Of The Nation Born

Author : Hameeda Hossain,Amena Mohsin
Publisher : Zubaan
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789385932076

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Of the Nation Born by Hameeda Hossain,Amena Mohsin Pdf

The Sexual Violence and Impunity in South Asia research project (coordinated by Zubaan and supported by the International Development Research Centre) brings together, for the first time in the South Asian region, a vast body of research on this important, and yet silenced, subject. Six country volumes (one each on Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and two on India, as well as two standalone volumes) comprising over 50 research papers and two book-length studies, detail the histories of sexual violence and look at the systemic, institutional, societal, individual and community structures that work together to ensure that impunity for perpetrators is more or less inbuilt. As many of the authors argue, the very nature and conditions of sexual violence in the South Asian region lend themselves to a silencing process, or, at a minimum, a reluctance to address it head on, something that may at least partially explain why accountability for sexual violence remains such a distant horizon. This volume focuses on Bangladesh, a nation born in 1971, in a birth that was as marked by bloodshed as it was by sexual violence. The history of widespread sexual violence, and incidents of sexual slavery, as well as the absence of accountability for the perpetrators, is by now well known. The essays here address the structural dynamics of impunity at the individual and societal levels, looking not only at the conditions that go into its creation, but also the elements that fuel it. They ask what helps it to become so embedded and point to its human, global and national costs. Together they explore the ways in which the women's movement and feminist practice have worked to demand accountability and recognition for the victims and survivors of sexual violence, challenging the impunities embedded in the patriarchal structures of Bangladeshi society. In doing so, they bear witness to the continuing efforts of women's groups in Bangladesh to give this crucial issue the attention that it deserves, for without that, justice for victims and survivors will remain elusive.

Author : Adam Zertal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0999620207

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A Nation Born by Adam Zertal Pdf

Zertal's complelling account of his discovery of Joshua's Altar and more...

Author : Jacqueline Battalora
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000382815

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Birth of a White Nation by Jacqueline Battalora Pdf

Birth of a White Nation, Second Edition examines the social construction of race through the invention of white people. Surveying colonial North American law and history, the book interrogates the origins of racial inequality and injustice in American society, and details how the invention still serves to protect the ruling elite to the present day. This second edition documents the proliferation of ideas imposed and claimed throughout history that have conspired to give content, form, and social meaning to one’s racial classification. Beginning its expanded narrative with the development of diverse Native American societies through contact with European colonizers in the Tidewater region, and progressing to the emigration of Mexicans, Irish, and other "non-whites", this new edition addresses the ongoing production and reproduction of whiteness as a distinct and dominant social category. It also looks to the future by developing a new, applied framework for countering racial inequality and promoting greater awareness of anti-racist policies and practices. Birth of a White Nation will be of great interest to students, scholars, and general readers seeking to make sense of the dramatic racial inequities of our time and to forge an antiracist path forward.

Author : Samuel Robert Cassius
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1925
Category : African Americans
ISBN : UIUC:30112000676897

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The Third Birth of a Nation by Samuel Robert Cassius Pdf

Author : George Henry Calvert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : United States
ISBN : PRNC:32101068175569

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A Nation's Birth and Other National Poems by George Henry Calvert Pdf

Author : Ira H. Gallen,Seymour Stern
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 675 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781460236550

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D.W. Griffith's 100th Anniversary The Birth of a Nation by Ira H. Gallen,Seymour Stern Pdf

A HISTORY OF THE MOST CONTROVERSIAL MOTION PICTURE EVER MADE A hundred years have passed since the masterpiece of David Wark Griffith, The Birth of a Nation, first appeared on the screens of America, in the winter of 1915. It demonstrated that the cinema, no less than literature and no less than the stage, could become a topic of serious critical, esthetic, intellectual, political, social, and technical discussion. In this way it brought the motion picture into a position of commanding influence in the social life of the American nation. The denunciation continues, and the storm over the film serves as a barometer of the global conflict, involving forces and issues set in motion by, but no means limited to, race. From the beginning it touched off several emotionally and politically explosive, interrelated, parallel controversies—controversy over Griffith; controversy over the film; controversy over the subject-matter and its treatment; controversy over the controversy. As Griffith’s official biographer Seymour Sterns main purpose of his book was to assemble, as extensively as possible, the rapidly vanishing record of what happened. You’ll find Stern’s writing on the subject as controversial as the film itself.

Author : Thomas Dixon
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752373844

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The Clansman by Thomas Dixon Pdf

Reproduction of the original: The Clansman by Thomas Dixon

Author : Gerard Loughran
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010-02-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857710901

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Birth of a Nation by Gerard Loughran Pdf

Launched in Nairobi in 1960, three years before the birth of independent Kenya, the Nation group of newspapers grew up sharing the struggles of an infant nation, suffering the pain of its failures and rejoicing in its successes. Marking its 50th anniversary in 2010, the Nation looks back on its performance as the standard-bearer for journalistic integrity and how far it fell short or supported the loyalty demanded by its founding slogan 'The Truth shall make you free'. The Aga Khan was still a student at Harvard University when he decided that an honest and independent newspaper would be a crucial contribution to East Africa's peaceful transition to democracy. The "Sunday Nation" and "Daily Nation" were launched in 1960 when independence for Kenya was not far over the horizon. They quickly established a reputation for honesty and fair-mindedness, while shocking the colonial and settler establishment by calling for the release of the man who could become the nation's first prime minister, Jomo Kenyatta, and early negotiations for 'Uhuru'. The history of the 'Nation' papers and that of Kenya are closely intertwined; in the heat of its printing presses and philosophical struggles, that story is told here: from committed beginnings to its position today as East Africa's leading newspaper group.

Author : Steven Grosby,Steven Elliott Grosby
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 55,5 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 : Carl Lotus Becker
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:4057664160539

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The Birth of One Nation by Carl Lotus Becker Pdf

Musaicum Books presents to you a meticulously edited Carl Becker collection. This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Content: The Beginnings of the American People The Discovery of the Old World and the New The Partition of the New World The English Migration in the Seventeenth Century England and her Colonies in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries The American People in the Eighteenth Century The Winning of Independence The Eve of the Revolution A Patriot Of 1763 The Burden Of Empire The Rights Of A Nation Defining The Issue A Little Discreet Conduct Testing The Issue The Declaration of Independence: A Study in the History of Political Ideas Historical Antecedents of the Declaration: The Natural Rights Philosophy Historical Antecedents of the Declaration: Theory of the British Empire Drafting the Declaration The Literary Qualities of the Declaration The Philosophy of the Declaration in the Nineteenth Century

Author : Dick Lehr
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781610398244

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The Birth of a Movement by Dick Lehr Pdf

In 1915, two men—one a journalist agitator, the other a technically brilliant filmmaker—incited a public confrontation that roiled America, pitting black against white, Hollywood against Boston, and free speech against civil rights. Monroe Trotter and D. W. Griffith were fighting over a film that dramatized the Civil War and Reconstruction in a post-Confederate South. Almost fifty years earlier, Monroe’s father, James, was a sergeant in an all-black Union regiment that marched into Charleston, South Carolina, just as the Kentucky cavalry—including Roaring Jack Griffith, D. W.’s father—fled for their lives. Griffith’s film, The Birth of a Nation, included actors in blackface, heroic portraits of Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, and a depiction of Lincoln’s assassination. Freed slaves were portrayed as villainous, vengeful, slovenly, and dangerous to the sanctity of American values. It was tremendously successful, eventually seen by 25 million Americans. But violent protests against the film flared up across the country. Monroe Trotter’s titanic crusade to have the film censored became a blueprint for dissent during the 1950s and 1960s. This is the fiery story of a revolutionary moment for mass media and the nascent civil rights movement, and the men clashing over the cultural and political soul of a still-young America standing at the cusp of its greatest days.

Author : Melvyn Stokes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199887514

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D.W. Griffith's the Birth of a Nation by Melvyn Stokes Pdf

In this deeply researched and vividly written volume, Melvyn Stokes illuminates the origins, production, reception and continuing history of this ground-breaking, aesthetically brilliant, and yet highly controversial movie. By going back to the original archives, particularly the NAACP and D. W. Griffith Papers, Stokes explodes many of the myths surrounding The Birth of a Nation (1915). Yet the story that remains is fascinating: the longest American film of its time, Griffith's film incorporated many new features, including the first full musical score compiled for an American film. It was distributed and advertised by pioneering methods that would quickly become standard. Through the high prices charged for admission and the fact that it was shown, at first, only in "live" theaters with orchestral accompaniment, Birth played a major role in reconfiguring the American movie audience by attracting more middle-class patrons. But if the film was a milestone in the history of cinema, it was also undeniably racist. Stokes shows that the darker side of this classic movie has its origins in the racist ideas of Thomas Dixon, Jr. and Griffith's own Kentuckian background and earlier film career. The book reveals how, as the years went by, the campaign against the film became increasingly successful. In the 1920s, for example, the NAACP exploited the fact that the new Ku Klux Klan, which used Griffith's film as a recruiting and retention tool, was not just anti-black, but also anti-Catholic and anti-Jewish, as a way to mobilize new allies in opposition to the film. This crisply written book sheds light on both the film's racism and the aesthetic brilliance of Griffith's filmmaking. It is a must-read for anyone interested in the cinema.

Author : J. F. R. Jacob,Jacob F. R. Jacob
Publisher : Manohar Publishers and Distributors
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015041608350

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Surrender at Dacca by J. F. R. Jacob,Jacob F. R. Jacob Pdf

The Book Provides Fresh Insights Into The 1971 War. The Nearly 100 Pages Of Appendices, Which Make For One Third Of The Book, Are A Goldmine Of Classified Information. But The Great Virtue Of The Book Is The Personality And Capability Profile Of Military Commanders Who Fought The War.

Author : Tom Gjelten
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476743875

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A Nation of Nations by Tom Gjelten Pdf

“An incisive look at immigration, assimilation, and national identity” (Kirkus Reviews) and the landmark immigration law that transformed the face of the nation more than fifty years ago, as told through the stories of immigrant families in one suburban county in Virginia. In the years since the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, the foreign-born population of the United States has tripled. Americans today are vastly more diverse than ever. They look different, speak different languages, practice different religions, eat different foods, and enjoy different cultures. In 1950, Fairfax County, Virginia, was ninety percent white, ten percent African-American, with a little more than one hundred families who were “other.” Currently the Anglo white population is less than fifty percent, and there are families of Asian, African, Middle Eastern, and Latin American origin living all over the county. “In A Nation of Nations, National Public Radio correspondent Tom Gjelten brings these changes to life” (The Wall Street Journal), following a few immigrants to Fairfax County over recent decades as they gradually “Americanize.” Hailing from Korea, Bolivia, and Libya, the families included illustrate common immigrant themes: friction between minorities, economic competition and entrepreneurship, and racial and cultural stereotyping. It’s been half a century since the Immigration and Nationality Act changed the landscape of America, and no book has assessed the impact or importance of this law as A Nation of Nations. With these “powerful human stories…Gjelten has produced a compelling and informative account of the impact of the 1965 reforms, one that is indispensable reading at a time when anti-immigrant demagoguery has again found its way onto the main stage of political discourse” (The Washington Post).

Author : Serhy Yekelchyk
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190294137

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Ukraine by Serhy Yekelchyk Pdf

In 2004 and 2005, striking images from the Ukraine made their way around the world, among them boisterous, orange-clad crowds protesting electoral fraud and the hideously scarred face of a poisoned opposition candidate. Europe's second-largest country but still an immature state only recently independent, Ukraine has become a test case of post-communist democracy, as millions of people in other countries celebrated the protesters' eventual victory. Any attempt to truly understand current events in this vibrant and unsettled land, however, must begin with the Ukraines dramatic history. Ukraine's strategic location between Russia and the West, the country's pronounced cultural regionalism, and the ugly face of post-communist politics are all anchored in Ukraine's complex past. The first Western survey of Ukrainian history to include coverage of the Orange Revolution and its aftermath, this book narrates the deliberate construction of a modern Ukrainian nation, incorporating new Ukrainian scholarship and archival revelations of the post-communist period. Here then is a history of the land where the strategic interests of Russia and the West have long clashed, with reverberations that resonate to this day.