Patchwork Freedoms

Author : Adriana Chira
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108603106
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Patchwork Freedoms written by Adriana Chira and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-17 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In nineteenth-century Santiago de Cuba, the island of Cuba's radical cradle, Afro-descendant peasants forged freedom and devised their own formative path to emancipation. Drawing on understudied archives, this pathbreaking work unearths a new history of Black rural geography and popular legalism, and offers a new framework for thinking about nineteenth-century Black freedom. Santiago de Cuba's Afro-descendant peasantries did not rely on liberal-abolitionist ideologies as a primary reference point in their struggle for rights. Instead, they negotiated their freedom and land piecemeal, through colonial legal frameworks that allowed for local custom and manumission. While gradually wearing down the institution of slavery through litigation and self-purchase, they reimagined colonial racial systems before Cuba's intellectuals had their say. Long before residents of Cuba protested for national independence and island-wide emancipation in 1868, it was Santiago's Afro-descendant peasants who, gradually and invisibly, laid the groundwork for emancipation.

Author : Adriana Chira
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108499546
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Patchwork Freedoms written by Adriana Chira and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-17 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich, pathbreaking study on nineteenth-century rural Cuba, and how Afro-descendant peasants forged freedom through litigation and land occupation.

Author : Deborah Hopkinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780590424851
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt written by Deborah Hopkinson and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young slave stitches a quilt with a map pattern which guides her to freedom in the north.

Author : Bettye Stroud
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 9780763624231
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Patchwork Path written by Bettye Stroud and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While her father leads her toward Canada and away from the plantation where they have been slaves, a young girl thinks of the quilt her mother used to teach her a code that will help guide them to freedom.

Author : Dante Chinni
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101544562
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our Patchwork Nation written by Dante Chinni and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-10-04 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revolutionary new way to understand America's complex cultural and political landscape, with proof that local communities have a major impact on the nation's behavior-in the voting booth and beyond. In a climate of culture wars and tremendous economic uncertainty, the media have often reduced America to a simplistic schism between red states and blue states. In response to that oversimplification, journalist Dante Chinni teamed up with political geographer James Gimpel to launch the Patchwork Nation project, using on-the-ground reporting and statistical analysis to get past generalizations and probe American communities in depth. The result is Our Patchwork Nation, a refreshing, sometimes startling, look at how America's diversities often defy conventional wisdom. Looking at the data, they recognized that the country breaks into twelve distinct types of communities, and old categories like "soccer mom" and "working class" don't matter as much as we think. Instead, by examining Boom Towns, Evangelical Epicenters, Military Bastions, Service Worker Centers, Campus and Careers, Immigration Nation, Minority Central, Tractor Community, Mormon Outposts, Emptying Nests, Industrial Metropolises, and Monied Burbs, the authors demonstrate the subtle distinctions in how Americans vote, invest, shop, and otherwise behave, reflect what they experience on their local streets and in their daily lives. Our Patchwork Nation is a brilliant new way to debate and examine the issues that matter most to our communities, and to our nation.

Author : Nancy Callahan
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817352473
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Freedom Quilting Bee written by Nancy Callahan and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2005-04-17 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The original book on the renowned Freedom quilters of Gee's Bend In December of 1965, the year of the Selma-to-Montgomery march, a white Episcopal priest driving through a desperately poor, primarily black section of Wilcox County found himself at a great bend of the Alabama River. He noticed a cabin clothesline from which were hanging three magnificent quilts unlike any he had ever seen. They were of strong, bold colors in original, op-art patterns—the same art style then fashionable in New York City and other cultural centers. An idea was born and within weeks took on life, in the form of the Freedom Quilting Bee, a handcraft cooperative of black women artisans who would become acclaimed throughout the nation.

Author : Lori Wagner
Publisher : Affirming Faith
ISBN 13 : 9780979862779
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Patchwork of Freedom written by Lori Wagner and published by Affirming Faith. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Contemporary stories of spiritual and emotional freedom connect with tales of escaping slaves in the pre-Civil War era through a mysterious Underground Railroad quilt code. Each chapter is titled with the name of a quilt pattern associated with the quilt code ... that adds dimension and spiritual application to the lessons shared by the book's wide variety of contributing authors"--Back cover.

Author : Valerie Flournoy
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0803700970
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Patchwork Quilt written by Valerie Flournoy and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1985-03-29 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty years ago Valerie Flournoy and Jerry Pinkney created a warmhearted intergenerational story that became an award-winning perennial. Since then children from all sorts of family situations and configurations continue to be drawn to its portrait of those bonds that create the fabric of family life.

Author : Candy Grant Helmso
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Freedom Quilt written by Candy Grant Helmso and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A family of women work together to help friends find a path to freedom.

Author : Sandra Dallas
Publisher : Sleeping Bear Press
ISBN 13 : 1627530169
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Quilt Walk written by Sandra Dallas and published by Sleeping Bear Press. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's 1863 and 10-year-old Emmy Blue Hatchett has been told by her father that soon their family will leave their farm, family, and friends in Illinois, and travel west to a new home in Colorado. It's difficult leaving family and friends behind. They might not see one another ever again. When Emmy's grandmother comes to say goodbye, she gives Emmy a special gift to keep her occupied on the trip. The journey by wagon train is long and full of hardships. But the Hatchetts persevere and reach their destination in Colorado, ready to start their new life.