Survival And Emancipation

Author : Brinda Karat
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Feminism
ISBN : UVA:X030039708

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Survival and Emancipation by Brinda Karat Pdf

This is a comprehensive book on the wide ranging concerns of the women's movements in India from a left perspective. The author's active involvement in the women's struggles adds to the strength of her narrative. It weaves together experiences and critical observations to create a work of great theoretical and practical import. It should be of great value to those interested in women's studies and the general studies on South Asia. It contains a wealth of information on women's lives and their multiple struggles. Excerpt from the Foreword by Aijaz Ahmad: "It is that rare book, wise and modest, which informs, instructs, inspires - but with the lightest of touch. Realistic enough to know that for the vast majority of women in India the struggle is for sheer survival against all odds; visionary enough to know that the battle for survival itself shall not be won without winning the battle for emancipation from all kinds of oppression and exploitation. At the heart of that battle for emancipation in our country are the women of our villages and our working classes. This book is written from their standpoint."

Author : Patrice Sherman
Publisher : Eerdmans Young Readers
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780802853196

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Ben and the Emancipation Proclamation by Patrice Sherman Pdf

A self-taught young slave astonishes his fellow prisoners by reading aloud the newspaper account of Lincoln s new emancipation proclamation. Based on actual events.

Author : Paul Ortiz
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2006-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520250031

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Emancipation Betrayed by Paul Ortiz Pdf

"Paul Ortiz's lyrical and closely argued study introduces us to unknown generations of freedom fighters for whom organizing democratically became in every sense a way of life. Ortiz changes the very ways we think of Southern history as he shows in marvelous detail how Black Floridians came together to defend themselves in the face of terror, to bury their dead, to challenge Jim Crow, to vote, and to dream."—David R. Roediger, author of Colored White: Transcending the Racial Past “Emancipation Betrayed is a remarkable piece of work, a tightly argued, meticulously researched examination of the first statewide movement by African Americans for civil rights, a movement which since has been effectively erased from our collective memory. The book poses a profound challenge to our understanding of the limits and possibilities of African American resistance in the early twentieth century. This analysis of how a politically and economically marginalized community nurtures the capacity for struggle speaks as much to our time as to 1919.”—Charles Payne, author of I’ve Got the Light of Freedom

Author : Olga Nieuwenhuys
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Land tenure
ISBN : OCLC:27247691

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Emancipation for Survival by Olga Nieuwenhuys Pdf

Author : Mitchell Jackson
Publisher : Scribner
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781501131738

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Survival Math by Mitchell Jackson Pdf

“A vibrant memoir of race, violence, family, and manhood…a virtuosic wail of a book” (The Boston Globe), Survival Math calculates how award-winning author Mitchell S. Jackson survived the Portland, Oregon, of his youth. This “spellbinding” (NPR) book explores gangs and guns, near-death experiences, sex work, masculinity, composite fathers, the concept of “hustle,” and the destructive power of addiction—all framed within the story of Mitchell Jackson, his family, and his community. Lauded for its breathtaking pace, its tender portrayals, its stark candor, and its luminous style, Survival Math reveals on every page the searching intellect and originality of its author. The primary narrative, focused on understanding the antecedents of Jackson’s family’s experience, is complemented by survivor files, which feature photographs and riveting short narratives of several of Jackson’s male relatives. “A vulnerable, sobering look at Jackson’s life and beyond, in all its tragedies, burdens, and faults” (San Francisco Chronicle), the sum of Survival Math’s parts is a highly original whole, one that reflects on the exigencies—over generations—that have shaped the lives of so many disenfranchised Americans. “Both poetic and brutally honest” (Salon), Mitchell S. Jackson’s nonfiction debut is as essential as it is beautiful, as real as it is artful, a singular achievement, not to be missed.

Author : David Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781107016491

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I Freed Myself by David Williams Pdf

This book examines the many ways in which African Americans made the Civil War about ending slavery. Abraham Lincoln's primary goal was to save the Union rather than to absolve the institution of slavery, yet slaves who escaped to Union lines refused to fight for the Union while remaining enslaved, ultimately forcing Lincoln to disband the institution.

Author : Marc Abélès
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822390770

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The Politics of Survival by Marc Abélès Pdf

In this provocative analysis of global politics, the anthropologist Marc Abélès argues that the meaning and aims of political action have radically changed in the era of globalization. As dangers such as terrorism and global warming have moved to the fore of global consciousness, foreboding has replaced the belief that tomorrow will be better than today. Survival, outlasting the uncertainties and threats of a precarious future, has supplanted harmonious coexistence as the primary goal of politics. Abélès contends that this political reorientation has changed our priorities and modes of political action, and generated new debates and initiatives. The proliferation of supranational and transnational organizations—from the European Union to the World Trade Organization (WTO) to Oxfam—is the visible effect of this radical transformation in our relationship to the political realm. Areas of governance as diverse as the economy, the environment, and human rights have been partially taken over by such agencies. Non-governmental organizations in particular have become linked with the mindset of risk and uncertainty; they both reflect and help produce the politics of survival. Abélès examines the new global politics, which assumes many forms and is enacted by diverse figures with varied sympathies: the officials at meetings of the WTO and the demonstrators outside them, celebrity activists, and online contributors to international charities. He makes an impassioned case that our accounts of globalization need to reckon with the preoccupations and affiliations now driving global politics. The Politics of Survival was first published in France in 2006. This English-language edition has been revised and includes a new preface.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789004514188

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“My Emancipation Don’t Fit Your Equation”: Critical Enactments of Black Education in the US by Anonim Pdf

This book takes the reader through a complex and precarious journey to understand the multitude of educational experiences and perspectives of African Americans.

Author : Roger L. Ransom,Richard Sutch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2001-07-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521795508

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One Kind of Freedom by Roger L. Ransom,Richard Sutch Pdf

This edition of the economic history classic One Kind of Freedom reprints the entire text of the first edition together with an introduction by the authors and an extensive bibliography of works in Southern history published since the appearance of the first edition. The book examines the economic institutions that replaced slavery and the conditions under which ex-slaves were allowed to enter the economic life of the United States following the Civil War. The authors contend that although the kind of freedom permitted to black Americans allowed substantial increases in their economic welfare, it effectively curtailed further black advancement and retarded Southern economic development. Quantitative data are used to describe the historical setting but also shape the authors' economic analysis and test the appropriateness of their interpretations. Ransom and Sutch's revised findings enrich the picture of the era and offer directions for future research.

Author : Chris D. Handley
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351873628

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Water Stress: Some Symptoms and Causes by Chris D. Handley Pdf

Why is the bread basket of Arabia importing more water via grain than is pumped locally by all sectors and why does nobody notice? How can the same water be sold to different users at prices varying by five orders of magnitude? How can the biggest names in development throw millions of dollars at supplying water to a city and not an extra drop has emerged? Why do some of the wealthiest companies in the Middle East and their multinational associates get away with polluting water resources? This book presents the complex and fascinating account of Ta'iz, Yemen, a city embroiled in severe water stress as a consequence of environmental degradation, political facades, conflicting legal systems, military intervention and institutional incompetence. The result is a remarkable, compelling and controversial book which will be essential reading for academics, development agencies and NGOs around the world.

Author : Edward Bartlett Rugemer
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807135594

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The Problem of Emancipation by Edward Bartlett Rugemer Pdf

"A most persuasive work that repositions the American debates over emancipation where they clearly belong, in a broader Anglo-Atlantic context." -- Reviews in History While many historians look to internal conflict alone to explain the onset of the American Civil War, in The Problem of Emancipation, Edward Bartlett Rugemer places the origins of the war in a transatlantic context. Addressing a huge gap in the historiography of the antebellum United States, he explores the impact of Britain's abolition of slavery in 1834 on the coming of the war and reveals the strong influence of Britain's old Atlantic empire on the United States' politics. He demonstrates how American slaveholders and abolitionists alike borrowed from the antislavery movement developing on the transatlantic stage to fashion contradictory portrayals of abolition that became central to the arguments for and against American slavery. Richly researched and skillfully argued, The Problem of Emancipation explores a long-neglected aspect of American slavery and the history of the Atlantic World and bridges a gap in our understanding of the American Civil War. "Most discussions about the roots of the American Civil War seldom stray beyond the nation's borders, but Rugemer makes a persuasive case for why that should change." -- Charleston (SC) Post and Courier "A tremendous contribution to the greatest issue and ongoing controversy in pre--twentieth-century American historiography: the causes of the American Civil War. I was quite unprepared for Rugemer's crucial discoveries as he studied the way dozens of southern and northern newspapers responded to the British West Indian slave insurrections, to the British act of emancipation, and to the consequences of this so-called Mighty Experiment. Few historians have shown such sophistication in analyzing the rapidly changing pre--Civil War media and the shifts in public opinion." -- David Brion Davis, author of Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World

Author : Sharon R. Krause
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-16
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780691242255

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Eco-Emancipation by Sharon R. Krause Pdf

The case for an eco-emancipatory politics to release the Earth from human domination and free us all from lives that are both exploitative and exploited Human domination of nature shapes every aspect of our lives today, even as it remains virtually invisible to us. Because human beings are a part of nature, the human domination of nature circles back to confine and exploit people as well—and not only the poor and marginalized but also the privileged and affluent, even in the world’s most prosperous societies. Although modern democracy establishes constraints intended to protect people from domination as the arbitrary exercise of power, it offers few such protections for nonhuman parts of nature. The result is that, wherever we fall in human hierarchies, we inevitably find ourselves both complicit in and entrapped by a system that makes sustainable living all but impossible. It confines and exploits not only nature but people too, albeit in different ways. In Eco-Emancipation, Sharon Krause argues that we can find our way to a better, freer life by constraining the use of human power in relation to nature and promoting nature’s well-being alongside our own, thereby releasing the Earth from human domination and freeing us from a way of life that is both exploitative and exploited, complicit and entrapped. Eco-emancipation calls for new, more-than-human political communities that incorporate nonhuman parts of nature through institutions of representation and regimes of rights, combining these new institutional arrangements with political activism, a public ethos of respect for nature, and a culture of eco-responsibility.

Author : Leslie Ann Schwalm
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807832912

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Emancipation's Diaspora by Leslie Ann Schwalm Pdf

Helping readers understand the national impact of the transition from slavery to freedom, this book features the lives and experiences of thousands of men and women who liberated themselves from slavery and worked to live in dignity as free women and men and as citizens.

Author : Cheryl Wills
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1682653544

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Emancipated by Cheryl Wills Pdf

Author : Wilma A. Dunaway
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2003-04-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521012163

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The African-American Family in Slavery and Emancipation by Wilma A. Dunaway Pdf

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