Postracial Resistance: Black Women, Media, and the Uses of Strategic Ambiguity, Paperback - Ralina L. Joseph

DescriptionHow Black women in the spotlight negotiate the post-racial gaze of Hollywood and beyond From Oprah Winfrey, Michelle Obama, and Shonda R...

The Poetics of Insecurity addresses a key concern of modern America - security - through close readings of American literary works. It combines lit...

What are the origins of human rights? This question, rarely asked before the end of the Cold War, has in recent years become a major focus of histo...

The Poetics of Insecurity addresses a key concern of modern America - security - through close readings of American literary works. It combines lit...

This edition comprises Austin's best known works; "The Province of Jurisprudence Determined", a classic work of moral, legal and political philosop...

How filling life with play-whether soccer or lawn mowing, counting sheep or tossing Angry Birds-forges a new path for creativity and joy in our imp...

Reducere. In these widely praised essays, Calvino reflects on literature as process, the great narrative game in the course of which writer and reader are ch...

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) first argued that there were continuities between the age of European imperialism and the age of fascism in Europe in The...

Reducere. DescriptionChristina N. Baker's Contemporary Black Women Filmmakers and the Art of Resistance is the first book-length analysis of representations ...

Presents concepts in interdisciplinary social studies, discusses the uses of genre for rhetorical and social purposes, and exposes paradoxes of the...

In this provocative and passionately argued book, Roger Scruton proposes that the greatest harm and havoc has been wrought on the world by those wh...

Author and educator M.J. Fievre, BS Ed, and bestselling author Becca Anderson have teamed up in The Book of Awesome Black Women. In it, they share ...

DescriptionEyewitnessing evaluates the place and potency of images among other kinds of historical evidence. By reviewing the many varieties of ima...

This book studies the way in which medieval ways of knowing the Oriental 'other' were constructed around the idea of a utopic East as located in th...

Reissue of the classic text on how cities should be plannedPublisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): Richard SennettNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 20...

DescriptionIn What's the Use? Sara Ahmed continues the work she began in The Promise of Happiness and Willful Subjects by taking up a single word--...

Gossip - long derided and dismissed by writers and intellectuals - is far from frivolous. In Idle Talk, Deadly Talk, Ana Rodriguez Navas reveals go...

Providing a systematic analysis of electoral coverage in newspapers since 1918, this book demonstrates that for women to be effectively represented...

Black women living in the French empire played a key role in the decolonial movements of the mid-twentieth century. Thinkers and activists, these w...

Original and compelling, an untold story of rare and captivating power - Philippe SandsThe hidden true story of Jewish women who inspired Poland's ...

Follows Dietrich Bonhoeffer as he defies Germany with Harlem's black Jesus. The Christology Bonhoeffer learned in Harlem's churches featured a blac...

Reducere. All too often, the role that Black women have played in history has been left out of the history books and school curricula. Well now you can chang...

This book is focused on traditional black and white photographic materials now used in many nontraditional ways. Topics are divided into five secti...

Reducere. What if religions are neither all true nor all nonsense? Alain de Botton s bold and provocative book argues that we can benefit from the wisdom and...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Richard E. Neustadt"A convincing case that careful analysis of the history, issues, individuals, and institutions can lead ...

Reducere. The Other Black Church: Alternative Christian Movements and the Struggle for Black Freedom examines the movements led by Father Divine, Charles Mas...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Talitha L. LeflouriaIn 1868, the state of Georgia began to make its rapidly growing population of prisoners available for h...

Reducere. The distinguished social critic Richard Sennett here shows how the excessively ordered community freezes adults--both the young idealists and their...

The incredible story of Jewish female resistance fighters who fought the Nazis - a tale virtually unknown.

Reducere. DescriptionThe Evolution of a Girl is a collection of poetry and prose taking the reader from girl to woman; from heartbreak and anger to transform...

Using a multi-method ethnographic approach, Why Control Immigration? argues that the scarcity of legal labour and the ensuing growth of illegal imm...

For more than a century, from 1900 to 2006, campaigns of nonviolent resistance were more than twice as effective as their violent counterparts in a...

Reducere. You Are As Your Mind Is Like few other voices of the past century, minister and New Thought pioneer Joseph Murphy gave us an entirely new sense of ...

Reducere. DescriptionSince Georg Luk cs and Karl Korsch in the 1920s, Hegelian Marxism has played a prominent role as a radical intellectual tradition in mod...

Reducere. "A heart-wrenching and poignant story of bravery. An impressive debut; I loved it." -Robert Dugoni, New York Times bestselling author of The World ...

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A thematic foundation for an interdisciplinary conversation about gendered resistance in locations including Brazil, Yemen, India, and the United S...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

The Black Power Movement remains an enigma. Often misunderstood and ill-defined, this radical movement is now beginning to receive sustained and se...

A collaboration between the National Book Award-winning journalist and the prize-winning photographer on the queer-resistance theater troupe In the...

"This extraordinary book is a powerful addition to the history of travel segregation. Traveling Black reveals how travel discrimination transformed...

This book aims to teach the hidden contributions of Black Americans to American culture at large. Who is the book for : Primarily Black and African...