Описание: This volume's contributors expand the chronology and geography of the black freedom struggle beyond the traditional emphasis on the Jim Crow South and the years between 1954 and 1968. Beginning as far back as the nineteenth century, and analyzing case studies from southern, northern, and border states, the essays in The Seedtime, the Work, and the Harvest incorporate communities and topics not usually linked to the African American civil rights movement. The collection opens with a biographical sketch of Thomas DeSaille Tucker, an educational pioneer who served as the first president of Florida State Normal and Industrial School for Colored Students. It then highlights the work of black women, including Bostonian publisher Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, who defied local governments during the Progressive Era by disseminating medical information and providing access to medical professionals. Next, the collection explores the life and work of Norfolk civil rights attorney James F. Gay, who helped to democratize the political establishment in Virginia's largest city but became a victim of his own success. The collection then moves to York, Pennsylvania, to examine a 1969 riot that went mostly unnoticed until the town's mayor was charged—more than thirty years later—with the riot-related murder of Lillie Belle Allen. Also featured is an essay examining the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee's "Food for Freedom" campaign that aimed to complement voter registration work in Mississippi by providing everyday sustenance to African Americans. Addressing more recent issues, this volume considers the politics of public memory in Baltimore, Maryland, a city divided by racial "riots" in 1968 and in 2015. It then examines the Black Lives Matter movement that gained international attention for its response to Michael Brown's death at the hands of police in Ferguson, Missouri, as well as the Sandra Bland Movement inspired by the arrest of Bland and her subsequent death in the Waller County jail in rural Texas. These chapters connect the activism of today—shaped in so many ways by social media, student activism, and grassroots organization—to a deeply historical, wide-ranging fight for equality.A volume in the series Southern Dissent, edited by Stanley Harrold and Randall M. Miller
Описание: Writing is one of the most important cultural techniques, and writing has been handwriting throughout the greater part of human history, in some places even until very recently. Manuscripts are usually studied primarily for their contents, that is, for the texts, images and notation they carry, but they are also unique artefacts, the study of which can reveal how they were produced and used. The social and cultural history of manuscripts allows for ?grounding’ the history of human knowledge and knowledge practices in material evidence in ways largely unexplored by traditional scholarship.With very few exceptions, the history of the handwritten book is usually taken to be the prehistory of the (printed Western) book, thus not only denying manuscripts their distinct status as carrier medium, but also neglecting the rich heritage of Asian and African manuscript cultures from which, according to conservative estimates, more than ten million specimens survive until today. The series Studies in Manuscript Cultures (SMC) is designed to publish monographs and collective volumes contributing to the emerging field of manuscript studies (or manuscriptology) including disciplines such as philology, palaeography, codicology, art history, and material analysis. SMC encourages comparative study and contributes to a historical and systematic survey of manuscript cultures.
Описание: Global Issues and Adult Education brings together seven years of cutting-edge research and analysis from the Cyril O. Houle Scholars in Adult and Continuing Education. These emerging leaders in the field investigate the importance of adult education in responding to the challenges of global issues.
Описание: This edited volume aims at exploring a most relevant but somewhat neglected subject in archaeological studies, especially within Latin America: maroons and runaway settlements. Thus, a central aim of the volume is to gather together some of the most active, Latin American maroon archaeologists in a single volume.
Автор: Hepworth Adrian Название: Costa Rica: A Journey Through Nature ISBN: 0801453062 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780801453069 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 6178.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
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Adrian Hepworth's Costa Rica: A Journey through Nature takes readers on a spectacular photographic journey through one of the most biologically diverse countries on the planet. Above a trail, a puma stands majestically on a tree limb surveying the forest below; an iridescent blue butterfly flutters through the air; the jewel-like feathers of a resplendent quetzal sparkle in a cloud forest; a female sea snake and her newly born offspring struggle across a beach under a relentless sun; and early morning light reveals a turtle spraying clouds of sand over its nest.The second edition of this book includes over 100 new photographs, new maps, a new introduction, and updated text throughout. Bringing together dramatic images and informative descriptions, this book provides a remarkable account of wild animals in Costa Rica, their behavior, and the sublime landscapes that they inhabit.
Описание: The year 2013 saw the launch of the largest, most influential investment initiative in recent memory: China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). This globe-spanning strategy has reshaped local economies and regional networks, and it has become a contested subject for scholars and practitioners alike. How should we make sense of the complex interactions that the BRI has enabled? Understanding these processes requires truly global perspectives alongside careful attention to the role that local actors play in giving shape to individual BRI projects. The contributions in Global Perspectives on China's Belt and Road Initiative: Asserting Agency through Regional Connectivity provide both 'big picture' assessments of China's role in regional and global interactions and detailed case studies that home in on the role agency plays in BRI dynamics. Written by leading area studies scholars with diverse disciplinary expertise, this book reveals how Chinese efforts to recalibrate the world are taken up, challenged, revamped, and reworked in diverse contexts around the world.
Описание: In some Latin American countries, private prosecution improves access to justice for victims of crime as well as human rights violations. By examining how citizens use this right to push states to hold perpetrators accountable, Veronica Michel highlights how the rule of law is shored up by individual legal struggles.
Автор: Antonio D. Tillis Название: Critical Perspectives on Afro-Latin American Literature ISBN: 0415719771 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415719773 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 7348.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: After generations of being rendered virtually invisible by the US academy in critical anthologies and literary histories, writing by Latin Americans of African ancestry has become represented by a booming corpus of intellectual and critical investigation. This volume aims to provide an introduction to the literary worlds and perceptions of national culture and identity of authors from Spanish-America, Brazil, and uniquely, Equatorial Guinea, thus contextually connecting Africa to the history of Spanish colonization. The importance of Latin America literature to the discipline of African Diaspora studies is immeasurable, and this edited collection provides a ripe cultural context for critical comparative analysis among the vast geographies that encompass African and African Diaspora studies. Scholars in the area of African Diaspora Studies, Black Studies, Latin American Studies, and American literature will be able to utilize the eleven essays in this edition to enhance classroom instruction and further academic research.
Автор: Dixon, Burdick & Winant Название: Comparative Perspectives On Afro-Latin America ISBN: 0813049628 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813049625 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 5267.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: As academic interest in Afro-Latin America increases, so, too, does the need for a fresh text detailing the cultural and political issues facing black populations throughout the region. With existing literature focused on populations in individual countries, editors Kwame Dixon and John Burdick have encouraged their contributors to move beyond borders in this wide-ranging study.Comparative Perspectives on Afro-Latin America offers a new, dynamic discussion of the experience of blackness and cultural difference, black political mobilization, and state responses to Afro-Latin activism throughout Latin America. Its thematic organization and holistic approach set it apart as the most comprehensive and up-to-date survey of these populations and the issues they face currently available.
Автор: Alcantara Название: Anthropological Perspectives on Rural Mexico ISBN: 1138743720 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138743724 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 17609.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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In this title, first published in 1984, the author examines the social and political forces surrounding the practice of anthropology at different periods in the history of Mexico since 1917. She does this by analysing and tracing the development of competing anthropological perspectives, from ethnographic particularism and functionalism through indigenismo, cultural ecology, Marxism and the dependency paradigm, to the historical structuralism of the 1970s.
This book provides the basis for a systematic analysis of peasant studies in Mexico, and discusses in stimulating terms the theoretical and empirical difficulties of the profession of anthropology itself.
Автор: Alcantara Название: Anthropological Perspectives on Rural Mexico ISBN: 1138743755 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138743755 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 5205.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In this title, first published in 1984, the author examines the social and political forces surrounding the practice of anthropology at different periods in the history of Mexico since 1917. This book provides the basis for a systematic analysis of peasant studies in Mexico.
Описание: Part I: Policies and Perspectives International on Aging and Environment: Chapter 1: Introduction to Environmental Gerontology in Europe and Latin America: Vicente Rodrнguez-Rodrнguez and Diego Sбnchez-Gonzбlez.- Chapter 2: Demographic Aging in the context of Globalization: Hania Zlotnik.- Chapter 3: Aging, Mobility and Migration International perspectives: Vicente Rodrнguez-Rodrнguez.- Chapter 4: Environment, Health and Aging in Latin America: Maria Victoria Zunzunegui.- Chapter 5: Environment, Health and Ageing: George W. Leeson.- Chapter 6: Adjustments to Physical-social environment of the elderly to Climate Change. Proposals from Environmental Gerontology: Diego Sбnchez-Gonzбlez and Rosaliб Chбvez-Alvarado.- Part II: Aging and the Urban and Rural Environments; Chapter 7: Residential Environment in Spain in a European Context: Conditions of Life and Satisfaction in Old Age: Gloria Fernбndez-Mayoralas and Fermina Rojo-Pйrez.- Chapter 8: The Right Place to Grow old? Suburban Environments and the Elderly: Theresa D. Garvin.- Chapter 9: Spatial Practices of Older Adults in Rural Environment: Felipe Vбzquez-Palacios.- Part III: Place, Housing and Aging: Chapter 10: Identity of Place, Public Space and the Elderly: Aurora Carcнa-Ballesteros and Beatrice Jimйnez-Blanco.- Chapter 11: Identity, Attachment and Root in Aging: Alejandro Klein.- Chapter 12: New residential Ways for Seniors: Sylvie Coupleux-Vanmeirhaeghe.- Chapter 13: Housing and the Environment on Aging in Latin America and the Caribbean: Verуnica de Oca, Sagrario Garay and Mirna Hebrero.- Part IV: Public Policies, Planning and Practices on Built Environment and Aging: Chapter 14: Public policies in Housing, Environment and Aging in Latin America: Marнa Elena Acosta-Maldonado.- Chapter 15: Built Environment Planning, Institutions and Aging in Latin America: Luiz Sergio Valente-Tomasini and Sergio Antonio Carlos.
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