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My Larger Education (an African American Heritage Book)

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Report copyright infringementby Booker T. Washington (Author)In My Larger Education, Booker T. Washington explains how he came by his positions on race relations, by describing the people who influenced him during the founding of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute of Alabama. Washington was constantly, and often bitterly, criticized by his contemporaries for being too conciliatory to whites and not concerned enough about civil rights. It would not be until after his death that the world...

Freedom's Gardener: James F. Brown, Horticulture, and the Hudson Valley in Antebellum America

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Report copyright infringementby Myra B. Young Armstead (Author)A fascinating study of freedom and slavery, told through the life of an escaped slave who built a life in the Hudson Valley In 1793 James F. Brown was born a slave, and in 1868 he died a free man. At age 34 he ran away from his native Maryland to pass the remainder of his life as a gardener to a wealthy family in the Hudson Valley. Two years after his escape and manumission, he began a diary which he kept until his death. In Freed...

A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson

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Report copyright infringementby Mary Rowlandson (Author)Mary Rowlandson (c. 1637 - January 5, 1711) was a colonial American woman who was captured by Native Americans during King Philip's War and held for 11 weeks before being ransomed. In 1682, six years after her ordeal, A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson was published. This text is considered a seminal American work in the literary genre of captivity narratives. It went through four printings in 1682 and g...

The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley - Hardcover

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by Marietje Schaake (Author)An insider offers a "forceful critique...of Big Tech's steady erosion of democracy" (The New Yorker) and describes what must be done to stop it Over the past decades, under the cover of "innovation," technology companies have successfully resisted regulation and have even begun to seize power from governments themselves. Facial recognition firms track citizens for police surveillance. Cryptocurrency has wiped out the personal savings of millions and threatens the s...

Dangerous Fictions: The Fear of Fantasy and the Invention of Reality - Hardcover

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by Lyta Gold (Author)In a political moment when social panics over literature are at their peak, Dangerous Fictions is a mind-expanding treatise on the nature of fictional stories as cultural battlegrounds for power. Fictional stories have long held an uncanny power over hearts and minds, especially those of young people. In Dangerous Fictions, Lyta Gold traces arguments both historical and contemporary that have labeled fiction as dark, immoral, frightening, or poisonous. Within each she ask...

Subtle Acts of Exclusion, Second Edition: How to Understand, Identify, and Stop Microaggressions - Paperback

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by Tiffany Jana (Author), Michael Baran (Author)An expanded edition of the first practical, nonjudgmental handbook for dealing with microaggressions, featuring examples, sample scripts, action plans, a new discussion and activity guide, and up-to-date suggestions for creating a culture of belonging in the workplace. Overt discrimination is relatively easy to spot. But the less obvious but more common actions that make people feel left out or stigmatized in our workplaces, commonly called micr...

Introducing Quantitative Methods: A Practical Guide - Paperback

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by Daniela Aidley (Author)This exciting new core textbook offers a clear and practical introduction to quantitative methods, taking a project-based approach. The author's extensive knowledge and straightforward writing style ensure that students are steered through the process step-by-step, from developing research questions and preparing data for analysis, to explaining how to present data in appropriate formats, avoid bias, and write up results and reports. Featuring a comprehensive pedagog...

Emus Loose in Egnar: Big Stories from Small Towns - Paperback

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by Judy Muller (Author)At a time when mainstream news media are hemorrhaging and doomsayers are predicting the death of journalism, take heart: the First Amendment is alive and well in small towns across America. In Emus Loose in Egnar, award-winning journalist Judy Muller takes the reader on a grassroots tour of rural American newspapers, from an Indian reservation in Montana to the Alaska tundra to Martha's Vineyard, and discovers that many weeklies are not just surviving, but thriving. In ...

When Violence Is the Answer: Learning How to Do What It Takes When Your Life Is at Stake - Paperback

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by Tim Larkin (Author)This book could save your life: Protect yourself from violence and learn survival skills for dangerous situations with this essential guide from a former military intelligence officer. In a civilized society, violence is rarely the answer. But when it is, it's the only answer. The sound of breaking glass downstairs in the middle of the night. The words, "Move and you die." The hands on your child, or the knife to your throat. In this essential book, self-protection expe...

Shortlisted: Women in the Shadows of the Supreme Court

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Report copyright infringementby Hannah Brenner Johnson (Author), Renee Knake Jefferson (Author), Melissa Murray (Foreword by)Winner, Next Generation Indie Book Awards - Women's Nonfiction Best Book of 2020, National Law JournalThe inspiring and previously untold history of the women considered--but not selected--for the US Supreme Court In 1981, Sandra Day O'Connor became the first female justice on the United States Supreme Court after centuries of male appointments, a watershed moment in th...

From Liberty to Magnolia: In Search of the American Dream - Hardcover

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Report copyright infringementby Janice S. Ellis (Author)"From Liberty to Magnolia: In Search of the American Dream is written for Americans from all walks of life who care deeply about how our great nation can become even greater if we boldly and courageously face our internal, crippling, and unnecessary fear--the fear that we stand to lose rather than gain by embracing and extending mutual respect and supporting equal rights and equal opportunity for our fellow citizens regardless of their r...

Black Apollo of Science: The Life of Ernest Everett Just

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Report copyright infringementby Kenneth R. Manning (Author)This biography illuminates the racial attitudes of an elite group of American scientists and foundation officers. It is the story of a complex and unhappy man. It blends social, institutional, black, and political history with the history of science.Back JacketThis is a biography which illuminates the racial attitudes of an elite group of American scientists and foundation officers. It is the story of a complex and unhappy man. It ble...

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Report copyright infringementby Andrew Pickering (Author)It is 1650 and something is very wrong in your house. Pots and pans are flying through the air. Invisible hands are pelting your family with stones. Doors slam shut on their own, and strange knockings echo through the walls at all hours. Your neighbours whisper about demons, your servants flee in terror, and you don't know where to turn. Welcome to the world of the early modern poltergeist. While tales of witches and witchcraft have bee...

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by Ajax Moon (Joint Author), Bridey Moon (Joint Author)Mike Pauro, aka 'Ajax Moon' and his daughter, Morgan Deeble, aka 'Bridey Moon' remake the aphorism examined by James Allen for women. In this transposition of Allen's classic, the authors revisit the impact of thought on health, purpose, achievement, ideas, and serenity from the female perspective. The work is accompanied by imagery from early 20th century postcards passed down for generations in their family. The images were selected to ...

Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy - Paperback

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by Talia Lavin (Author)A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Editor's Choice/Staff Pick One reporter takes an immersive dive into white supremacy's explosive online presence, exploring the undercurrents of propaganda, racism, misogyny, and history that led us to where we are now. Talia Lavin is every skinhead's worst nightmare: a loud and unapologetic Jewish woman, acerbic, smart, and profoundly antiracist, with the investigative chops to expose the tactics and ideologies of online hatemongers. Cultur...

The Anti-Slavery Movement: A Lecture Before The Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society (1855) - Paperback

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by Frederick Douglass (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of Pages: 48 Dimensions: 0.12 x 11 x 8....

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by Ilene Beckerman (Author)"Illuminates the experience of an entire generation of women . . . This small gem of a book is worthy of a Tiffany box." --The New York Times Book Review "A memoir every reader will wish to copy in her own size." --Glamour "Ilene Beckerman's sleek little memoir . . . strikes a startling chord. . . . Unsettling and oddly powerful." --People "Surprisingly poetic." --Entertainment Weekly " A] poignant biography. . . . This little book will charm anyone with an inte...

Enrique's Journey: The Story of a Boy's Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with His Mother - Paperback

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by Sonia Nazario (Author)An astonishing story that puts a human face on the ongoing debate about immigration reform in the United States, now updated with a new Epilogue and Afterword, photos of Enrique and his family, an author interview, and more--the definitive edition of a classic of contemporary America Based on the Los Angeles Times newspaper series that won two Pulitzer Prizes, one for feature writing and another for feature photography, this page-turner about the power of family is ...

Storied Stone: Indian Rock Art in the Black Hills Country - Paperback

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by Linea Sundstrom (Author)Ancient petroglyphs and paintings on rocky cliffs and cave walls preserve the symbols and ideas of American Indian cultures. From scenes of human-to-animal transformations found in petroglyphs dating back thousands of years to contact-era depictions of eagle trapping, rock art provides a look at the history of the Black Hills country over the last ten thousand years. Storied Stone links rock art of the Black Hills and Cave Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming to the ri...

Artists at Work: Rethinking Policy for Artistic Careers

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Report copyright infringementby Joanna Woronkowicz (Author)Why is it so hard for artists to have stable careers? Written with clarity and grounded in data, Artists at Work offers an eye-opening look at what it truly means to build a career as an artist today. Joanna Woronkowicz examines how artists navigate unique challenges in America's creative economy, from unpredictable job markets to evolving copyright laws and public funding constraints. Woronkowicz exposes current public policy for art...

Sex on Stage: Performing the Body Politic

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Report copyright infringementby Alison J. Carr (Editor), Lynn Sally (Editor)This is the first collection of original essays, articles, and images from authors, activists, artists, and scholars that grapple with the explicit body and the staging of sex across multiple spaces - from burlesque to drag, to sex work, to traditional theatre.Sex on Stage uncovers how gender and sexuality collide on stage in dynamic, dramatic, and thought-provoking ways. By taking a broad view of sex and the stage, t...

The First Sunrise: Australian Aboriginal Myths

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Report copyright infringementby Ainslie Roberts (Illustrator), Charles P. Mountford (Author)The First Sunrise is a companion volume to The Dreamtime and The Dawn of Time; two books which have been one of the greatest publishing successes of recent years. The concept of those two books - and of The First Sunrise - was developed through an association between the famous ethnologist Charles Mountford and the artist Ainslie Roberts.Both men have an intimate knowledge of the Australian outback. Mr...

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Report copyright infringementby Manning Erin (Editor), Anna Munster (Editor), Bodil Marie Stavning Thomsen (Editor)All 'mediation' stages and distributes real, embodied events. This capacity to enact in the immediacy of everyday life is an integral part of any mediation. But this entails that nothing can be prised apart from an ecology of exprience. Immediation I and II collectively and singularly ask: what are the thinking-feeling imperceptibilities conditioning and immediately registering i...

Aesthetics of Excess: The Art and Politics of Black and Latina Embodiment

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Report copyright infringementby Jillian Hernandez (Author)Heavy makeup, gaudy jewelry, dramatic hairstyles, and clothes that are considered cheap, fake, too short, too tight, or too masculine: working-class Black and Latina girls and women are often framed as embodying "excessive" styles that are presumed to indicate sexual deviance. In Aesthetics of Excess Jillian Hernandez examines how middle-class discourses of aesthetic value racialize the bodies of women and girls of color. At the same t...

Reawakening Our Ancestors' Lines: Revitalizing Inuit Traditional Tattooing

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Report copyright infringementby Hovak Johnston (Author), Cora Devos (Photographer), Meta Antolin (Photographer)For thousands of years, Inuit women practised the traditional art of tattooing. Created with bone needles and caribou sinew soaked in seal oil or soot, these tattoos were an important tradition for many women, symbols stitched in their skin that connected them to their families and communities. But with the rise of missionaries and residential schools in the North, the tradition of t...

To Free the Captives: A Plea for the American Soul - Paperback

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by Tracy K. Smith (Author)A TIME AND WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice - A stunning personal manifesto on memory, family, and history that explores how we in America might--together--come to a new view of our shared past "A vulnerable, honest look at a life lived in a country still struggling with its evils...Hopeful...Beautiful and haunting." --Eddie S. Glaude Jr., author of Begin Again In 2020, heartsick from constant assaults on Black li...

Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention - Paperback

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by Ben Wilson (Author)In a captivating tour of cities famous and forgotten, acclaimed historian Ben Wilson tells the glorious, millennia-spanning story how urban living sparked humankind's greatest innovations. "A towering achievement.... Reading this book is like visiting an exhilarating city for the first time--dazzling." --The Wall Street Journal During the two hundred millennia of humanity's existence, nothing has shaped us more profoundly than the city. From their very beginnings, citie...

The Order of Things: An Archaeology of Human Sciences - Paperback

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by Michel Foucault (Author)With vast erudition, Foucault cuts across disciplines and reaches back into seventeenth century to show how classical systems of knowledge, which linked all of nature within a great chain of being and analogies between the stars in the heavens and the features in a human face, gave way to the modern sciences of biology, philology, and political economy. The result is nothing less than an archaeology of the sciences that unearths old patterns of meaning and reveals t...

Insurgent Beauty: Indigenous Art in Urban Panama

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Report copyright infringementby Peter Szok (Author), Duiren Wagua (Contribution by), Naypiler Hackin (Contribution by)Insurgent Beauty: Indigenous Art in Urban Panama examines artistic and political developments from 1968 to the present, exploring how Native American artists leveraged Panama's populist military reforms from 1968 to 1989 and the neoliberal transition to assert their presence in urban spaces. This book breaks new ground as it examines Indigenous art in new contexts. It utilizes...

Enacting Others: Politics of Identity in Eleanor Antin, Nikki S. Lee, Adrian Piper, and Anna Deavere Smith

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Report copyright infringementby Cherise Smith (Author)The artists Adrian Piper, Eleanor Antin, Anna Deavere Smith, and Nikki S. Lee have all crossed racial, ethnic, gender, and class boundaries in works that they have conceived and performed. Cherise Smith analyzes their complex engagements with issues of identity through close readings of a significant performance, or series of performances, by each artist. She examines Piper's public embodiment of the Mythic Being, a working-class black man...

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Report copyright infringementby Lewis Spence (Author) Number of Pages: 186 Dimensions: 0.43 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: June 13, 2011

African Ecomedia: Network Forms, Planetary Politics

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Report copyright infringementby Cajetan Iheka (Author)In African Ecomedia, Cajetan Iheka examines the ecological footprint of media in Africa alongside the representation of environmental issues in visual culture. Iheka shows how, through visual media such as film, photography, and sculpture, African artists deliver a unique perspective on the socioecological costs of media production, from mineral and oil extraction to the politics of animal conservation. Among other works, he examines Piete...