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Author : Dolita Dannêt Cathcart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book White Gloves, Black Rebels written by Dolita Dannêt Cathcart and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Miriam Horn
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307773892
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Rebels in White Gloves written by Miriam Horn and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2011-05-04 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the women of the Wellesley class of 1969 entered the ivory tower, they were initiated into a rarefied world. Many were daughters of privilege, many were going for their "MRS." But by the time they graduated four years later, they faced a world turned upside down by the Pill, NOW, student protests, the counterculture, and the Vietnam War. In this social history, Miriam Horn retraces the lives of women caught on a historic cusp. This generation was the first to test-drive modern rules that remain complicated and contentious regarding sexuality, marriage, motherhood, paid work, spirituality, aging, and the difficulties of reconciling public and private life. The result is a story of uncommon subtleties and vibrancy that reflects this generation's fateful choices.
Author : Grace Sanders Johnson
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 146967369X
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book White Gloves, Black Nation written by Grace Sanders Johnson and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2023-03-17 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ambitious transnational history considers Haitian women's political life during and after the United States occupation of Haiti (1915–34). The two decades following the occupation were some of the most politically dynamic and promising times in Haiti's modern history, but the history of women's political organizing in this period has received scant attention. Tracing elite and middle-class women's activism and intellectual practice from the countryside of Kenscoff, Haiti, to Philadelphia, the Belgian Congo, and back to Port-au-Prince, this book tells the story of Haitian women's essential role as co-curators of modern Haitian citizenship. Set in a period when national belonging was articulated in philosophies of African authenticity, revolutionary nostalgia, and working-class politics, Grace Sanders Johnson considers how an emerging educated and professional class of women who understood themselves as descendants of the Haitian Revolution established alternative claims to citizenship that included, but were not limited to, suffrage and radicalism. Sanders Johnson argues that these women's political practice incorporated strategic class performance, extravagant sartorial sensibilities, and an insistence on self-promotion and preservation that challenged the exceptional trope of the martyred male revolutionary hero. Bringing her subjects vividly to life, she reveals their politics of wayfaring, moving deliberately if sometimes ineffectively through the radical milieu of the twentieth century.
Author : Dick Lehr
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1610398246
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (13 download)
Download or read book The Birth of a Nation written by Dick Lehr and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1915, two men -- one a journalist agitator, the other a technically brilliant filmmaker -- incited a public confrontation that roiled America, pitting black against white, Hollywood against Boston, and free speech against civil rights. Monroe Trotter and D. W. Griffith were fighting over a film that dramatized the Civil War and Reconstruction in a post-Confederate South. Almost fifty years earlier, Monroe's father, James, was a sergeant in an all-black Union regiment that marched into Charleston, South Carolina, just as the Kentucky cavalry -- including Roaring Jack Griffith, D. W.'s father -- fled for their lives. Griffith's film, The Birth of a Nation, included actors in blackface, heroic portraits of Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, and a depiction of Lincoln's assassination. Freed slaves were portrayed as villainous, vengeful, slovenly, and dangerous to the sanctity of American values. It was tremendously successful, eventually seen by 25 million Americans. But violent protests against the film flared up across the country. Monroe Trotter's titanic crusade to have the film censored became a blueprint for dissent during the 1950s and 1960s. This is the fiery story of a revolutionary moment for mass media and the nascent civil rights movement, and the men clashing over the cultural and political soul of a still-young America standing at the cusp of its greatest days.
Author : Millington W. Bergeson-Lockwood
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469640422
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book Race Over Party written by Millington W. Bergeson-Lockwood and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2018-04-13 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In late nineteenth-century Boston, battles over black party loyalty were fights over the place of African Americans in the post–Civil War nation. In his fresh in-depth study of black partisanship and politics, Millington W. Bergeson-Lockwood demonstrates that party politics became the terrain upon which black Bostonians tested the promise of equality in America's democracy. Most African Americans remained loyal Republicans, but Race Over Party highlights the actions and aspirations of a cadre of those who argued that the GOP took black votes for granted and offered little meaningful reward for black support. These activists branded themselves "independents," forging new alliances and advocating support of whichever candidate would support black freedom regardless of party. By the end of the century, however, it became clear that partisan politics offered little hope for the protection of black rights and lives in the face of white supremacy and racial violence. Even so, Bergeson-Lockwood shows how black Bostonians' faith in self-reliance, political autonomy, and dedicated organizing inspired future generations of activists who would carry these legacies into the foundation of the twentieth-century civil rights movement.
Author : Kathleen Weiler
Publisher : UMass + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1613767218
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (137 download)
Download or read book Maria Baldwin's Worlds written by Kathleen Weiler and published by UMass + ORM. This book was released on 2020-01-15 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maria Baldwin (1856–1922) held a special place in the racially divided society of her time, as a highly respected educator at a largely white New England school and an activist who carried on the radical spirit of the Boston area's internationally renowned abolitionists from a generation earlier. African American sociologist Adelaide Cromwell called Baldwin "the lone symbol of Negro progress in education in the greater Boston area" during her lifetime. Baldwin used her respectable position to fight alongside more radical activists like William Monroe Trotter for full citizenship for fellow members of the black community. And, in her professional and personal life, she negotiated and challenged dominant white ideas about black womanhood. In Maria Baldwin's Worlds, Kathleen Weiler reveals both Baldwin's victories and what fellow activist W. E. B. Du Bois called her "quiet courage" in everyday life, in the context of the wider black freedom struggle in New England.
Author : Jo van Ammers-Küller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Rebel Generation written by Jo van Ammers-Küller and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Theresa Runstedtler
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520280113
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Jack Johnson, Rebel Sojourner written by Theresa Runstedtler and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the life and boxing career of Jack Johnson.
Author : Anne de Courcy
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250272572
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Magnificent Rebel written by Anne de Courcy and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2023-04-11 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anne de Courcy, the author of Husband Hunters and Chanel's Riviera, examines the controversial life of legendary beauty, writer and rich girl Nancy Cunard during her thirteen years in Jazz-Age Paris. Paris in the 1920s was bursting with talent in the worlds of art, design and literature. The city was at the forefront of everything new and exciting; there was no censorship; life and love were there for the taking. At its center was the gorgeous, seductive English socialite Nancy Cunard, scion of the famous shipping line. Her lovers were legion, but this book focuses on five of the most significant and a lifelong friendship. Her affairs with acclaimed writers Ezra Pound, Aldous Huxley, Michael Arlen and Louis Aragon were passionate and tempestuous, as was her romance with black jazz pianist Henry Crowder. Her friendship with the famous Irish novelist George Moore, her mother’s lover and a man falsely rumored to be Nancy’s father, was the longest-lasting of her life. Cunard’s early years were ones of great wealth but also emotional deprivation. Her mother Lady Cunard, the American heiress Maud Alice Burke (who later changed her name to Emerald) became a reigning London hostess; Nancy, from an early age, was given to promiscuity and heavy drinking and preferred a life in the arts to one in the social sphere into which she had been born. Highly intelligent, a gifted poet and widely read, she founded a small press that published Samuel Beckett among others. A muse to many, she was also a courageous crusader against racism and fascism. She left Paris in 1933, at the end of its most glittering years and remained unafraid to live life on the edge until her death in 1965. Magnificent Rebel is a nuanced portrait of a complex woman, set against the backdrop of the City of Light during one of its most important and fascinating decades.
Author : Perry Link
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231556446
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book I Have No Enemies written by Perry Link and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-20 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Late one night in December 2008, police arrived at the home of Liu Xiaobo—China’s leading dissident, a key figure in the prodemocracy manifesto Charter 08—and took him away. When Liu won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize as a political prisoner, the award was bestowed on an empty chair. Inside China, the regime sought to erase every trace of his existence. Liu died of liver cancer in 2017 without ever having been allowed to return home. I Have No Enemies is the definitive biography of Liu Xiaobo, offering a meticulously researched account of the twists and turns of a remarkable life. Perry Link and Wu Dazhi explore Liu’s upbringing, immersion in classical Chinese poetry and philosophy, bold challenges to literary conformity, and involvement in democratic movements. They trace the lifelong evolution of his thinking and chronicle his persecution, incarceration, and death. I Have No Enemies emphasizes Liu’s principled commitment to dissent and the significance of the example he set in China and around the world. Liu was a farsighted strategist whose ultimate goal was “to change a regime by changing a society.” In Tiananmen Square, he showed others how to face down armed soldiers; in daily life, he looked for ways to build a more democratic culture. A powerful record of Liu’s life and times, this book also tells the story of a generation of Chinese intellectuals who sought a better way forward.
Author : Allan Folsom
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0765321572
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (653 download)
Download or read book The Hadrian Memorandum written by Allan Folsom and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the enormous, Texas-based oil field management and exploration company, AG Striker, requests seismic details of an undersized oil reserve off Guinea's coast, what they find astounds them, in this tale of page-turning suspense (W.E.B. Griffin).
Author : Justin Martin
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0306822261
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)
Download or read book Rebel Souls written by Justin Martin and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brilliant portrait of a time and place that launched American Bohemia and liberated the genius of Walt Whitman
Author : Leonor Villegas de Magn—n
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
ISBN 13 : 9781611920499
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (24 download)
Download or read book The Rebel written by Leonor Villegas de Magn—n and published by Arte Publico Press. This book was released on 1994-09-01 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rebel is the memoir of a revolutionary woman, Leonor Villegas de Magnon (1876-1955), who was a fiery critic of dictator Porfirio Diaz and a conspirator and participant in the Mexican Revolution. Villegas de Magnon rebelled against the ideals of her aristocratic class and against the traditional role of women in her society. In 1910 Villegas moved from Mexico to Laredo, Texas, where she continued supporting the revolution as a member of the Junta Revolucionaria (Revolutionary Council) and as a fiery editorialist in Laredo newspapers. In 1913, she founded La Cruz Blanca (The White Cross) to serve as a corps of nurses for the revolutionary forces active from the border region to Mexico City. Many women like Villegas de Magnon from both sides of the border risked their lives and left their families to support the revolution. Years later, however, when their participation had still been unacknowledged and was running the risk of being forgotten, Villegas de Magnon decided to write her personal account of this history. The Rebel covers the period from 1876 through 1920, documenting the heroic actions of the women. Written in the third person with a romantic fervor, the narrative interweaves autobiography with the story of La Cruz Blanca. Until now Villegas de Magnon's written contributions have remained virtually unrecognized - peripheral to both Mexico and the United States, fragmented by a border. Not only does her work attest to the vitality, strength and involvement of women in sociopolitical concerns, but it also stands as one of the very few written documents that consciously challenges stereotyped misconceptions of Mexican Americans held by both Mexicans and Anglo-Americans.
Author : Parts-Unlimited
Publisher : AdrenalineMoto
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 900 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book AdrenalineMoto | Helmets & Apparel Motorcycle PU Catalog 2016 written by Parts-Unlimited and published by AdrenalineMoto. This book was released on with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The old saying “dress for the occasion” is very true for powersports. The right gear makes all the difference. When what you wear works, it helps you to enjoy every minute of the ride. We work hard to bring you the top brand names in the industry for helmets, gloves, boots, eyewear and riding apparel. Street or dirt, water or snow, the latest gear is in here. The extensive casual apparel section keeps you comfortable and stylish between rides.
Author : Kevin Ingram
Publisher : Dutton Adult
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Rebel written by Kevin Ingram and published by Dutton Adult. This book was released on 1985 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2112 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The London Gazette written by and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 2112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Guilford
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1440166439
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (41 download)
Download or read book The Pencil Test written by James Guilford and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kendry wants a life as hearty and remarkable as the lives of the black girls...Kendry wants to smoke marijuana and be bold enough to announce it on a crowded train. Kendry wants the black girls' struggles, their tragedies, and their poverty and resilience. Kendry wants to stand among them and complain sassily about her mother. Most of all, Kendry wants to be their friend. Kendry wants to belong. As the daughter of a drug-addict and a victim of school bullying, Kendry Clare longs for a better life. Her mother's financial ruin provides Kendry with just this opportunity. On her first day at Paul Lawrence Dunbar, an all-black high school, Kendry tells a reckless lie that initiates a chain of events that catapults her into popularity and, ultimately, controversy.
