Life and Death in the Delta, Rogers

Автор: Hoffman Bruce, Reinares Fernando
Название: The Evolution of the Global Terrorist Threat: From 9/11 to Osama Bin Laden`s Death
ISBN: 0231168985 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780231168984
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: Featuring essays by internationally recognized scholars, The Evolution of the Global Terrorist Threat examines major terrorist acts and campaigns undertaken in the decade following September 11, 2001. These experts track the involvement of global terrorist leaders and organizations in these incidents and the planning, organization, execution, recruitment, and training that went into them. The essays capture the changing character of al-Qaeda and its affiliates since the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq that in part led to the emergence of the Islamic State and the sophisticated elements that, despite the West`s best counterterrorism efforts, continue to exert substantial direction over jihadi terrorist operations.

Автор: Gellman Erik S.
Название: Death Blow to Jim Crow: The National Negro Congress and the Rise of Militant Civil Rights
ISBN: 1469618990 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469618999
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: During the Great Depression, black intellectuals, labor organizers, and artists formed the National Negro Congress (NNC) to demand a "second emancipation" in America. Over the next decade, the NNC and its offshoot, the Southern Negro Youth Congress, sought to coordinate and catalyze local antiracist activism into a national movement to undermine the Jim Crow system of racial and economic exploitation. In this pioneering study, Erik S. Gellman shows how the NNC agitated for the first-class citizenship of African Americans and all members of the working class, establishing civil rights as necessary for reinvigorating American democracy.Much more than just a precursor to the 1960s civil rights movement, this activism created the most militant interracial freedom movement since Reconstruction, one that sought to empower the American labor movement to make demands on industrialists, white supremacists, and the state as never before. By focusing on the complex alliances between unions, civic groups, and the Communist Party in five geographic regions, Gellman explains how the NNC and its allies developed and implemented creative grassroots strategies to weaken Jim Crow, if not deal it the "death blow" they sought.

Автор: Rogers, Kim Lacy
Название: Life and death in the delta
ISBN: 1403960356 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781403960351
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: Based on oral histories with African American activists and community leaders, this book explores the civil rights movement in several Mississippi communities in the context of the region`s history of white supremacy, racial oppression, and African American cultural vitality.

Автор: Hamlin Fran
Название: Crossroads at Clarksdale: The Black Freedom Struggle in the Mississippi Delta After World War II
ISBN: 1469619008 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469619002
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Описание: Weaving national narratives from stories of the daily lives and familiar places of local residents, Francoise Hamlin chronicles the slow struggle for black freedom through the history of Clarksdale, Mississippi. Hamlin paints a full picture of the town over fifty years, recognizing the accomplishments of its diverse African American community and strong NAACP branch, and examining the extreme brutality of entrenched power there. The Clarksdale story defies triumphant narratives of dramatic change, and presents instead a layered, contentious, untidy, and often disappointingly unresolved civil rights movement.Following the black freedom struggle in Clarksdale from World War II through the first decade of the twenty-first century allows Hamlin to tell multiple, interwoven stories about the town's people, their choices, and the extent of political change. She shows how members of civil rights organizations - especially local leaders Vera Pigee and Aaron Henry - worked to challenge Jim Crow through fights against inequality, police brutality, segregation, and, later, economic injustice. With Clarksdale still at a crossroads today, Hamlin explores how to evaluate success when poverty and inequality persist.

Автор: Orvell Miles
Название: The Death and Life of Main Street: Small Towns in American Memory, Space, and Community
ISBN: 1469617552 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469617558
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: For more than a century, the term "Main Street" has conjured up nostalgic images of American small-town life. Representations exist all around us, from fiction and film to the architecture of shopping malls and Disneyland. All the while, the nation has become increasingly diverse, exposing tensions within this ideal. In The Death and Life of Main Street, Miles Orvell wrestles with the mythic allure of the small town in all its forms, illustrating how Americans continue to reinscribe these images on real places in order to forge consensus about inclusion and civic identity, especially in times of crisis.
Orvell underscores the fact that Main Street was never what it seemed; it has always been much more complex than it appears, as he shows in his discussions of figures like Sinclair Lewis, Willa Cather, Frank Capra, Thornton Wilder, Margaret Bourke-White, and Walker Evans. He argues that translating the overly tidy cultural metaphor into real spaces--as has been done in recent decades, especially in the new urbanist planned communities of Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk and Andres Duany--actually diminishes the communitarian ideals at the center of this nostalgic construct. Orvell investigates the way these tensions play out in a variety of cultural realms and explores the rise of literary and artistic traditions that deliberately challenge the tropes and assumptions of small-town ideology and life.

Автор: Foster Frances Smith
Название: `Til Death or Distance Do Us Part: Love and Marriage in African America
ISBN: 0199389705 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199389704
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: Frances Smith Foster offers a groundbreaking new portrait of early African American marriage, upending the conventional wisdom that marriage was illegal for African Americans during the antebellum era, or that if people married at all, their vows were tenuous ones.

Автор: James Pearl
Название: New Death
ISBN: 0813934087 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813934082
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Adopting the term "new death," which was used to describe the unprecedented and horrific scale of death caused by the First World War, Pearl James uncovers several touchstones of American modernism that refer to and narrate traumatic death. The sense of paradox was pervasive: death was both sanctified and denied; notions of heroism were both essential and far-fetched; and civilians had opportunities to hear about the ugliness of death at the front but often preferred not to. By historicizing and analyzing the work of such writers as Willa Cather, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and William Faulkner, the author shows how their novels reveal, conceal, refigure, and aestheticize the violent death of young men in the aftermath of the war. These writers, James argues, have much to say about how the First World War changed death's cultural meaning.

Автор: Weldon, Roberta
Название: Hawthorne, gender, and death
ISBN: 0230602908 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780230602908
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This book draws on a range of critical approaches, including cultural anthropology, psychoanalytic theory, political justice theory, and feminist theory, to consider the ways that strategies of death denial and their compensatory consolations offer insight into the ethical, gender, and religious questions raised by Hawthorne`s novels.