Claiming Kin

Author : Afi-Odelia E. Scruggs
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1466871822
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Claiming Kin written by Afi-Odelia E. Scruggs and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2014-05-20 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A touching story of a woman's search for her family roots in the wake of the sudden death of her father. Claiming Kin is a powerful and compelling story about a woman's quest to search out her roots upon the death of the father she barely knew. A former journalist hungry for the truth, her search into the past leads her from her hometown in Nashville, Tennessee, back to the birthplace of the Scruggs in nearby Williamson County. There she traces the family back to 1847 and the Scruggs Farm where her ancestors were once slaves. Her journey soon becomes spiritual and emotional, forcing her not only to examine her own beliefs in the importance of family, but also her religious beliefs as she turns toward honoring her ancestors. This is a tale that will capture the heart and mind.

Author : Ellen Bryant Voigt
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819569615
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Claiming Kin written by Ellen Bryant Voigt and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems devoted to family and the physical world.

Author : Laura Marello
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781550717594
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Claiming Kin written by Laura Marello and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alexis Shotwell
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 145295304X
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Against Purity written by Alexis Shotwell and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2016-12-06 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world is in a terrible mess. It is toxic, irradiated, and full of injustice. Aiming to stand aside from the mess can produce a seemingly satisfying self-righteousness in the scant moments we achieve it, but since it is ultimately impossible, individual purity will always disappoint. Might it be better to understand complexity and, indeed, our own complicity in much of what we think of as bad, as fundamental to our lives? Against Purity argues that the only answer—if we are to have any hope of tackling the past, present, and future of colonialism, disease, pollution, and climate change—is a resounding yes. Proposing a powerful new conception of social movements as custodians for the past and incubators for liberated futures, Against Purity undertakes an analysis that draws on theories of race, disability, gender, and animal ethics as a foundation for an innovative approach to the politics and ethics of responding to systemic problems. Being against purity means that there is no primordial state we can recover, no Eden we have desecrated, no pretoxic body we might uncover through enough chia seeds and kombucha. There is no preracial state we could access, no erasing histories of slavery, forced labor, colonialism, genocide, and their concomitant responsibilities and requirements. There is no food we can eat, clothes we can buy, or energy we can use without deepening our ties to complex webbings of suffering. So, what happens if we start from there? Alexis Shotwell shows the importance of critical memory practices to addressing the full implications of living on colonized land; how activism led to the official reclassification of AIDS; why we might worry about studying amphibians when we try to fight industrial contamination; and that we are all affected by nuclear reactor meltdowns. The slate has never been clean, she reminds us, and we can’t wipe off the surface to start fresh—there’s no fresh to start. But, Shotwell argues, hope found in a kind of distributed ethics, in collective activist work, and in speculative fiction writing for gender and disability liberation that opens new futures.

Author : Judith Butler
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231518048
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Antigone's Claim written by Judith Butler and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2002-05-23 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The celebrated author of Gender Trouble here redefines Antigone's legacy, recovering her revolutionary significance and liberating it for a progressive feminism and sexual politics. Butler's new interpretation does nothing less than reconceptualize the incest taboo in relation to kinship—and open up the concept of kinship to cultural change. Antigone, the renowned insurgent from Sophocles's Oedipus, has long been a feminist icon of defiance. But what has remained unclear is whether she escapes from the forms of power that she opposes. Antigone proves to be a more ambivalent figure for feminism than has been acknowledged, since the form of defiance she exemplifies also leads to her death. Butler argues that Antigone represents a form of feminist and sexual agency that is fraught with risk. Moreover, Antigone shows how the constraints of normative kinship unfairly decide what will and will not be a livable life. Butler explores the meaning of Antigone, wondering what forms of kinship might have allowed her to live. Along the way, she considers the works of such philosophers as Hegel, Lacan, and Irigaray. How, she asks, would psychoanalysis have been different if it had taken Antigone—the "postoedipal" subject—rather than Oedipus as its point of departure? If the incest taboo is reconceived so that it does not mandate heterosexuality as its solution, what forms of sexual alliance and new kinship might be acknowledged as a result? The book relates the courageous deeds of Antigone to the claims made by those whose relations are still not honored as those of proper kinship, showing how a culture of normative heterosexuality obstructs our capacity to see what sexual freedom and political agency could be.

Author : Dylan C. Penningroth
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 0807862134
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Claims of Kinfolk written by Dylan C. Penningroth and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2004-07-21 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Claims of Kinfolk, Dylan Penningroth uncovers an extensive informal economy of property ownership among slaves and sheds new light on African American family and community life from the heyday of plantation slavery to the "freedom generation" of the 1870s. By focusing on relationships among blacks, as well as on the more familiar struggles between the races, Penningroth exposes a dynamic process of community and family definition. He also includes a comparative analysis of slavery and slave property ownership along the Gold Coast in West Africa, revealing significant differences between the African and American contexts. Property ownership was widespread among slaves across the antebellum South, as slaves seized the small opportunities for ownership permitted by their masters. While there was no legal framework to protect or even recognize slaves' property rights, an informal system of acknowledgment recognized by both blacks and whites enabled slaves to mark the boundaries of possession. In turn, property ownership--and the negotiations it entailed--influenced and shaped kinship and community ties. Enriching common notions of slave life, Penningroth reveals how property ownership engendered conflict as well as solidarity within black families and communities. Moreover, he demonstrates that property had less to do with individual legal rights than with constantly negotiated, extralegal social ties.

Author : Dylan C. Penningroth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Claiming Kin and Property written by Dylan C. Penningroth and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Frances Hodgson Burnett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim written by Frances Hodgson Burnett and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Patty Krawec
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1506478255
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Becoming Kin written by Patty Krawec and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishers. This book was released on 2022-09-27 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patty Krawec guides readers through Native and settler history, myth, identity, and spirituality in this primer on settler colonialism. Braiding together historical and cultural analysis, Indigenous ways of knowing, and threads of communal memory, Krawec crafts a stunning call to unforget our history and become better relatives to one another.

Author : Richard G. Fox
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520325443
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kin Clan Raja and Rule written by Richard G. Fox and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1971.