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ISBN: 9780415015189 - Partial Visions Partial Visions
Bammer, Angelika

ISBN10: 9780203169148  ISBN13: 9780203169148
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Routledge
Format: Electronic Book
Positing that a radical utopianism is one of the most vital impulses of feminist politics, Partial Visions traces the articulation of this impulse in the work of Euro-American, French and German women writers of the 1970s. It argues that this... More

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ISBN: 9780415880428 - Violence, Visual Culture, and the Black Male Body Violence, Visual Culture, and the Black Male Body
Jackson, Cassandra

ISBN10: 9780203842782  ISBN13: 9780203842782
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Routledge
Format: Electronic Book
From early photographs of disfigured slaves to contemporary representations of bullet-riddled rappers, images of wounded black men have long permeated American culture. While scholars have fittingly focused on the ever-present figure of the... More

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ISBN: 9780195304084 - Reparations Pro and Con Reparations Pro and Con
L, BROPHY ALFRED

ISBN10: 9780198041344  ISBN13: 9780198041344
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Electronic Book
In this short, definitive work, Alfred L. Brophy, an expert on racial violence, regards the debate over reparations from the 1700s to the present, examining the arguments on both sides of the current debate. Brophy tells the story of the black... More

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ISBN: 9780415075381 - Different Places, Different Voices Different Places, Different Voices
Kinnaird, Vivian; Momsen, Janet

ISBN10: 9780203033029  ISBN13: 9780203033029
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Routledge
Format: Electronic Book
Different Places, Different Voices challenges Western feminist and post-colonial approaches in its analysis of the changing lives of women of Asia, Africa, Latin America and Oceania. Recognising the significance of place, this is a book informed... More

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ISBN: 9780674049222 - What Was African American Literature? What Was African American Literature?
Warren, Kenneth W

ISBN10: 9780674059566  ISBN13: 9780674059566
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Format: Electronic Book
Warren argues, quite bluntly, that "e;African American literature"e; has outlived its relevance as the dominant category for poetry, fiction, and plays written by African Americans. Contradicting an influential portion of the field... More

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ISBN: 9780195181388 - Hidden Cost of Being African American How Wealth Perpetuates Inequality Hidden Cost of Being African American How Wealth Perpetuates Inequality
M, SHAPIRO THOMAS

ISBN10: 9780198034544  ISBN13: 9780198034544
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Electronic Book
Shapiro argues that what separates the races is not industriousness or a culture of poverty but rather the presence of absence of financial safety nets, particularly those that come in the form of parental financial support and inheritance. More

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ISBN: 9780415996785 - Black Women, Cultural Images and Social Policy Black Women, Cultural Images and Social Policy
Jordan-Zachery, Julia S

ISBN10: 9780203883167  ISBN13: 9780203883167
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Routledge
Format: Electronic Book
Black Women, Cultural Images and Social Policy offers a critical analysis of the policy-making process. Jordan-Zachery demonstrates how social meanings surrounding the discourses on crime, welfare and family policies produce and reproduce... More

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ISBN: 9780300121995 - Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance
Bernard, Emily

ISBN10: 9780300183290  ISBN13: 9780300183290
Publisher: Yale University Press
Format: Electronic Book
Carl Van Vechten was a white man with a passion for blackness who played a crucial role in helping the Harlem Renaissance, a black movement, come to understand itself. Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance is grounded in the dramas... More

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ISBN: 9780571246274 - Equality Illusion Equality Illusion
Banyard, Kat

ISBN10: 9780571258666  ISBN13: 9780571258666
Publisher: Faber and Faber Faber and Faber Non Fiction
Format: Electronic Book
"e;"e;Whoever says that prostitution is just ordinary work has never walked even a minute in my shoes, or any other girl that I know. Prostitution is actually a trap that most women believe for far too long."e;"e; Rebecca Saffer... More

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ISBN: 9780415945196 - Black in Blue Black in Blue
Bolton, Kenneth; Feagin, Joe

ISBN10: 9780203491355  ISBN13: 9780203491355
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Routledge
Format: Electronic Book
From New York to Los Angeles, police departments across the country are consistently accused of racism. Although historically white police precincts have been slowly integrating over the past few decades, African-American officers still encounter... More