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Un Becoming Black
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Author : Patricia Kaye Grizzle Huling
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007-08-28
Un Becoming Black written by Patricia Kaye Grizzle Huling and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-08-28 with categories.
Here in the United States, hierarchical racial ideologies serve as impediments to understanding the significance of cultural similarities and differences. Cultural and racial paradigms use faulty reasoning which encourage stereotyping, isolation and economic disenfranchisement. Moreover, rather than encouraging the recognition of cultural diversity, American racial-ethnic categories obscure the real selfidentity of individuals. Throughout history, Africans in the Americas have experienced assimilation, acculturation and marginalization differently. However, they are all pigeonholed by Western ideologies based upon: their depiction in popular culture, their representation in literature, and their role and portrayal in the history of the United States of America. Too often, the racial label �Black� discounts cultural variances and obscures the fact that, among people with African ancestry, there are distinguishing regional variations and diverse histories. While most texts present a common history of African Americans, few discuss the intricate processes by which Black cultural traits are assigned, maintained or negated.
Becoming Unbecoming
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Author : Una
language : en
Publisher: Myriad Editions
Release Date : 2015-09-20
Becoming Unbecoming written by Una and has been published by Myriad Editions this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-20 with Comics & Graphic Novels categories.
A devastating personal account of gender violence told in graphic-novel form, set against the backdrop of the 1970s Yorkshire Ripper man-hunt. It's 1977 and Una is twelve. A serial murderer is at large in West Yorkshire and the police are struggling to solve the case – despite spending more than two million man-hours hunting the killer and interviewing the man himself no less than nine times. As this national news story unfolds around her, Una finds herself on the receiving end of a series of violent acts for which she feels she is to blame. Through image and text Becoming Unbecoming explores what it means to grow up in a culture where male violence goes unpunished and unquestioned. With the benefit of hindsight Una explores her experience, wonders if anything has really changed and challenges a global culture that demands that the victims of violence pay its cost.
Black Women Identity And Cultural Theory
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Author : Kevin Everod Quashie
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2004
Black Women Identity And Cultural Theory written by Kevin Everod Quashie and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.
Ultimately moves beyond these to propose a new cultural aesthetic that aims to center black women and their philosophies. Book jacket.
Unbecoming Blackness
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Author : Antonio Lopez
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2012-11-26
Unbecoming Blackness written by Antonio Lopez and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-26 with Social Science categories.
2014 Runner-Up, MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies In Unbecoming Blackness, Antonio López uncovers an important, otherwise unrecognized century-long archive of literature and performance that reveals Cuban America as a space of overlapping Cuban and African diasporic experiences. López shows how Afro-Cuban writers and performers in theU.S. align Cuban black and mulatto identities, often subsumed in the mixed-race and postracial Cuban national imaginaries, with the material and symbolic blackness of African Americans and other Afro-Latinas/os. In the works of Alberto O’Farrill, Eusebia Cosme, Rómulo Lachatañeré, and others, Afro-Cubanness articulates the African diasporic experience in ways that deprive negro and mulato configurations of an exclusive link with Cuban nationalism. Instead, what is invoked is an “unbecoming” relationship between Afro-Cubans in the U.S and their domestic black counterparts. The transformations in Cuban racial identity across the hemisphere, represented powerfully in the literary and performance cultures of Afro-Cubans in the U.S., provide the fullest account of a transnational Cuba, one in which the Cuban American emerges as Afro-Cuban-American, and the Latino as Afro-Latino.
Unbecoming Americans
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Author : Joseph Keith
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2013-01-10
Unbecoming Americans written by Joseph Keith and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
During the Cold War, Ellis Island no longer served as the largest port of entry for immigrants, but as a prison for holding aliens the state wished to deport. The government criminalized those it considered un-assimilable (from left-wing intellectuals and black radicals to racialized migrant laborers) through the denial, annulment, and curtailment of citizenship and its rights. The island, ceasing to represent the iconic ideal of immigrant America, came to symbolize its very limits. Unbecoming Americans sets out to recover the shadow narratives of un-American writers forged out of the racial and political limits of citizenship. In this collection of Afro-Caribbean, Filipino, and African American writers—C.L.R. James, Carlos Bulosan, Claudia Jones, and Richard Wright—Joseph Keith examines how they used their exclusion from the nation, a condition he terms “alienage,” as a standpoint from which to imagine alternative global solidarities and to interrogate the contradictions of the United States as a country, a republic, and an empire at the dawn of the "American Century.” Building on scholarship linking the forms of the novel to those of the nation, the book explores how these writers employed alternative aesthetic forms, including memoir, cultural criticism, and travel narrative, to contest prevailing notions of race, nation, and citizenship. Ultimately they produced a vital counter-discourse of freedom in opposition to the new formations of empire emerging in the years after World War II, forms that continue to shape our world today.
Unbecoming
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Author : Rebecca Scherm
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2015-01-22
Unbecoming written by Rebecca Scherm and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-22 with Fiction categories.
EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL “Startlingly inventive.” —The New York Times Book Review “A sheer delight to read . . . I had no idea what was going to happen from one page to the next.” —Kate Atkinson On the grubby outskirts of Paris, Grace restores bric-a-brac, mends teapots, re-sets gems. She calls herself Julie, says she’s from California, and slips back to a rented room at night. Regularly, furtively, she checks the hometown paper on the Internet. Home is Garland, Tennessee, and there, two young men have just been paroled. One, she married; the other, she’s in love with. Both were jailed for a crime that Grace herself planned in exacting detail. The heist went bad—but not before she was on a plane to Prague with a stolen canvas rolled in her bag. And so, in Paris, begins a cat-and-mouse waiting game as Grace’s web of deception and lies unravels—and she becomes another young woman entirely. Unbecoming is an intricately plotted and psychologically nuanced heist novel that turns on suspense and slippery identity. With echoes of Alfred Hitchcock and Patricia Highsmith, Rebecca Scherm’s mesmerizing debut is sure to entrance fans of Gillian Flynn, Marisha Pessl, and Donna Tartt.
Unbecoming
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Author : Anuradha Bhagwati
language : en
Publisher: Atria Books
Release Date : 2020-03-03
Unbecoming written by Anuradha Bhagwati and has been published by Atria Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Brimming “with the ebullient Bhagwati’s fierce humanism, seething humor, and change-maker righteousness,” (Shelf Awareness) a raw, unflinching memoir by a former US Marine Captain chronicling her journey from dutiful daughter of immigrants to radical activist fighting for historic policy reform. After a lifetime of buckling to the demands of her strict Indian parents, Anuradha Bhagwati abandons grad school in the Ivy League to join the Marines—the fiercest, most violent, most masculine branch of the military—determined to prove herself there in ways she couldn’t before. Yet once training begins, Anuradha’s GI Jane fantasy is punctured. As a bisexual woman of color in the military, she faces underestimation at every stage, confronting misogyny, racism, sexual violence, and astonishing injustice perpetrated by those in power. Pushing herself beyond her limits, she also wrestles with what drove her to pursue such punishment in the first place. Once her service concludes in 2004, Anuradha courageously vows to take to task the very leaders and traditions that cast such a dark cloud over her time in the Marines. Her efforts result in historic change, including the lifting of the ban on women from pursuing combat roles in the military. “Bhagwati’s fight is both incensing and inspiring” (Booklist) in this tale of heroic resilience and grapples with the timely question of what, exactly, America stands for, showing how one woman learned to believe in herself in spite of everything.
Unbecoming To Become
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Author : Ayanda Borotho
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
Unbecoming To Become written by Ayanda Borotho and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Actors categories.
"In this personal memoir; Ayanda tracks her journey back to self in a bid to return to her true self and to redefine her worth by challenging cultural conditioning, social stereotypes, family expectations and people's opinions of her. Ayanda shares intimate details of her most profound experiences as a young girl in the township in a toxic relationship with a high flying gangster: As a young woman falling pregnant out of wedlock and the ostracism she encountered. As a young black woman in a white male dominated corporate environment. As an artist who didn't quite fit into mainstream popularity and her battle to maintain her authenticity in an industry that recognises fake over real. As a loyal friend betrayed by someone she loved and trusted. As a mother overwhelmed by the expectations of being a supermom. As a young wife fighting not to lose herself in marriage. As well as finding God for herself against the stereotypes that define God for us."-- Back cover.
Unbecoming Blackness
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Author : Antonio Lopez
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2012-11-26
Unbecoming Blackness written by Antonio Lopez and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-26 with Social Science categories.
2014 Runner-Up, MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies In Unbecoming Blackness, Antonio López uncovers an important, otherwise unrecognized century-long archive of literature and performance that reveals Cuban America as a space of overlapping Cuban and African diasporic experiences. López shows how Afro-Cuban writers and performers in the U.S. align Cuban black and mulatto identities, often subsumed in the mixed-race and postracial Cuban national imaginaries, with the material and symbolic blackness of African Americans and other Afro-Latinas/os. In the works of Alberto O’Farrill, Eusebia Cosme, Rómulo Lachatañeré, and others, Afro-Cubanness articulates the African diasporic experience in ways that deprive negro and mulato configurations of an exclusive link with Cuban nationalism. Instead, what is invoked is an “unbecoming” relationship between Afro-Cubans in the U.S and their domestic black counterparts. The transformations in Cuban racial identity across the hemisphere, represented powerfully in the literary and performance cultures of Afro-Cubans in the U.S., provide the fullest account of a transnational Cuba, one in which the Cuban American emerges as Afro-Cuban-American, and the Latino as Afro-Latino.
Glenn Ligon
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Author : Glenn Ligon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Glenn Ligon written by Glenn Ligon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Art categories.
Text by Darby English, Wayne Baerwaldt, Huey Copeland, Mark Nash, Wayne Koestenbaum. Interview by Stephen Andrews.