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Book SynopsisMiguel de Unamuno, one of Spain's foremost literary figures, is better known for his essays and novels than for his poetry. Yet it was as a poet that he wished to be remembered and it is in his poems that he reveals the most intimate and sensitive part of his complex personality. To truly get to know Unamuno as creator it is necessary to read his poetry. This anthology of 50 poems, though modest in comparison to his large poetic output, offers the reader some of his most characteristic poems, with an English version prepared by a well-known Unamuno scholar. The English renderings are sufficiently free to allow for the use of rhyme and regular metre, but strive to capture Unamuno's highly personal way of looking at our human circumstance and destiny. In effect the anthology offers a way of approaching Unamuno that differs significantly from an approach via his prose works: it projects a more meditative and warm-hearted individual than the combative Unamuno of popular perception. The 50 poems, each with a short commentary relating it to Unamuno's personal circumstances and to his thought, are arranged under six headings: (1) Family and Home; (2) God and Mortality; (3) The Land; (4) Exile; (5) Language and Poetry; (6) Philosophical Meditations. The anthology thus offers a microcosm of Unamuno's poetic world and should be useful to those who have little or no knowledge of him. It provides a way of learning something about the man and the writer through a part of his production that has received less attention than it deserves and which projects a significantly different image from the widespread view we have of him. The poems are preceded by a substantial introduction which explores the importance and relevance of Unamuno's poetry, his major themes, and his style.Table of Contents Introduction 1 Unamuno’s Poetic Production 1 Poetic Themes 7 The Translation 18 Editions of Unamuno’s Poetry 22 Select Bibliography 24 I Family And Home 1 Volviendo a casa / Returning Home 28 2 El hogar / Home 30 3 Dulce, silencioso pensamiento / Sweet, Silent Thought 32 4 Al niño enfermo / To the Sick Child 34 5 En la muerte de Concha / Upon the Death of Concha 38 6 En mi estudio / In my Study 40 7 El niño y el muñeco / The Child and the Doll 44 8 La presencia de Concha / Concha’s Presence 46 II God And Mortality 9 Silencios vacíos / Empty Silence 52 10 Para después de mi muerte / After I Cease to Be 54 11 Leyendo un libro vivo de un amigo muerto / Reading the Living Book of a Dead Friend 60 12 A la espera / Waiting 62 13 Ríos de mi vida / Rivers of my Life 64 14 Irrequietum cor / Restless Heart 66 15 La oración del ateo / The Atheist’s Prayer 68 16 Salmo II / Psalm II 70 III The Land 17 Salamanca / Salamanca 76 18 Tierra del Tormes / Land of the Tormes 80 19 Al Tormes / To the River Tormes 82 20 La peña de Francia / The Rock of France 84 21 El lago de San Martín / The Lake at San Martín 86 22 Medina de Rioseco / Medina de Rioseco 88 23 La voz de la campana / The Voice of the Bell 90 24 Portugal (i) / Portugal (i) 92 25 Portugal (ii) / Portugal (ii) 94 IV Exile 26 Mi otro sino / My Other Fate 98 27 Olas lejanas / Distant Waves 100 28 Betancuria / Betancuria 102 29 Fuerteventura / Fuerteventura 104 30 En el exilio / In Exile 106 31 Romances fronterizos / Frontier Ballads 108 32 Orhoit gutaz / Remember Us 110 33 El cementerio de Hendaya / The Cemetery at Hendaye 114 V Language and Poetry 34 Las caras de la poesía / The Faces of Poetry 120 35 La labor del poeta / The Task of the Poet 122 36 La palabra que vibra / The Vibrant Word 124 37 La palabra cruel / The Cruel Word 126 38 La palabra símbolo / The Word as Symbol 128 39 Non omnis moriar / Not All of Me Will Die 130 40 El nombre del Hombre / The Name of Man 132 41 Los hijos de silencio / The Children of Silence 134 VI Philosophical Meditations 42 Kant y la rana / Kant and the Frog 140 43 ¿Libres? / Are we Free? 144 44 Dios y la palabra / God and the Word 146 45 Entropía / Entropy 148 46 Las agujas del reloj / The Hands of the Clock 150 47 Filosofemas / Philosophemes 152 48 La última palabra de Hamlet / Hamlet’s Last Word 154 49 Anamnesis / Reminiscence 158 Conclusion 50 La muerte es sueño / Death is a Dream 162 Commentaries on the Poems 165

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Book SynopsisIn 2010, while working on a PhD in South Korea, Andray Abrahamian visited the other Korea, a country he had studied for years but never seen. He returned determined to find a way to work closely with North Koreans. Ten years and more than thirty visits later, Being in North Korea tells the story of his experiences helping set up and run Choson Exchange, a non-profit that teaches North Koreans about entrepreneurship and economic policy.Abrahamian was provided a unique vantage into life in North Korea that belies stereotypes rampant in the media, revealing instead North Koreans as individuals ranging from true believers in the system to cynics wishing the Stalinist experiment would just end; from introverts to bubbly chatterboxes, optimists to pessimists. He sees a North Korea that is changing, invalidating some assumptions held in the West, but perhaps reinforcing others.Amid his stories of coping with the North Korean system, of the foreigners who frequent Pyongyang, and of everyday relationships, Abrahamian explores the challenges of teaching the inherently political subject of economics in a system where everyone must self-regulate their own minds; he looks at the role of women in the North Korean economy, and their exclusion from leadership; and he discusses how information is restricted, propaganda is distributed and internalized, and even how Pyongyang’s nominally illicit property market functions. Along with these stories, he interweaves the historical events that have led to today’s North Korea.Drawing on the breadth of the author’s in-country experience, Being in North Korea combines the intellectual rigor of a scholar with a writing style that will appeal to a general audience. Through the personal elements of a memoir that provide insights into North Korean society, readers will come away with a more realistic picture of the country and its people, and a better idea of what the future may hold for the nation.

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Book SynopsisIn this account of the Algerian War's effect on French political structures and notions of national identity, Todd Shepard asserts that the separation of Algeria from France was truly a revolutionary event with lasting consequences for French social...Trade Review"Although he acknowledges that France's 'civilizing mission' never lived up to its press notices, Todd Shepard is probably correct when he notes that the war exposed once and for all the conceit that France's 'Republican universalism' could unite peoples of different races, cultures, and languages around a single vision of national unity."—Douglas Porch, Times Literary Supplement, September 21, 2007"A detailed, inventive, and engaging analysis of the debates surrounding the thorny issue of who could be French and under what conditions that arose as eight years of armed conflict drew to a close."—French History"With the tremendous interest in French colonialism and identity, in the relationship of the former colonies to the French nation and in colonial and postcolonial discourses, Todd Shepard's timely and significant work will be of interest to a wide range of scholars. Using Algeria as a case study, Shepard shows how the history of French imperialism and anti-imperialism was rewritten after Algerian independence by bureaucrats, politicians, and journalists in such a way as to present decolonization as 'a predetermined end point' that was inevitable, rather than as the failure of a genuine project of national integration in the colonies."—Modern and Contemporary France"The need for historically specific accounts of decolonization has arguably never been more urgent. The Invention of Decolonization illuminates how 'the end of French Algeria' reconfigured the social, sexual, and political orders of postwar France. Todd Shepard thereby joins the story of the Algerian War and its aftermath not just to histories of postcolonialism, but as provocatively to contemporary debates about national belonging, racialized citizenship, confessional politics, and state-sponsored efforts at remembrance, repatriation, and reconciliation."—Antoinette Burton, Professor of History and Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign"Todd Shepard's examination of the way representations of Judaism, sexual orientation, and gender figured into political debates about decolonization is pathbreaking. Shepard makes a compelling analysis of how the war in Algeria and efforts to resolve the issues it raised were crucial to the making of the Fifth Republic. His excellent book is exemplary of new developments in conceiving and writing the history of France and Algeria."—Donald M. Reid, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill"Todd Shepard's powerful book shows both how the decolonization of Algeria became thinkable in metropolitan France and why the French failed to come to terms with the contradictions inherent to the republican project, as they simultaneously distanced themselves from responsibility for the war. Shepard convincingly reveals the war's crucial role in recasting definitions of French identity and citizenship, which continue to shape current debates about racial inequality, exclusion, assimilation, immigration, and the place of Islam in France."—Caroline Ford, University of California, Los Angeles"Todd Shepard, in this highly original and well-researched account, uncovers how France, attempting to hold together its empire after World War II, tried to become more inclusive—extending citizenship rights and a form of affirmative action to Muslim Algerians, only to reverse itself after losing Algeria in 1962. Abolishing by fiat Muslims' citizenship rights, now acting as if 'colony' and 'metropole' were necessarily starkly separated, France redefined itself as a singular nation in a more unambiguous and more exclusionary manner than had been the case before."—Frederick Cooper, New York University, author of Colonialism in Question: Theory, Knowledge, History"The Algerian War has attracted huge attention in France during the last ten years. Most historians, however, have assumed that their task is simply to describe the workings of an apparently unstoppable process and they have, to a large extent, concentrated on the behavior of the French army. Todd Shepard's book approaches this debate from a new angle. Partly by looking through a wide lens—one that encompasses everything from Brigitte Bardot to Gaston Monnerville—and partly by taking the arguments in defense of Algérie Française seriously, he shows how departure from Algeria helped to create a new idea of Frenchnesss. This is an important book with implications for the current state of France as well as for many aspects of French history between 1830 and 1962."—Richard Vinen, King's College, LondonTable of ContentsList of Abbreviations Chronology of French Occupation of AlgeriaIntroductionPart I; The Making and Forgetting of French Algeria 1. Muslim French Citizens from Algeria: A Short History 2. Inventing Decolonization 3. The "Tide of History" versus the Laws of the Republic 4. Forgetting French AlgeriaPart II: Between France and Algeria 5. Making Algerians 6. Repatriation Rather Than Aliyah: The Jews of France and the End of French Algeria 7. Veiled "Muslim" Women, Violent Pied Noir Men, and the Family of France: Gender, Sexuality, and Ethnic DifferencePart III: The Exodus and After 8. Repatriating the Europeans 9. Rejecting the Muslims 10. The Post-Algerian RepublicConclusion: Forgetting Algerian FranceBibliography of Primary Sources Index

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Book Synopsis''It''s brave and honest, and not a moment too soon.'' Afua Hirsch, Brit(ish)''[An] outstanding myth-busting book. Everyone should read it.'' Bernardine EvaristoWhat is the experience of Black men in Britain today? Never has the conversation about racism and inclusion been more important; there is no better time to explore this question and give Black British men a platform to answer it. SAFE: 20 Ways to be a Black Man in Britain Today is that platform. Including essays from top poets, writers, musicians, actors and journalists, this timely and accessible book is in equal parts a celebration, a protest, a call to arms, and a dismantling of the stereotypes surrounding being a Black man. What does it really mean to reclaim and hold space in the landscape of our society? Where do Black men belong in school, in the media, in their own families, in the conversation about mental health, in the LGBTQ+ community, in grime music -Trade ReviewA much needed anthology -- Layla Haidrani * Cosmopolitan *This landmark anthology of essays exploring the Black British male experience from Derek Owusu isn't strictly an LGBTQ+ book. But an impressive roster of contributors, journalist Musa Okwonga's chapter The Good Bisexual is a long overdue - and delicate - insight into the challenges black bisexual men face, from queer puberty, the double burden of racism and homophobia, homophobic harassment in the workplace, and ultimately, self-acceptance. A refreshing insight, given that black, bi men's experiences are routinely rendered invisible. * Dazed *An outstanding book of essays' * INDEPENDENT.CO.UK *These essays burn with passion, dismay, pride, and longing. They're a wake-up call, a prayer, a plea, a promise. They say: this is who we are, and this is what you've been missing. * Stephen Kelman, author of Man Booker-shortlisted Pigeon English *An urgent, moving, inspiring series of essays that pulses with honesty and directness. I found myself nodding with recognition as I read so many of the pieces; I felt heard and understood as I read so many of the pieces. It's a collection that I - we - need so much right now. * Michael Donkor, author of Hold *Black men have been reduced to stock one dimensional characters in the public imagination. This collection explodes those myths, exploring the multi-hued textures of Black British masculinity in all its strength, vulnerability and diversity, providing an intimate window into the lives beyond the statistics, the stereotypes and the headlines. Charged with the air of the confessional, I imagine these stories will be the catalyst for many long overdue, and often taboo, conversations. * Emma Dabiri *Safe is the literary equivalent of secretly watching a black British male wake up, wash his brutalised body, plaster over his wounds and, with a final grimace, wear the clothes that he will allow the world to see. There is a quality of searing honesty, a revelation of the fears and doubts that haunt the men in this collection (and their like) daily - and a confession of the utter exhaustion of walking through the world bent under the weight of stereotypes. Here, the contributors have found, as Jesse Bernard puts it, 'a safe pocket' to express themselves in, and in so doing, in Courttia Newland's words to 'walk in a straight line and to live'. Safe is a vital book of witness and validation; an important read for everyone, but for young men of certain hues, it contains islands of affirmation that may well save a life or two. * Nii Ayikwei Parkes *This is not a book you read, but a book you witness. Derek Owusu has brought together important voices in British culture, authors you can actually feel digging deep into their experiences and sharing things that have not been written before. It's brave and honest, and not a moment too soon. * Afua Hirsch *This is an inspiring collection of essays. There is nothing like reading the thoughts of black men speaking honestly, openly, personally and intellectually. There is nothing like this because it seldom happens. This really is where the revolution starts. Every page of this book breaks down stereotypes of what being a black man is. It is refreshing to read the truth of men expressed as eloquently as they are in these pages. I was inspired. I found hope.This is power stuff my people. There is no holding back here. These might be essays by black British men, but they are relevant to all of us in the diaspora. Hold this book close to you and stay Safe. * Benjamin Zephaniah *We all know the narrative, images and media stories around Black men often play to negative stereotypes, but in this collection, we see Black men re-writing those scripts to explore their identities and their experiences in their own words.This anthology is utterly unique... I can't think of a book like it. * Diane Abbott MP *A really eye-opening and vital book on the Black British male experience. * Matt Haig *SAFE is rarely polemic, its aim is not to influence policy, but to depict the Black British experience in all its messy glory, thereby showing that young black men have rich and varied lives. * VICE *This outstanding myth-busting book asks us to consider our black British brothers as individuals who are as multi-dimensional as the rest of the human race. Everyone should read it. * Bernardine Evaristo *With sharp commentary and frequent bursts of honesty and humour, SAFE is unafraid to share its authors's vulnerabilities and make public their ambitions * NEW STATESMAN *A seminal and vital book that passes the mic back to black men. -- Kemi Alemoru * gal-dem *

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Book SynopsisHuey P. Newton's powerful legacy to the Black Panther movement and the civil rights struggle has long been obscured. Conservatives harp on Newton's drug use and on the circumstances of his death in a crack-related shooting. Liberals romanticize his black revolutionary rhetoric and idealize his message. In Huey P. Newton: The Radical Theorist, Judson L. Jeffries considers the entire arc of Newton's political role and influence on civil rights history and African American thought. Jeffries argues that, contrary to popular belief, Newton was one of the most important political thinkers in the struggle for civil rights. Huey P. Newton's political career spanned two decades. Like many freedom fighters, he was a complex figure. His international reputation was forged as much from his passionate defense of black liberation as from his highly publicized confrontations with police. His courage to address police brutality won him admirers in ghettos, on college campuses, and in select Hollywood circles. Newton gave Black Power a compelling urgency and played a pivotal role in the politics of black America during the 1960s and 1970s. Few would deny that Newton's life (1942-1989) was strewn with incidences of violence and that his police record was long. But Newton's struggles with police took place in a rich and troubled context that included urban unrest, police brutality, government repression, and an intense debate over civil rights tactics. Stripped of history and interpretation, the violence of Newton's life brought emphatic indictments of him. Newton's death attracted widespread media attention. However, pundits offered little on Newton as freedom fighter or as theoretician and activist. Huey P. Newton: The Radical Theorist dispels myths about Newton's life, but the book is primarily an in-depth examination of Newton's ideas. By exploring this charismatic leader, Jeffries's book makes a valuable contribution to the scant literature on Newton, while also exposing the core tenets and evolving philosophies of the Black Panther Party. Judson L. Jeffries is an assistant professor of political science at Purdue University. He is the author of Virginia's Native Son: The Election and Administration of Governor L. Douglas Wilder (2000), and his work has been published in such periodicals as Western Journal of Black Studies, Journal of Political Science, and Ethnic and Racial Studies.

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Book Synopsis Drawing on both personal experience and critical theory, Carole Boyce Davies illuminates the dynamic complexity of Caribbean culture and traces its migratory patterns throughout the Americas. Both a memoir and a scholarly study, Caribbean Spaces: Escapes from Twilight Zones explores the multivalent meanings of Caribbean space and community in a cross-cultural and transdisciplinary perspective.   From her childhood in Trinidad and Tobago to life and work in communities and universities in Nigeria, Brazil, England, and the United States, Carole Boyce Davies portrays a rich and fluid set of personal experiences. She reflects on these movements to understand the interrelated dynamics of race, gender, and sexuality embedded in Caribbean spaces, as well as many Caribbean people''s traumatic and transformative stories of displacement, migration, exile, and sometimes return. Ultimately, Boyce Davies reestablishes the connections between theory and pracTrade Review"Persuasive and comprehensive, Caribbean Spaces achieves an intriguing sequence of intricate journeys through Caribbean and African diasporic cultural spaces, political landscapes, historiographies, and literary-artistic terrains, each keenly observed. The result is a powerful engagement of the politics and realities of diaspora with black women’s histories in particular."--Thomas Glave, author of Among the Bloodpeople: Politics and Flesh “I can't think of a book that better combines the experiential with the theoretical, the political with the commonsensical, in prose that is lyrical, evocative, and lucid."--Kenneth A. McClane, W.E.B. DuBois Professor of Literature, Cornell University"Eminently readable and often entertaining… Instead of going easy on the spices, Boyce Davies provides us with a savory feast of experiences, memories, and reflections on her personal and professional life."--Research in African Literatures"Carole Boyce Davies has constructed a colorful, highly readable narrative containing memoir, notes on family history, sociocultural analysis, and literary criticism."--Journal of African American History"The book is engaging in its discussion of gender identity and expressions of a feminist sensibility… Caribbean Spaces, a series of meditations inviting readers to explore and interrogate carious Caribbean world spaces, has a lot more to discover. Enjoy the journey."--New West Indian Guide"Carole Boyce Davies has deftly used the personal to illuminate the universal. Her writing about her mother's innate brilliance and sauciness, like her wonderful autobiographical pilgrimage from Trinidad to Upstate New York, proves, yet again, why she is so crucial to us as a cultural critic. I can't think of a book that better combines the experiential with the theoretical, the political with the commonsensical, in prose that is lyrical, evocative, and lucid."--Kenneth A. McClane, W.E.B. DuBois Professor of Literature, Cornell University"With a superb alloy of intellect and imagination, Carole Boyce Davies has brought exceptional excitement to paradigms of space that conceal more than they reveal. Caribbean Spaces: Escapes From Twilight Zones advances the extreme of phenomenal questions. Her endeavor here is heroic."--Leroy Clarke, Caribbean artist

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Book SynopsisIn Geologic Life, Kathryn Yusoff theorizes the processes by which race and racialization emerged geologically. Examining both the history of geology as a discipline and ongoing mineral and resource extraction, Yusoff locates forms of imperial geology embedded in Western and Enlightenment thought and highlights how it creates anti-Black, anti-Indigenous, and anti-Brown environmental and racial injustices. Throughout, she outlines how the disciplines of geology and geography—and their conventions: surveying, identifying, classifying, valuing, and extracting—established and perpetuated colonial practices that ordered the world and people along a racial axis. Examining the conceptualization of the inhuman as political, geophysical, and paleontological, Yusoff unearths an apartheid of materiality as distinct geospatial forms. This colonial practice of geology organized and underpinned racialized accounts of space and time in ways that materially made Anthropocene Earth. A

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Book SynopsisFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author, rapper, and activist—Sister Souljah uses her passionate voice to deliver what is at once a fiercely candid autobiography and a survival manual for any Black woman determined to keep her heart open and her integrity intact in modern America. Each chapter of No Disrespect is devoted to someone who made a difference in Sister Souljah’s life—from the mother who raised her to the men who educated (and mis-educated) her about love—and each bares a controversial truth about the Black condition in America: the disintegration of families; the unremitting combat between the sexes; and the thousand and one ways in which racism continues to circumscribe how Black people see themselves and treat one another. The result is an outspoken and often courageous rejoinder to the pieties of race, class, and gender by a writer who is at once wise, bawdy, brutally funny, and as sensitive

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Katherine Johnson’s personal story never gets old, and never fails to inspire.” — Margot Lee Shetterly, Author of the New York Times bestseller Hidden Figures “Katherine Johnson was a fierce intellect, a commanding presence, a determined boundary breaker, a passionate advocate for justice, and, simultaneously, one of the most kind, gentle, and humble spirits I have ever met. The story of this human computer whose calculations changed the world is also the story of a woman of deep, abiding faith whose trust in God and whose determination to excel changed everyone around her. In this book, in her own words, her story rises like a rocket, triumphantly and majestically. Reading it, you will feel your spirit soar.” — Brian K. Blount, President of the Union Presbyterian Seminary, and Former Pastor to Katherine “Her brilliance and numbers helped me and many others reach the stars. A storied and rich legacy that will resonate with many generations of explorers.” — Astronaut Leland Melvin, author of Chasing Space “A telling and inspirational look into the amazing life of Katherine G. Johnson that goes beyond the numbers to tell a story of brilliance, perseverance and compassion. Katherine’s journey charted a course to the stars both compelling and beautiful. A story of her humanity, her genius and her compassion that enabled both the dreams of a Nation and of every individual she encountered.” — Clayton P. Turner, Director of NASA’s Langley Research Center “This compelling memoir takes us on Katherine’s journey as she navigates social forces, great loss, and personal triumph. Katherine demonstrated self-responsibility, determination, a great work ethic, and as her father taught her, she remained humble even after receiving many prestigious recognitions and awards. Her memoir captures the essence of the values our program wants to exemplify and having her name on our building inspires us to honor her legacy.” — Gregory Blaney, Director, NASA’s Katherine Johnson Independent Verification and Validation Facility, Fairmont, WV “Katherine Johnson’s story shows us how to make it to the moon and back...and beyond.” — Ted Melfi, Director of Hidden Figures “Katherine Johnson's story of accomplishment and persistence deserves to be part of the nation's Civil Rights archive. Her narrative--from the Allegheny Mountains in West Virginia to a key position at NASA—illustrates a triumph of intellect, optimism and grace that is too often ignored in the first draft of history, especially in the case of accomplished Black mathematicians and scientists. My Remarkable Journey offers a rare private glimpse into an admirable arc of the life of this distinguished centenarian, reaching from White Sulphur Springs farm roads to Barack Obama's White House.” — Howell Raines, former executive editor of The New York Times, is a Pulitzer Prize winner and author of My Soul Is Rested, an oral history of the civil rights movement. "Examples of relentless determination in the face of adversity linger with the reader, showing what truly makes Johnson’s journey remarkable. Yes, her mathematical genius was inspiring. Equally inspiring was her grit." — Science News “Johnson’s work at NASA is only one part of her extraordinary life, as recounted in this lovely posthumous memoir, co-written with her daughters. . . . Readers will enjoy Johnson’s personal accounts of the space race and the roles of Black women in STEM. This wonderful, insightful memoir is the perfect companion piece to Margot Lee Shetterly’s best-selling Hidden Figures, which recounted the lives of Johnson and her colleagues Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson.” — Library Journal (starred review) “Johnson is a warm and compassionate author, filling her pages with the most personal of stories while also illuminating the times she lived through with an appreciation for all the dramatic changes occurring round her. Truly a lovely read, this is an important addition to every bookshelf devoted to great Americans.” — Booklist (starred review)

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Book Synopsis?Soulful, spirited, and often joyful, Black Earth Wisdom is sustained by a deep reverence for the Earth and its ?symbiotic living ecosystems.? The result is a potent look at the overlap between the environmental and racial justice movements.??Publishers WeeklyA soulful collection of illuminating essays and interviews that explore Black people?s spiritual and scientific connection to the land, waters, and climate, curated by the acclaimed author of Farming While BlackAuthor of Farming While Black and co-founder of Soul Fire Farm, Leah Penniman reminds us that ecological humility is an intrinsic part of Black cultural heritage. While racial capitalism has attempted to sever our connection to the sacred earth for 400 years, Black people have long seen the land and water as family and understood the intrinsic value of nature.This thought-provoking anthology brings together today?s most respected and influential Black environmentalist voices ?leaders who have cultivated the skill of listening to the Earth ?to share the lessons they have learned. These varied and distinguished experts include Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author Alice Walker; the first Queen Mother and official spokesperson for the Gullah/Geechee Nation, Queen Quet; marine biologist, policy expert, and founder and president of Ocean Collectiv, Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson; and the Executive Director of the North Carolina Association of Black Lawyers, Land Loss Prevention Project, Savi Horne. In Black Earth Wisdom, they address the essential connection between nature and our survival and how runaway consumption and corporate insatiability are harming the earth and every facet of American society, engendering racial violence, food apartheid, and climate injustice.Those whose skin is the color of soil are reviving their ancestral and ancient practice of listening to the earth for guidance. Penniman makes clear that the fight for racial and environmental justice demands that people put our planet first and defer to nature as our ultimate teacher.Contributors include:Alice Walker ?adrienne maree brown ? Dr. Ross Gay ? Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson ? Rue Mapp ? Dr. Carolyn Finney ? Audrey Peterman ? Awise Agbaye Wande Abimbola ? Ibrahim Abdul-Matin ? Kendra Pierre-Louis ? Latria Graham ? Dr. Lauret Savoy ?Ira Wallace ? Savi Horne ? Dr. Claudia Ford ? Dr. J. Drew Lanham ? Dr. Leni Sorensen ? Queen Quet ? Toshi Reagon ? Yeye Luisah Teish ? Yonnette Fleming ? Naima Penniman ? Angelou Ezeilo ? James Edward Mills ? Teresa Baker ? Pandora Thomas ? Toi Scott ? Aleya Fraser ? Chris Bolden-Newsome ? Dr. Joshua Bennett ? B. Anderson ? Chris Hill ? Greg Watson ? T. Morgan Dixon ? Dr. Dorceta Taylor ? Colette Pichon Battle ? Dillon Bernard ? Sharon Lavigne ? Steve Curwood ? and Babalawo Enroue HalfkennyTrade Review“Penniman and the interviewees offer a staggering range of reparative projects, including farms and community agricultural projects rooted in traditional African farming practices, heirloom seed cooperatives, nature therapy programs for juvenile offenders, and hiking groups for Black women and teens. It’s clear that Penniman and her contributors view Black environmentalism as healing therapy not only for Black individuals but for the planet.” — Booklist (starred review) “Soulful, spirited, and often joyful, [Black Earth Wisdom] is sustained by a deep reverence for the Earth and its “symbiotic living ecosystems.” The result is a potent look at the overlap between the environmental and racial justice movements.” — Publishers Weekly "A powerful and passionate collection of instructive perspectives on nature.” — Kirkus Reviews "A moving and powerful how-to book for Black farmers to reclaim the occupation and the contributions of the BIPOC community that introduced sustainable agriculture." — Book Riot on Farming While Black "An extraordinary book...part agricultural guide, part revolutionary manifesto." — Vogue on Farming While Black “Provides practical tools along with a beautiful visionary template for practicing land development that is rooted in healing and transformation.” — Patrisse Khan-Cullors on Farming While Black "Leah Penniman is . . . opening the door for the next generation of farmers." — CBS This Morning on Farming While Black “Leah is truly changing our food system, one bite at a time.” — PBS on Farming While Black “Farming While Black offers a guide to reclaiming food systems from white supremacy.” — Bon Appetit on Farming While Black “A guidebook to dismantle systemic racism.” — Civil Eats on Farming While Black “Penniman is part of a growing movement to reclaim Black farmers’ hard-won place in our country’s agriculture.” — Mother Jones on Farming While Black “What I find so important about the work that [Penniman does] is that it’s reconnecting things that were torn asunder [and] challenging assumptions.” — Food & Wine on Farming While Black

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"With We Carry Their Bones, Erin Kimmerle continues to unearth the true story of the Dozier School, a tale more frightening than any fiction. In a corrupt world, her unflinching revelations are as close as we'll come to justice." — Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer-Prize Winning author of The Nickel Boys and The Underground Railroad “Gripping….Kimmerle speaks eloquently to official crimes that have yet to be fully accounted for, giving a closely observed account of forensic investigation along the way. A horrific story of true crime, unjust punishment, and the quest for justice for the victims of a cruel state.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

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Book SynopsisGathers Ernesto Galarza's key writings, reflecting a constructive concern for the working class in the face of America's growing influence over Mexico's economic system.Trade ReviewA Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2013. "Ernesto Galarza was a prescient analyst and powerful writer, a scholar, poet, and social activist whose work has profoundly influenced and interested so many. This book will be of use to activists who interrogate political economy and develop strategies that address inequities in class and race."--Patricia Zavella, author of I'm Neither Here nor There: Mexicans' Quotidian Struggles with Migration and Poverty"This outstanding compilation of the selected writings of Ernesto Galarza features an excellent introduction, despite the fact that relatively little is known about Galarza's private life other than what he reveals in his autobiography. Highly Recommended."--Choice "Ibarra and Torres are to be commended for their efforts to provide students and scholars new access to the writings of Ernesto Galarza. Man on Fire serves as both an effective summation of his work and a starting point for detailed investigation of a scholar-activist whose output and activities have sadly fallen into undeserved obscurity." --Labor

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Book SynopsisExplores the multivalent meanings of Caribbean space and community in a cross-cultural and transdisciplinary perspective.Trade Review"Persuasive and comprehensive, Caribbean Spaces achieves an intriguing sequence of intricate journeys through Caribbean and African diasporic cultural spaces, political landscapes, historiographies, and literary-artistic terrains, each keenly observed. The result is a powerful engagement of the politics and realities of diaspora with black women’s histories in particular."--Thomas Glave, author of Among the Bloodpeople: Politics and Flesh “I can't think of a book that better combines the experiential with the theoretical, the political with the commonsensical, in prose that is lyrical, evocative, and lucid."--Kenneth A. McClane, W.E.B. DuBois Professor of Literature, Cornell University"Eminently readable and often entertaining… Instead of going easy on the spices, Boyce Davies provides us with a savory feast of experiences, memories, and reflections on her personal and professional life."--Research in African Literatures"Carole Boyce Davies has constructed a colorful, highly readable narrative containing memoir, notes on family history, sociocultural analysis, and literary criticism."--Journal of African American History"The book is engaging in its discussion of gender identity and expressions of a feminist sensibility… Caribbean Spaces, a series of meditations inviting readers to explore and interrogate carious Caribbean world spaces, has a lot more to discover. Enjoy the journey."--New West Indian Guide"Carole Boyce Davies has deftly used the personal to illuminate the universal. Her writing about her mother's innate brilliance and sauciness, like her wonderful autobiographical pilgrimage from Trinidad to Upstate New York, proves, yet again, why she is so crucial to us as a cultural critic. I can't think of a book that better combines the experiential with the theoretical, the political with the commonsensical, in prose that is lyrical, evocative, and lucid."--Kenneth A. McClane, W.E.B. DuBois Professor of Literature, Cornell University"With a superb alloy of intellect and imagination, Carole Boyce Davies has brought exceptional excitement to paradigms of space that conceal more than they reveal. Caribbean Spaces: Escapes From Twilight Zones advances the extreme of phenomenal questions. Her endeavor here is heroic."--Leroy Clarke, Caribbean artist

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Book SynopsisCritics often characterize white consumption of African American culture as a form of theft that echoes the fantasies of 1950s-era bohemians, or "White Negroes," who romanticized black culture as anarchic and sexually potent. The author claims such a view fails to describe the varied politics of racial crossover over the years.Trade ReviewLois P. Rudnick Book Prize, New England American Studies Association, 2014. "[Davis's] readings are astute and innovative. Her study of the cross-racial empathy of white rappers and her comparison/contrast of Do the Right Thing and Crash are especially effective. With a solid scholarly foundation, she takes real risks in her thinking about race." --Cecilia Konchar Farr, author of Reading Oprah: How Oprah's Book Club Changed the Way America Reads"Davis’s book is a timely analysis of the relationship between audience reception and antiracist action. . . . Davis’s argument goes beyond the claim that educating whites in African American history and culture can lead to antiracist reading practices to say that antiracist reading is one part of white engagement with African American culture more broadly."--Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History

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