Cuban Identity and the Angolan Experience, C. Peters

Автор: Sullivan Jas M., Esmail Ashraf
Название: African American Identity: Racial and Cultural Dimensions of the Black Experience
ISBN: 0739193023 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780739193020
Издательство: Bloomsbury
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Описание: Jas M. Sullivan and Ashraf M. Esmail s African American Identity: Racial and Cultural Dimensions of the Black Experience is a collection which makes use of multiple perspectives across the social sciences to address complex issues of race and identity. The contributors tackle questions about what African American racial identity means, how we may go about quantifying it, what the factors are in shaping identity development, and what effects racial identity has on psychological, political, educational, and health-related behavior. African American Identity aims to continue the conversation, rather than provide a beginning or an end. It is an in-depth study which uses quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods to explore the relationship between racial identity and psychological well-being, effects on parents and children, physical health, and related educational behavior. From these vantage points, Sullivan and Esmail provide a unique opportunity to further our understanding, extend our knowledge, and continue the debate.

Автор: Al J. Venter & Friends
Название: Combat: South Africa at War Along the Angolan Frontier
ISBN: 1911628739 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781911628736
Издательство: Marston Book Services
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Описание: Al Venter's latest book on South Africa's 23-year Border War along the Angolan frontier offers a host of new perspectives. These include details about units like the South African Air Force 44 Squadron which converted Dakota aircraft into flying gun platforms similar to those used in America's war in South-East Asia. He also has American nuclear specialist David Albright - one of the leading authorities on nuclear proliferation - take a long hard look at Pretoria's atom bomb program. Elsewhere he deals with the medium-range intercontinental ballistic missile programme that was developed (with Israeli help) in conjunction with building the bomb. Most salient, Venter takes a fresh look at the enemies that were ranged against the SADF, and in particular how SWAPO guerrillas fared. They were obviously a gutsy, well-trained and well-motivated guerrilla force to have survived almost a quarter century of hostilities: indeed, as an insurgent force they were streets ahead of other guerrilla groups such as those who fought the Portuguese and the Rhodesians. Combat-wise, South Africa's ANC military wing does not even begin to compare. There is also, within more than 20 chapters - written either by the author or by specialist friends - a fascinating chapter on covert communications during the war which stretched almost all the way across Africa and into the Indian Ocean. Another chapter looks at what gave the six-wheeled 'thin-skinned' Ratel Infantry Combat Vehicle the ability to tackle Soviet main battle tanks in combat during the course of several Angolan conventional bush war battles and thrash them, a world first that remains unbeaten.

Автор: Barry Muffett
Название: The Politics of Identity in Cuban-American Literature: An Interdisciplinary Study
ISBN: 1680530402 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781680530407
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Through the prism of literary analysis and cultural studies, The Politics of Identity in Cuban-American Literature is an original examination of the Cuban-American community`s diasporic and identitive genealogy from the perspective of their Cuban and American nationalisms.

Автор: Fehimovi?
Название: National Identity in 21st-Century Cuban Cinema
ISBN: 3319931024 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319931029
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: National Identity in 21st-Century Cuban Cinema tours early 21st-century Cuban cinema through four key figures—the monster, the child, the historic icon, and the recluse—in order to offer a new perspective on the relationship between the Revolution, culture, and national identity in contemporary Cuba. Exploring films chosen to convey a recent diversification of subject matters, genres, and approaches, it depicts a changing industrial landscape in which the national film institute (ICAIC) coexists with international co-producers and small, ‘independent’ production companies. By tracing the reappearance, reconfiguration, and recycling of national identity in recent fiction feature films, the book demonstrates that the spectre of the national haunts Cuban cinema in ways that reflect intensified transnational flows of people, capital, and culture. Moreover, it shows that the creative manifestations of this spectre screen—both hiding and revealing—a persistent anxiety around Cubanness even as national identity is transformed by connections to the outside world.

Название: Education, Citizenship, and Cuban Identity
ISBN: 1137583053 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137583055
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This book explores how Cuba`s famously successful and inclusive education system has formed young Cubans` political, social, and moral identities in a country transfigured by new inequalities and moral compromises made in the name of survival.

Автор: Delinda Collier
Название: Repainting the Walls of Lunda: Information Colonialism and Angolan Art
ISBN: 0816694443 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780816694440
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Repainting the Walls of Lunda chronicles the publication and dissemination of an anthropology book, Paredes Pintadas da Lunda (Painted Walls of Lunda), which was published in Portuguese in 1953. The book featured illustrations of wall murals and sand drawings of the Chokwe peoples of northeastern Angola. These reproductions were adapted in postindependence Angolan nationalist art and post–civil war contemporary art. As Delinda Collier recounts, the pictorial narrative foregrounds the complex relationships between content, distribution, and politicization. The result is a nuanced look at the practices of art entangled in political economies as much as in issues of aesthetics.After historicizing the drastic changes in media for the Chokwe images, from sand and dwelling to book and from analog to digital, Collier analyzes the formal and infrastructural logic of the two-dimensional images in their subsequent formats, from postindependence canvas paintings to Internet images. Collier does not view any of these iterations as a negation or obliteration of the previous one. Instead, she argues that the logic of reproductive media envelops the past: each mediation adds another layer of context and content. As Collier sees it, the images\u2019 historicity is embedded within these media layers, which many Angolan postindependence artists speak of in terms of ghosts or ancestors when describing their encounter with reproductions of the Chokwe art.If, as Collier contends, \u201cAfrica troubles media,\u201d this book troubles facile theories and romantic constructions of \u201canalog Africa,\u201d boundaries between art and cybernetics, and the firewall between the colonial and the postcolonial.