The Street

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Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0547525346
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)

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Book Synopsis The Street by : Ann Petry

Download or read book The Street written by Ann Petry and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2013-08-23 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION FROM NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHOR TAYARI JONES “How can a novel’s social criticism be so unflinching and clear, yet its plot moves like a house on fire? I am tempted to describe Petry as a magician for the many ways that The Street amazes, but this description cheapens her talent . . . Petry is a gifted artist.” — Tayari Jones, from the Introduction The Street follows the spirited Lutie Johnson, a newly single mother whose efforts to claim a share of the American Dream for herself and her young son meet frustration at every turn in 1940s Harlem. Opening a fresh perspective on the realities and challenges of black, female, working-class life, The Street became the first novel by an African American woman to sell more than a million copies.

The Story of The Streets

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Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0593068084
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (93 download)

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Book Synopsis The Story of The Streets by : Mike Skinner

Download or read book The Story of The Streets written by Mike Skinner and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2001, at the age of only 22, the virtually unknown Mike Skinner was signed for a five album record deal. Since then, Mike Skinner has won a worldwide reputation for fusing home-grown hip-hop with the proud British tradition of observational song writing, which stretches from The Beatles and The Kinks to Blur and the Arctic Monkeys. In the multi-faceted guise of The Streets he, along with the likes of his friend and peer Dizzy Rascal, has been largely responsible for giving British rap its own identity, distinct from that of its American influences. Alternating between spells of reckless indulgence and sardonic commentary on his own excesses, Mike Skinner has established the kind of instantly accessible pop persona which only comes along once or twice a generation. Now he brings us The Story of the Streets. Moving chronologically through five albums, and the different phases of his life that they represent, Mike shares personal details of his modest upbringing in Birmingham, as well as the wild extravagances of life in the showbiz fast lane. Personal, shocking and funny; but deeply intelligent, insightful, opinionated and searingly honest - this is a lesson in the making of pop history, narrated by a voice that has informed a generation.

Walking in My Joy

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Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0063079682
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (63 download)

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Book Synopsis Walking in My Joy by : Jenifer Lewis

Download or read book Walking in My Joy written by Jenifer Lewis and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-08-30 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new offering from the author of the hugely successful Mother of Black Hollywood. Walking in My Joy is a collection of electric stories by the one and only, super hilarious Jenifer Lewis. Her commentary on what’s happening in the world today, told through her outrageous real-life adventures, will have you laughing out loud, while her insightful messages touch your soul. A self-described “traveling fool and nature freak,” Jenifer takes readers with her all over the world, from Cape Town to Bali; Washington, DC, to the Serengeti; Mongolia to St. Petersburg; and Argentina to Antarctica to demonstrate how she walks in her joy by seeking pleasure in everyday encounters. Every step of the way you’ll be doubled over with laughter as she faints at the Obamas’ holiday party; awakens to a swollen face and has to go to the hospital during the height of the Covid pandemic; an alien visitation; a successful takedown of a conman; as well as meeting a handsome Maasai warrior and being chased by a Cape buffalo. An actress, activist, and mental health advocate, Jenifer Lewis imparts ways to love yourself that will allow you to deflect negative energy and keep people who may come to take your joy in check. She stresses the importance of fully living to your greatest ambitions and taking the time to admire the world’s natural gifts. She also encourages embracing each other’s uniqueness as a way of finding societal healing. Walking in My Joy is a riveting and enthralling journey. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

Into the Streets

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Publisher : Millbrook Press
ISBN 13 : 1541596021
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (415 download)

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Book Synopsis Into the Streets by : Marke Bieschke

Download or read book Into the Streets written by Marke Bieschke and published by Millbrook Press. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to resist? Throughout our nation's history, discrimination and unjust treatment of all kinds have prompted people to make their objections and outrage known. Some protests involve large groups of people, marching or holding signs with powerful slogans. Others start with quotes or hashtags on social media that go viral and spur changes in behavior. People can make their voices heard in hundreds of different ways. Join author Marke Bieschke on this visual voyage of resistance through American history. Discover the artwork, music, fashion, and creativity of the activists. Meet the leaders of the movements, and learn about the protests that helped to shape the United States from all sides of the political spectrum. Examples include key events from women's suffrage, the civil rights movement, occupations by Indigenous people, LGBTQ demands for equality, Tea Party protests, Black Lives Matter protests, and more, including the George Floyd protests in the summer of 2020. Into the Streets introduces the personalities and issues that drove these protests, as well as their varied aims and accomplishments, from spontaneous hashtag uprisings to highly planned strategies of civil disobedience. Perfect for young adult audiences, this book highlights how teens are frequently the ones protesting and creating the art of the resistance. "[T]he text never loses sight of the fact that the right to assemble and protest is a basic American right. . . . Highly recommended for middle grade through high school collections in both school and public libraries."—starred, School Library Journal

Art in the Streets

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Publisher : Skira
ISBN 13 : 0847836177
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (478 download)

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Book Synopsis Art in the Streets by : Jeffrey Deitch

Download or read book Art in the Streets written by Jeffrey Deitch and published by Skira. This book was released on 2011 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A catalog of an exhibition that surveys the history of international graffiti and street art.

See You in the Streets

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Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609384172
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)

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Book Synopsis See You in the Streets by : Ruth Sergel

Download or read book See You in the Streets written by Ruth Sergel and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2016-06 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2017 American Book Award Winner from the Before Columbus Foundation In 1911, a fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City took the lives of 146 workers, most of them young immigrant women and girls. Their deaths galvanized a movement for social and economic justice then, but today’s laborers continue to battle dire working conditions. How can we bring the lessons of the Triangle fire back into practice today? For artist Ruth Sergel, the answer was to fuse art, activism, and collective memory to create a large-scale public commemoration that invites broad participation and incites civic engagement. See You in the Streets showcases her work. It all began modestly in 2004 with Chalk, an invitation to all New Yorkers to remember the 146 victims of the fire by inscribing their names and ages in chalk in front of their former homes. This project inspired Sergel to found the Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition, a broad alliance of artists and activists, universities and unions—more than 250 partners nationwide—to mark the 2011 centennial of the infamous blaze. Putting the coalition together and figuring what to do and how to do it were not easy. This book provides a lively account of the unexpected partnerships, false steps, joyous collective actions, and sustainability of such large public works. Much more than an object lesson from the past, See You in the Streets offers an exuberant perspective on building a social art practice and doing public history through argument and agitation, creativity and celebration with an engaged public.

Dancing in the Streets

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Publisher : Metropolitan Books
ISBN 13 : 1429904658
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Book Synopsis Dancing in the Streets by : Barbara Ehrenreich

Download or read book Dancing in the Streets written by Barbara Ehrenreich and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2007-12-26 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling social commentator and cultural historian comes Barbara Ehrenreich's fascinating exploration of one of humanity's oldest traditions: the celebration of communal joy In the acclaimed Blood Rites, Barbara Ehrenreich delved into the origins of our species' attraction to war. Here, she explores the opposite impulse, one that has been so effectively suppressed that we lack even a term for it: the desire for collective joy, historically expressed in ecstatic revels of feasting, costuming, and dancing. Ehrenreich uncovers the origins of communal celebration in human biology and culture. Although sixteenth-century Europeans viewed mass festivities as foreign and "savage," Ehrenreich shows that they were indigenous to the West, from the ancient Greeks' worship of Dionysus to the medieval practice of Christianity as a "danced religion." Ultimately, church officials drove the festivities into the streets, the prelude to widespread reformation: Protestants criminalized carnival, Wahhabist Muslims battled ecstatic Sufism, European colonizers wiped out native dance rites. The elites' fear that such gatherings would undermine social hierarchies was justified: the festive tradition inspired French revolutionary crowds and uprisings from the Caribbean to the American plains. Yet outbreaks of group revelry persist, as Ehrenreich shows, pointing to the 1960s rock-and-roll rebellion and the more recent "carnivalization" of sports. Original, exhilarating, and deeply optimistic, Dancing in the Streets concludes that we are innately social beings, impelled to share our joy and therefore able to envision, even create, a more peaceable future. "Fascinating . . . An admirably lucid, level-headed history of outbreaks of joy from Dionysus to the Grateful Dead."—Terry Eagleton, The Nation

The Streets Belong to Us

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Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469665050
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Book Synopsis The Streets Belong to Us by : Anne Gray Fischer

Download or read book The Streets Belong to Us written by Anne Gray Fischer and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Police power was built on women's bodies. Men, especially Black men, often stand in as the ultimate symbol of the mass incarceration crisis in the United States. Women are treated as marginal, if not overlooked altogether, in histories of the criminal legal system. In The Streets Belong to Us—a searing history of women and police in the modern United States—Anne Gray Fischer narrates how sexual policing fueled a dramatic expansion of police power. The enormous discretionary power that police officers wield to surveil, target, and arrest anyone they deem suspicious was tested, legitimized, and legalized through the policing of women's sexuality and their right to move freely through city streets. Throughout the twentieth century, police departments achieved a stunning consolidation of urban authority through the strategic discretionary enforcement of morals laws, including disorderly conduct, vagrancy, and other prostitution-related misdemeanors. Between Prohibition in the 1920s and the rise of "broken windows" policing in the 1980s, police targeted white and Black women in distinct but interconnected ways. These tactics reveal the centrality of racist and sexist myths to the justification and deployment of state power. Sexual policing did not just enhance police power. It also transformed cities from segregated sites of "urban vice" into the gentrified sites of Black displacement and banishment we live in today. By illuminating both the racial dimension of sexual liberalism and the gender dimension of policing in Black neighborhoods, The Streets Belong to Us illustrates the decisive role that race, gender, and sexuality played in the construction of urban police regimes.

Don't Shed Your Tears for Anyone who Lives on These Streets

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Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0451493176
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)

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Book Synopsis Don't Shed Your Tears for Anyone who Lives on These Streets by : Patricio Pron

Download or read book Don't Shed Your Tears for Anyone who Lives on These Streets written by Patricio Pron and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2020 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the acclaimed Argentine writer, one of Granta's Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists: a bold, ambitious new novel about how art became politics and politics became crime during the cataclysm of the Second World War. Pinerolo, Italy; April 1945. At a conference in support of Fascism, a writer disappears and is found dead at the bottom of a cliff. Thirty years later, a young man--a political activist or a terrorist, depending on your perspective--interviews survivors from the conference, to try to uncover the truth about what happened and its consequences. Who was the writer? What did he believe in? Why, shortly before his death, did he save a man who could have killed him? Where is his lost work? And what does any of this have to do with a teenager in contemporary Milan involved in a violent confrontation with the police? Don't Shed Your Tears for Anyone Who Lives on These Streets is a razor-sharp, completely original exploration of our most timeless concerns--guilt, betrayal, the legacy of earlier generations--and probes the question of what literature is: how it explains our times and irrevocably changes our lives.

In the Streets of Tehran

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Publisher : Bonnier Books UK
ISBN 13 : 1804184888
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)

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Book Synopsis In the Streets of Tehran by : Nila

Download or read book In the Streets of Tehran written by Nila and published by Bonnier Books UK. This book was released on 2023-10-19 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INSIDE IRAN'S NEW REVOLUTION I've stopped pulling up my scarf to cover my hair when I pass by the guards. I know that nothing can stop one of them from raising his gun and targeting me. But this is for the greater good. Following the death of Mahsa-Jina Amini in September 2022, the angry cries of the Iranian people have rung out in the streets. Citizens of all ages and backgrounds come together to call for an end to the regime's injustice, violence and repression, chanting 'Woman, life, freedom'. The current protests are the most widespread and important the country has seen since the Islamic Revolution in 1979. But they are also part of a long struggle for women's rights in Iran. In this incisive, moving narrative, an anonymous Iranian woman describes her daily activism in the streets of Tehran, and shows it to be part of a long and powerful tradition of female resistance. Translated by Poupeh Missaghi.

How the Streets Were Made

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Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469660601
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Book Synopsis How the Streets Were Made by : Yelena Bailey

Download or read book How the Streets Were Made written by Yelena Bailey and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2020-10-12 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Yelena Bailey examines the creation of "the streets" not just as a physical, racialized space produced by segregationist policies but also as a sociocultural entity that has influenced our understanding of blackness in America for decades. Drawing from fields such as media studies, literary studies, history, sociology, film studies, and music studies, this book engages in an interdisciplinary analysis of the how the streets have shaped contemporary perceptions of black identity, community, violence, spending habits, and belonging. Where historical and sociological research has examined these realities regarding economic and social disparities, this book analyzes the streets through the lens of marketing campaigns, literature, hip-hop, film, and television in order to better understand the cultural meanings associated with the streets. Because these media represent a terrain of cultural contestation, they illustrate the way the meaning of the streets has been shaped by both the white and black imaginaries as well as how they have served as a site of self-assertion and determination for black communities.

The Streets of Baltimore

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Publisher : Blackstone Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (123 download)

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Book Synopsis The Streets of Baltimore by : Joe Frantz

Download or read book The Streets of Baltimore written by Joe Frantz and published by Blackstone Publishing. This book was released on 2023-03-14 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brandon Novak, an actor known for the films Jackass and Viva La Bam, among others, was a teenage skateboarder, but his lust for heroin led to a junkie’s destiny on the streets of Baltimore. Arrests, rehabs, and drug-tortured love triangles consumed Novak’s life, until his childhood friend and Jackass alumnus Bam Margera guided him to MTV fame. But Novak’s stardom led him down a self-destructive path that forced him to sculpt his future. This suspenseful memoir is interspersed with action, humor, and inspiration.

Democracy is in the Streets

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Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674197251
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (972 download)

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Book Synopsis Democracy is in the Streets by : Jim Miller

Download or read book Democracy is in the Streets written by Jim Miller and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On June 12, 1962, 60 young activists drafted a manifesto for their generation--The Port Huron Statement--that ignited a decade of dissent. Miller brings to life the hopes and struggles, the triumphs and tragedies, of the students and organizers who took the political vision of The Port Huron Statement to heart--and to the streets.

Ready for a Brand New Beat

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Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1594632731
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (946 download)

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Book Synopsis Ready for a Brand New Beat by : Mark Kurlansky

Download or read book Ready for a Brand New Beat written by Mark Kurlansky and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can a song change a nation? In 1964, Marvin Gaye, record producer William “Mickey” Stevenson, and Motown songwriter Ivy Jo Hunter wrote “Dancing in the Street.” The song was recorded at Motown’s Hitsville USA Studio by Martha and the Vandellas, with lead singer Martha Reeves arranging her own vocals. Released on July 31, the song was supposed to be an upbeat dance recording—a precursor to disco, and a song about the joyousness of dance. But events overtook it, and the song became one of the icons of American pop culture. The Beatles had landed in the U.S. in early 1964. By the summer, the sixties were in full swing. The summer of 1964 was the Mississippi Freedom Summer, the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, the beginning of the Vietnam War, the passage of the Civil Rights Act, and the lead-up to a dramatic election. As the country grew more radicalized in those few months, “Dancing in the Street” gained currency as an activist anthem. The song took on new meanings, multiple meanings, for many different groups that were all changing as the country changed. Told by the writer who is legendary for finding the big story in unlikely places, Ready for a Brand New Beat chronicles that extraordinary summer of 1964 and showcases the momentous role that a simple song about dancing played in history.

Dancing in the Streets

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ISBN 13 : 9780917860829
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (68 download)

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Book Synopsis Dancing in the Streets by : Judy Cooper

Download or read book Dancing in the Streets written by Judy Cooper and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Explores the history, social ties, fashion, dance, and music of second lines, participatory parades put on by New Orleans's network of social aid and pleasure clubs. "Dancing in the Streets" brings together historical photographs with the work of ten contemporary second line photographers, profiles all clubs active today, and explores the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the tradition"--

These Streets Don't Love You Like I Do

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Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781505833720
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (337 download)

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Book Synopsis These Streets Don't Love You Like I Do by : Charmanie Saquea

Download or read book These Streets Don't Love You Like I Do written by Charmanie Saquea and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-12-19 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How far would you go to protect the one you love? Fabion is trying to make a name for himself in the drug game instead of having a come up based off of who his father is. Ahnesty feels that when Fabion starts making more money their relationship will start to change and not in a good way. Their relationship may not be perfect but their love for each other runs deep. When Ahnesty overhears a plot about someone trying to take everything Fabion worked so hard for and possibly his life, she comes up with a plan of her own. She is willing to do whatever she has to do to protect her man by any means necessary. Will Ahnesty end up losing her own life when her plan starts to back fire on her? Faizon and Chaisty have a relationship that people envy. To the world they seem like the perfect happy couple but Faizon is hiding a secret that could lead to Chasity leaving him. When his secrets come to the light, will Chaisty be that down chick Faizon knows and loves her for? Or will she throw in the towel and end their relationship?

The Streets of Louth: An A–Z History

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Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 095703363X
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (57 download)

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Book Synopsis The Streets of Louth: An A–Z History by : Caitlin Green

Download or read book The Streets of Louth: An A–Z History written by Caitlin Green and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Streets of Louth offers an A-Z history of virtually every road within the town, from ancient streets such as Upgate and Mercer Row through to modern residential developments such as Anthony Crescent. Designed for the general reader and anyone who has ever wondered how the streets of Louth have changed and developed over time, it not only looks at the archaeology, buildings and businesses of each of the individual streets, but also the people who used to live on them, from brewers and fish fryers through to jewellers and prostitutes. The book also makes use of local court reports from the nineteenth century to bring the Victorian history of the streets of Louth alive, with crimes and accidents recorded that range from the mundane to the truly shocking!