The Ville

Author : Greg Donaldson
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780823265688

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The Ville by Greg Donaldson Pdf

In Brownsville’s twenty-one housing projects, the young cops and the teenagers who stand solemnly on the street corners are bitter and familiar enemies. The Ville, as the Brownsville–East New York section of Brooklyn is called by the locals, is one of the most dangerous places on earth—a place where homicide is a daily occurrence. Now, Greg Donaldson, a veteran urban reporter and a longtime teacher in Brooklyn’s toughest schools, evokes this landscape with stunning and frightening accuracy. The Ville follows a year in the life of two urban black males from opposite sides of the street. Gary Lemite, an enthusiastic young Housing police officer, charges recklessly into gunfire in pursuit of respect and promotion. Sharron Corley, a member of a gang called the LoLifes and the star of the Thomas Jefferson High School play, is also looking for respect as he tries to survive these streets. Brilliantly capturing the firestorm of violence that is destroying a generation, waged by teenagers who know at thirty yards the difference between a MAC-10 machine pistol and a .357 Magnum, The Ville is the story of our inner cities and the lives of the young men who remain trapped there. In the tradition of There Are No Children Here, Clockers, and Random Family, The Ville is a vivid and unforgettable contribution to our understanding of race and violence in America today.

Author : Martin Limón
Publisher : Soho Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781616956097

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The Ville Rat by Martin Limón Pdf

How much can murder buy on the black market in 1974 South Korea? South Korea, 1970s: A young Korean woman dressed in a traditional chima-jeogori is found strangled to death on the frozen banks of the Sonyu River with only a carefully calligraphed poem in her sleeve. George Sueño and Ernie Bascom, sergeants in the US 8th Army CID, are called in by the formidable KNP detective Gil Kwon-up to investigate. George and Ernie's job is to liaise with Korean law enforcement on matters that may involve or implicate 8th Army American servicemen. But as they learn about the case, George and Ernie realize this isn't their jurisdiction—the nearby village of Sonyu-ri is occupied by the US Army's 2nd Infantry Division, a disciplined and often brutal force that won't stand for outside officers questioning its men. All that George and Ernie are able to glean before being kicked out of town is that they are close to the truth—and that a mysterious smuggler, known locally as "the Ville Rat," holds the key to the woman's murder. Luckily, the pair is officially assigned another investigation in the area, which allows them to continue nosing around for answers. They are to elucidate the circumstances of a shooting incident between a young African American private and his white supervising chief. Racial tensions run high, and George and Ernie must tread carefully to solve both cases. But they aren't exactly known for going out of their way to avoid stepping on US Army toes, and this is no exception.

Author : John Aaron Wright
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0738508152

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The Ville, St. Louis by John Aaron Wright Pdf

A few miles from downtown St. Louis, The Ville was once locked off from much of the area. In spite of racial obstacles, this small community became nationally known as the cradle of black culture and intellect in St. Louis. Current and former residents will recognize photographs of Sumner High School and Homer G. Phillips Hospital, as well as many famous former residents. Over the years this once thriving community fell into decline, and is now struggling to recapture some of its former glory.

Author : Steven E. Winters
Publisher : Author House
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781496902948

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A Knight in the Ville by Steven E. Winters Pdf

The Memorial Day weekend was just a few days away, and soon hundreds of former graduates of Sistersville High School and their families would begin streaming into town to attend the annual Alumni festivities. However, one visitor was coming to Sistersville with no intention of joining in any of the celebrations. His was a mission of hatred and revenge, and he was someone Curtis Knight knew well. But before Sergeant Knight could deal with his old foe, he had a larger problem on his hands. There was a deadly force living unseen in the Ville...and it was hungry for flesh.

Author : William James
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : YALE:39002017653974

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The Naval History of Great Britain, from the Declaration of War by France in 1793, to the Accession of George IV. by William James Pdf

Author : Wendy Davies
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000950885

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Brittany in the Early Middle Ages by Wendy Davies Pdf

This volume focuses on Wendy Davies's work on early medieval Breton texts and their implications. Beginning with core analyses of the Redon and Landévennec cartularies, it continues with papers that tease out some of the key social implications of the 9th-century Redon material - on the nature of political power, on rural communities, on the settlement of disputes, and on transmission of property. While the Redon charters have long been known as a source of fundamental importance for Breton history, the author's database (established in the 1980s) allowed much greater understanding of the role of individuals - at all social levels, and particularly peasant level - than had previously been possible. Attention to the detail of the east Breton past also includes papers on some of the results of her fieldwork, on building stone in particular. Early medieval Brittany is not merely interesting in itself (and it is certainly not some Celtic backwater): Breton evidence can usefully be differentiated from the evidence of other Celtic areas and has a significant role in wider issues of European history. As well as papers on the familiar themes of kingship, rulership, cult sites and cemeteries, the final section highlights the distinctive quality of the Breton evidence for the protection of sacred and personal space, for slavery and serfdom and for village-level courts.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 850 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Humanities
ISBN : UOM:39015009222525

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Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alan Sullivan
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547187547

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Three Came to Ville Marie by Alan Sullivan Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Three Came to Ville Marie" by Alan Sullivan. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Robert Sackville-West
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781408824825

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The Disinherited by Robert Sackville-West Pdf

In the small hours of the morning of 3 June 1914, a woman and her husband were found dead in a sparsely furnished apartment in Paris. It was only when the identity of the couple was revealed in the English press a fortnight later that the full story emerged. The man, Henry Sackville-West, had shot himself minutes after the death of his wife from cancer; but Henry's suicidal despair had been driven equally by the failure of his claim to be the legitimate son of Lord Sackville and heir to Knole. The Disinherited reveals the secrets and lies at the heart of an English dynasty, unravelling the parallel lives of Henri's four illegitimate siblings: in particular his older sister, Victoria, who on becoming Lady Sackville and mistress of Knole, by marriage, consigned her brothers and sisters to lives of poverty and disappointment.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CHI:105682060

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The Shipwrecked Mariner by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sylvie Patron
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496236968

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The Narrator by Sylvie Patron Pdf

The narrator (the answer to the question "who speaks in the text?") is a commonly used notion in teaching literature and in literary criticism, even though it is the object of an ongoing debate in narrative theory. Do all fictional narratives have a narrator, or only some of them? Can narratives thus be "narratorless"? This question divides communicational theories (based on the communication between real or fictional narrator and narratee) and noncommunicational or poetic theories (which aim to rehabilitate the function of the author as the creator of the fictional narrative). Clarifying the notion of the narrator requires a historical and epistemological approach focused on the opposition between communicational theories of narrative in general and noncommunicational or poetic theories of the fictional narrative in particular. The Narrator offers an original and critical synthesis of the problem of the narrator in the work of narratologists and other theoreticians of narrative communication from the French, Czech, German, and American traditions and in representations of the noncommunicational theories of fictional narrative. Sylvie Patron provides linguistic and pragmatic tools for interrogating the concept of the narrator based on the idea that fictional narrative has the power to signal, by specific linguistic marks, that the reader must construct a narrator; when these marks are missing, the reader is able to perceive other forms and other narrative effects, specially sought after by certain authors.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Press
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU08520313

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Public Opinion by Anonim Pdf

Author : Giovanni Picker
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317612230

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Racial Cities by Giovanni Picker Pdf

Going beyond race-blind approaches to spatial segregation in Europe, Racial Cities argues that race is the logic through which stigmatized and segregated "Gypsy urban areas" have emerged and persisted after World War II. Building on nearly a decade of ethnographic and historical research in Romania, Italy, France and the UK, Giovanni Picker casts a series of case studies into the historical framework of circulations and borrowings between colony and metropole since the late nineteenth century. By focusing on socio-economic transformations and social dynamics in contemporary Cluj-Napoca, Pescara, Montreuil, Florence and Salford, Picker detects four local segregating mechanisms, and comparatively investigates resemblances between each of them and segregation in French Rabat, Italian Addis Ababa, and British New Delhi. These multiple global associations across space and time serve as an empirical basis for establishing a solid bridge between race critical theories and urban studies. Racial Cities is the first comprehensive analysis of the segregation of Romani people in Europe, providing a fine-tuned and in-depth explanation of this phenomenon. While inequalities increase globally and poverty is ever more concentrated, this book is a key contribution to debates and actions addressing social marginality, inequalities, racist exclusions, and governance. Thanks to its dense yet thoroughly accessible narration, the book will appeal to scholars, undergraduate and postgraduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and equally to activists and policy makers, who are interested in areas including: Race and Racism, Urban Studies, Governance, Inequalities, Colonialism and Postcolonialism, and European Studies.

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555101458

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Reports from Committees by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons Pdf

Author : François Guizot
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Civilization
ISBN : STANFORD:36105011987364

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General History of Civilization in Europe by François Guizot Pdf