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The Life of John Thompson, a Fugitive Slave
By John Thompson. 2011
The unique narrative of a slave who fled to freedom and sailed aboard a whaling vessel. John Thompson was born…
into slavery on a Maryland plantation in 1812. Originally published in 1856, The Life of John Thompson, a Fugitive Slave chronicles his enslavement, his escape, and his life in the North, where he lived as a free man until fear of recapture drove him to flee once again-this time to sea aboard the Milwood, a whaling vessel. The only fugitive slave narrator to report a whaling voyage, Thompson crafted from his seafaring experience an allegorical sermon that caps his Life and renders it a kind of African American Pilgrim's Progress, as well as a narrative of struggle with, escape from, and triumph over American slavery. .Transforming Pain to Power
By Daniel Beaty. 2014
Pain doesn't last always Sometimes only for a night Try not to resist It hurts the more we fight Overcoming…
life's difficulties is daunting. At times, it seems the burdens that we bear are too painful to overcome. They keep us from even trying to accomplish the things we want most. It seems the only way to outlast the pain is to ignore it, when, in truth, the only way to discover the unlimited potential inside of us all is to embrace the pain, face the Authentic Self at our core, and use the strength therein to triumph over any obstruction in our way. Based on his powerful, true journey from a childhood rife with poverty, incarceration, addiction and rage to the successful adult life he achieved, award-winning performer, writer, and motivational speaker Daniel Beaty presents the tools that readers need to overcome any obstacle and tap into their full capabilities. By outlining an alternative mode of thinking, especially for the modern African-American man bombarded by negative stereotypes in the media, Beaty empowers the individual and encourages readers of all backgrounds to learn from their cultural and family heritage while forgiving and letting go of the negative so that only the positive remains. Beaty's story, supported by deeply personal advice from notable mentors such as Bill Cosby, Leontyne Price, Sydney Poitier, Ossie Davis, and Ruby Dee, serves as a strong reminder that success is ultimately possible, not in spite of struggles but as a result of lessons learned and power drawn from those lessons.Auto-ethnography in Public Policy Advocacy: Theory, Policy and Practice
By Louise Sinden-Carroll. 2019
This book explores how public policy advocacy can be used to approach policy issue identification resolution or at…
the least support the management of wicked policy issues By describing how this type of advocacy draws on participatory action research including ethnographic and auto-ethnographic models this book offers a tool for public policy consumer advocates on how to apply the Human Capabilities Approach to address presenting public policy issues worldwide By applying these models to the situation of prisoners with hearing loss in New Zealand s prisons it identifies multiple causal factors for quality-of-life-limiting marginalization e g social barriers e g disability discrimination environmental limitations e g geographical and those introduced by incarceration and individual responses in line with negative attitudes both social and political including the State s denial of prisoners right to democratic participation by revoking their right to vote in general elections after sentencing In addition two other areas namely blood safety and broadcast media captioning are highlighted showing that the skill of auto-ethnography is transferrable and can be applied to ensure effective consumer advocacy for a diverse range of issues that affect marginalized sectorsHip Hop America
By Nelson George. 1998
Of Revelation and Revolution, Volume 1: Christianity, Colonialism, and Consciousness in South Africa
By John L. Comaroff, Jean Comaroff. 1991
Defining their enterprise as more in the direction of poetics than of prosaics the Comaroffs free themselves to analyze…
a vivid series of images and events as objects of analysis These they mine for clues to the 19th-century contents of the British imagination and of Tswana minds They are themselves imagining the imagination of others and they do the job with characteristic aplomb The first volume creates an appetite for the second Sally Falk Moore American AnthropologistPolitical Process and the Development of Black Insurgency, 1930-1970
By Doug McAdam. 1999
In this classic work of sociology Doug McAdam presents a political-process model that explains the rise and decline of…
the black protest movement in the United States Moving from theoretical concerns to empirical analysis he focuses on the crucial role of three institutions that foster protest black churches black colleges and Southern chapters of the NAACP He concludes that political opportunities a heightened sense of political efficacy and the development of these three institutions played a central role in shaping the civil rights movement In his new introduction McAdam revisits the civil rights struggle in light of recent scholarship on social movement origins and collective action A first-rate analytical demonstration that the civil rights movement was the culmination of a long process of building institutions in the black community Raymond Wolters Journal of American History A fresh rich and dynamic model to explain the rise and decline of the black insurgency movement in the United States James W Lamare Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social ScienceA Well-Paid Slave
By Brad Snyder. 2006
After the 1969 season, the St. Louis Cardinals traded their star center fielder, Curt Flood, to the Philadelphia Phillies, setting…
off a chain of events that would change professional sports forever. At the time there were no free agents, no no-trade clauses. When a player was traded, he had to report to his new team or retire. Unwilling to leave St. Louis and influenced by the civil rights movement, Flood chose to sue Major League Baseball for his freedom. His case reached the Supreme Court, where Flood ultimately lost. But by challenging the system, he created an atmosphere in which, just three years later, free agency became a reality. Flood’s decision cost him his career, but as this dramatic chronicle makes clear, his influence on sports history puts him in a league with Jackie Robinson and Muhammad Ali. .Am I a Jew? Lost Tribes, Lapsed Jews, and One Man's Search for Himself
By Theodore Ross. 2012
What makes someone Jewish? Theodore Ross was nine years old when he moved with his mother from New York City…
to the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Once there, his mother decided, for both personal and spiritual reasons, to have her family pretend not to be Jewish. He went to an Episcopal school, where he studied the New Testament, sang in the choir, and even took Communion. Later, as an adult, he wondered: Am I still Jewish? Seeking an answer, Ross traveled around the country and to Israel, visiting a wide variety of Jewish communities. From “Crypto-Jews” in New Mexico and secluded ultra-devout Orthodox towns in upstate New York to a rare Classical Reform congregation in Kansas City, Ross tries to understand himself by experiencing the diversity of Judaism. Quirky and self-aware, introspective and impassioned, Am I a Jew? is a story about the universal struggle to define a relationship (or lack thereof) with religion. .World Heritage Conservation in the Pacific: The Case of Solomon Islands (Palgrave Series in Asia and Pacific Studies)
By Stephanie Clair Price. 2018
This book explores the opportunities and challenges associated with the legal protection of World Heritage sites in the Pacific Islands.…
It argues that the small Pacific representation on the World Heritage List is in part due to a lack of strong legal frameworks for heritage conservation, putting such sites under threat. Providing a comprehensive analysis of the nomination, listing and protection of the Solomon Island World Heritage Site, it examines the implementation of the World Heritage Convention in the Pacific context. It explores how the international community’s broadening interpretation of the notion of ‘outstanding universal value’ has increased the potential for Pacific heritage to be classified as ‘World Heritage’. This book also analyses the protection regime established by the Convention, and the World Heritage Committee’s approach to heritage conservation, identifying challenges associated with the protection of Pacific Island heritage.Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature
By Thomas Henry Huxley.
No Need of Sympathy
By Fleda Brown. 2013
No Need of Sympathy is an exceptionally wide-ranging poetry collection, touching on contemporary science, physics, family, politics, and the natures…
of poetry and reality. These poems, the eighth collection by Fleda Brown, ask huge questions; they zero in like a microscope on what's here, at hand. They are spoken with humility, great humor, curiosity, and a deep love of living.Chinese Sketches
By Herbert A. Giles.
Melanesian Odysseys
By Lisette Josephides. 2010
In a series of epic self-narratives ranging from traditional cultural embodiments to picaresque adventures, Christian epiphanies and a host of…
interactive strategies and techniques for living, Kewa Highlanders (PNG) attempt to shape and control their selves and their relentlessly changing world. This lively account transcends ethnographic particularity and offers a wide-reaching perspective on the nature of being human. Inverting the analytic logic of her previous work, which sought to uncover what social structures concealed, Josephides focuses instead on the cultural understandings that people make explicit in their actions and speech. Using approaches from philosophy and anthropology, she examines elicitation (how people create their selves and their worlds in the act of making explicit) and mimesis (how anthropologists produce ethnographies), to arrive at an unexpected conclusion: that knowledge of self and other alike derives from self-externalization rather than self-introspection.Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples
By Marquis De Nadaillac, Nancy Bell.
For Whom Shakespeare Wrote
By Charles Dudley Warner.
Colonial Farms
By Verna Fisher. 2011
What kinds of food were grown on colonial farms? Did the colonists have farm animals? Why did farm life vary…
from one area of the country to another? How did colonial farms compare to farms of the Native Americans? Find out the answers to these questions and more.The Last Speakers
By K. David Harrison. 2010
Part travelogue and part scientist's notebook, The Last Speakers is the poignant chronicle of author K. David Harrison's expeditions around…
the world to meet with last speakers of vanishing languages. The speakers' eloquent reflections and candid photographs reveal little-known lifeways as well as revitalization efforts to teach disappearing languages to younger generations. Thought-provoking and engaging, this unique book illuminates the global language-extinction crisis through photos, graphics, interviews, traditional wisdom never before translated into English, and first-person essays that thrillingly convey the adventure of science and exploration.Crisis Of The State
By Bruce Kapferer, Bjørn Enge Bertelsen. 2012
Analyzing both historical contexts and geographical locations, this volume explores the continuous reformation of state power and its potential in…
situations of violent conflict. The state, otherwise understood as an abstract and transcendent concept in many works on globalization in political philosophy, is instead located and analyzed here as an embedded part of lived reality. This relationship to the state is exposed as an integral factor to the formation of the social - whether in Africa, the Middle East, South America or the United States. Through the examination of these particular empirical settings of war or war-like situations, the book further argues for the continued importance of the state in shifting social and political circumstances. In doing so, the authors provide a critical contribution to debates within a broad spectrum of fields that are concerned with the future of the state, the nature of sovereignty, and globalization.Pagan Tribes of Borneo
By Charles Hose, William Mcdougall.
Media Virus! Hidden Agendas in Popular Culture
By Douglas Rushkoff. 1996
The most virulent viruses today are composed of information. In this information-driven age, the easiest way to manipulate the culture…
is through the media. A hip and caustically humorous McLuhan for the '90s, culture watcher Douglas Rushkoff now offers a fascinating expose of media manipulation in today's age of instant information.