Frederick Douglass: Civil Rights Leader: Band 16/Sapphire (Collins Big Cat)
Frederick Douglass: Civil Rights Leader: Band 16/Sapphire (Collins Big Cat)

Author: Amanda Mitchison

Publisher: Collins Educational

Published: 2013-01-14

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780007465491

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Antislavery campaigner, author, diplomat and political statesmen, Frederick Douglass was one of the greatest men of his age. A former slave himself, Frederick fought publicly against slavery and was an inspiration in the fight for social and political change. Written by Amanda Mitchison, find out about this life-long battle to fight for equality. * Sapphire/Band 16 books offer longer reads to develop children's sustained engagement with texts and are more complex syntactically. * Text type: A biography * Curriculum links: History, Citizenship

Shark Girl
Shark Girl

Author: Kelly Bingham

Publisher: Candlewick Press

Published: 2011-04-26

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 0763654477

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A teenager struggles through physical loss to the start of acceptance in an absorbing, artful novel at once honest and insightful, wrenching and redemptive. (Age 12 and up) On a sunny day in June, at the beach with her mom and brother, fifteen-year-old Jane Arrowood went for a swim. And then everything -- absolutely everything -- changed. Now she’s counting down the days until she returns to school with her fake arm, where she knows kids will whisper, "That’s her -- that’s Shark Girl," as she passes. In the meantime there are only questions: Why did this happen? Why her? What about her art? What about her life? In this striking first novel, Kelly Bingham uses poems, letters, telephone conversations, and newspaper clippings to look unflinchingly at what it’s like to lose part of yourself - and to summon the courage it takes to find yourself again.

Miles
Miles

Author: Miles Davis

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 1990-09-15

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 0671725823

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Miles discusses his life and music from playing trumpet in high school to the new instruments and sounds from the Caribbean.

Habeas Viscus
Habeas Viscus

Author: Alexander Ghedi Weheliye

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2014-08-20

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 0822376490

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Habeas Viscus focuses attention on the centrality of race to notions of the human. Alexander G. Weheliye develops a theory of "racializing assemblages," taking race as a set of sociopolitical processes that discipline humanity into full humans, not-quite-humans, and nonhumans. This disciplining, while not biological per se, frequently depends on anchoring political hierarchies in human flesh. The work of the black feminist scholars Hortense Spillers and Sylvia Wynter is vital to Weheliye's argument. Particularly significant are their contributions to the intellectual project of black studies vis-à-vis racialization and the category of the human in western modernity. Wynter and Spillers configure black studies as an endeavor to disrupt the governing conception of humanity as synonymous with white, western man. Weheliye posits black feminist theories of modern humanity as useful correctives to the "bare life and biopolitics discourse" exemplified by the works of Giorgio Agamben and Michel Foucault, which, Weheliye contends, vastly underestimate the conceptual and political significance of race in constructions of the human. Habeas Viscus reveals the pressing need to make the insights of black studies and black feminism foundational to the study of modern humanity.

Neo-slave Narratives
Neo-slave Narratives

Author: Ashraf H. A. Rushdy

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 0195125339

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After discerning the social and historical factors surrounding its first appearance in the 1960s, Neo-Slave Narratives explores the complex relationship between nostalgia and critique, while asking how African American intellectuals at different points between 1976 and 1990 remember and use the site of slavery to represent cultural debates that arose during the sixties."--BOOK JACKET.

The American Family
The American Family

Author: David Peterson del Mar

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2011-11-07

Total Pages: 395

ISBN-13: 0230339662

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Traces the movement from mutualism to individualism in the context of American family life. Families survived or even flourished during colonization, Revolution, slavery, immigration and economic upheaval. In the past century, prosperity created a culture devoted to pleasure and individual fulfilment.

The Black Studies Reader
The Black Studies Reader

Author: Jacqueline Bobo

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-05-15

Total Pages: 501

ISBN-13: 1135942579

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First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Pursuing Intersectionality, Unsettling Dominant Imaginaries
Pursuing Intersectionality, Unsettling Dominant Imaginaries

Author: Vivian M. May

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-01-09

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 1136497544

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Pursuing Intersectionality, Unsettling Dominant Imaginaries offers a sustained, interdisciplinary exploration of intersectional ideas, histories, and practices that no other text does. Deftly synthesizing much of the existing literatures on intersectionality, one of the most significant theoretical and political precepts of our time, May invites us to confront a disconcerting problem: though intersectionality is widely known, acclaimed, and applied, it is often construed in ways that depoliticize, undercut, or even violate its most basic premises. May cogently demonstrates how intersectionality has been repeatedly resisted, misunderstood, and misapplied: provocatively, she shows the degree to which intersectionality is often undone or undermined by supporters and critics alike. A clarion call to engage intersectionality’s radical ideas, histories, and justice orientations more meaningfully, Pursuing Intersectionality answers the basic questions surrounding intersectionality, attends to its historical roots in Black feminist theory and politics, and offers insights and strategies from across the disciplines for bracketing dominant logics and for orienting toward intersectional dispositions and practices.

Sapphire’s Literary Breakthrough
Sapphire’s Literary Breakthrough

Author: Neal A. Lester

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2012-12-05

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1137330864

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The first collection focused on the writing of provocative author and performance artist Sapphire, including her groundbreaking novel PUSH that has since become the Academy-award-winning film Precious.