Dark Continent Of Our Bodies
Author: E. Frances White
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2010-06-21
Total Pages: 207
ISBN-13: 1439905444
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A spirited and provocative engagement of black feminism.
Author: E. Frances White
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2010-06-21
Total Pages: 207
ISBN-13: 1439905444
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A spirited and provocative engagement of black feminism.
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Published: 2001
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A spirited and provocative engagement of black feminism.
Author: Sihle Khumalo
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
Published: 2011-03-28
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 1415202931
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In 2003 Sihle Khumalo decided to give up a lucrative job and a comfortable life style in Durban and to celebrate his 30th birthday by crossing the continent from south to north. Celebrating life with gusto and in inimitable style, he describes a journey fraught with discomfort, mishap, ecstasy, disillusionment, discovery and astonishing human encounters. A journey that would be acceptable madness in a white man is regarded by the author’s fellow Africans as an extraordinary and inexplicable expenditure of time and money. Newly conscious of language barriers and regional difference in a continent still unexplored by the majority of Africans, the author presents a strikingly original and highly enjoyable account of a unique adventure. Each chapter is prefaced by a description of the ‘father of the nation’ of the country in question and ends with a hilarious ‘important tip’.
Author: Winifred Breines
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006-04-06
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780198039808
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Inspired by the idealism of the civil rights movement, the women who launched the radical second wave of the feminist movement believed, as a bedrock principle, in universal sisterhood and color-blind democracy. Their hopes, however, were soon dashed. To this day, the failure to create an integrated movement remains a sensitive and contested issue. In The Trouble Between Us, Winifred Breines explores why a racially integrated women's liberation movement did not develop in the United States. Drawing on flyers, letters, newspapers, journals, institutional records, and oral histories, Breines dissects how white and black women's participation in the movements of the 1960s led to the development of separate feminisms. Herself a participant in these events, Breines attempts to reconcile the explicit professions of anti-racism by white feminists with the accusations of mistreatment, ignorance, and neglect by African American feminists. Many radical white women, unable to see beyond their own experiences and idealism, often behaved in unconsciously or abstractly racist ways, despite their passionately anti-racist stance and hard work to develop an interracial movement. As Breines argues, however, white feminists' racism is not the only reason for the absence of an interracial feminist movement. Segregation, black women's interest in the Black Power movement, class differences, and the development of identity politics with an emphasis on "difference" were all powerful factors that divided white and black women. By the late 1970s and early 1980s white feminists began to understand black feminism's call to include race and class in gender analyses, and black feminists began to give white feminists some credit for their political work. Despite early setbacks, white and black radical feminists eventually developed cross-racial feminist political projects. Their struggle to bridge the racial divide provides a model for all Americans in a multiracial society.
Author: Rachel Ida Buff
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2008-08-17
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 0814789749
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Punctuated by marches across the United States in the spring of 2006, immigrant rights has reemerged as a significant and highly visible political issue. Immigrant Rights in the Shadows of U.S. Citizenship brings prominent activists and scholars together to examine the emergence and significance of the contemporary immigrant rights movement. Contributors place the contemporary immigrant rights movement in historical and comparative contexts by looking at the ways immigrants and their allies have staked claims to rights in the past, and by examining movements based in different communities around the United States. Scholars explain the evolution of immigration policy, and analyze current conflicts around issues of immigrant rights; activists engaged in the current movement document the ways in which coalitions have been built among immigrants from different nations, and between immigrant and native born peoples. The essays examine the ways in which questions of immigrant rights engage broader issues of identity, including gender, race, and sexuality.
Author: Sir Henry Morton Stanley
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Published: 1878
Total Pages: 694
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Henry M. Stanley
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2013-04-09
Total Pages: 480
ISBN-13: 0486319547
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Volume 1 of great explorer's classic account of explorations of lakes of Central Africa, perilous journey down unexplored Congo River. Incredible hardships, perseverance. 90 black-and-white illustrations. Map.