White Sand Black Beach

Author : Bush, Gregory W
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813059617

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White Sand Black Beach by Bush, Gregory W Pdf

Florida Historical Society Harry T. and Hariette V. Moore Award  Florida Book Awards, Silver Medal for Florida Nonfiction In May 1945, activists staged a “wade-in” at a whites-only beach in Miami, protesting the Jim Crow–era laws that denied blacks access to recreational waterfront areas. Pressured by protestors in this first postwar civil rights demonstration, the Dade County Commission ultimately designated the difficult-to-access Virginia Key as a beach for African Americans. The beach became vitally important to the community, offering a place to congregate with family and friends and to enjoy the natural wonders of the area. It was also a tangible victory in the continuing struggle for civil rights in public space. As Florida beaches were later desegregated, many viewed Virginia Key as symbolic of an oppressive past and ceased to patronize it. At the same time, white leaders responded to desegregation by decreasing attention to and funding for public spaces in general. The beach was largely ignored and eventually shut down. In White Sand Black Beach, historian and longtime Miami activist Gregory Bush recounts this unique story and the current state of the public waterfront in Miami. Recently environmentalists, community leaders, and civil rights activists have come together to revitalize the beach, and Bush highlights the potential to stimulate civic engagement in public planning processes. While local governments defer to booster and lobbying interests pushing for destination casinos and boat shows, Bush calls for a land ethic that connects people to the local environment. He seeks to shift the local political divisions beyond established interest groups and neoliberalism to a broader vision that simplifies human needs, and reconnects people to fundamental values such as health. A place of fellowship, relaxation, and interaction with nature, this beach, Bush argues, offers a common ground of hope for a better future.

Author : Elma Napier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Dominica
ISBN : 0953222446

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Black and White Sands by Elma Napier Pdf

Scottish aristocrat Elma Napier turned her back on London high society in 1932, to move to Dominica, where she became the first woman to sit in a West Indian parliament. This is her memoir of life there.

Author : Richard Fairgray
Publisher : Holiday House
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-21
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781645950936

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Black Sand Beach 3: Have You Seen the Darkness? by Richard Fairgray Pdf

Dash and the crew are on a mission to save their summer vacation home from competing evils in the third installment in the creepy Black Sand Beach graphic novel series, perfect for fans of Gravity Falls, Rickety Stitch, and Fake Blood. After reading Dash’s journal from the previous summer—the summer he doesn’t remember—the kids piece together that Dash's new ghost girl friends were really puppets of a darker evil that collects the identities of its victims. And now that evil has come to call. Kelsey and Casey visited Black Sand Beach in the 90s, back when it was a legit beach town with boogie boards, ice cream, T-shirt shops. But they weren’t on a summer escape. They were tagging along on their dad’s monster-hunting mission. They found one. And it ate them. Now, back in the present, Dash and his crew must put this face-stealing monster to rest. Before the Darkness, and all the evil of Black Sand Beach takes Dash . . . forever.

Author : Richard Fairgray
Publisher : Holiday House
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781645950042

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Black Sand Beach 2: Do You Remember the Summer Before? by Richard Fairgray Pdf

A revelation about how Dash may or may not have spent the summer before raises the stakes even higher in this second installment of the eerie and enthralling Black Sand Beach series, perfect for fans of Gravity Falls, Rickety Stich, and Fake Blood. Dash and his crew might have stumbled upon the source of the evil at Black Sand Beach when they stumbled into the abandoned and haunted lighthouse, but when Lily reveals that she found Dash's journal there, the news is anything but comforting. The book is full of Dash's reflections on his trip to Black Sand Beach the previous summer. Only Dash doesn't recognize the journal or have any memory of being there. As the friends read the entries aloud, through flashbacks Dash's unsettling encounter with two ghost girls, a truly terrifying monster, and a life changing event make one thing very clear: Black Sand Beach isn't done with them yet. Deliciously creepy and difficult to put down, Do You Remember the Summer Before? returns readers to a supernatural shore they'll never forget.

Author : Gregory Wallace Bush
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 0813051622

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White Sand Black Beach by Gregory Wallace Bush Pdf

Historian and Miami activist Gregory Bush recounts the story of Virginia Key Beach and the current state of public space in South Florida, which are intimately interwoven with the history of segregation. With emphasis on oral history, he uses historic Virginia Key Beach Park and waterfront development as a lens for examining the intersection of public space, race, public involvement and capitalism.

Author : Andrew W. Kahrl
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469628738

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The Land Was Ours by Andrew W. Kahrl Pdf

The coasts of today's American South feature luxury condominiums, resorts, and gated communities, yet just a century ago, a surprising amount of beachfront property in the Chesapeake, along the Carolina shores, and around the Gulf of Mexico was owned and populated by African Americans. Blending social and environmental history, Andrew W. Kahrl tells the story of African American–owned beaches in the twentieth century. By reconstructing African American life along the coast, Kahrl demonstrates just how important these properties were for African American communities and leisure, as well as for economic empowerment, especially during the era of the Jim Crow South. However, in the wake of the civil rights movement and amid the growing prosperity of the Sunbelt, many African Americans fell victim to effective campaigns to dispossess black landowners of their properties and beaches. Kahrl makes a signal contribution to our understanding of African American landowners and real-estate developers, as well as the development of coastal capitalism along the southern seaboard, tying the creation of overdeveloped, unsustainable coastlines to the unmaking of black communities and cultures along the shore. The result is a skillful appraisal of the ambiguous legacy of racial progress in the Sunbelt.

Author : Gregory W. Bush
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1020670046

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White Sand Black Beach by Gregory W. Bush Pdf

4. The Shifting Sands of Civil Rights in Southeast Florida, 1945-1976 -- 5. Public Land by the Sea: Developing Virginia Key, 1945-1976 -- 6. The Erosion of a "World-Class" Urban Paradise: Tourism, the Environmental Movement, and Planning Related to Virginia Key Beach, 1982-1998 -- 7. Forging Our Civil Right to Public Space, 1999-2015 -- Afterword: The Real Miami -- Better than a Theme Park -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Author : Jean S. MacLeod
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0263097455

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Black Sand, White Sand by Jean S. MacLeod Pdf

Author : Summer Gray
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-29
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780520392755

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In the Shadow of the Seawall by Summer Gray Pdf

In the Shadow of the Seawall journeys to the low-lying lands of Guyana and the Maldives to grapple with the existential dilemma of seawalls alongside struggles to resist displacement. With the gathering momentum of ocean instability wrought by centuries of injustice, seawalls have become objects of conflict and negotiation, around which human struggles for power and resistance collide. Through stories of colonial ruination and green seawalls, the concept of placekeeping emerges—a justice-oriented framework for addressing adaptation and the global dangers of coastal disruption at the front lines of climate change. Drawing on ethnographic observation and interviews, Gray shows how seawalls are entrenched in relationships of power and entangled in processes of making and keeping place.

Author : Alexis C. Kelly
Publisher : Fodors Travel Publications
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-21
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781400006830

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Fodor's Tahiti & French Polynesia by Alexis C. Kelly Pdf

Detailed and timely information on accommodations, restaurants, and local attractions highlight these updated travel guides, which feature all-new covers, a dramatic visual design, symbols to indicate budget options, must-see ratings, multi-day itineraries, Smart Travel Tips, helpful bulleted maps, tips on transportation, guidelines for shopping excursions, and other valuable features. Original.

Author : Molly Bloom,Marc Sanchez,Sanden Totten
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780316459396

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Brains On! Presents...Road Trip Earth by Molly Bloom,Marc Sanchez,Sanden Totten Pdf

The creators of the award-winning science podcast for kids, Brains On!, take readers on a humorous, highly illustrated, fact- and fun-filled journey through Earth—from the core, to the outer atmosphere, and everywhere in between. Perfect for STEM enthusiasts! ​Did you ever wonder why volcanoes erupt? Or why the ocean is salty? How about why no two snowflakes are the same? Embark on an epic road trip to find the answers to these burning questions and more! The Brains On! team is traveling from deep inside the earth, through the oceans, the land, the clouds, and even into the outer atmosphere in their high-tech ride—to uncover the coolest facts, strangest mysteries, and most incredible marvels of our planet. Packed with scientific research, mind-boggling trivia, and laugh-out-loud jokes, this highly illustrated fact-filled exploration of the earth promises a brain-bending, jaw-dropping, belly-laughing good time that curious kids and budding scientists won’t be able to resist. Turn your BRAINS ON! with more books and check out: Brains On! Presents...It's Alive Brains On! Presents...Earth Friend Forever

Author : Richard Fairgray
Publisher : Holiday House
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-16
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781645950004

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Black Sand Beach 1: Are You Afraid of the Light? by Richard Fairgray Pdf

This summer vacation is anything but a dream trip. The first book in a spooky, witty new graphic novel series from bestselling Blastosaurus creator Richard Fairgray, perfect for fans of Gravity Falls, Rickety Stitch, and Fake Blood. Twelve-year-old Dash and his best friend Lily are spending the summer at Black Sand Beach, where Dash's family has a house. Lily can't understand why Dash isn't more excited. Three months of surf, sand, and sun. It should be a dream! But Black Sand Beach is not that kind of vacation spot. The house is a shack, and all of Dash's weird relatives are there. More alarming is the zombie ram that crashes through the front yard and the eerie voices calling out to Dash from the lighthouse--a lighthouse that hasn't been operational in a hundred years. . . . So Dash has a new plan for his summer vacation. . . . Survive. Full of unexpected twists, Are You Afraid of the Light? begins a delightfully creepy graphic novel series that readers will devour. (But keep a flashlight handy.)

Author : Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781477326442

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The Color Pynk by Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley Pdf

A celebration of the distinctive and politically defiant art of Black queer, cis-, and transfemmes, from the work of Janelle Monáe and Janet Mock to that of Indya Moore and Kelsey Lu.

Author : Fodor's
Publisher : Fodor's Travel
Page : 2014 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-20
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780770432263

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Fodor's Caribbean 2014 by Fodor's Pdf

Fodor's Caribbean 2014 ebook edition covers almost 50 destinations in the Caribbean, from the Dominican Republic and Trinidad & Tobago, to Turks & Caicos and even Montserrat. The guide reviews the best each island has to offer, including activities, resorts, restaurants, nightspots, shops, and more. This guide is a complete planning tool that will help travelers put together the perfect trip to an island paradise. Competitive Advantage: Fodor's Caribbean 2014 is the only comprehensive, full-color ebook guide to the region that is published and updated annually. Expanded Coverage: The Caribbean is ever-changing, and this edition includes new resorts, restaurants, sports and activity outfitters, and attractions. Indispensable Trip Planning Tools: An island finder helps travelrs choose the perfect Caribbean destination. Each chapter opens with four pages that include an island map, the top reasons to go, and other essential information to help visitors plan their time effectively. Discerning Recommendations: Fodor's Caribbean 2014 offers savvy advice and recommendations from local writers to help travelers make the most of their time. Fodor's Choice designates our best picks, from hotels to nightlife. "Word of Mouth" quotes from fellow travelers provide valuable insights. ABOUT FODOR'S AUTHORS: Each Fodor's Travel Guide is researched and written by local experts.

Author : Tatiana D. McInnis
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813072555

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To Tell a Black Story of Miami by Tatiana D. McInnis Pdf

How portrayals of anti-Blackness in literature and film challenge myths about South Florida history and culture In this book, Tatiana McInnis examines literary and cultural representations of Miami alongside the city’s material realities to challenge the image of South Florida as a diverse cosmopolitan paradise. McInnis discusses how this favorable “melting pot” narrative depends on the obfuscation of racialized violence against people of African descent.  Analyzing novels, short stories, and memoirs by Edwidge Danticat, M.J. Fievre, Carlos Moore, Carlos Eire, Patricia Stephens Due, and Tananarive Due, as well as films such as Dawg Fight and Moonlight, McInnis demonstrates how these creations push back against erasure by representing the experiences of Black Americans and immigrants from Caribbean nations. McInnis considers portrayals of state-sanctioned oppression, residential segregation, violent detention of emigres, and increasing wealth gaps and concludes that celebrations of Miami’s diversity disguise the pervasive, adaptive nature of white supremacy and anti-Blackness.  To Tell a Black Story of Miami offers a model of how to use literature as a primary archive in urban studies. It draws attention to the similarities and divergences between Miami’s Black diasporic communities, a historically underrepresented demographic in popular and scholarly awareness of the city. Increasing understanding of Miami’s political, social, and economic inequities, this book brings greater nuance to traditional narratives of exceptionalism in cities and regions.  Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.