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Since the end of apartheid, South Africa has become an extreme yet unexceptional embodiment of forces at play in many other regions of the world: intensifying inequality alongside "wageless life," proliferating forms of protest and populist politics that move in different directions, and official efforts at containment ranging from liberal interventions targeting specific populations to increasingly common police brutality.
Rethinking the South...
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For the first time, here is the full story of the NFL player protests that rocked a nation and turned our country upside down. This is the players' side, one that has largely been ignored by the media.
On September 1, 2016, Colin Kaepernick took a knee before a preseason game. Little did he, nor anyone else, know the ramifications from that decision. Since being exiled from the National Football League, Kaepernick has stood strong against all those...
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Black Women are the great American success story: they must not only acknowledge their power, but wield the hell out of it.
In 1962, Malcolm X famously observed: "The most disrespected person in America is the Black Woman...The most neglected person in America is the Black Woman." From the Civil Rights movement to Black Lives Matter, Black Women continue to be marginalized. In an era in which many key issues at the heart of racism directed against...
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In 1916, Marcus Garvey, a recent immigrant from Jamaica, moved to New York City and established what would quickly become the largest Black mass movement in world history. Garveyism and the Garvey movement had a profound effect on the Black diaspora.
In the eastern United States, the official name for Garvey's organization, the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), began with thirteen members in 1916; by the early 1920s, it had more than...
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Surviving a stroke and coma, Curtis Cannon suffered a traumatic brain injury and slipped into depression. He noticed he had a great deal of time on his hands. He has been, compelled to make, an attempt, to familiarize as many black people as possible. He started to read a lot of books that seemed to touch on the struggles, as well as the determination, focus, and the creativity that black people had to tolerate upon their quest to EVOLVE and gathered...
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On May 25, 2020, George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, was killed by Minneapolis police officers, sparking months of unrest at home and around the world. As millions took to the streets to express their outrage and speak out against systemic racism, injustice, and institutionalized violence, the city of Minneapolis and its residents were deeply shaken. For many, George Floyd's murder and the ensuing uprisings shattered the city's reputation for progressive...
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Découvrez enfin tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur le Ku Klux Klan en moins d'une heure !
Si tout le monde a entendu parler du Ku Klux Klan et des actes de violence perpétrés par ses membres, peu nombreux sont ceux à savoir ce qu'est réellement le KKK. Formée un siècle avant le décès de Martin Luther King, la société secrète avait pour vocation de défendre les femmes et les orphelins sudistes. Vêtus de draps, les membres se réunissaient...
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Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre el Ku Klux Klan, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.
En tan solo 50 minutos usted podrá:
• Descubrir el contexto histórico en el que surge el KKK, con la guerra de Secesión de Estados Unidos y la abolición de la esclavitud como telón de fondo
• Conocer más en profundidad a los principales líderes del KKK y las motivaciones que les...
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Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the operations of the Ku Klux Klan in next to no time with this concise guide.
50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the Ku Klux Klan's activity over the past 150 years. This notorious organisation was founded in 1865 in the wake of the American Civil War, but although its stated aim was to protect the war-torn Southern states, it soon became a vehicle for brutal violence committed...
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Découvrez enfin tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur Martin Luther King et son combat pour les droits civiques en moins d'une heure!
Le 4 avril 1968, de passage à Memphis, Martin Luther King, leader de la lutte pour les droits civiques, trouve la mort au cours d'un attentat. Suscitant la consternation dans le monde entier, l'annonce de son décès déchaîne d'innombrables émeutes dans les ghettos.
C'est dire toute l'importance de cet homme qui, prêchant...
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Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre Martin Luther King, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.
En tan solo 50 minutos, usted podrá:
• Descubrir la biografía de Martin Luther King y el contexto en el que vivió, muy marcado por la segregación racial en los Estados Unidos
• Identificar los momentos clave de la lucha contra la segregación y en los que Luther King participó activamente,...
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'A remarkable volume on the vicissitudes of the revolutionary left in post-independence Africa' Issa Shivji, Professor Emeritus at the University of Dar es Salaam
'Twenty-first-century radicals should find new inspiration for action in this untold history' Jean Copans, anthropologist and sociologist
'From the Tubu nomads of northern Chad to peasants, workers and students throughout the African continent, we see how these movements used old and...
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How Americans learned to wait on time for racial change
What if, Joseph Darda asks, our desire to solve racism-with science, civil rights, antiracist literature, integration, and color blindness-has entrenched it further? In The Strange Career of Racial Liberalism, he traces the rise of liberal antiracism, showing how reformers' faith in time, in the moral arc of the universe, has undercut future movements with the insistence that racism constitutes...
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When Guinean Muslims leave their homeland, they encounter radically new versions of Islam and new approaches to religion more generally. In Remaking Islam in African Portugal, Michelle C. Johnson explores the religious lives of these migrants in the context of diaspora. Since Islam arrived in West Africa centuries ago, Muslims in this region have long conflated ethnicity and Islam, such that to be Mandinga or Fula is also to be Muslim. But as they...
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Discourse on Africana Studies: James Turner and Paradigms of Knowledge is both a reader and an introspective tribute, comprised of writings by James Turner and commentary from several of his former students. The book strives to underscore critical connections between multiple dimensions of Turner's legacy (as scholar, activist, institution-builder, teacher, and mentor), while also aiming to contribute to the growing historicized literature on the...
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The Bern Book is a travelogue, a memoir, a "diary of an isolated soul" (Darryl Pinckney), and a meditation on the myth and reality of race in midcentury Europe and America.
In 1953, having left the US and settled in Bern, Switzerland, Vincent O. Carter, a struggling writer, set about composing a "record of a voyage of the mind." The voyage begins with Carter's furiously good-humored description of how, every time he leaves the house, he must face...
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A collection of speeches and essays from the acclaimed Jamaican political activist, publisher, journalist, and orator hailed as "Black Moses."
A selection of Marcus Garvey's addresses and writings, The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey was originally compiled by his widow, Amy Jacques Garvey, to keep track of her husband's opinions and sayings over his career. However, in 1923, she decided to publish the collection and give the public the...
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While gender research in tourism has become increasingly important within Western academic circles, little has been written from an Asian perspective. This book is the first to address this knowledge gap and to fully explore Asian gendered identities and tourism. The chapters reflect upon the role of tourism in producing, reiterating and resisting existing gendered structures of power in Asia. The authors attempt to reconcile both Asian and Western...
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Like all teens, African American teens find themselves wondering what they should or should not be doing and how they should behave toward each other -- only they often have no male role model in the home and negative models, like gang-banger, on the street. As they struggle to build their characters, they receive feedback from multiple sources, causing confusion. TRAINING BLACK SPIRIT offers a guide through the fog of adolescence by providing a personal...
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From the first slave writings to contemporary hip hop, the canon of African American literature offers a powerful counter-narrative to dominant notions of American culture, history and politics. Resonant with voices of prophecy and resistance, the African American literary tradition runs deep with emancipatory currents that have had an indelible impact on the United States and the world. Mumia Abu-Jamal has been one of our most important contributors...
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