We All Came From Borderlands

Author : Laclaire Mitchell Nzerem
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04-08
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1438936389

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We All Came from Borderlands by Laclaire Mitchell Nzerem Pdf

This book represents a continuum of creative thoughts and ideas which began after the study of 20th century American Poets with Professor Gary Gildner at Drake University in 1977, and continued as an independent study project with Dr. Tom Swiss. These poems cover many issues I have explored during that time period from nature and beyond. The poems also touch on some social issues concerning the problem of slavery, war, living in a multicultural relationship, and the idea of not just tolerating your neighbor who is different, but truly forgiving each other for any misundertandings, moving to embracing each other and going forward as a nation, to leave a positive legacy for our children. In this light the book ends with a poem "Premillenial Resolutions Resolved: Barack Obama President," eluding to the hope that we as a people all come together in unity, to really start thinking of each other in terms of our being "Americans" all originating from other places with different customs and traditions passed down to us; stories of our own family's courageous beginnings and sacrifices, creating what we are today. Stories that must be passed, on respected and not ridiculed because of those diverse customs, ideosyncracies, or cultural norms.

Author : Laclaire Mitchell Nzerem
Publisher : Author House
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781467864251

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We All Came From Borderlands by Laclaire Mitchell Nzerem Pdf

This book represents a continuum of creative thoughts and ideas which began after the study of 20th century American Poets with Professor Gary Gildner at Drake University in 1977, and continued as an independent study project with Dr. Tom Swiss. These poems cover many issues I have explored during that time period from nature and beyond. The poems also touch on some social issues concerning the problem of slavery, war, living in a multicultural relationship, and the idea of not just tolerating your neighbor who is different, but truly forgiving each other for any misundertandings, moving to embracing each other and going forward as a nation, to leave a positive legacy for our children. In this light the book ends with a poem "Premillenial Resolutions Resolved: Barack Obama President" , eluding to the hope that we as a people all come together in unity, to really start thinking of each other in terms of our being "Americans" all originating from other places with different customs and traditions passed down to us; stories of our own family's courageous beginnings and sacrifices, creating what we are today. Stories that must be passed, on respected and not ridiculed because of those diverse customs, ideosyncracies, or cultural norms.

Author : Omer Bartov
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300265002

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Tales from the Borderlands by Omer Bartov Pdf

The story of the diverse communities of Eastern Europe’s borderlands in the centuries prior to World War II “A powerful combination of history and personal memoir . . . A richly contextual, skillfully woven historical study.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Focusing on the former province of Galicia, this book tells the story of Europe’s eastern borderlands, stretching from the Baltic to the Balkans, through the eyes of the diverse communities of migrants who settled there for centuries and were murdered or forcibly removed from the borderlands in the course of World War II and its aftermath. Omer Bartov explores the fates and hopes, dreams and disillusionment of the people who lived there, and, through the stories they told about themselves, reconstructs who they were, where they came from, and where they were heading. It was on the borderlands that the expanding great empires—German, Austro-Hungarian, Russian, and Ottoman—overlapped, clashed, and disintegrated. The civilization of these borderlands was a mix of multiple cultures, languages, ethnic groups, religions, and nations that similarly overlapped and clashed. The borderlands became the cradle of modernity. Looking back at it tells us where we came from.

Author : Laclaire Mitchell Nzerem
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-08
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1438936389

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We All Came from Borderlands by Laclaire Mitchell Nzerem Pdf

This book represents a continuum of creative thoughts and ideas which began after the study of 20th century American Poets with Professor Gary Gildner at Drake University in 1977, and continued as an independent study project with Dr. Tom Swiss. These poems cover many issues I have explored during that time period from nature and beyond. The poems also touch on some social issues concerning the problem of slavery, war, living in a multicultural relationship, and the idea of not just tolerating your neighbor who is different, but truly forgiving each other for any misundertandings, moving to embracing each other and going forward as a nation, to leave a positive legacy for our children. In this light the book ends with a poem "Premillenial Resolutions Resolved: Barack Obama President," eluding to the hope that we as a people all come together in unity, to really start thinking of each other in terms of our being "Americans" all originating from other places with different customs and traditions passed down to us; stories of our own family's courageous beginnings and sacrifices, creating what we are today. Stories that must be passed, on respected and not ridiculed because of those diverse customs, ideosyncracies, or cultural norms.

Author : Denis Lynn Daly Heyck
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317796121

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Barrios and Borderlands by Denis Lynn Daly Heyck Pdf

This unique anthology highlights the diversity of Latino cultural expressions and points out the distinctive features of the three major Latino populations: Mexican, Puerto Rican and Cuban. It is organized around six central cultural issues: family, religion, community, the arts, (im)migration and exile, and cultural identity. Each chapter focuses on a particular theme by presenting readings from a variety of genres, including short stories, poems, essays, excerpts from novels, a play, photographs, even a few songs and recipes.

Author : John Shirley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781439198476

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Borderlands: The Fallen by John Shirley Pdf

Roland, a former mercenary, becomes a guide and bodyguard to Zac Finn and his family on a dangerous planet in the Borderlands, and must protect them from aliens and bandits while Zac searches for alien treasure.

Author : Ranbir Singh Sidhu
Publisher : Unnamed Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1939419689

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Deep Singh Blue by Ranbir Singh Sidhu Pdf

Deep Singh wants out -- out of his family, out of his city, and more than anything, out of his life. His parents argue over everything and his brother, who hasn't said a single word in over a year, suddenly turns to him one day and tells him to die. So when Lily, a beautiful, older, and married, woman, shows him more than a flicker of attention, he falls heedlessly in love. It doesn't help that Lily is an alcoholic, hates her husband, and doesn't think much of herself, or her immigrant Chinese mom either. As Deep's growing obsession with Lily begins to spin out of control, the rest of his life seems to mirror his desperation -- culminating in his brother's disappearance and an unfolding tragedy. Ranbir Singh Sidhu's debut takes us into the heart of another America, and into the lives of "the other Indians--the ones who don't get talked about and whose stories don't get written." With a sharp, funny and unsentimental eye, Sidhu chronicles the devastating consequences of racism in eighties' America and offers a portrait of a wildly dysfunctional family trying to gain a foothold in their adopted country.

Author : W. H. New
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774842389

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Borderlands by W. H. New Pdf

The border between Canada and the United States not only seperates us geographically and politically, but also is an important symbol for defining Canadian nationality. In Borderlands, New poetically and metaphorically considers the image of 'the border' in Canada and how it affects the way Canadians look at themselves and their society.

Author : Bruno Macaes
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300235937

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The Dawn of Eurasia by Bruno Macaes Pdf

A bold, eye-opening account of the coming integration of Europe and Asia Weaving together history, diplomacy, and vivid personal narratives from his overland journey across Eurasia from Baku to Samarkand, Vladivostok to Beijing, Bruno Maçães provides a fascinating portrait of the shifting borderlands between Europe and Asia, tracking the economic integration of the two continents into a new supercontinent: Eurasia. As Maçães demonstrates, glimpses of the coming Eurasianism are already visible in China’s bold infrastructure project reopening the historic Silk Road, in the success of cities like Hong Kong and Singapore, in Turkey’s increasing global role, and in shifting U.S. foreign policy toward Europe and Asia. This insightful and clarifying book argues that the artificial separation of the world’s largest island cannot hold.

Author : Ian Fowler,Verkijika G. Fanso
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1845453360

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Encounter, Transformation and Identity by Ian Fowler,Verkijika G. Fanso Pdf

Bringing together key historical and innovative ethnographic materials on the peoples of the South-West Province of Cameroon and the Nigerian borderlands, this volume presents critical and analytical approaches to the production of ethnic, political, religious, and gendered identities in the region. The contributors examine a range of issues relating to identity, including first encounters and conflict as well as global networking, trans-national families, enculturation, gender, resistance, and death. In addition to a number of very striking illustrations of ethnographic and material culture, this volume contains key maps from early German sources and other original cartographical materials.

Author : Gregory Ablavsky
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780190905699

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Federal Ground by Gregory Ablavsky Pdf

Federal Ground depicts the haphazard and unplanned growth of federal authority in the Northwest and Southwest Territories, the first U.S. territories established under the new territorial system. The nation's foundational documents, particularly the Constitution and the Northwest Ordinance, placed these territories under sole federal jurisdiction and established federal officials to govern them. But, for all their paper authority, these officials rarely controlled events or dictated outcomes. In practice, power in these contested borderlands rested with the regions' pre-existing inhabitants-diverse Native peoples, French villagers, and Anglo-American settlers. These residents nonetheless turned to the new federal government to claim ownership, jurisdiction, protection, and federal money, seeking to obtain rights under federal law. Two areas of governance proved particularly central: contests over property, where plural sources of title created conflicting land claims, and struggles over the right to use violence, in which customary borderlands practice intersected with the federal government's effort to establish a monopoly on force. Over time, as federal officials improvised ad hoc, largely extrajudicial methods to arbitrate residents' claims, they slowly insinuated federal authority deeper into territorial life. This authority survived even after the former territories became Tennessee and Ohio: although these new states spoke a language of equal footing and autonomy, statehood actually offered former territorial citizens the most effective way yet to make claims on the federal government. The federal government, in short, still could not always prescribe the result in the territories, but it set the terms and language of debate-authority that became the foundation for later, more familiar and bureaucratic incarnations of federal power.

Author : Leonie Sandercock
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-27
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781000825435

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Mapping Possibility by Leonie Sandercock Pdf

Mapping Possibility traces the intertwined intellectual, professional, and emotional life of Leonie Sandercock. With an impressive career spanning nearly half a century as an educator, researcher, artist, and practitioner, Sandercock is one of the leading figures in community planning, dedicating her life to pursuing social, cultural, and environmental justice through her work. In this book, Leonie Sandercock reflects on her past writings and films, which played an important role in redefining the field in more progressive directions, both in theory and practice. It includes previously published essays in conjunction with insightful commentaries prefacing each section, and four new essays, two discussing Sandercock’s most recent work on a feature-film project with Indigenous partners. Innovative, visionary, and audacious, Leonie’s community-based scholarship and practice in the fields of urban planning and community development have engaged some of the most intractable issues of our time – inequality, discrimination, and racism. Through award-winning books and films, she has influenced the planning field to become more culturally fluent, addressing diversity and difference through structural change. This book draws a map of hope for emerging planners dedicated to equity, justice, and sustainability. It will inspire the next generation of community planners, as well as current practitioners and students in planning, cultural studies, urban studies, architecture, and community development.

Author : Virgilio P. Elizondo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173007772651

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The Future is Mestizo by Virgilio P. Elizondo Pdf

"Like the Chinese dicho, we are blessed to be living in interesting times, on the border of the new mestizaje. As one member of this exciting movimento nudging and being nudged into the future, I am delighted to have discovered this book. I have seen the new millennium and the future is us." -- Sandra Cisneros.

Author : D. Jean Clandinin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781315429595

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Engaging in Narrative Inquiry by D. Jean Clandinin Pdf

Narrative inquiry examines human lives through the lens of a narrative, honoring lived experience as a source of important knowledge and understanding. In this concise volume, D. Jean Clandinin, one of the pioneers in using narrative as research, updates her classic formulation on narrative inquiry (with F. Michael Connelly), clarifying, extending and refining the method based on an additional decade of work. A valuable feature is the inclusion of several exemplary cases with the author’s critique and analysis of the work. The rise of interest in narrative inquiry in recent years makes this is an essential guide for researchers and an excellent text for graduate courses in qualitative inquiry.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biodiversity
ISBN : CHI:81399846

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Proceedings RMRS. by Anonim Pdf