Former slaves, with no prior experience in electoral politics and with few economic resources or little significant social standing, created a sweeping political movement that transformed the South after the Civil War. Within a few short years after emancipation, not only were black men voting but they had elected thousands of ex-slaves to political offices. Historians have long noted the role of African American slaves in the fight for their emancipation and their many efforts to secure their freedom and citizenship, yet they have given surprisingly little attention to the system of governance that freedpeople helped to fashion. Justin Behrend argues that freedpeople created a new democracy in the Reconstruction era, replacing the oligarchic rule of slaveholders and Confederates with a grassroots democracy.
Reconstructing Democracy tells this story through the experiences of ordinary people who lived in the Natchez District, a region of the Deep South where black political mobilization was very successful. Behrend shows how freedpeople set up a political system rooted in egalitarian values wherein local communities rather than powerful individuals held power and ordinary people exercised unprecedented influence in governance. In so doing, he invites us to reconsider not only our understanding of Reconstruction but also the nature and origins of democracy more broadly.
Автор: Schwabenland Christina, Lange Chris, Nakagawa Sachiko Название: Women`s Emancipation and Civil Society Organisations: Challenging or Maintaining the Status Quo? ISBN: 1447324773 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781447324775 Издательство: Marston Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 126710.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This collection examines the nexus between the emancipation of women, and their role(s) in civil service organisations. It covers the role of social media in organising, the significance of religion in many cultural contexts, activism in Eastern Europe and the impact of environmental degradation on women`s lives.
Автор: Johnson Juanita B. Название: The Audacity Code: Coloring in Black Outside the Lines ISBN: 1735801402 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781735801407 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 15630.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Living beyond the boundaries of prescribed inferiority requires an attitude of audacity and a determined code of conduct. Still some African-Americans defy societal limitations and built lives of achievement by coloring outside the lines.
The Audacity Code shines a spotlight on 13 of these disruptors including:
o the little known African-American car manufacturer
o the visionary African-American farmer who turned ninety cents into an agricultural empire
o the pioneering African-American television chef and food ambassador.
Now for the first time, the foundational principles employed by these and other mavericks to do well for themselves and the world are revealed in The Audacity Code.
The question is...are you willing to employ these principles in your life to color outside the lines of the status quo?
Автор: Leslie Cohen Название: The Audacity of a Kiss: Love, Art, and Liberation ISBN: 1978825110 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781978825116 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 29220.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: Shortlisted for Lesbian Memoir/Biography Lammy Award Rendered in bronze, covered in white lacquer, two women sit together on a park bench in Greenwich Village. One of the women touches the thigh of her partner as they gaze into each other's eyes. The two women are part of George Segal's iconic sculpture "Gay Liberation," but these powerful symbols were modeled on real people: Leslie Cohen and her partner (now wife) Beth Suskin. In this evocative memoir, Cohen tells the story of a love that has lasted for over fifty years. Transporting the reader to the pivotal time when brave gay women and men carved out spaces where they could live and love freely, she recounts both her personal struggles and the accomplishments she achieved as part of New York's gay and feminist communities. Foremost among these was her 1976 cofounding of the groundbreaking women's nightclub Sahara, which played host to such luminaries as Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem, Pat Benatar, Ntozake Shange, Rita Mae Brown, Adrienne Rich, Patti Smith, Bella Abzug, and Jane Fonda. The Audacity of a Kiss is a moving and inspiring tale of how love, art, and solidarity can overcome oppression.
Автор: Johnson Juanita B. Название: The Audacity Code: Coloring in Black Outside the Lines ISBN: 1735801437 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781735801438 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 15630.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Living beyond the boundaries of prescribed inferiority requires an attitude of audacity and a determined code of conduct. Still some African-Americans defy societal limitations and built lives of achievement by coloring outside the lines.
The Audacity Code shines a spotlight on 13 of these disruptors including:
o the little known African-American car manufacturer
o the visionary African-American farmer who turned ninety cents into an agricultural empire
o the pioneering African-American television chef and food ambassador.
Now for the first time, the foundational principles employed by these and other mavericks to do well for themselves and the world are revealed in The Audacity Code.
The question is...are you willing to employ these principles in your life to color outside the lines of the status quo?
Автор: Turner Darvyaire Название: Godacity: The Audacity to Let Go and Let God ISBN: 0578638150 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780578638157 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 26900.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: How to let go of the ideas, beliefs, thoughts, behaviors, and people holding you back. A practical guide to restoration after failed relationships and divorce.
Автор: Romeo Sharon Название: Gender and the Jubilee: Black Freedom and the Reconstruction of Citizenship in Civil War Missouri ISBN: 0820348015 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780820348018 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 52670.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Gender and the Jubilee is a bold reconceptualization of black freedom during the Civil War that uncovers the political and constitutional claims made by African American women. By analyzing the actions of women in the urban environment of St. Louis and the surrounding areas of rural Missouri, Romeo uncovers the confluenceof military events, policy changes, and black agency that shaped the gendered paths to freedom and citizenship.During the turbulent years of the Civil War crisis, African American women asserted their vision of freedom through a multitude of strategies. They took concerns ordinarily under the jurisdiction of civil courts, such as assault and child custody, and transformed them into military matters. African American women petitioned military police for “free papers”; testified against former owners; fled to contraband camps; and “joined the army” with their male relatives, serving as cooks, laundresses, and nurses.Freedwomen, and even enslaved women, used military courts to lodge complaints against employers and former masters, sought legal recognition of their marriages, and claimed pensions as the widows of war veterans. Through military venues, African American women in a state where the institution of slavery remained unmolested by the Emancipation Proclamation, demonstrated a claim on citizenship rights well before they would be guaranteed through the establishment of the Fourteenth Amendment. The litigating slave women of antebellum St. Louis, and the female activists of the Civil War period, left a rich legal heritage to those who would continue the struggle for civil rights in the postbellum era.Millward opens with a striking discussion about how researching the life of asingle enslaved woman, Charity Folks, transforms our understanding of slaveryand freedom in Revolutionary America. For African American women suchas Folks, freedom, like enslavement, was tied to a bondwoman’s reproductivecapacities. Their offspring were used to perpetuate the slave economy. Findingloopholes in the law meant that enslaved women could give birth to and raisefree children. For Millward, Folks demonstrates the fluidity of the boundariesbetween slavery and freedom, which was due largely to the gendered space occupiedby enslaved women. The gendering of freedom influenced notions of liberty,equality, and race in what became the new nation and had profound implicationsfor African American women’s future interactions with the state
Автор: Ishtar, Zohl De Название: Holding yawulyu ISBN: 1742199798 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781742199795 Издательство: Gazelle Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 28530.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Mapping inter-cultural relationships as they are played out in a remote Aboriginal settlement in Western Australias Great Sandy Desert, this book challenges White Australians to reconsider their relationship with Indigenous peoples. Unpacking White cultural practices, it explores the extraordinary difficulties which Indigenous women face when they attempt to maintain and pass their cultural knowledge, customs and skills on to their children and youth. From 1999 to 2001, Zohl de Ishtar lived and worked intimately with a group of thirteen women elders to establish a vibrant intergenerational cultural knowledge transmission program: the Kapululangu Womens Law and Culture Centre. Through this profound experience Zohl identified Living Culture, the cultural energy which is created when individuals live their culture to its fullest expression enabling them to transform their worlds even when to do so seems impossible. Her profound radical feminist analysis of the socio-cultural context surrounding this Indigenous womens initiative challenges White attitudes and behaviours and offers a deeper comprehension to those who aspire to be involved in collaborative projects with Indigenous peoples. A lyrical and passionate book.
Автор: Pierre Manent Название: Natural Law and Human Rights: Toward a Recovery of Practical Reason ISBN: 0268107211 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780268107215 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 29260.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
This first English translation of Pierre Manent’s profound and strikingly original book La loi naturelle et les droits de l’homme is a reflection on the central question of the Western political tradition. In six chapters, developed from the prestigious ?tienne Gilson lectures at the Institut Catholique de Paris, and in a related appendix, Manent contemplates the steady displacement of the natural law by the modern conception of human rights. He aims to restore the grammar of moral and political action, and thus the possibility of an authentically political order that is fully compatible with liberty. Manent boldly confronts the prejudices and dogmas of those who have repudiated the classical and Christian notion of “liberty under law” and in the process shows how groundless many contemporary appeals to human rights turn out to be. Manent denies that we can generate obligations from a condition of what Locke, Hobbes, and Rousseau call the “state of nature,” where human beings are absolutely free, with no obligations to others. In his view, our ever-more-imperial affirmation of human rights needs to be reintegrated into what he calls an “archic” understanding of human and political existence, where law and obligation are inherent in liberty and meaningful human action. Otherwise we are bound to act thoughtlessly and in an increasingly arbitrary or willful manner. Natural Law and Human Rights will engage students and scholars of politics, philosophy, and religion, and will captivate sophisticated readers who are interested in the question of how we might reconfigure our knowledge of, and talk with one another about, politics.
Название: Preventing Torture: The Role of National Preventive Mechanisms: A Practical Guide ISBN: 921154226X ISBN-13(EAN): 9789211542264 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 21250.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Respond to key questions frequently asked about National Preventive Mechanisms (NPMs), and to explain the four core functions of the mechanisms - visiting, providing advice, enhancing cooperation and educating - which are key to their effective functioning.
Автор: Laura Cherrie Beaney Название: Crossing the Catwalk: Transvestism in Contemporary Fashion and Culture ISBN: 1680534807 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781680534801 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 108640.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: In the 1930s, Freud observed that “when you meet a human being, the first distinction you make is ‘male or female?’ and you are accustomed to make the distinction with unhesitating certainty.” As Freud suggests, society is divisible by gender. We are taken to be either “male” or “female.” This notion seems to be fixed within our culture and is often unquestioned. In this dynamic book, fashion journalist Laura Cherrie Beaney examines gender as a concept and as a practice that is also challenged and contested in the fashion industry.While gender has been relatively fixed within our society, we are nevertheless entertained by “gender bending.” The media and entertainment industries now represent a range of gender identities. As much as it is a cultural phenomenon, gender is also an individual practice. Social theorists describe some individuals as “gender outlaws” for actively choosing to blend and shape their own gender identities. Fashionable clothing makes multiple statements about the wearer. It can identify social status and tell the viewer, “This is the type of person I am.” In contemporary culture, fashion designers, stylists, photographers, and other media professionals have been fascinated with the idea of gender and its ever-changing boundaries. In recent years, the fashion industry has also focused on ideas of unisex identity and androgyny. Indeed, the fashion industry seems to afford a decadent sense of power to alternative gender identities. Fashion designers and stylists have been inspired by alternative gender identities when creating images and when showcasing their designs.Crossing the Catwalk explores fashion to understand how this mediated image of gender equality in the twenty-first century relates to reality by examining cross-dressing and transvestism through the construction of personal style. By using case studies from a range of different sources, the book will give a clear idea of how the reality of cross-dressing compares to the glamorous and decadent images portrayed by the fashion industry. It will aim to uncover the true motivations for those who cross dress and analyze the construction of gendered personal styles in relation to fashion.
Автор: United Nations Название: Safeguarding the Rights of Girls in the Criminal Justice System: Preventing Violence, Stigmatization and Deprivation of Liberty ISBN: 9211013240 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789211013245 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 18480.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: This report seeks to contribute to the dissemination and implementation of the Model Strategies on VAC, adopted by the UN General Assembly in 2014. It also aims to support the implementation of the Post-2015 Development Agenda, which calls for an end to all forms of violence against children, equal access to justice for all, and effective, accountable and inclusive institutions.
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