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Soul City
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Author : Thomas Healy
language : en
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Release Date : 2021-02-02
Soul City written by Thomas Healy and has been published by Metropolitan Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-02 with Political Science categories.
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice The fascinating, forgotten story of the 1970s attempt to build a city dedicated to racial equality in the heart of “Klan Country” In 1969, with America’s cities in turmoil and racial tensions high, civil rights leader Floyd McKissick announced an audacious plan: he would build a new city in rural North Carolina, open to all but intended primarily to benefit Black people. Named Soul City, the community secured funding from the Nixon administration, planning help from Harvard and the University of North Carolina, and endorsements from the New York Times and the Today show. Before long, the brand-new settlement – built on a former slave plantation – had roads, houses, a health care center, and an industrial plant. By the year 2000, projections said, Soul City would have fifty thousand residents. But the utopian vision was not to be. The race-baiting Jesse Helms, newly elected as senator from North Carolina, swore to stop government spending on the project. Meanwhile, the liberal Raleigh News & Observer mistakenly claimed fraud and corruption in the construction effort. Battered from the left and the right, Soul City was shut down after just a decade. Today, it is a ghost town – and its industrial plant, erected to promote Black economic freedom, has been converted into a prison. In a gripping, poignant narrative, acclaimed author Thomas Healy resurrects this forgotten saga of race, capitalism, and the struggle for equality. Was it an impossible dream from the beginning? Or a brilliant idea thwarted by prejudice and ignorance? And how might America be different today if Soul City had been allowed to succeed?
Soul City
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Author : Touré
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2007-09-03
Soul City written by Touré and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-09-03 with Fiction categories.
From the wildly popular author of the groundbreaking debut The Portable Promised Land comes an inventive and hilarious first novel about an African-American utopia threatened by the darker side of human nature. Welcome to Soul City, where roses bloom in the cracks of the sidewalk along Cornbread Boulevard, musical genres become political platforms, and children use their allowance money to buy records from the Vinyl Man. Its an unusually peaceful and magical American community with a strong heritage and sense of unity -- at least, thats how journalist Cadillac Jackson first finds it. When Jackson visits Soul City on a magazine assignment, a mayoral election is imminent and candidates from opposing parties are battling to control the citys soundtrack. Amidst the increasingly hostile campaign, Cadillac falls for Mahogany Sunflower, a beautiful Soul Cityzen, and begins a struggle to shed the embattled African-American identity hes been taught to adopt, in order to exist in a community where the content of his character really does determine a black mans identity. What he discovers reveals as much about himself as it does about human nature and the meaning of race in America.
Soul City
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Author : Touré
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Soul City written by Touré and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with FICTION categories.
Novel about an African-American utopia threatened by the darker side of human nature.
Soul City
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
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The Economic Civil Rights Movement
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Author : Michael Ezra
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-04-17
The Economic Civil Rights Movement written by Michael Ezra and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-17 with History categories.
Economic inequalities have been perhaps the most enduring problem facing African Americans since the civil rights movement, despite the attention they have received from activists. Although the civil rights movement dealt successfully with injustices like disenfranchisement and segregated public accommodations, economic disparities between blacks and whites remain sharp, and the wealth gap between the two groups has widened in the twenty-first century. The Economic Civil Rights Movement is a collection of thirteen original essays that analyze the significance of economic power to the black freedom struggle by exploring how African Americans fought for increased economic autonomy in an attempt to improve the quality of their lives. It covers a wide range of campaigns ranging from the World War II era through the civil rights and black power movements and beyond. The unfinished business of the civil rights movement primarily is economic. This book turns backward toward history to examine the ways African Americans have engaged this continuing challenge.
The Sage Encyclopedia Of African Cultural Heritage In North America
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Author : Mwalimu J. Shujaa
language : en
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Release Date : 2015-07-13
The Sage Encyclopedia Of African Cultural Heritage In North America written by Mwalimu J. Shujaa and has been published by SAGE Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-13 with Social Science categories.
The Encyclopedia of African Cultural Heritage in North America provides an accessible ready reference on the retention and continuity of African culture within the United States. Our conceptual framework holds, first, that culture is a form of self-knowledge and knowledge about self in the world as transmitted from one person to another. Second, that African people continuously create their own cultural history as they move through time and space. Third, that African descended people living outside of Africa are also contributors to and participate in the creation of African cultural history. Entries focus on illuminating Africanisms (cultural retentions traceable to an African origin) and cultural continuities (ongoing practices and processes through which African culture continues to be created and formed). Thus, the focus is more culturally specific and less concerned with the broader transatlantic demographic, political and geographic issues that are the focus of similar recent reference works. We also focus less on biographies of individuals and political and economic ties and more on processes and manifestations of African cultural heritage and continuity. FEATURES: A two-volume A-to-Z work, available in a choice of print or electronic formats 350 signed entries, each concluding with Cross-references and Further Readings 150 figures and photos Front matter consisting of an Introduction and a Reader’s Guide organizing entries thematically to more easily guide users to related entries Signed articles concluding with cross-references
The Business Of Marketing Entrepreneurship And Architecture Of Communal Societies In The 1960s And 1970s
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Author : Rahima Schwenkbeck
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-11-13
The Business Of Marketing Entrepreneurship And Architecture Of Communal Societies In The 1960s And 1970s written by Rahima Schwenkbeck and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-13 with History categories.
This book provides an in-depth history of three US-based communal societies that operated in the late 1960s and 1970s—Soul City, Stelle and Twin Oaks—with an emphasis on their financing, marketing, and entrepreneurship processes. These communities reflect the diversity of people who were dissatisfied with the direction in which American society was heading—often underpinned by concerns over racism, sexism, the environment, and capitalism—and decided to take the radical step of joining a communal society. A moral economy approach offers a lens on how these communities were prevented from fully realizing their visions due to the confines of capitalism, as embedded in banking practices, zoning laws, and systemic racism.
The New Black History
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Author : E. Hinton
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-04-30
The New Black History written by E. Hinton and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-30 with History categories.
The New Black History anthology presents cutting-edge scholarship on key issues that define African American politics, life, and culture, especially during the Civil Rights and Black Power eras. The volume includes articles by both established scholars and a rising generation of young scholars.
Invisible Cities And The Urban Imagination
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Author : Benjamin Linder
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-11-08
Invisible Cities And The Urban Imagination written by Benjamin Linder and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
In 1972, Italo Calvino published Invisible Cities, a literary book that masterfully combines philosophy and poetry, rigid structure and free play, theoretical insight and glittering prose. The text is an extended meditation on urban life, and it continues to resonate not only among literary scholars, but among social scientists, architects, and urban planners as well. To commemorate the 50th anniversary of Invisible Cities, this collection of essays serves as both an appreciation and a critical engagement. Drawing from a wide array of disciplinary perspectives and geographical contexts, this volume grapples with the theoretical, pedagogical, and political legacies of Calvino’s work. Each chapter approaches Invisible Cities not only as a novel but as a work of evocative ethnography, place-writing, and urban theory. Fifty years on, what can Calvino’s dreamlike text offer to scholars and practitioners interested in actually existing urban life?
Compilation Of The Housing And Community Development Amendments
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
Compilation Of The Housing And Community Development Amendments written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Community development categories.