Watermelons Nooses And Straight Razors

Author : David Pilgrim
Publisher : PM Press
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781629634593

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Watermelons, Nooses, and Straight Razors by David Pilgrim Pdf

All groups tell stories, but some groups have the power to impose their stories on others, to label others, stigmatize others, paint others as undesirables—and to have these stories presented as scientific fact, God’s will, or wholesome entertainment. Watermelons, Nooses, and Straight Razors examines the origins and significance of several longstanding antiblack stories and the caricatures and stereotypes that support them. Here readers will find representations of the lazy, childlike Sambo, the watermelon-obsessed pickaninny, the buffoonish minstrel, the subhuman savage, the loyal and contented mammy and Tom, and the menacing, razor-toting coon and brute. Malcolm X and James Baldwin both refused to eat watermelon in front of white people. They were aware of the jokes and other stories about African Americans stealing watermelons, fighting over watermelons, even being transformed into watermelons. Did racial stories influence the actions of white fraternities and sororities who dressed in blackface and mocked black culture, or employees who hung nooses in their workplaces? What stories did the people who refer to Serena Williams and other dark-skinned athletes as apes or baboons hear? Is it possible that a white South Carolina police officer who shot a fleeing black man had never heard stories about scary black men with straight razors or other weapons? Antiblack stories still matter. Watermelons, Nooses, and Straight Razors uses images from the Jim Crow Museum, the nation’s largest publicly accessible collection of racist objects. These images are evidence of the social injustice that Martin Luther King Jr. referred to as “a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be exposed to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured.” Each chapter concludes with a story from the author’s journey, challenging the integrity of racial narratives.

Author : David Pilgrim
Publisher : PM Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781629631790

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Understanding Jim Crow by David Pilgrim Pdf

For many people, especially those who came of age after landmark civil rights legislation was passed, it is difficult to understand what it was like to be an African American living under Jim Crow segregation in the United States. Most young Americans have little or no knowledge about restrictive covenants, literacy tests, poll taxes, lynchings, and other oppressive features of the Jim Crow racial hierarchy. Even those who have some familiarity with the period may initially view racist segregation and injustices as mere relics of a distant, shameful past. A proper understanding of race relations in this country must include a solid knowledge of Jim Crow—how it emerged, what it was like, how it ended, and its impact on the culture. Understanding Jim Crow introduces readers to the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia, a collection of more than ten thousand contemptible collectibles that are used to engage visitors in intense and intelligent discussions about race, race relations, and racism. The items are offensive. They were meant to be offensive. The items in the Jim Crow Museum served to dehumanize blacks and legitimized patterns of prejudice, discrimination, and segregation. Using racist objects as teaching tools seems counterintuitive—and, quite frankly, needlessly risky. Many Americans are already apprehensive discussing race relations, especially in settings where their ideas are challenged. The museum and this book exist to help overcome our collective trepidation and reluctance to talk about race. Fully illustrated, and with context provided by the museum’s founder and director David Pilgrim, Understanding Jim Crow is both a grisly tour through America’s past and an auspicious starting point for racial understanding and healing.

Author : Michelle Cruz Gonzales
Publisher : PM Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781629632551

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Spitboy Rule by Michelle Cruz Gonzales Pdf

Michelle Cruz Gonzales played drums and wrote lyrics in the influential 1990s female hardcore band Spitboy, and now she’s written a book—a punk rock herstory. Though not a riot grrl band, Spitboy blazed trails for women musicians in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond, but it wasn’t easy. Misogyny, sexism, abusive fans, class and color blindness, and all-out racism were foes, especially for Gonzales, a Xicana and the only person of color in the band. Unlike touring rock bands before them, the unapologetically feminist Spitboy preferred Scrabble games between shows rather than sex and drugs, and they were not the angry manhaters that many expected them to be. Serious about women’s issues and being the band that they themselves wanted to hear, a band that rocked as hard as men but sounded like women, Spitboy released several records and toured internationally. The memoir details these travels while chronicling Spitboy’s successes and failures, and for Gonzales, discovering her own identity along the way. Fully illustrated with rare photos and flyers from the punk rock underground, this fast-paced, first-person recollection is populated by scenesters and musical allies from the time including Econochrist, Paxston Quiggly, Neurosis, Los Crudos, Aaron Cometbus, Pete the Roadie, Green Day, Fugazi, and Kamala and the Karnivores.

Author : David Pilgrim,Franklin Hughes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : EDUCATION
ISBN : 1629637904

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Haste to Rise by David Pilgrim,Franklin Hughes Pdf

Between 1910 and the mid-1920s, more than sixty black students from the South bravely traveled north to Ferris Institute, a small, mostly white school in Big Rapids, Michigan.They came to enroll in college programs and college preparatory courses--and to escape, if only temporarily, the daily and ubiquitous indignities suffered under the Jim Crow racial hierarchy. Haste to Rise is a book about the incredible resiliency and breathtaking accomplishments of those students. It was written to unearth, contextualize, and share their stories and important lessons with this generation. Along the way we are introduced to dozens of these Jim Crow-era students. Haste to Rise is a challenge to others to look beyond a university's official history and seek a more complete knowledge of its past.

Author : Stetson Kennedy
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780817356712

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Jim Crow Guide to the U.S.A. by Stetson Kennedy Pdf

Jim Crow Guide documents the system of legally imposed American apartheid that prevailed during what Stetson Kennedy calls "the long century from Emancipation to the Overcoming." The mock guidebook covers every area of activity where the tentacles of Jim Crow reached. From the texts of state statutes, municipal ordinances, federal regulations, and judicial rulings, Kennedy exhumes the legalistic skeleton of Jim Crow in a work of permanent value for scholars and of exceptional appeal for general readers.

Author : Robert Evans
Publisher : AK Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781849354639

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After the Revolution by Robert Evans Pdf

What will the fracturing of the United States look like? After the Revolution is an edge-of-your-seat answer to that question. In the year 2070, twenty years after a civil war and societal collapse of the "old" United States, extremist militias battle in the crumbling Republic of Texas. As the violence spreads like wildfire and threatens the Free City of Austin, three unlikely allies will have to work together in an act of resistance to stop the advance of the forces of the white Christian ethnostate known as the "Heavenly Kingdom." Out three protagonists include Manny, a fixer that shuttles journalists in and out of war zones and provides footage for outside news agencies. Sasha is a teenage woman that joins the Heavenly Kingdom before she discovers the ugly truths behind their movement. Finally, we have Roland: A US Army vet kitted out with cyberware (including blood that heals major trauma wounds and a brain that can handle enough LSD to kill an elephant), tormented by broken memories, and 12,000 career kills under his belt. In the not-so-distant world Evans conjures we find advanced technology, a gender expansive culture, and a roving Burning Man-like city fueled by hedonistic excess. This powerful debut novel from Robert Evans is based on his investigative reporting from international conflict zones and on increasingly polarized domestic struggles. It is a vision of our very possible future.

Author : Noam Chomsky
Publisher : PM Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781629634647

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Yugoslavia by Noam Chomsky Pdf

The Balkans, in particular the turbulent ex-Yugoslav territory, have been among the most important world regions in Noam Chomsky’s political reflections and activism for decades. His articles, public talks, and correspondence have provided a critical voice on political and social issues crucial not only to the region but the entire international community, including “humanitarian intervention,” the relevance of international law in today’s politics, media manipulations, and economic crisis as a means of political control. This volume provides a comprehensive survey of virtually all of Chomsky’s texts and public talks that focus on the region of the former Yugoslavia, from the 1970s to the present. With numerous articles and interviews, this collection presents a wealth of materials appearing in book form for the first time along with reflections on events twenty-five years after the official end of communist Yugoslavia and the beginning of the war in Bosnia. The book opens with a personal and wide-ranging preface by Andrej Grubačić that affirms the ongoing importance of Yugoslav history and identity, providing a context for understanding Yugoslavia as an experiment in self-management, antifascism, and mutlethnic coexistence.

Author : Ahmed Ali
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 081121267X

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Twilight in Delhi by Ahmed Ali Pdf

Set during the early years of this century this book recaptues the texture of family life in Delhi.

Author : Kenneth Scheve,David Stasavage
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780691178295

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Taxing the Rich by Kenneth Scheve,David Stasavage Pdf

A groundbreaking history of why governments do—and don't—tax the rich In today's social climate of acknowledged and growing inequality, why are there not greater efforts to tax the rich? In this wide-ranging and provocative book, Kenneth Scheve and David Stasavage ask when and why countries tax their wealthiest citizens—and their answers may surprise you. Taxing the Rich draws on unparalleled evidence from twenty countries over the last two centuries to provide the broadest and most in-depth history of progressive taxation available. Scheve and Stasavage explore the intellectual and political debates surrounding the taxation of the wealthy while also providing the most detailed examination to date of when taxes have been levied against the rich and when they haven't. Fairness in debates about taxing the rich has depended on different views of what it means to treat people as equals and whether taxing the rich advances or undermines this norm. Scheve and Stasavage argue that governments don't tax the rich just because inequality is high or rising—they do it when people believe that such taxes compensate for the state unfairly privileging the wealthy. Progressive taxation saw its heyday in the twentieth century, when compensatory arguments for taxing the rich focused on unequal sacrifice in mass warfare. Today, as technology gives rise to wars of more limited mobilization, such arguments are no longer persuasive. Taxing the Rich shows how the future of tax reform will depend on whether political and economic conditions allow for new compensatory arguments to be made.

Author : Matthew N. Lyons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Right-wing extremists
ISBN : 1629635111

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Insurgent Supremacists by Matthew N. Lyons Pdf

Matthew N. Lyons takes readers on a tour of neonazis and Christian theocrats, by way of the patriot movement, the LaRouchites, and the alt-right. Supplementing this, thematic sections explore specific dimensions of far-right politics, regarding gender, decentralism, and anti-imperialism. His final chapter offers a preliminary analysis of the Trump presidential administration relationship with far-right politics and the organized far right's shifting responses to it. Both for its analysis and as a guide to our opponents, Insurgent Supremacists promises to be a powerful tool in organizing to resist the forces at the cutting edge of reaction today.

Author : Jerrold M. Packard
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2003-01-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781429979191

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American Nightmare by Jerrold M. Packard Pdf

For a hundred years after the end of the Civil War, a quarter of all Americans lived under a system of legalized segregation called Jim Crow. Together with its rigidly enforced canon of racial "etiquette," these rules governed nearly every aspect of life--and outlined draconian punishments for infractions. The purpose of Jim Crow was to keep African Americans subjugated at a level as close as possible to their former slave status. Exceeding even South Africa's notorious apartheid in the humiliation, degradation, and suffering it brought, Jim Crow left scars on the American psyche that are still felt today. American Nightmare examines and explains Jim Crow from its beginnings to its end: how it came into being, how it was lived, how it was justified, and how, at long last, it was overcome only a few short decades ago. Most importantly, this book reveals how a nation founded on principles of equality and freedom came to enact as law a pervasive system of inequality and virtual slavery. Although America has finally consigned Jim Crow to the historical graveyard, Jerrold Packard shows why it is important that this scourge--and an understanding of how it happened--remain alive in the nation's collective memory.

Author : Debby Irving
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0991331303

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Waking Up White by Debby Irving Pdf

One aha moment launches a journey of discovery and insight that shifts long held beliefs and attitudes about race.

Author : Girindranath Mukhopadhyaya
Publisher : Alpha Edition
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9353864046

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The Surgical Instruments of the Hindus with a Comparative Study of the Surgical Instruments of the Greek, Roman, Arab and the Modern Eouropean Surgeons by Girindranath Mukhopadhyaya Pdf

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.

Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : Namaskar Book
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays by Willa Cather Pdf

Delve into Willa Cather's Literary Tapestry: Stories, Reviews, and Essays A Collection of Stories, Reviews And Essays by Willa Cather: Explore the literary world of the renowned author Willa Cather in A Collection of Stories, Reviews And Essays. This captivating compilation offers a diverse range of Cather's works, from enchanting stories that transport you to different eras and places to thought-provoking essays that delve into the intricacies of human existence. Whether you're a long-time admirer of Cather's writing or new to her literary magic, this book invites you to immerse yourself in her profound insights and storytelling prowess. Why This Book? Discover the depth and brilliance of Willa Cather's literary genius as she navigates the landscapes of the human heart and human experience. This collection serves as a testament to Cather's enduring legacy in American literature, inviting readers to connect with the essence of her storytelling. Willa Cather, an American literary luminary, crafted her stories with a rare blend of artistry and empathy. Her timeless tales continue to resonate with readers, offering glimpses into the complexities of life and the beauty of the human spirit.

Author : Anne Stibbs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Crossword puzzles
ISBN : OCLC:1259497052

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Crossword Lists by Anne Stibbs Pdf