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The Shuri Effect

Author : Lauryn Mwale
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781637307083
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Shuri Effect written by Lauryn Mwale and published by . This book was released on 2021-12-20 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When people think of STEM, they rarely think of Black women. Why not? One estimate claims that only 2.9% of STEM graduates are Black women. The Shuri Effect explores the complex reasons why there are so few Black women in STEM, the inspiring ways they have continued to be pioneers, and what we all can do to change the situation. The book delves into gendered and racial attitudes and how they both feed into the lived experiences and statistical realities. The Shuri Effect explores: The need to widen aspirations as well as access The obscene gaps created by non-diverse teams and non-inclusive design The experiences of Black women in the US, UK, and across the African continent This book is a must-read if you are a Black woman looking to see yourself and your experiences on the page or are interested in race, gender, and pursuing equity based on those identifiers. The representation gap for Black women is a result of broken systems, and we need to understand and change the status quo.

The Accentual History of the Japanese and Ryukyuan Languages

Author : Moriyo Shimabukuro
Publisher : Global Oriental
ISBN 13 : 9004213406
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book The Accentual History of the Japanese and Ryukyuan Languages written by Moriyo Shimabukuro and published by Global Oriental. This book was released on 2007-06-21 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks into the accentual history of the Japanese and the Ryukyuan languages. Applying the comparative method, the author has reconstructed the accentual history of the Japonic languages. The reconstruction is based on modern dialects of Japanese and Ryukyuan, and also on historical materials. The investigation of ‘natural accent changes’ has allowed the author to formalize rules for accent change. Using these rules, the developments of the accent systems of descendant dialects or languages are explained. The development of typologically different accent systems is also explored.

Quarterly Review of Military Literature

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Quarterly Review of Military Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Songs from the Edge of Japan: Music-making in Yaeyama and Okinawa

Author : Matt Gillan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317052625
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Book Synopsis Songs from the Edge of Japan: Music-making in Yaeyama and Okinawa by : Matt Gillan

Download or read book Songs from the Edge of Japan: Music-making in Yaeyama and Okinawa written by Matt Gillan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the early 1990s, Okinawan music has experienced an extraordinary boom in popularity throughout Japan. Musicians from this island prefecture in the very south of Japan have found success as performers and recording artists, and have been featured in a number of hit films and television dramas. In particular, the Yaeyama region in the south of Okinawa has long been known as a region rich in performing arts, and Yaeyaman musicians such as BEGIN, Daiku Tetsuhiro, and Natsukawa Rimi have been at the forefront of the recent Okinawan music boom. This popularity of Okinawan music represents only the surface of a diverse and thriving musical culture within modern-day Yaeyama. Traditional music continues to be an important component of traditional ritual and social life in the islands, while Yaeyama's unique geographical and cultural position at the very edge of Japan have produced varied discourses surrounding issues such as tradition versus modernity, preservation, and cultural identity. Songs from the Edge of Japan explores some of the reasons for the high profile of Yaeyaman music in recent years, both inside and outside Yaeyama. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork carried out since 2000, the book uses interviews, articles from the popular media, musical and lyrical analysis of field and commercial recordings, as well as the author's experiences as a performer of Yaeyaman and Okinawan music, to paint a picture of what it means to perform Yaeyaman music in the 21st century.

Beachheads

Author : Gerald Figal
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1442215836
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Beachheads written by Gerald Figal and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2012-04-12 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This original and fresh book explores Okinawa’s makeover as a tourist mecca in the long historical shadow and among the physical ruins of the Pacific War’s most devastating land battle. Gerald Figal considers how a place burdened by a history of semicolonialism, memories of war and occupation, economic hardship, and contentious current political affairs has reshaped itself into a resort destination. Drawing on an innovative mix of detailed archival research and extensive fieldwork, Gerald Figal considers the ways Okinawa has accommodated war experience and its legacies within the manufacture and promotion of both a “tropical paradise” image and a heritage tourism site identified with the premodern Ryukyu Kingdom. Tracing the postwar formation of “Tourist Okinawa,” Figal addresses interrelated issues of economic sustainability, local political autonomy, interregional and international relations, environmental preservation, historical and cultural self-representation, and especially Okinawa's role as a global peace site laboring under the legacies of war. From the end of World War Two to the present, the author follows Okinawa’s evolution through three main themes: war memorialization, tourism-influenced environmental and historical restoration, and invasion and occupation represented by U.S. military bases and beach resorts. Creatively, accessibly, and eloquently written, this compelling work highlights a set of islands that represent key issues facing contemporary Japan.

Military Review

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1472 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Military Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 1472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Review of Current Military Literature

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 812 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Review of Current Military Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1951-04 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Superheroes, Movies, and the State

Author : Tricia Jenkins
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 070063276X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Superheroes, Movies, and the State written by Tricia Jenkins and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2022-01-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tricia Jenkins and Tom Secker deliver a highly original exploration of how the government-entertainment complex has influenced the world’s most popular movie genre—superhero films. Superheroes, Movies, and the State sets a new standard for exploring the government-Hollywood relationship as it persuasively documents the critical role different government agencies have played in shaping characters, stories, and even the ideas behind the hottest entertainment products. Jenkins and Secker cover a wide range of US government and quasi-governmental agencies who act to influence the content of superhero movies, including the Department of Defense, the National Academy of Sciences’ Science and Entertainment Exchange and, to a lesser extent, the FBI and the CIA. Superheroes, Movies, and the State deploys a thematic framework to analyze how five of the key themes of our time—militarism, political radicalism and subversion, the exploration of space, the role of science and technology, and representation and identity—manifest in the superhero genre, and the role of the government in molding narratives around these topics. The book includes interviews with both producers and influencer insiders and covers a wide range of superhero products, from 1970s TV shows up to the most recent movie and TV releases, including the first major analysis of the hit Amazon show The Boys. In addition, it is the first deep exploration of NASA’s Hollywood office and the first detailed account of the role of the Science and Entertainment Exchange, which has worked on thousands of products since its creation in 2008 but is little known outside of the industry. Superheroes, Movies, and the State offers an innovative blend of research methods and interpretive frameworks, combining both production histories and deep readings of superhero texts to clearly reveal how the government-entertainment complex works in the world of blockbuster cinema to shape public perceptions of the United States, war, science, and much, much more.

Black Panther

Author : Terence McSweeney
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496836103
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book Black Panther written by Terence McSweeney and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2021-11-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named a Nonfiction Book Awards Gold Winner by the Nonfiction Authors Association Gold Winner of the 2022 eLit Book Award for Popular Culture Winner of a National Indie Excellence Award in the category of “Movies & TV” Book of the Year 2021 in African Studies awarded by CESTAF Winner of the 2022 Best Book Award in the category of “Performing Arts” Black Panther is one of the most financially successful and culturally impactful films to emerge from the American film industry in recent years. When it was released in 2018 it broke numerous records and resonated with audiences all around the world in ways that transcended the dimensions of the superhero film. In Black Panther: Interrogating a Cultural Phenomenon, author Terence McSweeney explores the film from a diverse range of perspectives, seeing it as not only a comic book adaptation and a superhero film, but also a dynamic contribution to the discourse of both African and African American studies. McSweeney argues that Black Panther is one of the defining American films of the last decade and the most remarkable title in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (2008–). The MCU has become the largest film franchise in the history of the medium and has even shaped the contours of the contemporary blockbuster, but the narratives within it have almost exclusively perpetuated largely unambiguous fantasies of American heroism and exceptionalism. In contrast, Black Panther complicates this by engaging in an entirely different mythos in its portrayal of an African nation—never colonized by Europe—as the most powerful and technologically advanced in the world. McSweeney charts how and why Black Panther became a cultural phenomenon and also a battleground on which a war of meaning was waged at a very particular time in American history.

Early Ryukyuan History

Author : Gregory Smits
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824898206
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Early Ryukyuan History written by Gregory Smits and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2024-07-31 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ryukyu islands have been inhabited by humans for over 30,000 years. Their modern population, however, did not come from stone-age ancestors, nor did distinctive forms of Ryukyuan culture, such as sacred groves or stone-walled castles, emerge from within the islands. Instead, different groups of people lived in the Ryukyu islands at various points in history. Starting with the earliest extant human remains and ending with the formation of a centralized state in the early 1500s, Early Ryukyuan History traces the people, culture, technologies, goods, and networks that entered different parts of Ryukyu over time. In the process, it synthesizes decades of research in archaeology and anthropology, recent advances in genetic evidence, and conventional documentary sources to advance a new model for the early development of the Ryukyu islands, thoroughly rewriting early Ryukyuan history. Taking a multidisciplinary approach grounded in archaeology, this resource presents an updated framework for understanding early Ryukyu along with a new narrative featuring a fascinating cast of characters. Linked by the ocean into the East China Sea, the early Ryukyu islands were never isolated. People and technologies arrived from across the sea and became the prime movers of early Ryukyuan society. The most consequential of these external agents were waves of immigrants, mainly from the Japanese islands, who settled the Ryukyu islands during the eleventh and twelfth centuries and replaced the islands’ previous Jōmon population. While the physical environment of the Ryukyu islands was not conducive to cereal agriculture, the islands were well situated for trading and raiding, and trade became the driving force behind societal development. In Early Ryukyuan History, Gregory Smits reappraises the most fundamental questions and topics in early Ryukyuan history, providing new models of migration and settlement, regional trade, political geography, warfare, and state formation.

The Conquest Of Okinawa: An Account Of The Sixth Marine Division

Author : Major Philips D. Carleton
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786257459
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (862 download)

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Download or read book The Conquest Of Okinawa: An Account Of The Sixth Marine Division written by Major Philips D. Carleton and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains numerous maps. One of a series of monographs prepared by the Historical Division that deals with the activities of Marine Corps units in World War II, this monograph is the work of Captain Carleton. While on Okinawa he lived with the men of the Sixth Marine Division, watched them fight and listened to their accounts of the action. He was with the Twenty Ninth Marines on Motobu Peninsula, the Twenty Second Marines during the fight for Naha, and spent considerable time with the Sixth Reconnaissance Company. Most of the material in this monograph is the result of Captain Carleton’s personal observations or was gained through his interviews with the officers and men who fought in the Okinawa battles.

The Origins of Banana-fibre Cloth in the Ryukyus, Japan

Author : Katrien Hendrickx
Publisher : Leuven University Press
ISBN 13 : 9058676145
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (586 download)

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Download or read book The Origins of Banana-fibre Cloth in the Ryukyus, Japan written by Katrien Hendrickx and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this book Katrien Hendrickx searches for the origins of bashofu in the Ryukyus, including the origins of ito basho, the plant that provides the raw material, and studies the yarn-making methods and weaving techniques. She also focuses on why and how the Ryukyuan people adopted those techniques and introduced them into their own society."--BOOK JACKET.

The First Marine Division on Okinawa; 1 April - 30 June 1945 [Illustrated Edition]

Author : Capt. James R. Stockman USMC
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786251442
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (862 download)

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Download or read book The First Marine Division on Okinawa; 1 April - 30 June 1945 [Illustrated Edition] written by Capt. James R. Stockman USMC and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes 32 maps The History of the 1st Marine Division or the “Old Breed” in the final campaign of the Pacific War. After many brutal struggles against the Japanese army on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, Cape Gloucester and Peleliu again, the Old Breed moved out, this time bound for Okinawa, a major island in the Ryukus only 350 miles from the southern Japanese home island of Kyushu. In the largest amphibious assault of World War II, Marine and Army units — among them the First Marine Division — landed on the Hagushi beaches on 1 April 1945. For most of April, the First was employed in a hard-driving campaign to secure the northern sections of Okinawa. On 30 April 1945, that all ended when the Old Breed went into the lines against the teeth of the Japanese defenses on the southern front. The Division smashed up against the Shuri Line, and in a series of grinding attacks under incessant artillery fire, reduced one supporting position after another. As May wore on, heavy rains flooded the battlefield into a sea of mud, making life misery for all hands. meanwhile, Japanese kamikaze attackers exacted a fearsome toll from the supporting ships offshore. Finally, on 31 May 1945, Marines of the First completed the occupation of Shuri Castle, nothing more than a pile of rubble after so many days of unrelenting combat. Under the overall command of Tenth Army, the Division continued the push south against the newly established enemy positions around Kunishi Ridge. Marine tank-infantry teams adopted a technique called “processing” to destroy Japanese positions with flame and demolitions. Finally, organized resistance ended on 21 June when the last Japanese defenses were breached. By now, many of the Old Breed’s battalions had been reduced to nothing more than small rifle companies.

Victory and Occupation

Author : Benis M. Frank
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 968 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Victory and Occupation written by Benis M. Frank and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 968 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Human Tradition in Modern Japan

Author : Anne Walthall
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780842029124
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (291 download)

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Download or read book The Human Tradition in Modern Japan written by Anne Walthall and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2002 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Human Tradition in Modern Japan is a collection of short biographies of ordinary Japanese men and women, most of them unknown outside their family and locality, whose lives collectively span the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Their stories present a counterweight to the prevailing stereotypes, providing students with depictions of real people through the records they have left-records that detail experiences and aspirations. The Human Tradition in Modern Japan offers a human-scale perspective that focuses on individuals, reconstitutes the meaning of people's experiences as they lived through them, and puts a human face on history. It skillfully bridges the divides between the sexes, between the local and the national, and between rural and urban, as well as spanning crucial moments in the history of modern Japan. The Human Tradition in Modern Japan is an excellent resource for courses on Japanese history, East Asian history, and peoples and cultures of Japan.

Okinawa: The History of an Island People

Author : George H. Kerr
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462901840
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book Okinawa: The History of an Island People written by George H. Kerr and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-11 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[Okinawa: The History of an Island People is] a book that answers the questions of the curious layman, satisfies the standards of critical scholarship, and is readable and fascinating besides. --American Historical Review"

Okinawa

Author : United States. Marine Corps
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Okinawa written by United States. Marine Corps and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: