Winner of the John Hope Franklin Prize A Moyers & Company Best Book of the Year
"A brilliant work that tells us how directly the past has formed us." --Darryl Pinckney, New York Review of Books
How did we come to think of race as synonymous with crime? A brilliant and deeply disturbing biography of the idea of black criminality in the making of modern urban America, The Condemnation of Blackness reveals the influence this pernicious myth, rooted in crime statistics, has had on our society and our sense of self. Black crime statistics have shaped debates about everything from public education to policing to presidential elections, fueling racism and justifying inequality. How was this statistical link between blackness and criminality initially forged? Why was the same link not made for whites? In the age of Black Lives Matter and Donald Trump, under the shadow of Ferguson and Baltimore, no questions could be more urgent and vexing.
"The role of social-science research in creating the myth of black criminality is the focus of this seminal work... The book shows how progressive reformers, academics, and policy-makers subscribed to a 'statistical discourse' about black crime almost immediately after Emancipation, one that shifted blame onto black people for their disproportionate incarceration and continues to sustain gross racial disparities in American law enforcement and criminal justice." --Elizabeth Hinton, The Nation
"Muhammad identifies two different responses to crime among African-Americans in the post-Civil War years, both of which are still with us: in the South, there was vigilantism; in the North, there was an increased police presence. This was not the case when it came to white European-immigrant groups that were also being demonized for supposedly containing large criminal elements." --New Yorker
Автор: Khalil, Muhammad Название: Aesthetics of literary discourse in modern arabic literature ISBN: 1788488482 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781788488488 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 14670.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: The book presents the aesthetic of narrative employed by literary discourse through the literary works of some Arab writers renowned in the Arab World and at international levels, as well as some Palestinian writers in Israel, through literary models dealing with reality in the areas of: poetry, short story, and novel, and through a critical view trying to elucidate the intellectual and literary value of those literary models. The book also examines the various aesthetic values that have been employed and integrated into the literary text, comprising vocabulary, definition, artistic image, and intertextuality, etc. Needless to emphasize that our choice of those writers mentioned within the book was not based arbitrarily on the fact that some of them had benefited from the opportunity of critical writing and publishing, particularly the Egyptian writers Najib Mahfouz, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1988, and Youssef Idris. On the contrary, most of the Palestinian writers inside Israel did not get the attention and care they deserved from the critics and publishers. Also, we hope that the book will fill an existing vacuum in Arab literary studies, especially in English. The significance of this study is that it provides the opportunity, perhaps for the first time, to expose to the reader and learner, as well as to everyone interested in Arabic literature--Arabs as well as foreigners--the essence of the Palestinian literary movement, specifically inside Israel, through special models of the product of some of these creators which were produced under the shadow of social, cultural, and political conditions of the most difficult kind. Also, the study presents critical models that can constitute a qualitative addition to the Palestinian literary works inside Israel, as well as to the literary works in the Arab world. It was necessary to monitor those literary activities, not only in the Arabic language, but also in a universal foreign language. This may require opening windows towards others in order to achieve the greatest possible acculturation and the dialogue of civilizations in all fields of life and knowledge. This can give the Palestinian literary movement inside Israel a golden opportunity to advance and spread on a larger scale--and therein we will find the meaning of human happiness.
Автор: Gibran Kahlil Название: The Khalil Gibran Collection Volume II ISBN: 1612039944 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781612039947 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 16540.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The Khalil Gibran Collection Volume II include three of Gibran's famous works. Included are: The Prophet The Garden of the Prophet Spirits Rebellious Khalil Gibran was a Lebanese-American artist, poet, and writer. As a young man he emigrated with his family to the United States where he studied art and began his literary career. His Romantic style was at the heart of a renaissance in modern Arabic literature he is still celebrated as a literary hero.
Автор: Gibran Kahlil Название: The Khalil Gibran Collection Volume I ISBN: 1612039936 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781612039930 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 14710.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The Khalil Gibran Collection Volume I include three of Gibran's famous works. Included are: The Wanderer The Madman His Parables and Poems The Forerunner Khalil Gibran was a Lebanese-American artist, poet, and writer. As a young man he emigrated with his family to the United States where he studied art and began his literary career. His Romantic style was at the heart of a renaissance in modern Arabic literature he is still celebrated as a literary hero.
Автор: Khalil Laila, Khalil Roya Название: Culinary Journey Through Silk Road: Taste of Afghanistan ISBN: 1483462439 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781483462431 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 46390.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
