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Book Our Separate Ways

    Book Details:
  • Author : Christina Greene
  • Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
  • Release : 2006-03-13
  • ISBN : 0807876372
  • Pages : 385 pages

Download or read book Our Separate Ways written by Christina Greene and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2006-03-13 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an in-depth community study of women in the civil rights movement, Christina Greene examines how several generations of black and white women, low-income as well as more affluent, shaped the struggle for black freedom in Durham, North Carolina. In the city long known as "the capital of the black middle class," Greene finds that, in fact, low-income African American women were the sustaining force for change. Greene demonstrates that women activists frequently were more organized, more militant, and more numerous than their male counterparts. They brought new approaches and strategies to protest, leadership, and racial politics. Arguing that race was not automatically a unifying force, Greene sheds new light on the class and gender fault lines within Durham's black community. While middle-class black leaders cautiously negotiated with whites in the boardroom, low-income black women were coordinating direct action in hair salons and neighborhood meetings. Greene's analysis challenges scholars and activists to rethink the contours of grassroots activism in the struggle for racial and economic justice in postwar America. She provides fresh insight into the changing nature of southern white liberalism and interracial alliances, the desegregation of schools and public accommodations, and the battle to end employment discrimination and urban poverty.

Book Our Separate Ways

Download or read book Our Separate Ways written by Ella L. J. Bell Smith and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2003-03-24 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Our Separate Ways, authors Ella Bell and Stella Nkomo take an unflinching look at the surprising differences between black and white women's trials and triumphs on their way up the corporate ladder. Based on groundbreaking research that spanned eight years, Our Separate Ways compares and contrasts the experiences of 120 black and white female managers in the American business arena. In-depth histories bring to life the women's powerful and often difficult journeys from childhood to professional success, highlighting the roles that gender, race, and class played in their development. Although successful professional women come from widely diverse family backgrounds, educational experiences, and community values, they share a common assumption upon entering the workforce: "I have a chance." Along the way, however, they discover that people question their authority, challenge their intelligence, and discount their ideas. And while gender is a common denominator among these women, race and class are often wedges between them. In Our Separate Ways, you will find candid discussions about stereotypes, learn how black women's early experiences affect their attitudes in the business world, become aware of how white women have--perhaps unwittingly--aligned themselves more often with white men than with black women, and see ways that our country continues to come to terms with diversity in all of its dimensions. Whether you are a human resources director wondering why you're having trouble retaining black women, a white female manager considering the role of race in your office, or a black female manager searching for perspectives, you will find fresh insights about how black and white women's struggles differ and encounter provocative ideas for creating a better workplace environment for everyone.

Book Our Separate Ways  With a New Preface and Epilogue

Download or read book Our Separate Ways With a New Preface and Epilogue written by Ella Bell Smith and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named to the shortlist for the 2021 Outstanding Works of Literature (OWL) Award in the Women in Business Category Addressing gender alone won't help women rise to the top. Although women come from widely diverse backgrounds, they share a common assumption upon entering the workforce: "I have a chance." Along the way, however, they discover that people question their authority, challenge their intelligence, and discount their ideas. And while gender is a common denominator among these women, race and class are often wedges between them. In Our Separate Ways, Ella Bell Smith and Stella M. Nkomo take an unflinching look at the surprising differences between Black and White women's trials and triumphs on their way to the top. Based on groundbreaking research, the book compares and contrasts the experiences of 120 Black and White female managers in America. Powerful stories bring to life the women's often difficult journeys from childhood to professional success, highlighting the roles that gender, race, and class played in their development. Now with an updated preface and epilogue, the book provides candid discussions of the continuing challenge of achieving race and gender equality in the midst of deep political and ideological divides. You'll discover how White women have—perhaps unwittingly—aligned themselves more often with White men than with Black women and how systemic racism and biases still exist in organizations. But you’ll also learn what to do to leverage the talents of all women and eliminate systemic racism for good. Whether you lead an organization or simply want to better understand the dynamics at play in business today, you'll discover provocative ideas for creating a better workplace and encouraging equality for everyone.

Book Our Separate Ways

Download or read book Our Separate Ways written by Dana Allin and published by Public Affairs. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "IISS An International Institute for Strategic Studies book."

Book GOING OUR SEPARATE WAYS

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  • Author : Richard Zukosky
  • Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
  • Release : 2023-11-20
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 233 pages

Download or read book GOING OUR SEPARATE WAYS written by Richard Zukosky and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2023-11-20 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two souls meet by chance in passing and weave an intricate tail of the heart. They both lead different lives and after the first encounter they go their separate ways. . Everyone searches for love and so it is with two people in our story, how Paul and Kathleen move forward in their relationship. Their paths keep crossing, and the paths they take, the love they share are all part of the human story of love and loss. Destiny intervenes, and they go on with their lives each time. As time passes, they are brought together again and again and overtime an intense relationship begins to develop. They each learn about themselves, as they think about the other. While also moving on with their lives. While dealing with intense emotions of sorrow, anguish, and defeat. They must make the difficult decisions of losing or fighting on for those they love, as the years pass. The story is one of love and the determination of their love. To what ends will each one go to reconcile their relationship? The story highlights their love and the depths at which each one is willing to go, to rekindle a relationship. The connection is deeply fulfilling. To them it is worthwhile, as they are trying to find their own peace, going through their lives, learning what it means to remain steadfast. While they search for strength at every turn. A deep connection aligns and calls to them in a love that transcends time and space. A passion smolders and waits or a reunion and joy. Will they conquer the demons of fate, which keeps interfering in their lives? Their struggle is a classic one as every love story has its troubles. Will Paul Kathleen’s intense relationship survive? What will the legend of these two lovers be? Time will tell.

Book Our Separate Ways

Download or read book Our Separate Ways written by Dana H Allin and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anger and distrust have strained the U.S.-Israeli alliance as the Obama administration and Netanyahu government have clashed over Israeli settlements, convulsions in the Arab world, and negotiating with Iran. Our Separate Ways is an urgent examination of why the alliance has deteriorated and the dangers of its neglect. Powerful demographic, cultural, and strategic currents in Israel and the United States are driving the two countries apart. In America, the once-solid pro-Israel consensus is being corroded by partisan rancor, which also pits conservative Jews against the more liberal Jewish majority. In Israel, surveys of young Jewish citizens reveal a disdain for democracy, and, in some cases, a readiness to curb the civil liberties of non-Jews. Prospects for preserving a liberal Zionism against the pressures for "Greater Israel" are dimming as hopes for a two-state solution fade. The acrimony between President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been a symptom, not cause, of the deeper crisis. If the alliance becomes just a transactional arrangement, then the moral, emotional, and largely intangible bonds that have long tied the two countries together will continue to weaken. Going separate ways at a time of Middle East chaos, and despite profound historical commitment, would be an immense tragedy. The partnership must restore the shared vision that created it.

Book Separate Ways

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  • Author : Maggie Carew
  • Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
  • Release : 2022-08-31
  • ISBN : 139846354X
  • Pages : 101 pages

Download or read book Separate Ways written by Maggie Carew and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2022-08-31 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two young men leave their depressed home town (in Scotland) and go their separate ways. They have many adventures and meet many people on their journeys. Roger travels south and finds success and happiness and love. Alec goes west, and finds himself in an alternative reality, based on ancient British folklore.

Book Separate Ways

Download or read book Separate Ways written by Vira Hladun-Goldmann and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A description of the rise and fall of the authors relationship with one of America's wealthiest men with details of how she was able to acquire an equitable divorce settlement.

Book Separate Ways

Download or read book Separate Ways written by Peter Shore and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 2000 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the European Union gains in influence and momentum, this book questions Britain's interest in European integration

Book Growing Your Separate Ways

Download or read book Growing Your Separate Ways written by Leah Ruppel and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2024-06-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If marriage leads to happily ever after, where does divorce lead to? Everyone wants a successful relationship, but is it worth sacrificing happiness and compromising values to prove that you are happy when you clearly are not? If you are like a lot of people, you avoid the perils of separation and divorce because it exemplifies dysfunction, promotes pain, and represents failure-or so we are brought up to believe. Choosing to stay and be unhappy leaves you feeling "comfortably numb" and unenthusiastic about the relationship. You no longer want to be with your partner, yet you have no idea how to get from here to there. Essentially, you are feeling stuck. What if you could consciously uncouple or un-marry in an amicable way that resulted in a positive outcome? Would you be interested in a process of growing forward as individuals, AND create a workable friendship with a new definition of family? This book is about creating a space for possibilities, the potential to separate, grow, and still live happily ever after. Growing Your Separate Ways offers a process of eight action steps to help you navigate your journey regardless of the stage you are in. Once you build awareness of your situation and visualize a better outcome, you will begin to make decisions that move you closer to living the life you want, and while becoming a better version of yourself in a friendship with someone you still love and respect. "Growing Your Separate Ways offers nuggets of deep wisdom and truth to light the way through the confusion and hurt of a breakup. Leah Hogarth-Ruppel will kindly take you by the hand and lead you one step at a time down the pathway of recovery, until before you know it, your heart will feel lighter and your spirit stronger for all you've endured--so that you're ready to move forward with an open, happy and fully healed heart." -Katherine Woodward Thomas, NY Times Bestselling author of Conscious Uncoupling: 5 Steps to Living Happily Even After

Book The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible

Download or read book The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible written by Charles Eisenstein and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As seen on Oprah’s Super Soul Sunday A beacon of hope in the face of our current world crises, this uplifting book demonstrates how embracing our interconnectedness is key to world transformation In a time of social and ecological crisis, what can we as individuals do to make the world a better place? This inspirational and thought-provoking book serves as an empowering antidote to the cynicism, frustration, paralysis, and overwhelm so many of us are feeling, replacing it with a grounding reminder of what’s true: we are all connected, and our small, personal choices bear unsuspected transformational power. By fully embracing and practicing this principle of interconnectedness—called interbeing—we become more effective agents of change and have a stronger positive influence on the world. Throughout the book, Eisenstein relates real-life stories showing how small, individual acts of courage, kindness, and self-trust can change our culture’s guiding narrative of separation, which, he shows, has generated the present planetary crisis. He brings to conscious awareness a deep wisdom we all innately know: until we get ourselves in order, any action we take—no matter how good our intentions—will ultimately be wrong-headed and wrong-hearted. Above all, Eisenstein invites us to embrace a radically different understanding of cause and effect, sounding a clarion call to surrender our old worldview of separation, so that we can finally create the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible. With chapters covering separation, interbeing, despair, hope, pain, pleasure, consciousness, and many more, the book invites us to let the old Story of Separation fall away so that we can stand firmly in a Story of Interbeing.

Book Crow After Roe

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robin Marty
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN : 9781935439752
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Crow After Roe written by Robin Marty and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2013 marks the 40th anniversary of the US Supreme Court's abortion decision in Roe v. Wade. In recent years, attempts to overturn the ruling have reached a fevered pitch, with nearly 100 new laws going into effect. The chilling effect of these laws has been to establish a reproductive health care system in these states that makes abortion legal in name only, and which places women - especially poor, rural or those of colour - into a separate health care class, with few choices or control. Featuring a foreword by Gloria Feldt.

Book Separate Pasts

    Book Details:
  • Author : Melton A. McLaurin
  • Publisher : University of Georgia Press
  • Release : 2010-12-01
  • ISBN : 082034012X
  • Pages : 189 pages

Download or read book Separate Pasts written by Melton A. McLaurin and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Separate Pasts Melton A. McLaurin honestly and plainly recalls his boyhood during the 1950s, an era when segregation existed unchallenged in the rural South. In his small hometown of Wade, North Carolina, whites and blacks lived and worked within each other's shadows, yet were separated by the history they shared. Separate Pasts is the moving story of the bonds McLaurin formed with friends of both races—a testament to the power of human relationships to overcome even the most ingrained systems of oppression. A new afterword provides historical context for the development of segregation in North Carolina. In his poignant portrayal of contemporary Wade, McLaurin shows that, despite integration and the election of a black mayor, the legacy of racism remains.

Book Separate Games

    Book Details:
  • Author : David K. Wiggins
  • Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
  • Release : 2016-11-01
  • ISBN : 1682260178
  • Pages : 289 pages

Download or read book Separate Games written by David K. Wiggins and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hardening of racial lines during the first half of the twentieth century eliminated almost all African Americans from white organized sports, forcing black athletes to form their own teams, organizations, and events. This separate sporting culture, explored in the twelve essays included here, comprised much more than athletic competition; these "separate games" provided examples of black enterprise and black self-help and showed the importance of agency and the quest for racial uplift in a country fraught with racialist thinking and discrimination.

Book Microservices in Action

Download or read book Microservices in Action written by Morgan Bruce and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-10-03 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The one [and only] book on implementing microservices with a real-world, cover-to-cover example you can relate to." - Christian Bach, Swiss Re Microservices in Action is a practical book about building and deploying microservice-based applications. Written for developers and architects with a solid grasp of service-oriented development, it tackles the challenge of putting microservices into production. Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications. About the Technology Invest your time in designing great applications, improving infrastructure, and making the most out of your dev teams. Microservices are easier to write, scale, and maintain than traditional enterprise applications because they're built as a system of independent components. Master a few important new patterns and processes, and you'll be ready to develop, deploy, and run production-quality microservices. About the Book Microservices in Action teaches you how to write and maintain microservice-based applications. Created with day-to-day development in mind, this informative guide immerses you in real-world use cases from design to deployment. You'll discover how microservices enable an efficient continuous delivery pipeline, and explore examples using Kubernetes, Docker, and Google Container Engine. What's inside An overview of microservice architecture Building a delivery pipeline Best practices for designing multi-service transactions and queries Deploying with containers Monitoring your microservices About the Reader Written for intermediate developers familiar with enterprise architecture and cloud platforms like AWS and GCP. About the Author Morgan Bruce and Paulo A. Pereira are experienced engineering leaders. They work daily with microservices in a production environment, using the techniques detailed in this book. Table of Contents Designing and running microservices Microservices at SimpleBank Architecture of a microservice application Designing new features Transactions and queries in microservices Designing reliable services Building a reusable microservice framework Deploying microservices Deployment with containers and schedulers Building a delivery pipeline for microservices Building a monitoring system Using logs and traces to understand behavior Building microservice teams PART 1 - The lay of the land PART 2 - Design PART 3 - Deployment PART 4 - Observability and ownership

Book What We Left Behind

Download or read book What We Left Behind written by Robin Talley and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the acclaimed author of Lies We Tell Ourselves comes an empowering YA novel of what happens when love may not be enough to conquer all. Toni and Gretchen are the couple everyone envied in high school. When they go off to different colleges—Toni to Harvard and Gretchen to NYU—they’re sure they’ll be fine. Where other long-distance relationships have fallen apart, theirs is bound to stay rock-solid. The reality of being apart, though, is very different than they expected. Toni, who identifies as genderqueer, meets a group of transgender upperclassmen and immediately finds a sense of belonging that has always been missing. Gretchen, meanwhile, struggles to remember who she is outside their relationship. As distance and Toni’s shifting gender identity begin to wear on their relationship, the couple must decide—have they grown apart for good, or is love enough to keep them together?