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Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination - Paperback

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by Robin D. G. Kelley (Author), Aja Monet (Foreword by)The 20th-anniversary edition of Kelley's influential history of 20th-century Black radicalism, with new reflections on current movements and their impact on the author, and a foreword by poet Aja Monet First published in 2002, Freedom Dreams is a staple in the study of the Black radical tradition. Unearthing the thrilling history of grassroots movements and renegade intellectuals and artists, Kelley recovers the dreams of the future world...

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by Byung-Chul Han (Author), Alain Badiou (Foreword by)An argument that love requires the courage to accept self-negation for the sake of discovering the Other.Byung-Chul Han is one of the most widely read philosophers in Europe today, a member of the new generation of German thinkers that includes Markus Gabriel and Armen Avanessian. In The Agony of Eros, a bestseller in Germany, Han considers the threat to love and desire in today's society. For Han, love requires the courage to accept self...

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by Muriel Rukeyser (Author), Catherine Venable Moore (Introduction by)"Written in response to the Hawk's Nest Tunnel disaster of 1931 in Gauley Bridge, West Virginia, The Book of the Dead is an important part of West Virginia's cultural heritage and a powerful account of one of the worst industrial catastrophes in American history. The poems collected here investigate the roots of a tragedy that killed hundreds of workers, most of them African American. They are a rare engagement with the ove...

Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair - Hardcover

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by Danielle Sered (Author)The award-winning "radically original" (The Atlantic) restorative justice leader, whose work the Washington Post has called "totally sensible and totally revolutionary," grapples with the problem of violent crime in the movement for prison abolition A National Book Foundation Literature for Justice honoreeA Kirkus "Best Book of 2019 to Fight Racism and Xenophobia"Winner of the National Association of Community and Restorative Justice Journalism AwardFinalist for the ...

Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism - Hardcover

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by Laura E. Gómez (Author)Named One of the Best Books of the Year by NPRAn NPR Best Book of the Year, exploring the impact of Latinos' new collective racial identity on the way Americans understand race, with a new afterword by the authorWho are Latinos and where do they fit in America's racial order? In this "timely and important examination of Latinx identity" (Ms.), Laura E. Gómez, a leading critical race scholar, argues that it is only recently that Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cuban...

Moving Toward the Millionth Circle: Energizing the Global Women's Movement (Feminist Gift, from the Author of Goddesses in Everywoman) - Hardcover

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by Jean Shinoda Bolen (Author)The Power of Heart-Centered Feminine ActivismUniting women from all walks of life. While women's individual experiences and stories differ, there remains to be a uniting factor that draws women from around the world together. In this book for women, author Jean Shinoda Bolen calls upon this uniting factor, this feminine spirit ingrained in the soul of each woman, as a source of motivation for activism. As a result, this activism focused on women empowerment is pe...

As the Romans Did: A Sourcebook in Roman Social History - Paperback

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by Jo-Ann Shelton (Author), Pauline Ripat (Author)As the Romans Did offers a rich, revealing look at everyday Roman life. It provides clear, lively translations of a fascinating array of documents drawn from Latin and Greek source material--from personal letters, farming manuals, medical texts, and recipes to poetry, graffiti, and tombstone inscriptions. Each selection has been translated into readable, contemporary English. Extensive annotations, abundant biographical notes, maps, appendices...

Digital Culture & Society (Dcs): Vol 8, Issue 2/2022 - Algorithmic Art - Paperback

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by Mathias Fuchs (Editor), Karin Wenz (Editor)What happened to the 1960s ideas of machine art, cybernetic art, algorithmic revolution , and the hopes for a democratization of the art market? How do contemporary art practitioners cope with the political situation and with the attempts of the Silicon Valley giants to appropriate algorithmic generation of art-like artefacts?This issue aims to discuss how the early concept of computer art is now being reframed as digital, post-digital or algorit...

Mixed: Embracing Complexity by Uncovering Your God-Led Identity - Paperback

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by Eli Bonilla Jr (Author)Many of us feel like we don't belong or are out of touch with our true identity. Discover how you can gain a stronger sense of who God made you to be and step confidently into every relationship, fully owning your unique distinctions and celebrating the differences of others.Group dynamics can be based on the simplest forms of physical and cultural distinctions, and those who don't quite fit the mold of a group can feel like outsiders. The reality is none of us fit i...

A Trans Man Walks Into a Gay Bar: A Journey of Self (and Sexual) Discovery - Paperback

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by Harry Nicholas (Author)'On the bookshelves, there was plenty of stuff on being gay, and much needed, joyous accounts of what it is to be trans, but nothing really that encapsulates what is it to be both - to exist in the hazy terrain between.' After his relationship with his girlfriend of 5 years ended, Harry realised he was a single adult for the first time - not only that, but a single, transmasculine and newly out gay man. Despite knowing it was the right decision, the reality of his ne...

Inviting the Wolf in: Thinking about Difficult Stories - Paperback

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by Loren Niemi (Author), Elizabeth Ellis (Author)Winner of the Storytelling World AwardA difficult story is any story whose content makes it challenging to tell or difficult to hear. Told for the wrong reasons, it can be as painful for the listener as for the teller. However, as we know from literature and media, Sophie's Choice to The Sixth Sense, told properly, a difficult story can powerfully alter not only he who tells it, but those who hear it. How can we tell the stories of wickedness a...

Improving Your Storytelling: Beyond the Basics for All Who Tell Stories in Work or Play - Paperback

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by Doug Lipman (Author)The first steps in storytelling are often easy, because we tell stories informally every day. Once you take storytelling into the more formal contexts of performance or occupational uses, however, you may be faced with challenges you hadn't anticipated. You need information that goes beyond the basics. And you need it in a form that does not just tell you what to do but helps you make your own informed decisions. This book is meant for the reader who has already begun t...

The Joy of Missing Out: Finding Balance in a Wired World - Paperback

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by Christina Crook (Author) The art of finding balance in a wired world. There's no doubt that technology has overrun our lives. Over the past few decades, the world has embraced progress and we're living with the resultant clicking, beeping, anxiety-inducing frenzy. But a creative backlash is gathering steam, helping us cope with the avalanche of data that threatens to overwhelm us daily through our computers, tablets and smartphones. The Joy of Missing Out considers the technologically f...

The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life - Paperback

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by Richard J. Herrnstein (Author), Charles Murray (Author)The controversial book linking intelligence to class and race in modern society, and what public policy can do to mitigate socioeconomic differences in IQ, birth rate, crime, fertility, welfare, and poverty.Author BiographyRichard J. Herrnstein held the Edger Pierce Chair in Psychology at Harvard University until his death in 1994. Number of Pages: 912 Dimensions: 1.5 x 9.26 x 6.3 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: January 10, 1996

The Soul of Anime: Collaborative Creativity and Japan's Media Success Story - Paperback

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by Ian Condry (Author)In The Soul of Anime, Ian Condry explores the emergence of anime, Japanese animated film and television, as a global cultural phenomenon. Drawing on ethnographic research, including interviews with artists at some of Tokyo's leading animation studios--such as Madhouse, Gonzo, Aniplex, and Studio Ghibli--Condry discusses how anime's fictional characters and worlds become platforms for collaborative creativity. He argues that the global success of Japanese animation has gr...

Harem Histories: Envisioning Places and Living Spaces - Paperback

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by Marilyn Booth (Editor)Harem Histories is an interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring the harem as it was imagined, represented, and experienced in Middle Eastern and North African societies, and by visitors to those societies. One theme that threads through the collection is the intimate interrelatedness of West and East evident in encounters within and around the harem, whether in the elite socializing of precolonial Tunis or the popular historical novels published in Istanbul and...

EyeMinded: Living and Writing Contemporary Art - Paperback

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by Kellie Jones (Author)A daughter of the poets Hettie Jones and Amiri Baraka, Kellie Jones grew up immersed in a world of artists, musicians, and writers in Manhattan's East Village and absorbed in black nationalist ideas about art, politics, and social justice across the river in Newark. The activist vision of art and culture that she learned in those two communities, and especially from her family, has shaped her life and work as an art critic and curator. Featuring selections of her writi...

The Spectacular State: Culture and National Identity in Uzbekistan - Paperback

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by Laura L. Adams (Author)Laura L. Adams offers unique insight into nation building in Central Asia during the post-Soviet era through an exploration of Uzbekistan's production of national culture in the 1990s. As she explains, after independence the Uzbek government maintained a monopoly over ideology, exploiting the remaining Soviet institutional and cultural legacies. The state expressed national identity through tightly controlled mass spectacles, including theatrical and musical performa...

Rethinking the South African Crisis: Nationalism, Populism, Hegemony - Paperback

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by Gillian Hart (Author)Since the end of apartheid, South Africa has become an extreme yet unexceptional embodiment of forces at play in many other regions of the world: intensifying inequality alongside "wageless life," proliferating forms of protest and populist politics that move in different directions, and official efforts at containment ranging from liberal interventions targeting specific populations to increasingly common police brutality. Rethinking the South African Crisis revisits ...

Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity - Paperback

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by J. Kehaulani Kauanui (Author)In the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act (HHCA) of 1921, the U.S. Congress defined "native Hawaiians" as those people "with at least one-half blood quantum of individuals inhabiting the Hawaiian Islands prior to 1778." This "blood logic" has since become an entrenched part of the legal system in Hawai'i. Hawaiian Blood is the first comprehensive history and analysis of this federal law that equates Hawaiian cultural identity with a quantifiable amount of blood. J. ...

Southern Indians and Anthropologists: Culture, Politics, and Identity - Paperback

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by Betty Duggan (Contribution by), Brett Riggs (Contribution by), Donald Shannon (Contribution by)Ranging in setting from a children's summer school program to a museum of history and culture to a fatherhood project, these eleven papers document some of the many ways in which anthropologists and Native Americans are striving to work together at higher levels of accountability, reciprocity, and mutual enrichment. The Native American groups discussed in the volume include the Yuchi of Oklahoma,...

Tulsa, 1921: Reporting a Massacre - Hardcover

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by Randy Krehbiel (Author), Karlos K. Hill (Foreword by) In 1921 Tulsa's Greenwood District, known then as the nation's "Black Wall Street," was one of the most prosperous African American communities in the United States. But on May 31 of that year, a white mob, inflamed by rumors that a young Black man had attempted to rape a white teenage girl, invaded Greenwood. By the end of the following day, thousands of homes and businesses lay in ashes, and perhaps as many as three hundred people wer...

Paradise: One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire - Paperback

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by Lizzie Johnson (Author)The definitive firsthand account of California's Camp Fire, the nation's deadliest wildfire in a century, Paradise is a riveting examination of what went wrong and how to avert future tragedies as the climate crisis unfolds. "A tour de force story of wildfire and a terrifying look at what lies ahead."--San Francisco Chronicle (Best Books of the Year) On November 8, 2018, the people of Paradise, California, awoke to a mottled gray sky and gusty winds. Soon the Camp Fi...

Gender and Parenthood: Biological and Social Scientific Perspectives - Paperback

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by W. Wilcox (Editor), Kathleen Kline (Editor)The essays in this collection deploy biological and social scientific perspectives to evaluate the transformative experience of parenthood for today's women and men. They map the similar and distinct roles mothers and fathers play in their children's lives and measure the effect of gendered parenting on child well-being, work and family arrangements, and the quality of couples' relationships. Contributors describe what happens to brains and bodies...

The Lower East Side Remembered and Revisited: A History and Guide to a Legendary New York Neighborhood - Paperback

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by Joyce Mendelsohn (Author)The Lower East Side has been home to some of the city's most iconic restaurants, shopping venues, and architecture. The neighborhood has also welcomed generations of immigrants, from newly arrived Italians and Jews to today's Latino and Asian newcomers. This history has become somewhat obscured, however, as the Lower East Side can appear more hip than historic, with wealth and gentrification changing the character of the neighborhood. Chronicling these developments...

Moral, Believing Animals: Human Personhood and Culture - Paperback

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by Christian Smith (Author)What kind of animals are human beings? And how do our visions of the human shape our theories of social action and institutions? In Moral, Believing Animals, Christian Smith advances a creative theory of human persons and culture that offers innovative, challenging answers to these and other fundamental questions in sociological, cultural, and religious theory. Smith suggests that human beings have a peculiar set of capacities and proclivities that distinguishes the...

Rastafari: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback

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by Ennis B. Edmonds (Author)From its obscure beginnings in Jamaica in the early 1930s, Rastafari has grown into an international socio-religious movement. It is estimated that 700,000 to 1 million people worldwide have embraced Rastafari, and adherents of the movement can be found in most of the major population centers and many outposts of the world. Most believers worship Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia (ruled 1930-1974), as God incarnate. They often embrace the spiritual use of canna...

Oxford Handbook of Media Psychology - Paperback

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by Karen E. Dill (Editor)It is indisputable that media is by far the most common means by which human beings spend our free time in the modern world. However, the ubiquity of media in our lives brings with it advantages and disadvantages along with uncertainty: will increased dependence on media impair our social functioning, enhance it, or both? The Oxford Handbook of Media Psychology explores facets of human behavior, thoughts, and feelings experienced in the context of media use and creati...

The Body: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback

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by Chris Shilling (Author)The human body is thought of conventionally as a biological entity, with its longevity, morbidity, size and even appearance determined by genetic factors immune to the influence of society or culture. Since the mid-1980s, however, there has been a rising awareness of how our bodies, and our perception of them, are influenced by the social, cultural and material contexts in which humans live. Drawing on studies of sex and gender, education, governance, the economy, an...

Myth: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback

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by Robert A. Segal (Author)Where do myths come from? What is their function and what do they mean? In this Very Short Introduction Robert Segal introduces the array of approaches used to understand the study of myth. These approaches hail from disciplines as varied as anthropology, sociology, psychology, literary criticism, philosophy, science, and religious studies. Including ideas from theorists as varied as Sigmund Freud, Claude Levi-Strauss, Albert Camus, and Roland Barthes, Segal uses th...

101 Albums That Changed Popular Music - Paperback

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by Chris Smith (Author)Chris Smith's 101 Albums That Changed Popular Music tells the fascinating stories behind the most groundbreaking, influential, and often controversial albums ever recorded, ranging from The Anthology of American Folk Music (1952) to Elephant (2003) by The White Stripes. Organized chronologically to capture the flow of culture from one album to the next, this volume illuminates how these classic recordings reflected--and sometimes changed--the political, social, and econ...

Black, White, and Indian: Race and the Unmaking of an American Family - Paperback

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by Claudio Saunt (Author)Deceit, compromise, and betrayal were the painful costs of becoming American for many families. For people of Indian, African, and European descent living in the newly formed United States, the most personal and emotional choices--to honor a friendship or pursue an intimate relationship--were often necessarily guided by the harsh economic realities imposed by the country's racial hierarchy. Few families in American history embody this struggle to survive the pervasive...