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Author : Solomon Bailey III
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 42,15 MB
Release : 2010-11-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1456800426

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"Human Revolution - The process by which individuals gradually expand their lives, conquer negative and destructive tendencies. Josei Toda In Lawrences, (AKA Law), efforts to remain free from the responsibilities of monogamy, he establishes his own rules of dating. Soon his misguided ideologies, surrounding courting the opposite sex propels him into an uncharacteristic lifestyle of promiscuity and the unwanted drama associated with attempting to eliminate the emotional from the physical. Consequently, threatening all he holds dear. When your reality is drunk off immaturity, raging hormones, immense popularity chased with your basic nice guy; all hell breaking loose barely scratches the surface of what Law faces. To sober him, hell need a heaping dose of harsh reality with some tough love. When seeking to do your human revolution, life sometimes taps that ass to get your attention. Some ass whippings you receive in life will do you some good. And in Laws case, hed need a few more foot-to-ass situations "

Author : Brandon J. Manning
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 26,49 MB
Release : 2022-02-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1978824262

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Dating back to the blackface minstrel performances of Bert Williams and the trickster figure of Uncle Julius in Charles Chesnutt’s Conjure Tales, black humorists have negotiated American racial ideologies as they reclaimed the ability to represent themselves in the changing landscape of the early 20th century. Marginalized communities routinely use humor, specifically satire, to subvert the political, social, and cultural realities of race and racism in America. Through contemporary examples in popular culture and politics, including the work of Kendrick Lamar, Key and Peele and the presidency of Barack Obama and many others, in Played Out: The Race Man in 21st Century Satire author Brandon J. Manning examines how Black satirists create vulnerability to highlight the inner emotional lives of Black men. In focusing on vulnerability these satirists attend to America’s most basic assumptions about Black men. Contemporary Black satire is a highly visible and celebrated site of black masculine self-expression. Black satirists leverage this visibility to trouble discourses on race and gender in the Post-Civil Rights era. More specifically, contemporary Black satire uses laughter to decenter Black men from the socio-political tradition of the Race Man.

Author : Janis L. McKay
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,16 MB
Release : 2016-04-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 1943859035

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From 1940 to 1989, nearly every hotel on the Las Vegas Strip employed a full-time band or orchestra. After the late 1980s, when control of the casinos changed hands from independent owners to corporations, almost all of these musicians found themselves unemployed. Played Out on the Strip traces this major shift in the music industry through extensive interviews with former musicians. In 1989, these soon-to-be unemployed musicians went on strike. Janis McKay charts the factors behind this strike, which was precipitated by several corporate hotel owners moving to replace live musicians with synthesizers and taped music, a strategic decision made in order to save money. The results of this transitional period in Las Vegas history were both long-lasting and far-reaching for the entertainment industry. With its numerous oral history interviews and personal perspectives from the era, this book will appeal to readers interested in Las Vegas history, music history, and labor issues.

Author : Pete Davies
Publisher : Random House
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 21,64 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Soccer
ISBN : 0224059548

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Italia '90 - Gazza cried and football changed forever. Once you could ignore football, avoid the back pages, turn the telly over, leave the pub. Now that's not possible because on 4 July 1990 in Turin's Stadium of the Alps gazza cried, England lost and football changed forever. Pete Davies witnessed all of this first hand. The players, the hooligans, the agents, the journalists, the fans - the full cast of football's rowdy circus. For nine month he had access to the England squad and their manager, Bobby Robson, talking to them freely about their hopes, their fears, their methods and their lives. So this is the real story, the unedited verdion. All Played Out - the first and last book to give the inside story of the greatest show on Earth. 'Pete Davies is incapable of writing a dull sentence...one of the most outrageously entertaining books of the year' Daily Post.

Author : Katharine Milcoy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 50,91 MB
Release : 2017-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1474279619

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Filling a long-standing gap both in women's history and in the material history of class culture, this book is a unique and necessary reassessment of the social and cultural scene during the inter-war period in England. By combing over the everyday practices of working-class girls in 1920s and 30s England, including a sharp focus on Bermondsey south-east London and oral testimony from women who grew up in the period, Milcoy demonstrates the persistence and ingenuity with which these teenagers gained access to the commercial leisure culture of the day, from hairstyles and fashionable dress to films, music, and dances. She shows how this access had a startling ripple effect, transforming the way young women rehearsed and contested their identities so that play, rather than work, became the primary mechanism for defining subjectivity and constructing femininity. When the Girls Come Out to Play is a refreshing and nuanced take on the social and cultural history of England between the World Wars.