Water Tossing Boulders
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Water Tossing Boulders
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Author : Adrienne Berard
language : en
Publisher: Beacon Press
Release Date : 2017-09-12
Water Tossing Boulders written by Adrienne Berard and has been published by Beacon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-12 with Social Science categories.
A generation before Brown v. Board of Education struck down America’s “separate but equal” doctrine, one Chinese family and an eccentric Mississippi lawyer fought for desegregation in one of the greatest legal battles never told On September 15, 1924, Martha Lum and her older sister Berda were barred from attending middle school in Rosedale, Mississippi. The girls were Chinese American and considered by the school to be “colored”; the school was for whites. This event would lead to the first US Supreme Court case to challenge the constitutionality of racial segregation in Southern public schools, an astonishing thirty years before the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision. Unearthing one of the greatest stories never told, journalist Adrienne Berard recounts how three unlikely heroes sought to shape a new South. A poor immigrant from southern China, Jeu Gong Lum came to America with the hope of a better future for his family. Unassuming yet boldly determined, his daughter Martha would inhabit that future and become the face of the fight to integrate schools. Earl Brewer, their lawyer and staunch ally, was once a millionaire and governor of Mississippi. When he took the family’s case, Brewer was both bankrupt and a political pariah—a man with nothing left to lose. By confronting the “separate but equal” doctrine, the Lum family fought for the right to educate Chinese Americans in the white schools of the Jim Crow South. Using their groundbreaking lawsuit as a compass, Berard depicts the complicated condition of racial otherness in rural Southern society. In a sweeping narrative that is both epic and intimate, Water Tossing Boulders evokes a time and place previously defined by black and white, a time and place that, until now, has never been viewed through the eyes of a forgotten third race. In vivid prose, the Mississippi Delta, an empire of cotton and a bastion of slavery, is reimagined to reveal the experiences of a lost immigrant community. Through extensive research in historical documents and family correspondence, Berard illuminates a vital, forgotten chapter of America’s past and uncovers the powerful journey of an oppressed people in their struggle for equality.
Integrations
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Author : Lawrence Blum
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2021-05-12
Integrations written by Lawrence Blum and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-12 with Education categories.
"Education plays a central part in the history of racial inequality in America, with people of color long advocating for equal educational rights and opportunities. Though school desegregation initially was a boon for educational equality, schools began to resegregate in the 1980s, and schools are now more segregated than ever. In Integrations, historian Zoë Burkholder and philosopher Lawrence Blum set out to shed needed light on the enduring problem of segregation in American schools. From a historical perspective, the authors analyze how ideas about race influenced the creation and development of American public schools. Importantly, the authors focus on multiple marginalized groups in American schooling: African Americans, Native Americans, Latinxs, and Asian Americans. In the second half of the book, the authors explore what equal education should and could look like. They argue for a conception of "educational goods" (including the development of moral and civic capacities) that should and can be provided to every child through schooling--including integration itself. Ultimately, the authors show that in order to grapple with integration in a meaningful way, we must think of integration in the plural, both in its multiple histories and the many possible meanings of and courses of action for integration"--
A Different Shade Of Justice
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Author : Stephanie Hinnershitz
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2017-08-10
A Different Shade Of Justice written by Stephanie Hinnershitz and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-10 with Social Science categories.
In the Jim Crow South, Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, and, later, Vietnamese and Indian Americans faced obstacles similar to those experienced by African Americans in their fight for civil and human rights. Although they were not black, Asian Americans generally were not considered white and thus were subject to school segregation, antimiscegenation laws, and discriminatory business practices. As Asian Americans attempted to establish themselves in the South, they found that institutionalized racism thwarted their efforts time and again. However, this book tells the story of their resistance and documents how Asian American political actors and civil rights activists challenged existing definitions of rights and justice in the South. From the formation of Chinese and Japanese communities in the early twentieth century through Indian hotel owners' battles against business discrimination in the 1980s and '90s, Stephanie Hinnershitz shows how Asian Americans organized carefully constructed legal battles that often traveled to the state and federal supreme courts. Drawing from legislative and legal records as well as oral histories, memoirs, and newspapers, Hinnershitz describes a movement that ran alongside and at times intersected with the African American fight for justice, and she restores Asian Americans to the fraught legacy of civil rights in the South.
Sole Paddle
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Author : H R Campbell
language : en
Publisher: FriesenPress
Release Date : 2019-01-16
Sole Paddle written by H R Campbell and has been published by FriesenPress this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-16 with Fiction categories.
Sole Paddle speaks of solitude and relationships, of walking alone and in community—and of embracing the present and future as part of a team, but also, sometimes with a sole paddle. It tells the story of John Bear, a young man from the isolated wilderness community of Reflection Lake, raised by his grandfather and his grandmother, and influenced by the parish priest. Late summer, John—hunter, fisherman, tourist guide—returns to school, where the principal and two teachers encourage him to complete his senior-year studies and develop his leadership skills. John participates in the annual school play, a presentation that highlights the community's need for wisdom and courage to heal itself, and step confidently into the future. In co-researching, co-writing the script, and narrating the play, John deepens his understanding of himself and his community which awakens a desire to learn more about the outside world. When a forest fire threatens Reflection Lake, the community is spared by John's, his grandfather's, and other firefighters's work, and by a life-giving three-day rain. Following his grandfather's sudden death shortly after the fire, John observes that the past includes painful memories as well as disempowering and empowering stories; the present offers obstacles and complex choices; and the future requires courage, strength and wisdom to navigate. He decides to pursue a university degree.
Cultural Realism
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Author : Alastair Iain Johnston
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2020-05-05
Cultural Realism written by Alastair Iain Johnston and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-05 with History categories.
Cultural Realism is an in-depth study of premodern Chinese strategic thought that has important implications for contemporary international relations theory. In applying a Western theoretical debate to China, Iain Johnston advances rigorous procedures for testing for the existence and influence of "strategic culture." Johnston sets out to answer two empirical questions. Is there a substantively consistent and temporally persistent Chinese strategic culture? If so, to what extent has it influenced China's approaches to security? The focus of his study is the Ming dynasty's grand strategy against the Mongols (1368-1644). First Johnston examines ancient military texts as sources of Chinese strategic culture, using cognitive mapping, symbolic analysis and congruence tests to determine whether there is a consistent grand strategic preference ranking across texts that constitutes a single strategic culture. Then he applies similar techniques to determine the effect of the strategic culture on the strategic preferences of the Ming decision makers. Finally, he assesses the effect of these preferences on Ming policies towards the Mongol "threat." The findings of this book challenge dominant interpretations of traditional Chinese strategic thought. They suggest also that the roots of realpolitik are ideational and not predominantly structural. The results lead to the surprising conclusion that there may be, in fact, fewer cross-national differences in strategic culture than proponents of the "strategic culture" approach think.
Chinese Wisdom And Modern Management
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Author : Aimin Yan
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2018-11-14
Chinese Wisdom And Modern Management written by Aimin Yan and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-14 with Religion categories.
This book is a collection of ten articles investigating the relationship between Chinese wisdom and the practice of modern management. The prefatory article contributed by Master Xuecheng, the President of the Buddhist Association of China, presents the utilisation of Buddha’s wisdom in the management of the modern world and human society. The six articles in Part One look into the managerial wisdom contained in the main schools of Chinese philosophy, including Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism, Legalism and Militarism, and explores their application and inspiration to the management of business, human resources, and monasteries. The three essays in Part Two focus on managerial wisdom derived from historical books and great Chinese historical figures. This endeavour in rediscovering the modern application and values of Chinese wisdom hidden within traditional Chinese culture and philosophy provides the study of modern management rooted in Western culture with fresh ideas and oriental perspectives. This book is an essential resource for undergraduates, postgraduates, researchers and practitioners working in the areas of business management, human resources, intercultural communication and Chinese studies.
Fight The Tower
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Author : Kieu Linh Caroline Valverde
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2019-10-11
Fight The Tower written by Kieu Linh Caroline Valverde 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 2019-10-11 with Education categories.
Asian American women scholars experience shockingly low rates of tenure and promotion because of the ways they are marginalized by intersectionalities of race and gender in academia. Fight the Tower shows that Asian American women stand up for their rights and work for positive change for all within academic institutions. The essays provide powerful portraits, reflections, and analyses of a population often rendered invisible by the lies sustaining intersectional injustices to operate an oppressive system.
The Glacial Nightmare And The Flood
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Author : HENRY HOYLE HOWORTH
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1893
The Glacial Nightmare And The Flood written by HENRY HOYLE HOWORTH and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1893 with Geology categories.
Lonely Planet Grand Canyon National Park
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Author : Lonely Planet
language : en
Publisher: Lonely Planet
Release Date : 2019-03-01
Lonely Planet Grand Canyon National Park written by Lonely Planet and has been published by Lonely Planet this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-01 with Travel categories.
Lonely Planet’s Grand Canyon National Park is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Go rafting on the Colorado River, explore the Grand Canyon by bike or view it from above on a helicopter ride – all with your trusted travel companion.
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Author : 劉宗坤
language : zh-CN
Publisher: 讀書共和國╱八旗文化
Release Date : 2024-01-08
written by 劉宗坤 and has been published by 讀書共和國╱八旗文化 this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-08 with History categories.
這是一群小人物在美國法律秩序中追求幸福的故事 他們的快樂與憂愁、苟且與反抗、安逸與掙扎， 都寫在了他們追求幸福的路上 法律前人人平等、選舉投票、自由戀愛、讀書上學， 這些現代人看似平凡、日常的微小事物 對他們來說卻是二百來年戮力爭取的幸福權利 人人生而平等，造物主賦予他們若干不可讓予的權利，其中包括生存權、自由權和追求幸福的權利。──《美國獨立宣言》 在美國建國時，《獨立宣言》曾承諾人人皆有「追求幸福」的權利，而這個觀念也被視為是現代文明價值的核心。若我們省察美國立國二百多年的發展歷史，就會發覺這個承諾曲折迂迴的實現過程，尤其體現在每一次關鍵性、里程碑式的法院判例中。 劉宗坤博士的《為幸福而生》側寫了芸芸眾生在美國法律體系中尋求幸福的故事，諸如想擺脫奴隸桎梏的混血女孩莫里森，想要有上學權利的中國裔林氏姊妹，想要有相愛權利的拉翁夫妻，以及想要有女性身體自主權的羅伊女士。上述細瑣的故事片段映照出時代的變遷，有人認為這是進步邁前，也有人認為這是禮崩樂壞。但不管如何，這些歷史上名不見經傳的「小人物」只是想追尋自身的幸福，他們的苟活和反抗、安逸與掙扎交織的一生，都跟美國民權運動史深深地扣合在了一起。從他們之後，投票權、自由婚戀、女性墮胎、兒童入學等權利普及到了每一個人身上，這才實現《獨立宣言》所承諾的話語，而非只是虛無飄渺的政治烏托邦。 劉宗坤博士利用大量法院的判決書和檔案，選取美國最高法院的重要判例以及近年基層法院轟動一時的審判，抽絲剝繭其中案件的來龍去脈，法官為何如此決斷？律師為何想打這場官司？原告與被告的量子糾纏，以及參與其中那些上自知識菁英、下到尋常百姓的眾人，是如何評價每場改變歷史的重要判決。 本書的每樁案件都是精采的故事，有些令人揪心，有些令人唏噓，更有些令人振奮。美國首位黑人大法官瑟古德．馬歇爾曾言：「做你認為對的事，讓法律趕上來。」有法律保障的基本權利構築了現代文明的柱石，但這些立法更立基於普通人對幸福的追求，也是每位自由人對生活方式的堅持。 本書特色 ★從法院判例出發，法律不是冷冰冰的艱深條文，每個案件背後都是跌宕起伏的人生故事，有法官、律師、原告與被告、陪審團，眾人一同演繹改變歷史的轉捩點。 ★如同台灣的民主先行者奮鬥多年才爭取到政治權利、言論自由，美國在種族、性別等諸多方面也是歷經許多努力，才爭取到現代人習以為常的「幸福」。 ★作者劉宗坤先生身兼法學、哲學博士，現為美國德州執業律師與研究學者。本書並同時由錢永祥先生、周保松先生、陳禹仲先生推薦作序。