Download or read book Hope and Independence written by Patricia Gurin and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 1990-01-18 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past fifteen years, a New Black Politics has swept black candidates into office and registered black voters in numbers unimaginable since the days of Reconstruction. Based on interviews with a representative sample of nearly 1,000 voting-age black Americans, Hope and Independence explores blacks' attitudes toward electoral and party politics and toward Jesse Jackson's first presidential bid. Viewed in the light of black political history, the survey reveals enduring themes of hope (for eventual inclusion in traditional politics, despite repeated disappointments) and independence (a strategy of operating outside conventional political institutions in order to achieve incorporation). The authors describe a black electorate that is less alienated than many have suggested. Blacks are more politically engaged than whites with comparable levels of education. And despite growing economic inequality in the black community, the authors find no serious class-based political cleavage. Underlying the widespread support for Jackson among blacks, a distinction emerges between "common fate" solidarity, which is pro-black, committed to internal criticism of the Democratic party, and conscious of commonality with other disadvantaged groups, and "exclusivist" solidarity, which is pro-black but also hostile to whites and less empathetic to other minorities. This second, more divisive type of solidarity expresses itself in the desire for a separate black party or a vote black strategy—but its proponents constitute a small minority of the black electorate and show surprisingly hopeful attitudes toward the Democratic party. Hope and Independence will be welcomed by readers concerned with opinion research, the sociology of race, and the psychology of group consciousness. By probing the attitudes of individual blacks in the context of a watershed campaign, this book also makes a vital contribution to our grasp of current electoral politics.

Download or read book Hope and Independence written by Patricia Gurin and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 1989 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past fifteen years, a New Black Politics has swept black candidates into office and registered black voters in numbers unimaginable since the days of Reconstruction. Based on interviews with a representative sample of nearly 1,000 voting-age black Americans, Hope and Independenceexplores blacks' attitudes toward electoral and party politics and toward JesseJackson's first presidential bid. Viewed in the light of black political history, the survey reveals enduring themes of hope (for eventual inclusion in traditional politics, despite repeated disappointments) and independence(a strategy of operating outside conventional political institutions in order to achieve incorporation). Hope and Independence will be welcomed by readers concerned with opinion research, the sociology of race, and the psychology of group consciousness. By probing the attitudes of individual blacks in the context of a watershed campaign, this book also makes a vital contribution to our grasp of current electoral politics."

Download or read book The Only Real Security written by Samuel Crowther and published by . This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Kenya written by Daniel Branch and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On December 12, 1963, people across Kenya joyfully celebrated independence from British colonial rule, anticipating a bright future of prosperity and social justice. As the nation approaches the fiftieth anniversary of its independence, however, the people's dream remains elusive. During its first five decades Kenya has experienced assassinations, riots, coup attempts, ethnic violence, and political corruption. The ranks of the disaffected, the unemployed, and the poor have multiplied. In this authoritative and insightful account of Kenya's history from 1963 to the present day, Daniel Branch sheds new light on the nation's struggles and the complicated causes behind them.Branch describes how Kenya constructed itself as a state and how ethnicity has proved a powerful force in national politics from the start, as have disorder and violence. He explores such divisive political issues as the needs of the landless poor, international relations with Britain and with the Cold War superpowers, and the direction of economic development. Tracing an escalation of government corruption over time, the author brings his discussion to the present, paying particular attention to the rigged election of 2007, the subsequent compromise government, and Kenya's prospects as a still-evolving independent state.

Download or read book Independence Day I Hope written by Kathy Tyrity and published by . This book was released on 2016-05-20 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Black Patriots and Loyalists written by Alan Gilbert and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-04-20 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this thought-provoking history, Gilbert illuminates how the fight for abolition and equality - not just for the independence of the few but for the freedom and self-government of the many - has been central to the American story from its inception."--Pub. desc.

Download or read book Independence Day written by Richard Ford and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-12-22 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank Bascombe is no longer a sportswriter, yet he's still living in Haddam, New Jersey, where he now sells real estate. He's still divorced, though his ex-wife, to his dismay, has remarried and moved along with their children to Connecticut. But Frank is happy enough in his work and pursuing various civic and entrepreneurial sidelines. He has high hopes for this 4th of July weekend: a search for a house for deeply hapless clients relocating to Vermont; a rendezvous on the Jersey shore with his girlfriend; then up to Connecticut to pick up his larcenous and emotionally troubled teenage son and visit as many sports halls of fame as they can fit into two days. Frank's Independence Day, however, turns out not as he'd planned, and this decent, appealingly bewildered, profoundly observant man is wrenched, gradually and inevitably, out of his private refuge. Independence Day captures the mystery of life — in all its conflicted glory — with grand humour, intense compassion and transfixing power.

Download or read book Freedom from Suffering written by Stephen F. Grinstead and published by Independence Press. This book was released on 2011-08-24 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is intended for those of you living with chronic pain that are ready and willing to learn valuable skills to better manage you chronic pain condition, and as a result, decrease your suffering, improve your quality of life, and achieve long-abandoned cherished goals.

Download or read book I Hope This Independence Day Brings You Happiness and Hope written by Stephan Konduumi and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-10 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: i hope this independence day brings you happiness and hopeIndepence Day Notebook 120 lined pages 6x9 great as Gift for USA Americans and Patriots great as Dairy and Journal. You can use it as Diary, Journal Notebook with 120 lined paper pages you have enough space for all your todos, notes and many more.

Download or read book The Hope of America written by Jack Gunthridge and published by . This book was released on 2013-02-04 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shhh. Don't tell the government, but this is an essay that liberals and progressives wouldn't want you to read. Jack Gunthridge explains why the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution are still important today to all of its citizens. True hope comes from the freedoms granted to us in the founding of this country through our historical documents and the freedoms they grant us. Hope does not come from somebody that occupies the White House.Jack Gunthridge is fully aware of how the left in this country will receive this essay. Acknowledging that all is fair in love and war, Jack is willing to use his status as a person diagnosed with autism in his fight against liberals and progressives. They can attack the right, Republicans, conservatives, members of the Tea Party, and Christians. They, however, cannot attack a person with autism, even if the autistic person holds the same beliefs as a group they disagree with. The left might want to reconsider the presupposed brilliance of their ideology and infallibility if they can be so easily outsmarted by a mere person on the autism spectrum.Regardless, any negative reviews will be seen as a direct attack on a person on the autism spectrum. Jack Gunthridge has no problem using the politically correct weapons of the left against them. For the rest of America, I do support myself by working a full time job that pays me about $20,000 a year. During the summers, I am laid off and am eligible for unemployment benefits. Instead of receiving welfare, I would rather work for my money. Sales of this essay and my other works go to paying me as well as to paying taxes. Even with being on the autism spectrum, I don't consider myself disabled. If I receive charity, it will be from people deciding to support my business endeavors and not from the government taking money away from other people to give to me.This essay explains what it is to be an American and to enjoy the freedoms that come with being an American that we have forgotten today. I hope to rekindle the fire that some have lost in this country. My ancestors didn't come to this country, fight for the forming of this country, and fight in almost every war this country has been involved in to give me freedoms so that I can have others take them away today. Instead I plan on waking up the sleeping giant, the beacon of hope and freedom that America is. Others see it in us, but we have forgotten it about ourselves.

Download or read book In Hope of Liberty written by James O. Horton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998-04-30 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prince Hall, a black veteran of the American Revolution, was insulted and disappointed but probably not surprised when white officials refused his offer of help. He had volunteered a troop of 700 Boston area blacks to help quell a rebellion of western Massachusetts farmers led by Daniel Shays during the economic turmoil in the uncertain period following independence. Many African Americans had fought for America's liberty and their own in the Revolution, but their place in the new nation was unresolved. As slavery was abolished in the North, free blacks gained greater opportunities, but still faced a long struggle against limits to their freedom, against discrimination, and against southern slavery. The lives of these men and women are vividly described in In Hope of Liberty, spanning the 200 years and eight generations from the colonial slave trade to the Civil War. In this marvelously peopled history, James and Lois Horton introduce us to a rich cast of characters. There are familiar historical figures such as Crispus Attucks, a leader of the Boston Massacre and one of the first casualties of the American Revolution; Sojourner Truth, former slave and eloquent antislavery and women's rights activist whose own family had been broken by slavery when her son became a wedding present for her owner's daughter; and Prince Whipple, George Washington's aide, easily recognizable in the portrait of Washington crossing the Delaware River. And there are the countless men and women who struggled to lead their daily lives with courage and dignity: Zilpha Elaw, a visionary revivalist who preached before crowds of thousands; David James Peck, the first black to graduate from an American medical school in 1848; Paul Cuffe, a successful seafaring merchant who became an ardent supporter of the black African colonization movement; and Nancy Prince, at eighteen the effective head of a scattered household of four siblings, each boarded in different homes, who at twenty-five was formally presented to the Russian court. In a seamless narrative weaving together all these stories and more, the Hortons describe the complex networks, both formal and informal, that made up free black society, from the black churches, which provided a sense of community and served as a training ground for black leaders and political action, to the countless newspapers which spoke eloquently of their aspirations for blacks and played an active role in the antislavery movement, to the informal networks which allowed far-flung families to maintain contact, and which provided support and aid to needy members of the free black community and to fugitives from the South. Finally, they describe the vital role of the black family, the cornerstone of this variegated and tightly knit community In Hope of Liberty brilliantly illuminates the free black communities of the antebellum North as they struggled to reconcile conflicting cultural identities and to work for social change in an atmosphere of racial injustice. As the black community today still struggles with many of the same problems, this insightful history reminds us how far we have come, and how far we have yet to go.

Download or read book Elderly Independence written by United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Office of Policy Development and Research and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Surburban Outlaw written by Pam Sherman and published by New Year Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed actor and columnist Sherman takes a funny, touching, and ironic look at life in suburbia.

Download or read book Independence Day written by Trudi Strain Trueit and published by Children's Press(CT). This book was released on 2007 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the history, customs, meaning, and celebration of Independence Day, more commonly known as the Fourth of July.

Download or read book The Hollow Hope written by Gerald N. Rosenberg and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In follow-up studies, dozens of reviews, and even a book of essays evaluating his conclusions, Gerald Rosenberg’s critics—not to mention his supporters—have spent nearly two decades debating the arguments he first put forward in The Hollow Hope. With this substantially expanded second edition of his landmark work, Rosenberg himself steps back into the fray, responding to criticism and adding chapters on the same-sex marriage battle that ask anew whether courts can spur political and social reform. Finding that the answer is still a resounding no, Rosenberg reaffirms his powerful contention that it’s nearly impossible to generate significant reforms through litigation. The reason? American courts are ineffective and relatively weak—far from the uniquely powerful sources for change they’re often portrayed as. Rosenberg supports this claim by documenting the direct and secondary effects of key court decisions—particularly Brown v. Board of Education and Roe v. Wade. He reveals, for example, that Congress, the White House, and a determined civil rights movement did far more than Brown to advance desegregation, while pro-choice activists invested too much in Roe at the expense of political mobilization. Further illuminating these cases, as well as the ongoing fight for same-sex marriage rights, Rosenberg also marshals impressive evidence to overturn the common assumption that even unsuccessful litigation can advance a cause by raising its profile. Directly addressing its critics in a new conclusion, The Hollow Hope, Second Edition promises to reignite for a new generation the national debate it sparked seventeen years ago.

Download or read book A Qualified Hope written by Gerald N. Rosenberg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-29 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines whether the Indian Supreme Court can produce progressive social change and improve the lives of the relatively disadvantaged.

Download or read book Scars of Independence written by Holger Hoock and published by Crown Publishing Group (NY). This book was released on 2017 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tory hunting -- Britain's dilemma -- Rubicon -- Plundering protectors -- Violated bodies -- Slaughterhouses -- Black holes -- Skiver them! -- Town-destroyer -- Americanizing the war -- Man for man -- Returning losers