Roots Radical

Author : Denise D. Meringolo
Publisher : Amherst College Press
ISBN 13 : 1943208212
Total Pages : 633 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Radical Roots written by Denise D. Meringolo and published by Amherst College Press. This book was released on 2021-10-28 with total page 633 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While all history has the potential to be political, public history is uniquely so: public historians engage in historical inquiry outside the bubble of scholarly discourse, relying on social networks, political goals, practices, and habits of mind that differ from traditional historians. Radical Roots: Public History and a Tradition of Social Justice Activism theorizes and defines public history as future-focused, committed to the advancement of social justice, and engaged in creating a more inclusive public record. Edited by Denise D. Meringolo and with contributions from the field’s leading figures, this groundbreaking collection addresses major topics such as museum practices, oral history, grassroots preservation, and community-based learning. It demonstrates the core practices that have shaped radical public history, how they have been mobilized to promote social justice, and how public historians can facilitate civic discourse in order to promote equality. "This is a much-needed recalibration, as professional organizations and practitioners across genres of public history struggle to diversify their own ranks and to bring contemporary activists into the fold." — Catherine Gudis, University of California, Riverside. "Taken all together, the articles in this volume highlight the persistent threads of justice work that has characterized the multifaceted history of public history as well as the challenges faced in doing that work."—Patricia Mooney-Melvin, The Public Historian

Author : Errol St. John Stephenson
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1463430965
Total Pages : 569 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roots Radical written by Errol St. John Stephenson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-12-05 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Late November 1954, a young domestic helper with dreams of becoming the best domestic helper she could A young baker with a brand new bicycle, dreams and desire of becoming the best sperm donor the district produced They both met by coincidence and ever since the young baker swear his undying love for her, It was a crush she knew nothing about. Then one fateful night, destiny beckoned. After weeks of eyeing the young helper from afar, he got his chance. She was on her way home from work when he rode up beside her and offered to take her home. She refused his kind gesture. He wanted to be her friend, but she was furious in rejecting him. His voice roared with anger, she began trembling, and he couldnt imagine being rejected in such a manner and held on to her. A fight ensued. With the powerful flow of his adrenalin, and the mighty blow to his ego, he did the unthinkable. He overpowered her and had his own way. She felt worthless and demeaned and cried in agony, but only the stars above were in sympathy with her cry At first he was proud of his conquest, but a guilty conscience began to prick his soul. He moved closer to the crying young helper, with an intent of consoling her, but the wounded lioness she was, she leapt at him with ferocious might and inflicted severe blows to his head with a stone that she found at the side of the road So began the story of the Roots Radical, that Jamaican son of a . . . . . .

Author : Billy Bragg
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571327761
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roots, Radicals and Rockers written by Billy Bragg and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHORTLISTED FOR THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZERoots, Radicals & Rockers: How Skiffle Changed the World is the first book to explore this phenomenon in depth - a meticulously researched and joyous account that explains how skiffle sparked a revolution that shaped pop music as we have come to know it. It's a story of jazz pilgrims and blues blowers, Teddy Boys and beatnik girls, coffee-bar bohemians and refugees from the McCarthyite witch-hunts. Billy traces how the guitar came to the forefront of music in the UK and led directly to the British Invasion of the US charts in the 1960s.Emerging from the trad-jazz clubs of the early '50s, skiffle was adopted by kids who growing up during the dreary, post-war rationing years. These were Britain's first teenagers, looking for a music of their own in a pop culture dominated by crooners and mediated by a stuffy BBC. Lonnie Donegan hit the charts in 1956 with a version of 'Rock Island Line' and soon sales of guitars rocketed from 5,000 to 250,000 a year. Like punk rock that would flourish two decades later, skiffle was a do-it-yourself music. All you needed were three guitar chords and you could form a group, with mates playing tea-chest bass and washboard as a rhythm section.

Author : George Thornton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781942572718
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Radical Book for Kids written by George Thornton and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Gospel story for kids" -- p. 4 of cover.

Author : Johanna Fernández
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469653451
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Young Lords written by Johanna Fernández and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2019-12-18 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against the backdrop of America's escalating urban rebellions in the 1960s, an unexpected cohort of New York radicals unleashed a series of urban guerrilla actions against the city's racist policies and contempt for the poor. Their dramatic flair, uncompromising socialist vision for a new society, skillful ability to link local problems to international crises, and uncompromising vision for a new society riveted the media, alarmed New York's political class, and challenged nationwide perceptions of civil rights and black power protest. The group called itself the Young Lords. Utilizing oral histories, archival records, and an enormous cache of police surveillance files released only after a decade-long Freedom of Information Law request and subsequent court battle, Johanna Fernandez has written the definitive account of the Young Lords, from their roots as a Chicago street gang to their rise and fall as a political organization in New York. Led by poor and working-class Puerto Rican youth, and consciously fashioned after the Black Panther Party, the Young Lords occupied a hospital, blocked traffic with uncollected garbage, took over a church, tested children for lead poisoning, defended prisoners, fought the military police, and fed breakfast to poor children. Their imaginative, irreverent protests and media conscious tactics won reforms, popularized socialism in the United States and exposed U.S. mainland audiences to the country's quiet imperial project in Puerto Rico. Fernandez challenges what we think we know about the sixties. She shows that movement organizers were concerned with finding solutions to problems as pedestrian as garbage collection and the removal of lead paint from tenement walls; gentrification; lack of access to medical care; childcare for working mothers; and the warehousing of people who could not be employed in deindustrialized cities. The Young Lords' politics and preoccupations, especially those concerning the rise of permanent unemployment foretold the end of the American Dream. In riveting style, Fernandez demonstrates how the Young Lords redefined the character of protest, the color of politics, and the cadence of popular urban culture in the age of great dreams.

Author : Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393335321
Total Pages : 689 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950 written by Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2009-08-10 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Remarkable…an eye-opening book [on] the freedom struggle that changed the South, the nation, and the world." —Washington Post The civil rights movement that looms over the 1950s and 1960s was the tip of an iceberg, the legal and political remnant of a broad, raucous, deeply American movement for social justice that flourished from the 1920s through the 1940s. This rich history of that early movement introduces us to a contentious mix of home-grown radicals, labor activists, newspaper editors, black workers, and intellectuals who employed every strategy imaginable to take Dixie down. In a dramatic narrative Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore deftly shows how the movement unfolded against national and global developments, gaining focus and finally arriving at a narrow but effective legal strategy for securing desegregation and political rights.

Author : Terri Givens
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447357256
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Radical Empathy written by Terri Givens and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2022-02-14 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned political scientist Terri Givens calls for ‘radical empathy’ in bridging racial divides to understand the origins of our biases, including internalized oppression. Deftly weaving together her own experiences with the political, she offers practical steps to call out racism and bring about radical social change.

Author : Lara Putnam
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 0807838136
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Radical Moves written by Lara Putnam and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2013-01-07 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the generations after emancipation, hundreds of thousands of African-descended working-class men and women left their homes in the British Caribbean to seek opportunity abroad: in the goldfields of Venezuela and the cane fields of Cuba, the canal construction in Panama, and the bustling city streets of Brooklyn. But in the 1920s and 1930s, racist nativism and a brutal cascade of antiblack immigration laws swept the hemisphere. Facing borders and barriers as never before, Afro-Caribbean migrants rethought allegiances of race, class, and empire. In Radical Moves, Lara Putnam takes readers from tin-roof tropical dancehalls to the elegant black-owned ballrooms of Jazz Age Harlem to trace the roots of the black-internationalist and anticolonial movements that would remake the twentieth century. From Trinidad to 136th Street, these were years of great dreams and righteous demands. Praying or "jazzing," writing letters to the editor or letters home, Caribbean men and women tried on new ideas about the collective. The popular culture of black internationalism they created--from Marcus Garvey's UNIA to "regge" dances, Rastafarianism, and Joe Louis's worldwide fandom--still echoes in the present.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1142 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Century Dictionary written by and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 1142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : June Michele Pulliam
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Listen to Punk Rock! written by June Michele Pulliam and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-04-19 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Listen to Punk Rock! Exploring a Musical Genre discusses the evolution of punk from its inception in 1975 to the present, delving into the lasting impact of the genre throughout society today. Listen to Punk Rock! provides readers with a fuller picture of punk rock as an inclusive genre with continuing relevance. Organized in a roughly chronological manner, it starts with an introduction that explains the musical and cultural forces that shaped the punk genre. Next, 50 entries cover important punk bands and subgenres, noting female punk bands as well as bands of color. The final part of the book discusses how punk has influenced other musical genres and popular culture. The book will give those new to the genre an overview of important bands and products related to the movement in music, including publications, fashion, and films about punk rock. Notably, it pays special attention to diversity within the genre, discussing bands often overlooked or mentioned only in passing in most histories of the movement, which focus mainly on The Sex Pistols, The Clash, and The Ramones as the pioneers of punk.