Slave Or Free And 11 Other Problem Solving Plays

Author : Fred A. Woodress
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1418498629
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slave Or Free and 11 Other Problem Solving Plays written by Fred A. Woodress and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2006 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Versatility describes playwrights Fred & Anne Woodress. " Letter From Home" dramatizes wartime Christmas 1944; NY Times calls "Impasse," "A war play of superior quality." "Slave or Free" (Sacagawea and York) was a finalist among 1100 scripts in Actors Theatre's 2004 Ten Minute Play Competition. "The Reluctant Nudist" is a spoof; "The Premium" has an unemployed professor selling insurance in Appalachia. A teenage Confederacy heroine shines in "A Day The Weeds Grew." 1800s Cincinnati comes alive in "Wandering..From Kentucky." A dysfunctional St. Louis family disagrees in "The Danton Way." while love blooms on "A Train Ride to Muncie." "I Live From Day to Day" with its French locale prompted Margo Jones' comment: "Fred Woodress has a feeling for mood, characterization."

Author : Joy DeGruy
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062692674
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome written by Joy DeGruy and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From acclaimed author and researcher Dr. Joy DeGruy comes this fascinating book that explores the psychological and emotional impact on African Americans after enduring the horrific Middle Passage, over 300 years of slavery, followed by continued discrimination. From the beginning of American chattel slavery in the 1500’s, until the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865, Africans were hunted like animals, captured, sold, tortured, and raped. They experienced the worst kind of physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual abuse. Given such history, Dr. Joy DeGruy asked the question, “Isn’t it likely those enslaved were severely traumatized? Furthermore, did the trauma and the effects of such horrific abuse end with the abolition of slavery?” Emancipation was followed by another hundred years of institutionalized subjugation through the enactment of Black Codes and Jim Crow laws, peonage and convict leasing, and domestic terrorism and lynching. Today the violations continue, and when combined with the crimes of the past, they result in further unmeasured injury. What do repeated traumas visited upon generation after generation of a people produce? What are the impacts of the ordeals associated with chattel slavery, and with the institutions that followed, on African Americans today? Dr. DeGruy answers these questions and more as she encourages African Americans to view their attitudes, assumptions, and emotions through the lens of history. By doing so, she argues they will gain a greater understanding of the impact centuries of slavery and oppression has had on African Americans. Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome is an important read for all Americans, as the institution of slavery has had an impact on every race and culture. “A masterwork. [DeGruy’s] deep understanding, critical analysis, and determination to illuminate core truths are essential to addressing the long-lived devastation of slavery. Her book is the balm we need to heal ourselves and our relationships. It is a gift of wholeness.”—Susan Taylor, former Editorial Director of Essence magazine

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dramatist written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John R. McKivigan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780815331063
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Abolitionism and American Religion written by John R. McKivigan and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1999 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Kathleen McCarthy
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400824702
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slaves, Masters, and the Art of Authority in Plautine Comedy written by Kathleen McCarthy and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-10 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What pleasures did Plautus' heroic tricksters provide their original audience? How should we understand the compelling mix of rebellion and social conservatism that Plautus offers? Through a close reading of four plays representing the full range of his work (Menaechmi, Casina, Persa, and Captivi), Kathleen McCarthy develops an innovative model of Plautine comedy and its social effects. She concentrates on how the plays are shaped by the interaction of two comic modes: the socially conservative mode of naturalism and the potentially subversive mode of farce. It is precisely this balance of the naturalistic and the farcical that allows everyone in the audience--especially those well placed in the social hierarchy--to identify both with and against the rebel, to feel both the thrill of being a clever underdog and the complacency of being a securely ensconced authority figure. Basing her interpretation on the workings of farce and naturalism in Plautine comedy, McCarthy finds a way to understand the plays' patchwork literary style as well as their protean social effects. Beyond this, she raises important questions about popular literature and performance not only on ancient Roman stages but in cultures far from Plautus' Rome. How and why do people identify with the fictional figures of social subordinates? How do stock characters, happy endings, and other conventions operate? How does comedy simultaneously upset and uphold social hierarchies? Scholars interested in Plautine theater will be rewarded by the detailed analyses of the plays, while those more broadly interested in social and cultural history will find much that is useful in McCarthy's new way of grasping the elusive ideological effects of comedy.

Author : Kevin Bales
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520268660
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Slave Next Door written by Kevin Bales and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the practice of human trafficking that exists in the United States in the present day.

Author : Helen L. Bevel
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1105708160
Total Pages : 670 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nonviolent Right To Vote Movement Almanac written by Helen L. Bevel and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-06-22 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains the rich history of a people struggling to attain freedom, justice and equality, which is most defined by the Selma, AL Right To Vote Movement. From the shores of Africa to the Americas this book explores the people, through pictures, articles, quotes, poems, timelines and more. Providing the history of nonviolence as applied to the Selma Movement from the unique perspective of the strategist and nonviolent scientist James L. Bevel.

Author : Paul Finkelman
Publisher : Articles-Garlan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 744 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion and Slavery written by Paul Finkelman and published by Articles-Garlan. This book was released on 1989 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George FITZHUGH
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sociology for the South, or the failure of free society written by George FITZHUGH and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William E. Gienapp Professor of History Harvard University
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198021143
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Origins of the Republican Party, 1852-1856 written by William E. Gienapp Professor of History Harvard University and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1987-06-04 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1850s saw in America the breakdown of the Jacksonian party system in the North and the emergence of a new sectional party--the Republicans--that succeeded the Whigs in the nation's two-party system. This monumental work uses demographic, voting, and other statistical analysis as well as the more traditional methods and sources of political history to trace the realignment of American politics in the 1850s and the birth of the Republican party. Gienapp powerfully demonstrates that the organization of the Republican party was a difficult, complex, and lengthy process and explains why, even after an inauspicious beginning, it ultimately became a potent political force. The study also reveals the crucial role of ethnocultural factors in the collapse of the second party system and thoroughly analyzes the struggle between nativism and antislavery for political dominance in the North. The volume concludes with the decisive triumph of the Republican party over the rival American party in the 1856 presidential election. Far-reaching in scope yet detailed in analysis, this is the definitive work on the formation of the Republican party in antebellum America.