Evidence of Being: The Black Gay Cultural Renaissance and the Politics of Violence, Paperback - Darius Bost

DescriptionEvidence of Being opens on a grim scene: Washington DC's gay black community in the 1980s, ravaged by AIDS, the crack epidemic, and a se...

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Reducere. Winner, 2014 Lambda Literary Award in LGBT StudiesSince the 1970s, a key goal of lesbian and gay activists has been protection against street viole...

Unearths the deeper lineage of anti-war pacifist activists and thinkers from the early twentieth century who developed nonviolence into a revolutio...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Douglas MullikenIllustration(s): 29 bw illusNumber of pages: 264Collection: World CinemaPublication ...

The institutionalisation of Fatah mirrors the evolution of the PLO and the Palestinian national cause generally. Understanding the factors that hav...

Reducere. In February 1971, racial tension surrounding school desegregation in Wilmington, North Carolina, culminated in four days of violence and skirmishes...

Reducere. From its origins in the 1750s, the white-led American abolitionist movement adhered to principles of "moral suasion" and nonviolent resistance as b...

Reducere. Are there any commonalities between such phenomena as soccer hooliganism, sabotage by peasants of landlords' property, road rage, and even the even...

Heretofore scholars have not been willing--perhaps, even been unable for many reasons both academic and personal--to identify much of the Harlem Re...

Reducere. Richard Bruce Nugent (1906-1987) was a writer, painter, illustrator, and popular bohemian personality who lived at the center of the Harlem Renaiss...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 75 bw illusNumber of pages: 232Collection: The Cultural Histories SeriesPublication date: 2022...

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Reducere. The Ugly Renaissance is a delightfully debauched tour of the sordid, gritty reality behind some of the most celebrated artworks and cultural innova...

Reducere. From Africa to Asia and Latin America, the era of climate wars has begun. Extreme weather is breeding banditry, humanitarian crisis, and state fail...

The Rule of Moderation: Violence, Religion and the Politics of Restraint in Early Modern England - Ethan H. Shagan

DescriptionWhere previous accounts of the Renaissance have not fully acknowledged the role that music played in this decisive period of cultural hi...

Features a study in the pathology of cultural criticism. By analyzing the thought and influence of three leading critics of modern Germany, It demo...

Explores the historical, philosophical, and intellectual development of global liberalism since the nineteenth century in the context of the deploy...

Reducere. Description: Man's freedom--God's omnipotence: how can they be reconciled? That question is central to this penetrating study of political action a...

Reducere. The Green Revolution has been heralded as a political and technological achievement-unprecedented in human history. Yet in the decades that have fo...

Reducere. A bold and provocative look at how the nonprofit sphere's expansion has helped--and hindered--the LGBT cause What if the very structure on which so...

DescriptionA brilliant, lively account of the Black Renaissance that burst forth in Pittsburgh from the 1920s through the 1950s--"Smoketown will ap...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Rafael (University of St Andrews, UK) TorrubiaNumber of pages: 376Publication date: 2022Dimensions: ...

Reducere. In the 1970s, queer Americans demanded access not only to health and social services but also to mainstream Democratic and Republican Party politic...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Paige SweetNumber of pages: 340Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 153 x 230 x 23Cover type: Pape...

Publisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Falina EnriquezIllustration(s): 11 black & white photographsNumber of pages: 280Publication date:...

Reducere. In this honest, timely and provocative book, Jarel Robinson-Brown argues that there is deeper work to be done if the body of Christ is going to ful...

Reducere. .While Black Americans have long felt the devastating effects of anti-black discrimination, they have often had great difficulty articulating and s...

Reducere. This timely special edition, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party, features a new preface by the author...

Reducere. First published in 1981, Japan's Renaissance is a detailed and exhaustively researched account of the regime of Japan's second shogunate, and also ...

Reducere. DescriptionSituating safari tourism within the discourses and practices of development, Selling the Serengeti examines the relationship between the...

Reducere. American Antiquities, And Discoveries In The West: Being An Exhibition Of The Evidence That An Ancient Population Of Partiallly Civilized Nations, ...

American Identity and the Politics of Multiculturalism - Jack Citrin, David O. Sears

Illustrates how states appeal to popular morality to forge new group identities and mobilize violence against perceived threats. In an era where st...

With a compassionate eloquence reminiscent of James Baldwin's Letter to My Nephew, Ellis Cose presents a realistic examination of the challenges fa...

Reducere. Celebrate one of the most important periods of American cultural history: the Harlem Renaissance This package features beautiful illustrations, poe...

Reducere. In Biopolitics of the More-Than-Human Joseph Pugliese examines the concept of the biopolitical through a nonanthropocentric lens, arguing that more...

Reducere. Long-haul trucking is linked to almost every industry in America, yet somehow the working-class drivers behind big rigs remain largely hidden from ...

Reducere. Giving voice to a population too rarely acknowledged, Sweet Tea collects more than sixty life stories from black gay men who were born, raised, and...

Offers commentary and an illustrated history of the representations of people of African descent ranging from the ancient images of Pharaohs create...

The pivotal date of 465 BCE for the death of Xerxes has been accepted by historians for many years without notable controversy. However, according ...

Reducere. "Then they fasted that day, and put on sackcloth, and cast ashes upon their heads, and rent their clothes, and laid open the book of the law, where...

Push: Software Design and the Cultural Politics of Music Production shows how music software has shaped the production techniques and performance p...

In Italy and the Cultural Politics of World War I, well-known scholars of history, political science, film, literature, and cultural studies explor...

Savigny examines how the prevalence of sexism and misogyny across the media, entertainment and cultural industries keeps sexist values firmly withi...

The act of eating is a basic human need. Yet, in all societies, quotidian choices regarding food and its consumption reveal deeply rooted shared cu...

This book discusses the issue that there might be hereditary component to gay and lesbian sexuality and analyses to what extent factors such as rac...