Black Women's Global Activism during Jim Crow and Apartheid
Revered in South Africa as "An African American Mother of the Nation," Madie Beatrice Hall Xuma spent her extraordinary life immersed in global women's activism. Wanda A. Hendricks's biography follows Hall Xuma from her upbringing in the Jim Crow South to her leadership role in the African National Congress (ANC) and beyond. Hall Xuma was already ......
By drawing on the opposing ideas of Carl Jung and Karl Marx, James Driscoll's develops fresh perspectives on urgent contemporary problems. Jung and Marx as thinkers, Driscoll contends, carry the projections of archetypal complexes that go back to the hostile Old Testament brothers Cain and Abel, whose enduring tensions shape our postmodern era. ......
Manjits Wharf restaurant is a successful business story, but also a migrant story with its own challenges, opportunities, and setbacks. In Manjits and the Tandoor of Secrets, Michael Cain talks to all members of the Gujral family, revealing a tandoor of secrets.
Race and Identity in the Visual Culture of Santo Domingo
Dominican women being seen-and seeing themselves-in the media Rachel Afi Quinn investigates how visual media portray Dominican women and how women represent themselves in their own creative endeavors in response to existing stereotypes. Delving into the dynamic realities and uniquely racialized gendered experiences of women in Santo Domingo, Quinn ......
The haunting effects of crime, violence, and death in our history, memory, and media spaces From Abu Ghraib and Holocaust death camps to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and slave plantations, spaces where violent crimes have occurred can often become forever changed, or "haunted," in the public imagination. In this volume, Michael Fiddler, ......
White Supremacy and the Black Struggle for a New America
White publishers and editors used their newspapers to build, nurture, and protect white supremacy across the South in the decades after the Civil War. At the same time, a vibrant Black press fought to disrupt these efforts and force the United States to live up to its democratic ideals. Journalism and Jim Crow centers the press as a crucial ......
Hip Hop, Empire, and Visionary Filipino American Culture
An obscured vanguard in hip hop Filipino Americans have been innovators and collaborators in hip hop since the culture's early days. But despite the success of artists like Apl.de.Ap of the Black Eyed Peas and superstar producer Chad Hugo, the genre's significance in Filipino American communities is often overlooked. Mark R. Villegas considers ......
An Interdisciplinary and Intersectionality Approach
Delivers knowledge critical to understanding the multidimensional aspects of working with varied populations with disabilities. This is the only introduction to disability book with an interdisciplinary perspective that offers cross-disability and intersectionality coverage, as well as a special emphasis on many unique populations.
Strategies for Health and Human Service Professionals
Following in the tradition of its previous editions, the fully revised fifth edition of this classic guide to grant writing is written for health and human service professionals. It provides a systematic, and easy-to-follow guide to writing competitive grant proposals for research, education, innovative practices and demonstration projects.
