducted in the violent struggle for power between the state and local insurgents. Some fifteen years later, his disappearance remains unresolved. Savi, a Sri Lankan research student long settled in the UK, has lost her way in both her thesis and her life, when she receives a wedding invitation from the uncle she would rather ignore. Meanwhile in a coastal fort in Sri Lanka, her cousin Renu continues to try to uncover the secret of Bradley's father's disappearance.
Author : Michelle Barker
Publisher : Annick Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-11
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781773210735
Who can Lena trust to help her find out the truth? Life in East Germany in the early 1980s is not easy for most people, but for Lena, it’s particularly hard. After the death of her parents in a factory explosion and time spent in a psychiatric hospital recovering from the trauma, she is sent to live with her stern aunt, a devoted member of the ruling Communist Party. Visits with her beloved Uncle Erich, a best-selling author, are her only respite. But one night, her uncle disappears without a trace. Gone also are all his belongings, his books, and even his birth records. Lena is desperate to know what happened to him, but it’s as if he never existed. The worst thing, however, is that she cannot discuss her uncle or her attempts to find him with anyone, not even her best friends. There are government spies everywhere. But Lena is unafraid and refuses to give up her search, regardless of the consequences. This searing novel about defiance, courage, and determination takes readers into the chilling world of a society ruled by autocratic despots, where nothing is what it seems.
Author : Howard Russell FLOAN
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:752868217
Author : Royal Society of New South Wales
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Science
ISBN : UCAL:B3092733
Includes list of members.
Author : Michael Poliza
Publisher : teNeues
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9783832792091
A SPECTACULAR COLLECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHS THAT RECORD THE ASTOUNDING BEAUTY, SCALE, AND DIVERSITY OF NINETEEN AFRICAN COUNTRIES. THIS IS A RARE TREAT TAKEN FROM A UNIQUE BIRD'S-EYE VIEW IN A HELICOPTER.
Author : Jack Walker
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781524500351
This is the story of a young man who was drafted into the army in 1964 and who ended up in Vietnam as a marine recon company commander at the DMZ in 1967. While a war story, it is more importantly about growing up in a combat zone with the help of senior mentors and a bit of luck, while dealing with a tenacious enemy as well as politicians thousands of miles from the battlefield. It is also a portrait of America in the troubled 1960s.
Author : Ady Barkan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781982111557
In this inspirational and moving memoir, activist Barkan explores his life with ALS and how his diagnosis gave him a profound new understanding of his commitment to social justice for all.
Author : Alex Heard
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780061284168
A Washington Post Best Book of the Year In 1945, a young African-American man from Laurel, Mississippi, was sentenced to death for allegedly raping Willette Hawkins, a white housewife. The case was barely noticed until Bella Abzug, a young New York labor lawyer, was hired to oversee Willie McGee's appeal. Together with William Patterson, a dedicated black reformer, Abzug risked her life to plead the case. “Free Willie McGee” became an international rallying cry, with supporters flooding President Truman's White House and the U.S. Supreme Court with clemency pleas and famous Americans—including William Faulkner, Albert Einstein, and Norman Mailer—speaking out on McGee's behalf. By 1951, millions worldwide were convinced of McGee's innocence—even though there were serious questions about his claim that the truth involved a secret love affair. In this unforgettable story of justice in the Deep South, Mississippi native Alex Heard reexamines the lasting mysteries surrounding McGee's haunting case.
Author : Karoline Hjorth,Riitta Ikonen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Photography
ISBN : 8232801492
Eyes as Big as Plates is an ongoing collaborative photography and sculpture project by Norwegian-Finnish artist duo Karoline Hjorth and Riitta Ikonen (both born 1980). Initially a play on characters from Nordic folklore, the series has evolved into a search for the human connection to nature. Hjorth & Ikonen work together throughout the process with their complementary skills (Karoline is the photographer in the duo, while Riitta works mainly with the creation of the wearable sculptures). Since 2011 the duo has collaborated with retired farmers, fishermen, zoologists, plumbers, opera singers, housewives, artists and academics. Each character inhabits the landscape in a wearable sculpture made from natural materials. The book features portraits, field notes, essays and behind-the-scenes stories from many of the project's 60 shoots. With international press coverage in the Huffington Post, the BBC, TIME LightBox, Life and elsewhere, plus a highly successful Kickstarter campaign attracting a large American audience, the series has developed into a project with universal appeal.
