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Book Making Mixed Race

Download or read book Making Mixed Race written by Karis Campion and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By examining Black mixed-race identities in the city through a series of historical vantage points, Making Mixed Race provides in-depth insights into the geographical and historical contexts that shape the possibilities and constraints for identifications. Whilst popular representations of mixed-race often conceptualise it as a contemporary phenomenon and are couched in discourses of futurity, this book dislodges it from the current moment to explore its emergence as a racialised category, and personal identity, over time. In addition to tracing the temporality of mixed-race, the contributions show the utility of place as an analytical tool for mixed-race studies. The conceptual framework for the book – place, time, and personal identity – offers a timely intervention to the scholarship that encourages us to look outside of individual subjectivities and critically examine the structural contexts that shape Black mixed-race lives. The book centres around the life histories of 37 people of Mixed White and Black Caribbean heritage born between 1959 and 1994, in Britain’s second-largest city, Birmingham. The intimate life portraits of mixed identity reveal how colourism, family, school, gender, whiteness, racism, and resistance, have been experienced against the backdrop of post-war immigration, Thatcherism, the ascendency of Black diasporic youth cultures, and contemporary post-race discourses. It will be of interest to researchers, postgraduate and undergraduate students who work on (mixed) race and ethnicity studies in academic areas including geographies of race, youth identities/cultures, gender, colonial legacies, intersectionality, racism, and colourism.

Book Myths of Harmony

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  • Author : Marixa Lasso
  • Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
  • Release : 2007-08-12
  • ISBN : 0822973251
  • Pages : 219 pages

Download or read book Myths of Harmony written by Marixa Lasso and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2007-08-12 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book centers on a foundational moment for Latin American racial constructs. While most contemporary scholarship has focused the explanation for racial tolerance-or its lack-in the colonial period, Marixa Lasso argues that the key to understanding the origins of modern race relations are to be found later, in the Age of Revolution.Lasso rejects the common assumption that subalterns were passive and alienated from Creole-led patriot movements, and instead demonstrates that during Colombia's revolution, free blacks and mulattos (pardos) actively joined and occasionally even led the cause to overthrow the Spanish colonial government. As part of their platform, patriots declared legal racial equality for all citizens, and promulgated an ideology of harmony and fraternity for Colombians of all colors. The fact that blacks were mentioned as equals in the discourse of the revolution and later served in republican government posts was a radical political departure. These factors were instrumental in constructing a powerful myth of racial equality-a myth that would fuel revolutionary activity throughout Latin America.Thus emerged a historical paradox central to Latin American nation-building: the coexistence of the principle of racial equality with actual racism at the very inception of the republic. Ironically, the discourse of equality meant that grievances of racial discrimination were construed as unpatriotic and divisive acts-in its most extreme form, blacks were accused of preparing a race war. Lasso's work brings much-needed attention to the important role of the anticolonial struggles in shaping the nature of contemporary race relations and racial identities in Latin America.

Book Harmony

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  • Author : Carolyn Parkhurst
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2016-08-02
  • ISBN : 0399562621
  • Pages : 289 pages

Download or read book Harmony written by Carolyn Parkhurst and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[A] provocative page-turner." —People “In Parkhurst’s deft treatment, Harmony becomes a story of our time. . . Parkhurst cements herself as a writer capable of astonishing humanity and exquisite prose.” —Washington Post “Gorgeously written and patently original.” —Jodi Picoult, New York Times bestselling author of Leaving Time From the New York Times bestselling author of The Dogs of Babel, a taut, emotionally wrenching story of how a seemingly "normal" family could become desperate enough to leave everything behind and move to a "family camp" in New Hampshire--a life-changing experience that alters them forever. How far will a mother go to save her family? The Hammond family is living in DC, where everything seems to be going just fine, until it becomes clear that the oldest daughter, Tilly, is developing abnormally--a mix of off-the-charts genius and social incompetence. Once Tilly--whose condition is deemed undiagnosable--is kicked out of the last school in the area, her mother Alexandra is out of ideas. The family turns to Camp Harmony and the wisdom of child behavior guru Scott Bean for a solution. But what they discover in the woods of New Hampshire will push them to the very limit. Told from the alternating perspectives of both Alexandra and her younger daughter Iris (the book's Nick Carraway), this is a unputdownable story about the strength of love, the bonds of family, and how you survive the unthinkable.

Book Antiracism in Cuba

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  • Author : Devyn Spence Benson
  • Publisher : UNC Press Books
  • Release : 2016-04-05
  • ISBN : 146962673X
  • Pages : 335 pages

Download or read book Antiracism in Cuba written by Devyn Spence Benson and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzing the ideology and rhetoric around race in Cuba and south Florida during the early years of the Cuban revolution, Devyn Spence Benson argues that ideas, stereotypes, and discriminatory practices relating to racial difference persisted despite major efforts by the Cuban state to generate social equality. Drawing on Cuban and U.S. archival materials and face-to-face interviews, Benson examines 1960s government programs and campaigns against discrimination, showing how such programs frequently negated their efforts by reproducing racist images and idioms in revolutionary propaganda, cartoons, and school materials. Building on nineteenth-century discourses that imagined Cuba as a raceless space, revolutionary leaders embraced a narrow definition of blackness, often seeming to suggest that Afro-Cubans had to discard their blackness to join the revolution. This was and remains a false dichotomy for many Cubans of color, Benson demonstrates. While some Afro-Cubans agreed with the revolution's sentiments about racial transcendence--"not blacks, not whites, only Cubans--others found ways to use state rhetoric to demand additional reforms. Still others, finding a revolution that disavowed blackness unsettling and paternalistic, fought to insert black history and African culture into revolutionary nationalisms. Despite such efforts by Afro-Cubans and radical government-sponsored integration programs, racism has persisted throughout the revolution in subtle but lasting ways.

Book

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  • Author :
  • Publisher : Soffer Publishing
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 6470853293
  • Pages : 64 pages

Download or read book written by and published by Soffer Publishing. This book was released on with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Chambers s Information for the People

Download or read book Chambers s Information for the People written by William Chambers and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book United by Faith

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  • Author : Curtiss Paul DeYoung
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9780195177527
  • Pages : 244 pages

Download or read book United by Faith written by Curtiss Paul DeYoung and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an argument for multiracial Christian congregations in breaking down racial barriers in the United States.

Book Voices in Harmony

Download or read book Voices in Harmony written by Mary Batchelor and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Living in Harmony

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  • Author : Mary Ellis
  • Publisher : Harvest House Publishers
  • Release : 2012-08-01
  • ISBN : 0736942866
  • Pages : 354 pages

Download or read book Living in Harmony written by Mary Ellis and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living in Harmony is the first book in bestselling author Mary Ellis’s New Beginnings series. It’s about fresh starts and love...and how faith in God and His perfect plan for our lives provides us with the peace and joy we desire. Amy King—young, engaged, and Amish—faces difficult challenges in her life when she suddenly loses both of her parents in a house fire. Her fiancé, John Detweiler, persuades her and her sister Nora to leave Lancaster County and make a new beginning with him in Harmony, Maine, where he has relatives who can help the women in their time of need. John’s brother Thomas and sister-in-law Sally readily open their home to the three newcomers. Wise beyond his years, Thomas, a minister in the district, refuses to marry Amy and John upon their arrival, suggesting instead a period of adjustment and counseling. During this time Amy discovers an aunt who was shunned. She wishes to reconnect with her, but this puts a strain on her relationship with John. Can John and Amy find a way to live in happily in Harmony before making a lifetime commitment to one another?

Book Harmony Ideology

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  • Author : Laura Nader
  • Publisher : Stanford University Press
  • Release : 1990
  • ISBN : 9780804718103
  • Pages : 388 pages

Download or read book Harmony Ideology written by Laura Nader and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Zapotec observe that 'a bad compromise is better than a good fight'. Why? This study of the legal system of the Zapotec village of Talea suggests that compromise and, more generally, harmony are strategies used by colonized groups to protect themselves from encroaching powerholders or strategies the colonizers use to defend themselves against organized subordinates. Harmony models are present, despite great organizational and cultural differences, in many parts of the world. However, the basic components of harmony ideology are the same everywhere: an emphasis on conciliation, recognition that resolution of conflict is inherently good and that its reverse - continued conflict or controversy - is bad, a view of harmonious behaviour as more civilized than disputing behaviour, the belief that consensus is of greater survival value than controversy. The book's central thesis is that harmony ideology in Talea today is both a product of nearly 500 years of colonial encounter and a strategy for resisting the state's political and cultural hegemony.

Book Harmony Book

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  • Author : Elliott Carter
  • Publisher : Carl Fischer, L.L.C.
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9780825845949
  • Pages : 390 pages

Download or read book Harmony Book written by Elliott Carter and published by Carl Fischer, L.L.C.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive resource features more than 400 projections and colour illustrations augmented by MRI images for added detail to enhance the anatomy and positioning presentations.

Book Himawari House

Download or read book Himawari House written by Harmony Becker and published by First Second. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young adult graphic novel about three foreign exchange students and the pleasures, and difficulties, of adjusting to living in Japan. Living in a new country is no walk in the park—Nao, Hyejung, and Tina can all attest to that. The three of them became fast friends through living together in the Himawari House in Tokyo and attending the same Japanese cram school. Nao came to Japan to reconnect with her Japanese heritage, while Hyejung and Tina came to find freedom and their own paths. Though each of them has her own motivations and challenges, they all deal with language barriers, being a fish out of water, self discovery, love, and family.

Book Just Like Magic

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  • Author : Stephen Robert Sutton
  • Publisher : AuthorHouse
  • Release : 2019-02-28
  • ISBN : 172838463X
  • Pages : 82 pages

Download or read book Just Like Magic written by Stephen Robert Sutton and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just Like Magic is an adventure in a magical world where the main characters get to fight evil and bring back the good that was lost in this fantasy land.

Book Musical News

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1910
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 688 pages

Download or read book Musical News written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book I Am Harmony

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  • Author : Radhe Shyam
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2006-06
  • ISBN : 9780962642111
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book I Am Harmony written by Radhe Shyam and published by . This book was released on 2006-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story of Radhe Shyam's and other individuals' experiences of meeting with the great Himalayan Master, Haidakhan Babaji, also known as Maha Avatar Babaji. Throughout the 416 pages, the reader will come to learn some of the history of this timeless Master, His teachings, and His predictions. Also included are stories of people that He touched with His love, of people He healed, and of lives He transformed. The book contains 16 beautiful color photographs of Babaji along with many black and white photos. This book is intended for every serious seeker on the spiritual path.

Book The Geography of Contemporary China

Download or read book The Geography of Contemporary China written by Jing’ai Wang and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-06-28 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook provides a comprehensive and very detailed insight into Chinese Contemporary Geography in English. It documents the geographical issues associated with China's rapid growth. Since initiating the reforms and open policy, China has achieved tremendous success. China's rapid growth is now a driving force in the global economy and is achieving unprecedented rates of poverty reduction. However, China also faces a number of sustainability and emerging challenges associated with rapid growth such as growing regional disparities in terms of per capita income and social-economic development, sustainable resource development, and issues related to regional and global economic integration. In addition, rapid economic growth has also brought about major challenges such as resource shortages, ecological and environmental destruction, land degradation and frequent disasters. This book presents the authors’ reflections. This lavishly illustrated book covers physical geography, history, and economic and political systems of the world's most populous country. The major focus is on geographical issues in China's contemporary development: agriculture, population, urbanization, resource and energy, and environment. The lead author of the book has taught relevant courses in China for three decades, and authored and edited multiple textbooks for Chinese students. This book will appeal to undergraduate students of geography and related disciplines with a regional focus on China and to the general reader who wants to learn different geographical aspects of modern China with little academic background in geography.

Book Welcome to Harmony

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  • Author : Jodi Thomas
  • Publisher : Berkley
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 9780425235102
  • Pages : 373 pages

Download or read book Welcome to Harmony written by Jodi Thomas and published by Berkley. This book was released on 2010 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teenage runaway Reagan, who longs for a home to call her own, arrives in Harmony, Texas, pretending to be the granddaughter of late resident Beverly Truman, and finds friendship and family in the home of Beverly's brother.