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Author: John Kaag Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN: 0374719624 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 146
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"American Bloods is an unflinching history of our nation . . . This is a breakout book for John Kaag—the natural extension of his genre-defining writing.” —Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Leadership: In Turbulent Times A history of a family spanning centuries and continents—one that unfolds into a new portrait of America. The Bloods were one of America’s first and most expansive pioneer families. They explored and laid claim to the frontiers—geographic, political, intellectual, and spiritual—that would become the very core of the United States. John Kaag’s American Bloods is the account of a remarkable American family, of its participation in the making of a nation, and of how its members embodied the elusive ideals enshrined in the Declaration of Independence. Inspired by the discovery of a mysterious manuscript in an old Massachusetts farmhouse, Kaag follows eight members of this family from the British Civil Wars in the seventeenth century through the founding of the colonies, the American Revolution, transcendentalism, the Industrial Revolution, the Civil War, and the rise of first-wave feminism, all the way to the beginning of the twentieth century. The Bloods were active participants in virtually every pivotal moment in American history, coming into contact with everyone from Emerson and Thoreau to John Brown, Frederick Douglass, Victoria Woodhull, and William James. The genealogy of the family tracks the ebb and flow of what Thoreau called “wildness,” an original untamed spirit that would recede in the making of America but would never be extinguished entirely. American Bloods is an enduring reminder of the risks and rewards that were taken in laying claim to the lands that would become the United States, and a composite portrait of America like no other.
Author: John Kaag Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN: 0374719624 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 146
Book Description
"American Bloods is an unflinching history of our nation . . . This is a breakout book for John Kaag—the natural extension of his genre-defining writing.” —Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Leadership: In Turbulent Times A history of a family spanning centuries and continents—one that unfolds into a new portrait of America. The Bloods were one of America’s first and most expansive pioneer families. They explored and laid claim to the frontiers—geographic, political, intellectual, and spiritual—that would become the very core of the United States. John Kaag’s American Bloods is the account of a remarkable American family, of its participation in the making of a nation, and of how its members embodied the elusive ideals enshrined in the Declaration of Independence. Inspired by the discovery of a mysterious manuscript in an old Massachusetts farmhouse, Kaag follows eight members of this family from the British Civil Wars in the seventeenth century through the founding of the colonies, the American Revolution, transcendentalism, the Industrial Revolution, the Civil War, and the rise of first-wave feminism, all the way to the beginning of the twentieth century. The Bloods were active participants in virtually every pivotal moment in American history, coming into contact with everyone from Emerson and Thoreau to John Brown, Frederick Douglass, Victoria Woodhull, and William James. The genealogy of the family tracks the ebb and flow of what Thoreau called “wildness,” an original untamed spirit that would recede in the making of America but would never be extinguished entirely. American Bloods is an enduring reminder of the risks and rewards that were taken in laying claim to the lands that would become the United States, and a composite portrait of America like no other.
Author: Herbert C. Covey Publisher: Greenwood ISBN: 0313399298 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 0
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This book provides a concise and engaging examination of the subculture of the Crips and Bloods—the notorious street gangs that started in Los Angeles, but have now spread throughout the United States. Despite the dangers and harsh realities intrinsic to street life and criminal activity, the no-holds-barred lifestyle of gangs continues to interest mainstream America. This provocative book provides an insider's look into the subculture of two of the most notorious street gangs—the Crips and the Bloods. Crips and Bloods: A Guide to an American Subculture traces the evolution of the two gangs, covering their origins in South Central Los Angeles to the organizations' current presence throughout the United States. The author analyzes the ways in which the gang subculture is created, promoted, and perpetuated; shows how the groups currently recruit their members; and explores the ways Crip and Blood culture has expanded beyond the gangs into the larger mainstream society.
Author: Michael Sims Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781541289857 Category : Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 392
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The year was 1963 and my mother had just moved me and my siblings to Watts, California from Louisiana. I was only 3yrs old but from that point on my life would never be the same. Follow me Michael "Ridah Mike" Sims as I go through my life story the bad and the ugly as I show you the reader how I became the strong willed intelligent man that I am today. Warning! What you are about to read is a book so dangerous that it was filed "under Sealed" in court proceedings to determine if it should ever see the light of day. Prison officials have determined that if the manuscript is disseminated, it would incite violence and undermine institutional security...confiscating the manuscript thus helps to stop the distribution of it and the dangerous effects of the information it contains... -Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General Prison gangs are responsible for violent acts and other criminal activities taking place in the prisons and on the public streets. As IGI Lieutenant, I am responsible for Pelican Bay's efforts to monitor, control, and suppress prison gang activity. -James McMillan, Lieutenant IGI (Institutional Gang Investigation) Old cliches are often true! "Don't judge a book by its cover." Taken as a whole, Petitioner's manuscript is an attempt to persuade readers that the path to be avoided... -Scott Hoxeng, Attorney At Law I've been incarcerated since 1979 and lived a very pugnacious lifestyle, but now serve as a devoted activist against all violence. Some prison officials try to suppress reconciliatory messages by the esoteric minded brothers of my stature. -Michael "Ridah Mike" Sims, Author
Author: Wallace Terry Publisher: Presidio Press ISBN: 0345311973 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 328
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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • The national bestseller that tells the truth about the Vietnam War from the black soldiers’ perspective. An oral history unlike any other, Bloods features twenty black men who tell the story of how members of their race were sent off to Vietnam in disproportionate numbers, and of the special test of patriotism they faced. Told in voices no reader will soon forget, Bloods is a must-read for anyone who wants to put the Vietnam experience in historical, cultural, and political perspective. Praise for Bloods “Superb . . . a portrait not just of warfare and warriors but of beleaguered patriotism and pride. The violence recalled in Bloods is chilling. . . . On most of its pages hope prevails. Some of these men have witnessed the very worst that people can inflict on one another. . . . Their experience finally transcends race; their dramatic monologues bear witness to humanity.”—Time “[Wallace] Terry’s oral history captures the very essence of war, at both its best and worst. . . . [He] has done a great service for all Americans with Bloods. Future historians will find his case studies extremely useful, and they will be hard pressed to ignore the role of blacks, as too often has been the case in past wars.”—The Washington Post Book World “Terry set out to write an oral history of American blacks who fought for their country in Vietnam, but he did better than that. He wrote a compelling portrait of Americans in combat, and used his words so that the reader—black or white—knows the soldiers as men and Americans, their race overshadowed by the larger humanity Terry conveys. . . . This is not light reading, but it is literature with the ring of truth that shows the reader worlds through the eyes of others. You can’t ask much more from a book than that.”—Associated Press “Bloods is a major contribution to the literature of this war. For the first time a book has detailed the inequities blacks faced at home and on the battlefield. Their war stories involve not only Vietnam, but Harlem, Watts, Washington D.C. and small-town America.”—Atlanta Journal-Constitution “I wish Bloods were longer, and I hope it makes the start of a comprehensive oral and analytic history of blacks in Vietnam. . . . They see their experiences as Americans, and as blacks who live in, but are sometimes at odds with, America. The results are sometimes stirring, sometimes appalling, but this three-tiered perspective heightens and shadows every tale.”—The Village Voice “Terry was in Vietnam from 1967 through 1969. . . . In this book he has backtracked, Studs Terkel–like, and found twenty black veterans of the Vietnam War and let them spill their guts. And they do; oh, how they do. The language is raw, naked, a brick through a window on a still night. At the height of tension a sweet story, a soft story, drops into view. The veterans talk about fighting two wars: Vietnam and racism. They talk about fighting alongside the Ku Klux Klan.”—The Boston Globe
Author: Michael Sims Publisher: Trafford Publishing ISBN: 9781466955141 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Perhaps a book cover such as this would indubitably attract their attentions, due to it being a direct relation to their life. And may browse through it sporadically. On the contrary, the million or more gang members who are incarcerated across the nation, the vast majority are avid readers. Especially when the subject is that of enthralled. Sad, but true facts, confinement is where many of us educate ourselves. For desirous motive to correspond with family, friends, and relations with society in general. There have been literally over fifty gang members and prison officials who read this manuscript. And in some way they were all unanimous in saying they were affected in a positive way, by the message I am promoting to the gang members.
Author: Betsy Erkkila Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press ISBN: 0812238443 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 288
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In this series of essays Betsy Erkkila considers the historical and psychological dramas of blood—as marker of violence, race, sex, kinship—that have stood near the center of American literature, culture, and politics since the eighteenth century.
Author: John Nichols Publisher: University of New Mexico Press ISBN: 0826354688 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 390
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Though Michael Smith cannot forget the pornographic atrocities he witnessed abroad during the Vietnam war, it is the pervasive brutality of civilian life that threatens to destroy him. American Blood is a timely and fiercely moral statement on violence and loss.
Author: A. B. Wilkinson Publisher: UNC Press Books ISBN: 146965900X Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 337
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The history of race in North America is still often conceived of in black and white terms. In this book, A. B. Wilkinson complicates that history by investigating how people of mixed African, European, and Native American heritage—commonly referred to as "Mulattoes," "Mustees," and "mixed bloods"—were integral to the construction of colonial racial ideologies. Thousands of mixed-heritage people appear in the records of English colonies, largely in the Chesapeake, Carolinas, and Caribbean, and this book provides a clear and compelling picture of their lives before the advent of the so-called one-drop rule. Wilkinson explores the ways mixed-heritage people viewed themselves and explains how they—along with their African and Indigenous American forebears—resisted the formation of a rigid racial order and fought for freedom in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century societies shaped by colonial labor and legal systems. As contemporary U.S. society continues to grapple with institutional racism rooted in a settler colonial past, this book illuminates the earliest ideas of racial mixture in British America well before the founding of the United States.
Author: Jesse Ventura Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc. ISBN: 1616084480 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 321
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Ventura exposes how the two major parties have allowed corporations, businesses, and politically motivated wealthy individuals to manipulate elections, bribe elected officials, and silence the average American voter.
Author: John Kaag
Author: John Kaag
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Author: Michael Sims
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