Author: Michael B. WalkerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
By the Billabong
Author: Maura FinnPublisher:
ISBN: 9781922626615
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
A wisdom of wombats,A passel of possums,A cluster of spiders knitting socks . . .Who else might you meet on a trip to the billabong?Find out in this delightful romp through a much-loved Australian landscape.
Dance To My Ministry
Author: Carl Petter OpsahlPublisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
ISBN: 3647604542
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Hip-hop is a deeply spiritual culture, a culture that since its beginnings has provided urban youth all over the world with a sense of place, being and direction, with knowledge of self and knowledge of cultural heritage. By examining a number of rap tunes and graffiti walls, Carl Petter Opsahl explores different spiritualities and religious traditions informing hip-hop culture, including, Christianity, Nation of Islam, Nation of Gods and Earths and indigenous spiritualities. By developing a theoretical framework of hybrid spirituality, Opsahl outlines spiritual strategies of survival and resistance in contexts of oppression and struggle.He provides basic introductions to recent research on spirituality, to hip-hop culture and its esthetic practices and to Islam in the USA and the teachings of Nation of Islam and Nation of Gods and Earths. Then follow in-depth analyzes of hip-hop cultural expressions. One chapter is devoted to the study of graffiti murals, exploring artworks by some of New York's finest writers such as TATS CRU, TRACY 168, TOO FLY and QUEEN ANDREA. Then follows a chapter on rap and Christianity, featuring explorations of Lauryn Hill, 2Pac and a number of Christian rappers including G.R.I.T.S. Another chapter explores Islamic influences on rap, with studies on Public Enemy, Wu-Tang Clan, Erykah Badu and Mos Def.Embedded in rhythms, rhymes, colors and shapes, the exploration of hip hop spirituality expands the horizon of studies in spirituality.
100 Black Women Who Shaped America
Author: Glenn L. StarksPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 144088109X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
This introductory text explores the lives of 100 Black women and their unique and meaningful legacies upon the history, society, and culture of the USA. Today, the names and remarkable achievements of Black women such as Maya Angelou, Serena Williams, Michelle Obama, and Oprah Winfrey are well known to many Americans. Yet throughout American history, many lesser-known Black women like them have made invaluable contributions to sports, science, the arts, medicine, politics, and civil rights. Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, who published the first newspaper written for and by African American women, championed the cause of women's suffrage. Matilda Sissieretta Jones, whose father was an enslaved person, toured Europe and performed at the White House in front of four different presidents as one of the great sopranos of her generation. Augusta Savage, overcoming racism and sexism, became one of the most celebrated sculptors in history. This book serves as an important reminder that the story of America cannot be told without the Black women who, with strength and determination, have always pushed America forward even when others held them back.
"Who Set You Flowin'?"
Author: Farah Jasmine GriffinPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195358449
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
Twentieth-century America has witnessed the most widespread and sustained movement of African-Americans from the South to urban centers in the North. Who Set You Flowin'? examines the impact of this dislocation and urbanization, identifying the resulting Migration Narratives as a major genre in African-American cultural production. Griffin takes an interdisciplinary approach with readings of several literary texts, migrant correspondence, painting, photography, rap music, blues, and rhythm and blues. From these various sources Griffin isolates the tropes of Ancestor, Stranger, and Safe Space, which, though common to all Migration Narratives, vary in their portrayal. She argues that the emergence of a dominant portrayal of these tropes is the product of the historical and political moment, often challenged by alternative portrayals in other texts or artistic forms, as well as intra-textually. Richard Wright's bleak, yet cosmopolitan portraits were countered by Dorothy West's longing for Black Southern communities. Ralph Ellison, while continuing Wright's vision, reexamined the significance of Black Southern culture. Griffin concludes with Toni Morrison embracing the South "as a site of African-American history and culture," "a place to be redeemed."
Universalist Union
Author: Littell's Living Age
Author: Eliakim LittellConscious Dancer, Fall 2009 #8
Author: The Friend
Author: Harper's Weekly
Author: John BonnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1106
Book Description
Boswell's Life of Johnson
Author: James BoswellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 1798
Book Description