Best African American Essays 2010
Author | : Gerald Lyn Early |
Publisher | : Random House Digital, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 0553806920 |
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Author | : Gerald Lyn Early |
Publisher | : Random House Digital, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 0553806920 |
Author | : Gerald Lyn Early |
Publisher | : One World/Ballantine |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : 0553806904 |
A collection that celebrates the contributions of African-American authors features short stories and novel excerpts by Michael Thomas, Jacqueline Woodson, Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie, Stephen Carter, and Christopher Paul Curtis.
Author | : Michael G. Long |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2023-02-28 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1479825956 |
Explores Jackie Robinson’s compelling and complicated legacy Before the United States Supreme Court ruled against segregation in public schools, and before Rosa Parks refused to surrender her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama, Jackie Robinson walked onto the diamond on April 15, 1947, as first baseman for the Brooklyn Dodgers, making history as the first African American to integrate Major League Baseball in the twentieth century. Today a national icon, Robinson was a complicated man who navigated an even more complicated world that both celebrated and despised him. Many are familiar with Robinson as a baseball hero. Few, however, know of the inner turmoil that came with his historic status. Featuring piercing essays from a range of distinguished sportswriters, cultural critics, and scholars, this book explores Robinson’s perspectives and legacies on civil rights, sports, faith, youth, and nonviolence, while providing rare glimpses into the struggles and strength of one of the nation’s most athletically gifted and politically significant citizens. Featuring a foreword by celebrated directors and producers Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, and David McMahon, this volume recasts Jackie Robinson’s legacy and establishes how he set a precedent for future civil rights activism, from Black Lives Matter to Colin Kaepernick.
Author | : Margo Natalie Crawford |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2017-05-12 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0252099559 |
A 2008 cover of The New Yorker featured a much-discussed Black Power parody of Michelle and Barack Obama. The image put a spotlight on how easy it is to flatten the Black Power movement as we imagine new types of blackness. Margo Natalie Crawford argues that we have misread the Black Arts Movement's call for blackness. We have failed to see the movement's anticipation of the "new black" and "post-black." Black Post-Blackness compares the black avant-garde of the 1960s and 1970s Black Arts Movement with the most innovative spins of twenty-first century black aesthetics. Crawford zooms in on the 1970s second wave of the Black Arts Movement and shows the connections between this final wave of the Black Arts movement and the early years of twenty-first century black aesthetics. She uncovers the circle of black post-blackness that pivots on the power of anticipation, abstraction, mixed media, the global South, satire, public interiority, and the fantastic.
Author | : Angela A. Ards |
Publisher | : University of Wisconsin Pres |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 029930504X |
A literary and political genealogy of the last half-century, Words of Witness explores black feminist autobiographical narratives--in particular by June Jordan, Edwidge Danticat, Melba Beals, Rosemary Bray, and Eisa Davis--in the context of activism and history since the landmark 1954 segregation case, Brown vs. the Board of Education.
Author | : Leslie Jamison |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 2017-10-03 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0544817427 |
This anthology edited by the New York Times–bestselling author of The Empathy Exams offers “essays that are challenging, passionate, sobering, and clever” (Publishers Weekly). “The essay is political—and politically useful, by which I mean humanizing and provocative—because of its commitment to nuance, its explorations of contingency, its spirit of unrest, its glee at overturned assumptions; because of the double helix of awe and distrust—faith and doubt—that structures its DNA,” writes guest editor Leslie Jamison in her introduction to this volume. The essays she has compiled in The Best American Essays 2017 “thrill toward complexity.” From the Iraqi desert to an East Jerusalem refugee camp, and from the beginnings of the universe to the aftermath of a suicide attempt, these essays bring us, time and again, to the thorny intersection of personal experience and public discourse. The Best American Essays 2017 includes entries by Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, Lawrence Jackson, Rachel Kushner, Alan Lightman, Bernard Farai Matambo, Wesley Morris, Heather Sellers, Andrea Stuart, and others.
Author | : Robert Atwan |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 2017-10-03 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0544817338 |
Presents an anthology of the best literary essays published in the past year, selected from American periodicals.
Author | : Robert Atwan |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0547479778 |
The editors have compiled a collection of the year's best essays, as published in periodicals.
Author | : Sheying Chen |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2023-09-30 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 3031363124 |
The discipline of social policy, oftentimes deemed a part of social work as a profession, was born in the West. Unlike social policy that started with the post-war idea of a welfare state in the mid-20th century, social work traces its roots to individual casework pioneered by the Charity Organization Society (COS), early social administration including state-wide poverty relief (an advocacy effort of the COS but with deep roots in the English Poor Laws of the 17th century), and social action emphasizing political activities to improve social conditions (originating from the Settlement House Movement which began in the 1880s). The development of social work is historically intertwined with that of public welfare, philanthropy, and charity and is an inherently international subject. This conception is broader than “international social work” as a discrete field of professional practice, which crosses geopolitical borders and all levels of social and economic organizations with a focus on development. However, each nation has a story of its own in terms of professionalization of social work in the evolution of public welfare and philanthropic/charitable undertaking within its particular economic, political, social, and cultural settings. A wide-ranging and in-depth study of various (especially non-Western) country cases is essential to an adequate, comprehensive understanding of the social work profession, which is also a basic requirement of its value of diversity. China is undoubtedly an important case with the largest population on earth. It’s also unique in view of so-called Chinese characteristics which are sometimes fundamentally different from other (particularly Western) societies. It’s even intriguing given the country’s lengthy, complex history and its recent, rapid rise to a global superpower with a claim of national goals and core values that seem to be rather considerable to social work as a helping profession. Therefore, any significant lessons learned from the Chinese experiences would help with a better international understanding and further advancement of social work and public welfare at a global scale.
Author | : Efraim Sicher |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 2013-05-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0857458930 |
Advances in genetics are renewing controversies over inherited characteristics, and the discourse around science and technological innovations has taken on racial overtones, such as attributing inherited physiological traits to certain ethnic groups or using DNA testing to determine biological links with ethnic ancestry. This book contributes to the discussion by opening up previously locked concepts of the relation between the terms color, race, and "Jews", and by engaging with globalism, multiculturalism, hybridity, and diaspora. The contributors-leading scholars in anthropology, sociology, history, literature, and cultural studies-discuss how it is not merely a question of whether Jews are acknowledged to be interracial, but how to address academic and social discourses that continue to place Jews and others in a race/color category.