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Book Colored Zion

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  • Author : Donna Byard Sealey
  • Publisher : Dartmouth, N.S. : D.B. Sealey
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 300 pages

Download or read book Colored Zion written by Donna Byard Sealey and published by Dartmouth, N.S. : D.B. Sealey. This book was released on 2000 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Colors of Zion

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  • Author : George Bornstein
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2011-02
  • ISBN : 0674057015
  • Pages : 271 pages

Download or read book The Colors of Zion written by George Bornstein and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major reevaluation of relationships among Blacks, Jews, and Irish in the years between the Irish Famine and the end of World War II, The Colors of Zion argues that the cooperative efforts and sympathies among these three groups, each persecuted and subjugated in its own way, was much greater than often acknowledged today. For the Black, Jewish, and Irish writers, poets, musicians, and politicians at the center of this transatlantic study, a sense of shared wrongs inspired repeated outpourings of sympathy. If what they have to say now surprises us, it is because our current constructions of interracial and ethnic relations have overemphasized conflict and division. As George Bornstein says in his Introduction, he chooses “to let the principals speak for themselves.” While acknowledging past conflicts and tensions, Bornstein insists on recovering the “lost connections” through which these groups frequently defined their plights as well as their aspirations. In doing so, he examines a wide range of materials, including immigration laws, lynching, hostile race theorists, Nazis and Klansmen, discriminatory university practices, and Jewish publishing houses alongside popular plays like The Melting Pot and Abie’s Irish Rose, canonical novels like Ulysses and Daniel Deronda, music from slave spirituals to jazz, poetry, and early films such as The Jazz Singer. The models of brotherhood that extended beyond ethnocentrism a century ago, the author argues, might do so once again today, if only we bear them in mind. He also urges us to move beyond arbitrary and invidious categories of race and ethnicity.

Book White Zion

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  • Author : Gila Green
  • Publisher : Cervena Barva Press
  • Release : 2019-05-03
  • ISBN : 9781950063123
  • Pages : 158 pages

Download or read book White Zion written by Gila Green and published by Cervena Barva Press. This book was released on 2019-05-03 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a journey of generations from Aden to Palestine to Ottawa, one Yemenite family encounters new and difficult realities: racism and war, rejection and divorce, resourceful survival and tragic death. -Yael Unterman, author of The Hidden of Things: Twelve Stories of Love & Longing

Book Searching for Zion

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  • Author : Emily Raboteau
  • Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
  • Release : 2013-01-08
  • ISBN : 080219379X
  • Pages : 310 pages

Download or read book Searching for Zion written by Emily Raboteau and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Jerusalem to Ghana to Katrina-ravaged New Orleans, a woman reclaims her history in a “beautifully written and thought-provoking” memoir (Dave Eggers, author of A Hologram for the King and Zeitoun). A biracial woman from a country still divided along racial lines, Emily Raboteau never felt at home in America. As the daughter of an African American religious historian, she understood the Promised Land as the spiritual realm black people yearned for. But while visiting Israel, the Jewish Zion, she was surprised to discover black Jews. More surprising was the story of how they got there. Inspired by their exodus, her question for them is the same one she keeps asking herself: have you found the home you’re looking for? In this American Book Award–winning inquiry into contemporary and historical ethnic displacement, Raboteau embarked on a ten-year journey around the globe and back in time to explore the complex and contradictory perspectives of black Zionists. She talked to Rastafarians and African Hebrew Israelites, Evangelicals and Ethiopian Jews—all in search of territory that is hard to define and harder to inhabit. Uniting memoir with cultural investigation, Raboteau overturns our ideas of place, patriotism, dispossession, citizenship, and country in “an exceptionally beautiful . . . book about a search for the kind of home for which there is no straight route, the kind of home in which the journey itself is as revelatory as the destination” (Edwidge Danticat, author of The Farming of Bones).

Book Who s who in Colored America

Download or read book Who s who in Colored America written by and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Religious Bodies

Download or read book Religious Bodies written by United States. Bureau of the Census and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bulletin

Download or read book Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 966 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The New Zion National Park

Download or read book The New Zion National Park written by Robert Sterling Yard and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book This is Zion

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1969
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 73 pages

Download or read book This is Zion written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Directions Home

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  • Author : George Elliott Clarke
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2012-09-26
  • ISBN : 1442661119
  • Pages : 337 pages

Download or read book Directions Home written by George Elliott Clarke and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2012-09-26 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The latest work from pioneering scholar George Elliott Clarke, Directions Home is the most comprehensive analysis of African-Canadian texts and writers to date. Building on the discoveries of his critically acclaimed Odysseys Home, Clarke passionately analyses the beautiful complexities and haunting conundrums of this important body of literature. Directions Home explores the trajectories and tendencies of African-Canadian literature within the Canadian canon and the socio-cultural traditions of the African Diaspora. Clarke showcases the importance of little-known texts, including church histories and slave narratives, and offers studies of autobiography, crime and punishment, jazz poetics, and musical composition. The collection also includes studies of significant contemporary writers such as George Boyd and Dionne Brand, and trailblazing African-Canadian intellectuals like A.B. Walker and Anna Minerva Henderson. With its national, bilingual, and historical perspectives, Directions Home is an essential guide to African-Canadian literature.

Book Come Shouting to Zion

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  • Author : Sylvia R. Frey
  • Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
  • Release : 2000-11-09
  • ISBN : 0807861588
  • Pages : 302 pages

Download or read book Come Shouting to Zion written by Sylvia R. Frey and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The conversion of African-born slaves and their descendants to Protestant Christianity marked one of the most important social and intellectual transformations in American history. Come Shouting to Zion is the first comprehensive exploration of the processes by which this remarkable transition occurred. Using an extraordinary array of archival sources, Sylvia Frey and Betty Wood chart the course of religious conversion from the transference of traditional African religions to the New World through the growth of Protestant Christianity in the American South and British Caribbean up to 1830. Come Shouting to Zion depicts religious transformation as a complex reciprocal movement involving black and white Christians. It highlights the role of African American preachers in the conversion process and demonstrates the extent to which African American women were responsible for developing distinctive ritual patterns of worship and divergent moral values within the black spiritual community. Finally, the book sheds light on the ways in which, by serving as a channel for the assimilation of Western culture into the slave quarters, Protestant Christianity helped transform Africans into African Americans.

Book Bringing Zion Home

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  • Author : Emily Alice Katz
  • Publisher : State University of New York Press
  • Release : 2015-01-08
  • ISBN : 143845466X
  • Pages : 232 pages

Download or read book Bringing Zion Home written by Emily Alice Katz and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2015-01-08 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing Zion Home examines the role of culture in the establishment of the "special relationship" between the United States and Israel in the immediate postwar decades. Many American Jews first encountered Israel through their roles as tastemakers, consumers, and cultural impresarios—that is, by writing and reading about Israel; dancing Israeli folk dances; promoting and purchasing Israeli goods; and presenting Israeli art and music. It was precisely by means of these cultural practices, argues Emily Alice Katz, that American Jews insisted on Israel's "natural" place in American culture, a phenomenon that continues to shape America's relationship with Israel today. Katz shows that American Jews' promotion and consumption of Israel in the cultural realm was bound up with multiple agendas, including the quest for Jewish authenticity in a postimmigrant milieu and the desire of upwardly mobile Jews to polish their status in American society. And, crucially, as influential cultural and political elites positioned "culture" as both an engine of American dominance and as a purveyor of peace in the Cold War, many of Israel's American Jewish impresarios proclaimed publicly that cultural patronage of and exchange with Israel advanced America's interests in the Middle East and helped spread the "American way" in the postwar world. Bringing Zion Home is the first book to shine a light squarely upon the role and importance of Israel in the arts, popular culture, and material culture of postwar America.

Book Summary and general tables

Download or read book Summary and general tables written by United States. Bureau of the Census and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Negro Yearbook

Download or read book Negro Yearbook written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book For the Sake of Zion

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  • Author : Tuvia Book
  • Publisher : Toby Press Limited
  • Release : 2017-09
  • ISBN : 9781592644896
  • Pages : 139 pages

Download or read book For the Sake of Zion written by Tuvia Book and published by Toby Press Limited. This book was released on 2017-09 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the Sake of Zion is a wonderful road map to one of the great journeys of human history the return of the Jewish people to Israel. Dr. Tuvia Book combines the head of a knowledgeable expert with the heart of a passionate educator to produce a volume rich in facts, ideas, and creative pedagogy.

Book Religious Bodies  1906  Summary and detailed tables

Download or read book Religious Bodies 1906 Summary and detailed tables written by United States. Bureau of the Census and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: