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In her collection of linked essays, Jerkins takes on perhaps one of the most provocative contemporary topics: What does it mean to "be"-- to live as, to exist as-- a black woman today? Doubly disenfranchised by race and gender, often deprived of a place within the mostly white mainstream feminist movement, black women are objectified, silenced, and marginalized with devastating consequences, in ways both obvious and subtle, that are rarely acknowledged...
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"Over the past century, humankind has managed to do the impossible and rein in famine, plague, and war. For the first time ever, more people die from eating too much than from eating too little; more people die from old age than from infectious diseases; and more people commit suicide than are killed by soldiers, terrorists and criminals put together. The average American is a thousand times more likely to die from binging at McDonald's than from...
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The touching, triumphant story of a young black man's journey from violence and despair to one of the world's most elite artistic institutions, Sing for Your Life chronicles Ryan Speedo Green's suspenseful, racially charged and artistically intricate journey from juvenile solitary confinement to stardom, performing major roles at the Met and Europe's most prestigious opera houses.
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This is a brilliant and provocative work, and Robert L. Lattimer has captured the essence of our current time for constructive protest based on our nation's principles of liberty, freedom, opportunity, and achievement for all Americans, that the promise of American diversity means that if Black lives don't matter, no lives do. In this book, Lattimer has truly presented the Soul of America.
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Guerra de razas. Negros contra blancos en Cuba. Rafael Conte Mayolino y José M. Capmany
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I. LUCHA DE RAZAS
El movimiento insurreccional cuyas postreras vibraciones estremecen todavía las montañas orientales, ha sido un brote racista, una protesta armada de los negros contra los blancos, de los antiguos siervos contra los antiguos señores. Suponer otra cosa, atribuirle otro carácter, sería pueril y absurdo, y acusaría...
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The quest for economic development is arguably the most frustrating and tragic dimension of human existence in Africa. As its primary task, The Split Time constructs an economic philosophy from a tradition of thought that is indigenous to Africa, arguing that there are long-neglected resources within African philosophy to guide economic policymakers toward creating an African economy that can sustain human flourishing. Exploring notions of destiny,...
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The Needs of Others is set at the UN in 1994, where diplomats learn of violence in Rwanda. Representing UN ambassadors, human rights organizations, journalists, and public opinion leaders, students wrestle with difficult questions based on an unsteady trickle of information: Should the UN peacekeeping mission be withdrawn or strengthened? Is the fighting in Rwanda a civil war or something else? Does the UN have an obligation to intervene?
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This is a book about an unlikely friendship between two boys from different ethnicities in 1940s Montgomery, Alabama. One boy is Caucasian and the other boy is African-American. The friendship was frowned upon during the years of segregation of the races. The story tells of how the friendship was the transformational event that shaped how the Caucasian boy viewed race during the turmoil of civil unrest in the 1960s and 1970s. The Caucasian boy became...
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The Condition of the Black man, as the title implies, is an intimate analysis and personal account of the condition of the Black man. Each chapter discusses how Black men's various milestones, doctrines and vocations, have been impacted adversely.
The author unpacks the destructive impact of colonialism and how it has affected the mentality of our people, by denying us knowledge of self and intertwines this through his own personal accounts of his...
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Summary of The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander | Includes Analysis Preview: The New Jim Crow argues that the ongoing "War on Drugs" and the resulting mass incarceration of African Americans is the moral equivalent of Jim Crow. Beginning in the seventeenth century, institutions emerged in colonial America that contributed to the creation of a racial caste system. America's current racial caste system builds upon the legacy of both chattel slavery...
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In this simultaneously intellectual and ghetto work, Victor Smith opens up the long time coming discussion regarding race and culture in the United States, particularly from the perspective of being the only black man there. With a unique outlook and attitude, Smith will challenge your previously held assumptions and beliefs. He argues that there are connections - if you look for them - between history, popular culture, and the treatment of black...
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In Audre's Footsteps amplifies the resistive and generative experiences of women of color educators, artists, activists, and scholars in Berlin and the U.S. who consider themselves friends in the struggle.
In Audre's Footsteps honors Black radical traditions set forth by W.E.B. Du Bois, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Dr. Angela Y. Davis, and Audre Lorde, all who were intellectually influenced by their experiences in Berlin. The text primarily...
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Interdisciplinary celebration of the cultural contributions of members of the African Diaspora in the Western hemisphere.
In this unique and groundbreaking collection, writers, critics, historians, and poets celebrate the cultural contributions of members of the African diaspora in the Western Hemisphere. Beginning with the cries and prayers of Gina Athena Ulysse to the Haitian loa Erzulie in the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti, each writer...
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America's African-Americans will identify their role models with this collection of inspiring and amazing stories that showcases 150 black heroes and heroines. These action-packed biographies and powerful illustrations document and highlight the major and historical accomplishments of important African-Americans. As part of Fell's "American Heroes and Heroines" series, here's a tribute to the African-American experience. Includes Martin Luther King,...
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Now a days glasses are becoming very important material with different compositions in many preferred forms like lenses, screens, prisms and optical communication fibers which are in demand in regular life. These can be produced by many conventional techniques based on application [1-5].Glasses with heavy metal elements which are doped with different lanthanide ions have much attention fabrication of optical fiber amplifiers and solid state lasers...
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In three global conflicts and countless colonial campaigns, tens of thousands of black West Indian soldiers fought and died for Britain, first as slaves and then as volunteers. These all but forgotten regiments were unique because they were part of the British Army rather than colonial formations. All were stepchild units, despised by an army loath to number black soldiers in its ranks, and yet unable to do without them; their courage, endurance and...
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Sisterhood is oft elusive, if not a misunderstood concept. Despite all the factors that could impede the development, elevation, and maintenance of sistering relationships, Black women continue to acknowledge the value of sisterhoods. Sistering offers a lifeline of support and validation. Holding membership in an empowering woman-centered relationship is a special kind of privilege. The authors in this volume contest any assumption that sisterhood...
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Through the lens of Black psychology, this book is a radical blending of African centered historiography with an innovative analysis of the role of consciousness formation and identity fragmentation as the unfinished revolution. This work provides a new intellectual discourse in the understanding of human psychology, cultural studies, traditional African spirituality, political science, and race relations. The Island of Memes: Haiti's Unfinished Revolution...
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