Download or read book Dancing Down the Barricades written by Matthew Frye Jacobson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-11-26 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deep dive into racial politics, Hollywood, and Black cultural struggles for liberation as reflected in the extraordinary life and times of Sammy Davis Jr. Through the lens of Sammy Davis Jr.'s six-decade career in show business--from vaudeville to Vegas to Broadway, Hollywood, and network TV--Dancing Down the Barricades examines the workings of race in American culture. The title phrase holds two contradictory meanings regarding Davis's cultural politics: Did he dance the barricades down, as he liked to think, or did he simply dance down them, as his more radical critics would have it? Davis was at once a pioneering, barrier-busting, anti-Jim Crow activist and someone who was widely associated with accommodationism and wannabe whiteness. Historian Matthew Frye Jacobson attends to both threads, analyzing how industry norms, productions, scripts, roles, and audience expectations and responses were all framed by race against the backdrop of a changing America. In the spirit of better understanding Davis's life and career, Dancing Down the Barricades examines the complexities of his constraints, freedoms, and choices for what they reveal about Black history and American political culture.
Download or read book Bullet written by Laurell K. Hamilton and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Watch a video The music came back up and the next group of little girls, slightly older, came out. There was a lot of that in the next hour and change. I liked dance, and it was no reflection on the kids, but my will to live began to seep away on about the fifth group of sequined children... Anita Blake is back in St. Louis and trying to live a normal life-as normal as possible for someone who is a legal vampire executioner and a U. S. Marshal. There are lovers, friends and their children, school programs to attend. In the midst of all the ordinary happiness a vampire from Anita's past reaches out. She was supposed to be dead, killed in an explosion, but the Mother of All Darkness is the first vampire, their dark creator. It's hard to kill a god. This dark goddess has reached out to her here-in St. Louis, home of everyone Anita loves most. The Mother of All Darkness has decided she has to act now or never, to control Anita, and all the vampires in America. The Mother of All Darkness believes that the triumvirate created by master vampire Jean-Claude with Anita and the werewolf Richard Zeeman has enough power for her to regain a body and to immigrate to the New World. But the body she wants to possess is already taken. Anita is about to learn a whole new meaning to sharing her body, one that has nothing to do with the bedroom. And if the Mother of All Darkness can't succeed in taking over Anita's body for herself, she means to see that no one else has the use of it, ever again. Even Belle Morte, not always a friend to Anita, has sent word: "Run if you can..."
Download or read book Bullet Dance written by S. D. Shields and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-10-02 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Grim Reaper races to stop a nationwide disaster
Download or read book Dance Works written by Allison Orr and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2001, Allison Orr made a dance with 13 City of Austin firefighters. Over the next 20 years, her unique practice of collaborating with city employees flowered into civic storytelling through movement at public pools, tableaus of power line workers shimmying up 40' poles in front of 5000 people, and intricate choreography of trash trucks on a misty tarmac. Part memoir, part guide, the artist reflects on her major collaborations and shares interviews with people she's made dances with over the past two decades. Power line workers, sanitation workers, and firefighters reflect on their memories of performing with Forklift and the lasting impact those dances made. Alongside larger conversations in the arts, Orr offers a look at how to create community-based art projects, how the creative process can bring people together to address civic issues, and the beauty of choreographing the day to day. An appendix and online companion include budget information, full cast and crew lists, participant survey results, and more.
Download or read book Bullet With My Name written by LEONNARD OJWANG and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-08-21 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best friends, Henry Bobo and Joseph Charo, live in a small town but have a big dream: to graduate with college degrees. It inspires them to be good boys and good students. However, because of a seemingly emotionless student leader and anger of a professor, they are unceremoniously expelled from college. Hopeless, they realize money matters more than anything they wish they had. They?re willing to kill for it, vowing to avenge against specific people they believe destroyed their only gateway for a better future. Unless someone intervenes in time, Bobo and Charo will execute helpless victims. With murder a mere prelude to more heinous crimes, their destiny begins to tilt toward peril. Indeed, they encounter someone more frightening, and who has abilities and instincts that surpasses their own.... They will do what they must to avoid this creepy, seemingly powerful stranger. Soon, they learn that having a good lawyer in a murder trial is not usually the remedy for fixing bad mistakes. Or is it?
Download or read book Mr Crewe s Career written by Winston S. Churchill and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2008-12-09 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Books for All Kinds of Readers. ReadHowYouWant offers the widest selection of on-demand, accessible format editions on the market today. Our 7 different sizes of EasyRead are optimized by increasing the font size and spacing between the words and the letters. We partner with leading publishers around the globe. Our goal is to have accessible edi...
Download or read book Chaos in the Dark Days the Dark Days Series written by Ken Okonkwo and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-09-27 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no available information at this time. Author will provide once available.
Download or read book Hong Kong Film Hollywood and New Global Cinema written by Gina Marchetti and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-01-24 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Giving fresh and fascinating insights into the vibrant area of Hong Kong, this exciting book links Hong Kong with world film culture both within and beyond the commercial Hollywood paradigm.
Download or read book Sam Patch the Famous Jumper written by Paul E. Johnson and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2004-06-16 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true history of a legendary American folk hero In the 1820s, a fellow named Sam Patch grew up in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, working there (when he wasn't drinking) as a mill hand for one of America's new textile companies. Sam made a name for himself one day by jumping seventy feet into the tumultuous waters below Pawtucket Falls. When in 1827 he repeated the stunt in Paterson, New Jersey, another mill town, an even larger audience gathered to cheer on the daredevil they would call the "Jersey Jumper." Inevitably, he went to Niagara Falls, where in 1829 he jumped not once but twice in front of thousands who had paid for a good view. The distinguished social historian Paul E. Johnson gives this deceptively simple story all its deserved richness, revealing in its characters and social settings a virtual microcosm of Jacksonian America. He also relates the real jumper to the mythic Sam Patch who turned up as a daring moral hero in the works of Hawthorne and Melville, in London plays and pantomimes, and in the spotlight with Davy Crockett—a Sam Patch who became the namesake of Andrew Jackson's favorite horse. In his shrewd and powerful analysis, Johnson casts new light on aspects of American society that we may have overlooked or underestimated. This is innovative American history at its best.
Download or read book Mr Crewe s Career written by Winston Churchill and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Mr. Crewe ́s Career by Winston Churchill
Download or read book Out of the Prison House written by V.D. Carroll and published by Author House. This book was released on 2012-03-07 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Out of the Prison House is the story of Kenneth Bentley, a United States Marine squad leader via field promotion, who is wounded in action and taken prisoner in September, 1969. He survives four years of captivity in an iron cage, tortured when he attempts escape. After he learns of the United States' surrender and believing there are no other Americans around, he tries to adapt to a new life and identity when he is handled like the French "pearls" in the fifties, who were forced to assimilate into the Viet culture. Nestled in a secluded village in North Vietnam and struggling with dual identities, is he to spend the rest of his life in that remote area, or will he emerge from that isolation to rejoin family back home? And what sort of culture shock would he endure if he did come back to face the attacks of 9/11/2001? "Out of the Prison House presents a powerful view of the P.O.W./M.I.A. issue from the perspective of the men left behind. V. D. Carroll has a keen insight into America's P.O.W. tragedy, and sets forth a realistic picture of P.O.W. life. This stirring, true-to-life story could belong to any one of the men abandoned in Southeast Asia." Eugene "Red" McDaniel, CAPT, USN (Ret.), founder of American Defense Institute, and P.O.W., Vietnam, for over six years. "This vibrant story brings emotional closure to the heart-wounds of those whose loved ones have not returned from Southeast Asia." Cindy Kuehl, daughter of a P.O.W./M.I.A.
Download or read book Young Harvard and Other Poems written by Witter Bynner and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Brief History of Seven Killings written by Marlon James and published by Riverhead Books. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tale inspired by the 1976 attempted assassination of Bob Marley spans decades and continents to explore the experiences of journalists, drug dealers, killers, and ghosts against a backdrop of social and political turmoil.
Download or read book Ripples written by Michael Ramel and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The title was inspired by the ripples on a pond and the metaphor of certain events having a rippling effect throughout my life. The poetry has been inspired by many events I have experienced during my journey as a Christian, as God as Sovereign has guided by His grace.
Download or read book Grave of Light written by Alice Notley and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2008-08-26 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected poems from a visionary feminist poet.
Download or read book Dr Boerhaave s Academical Lectures on the Theory of Physic written by Herman Boerhaave and published by . This book was released on 1745 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
