Download or read book Bound Lives written by Rachel Sarah O'Toole and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2012-04-15 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bound Lives chronicles the lived experience of race relations in northern coastal Peru during the colonial era. Rachel Sarah O'Toole examines how Andeans and Africans negotiated and employed casta, and in doing so, constructed these racial categories. Royal and viceregal authorities separated "Indians" from "blacks" by defining each to specific labor demands. Casta categories did the work of race, yet, not all casta categories did the same type of work since Andeans, Africans, and their descendants were bound by their locations within colonialism and slavery. The secular colonial legal system clearly favored indigenous populations. Andeans were afforded greater protections as "threatened" native vassals. Despite this, in the 1640s during the rise of sugar production, Andeans were driven from their assigned colonial towns and communal property by a land privatization program. Andeans did not disappear, however; they worked as artisans, muleteers, and laborers for hire. By the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, Andeans employed their legal status as Indians to defend their prerogatives to political representation that included the policing of Africans. As rural slaves, Africans often found themselves outside the bounds of secular law and subject to the judgments of local slaveholding authorities. Africans therefore developed a rhetoric of valuation within the market and claimed new kinships to protect themselves in disputes with their captors and in slave-trading negotiations. Africans countered slaveholders' claims on their time, overt supervision of their labor, and control of their rest moments by invoking customary practices. Bound Lives offers an entirely new perspective on racial identities in colonial Peru. It highlights the tenuous interactions of colonial authorities, indigenous communities, and enslaved populations and shows how the interplay between colonial law and daily practice shaped the nature of colonialism and slavery.

Download or read book Homeward Bound written by Peter Ames Carlin and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revelatory account of the life of beloved American music icon, Paul Simon, by the bestselling rock biographer Peter Ames Carlin To have been alive during the last sixty years is to have lived with the music of Paul Simon. The boy from Queens scored his first hit record in 1957, just months after Elvis Presley ignited the rock era. As the songwriting half of Simon & Garfunkel, his work helped define the youth movement of the '60s. On his own in the '70s, Simon made radio-dominating hits. He kicked off the '80s by reuniting with Garfunkel to perform for half a million New Yorkers in Central Park. Five years later, Simon’s album “Graceland” sold millions and spurred an international political controversy. And it doesn’t stop there. The grandchild of Jewish emigrants from Galicia in the Austro-Hungarian empire, the 75-year-old singer-songwriter has not only sold more than 100 million records, won 15 Grammy awards and been installed into the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame twice, but has also animated the meaning—and flexibility—of personal and cultural identity in a rapidly shrinking world. Simon has also lived one of the most vibrant lives of modern times; a story replete with tales of Carrie Fisher, Leonard Bernstein, Bob Dylan, Woody Allen, Shelley Duvall, Nelson Mandela, drugs, depression, marriage, divorce, and more. A life story with the scope and power of an epic novel, Carlin’s Homeward Bound is the first major biography of one of the most influential popular artists in American history.

Download or read book Bound in the Bond of Life written by Beth Kissileff and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On October 27, 2018, three congregations were holding their morning Shabbat services at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill neighborhood when a lone gunman entered the building and opened fire. He killed eleven people and injured six more in the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in American history. The story made international headlines for weeks following the shooting, but Pittsburgh and the local Jewish community could not simply move on when the news cycle did. The essays in this anthology, written by local journalists, academics, spiritual leaders, and other community members, reveal a city’s attempts to come to terms with an unfathomable horror. Here, members from each of the three impacted congregations are able to reflect on their experiences in a raw, profound way. Local journalists who covered the story as it unfolded explore the personal and public aspects of reporting the news. Activists consider their work at a calm distance from the chaotic intensity of their daily efforts. Academics mesh their professional expertise with their personal experiences of this shattering event in their hometown. A local rabbi shares his process for crafting messages of comfort even as he attempts to reckon with his own feelings. Bringing these local voices together into a chorus raises them over the din of international chroniclers who offer important contributions but cannot feel the intensity of this tragedy in the same way as Pittsburghers. The essays in this anthology tell a collective story of city shaken to its very core, but determined that love will ultimately win. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this book will go to Jewish Family and Community Service of Pittsburgh (https://www.jfcspgh.org/), which serves individuals and families of all faiths throughout the Greater Pittsburgh community.

Download or read book Inward Bound written by Alexander Everett and published by Bookpartners. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Hawaii Bound written by Teri Turcotte and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A month before her wedding on Maui, Trish Walsh's dream life falls apart when her fiancé, Michael, calls off the wedding, and she loses her job at a prestigious CPA firm. Heartbroken and jobless, she leaves her Colorado home and goes to Maui to visit her brother and to start over. A temporary job at a café and a handsome construction worker named Kai threaten to keep her from obtaining her goal of another CPA position--a position which would get her life back on the track she's been working toward for years. But the small café, and its eclectic group of employees, begins to grow on her, and Trish's dreams and life plan start to become muddy. When Michael shows up on Maui and wants her back, Trish is faced with the biggest decision of her life. Will she return to Colorado and pick up the pieces of her dream life, or will she take a chance on what she's found on Maui, with handsome Kai and a career she never expected to love?

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Download or read book Un Bound written by Megan Brown and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-08-30 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life writing often explores the profound impact of border crossings, both physical and metaphorical. Writers navigate personal and cultural boundaries, reflecting on identity, belonging, and the transformative power of crossing thresholds. These narratives unveil the complexities of migration, immigration, or internal journeys, offering intimate perspectives on adapting to new environments or confronting internal conflicts. Un/Bound is a collection of essays about such narratives, with an emphasis on mobility and border metaphors, the ethical dimensions of cross-border storytelling, and questions of access, translation, and circulation. Scholarly interest in borders, mobility, and related topics has greatly intensified in the context of public health emergencies and recent conflicts in international relations. The chapters in this book contribute to this dialogue by exploring internal and external, and physical and abstract borders and divisions. This book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of literature, translation studies and political philosophy. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of a/b: Auto/Biography Studies.

Download or read book Language Bound written by Alan Gaynor and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2063, the moon is the high ground in the struggle among the combative representatives of three societies. On the moon, the Chairman-an Ayn Rand libertarian and mutant-believes that genomic self-transformation is our destiny and demands that we abandon our language-based prejudices and embrace that destiny now! On Earth's surface, the USA has become a Christian nation and it vies for dominion over the crowded and resource-poor Earth. Hidden underground and undersea, Saul Baum and the leaderless members of the secular creed of Protagonism believe in the need to harness logic and mindfulness before changing our genome. When the Protagonist, Ner Nala, completes the experiments for a scientific proof of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, the Chairman arrests and imprisons her for a recent lunar murder. Her father-Dr. Frank Nala-hires the private detective Ben Song to travel to the moon to prove her innocence. This is the tale of Ben's quest and how it changes him-and us-forever.

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Download or read book African Born American Bound for Success written by David Mushimba and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-01-05 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling autobiography, an African man searches for a workable plan to becoming successful and change the world around him. It starts in Zambia, where David Mushimba was born and graduated high school. David knows about hardship. Growing up in African ghetto, problems in Africa which range from diseases to leadership, and coming from the poor family, David moved to America in search for greener pasture and powerful education, but instead he lands into problems with his sponsor and the law. David turns to his plan B, which works out for him and puts him back onto the right track to success. By applying the principles in this book, you can turn things around from worst to best. You can change your life into the one you will love. His principles will move you to be the best at anything you do.

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Download or read book The Flow of Life written by Eric I. Mitchell MD and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Flow of Life Dr. Mitchell chronicles his trials and tribulations from boyhood to manhood as an African Americanfrom a one-room schoolhouse to the successful man he has become today. Dr. Mitchell hopes to inspire people in all walks of life to achieve greatness even in the face of great challenges. Brown vs. The Board of Education 1954 transformed educational sojourn Educational pursuit sent his siblings and him to parochial schools Gerrymandering kept the educational system unchanged on his return to public school The pursuit of basketball and education with parochial schooling College Bound A family first Graduate school trials and tribulations Day of Reckoning The Rising of the Phoenix Nature Calls Failing Fast in the practice world Autopilot and watch the growth The pursuit of social justice Keeping the dream alive Every teen, student, student athlete from generation X, and present millennial should make this book a must read. You will be inspired by his story to a point of focusing on your life. Basketball Hall of Fame Coach, Morgan Wootten, DeMatha High School basketball coach and noted author of multiple books on principles of basketball

Download or read book Bound for Life written by John White and published by . This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bound by the Scars We Share written by Vivien Churney and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1930s Antwerp, having fled a pre war Poland with her family, Zoshia, a young Jewish girl, battles to survive intense persecution from the Nazis and bravely endangers her own life in order to help save others. During the war years, Grace, a young teenager, suffers severe personal abuse at the hands of her family in Lyme Regis, England and courageously tries to overcome the repercussions. As adults, both Zoshia and Grace face personal struggles as they try to recover from their traumatic experiences. This unique and exquisite tale of two women from different backgrounds, juxtaposes both their lives as they each journey through the decades, over coming tragedy and anguish from World War II onwards. This gripping narrative chronicles the injurious plight of women in an age of gender inequality, demonstrates the disastrous effects of war, human cruelty and exploitation, and dynamically showcases the power of female friendship.