Author : Robert L. Lattimer
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 49,14 MB
Release : 2021-05-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1662418337
This is a brilliant and provocative work, and Robert L. Lattimer has captured the essence of our current time for constructive protest based on our nation's principles of liberty, freedom, opportunity, and achievement for all Americans, that the promise of American diversity means that if Black lives don't matter, no lives do. In this book, Lattimer has truly presented the Soul of America. Ann Lee-Jeffs The Sustainability Collaborative
Author : Niall Stanage
Publisher : Liberties Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 46,79 MB
Release : 2014-06-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1909718807
In little more than four years, Barack Obama rose from political obscurity to become the 44th president of the United States. His election win in November 2008 was a moment of enormous historical magnitude, greeted with an outpouring of emotion in the US and around the world. However, on taking office, Obama was faced with unparalleled challenges as the global economy plunged ever-deeper into crisis and the US struggled with the two wars in which it was enmeshed.In Redemption Song, Niall Stanage tells the extraordinary tale of Obama's journey from community organiser in Chicago to leader of the free world through exclusive interviews with some of the new president's oldest friends and closest advisors. He explores the then-senator's long and acrimonious tussle with Hillary Clinton, sheds new light on his battle with John McCain and running mate Sarah Palin, and hears from the members of the grassroots movement that carried Obama all the way to the Oval Office.He also provides an intimate account of the first phase of the Obama presidency, reporting from within the White House walls on the new Administration's first tests, triumphs and tribulations.
Author : Ellis Cashmore
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 601 pages
File Size : 21,81 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0415552206
This book looks at sport not just as recreation, but as an integral part of contemporary culture, with connections to industry, commerce and politics. It explores the history and theories of sport, and touches on more controversial issues.
Author : S. W. Pope
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 14,6 MB
Release : 2009-12-17
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1135978131
Presents comprehensive guidance to the international field of sports history as it has developed as an academic area of study. This book guides readers through the development of the field across a range of thematic and geographical contexts. It is suitable for researchers and students in, and entering, the sports history field.
Author : Shira Wolosky
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 34,4 MB
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ISBN : 3031401069
Author : Mike Marqusee
Publisher : Verso
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 15,89 MB
Release : 2005-07-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781844675272
New edition: A new afterword considers Ali and his legacy in light of the war on terror and new connotations of Islam and the West.
Author : George M. Shulman
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 34,28 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0816630747
Prophecy is the fundamental idiom of American politics--a biblical rhetoric about redeeming the crimes, suffering, and promise of a special people. Yet American prophecy and its great practitioners--from Frederick Douglass and Henry Thoreau to Martin Luther King, James Baldwin, and Toni Morrison--are rarely addressed, let alone analyzed, by political theorists. This paradox is at the heart of American Prophecy, a work in which George Shulman unpacks and critiques the political meaning of American prophetic rhetoric. In the face of religious fundamentalisms that associate prophecy and redemption with dogmatism and domination, American Prophecy finds connections between prophetic language and democratic politics, particularly racial politics. Exploring how American critics of white supremacy have repeatedly reworked biblical prophecy, Shulman demonstrates how these writers and thinkers have transformed prophecy into a political language and given redemption a political meaning. To examine how antiracism is linked to prophecy as a vernacular idiom is to rethink political theology, recast democratic theory, and reassess the bearing of religion on American political culture. Still, prophetic language is not always liberatory, and American Prophecy maintains a critical dispassion about a rhetoric that is both prevalent and problematic.
Author : Joshua Jelly-Schapiro
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 581 pages
File Size : 26,55 MB
Release : 2016-11-22
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0385349777
A masterwork of travel literature and of history: voyaging from Cuba to Jamaica, Puerto Rico to Trinidad, Haiti to Barbados, and islands in between, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of each society, its culture and politics, connecting this region’s common heritage to its fierce grip on the world’s imagination. From the moment Columbus gazed out from the Santa María's deck in 1492 at what he mistook for an island off Asia, the Caribbean has been subjected to the misunderstandings and fantasies of outsiders. Running roughshod over the place, they have viewed these islands and their inhabitants as exotic allure to be consumed or conquered. The Caribbean stood at the center of the transatlantic slave trade for more than three hundred years, with societies shaped by mass migrations and forced labor. But its people, scattered across a vast archipelago and separated by the languages of their colonizers, have nonetheless together helped make the modern world—its politics, religion, economics, music, and culture. Jelly-Schapiro gives a sweeping account of how these islands’ inhabitants have searched and fought for better lives. With wit and erudition, he chronicles this “place where globalization began,” and introduces us to its forty million people who continue to decisively shape our world.
Author : Charles Patrick Pierce
Publisher : Mariner Books
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 46,12 MB
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 1328507858
Presents an anthology of the best sports writing published in the previous year, selected from American magazines and newspapers.
Author : Omari L. Dyson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1081 pages
File Size : 41,87 MB
Release : 2020-07-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Covering everything from sports to art, religion, music, and entrepreneurship, this book documents the vast array of African American cultural expressions and discusses their impact on the culture of the United States. According to the latest census data, less than 13 percent of the U.S. population identifies as African American; African Americans are still very much a minority group. Yet African American cultural expression and strong influences from African American culture are common across mainstream American culture—in music, the arts, and entertainment; in education and religion; in sports; and in politics and business. African American Culture: An Encyclopedia of People, Traditions, and Customs covers virtually every aspect of African American cultural expression, addressing subject matter that ranges from how African culture was preserved during slavery hundreds of years ago to the richness and complexity of African American culture in the post-Obama era. The most comprehensive reference work on African American culture to date, the multivolume set covers such topics as black contributions to literature and the arts, music and entertainment, religion, and professional sports. It also provides coverage of less-commonly addressed subjects, such as African American fashion practices and beauty culture, the development of jazz music across different eras, and African American business.
