Frederick Douglass: Civil Rights Leader: Band 16/Sapphire (Collins Big Cat)

Frederick Douglass: Civil Rights Leader: Band 16/Sapphire (Collins Big Cat)
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Publisher : Collins Educational
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0007465491
ISBN-13 : 9780007465491
Rating : 4/5 (91 Downloads)

Synopsis Frederick Douglass: Civil Rights Leader: Band 16/Sapphire (Collins Big Cat) by : Amanda Mitchison

Antislavery campaigner, author, diplomat and political statesmen, Frederick Douglass was one of the greatest men of his age. A former slave himself, Frederick fought publicly against slavery and was an inspiration in the fight for social and political change. Written by Amanda Mitchison, find out about this life-long battle to fight for equality. * Sapphire/Band 16 books offer longer reads to develop children's sustained engagement with texts and are more complex syntactically. * Text type: A biography * Curriculum links: History, Citizenship

Shark Girl

Shark Girl
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Publisher : Candlewick Press
Total Pages : 281
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ISBN-10 : 9780763654474
ISBN-13 : 0763654477
Rating : 4/5 (74 Downloads)

Synopsis Shark Girl by : Kelly Bingham

A teenager struggles through physical loss to the start of acceptance in an absorbing, artful novel at once honest and insightful, wrenching and redemptive. (Age 12 and up) On a sunny day in June, at the beach with her mom and brother, fifteen-year-old Jane Arrowood went for a swim. And then everything -- absolutely everything -- changed. Now she’s counting down the days until she returns to school with her fake arm, where she knows kids will whisper, "That’s her -- that’s Shark Girl," as she passes. In the meantime there are only questions: Why did this happen? Why her? What about her art? What about her life? In this striking first novel, Kelly Bingham uses poems, letters, telephone conversations, and newspaper clippings to look unflinchingly at what it’s like to lose part of yourself - and to summon the courage it takes to find yourself again.

Miles

Miles
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 452
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ISBN-10 : 9780671725822
ISBN-13 : 0671725823
Rating : 4/5 (22 Downloads)

Synopsis Miles by : Miles Davis

Miles discusses his life and music from playing trumpet in high school to the new instruments and sounds from the Caribbean.

Habeas Viscus

Habeas Viscus
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Publisher : Duke University Press
Total Pages : 335
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ISBN-10 : 9780822376491
ISBN-13 : 0822376490
Rating : 4/5 (91 Downloads)

Synopsis Habeas Viscus by : Alexander Ghedi Weheliye

Habeas Viscus focuses attention on the centrality of race to notions of the human. Alexander G. Weheliye develops a theory of "racializing assemblages," taking race as a set of sociopolitical processes that discipline humanity into full humans, not-quite-humans, and nonhumans. This disciplining, while not biological per se, frequently depends on anchoring political hierarchies in human flesh. The work of the black feminist scholars Hortense Spillers and Sylvia Wynter is vital to Weheliye's argument. Particularly significant are their contributions to the intellectual project of black studies vis-à-vis racialization and the category of the human in western modernity. Wynter and Spillers configure black studies as an endeavor to disrupt the governing conception of humanity as synonymous with white, western man. Weheliye posits black feminist theories of modern humanity as useful correctives to the "bare life and biopolitics discourse" exemplified by the works of Giorgio Agamben and Michel Foucault, which, Weheliye contends, vastly underestimate the conceptual and political significance of race in constructions of the human. Habeas Viscus reveals the pressing need to make the insights of black studies and black feminism foundational to the study of modern humanity.

National Geographic Readers: Frederick Douglass (Level 2)

National Geographic Readers: Frederick Douglass (Level 2)
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Publisher : National Geographic Society
Total Pages : 36
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ISBN-10 : 9781426327582
ISBN-13 : 1426327587
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Synopsis National Geographic Readers: Frederick Douglass (Level 2) by : Barbara Kramer

Discover the world of one of America's most celebrated abolitionists, writers, and orators in this inspirational biography of Frederick Douglass. Kids will learn about his life, achievements, and the challenges he faced along the way. The Level 2 text provides accessible, yet wide-ranging, information for independent readers.

Neo-slave Narratives

Neo-slave Narratives
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 297
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ISBN-10 : 9780195125337
ISBN-13 : 0195125339
Rating : 4/5 (37 Downloads)

Synopsis Neo-slave Narratives by : Ashraf H. A. Rushdy

After discerning the social and historical factors surrounding its first appearance in the 1960s, Neo-Slave Narratives explores the complex relationship between nostalgia and critique, while asking how African American intellectuals at different points between 1976 and 1990 remember and use the site of slavery to represent cultural debates that arose during the sixties."--BOOK JACKET.

The American Yawp

The American Yawp
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Publisher : Stanford University Press
Total Pages : 670
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ISBN-10 : 9781503608139
ISBN-13 : 1503608131
Rating : 4/5 (39 Downloads)

Synopsis The American Yawp by : Joseph L. Locke

"I too am not a bit tamed—I too am untranslatable / I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world."—Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself," Leaves of Grass The American Yawp is a free, online, collaboratively built American history textbook. Over 300 historians joined together to create the book they wanted for their own students—an accessible, synthetic narrative that reflects the best of recent historical scholarship and provides a jumping-off point for discussions in the U.S. history classroom and beyond. Long before Whitman and long after, Americans have sung something collectively amid the deafening roar of their many individual voices. The Yawp highlights the dynamism and conflict inherent in the history of the United States, while also looking for the common threads that help us make sense of the past. Without losing sight of politics and power, The American Yawp incorporates transnational perspectives, integrates diverse voices, recovers narratives of resistance, and explores the complex process of cultural creation. It looks for America in crowded slave cabins, bustling markets, congested tenements, and marbled halls. It navigates between maternity wards, prisons, streets, bars, and boardrooms. The fully peer-reviewed edition of The American Yawp will be available in two print volumes designed for the U.S. history survey. Volume I begins with the indigenous people who called the Americas home before chronicling the collision of Native Americans, Europeans, and Africans.The American Yawp traces the development of colonial society in the context of the larger Atlantic World and investigates the origins and ruptures of slavery, the American Revolution, and the new nation's development and rebirth through the Civil War and Reconstruction. Rather than asserting a fixed narrative of American progress, The American Yawp gives students a starting point for asking their own questions about how the past informs the problems and opportunities that we confront today.

Pursuing Intersectionality, Unsettling Dominant Imaginaries

Pursuing Intersectionality, Unsettling Dominant Imaginaries
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 282
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ISBN-10 : 9781136497544
ISBN-13 : 1136497544
Rating : 4/5 (44 Downloads)

Synopsis Pursuing Intersectionality, Unsettling Dominant Imaginaries by : Vivian M. May

Pursuing Intersectionality, Unsettling Dominant Imaginaries offers a sustained, interdisciplinary exploration of intersectional ideas, histories, and practices that no other text does. Deftly synthesizing much of the existing literatures on intersectionality, one of the most significant theoretical and political precepts of our time, May invites us to confront a disconcerting problem: though intersectionality is widely known, acclaimed, and applied, it is often construed in ways that depoliticize, undercut, or even violate its most basic premises. May cogently demonstrates how intersectionality has been repeatedly resisted, misunderstood, and misapplied: provocatively, she shows the degree to which intersectionality is often undone or undermined by supporters and critics alike. A clarion call to engage intersectionality’s radical ideas, histories, and justice orientations more meaningfully, Pursuing Intersectionality answers the basic questions surrounding intersectionality, attends to its historical roots in Black feminist theory and politics, and offers insights and strategies from across the disciplines for bracketing dominant logics and for orienting toward intersectional dispositions and practices.

Who Was Isambard Kingdom Brunel

Who Was Isambard Kingdom Brunel
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Publisher : Short Books
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 178072604X
ISBN-13 : 9781780726045
Rating : 4/5 (4X Downloads)

Synopsis Who Was Isambard Kingdom Brunel by : Amanda Mitchison

The Black Studies Reader

The Black Studies Reader
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 501
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ISBN-10 : 9781135942571
ISBN-13 : 1135942579
Rating : 4/5 (71 Downloads)

Synopsis The Black Studies Reader by : Jacqueline Bobo

First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.