Author: Susana M. Morris Publisher: University of Virginia Press ISBN: 0813935512 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 233
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The "black family" in the United States and the Caribbean often holds contradictory and competing meanings in public discourse: on the one hand, it is a site of love, strength, and support; on the other hand, it is a site of pathology, brokenness, and dysfunction that has frequently called forth an emphasis on conventional respectability if stability and social approval are to be achieved. Looking at the ways in which contemporary African American and black Caribbean women writers conceptualize the black family, Susana Morris finds a discernible tradition that challenges the politics of respectability by arguing that it obfuscates the problematic nature of conventional understandings of family and has damaging effects as a survival strategy for blacks. The author draws on African American studies, black feminist theory, cultural studies, and women’s studies to examine the work of Paule Marshall, Jamaica Kincaid, Edwidge Danticat, and Sapphire, showing how their novels engage the connection between respectability and ambivalence. These writers advocate instead for a transgressive understanding of affinity and propose an ethic of community support and accountability that calls for mutual affection, affirmation, loyalty, and respect. At the core of these transgressive family systems, Morris reveals, is a connection to African diasporic cultural rites such as dance, storytelling, and music that help the fictional characters to establish familial connections.
Author: Joseph Helensky Publisher: Fulton Books, Inc. ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 314
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What do you owe your past when you've ruined someone's present? And their present includes your child? Jeffrey Weston is a wealthy mid-forties sales manager in Seattle. Bridgette Davis is a mid-forties drug addict in Baltimore. Twenty years ago, they were a couple. Jeffrey's brief dalliance with cocaine led Bridgette--an innocent grade schoolteacher--to dark places: drug addiction, a life of poverty, and raising their child, Catherine, whom Jeffrey never learned about. Catherine--a girl of grit--has survived several stints in foster care because of her mom's addictions. Jeffrey must confront his past and what he was--and wasn't--responsible for. He must also balance what he owes to his past--including unresolved guilt over a failed adoption--with what he owes to his present, that includes a successful marriage, work, and life. Distant Relative explores this balance, the mistakes that one makes being resurrected decades later, and the choices you make. Can you make something right years later? Would you make the same choices?
Author: Al Past Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 0595372929 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 392
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A lonely astronaut stumbles upon a disaster in the making: the Earth will be turned into a crater-pocked ruin and millions of people will be killed, unless she can convince someone to take preventive action. But she has a huge problem. After all, who would believe an ordinary young woman who said such a thing, especially if there is no record she is an astronaut and especially not if she also claims to have come from a different solar system? Only the U. S. government does, and hunts her with all the forces it can muster. Terrified and with few resources, she tries desperately to disprove people's low opinion of what a young woman is capable of. And what about her earthly boy friend? Would he believe her, or sell her out?
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 66
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Ancestry magazine focuses on genealogy for today’s family historian, with tips for using Ancestry.com, advice from family history experts, and success stories from genealogists across the globe. Regular features include “Found!” by Megan Smolenyak, reader-submitted heritage recipes, Howard Wolinsky’s tech-driven “NextGen,” feature articles, a timeline, how-to tips for Family Tree Maker, and insider insight to new tools and records at Ancestry.com. Ancestry magazine is published 6 times yearly by Ancestry Inc., parent company of Ancestry.com.
Author: Martin Ottenheimer Publisher: University of Illinois Press ISBN: 9780252065408 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 194
Book Description
CONTENIDO: Laws prohibiting the marriage of relatives -- The reasons for U.S. laws against first cousin marriage -- European laws prohibiting the marriage of relatives -- European views of cousin marriage -- The evolutionary factor -- Biogenetics and first cousin marriage -- Culture and cousin marriage.
Author: C N Shankar Rao Publisher: S. Chand Publishing ISBN: 9355016646 Category : Languages : en Pages : 112
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The book has been prepared to meet the needs of B.A Second Semester students of Sociology for the University of Jammu under the recommended National Education policy 2020. It comprehensively covers the syllabus of major and minor courses Social Institutions and Basic Institutions in Society. This book gives systematic introduction and explanation to all the four units of both the papers. All the Social Institutions namely, family and marriage, Kinship, religion and economy, polity and education including types of education and political system have been aptly duscussed. The book contains simple,lucid and precise explantion of the topics so that it becomes students friendly. It can serve as a general reference book for the soialogy students studying at the undergraduate level in all the other universities of India.
Author: Tracey German Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317069129 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 286
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The South Caucasus region, comprising the former Soviet states of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia occupies a key strategic location, squeezed between the Black and Caspian Seas, Iran, Russia and Turkey. Since the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991, the region has become an arena of geopolitical confrontation with regional powers such as Russia, Turkey and Iran vying for influence in the face of growing Western involvement. The Russian military intervention in Georgia in 2008 not only raised questions about Moscow's intentions towards its 'Near Abroad' and the future direction of its foreign policy, it also demonstrated that ostensibly local separatist disputes have serious ramifications for regional relations and the wider international community. In this book, German explores the extent of regional cooperation in the South Caucasus, analyses the reasons for the relative lack of regional cooperation and assesses the potential for deeper cooperation in the future.
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