Many Black Women Of This Fortress
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Many Black Women Of This Fortress
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Author : Kwasi Konadu
language : en
Publisher: Hurst Publishers
Release Date : 2022-07-28
Many Black Women Of This Fortress written by Kwasi Konadu and has been published by Hurst Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-28 with History categories.
This book presents rare evidence about the lives of three African women in the sixteenth century—the very period from which we can trace the origins of global empires, slavery, capitalism, modern religious dogma and anti-Black violence. These features of today’s world took shape as Portugal built a global empire on African gold and bodies. Forced labour was essential to the world economy of the Atlantic basin, and afflicted many African women and girls who were enslaved and manumitted, baptised and unconvinced. While some women liaised with European and mixed-race men along the West African coast, others, ordinary yet bold, pushed back against new forms of captivity, racial capitalism, religious orthodoxy and sexual violence, as if they were already self-governing. Many Black Women of this Fortress lays bare the insurgent ideas and actions of Graça, Mónica and Adwoa, charting how they advocated for themselves and exercised spiritual and female power. Theirs is a collective story, written from obscurity; from the forgotten and overlooked colonial records. By drawing attention to their lives, we dare to grasp the complexities of modernity’s gestation.
Covid And Custom In Rural South Africa
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Author : Leslie Bank
language : en
Publisher: Hurst Publishers
Release Date : 2022-06-09
Covid And Custom In Rural South Africa written by Leslie Bank and has been published by Hurst Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-09 with Medical categories.
This book explores the impact of Covid-19, and the associated state lockdown, on rural lives in a former homeland in South Africa. The 2020 Disaster Management Act saw the state sweep through rural areas, targeting funerals and other customary practices as potential ‘super-spreader’ events. This unprecedented clampdown produced widespread disruption, fear and anxiety. The authors build on path-breaking work concerning local responses to West Africa’s Ebola epidemic, and examine the HIV/AIDS pandemic, to understand the impact of the Covid crisis on these communities, and on rural Africa more broadly. To shed light on the role of custom and ritual in rural social change during the pandemic, Covid and Custom in Rural South Africa applies long-term historical and ethnographic research; theories of people’s science, local knowledge and the human economy; and fieldwork conducted in ten rural South African communities during lockdown. The volume highlights differences between developments in Southern Africa and elsewhere on the continent, while exploring how the former apartheid homelands–commonly, yet problematically, represented as former ‘labour reserves’–have since been reconstituted as new home-spaces. In short, it explains why rural people have been so angered by the state’s assault on their cultural practices and institutions in the time of Covid.
Confronting The Fortress Black And Migrant Women In The European Community
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Author : Emma Franks
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
Confronting The Fortress Black And Migrant Women In The European Community written by Emma Franks and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with categories.
Fort Mose
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Author : Kathleen A. Deagan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Fort Mose written by Kathleen A. Deagan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with History categories.
In 1738, when more than 100 African fugitives had arrived, the Spanish established the fort and town of Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose, the first legally sanctioned free black community in what is now the United States. This book tells the story of Fort Mose and the people who lived there. It challenges the notion of the American black experience as simply that of slavery, offering instead a rich and balanced view of the African-American experience in the Spanish colonies from the arrival of Columbus to the American Revolution.
Our Own Way In This Part Of The World
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Author : Kwasi Konadu
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2019-04-15
Our Own Way In This Part Of The World written by Kwasi Konadu and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-15 with History categories.
Kofi Dᴐnkᴐ was a blacksmith and farmer, as well as an important healer, intellectual, spiritual leader, settler of disputes, and custodian of shared values for his Ghanaian community. In Our Own Way in This Part of the World Kwasi Konadu centers Dᴐnkᴐ's life story and experiences in a communography of Dᴐnkᴐ's community and nation from the late nineteenth century through the end of the twentieth, which were shaped by historical forces from colonial Ghana's cocoa boom to decolonization and political and religious parochialism. Although Dᴐnkᴐ touched the lives of thousands of citizens and patients, neither he nor they appear in national or international archives covering the region. Yet his memory persists in his intellectual and healing legacy, and the story of his community offers a non-national, decolonized example of social organization structured around spiritual forces that serves as a powerful reminder of the importance for scholars to take their cues from the lived experiences and ideas of the people they study.
Witnessing And Testifying
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Author : Rosetta E. Ross
language : en
Publisher: Fortress Press
Release Date : 2003-01-01
Witnessing And Testifying written by Rosetta E. Ross and has been published by Fortress Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-01-01 with History categories.
The Civil Rights Movement was not only an epochal social and political event but also a profound moral turning point in American history. Here, for the first time, social ethicist Ross examines the religiously motivated activism of black women in the movement and its moral import.
Pandemic India
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Author : David Arnold
language : en
Publisher: Hurst Publishers
Release Date : 2022-05-24
Pandemic India written by David Arnold and has been published by Hurst Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-24 with History categories.
Covid-19 has given renewed, urgent attention to ‘the pandemic’ as a devastating, recurrent global phenomenon. Today the term is freely and widely used—but in reality, it has a long and contested history, centred on South Asia. Pandemic India is an innovative enquiry into the emergence of the idea and changing meaning of pandemics, exploring the pivotal role played by—or assigned to—India over the past 200 years. Using the perspectives of the social historian and the historian of medicine, and a wide range of sources, it explains how and why past pandemics were so closely identified with South Asia; the factors behind outbreaks’ exceptional destructiveness in India; responses from society and the state, both during and since the colonial era; and how such collective catastrophes have changed lives and been remembered. Giving a ‘long history’ to India’s current pandemic, the book offers comparisons with earlier epidemics of cholera, plague and influenza. David Arnold assesses the distinctive characteristics and legacies of each episode, tracking the evolution of public health strategies and containment measures. This is a historian’s reflection on time as seen through the pandemic prism, and on the ways the past is used—or misused—to serve the present.
Confronting The Fortress
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Confronting The Fortress written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with categories.
Fortress America
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Author : Elaine Tyler May
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2017-12-12
Fortress America written by Elaine Tyler May and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-12 with History categories.
An award-winning historian argues that America's obsession with security imperils our democracy in this "compelling" portrait of cultural anxiety (Mary L. Dudziak, author of War Time). For the last sixty years, fear has seeped into every area of American life: Americans own more guns than citizens of any other country, sequester themselves in gated communities, and retreat from public spaces. And yet, crime rates have plummeted, making life in America safer than ever. Why, then, are Americans so afraid-and where does this fear lead to? In this remarkable work of social history, Elaine Tyler May demonstrates how our obsession with security has made citizens fear each other and distrust the government, making America less safe and less democratic. Fortress America charts the rise of a muscular national culture, undercutting the common good. Instead of a thriving democracy of engaged citizens, we have become a paranoid, bunkered, militarized, and divided vigilante nation.
Unbossed
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Author : Khristi Lauren Adams
language : en
Publisher: Broadleaf Books
Release Date : 2022-03-08
Unbossed written by Khristi Lauren Adams and has been published by Broadleaf Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-08 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Black girls are leading, organizing, advocating, and creating. They are starting nonprofits. Building political coalitions. Promoting diverse literature. Fighting cancer. Improving water quality. Working to prevent gun violence. Are we ready to learn from their leadership? "Black women are literally at the helm of every movement," says Tyah-Amoy Roberts, an activist and a survivor of the Parkland, Florida, school shooting. "Every push for social justice. Every push for social change. We need to take our stories into our own hands." In Unbossed, they do. From Khristi Lauren Adams, author of the celebrated Parable of the Brown Girl, comes Unbossed, a hopeful and riveting inquiry into the lives of eight young Black women who are agitating for change and imagining a better world. Offering practical lessons in leadership, resilience, empathy, and tenacity from a group of young leaders of color who are often neglected, Unbossed includes profiles of Jaychele Nicole Schenck, Ssanyu Lukoma, Tyah-Amoy Roberts, Grace Callwood, Hannah Lucas, Amara Ifeji, Stephanie Younger, and Kynnedy Smith. These are the young Black women we will be reading about decades from now. Like their foremothers in earlier freedom movements, Black girls are transformational leaders. They are pacesetters, strategic thinkers, visionaries, mobilizers, activists, and more. Their stories may often be overlooked. But Black girls are leading the way.