Central Citys Joy And Pain

Author : Jerome E. Morris
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820365769
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Central City's Joy and Pain written by Jerome E. Morris and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2024-01-15 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Central City’s Joy and Pain, Jerome E. Morris explores complex social issues through personal narrative. He does so by blending social-science research with his own memoir of life in Birmingham, Alabama. As someone who lived in the Central City housing project for two transitional decades (1968–91) and whose family continued to reside there until 1999, when the city razed the community, the author provides us with the often unexplored bottom-up perspective on Black public-housing residents’ experiences. As Morris’s experiential and authoritative narrative voice unfolds in the pages of Central City’s Joy and Pain, both the scholarly and lay reader are brought on a journey of what life is like for people who live and die at the intersection of race and poverty in a rapidly evolving southern urban center. The setting of a historic public-housing community provides a rich canvas on which to paint a world through the author’s personal experience of growing up there—and his later observations as a researcher and academic. Through its syncopation of personal stories and scholarly research, Central City's Joy and Pain captures what it means to be Black, poor, and full of dreams. In this setting, dreams are realized by some and swallowed up for others in the larger historical, social, economic, and political context of African Americans' experiences during and after the civil rights movement.

Author : Laura Edmondson
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253035511
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Performing Trauma in Central Africa written by Laura Edmondson and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-26 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the stakes of cultural production in a time of war? How is artistic expression prone to manipulation by the state and international humanitarian organizations? In the charged political terrain of post-genocide Rwanda, post-civil war Uganda, and recent violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Laura Edmondson explores performance through the lens of empire. Instead of celebrating theatre productions as expression of cultural agency and resilience, Edmondson traces their humanitarian imperatives to a place where global narratives of violence take precedence over local traditions and audiences. Working at the intersection of performance and trauma, Edmondson reveals how artists and cultural workers manipulate narratives in the shadow of empire and how empire, in turn, infiltrates creative capacities.

Author : Wendy M. Wright
Publisher : Liturgical Press
ISBN 13 : 0814634958
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lady of Angels and Her City written by Wendy M. Wright and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lady of the Angels and Her City recounts Wendy Wright's visitations to her hometown's many Marian churches and shrines. But it is much more than a personal pilgrimage narrative. It offers important glimpses into the history of Los Angeles Catholicism, American Catholic culture, and Mary's place in Catholic theology and tradition. It peeks into the heroic labors of the religious orders that went on mission there and the waves of immigrants who have arrived on American shores. With Wright, readers will consider: Readers who know the geography of Los Angeles Catholicism will surely enjoy Wright's reflection on familiar places. But there is much here that will fascinate anyone interested in either the history of Christianity in America or devotion to Mary by those who love her today.

Author : Patricia Hill Collins
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509553177
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lethal Intersections written by Patricia Hill Collins and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2023-09-07 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: School shootings, police misconduct, and sexual assault where people are injured and die dominate the news. What are the connections between such incidents of violence and extreme harm? In this new book, world-renowned sociologist Patricia Hill Collins explores how violence differentially affects people according to their class, sexuality, nationality, and ethnicity. These invisible workings of overlapping power relations give rise to what she terms “lethal intersections,” where multiple forms of oppression converge to catalyze a set of violent practices that fall more heavily on particular groups. Drawing on a rich tapestry of cases, Collins challenges readers to reflect on what counts as violence today and what can be done about it. Resisting violence offers a common thread that weaves together disparate antiviolence projects across the world. When parents of murdered children organize against gun violence, when Black citizens march against the excessive use of police force in their neighborhoods, and when women and girls report sexual abuse by employers, coaches, and community leaders, the ideas and actions of ordinary people lay a foundation for new ways of thinking about and combating violence. Through its ground-breaking analysis, Lethal Intersections aims to stimulate debate about violence as one of the most pressing social problems of our times.

Author : Elaine Nelson
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 1662448163
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book First the Fire, Then the Lie written by Elaine Nelson and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-01-12 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story takes place in the Mile High City of Denver, Colorado, in the early fifties. Elaine was a happy, playful five-year-old living with her single mom and four older sisters. Then tragedy suddenly struck home. A short time later, her mother was diagnosed with schizophrenia and chronic depression. As a result of her mother’s illness, Elaine and her sisters were separated and placed in foster homes. After several temporary stays with her grandparents and other relatives, she became the property of the state of Colorado, placed permanently into the foster care system. After years of trying to trust the system, Elaine was transferred to an orphanage. It was for colored children located in another city many miles from her friends and familiar surroundings. After years of suppressing the dark fires and lies of her haunting memories, Elaine found strength in forgiveness and love, and now she has opened up to the world to share her challenges, hoping in some small way others will draw strength from her stories of survival.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Central Law Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. 64-96 include "Central law journal's international law list".

Author : Chalmers Alexander McMahan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The People of Atlanta written by Chalmers Alexander McMahan and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Christopher Paul Harris
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691219060
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To Build a Black Future written by Christopher Paul Harris and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-12 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An incisive portrait of how the new Black politics can forge a future centered on collective action, community, and care When #BlackLivesMatter emerged in 2013, it animated the most consequential Black-led mobilization since the civil rights and Black power era. Today, the hashtag turned rallying cry is but one expression of a radical reorientation toward Black politics, protest, and political thought. To Build a Black Future examines the spirit and significance of this insurgency, offering a revelatory account of a new political culture—responsive to pain, suffused with joy, and premised on care—emerging from the centuries-long arc of Black rebellion, a tradition that traces back to the Black slave. Drawing on his own experiences as an activist and organizer, Christopher Paul Harris takes readers inside the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) to chart the propulsive trajectory of Black politics and thought from the Middle Passage to the present historical moment. Carefully attending to the social forces that produce Black struggle and the contradictions that arise within it, Harris illustrates how M4BL gives voice to an abolitionist praxis that bridges the past, present, and future, outlining a political project at once directed inward to the Black community while issuing an outward challenge to the world. Essential reading for the age of #BlackLivesMatter, this visionary and provocative book reveals how the radical politics of joy, pain, and care, in sharp contrast to liberal political thought, can build a Black future that transcends ideology and pushes the boundaries of our political imagination.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1598 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literary Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 758 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Literary Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: