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Beautiful Wasteland

Author : Rebecca J. Kinney
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452953392
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Beautiful Wasteland written by Rebecca J. Kinney and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to popular media and scholarship, Detroit, the once-vibrant city that crumbled with the departure of the auto industry, is where dreams can be reborn. It is a place that, like America itself, is gritty and determined. It has faced the worst kind of adversity, and supposedly now it’s back. But what does this narrative of “new Detroit” leave out? Beautiful Wasteland reveals that the contemporary story of Detroit’s rebirth is an upcycled version of the American Dream, which has long imagined access to work, home, and upward mobility as race-neutral projects. They’re not. As Rebecca J. Kinney shows, the narratives of Detroit’s rise, decline, and potential to rise again are deeply steeped in material and ideological investments in whiteness. By remapping the narratives of contemporary Detroit through an extension of America’s frontier mythology, Kinney analyzes a cross-section of twentieth and twenty-first century cultural locations—an Internet forum, ruin photography, advertising, documentary film, and print and online media. She illuminates how the stories we tell about Detroit as a frontier of possibility enable the erasure of white privilege and systemic racism. By situating Detroit as a “beautiful wasteland,” both desirable and distressed, this shows how the narrative of ruin and possibility form a mutually constituted relationship: the city is possible precisely because of its perceived ruin. Beautiful Wasteland tackles the key questions about the future of postindustrial America. As cities around the country reckon with their own postindustrial landscapes, Rebecca Kinney cautions that development that elides considerations of race and class will only continue to replicate uneven access to the city for the poor, working class, and people of color.

Wonderful Wasteland and other natural disasters

Author : Elidio La Torre Lagares
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813178371
Total Pages : 61 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Wonderful Wasteland and other natural disasters written by Elidio La Torre Lagares and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2019-09-30 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Hurricane María unleashed its devastation onto Puerto Rico, thousands of lives were lost to the storm in what was the island's worst natural disaster on record. With so much of the recovery still underway and the scars still fresh, its citizens continue to contend with the reality that life on the island has fundamentally changed. In his first collection of poems written in English, La Torre Lagares journeys through his memory in an effort to recompose his shattered land. Together, these poems form a poignant, personal account of a man facing the tragic destinies of his family and his country in the aftermath of a natural disaster. For example, the deaths of the mother and the father are resignified as the death of the poet's personal relationship, which at the same time evokes the rupture between individuals and their sense of place. Drawing from both American and Latin American poetry, as well as global influences, to articulate a language of loss and devastation in search of a new identity, this collection illuminates a chaotic and confusing landscape that is not only physical but also cultural, social, and political. Taken together, this work serves as a stirring reminder of the dislocation and fractured attachment that speaks to many Americans, including transnationals and immigrants. Ultimately it speaks to coping with physical loss and emotional pain in the face of human adversity.

Geiger 80-Page Giant #1

Author : Geoff Johns
Publisher : Image Comics
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Geiger 80-Page Giant #1 written by Geoff Johns and published by Image Comics. This book was released on 2022-02-02 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MAD GHOST COMICS presents a MONSTROUS 80 PAGES of all-new stories featuring GEIGER, as well as his allies and enemies! First, in an extra-sized lead story, GEOFF JOHNS & BRYAN HITCH introduce the mysterious man known as REDCOAT and reveal his bizarre ties to the American Revolution, the Unknown War, and Geiger himself. Then, discover the secrets of the Warlords of Las Vegas—Bonnie Borden! Goldbeard! Mr. Karloff! And more!—in a series of tales written and drawn by some of the greatest writers and artists today! Plus, the special origin tale of Geiger’s favorite two-headed dog, BARNEY, and a PREVIEW of GEOFF JOHNS & GARY FRANK’s new upcoming series: JUNKYARD JOE!

The Beautiful Land

Author : Alan Averill
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101610980
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book The Beautiful Land written by Alan Averill and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Takahiro O’Leary has a very special job… …working for the Axon Corporation as an explorer of parallel timelines—as many and as varied as anyone could imagine. A great gig—until information he brought back gave Axon the means to maximize profits by changing the past, present, and future of this world. If Axon succeeds, Tak will lose Samira Moheb, the woman he has loved since high school—because her future will cease to exist. A veteran of the Iraq War suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, Samira can barely function in her everyday life, much less deal with Tak’s ravings of multiple realities. The only way to save her is for Tak to use the time travel device he “borrowed” to transport them both to an alternate timeline. But what neither Tak nor Axon knows is that the actual inventor of the device is searching for a timeline called the Beautiful Land—and he intends to destroy every other possible present and future to find it. The switch is thrown, and reality begins to warp—horribly. And Tak realizes that to save Sam, he must save the entire world…

The Wasteland

Author : K a Knight
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781399964197
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (641 download)

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Download or read book The Wasteland written by K a Knight and published by . This book was released on 2023-11-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world ended and with it so did the rules. I was stolen from my family and raised in the Wastelands to the North. I did what I had to ensure my survival. I became The Champion, with my history carved into my skin for all to see. Now I spend my days drinking and hiding from my past until four newcomers offer me a job I can't refuse. When my past and future mix I must once again rise and fight. This time it's not for my freedom, it's for my happiness.

Wasteland

Author : Francesca Lia Block
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061757470
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book Wasteland written by Francesca Lia Block and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you were a baby I sat very still to hold you. I could see the veins through your skin like a map to inside you. I stopped breathing so you wouldn't ... You were just a boy on a bed in a room, like a kaleidoscope is a tube full of bits of broken glass. But the way I saw you was pieces refracting the light, shifting into an infinite universe of flowers and rainbows and insects and planets, magical dividing cells, pictures no one else knew ... Your whole life you can be told something is wrong and so you believe it.

Liquor Store Theatre

Author : Maya Stovall
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478012676
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Liquor Store Theatre written by Maya Stovall and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-09 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For six years Maya Stovall staged Liquor Store Theatre, a conceptual art and anthropology video project---included in the Whitney Biennial in 2017---in which she danced near the liquor stores in her Detroit neighborhood as a way to start conversations with her neighbors. In this book of the same name, Stovall uses the project as a point of departure for understanding everyday life in Detroit and the possibilities for ethnographic research, art, and knowledge creation. Her conversations with her neighbors—which touch on everything from economics, aesthetics, and sex to the political and economic racism that undergirds Detroit's history—bring to light rarely acknowledged experiences of longtime Detroiters. In these exchanges, Stovall enacts an innovative form of ethnographic engagement that offers new modes of integrating the social sciences with the arts in ways that exceed what either approach can achieve alone.

Diamond Star Halo

Author : Tiffany Murray
Publisher : Granta Books
ISBN 13 : 1846273560
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (462 download)

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Download or read book Diamond Star Halo written by Tiffany Murray and published by Granta Books. This book was released on 2011-04-07 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up in a rural recording studio, Halo Llewellyn is rarely star-struck, but when one of the visiting singers gives birth to Fred, she knows right away that he's special. As the golden child grows into the gilded man, she remains dazzled by his ambition and his talent. Up on stage, being screamed at by hundreds of teenage girls, Fred will always turn his spotlight on Halo in the crowd. But that's the problem with falling in love with your charismatic almost-brother - it can never be a secret. In the end, the whole world has to know.

The City after Property

Author : Sara Safransky
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478024615
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The City after Property written by Sara Safransky and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The City after Property, Sara Safransky examines how postindustrial decline generates new forms of urban land politics. In the 2010s, Detroit government officials classified a staggering 150,000 lots—more than a third of the city—as “vacant” or “abandoned.” Analyzing subsequent efforts to shrink the Motor City’s footprint and budget, Safransky presents a new way of conceptualizing urban abandonment. She challenges popular myths that cast Detroit as empty along with narratives that reduce its historical decline to capital and white flight. In connecting contemporary debates over neoliberal urbanism to Cold War histories and the lasting political legacies of global movements for decolonization and Black liberation, she foregrounds how the making of—and challenges to—modern property regimes have shaped urban policy and politics. Drawing on critical geographical theory and community-based ethnography, Safransky shows how private property functions as a racialized construct, an ideology, and a moral force that shapes selves and worlds. By thinking the city “after property,” Safransky illuminates alternative ways of imagining and organizing urban life.

Wasteland

Author : Lynn Rush
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781937254018
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book Wasteland written by Lynn Rush and published by . This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A half-demon obey his master and capture a girl that may be the key to his freedom from enslavement. Unfortunately, she has a tempting, beautiful Guardian that could hinder his plans.

Wasteland

Author : Vittoria Di Palma
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300197799
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Wasteland written by Vittoria Di Palma and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an eloquent history of landscape and land use, Vittoria Di Palma takes on the “anti-picturesque”—how landscapes that elicit fear and disgust have shaped our conceptions of beauty and the sublime.

Wanderer of the Wasteland

Author : Zane Grey
Publisher : Amereon Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Wanderer of the Wasteland written by Zane Grey and published by Amereon Limited. This book was released on 1923 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zane Grey, premier chronicler of the American West and legendary storyteller, is sure to captivate new and loyal fans with this reissue of the last of his four Western epics.

The Politics of Kinship

Author : Mark Rifkin
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478059001
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Kinship written by Mark Rifkin and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-29 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if we understood the idea of family as central to representing alternative forms of governance as expressions of racial deviance? In The Politics of Kinship, Mark Rifkin shows how ideologies of family, including notions of kinship, recast Indigenous and other forms of collective self-organization and self-determination as disruptive racial tendencies in need of state containment and intervention. Centering work in Indigenous studies, Rifkin illustrates how conceptions of family and race work together as part of ongoing efforts to regulate, assault, and efface other political orders. The book examines the history of anthropology and its resonances in contemporary queer scholarship, contemporary Indian policy from the 1970s onward, the legal history of family formation and privacy in the United States, and the association of blackness with criminality across US history. In this way, Rifkin seeks to open new possibilities for envisioning what kinds of relations, networks, and formations can and should be seen as governance on lands claimed by the United States.

Japan Since 1945

Author : Christopher Gerteis
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441101187
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Japan Since 1945 written by Christopher Gerteis and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-02-14 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the social, cultural, and political underpinnings of Japan's postwar and post-industrial trajectories.

Salvation of the Forgotten: Book Four of the Aspen Series

Author : Daisha Marie Korth
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1105987728
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Salvation of the Forgotten: Book Four of the Aspen Series written by Daisha Marie Korth and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The New Urban Ruins

Author : Cian O'Callaghan
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447356888
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book The New Urban Ruins written by Cian O'Callaghan and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2023-02 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an innovative perspective to consider contemporary urban challenges through the lens of urban vacancy. Centering urban vacancy as a core feature of urbanization, the contributors coalesce new empirical insights on the impacts of recent contestations over the re-use of vacant spaces in post-crisis cities across the globe. Using international case studies from the Global North and Global South, it sheds important new light on the complexity of forces and processes shaping urban vacancy and its re-use, exploring these areas as both lived spaces and sites of political antagonism. It explores what has and hasn't worked in re-purposing vacant sites and provides sustainable blueprints for future development.

The Tonawanda Senecas' Heroic Battle Against Removal

Author : Laurence M. Hauptman
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438435797
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book The Tonawanda Senecas' Heroic Battle Against Removal written by Laurence M. Hauptman and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable story of the Tonawanda Senecas in the face of overwhelming odds is the centerpiece of this landmark community study. In the six decades prior to the Civil War, they wrestled with pressures from land companies; the local, state, and federal officials' policies to acquire tribal lands and remove the Indians; misguided Quakers who believed they knew what was best for the Indians; and divisions among Seneca communities about what strategies of resistance to employ. As deftly and convincingly revealed by Laurence M. Hauptman, the Tonawanda Senecas were able strategists who overcame disastrous treaties to regain 7,549 acres of their western New York territory, lands that they still possess today. The chiefs and clan mothers pursued a number of well thought-out strategies: petitioning officials and lobbying in Washington, challenging the legality of the treaties; preventing surveyors from entering onto tribal lands; disrupting land auctions; taking out advertisements; and networking with influential whites. They also hired a first-rate attorney who eventually won a landmark victory in the U.S. Supreme Court and who successfully negotiated the United States–Tonawanda Treaty of 1857, which provided a formula to repurchase a part of the reservation. In recounting this heroic story, Hauptman throws new light on Red Jacket and Ely S. Parker, women's roles within Tonawanda society, and the development of the Gaiwiio, the Longhouse religion.