Liberia Portrait of a People, Peafrey Claude

Автор: John M. Coggeshall
Название: Liberia, South Carolina: An African American Appalachian Community
ISBN: 1469640848 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469640846
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: In 2007, while researching mountain culture in upstate South Carolina, anthropologist John M. Coggeshall stumbled upon the small community of Liberia, in the Blue Ridge foothills. There he met Mable Owens Clarke and her family, the remaining members of a small African American community still living on land obtained immediately after the Civil War. This intimate history tells the story of five generations of the Clarke family and their friends and neighbors, chronicling their struggles through slavery, Reconstruction, the Jim Crow era, and the desegregation of the state. Through hours of interviews with Mable and her relatives, as well as friends and neighbors, Coggeshall presents an ethnographic history that allows a largely ignored community to speak and record their own history for the first time. This story sheds new light on the African American experience in Appalachia, and in it Coggeshall documents the community's 150-year history of resistance to white oppression, while offering a new way to understand the symbolic relationship between residents and the land they occupy, tying together family, memory, and narratives to explain this connection.

Автор: Shellum, Brian G.
Название: African american officers in liberia
ISBN: 1612349552 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781612349558
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Цена: 18350.00 T
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Описание: African American Officers in Liberia tells the story of seventeen African American officers who trained, reorganized, and commanded the Liberian Frontier Force from 1910 to 1942. In this West African country founded by freed black American slaves, African American officers performed their duties as instruments of imperialism for a country that was, at best, ambivalent about having them serve under arms at home and abroad.  The United States extended its newfound imperial reach and policy of “Dollar Diplomacy” to Liberia, a country it considered a U.S. protectorate. Brian G. Shellum explores U.S. foreign policy toward Liberia and the African American diaspora, while detailing the African American military experience in the first half of the twentieth century. Shellum brings to life the story of the African American officers who carried out a dangerous mission in Liberia for an American government that did not treat them as equal citizens in their homeland, and he provides recognition for their critical role in preserving the independence of Liberia.  

Автор: Sieh Rodney
Название: Journalist on Trial: Fighting Corruption, Media Muzzling and a 5,000-Year Prison Sentence in Liberia
ISBN: 1988058406 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781988058405
Издательство: Gazelle Book Services
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Цена: 50030.00 T
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Описание: The captivating story of Rodney D Sieh, one of Africas finest investigative journalists. This story will resonate with virtually every journalist today in an era consumed by daily tweets of a sitting US President and a 24-hour news circle that has seen real news eclipsed by fake news, and attempt to muzzle the free press. As publisher of Liberias leading newspaper, FrontPageAfrica, Siehs explosive reports have led to arrests, prosecutions and investigations of prominent Liberian government officials. Sentenced to 5,000 years in prison for a trumped-up libel charge in 2013, Siehs arrest and jailing triggered an international outcry and highlighted the continuing existence of criminal libel statutes in Africa where politicians use the courts to intimidate and silence the media from exposing their corruption. Siehs work landed him among Reporters Without Borders Information Heroes of 2014. As a reporter for the Daily Observer newspaper and the British Broadcasting Corporation, Siehs coverage of the deaths and disappearances that followed Yahya Jammehs coup detat on 22 July 1994, forced him once again into exile to London, where he fled in 1994. He later took refuge in the United States.

Автор: Coggeshall, John M.,
Название: Liberia, South Carolina :
ISBN: 1469640856 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469640853
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Цена: 27170.00 T
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Описание: In 2007, while researching mountain culture in upstate South Carolina, anthropologist John M. Coggeshall stumbled upon the small community of Liberia, in the Blue Ridge foothills. There he met Mable Owens Clarke and her family, the remaining members of a small African American community still living on land obtained immediately after the Civil War. This intimate history tells the story of five generations of the Clarke family and their friends and neighbors, chronicling their struggles through slavery, Reconstruction, the Jim Crow era, and the desegregation of the state. Through hours of interviews with Mable and her relatives, as well as friends and neighbors, Coggeshall presents an ethnographic history that allows a largely ignored community to speak and record their own history for the first time. This story sheds new light on the African American experience in Appalachia, and in it Coggeshall documents the community's 150-year history of resistance to white oppression, while offering a new way to understand the symbolic relationship between residents and the land they occupy, tying together family, memory, and narratives to explain this connection.

Автор: Huband, Mark
Название: The Liberian Civil War
ISBN: 0714647853 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780714647852
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Цена: 163330.00 T
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Автор: M. Neely Young
Название: Trans-Atlantic Sojourners: The Story of an Americo-Liberian Family
ISBN: 0977722066 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780977722068
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Цена: 24030.00 T
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Описание: Unique in its formation and in a citizenry made up largely of repatriated ex-slaves, Liberia has been the scene of a fascinating intercontinental history. Trans-Atlantic Sojourners enters this history through the experiences of one Americo-Liberian family. M. Neely Young introduces us to two patriarchs, both former slaves--Othello Richards of Rockbridge County, Virginia, and William Coleman of Fayette and Woodford Counties, Kentucky. From their arrival in the new African republic in the 1850s until the overthrow of Americo-Liberian rule in 1980, the family played a key role in the nation’s economic affairs, representing the interests of the interior agriculturalists against the merchant elites of Monrovia, and was prominent as well in Liberia’s political and cultural arenas.The author traces the family over a number of generations, revealing a course as dramatic as that of the country itself. With the violent upheaval of the 1980s, most of Richards’ and Coleman’s descendants escaped to America; in the time since, some have recently returned to Liberia. Encompassing the issues of slavery, white and black colonization, the tensions within the Americo-Liberian class, and the Liberian concept of ""black republicanism,"" this family's narrative reflects historical patterns in Liberia and America that resonate to today.

Автор: Alao, Abiodun
Название: The Burden of Collective Goodwill
ISBN: 1840143185 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781840143188
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Цена: 91860.00 T
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Автор: Murray Robert
Название: Atlantic Passages: Race, Mobility, and Liberian Colonization
ISBN: 0813066751 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813066752
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Цена: 71060.00 T
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Описание: Established by the American Colonization Society in the early nineteenth century as a settlement for free people of color, the West African colony of Liberia is usually seen as an endpoint in the journeys of those who traveled there. In Atlantic Passages, Robert Murray reveals that many Liberian settlers did not remain in Africa but returned repeatedly to the United States, and he explores the ways this movement shaped the construction of race in the Atlantic world.

Tracing the transatlantic crossings of Americo-Liberians between 1820 and 1857, in addition to delving into their experiences on both sides of the ocean, Murray discusses how the African neighbors and inhabitants of Liberia recognized significant cultural differences in the newly arrived African Americans and racially categorized them as "whites." He examines the implications of being perceived as simultaneously white and black, arguing that these settlers acquired an exotic, foreign identity that escaped associations with primitivism and enabled them to claim previously inaccessible privileges and honors in America.

Highlighting examples of the ways in which blackness and whiteness have always been contested ideas, as well as how understandings of race can be shaped by geography and cartography, Murray offers many insights into what it meant to be black and white in the space between Africa and America.

Автор: Sharon Alane Abramowitz
Название: Searching for Normal in the Wake of the Liberian War
ISBN: 0812246268 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780812246261
Издательство: Wiley EDC
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Цена: 80080.00 T
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At the end of Liberia's thirteen-year civil war, the devastated population struggled to rebuild their country and come to terms with their experiences of violence. During the first decade of postwar reconstruction, hundreds of humanitarian organizations created programs that were intended to heal trauma, prevent gendered violence, rehabilitate former soldiers, and provide psychosocial care to the transitioning populace. But the implementation of these programs was not always suited to the specific mental health needs of the population or easily reconciled with the broader aims of reconstruction and humanitarian peacekeeping, and psychiatric treatment was sometimes ignored or unevenly integrated into postconflict humanitarian health care delivery.
Searching for Normal in the Wake of the Liberian War explores the human experience of the massive apparatus of trauma-healing and psychosocial interventions during the first five years of postwar reconstruction. Sharon Alane Abramowitz draws on extensive fieldwork among the government officials, humanitarian leaders, and an often-overlooked population of Liberian NGO employees to examine the structure and impact of the mental health care interventions, in particular the ways they were promised to work with peacekeeping and reconstruction, and how the reach and effectiveness of these promises can be measured. From this courageous ethnography emerges a geography of trauma and the ways it shapes the lives of those who give and receive care in postwar Liberia.

Автор: Huband, Mark
Название: The Liberian Civil War
ISBN: 0714643408 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780714643403
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Цена: 58170.00 T
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Автор: Lidow
Название: Violent Order
ISBN: 1107108217 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107108219
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Цена: 95040.00 T
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Описание: Why do some rebel groups abuse civilians? Why do some break apart? Through comparisons to conventional organizations such as factories or Silicon Valley startups, this book explains patterns of rebel group behavior and tests the theory using cutting-edge methods, as well as providing an inside look into Liberia`s civil war.

Автор: Birmingham Stephen
Название: The Right People: A Portrait of the American Social Establishment
ISBN: 1493024671 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781493024674
Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Цена: 19700.00 T
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Описание: The Right People is an engrossing and illuminating journey through the customs and habits of the phenomenally wealthy, from the San Francisco elite to the upper crust of New York`s Westchester County.