[PDF] Surviving The Americas eBook

Author : Serena Cosgrove
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 16,8 MB
Release : 2021-01-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781947602106

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This book directly engages vital social justice issues of diaspora, exclusion, and resilience through an ethnographic study with the Garifuna, a Central American afro-indigenous group with roots in western Africa and the Caribbean. Today, the Garifuna are concentrated on the Caribbean coast of Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala, and Belize, and about 50,000 Garifuna live in the US. The primary focus is the resilience of Garifuna communities on the southeastern Caribbean coast of Nicaragua, through an in-depth study of Garifuna commitment to community and place, bolstered by interviews with recent Garifuna migrants to the U.S. who keep their culture alive in the Bronx and elsewhere through language, food, annual trips home, and spiritual connection with their ancestors.

Author : Serena Cosgrove
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 38,12 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781947602120

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Extant research on black students at white colleges has often examined how black students experience several academic and social challenges, but few studies examine how black students exert agency to successfully navigate their college environment, and resist or oppose the racial hostility they experience in predominately white spaces. Black student campus organizations were born out of the black campus movement in the 1960s in response to racist institutional practices in higher education. These organizations were established to create safe spaces that shielded students from racial inequality in predominately white spaces, as well as providing opportunities for students to celebrate black culture. Today, given the change in the racial landscape, and the use of colorblindness rhetoric, it is important to understand what role, if any, these organizations have in operating as a site of resistance for a diverse group of black students. In-depth qualitative interviews were conducted with 60 black students at one rural and one urban institution. The primary goal of the study was to understand how one¿s social identity (gender, social class and sexuality) and the physical location of the campus environment impact how students perceive and utilize black student campus organizations. Results show that both one¿s social identity, and physical location play a role in their experiences, and how they perceive and utilize these organizations. These organizations are instrumental for students for several reasons 1) providing a safe space to escape feelings of marginality ;2) preserving black cultural traditions and fostering a sense of comfort and support; and 3) providing students leadership, mentorship and outreach opportunities.

Author : Max Howard
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 33,27 MB
Release : 2021-10-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1978595506

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Gabi is furious about her parents divorcing and moving her away from her hometown, her friends, and her school. But on the day she moves away, a shooter opens fire on Gabi's old school, killing her American History classmates. She knows she should have been in that classroom. Now Gabi has to navigate a new school and new social circles, while dealing with a looming dark cloud of grief, survivor's guilt, and fear. She meets impulsive troublemaker Lennon, who might just understand her dark side, or may pull her deeper into it.

Author : Jessica Bruder
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 33,91 MB
Release : 2017-09-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0393249328

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The inspiration for Chloé Zhao's 2020 Golden Lion award-winning film starring Frances McDormand. "People who thought the 2008 financial collapse was over a long time ago need to meet the people Jessica Bruder got to know in this scorching, beautifully written, vivid, disturbing (and occasionally wryly funny) book." —Rebecca Solnit From the beet fields of North Dakota to the campgrounds of California to Amazon’s CamperForce program in Texas, employers have discovered a new, low-cost labor pool, made up largely of transient older adults. These invisible casualties of the Great Recession have taken to the road by the tens of thousands in RVs and modified vans, forming a growing community of nomads. Nomadland tells a revelatory tale of the dark underbelly of the American economy—one which foreshadows the precarious future that may await many more of us. At the same time, it celebrates the exceptional resilience and creativity of these Americans who have given up ordinary rootedness to survive, but have not given up hope.

Author : Jeffrey Ostler
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 21,31 MB
Release : 2019-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0300218125

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"Intense and well-researched, . . . ambitious, . . . magisterial. . . . Surviving Genocide sets a bar from which subsequent scholarship and teaching cannot retreat."--Peter Nabokov, New York Review of Books In this book, the first part of a sweeping two-volume history, Jeffrey Ostler investigates how American democracy relied on Indian dispossession and the federally sanctioned use of force to remove or slaughter Indians in the way of U.S. expansion. He charts the losses that Indians suffered from relentless violence and upheaval and the attendant effects of disease, deprivation, and exposure. This volume centers on the eastern United States from the 1750s to the start of the Civil War. An authoritative contribution to the history of the United States' violent path toward building a continental empire, this ambitious and well-researched book deepens our understanding of the seizure of Indigenous lands, including the use of treaties to create the appearance of Native consent to dispossession. Ostler also documents the resilience of Native people, showing how they survived genocide by creating alliances, defending their towns, and rebuilding their communities.

Author : Larry Charles Peterson
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 18,12 MB
Release : 2012-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1477142797

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Surviving America is a true story, an autobiography, of Larry Charles Peterson. Through the years Larry has had the hard luck experiencing bad things right during a time when America was experiencing similar hard luck. A professional victim of sorts, Mr. Peterson tells how he dealt with each situation. It's a good entertaining, honest read.

Author : Vanessa M. Holden
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 39,6 MB
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0252052765

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The local community around the Nat Turner rebellion The 1831 Southampton Rebellion led by Nat Turner involved an entire community. Vanessa M. Holden rediscovers the women and children, free and enslaved, who lived in Southampton County before, during, and after the revolt. Mapping the region's multilayered human geography, Holden draws a fuller picture of the inhabitants, revealing not only their interactions with physical locations but also their social relationships in space and time. Her analysis recasts the Southampton Rebellion as one event that reveals the continuum of practices that sustained resistance and survival among local Black people. Holden follows how African Americans continued those practices through the rebellion’s immediate aftermath and into the future, showing how Black women and communities raised children who remembered and heeded the lessons absorbed during the calamitous events of 1831. A bold challenge to traditional accounts, Surviving Southampton sheds new light on the places and people surrounding Americas most famous rebellion against slavery.

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Publisher : McSweeney's
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 13,15 MB
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1940450918

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On September 30, 2003, Calvin was declared innocent and set free from Angola State Prison, after serving 22 years for a crime he did not commit. Like many other exonerees, Calvin experienced a new world that was not open to him. Hitting the streets without housing, money, or a change of clothes, exonerees across America are released only to fend for themselves. In the tradition of Studs Terkel's oral histories, this book collects the voices and stories of the exonerees for whom life — inside and out — is forever framed by extraordinary injustice

Author : David O. Dowling
Publisher : University Press of New England
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 45,68 MB
Release : 2016-04-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1611689422

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Surviving the "Essex" tells the captivating story of a ship's crew battered by whale attack, broken by four months at sea, and forced - out of necessity - to make meals of their fellow survivors. Exploring the Rashomon-like Essex accounts that complicate and even contradict first mate Owen Chase's narrative, David O. Dowling examines the vital role of viewpoint in shaping how an event is remembered and delves into the ordeal's submerged history - the survivors' lives, ambitions, and motives, their pivotal actions during the desperate moments of the wreck itself, and their will to reconcile those actions in the short- and long-term aftermath of this storied event. Mother of all whale tales, Surviving the "Essex" acts as a sequel to Nathaniel Philbrick's In the Heart of the Sea, while probing deeper into the nature of trauma and survival accounts, an extreme form of notoriety, and the impact that the story had on Herman Melville and the writing of Moby-Dick.