The contributions of the black population to the history and economic development of Puerto Rico have long been distorted and underplayed, Luis A. Figueroa contends. Focusing on the southeastern coastal region of Guayama, one of Puerto Rico's three leading centers of sugarcane agriculture, Figueroa examines the transition from slavery and slave labor to freedom and free labor after the 1873 abolition of slavery in colonial Puerto Rico. He corrects misconceptions about how ex-slaves went about building their lives and livelihoods after emancipation and debunks standing myths about race relations in Puerto Rico. Historians have assumed that after emancipation in Puerto Rico, as in other parts of the Caribbean and the U.S. South, former slaves acquired some land of their own and became subsistence farmers. Figueroa finds that in Puerto Rico, however, this was not an option because both capital and land available for sale to the Afro-Puerto Rican population were scarce. Paying particular attention to class, gender, and race, his account of how these libertos joined the labor market profoundly revises our understanding of the emancipation process and the evolution of the working class in Puerto Rico.
Mitzi came into our lives in 2010, no bigger than a dish rag, and continues to evoke the very best of us every day. This book personifies what she can do to you and to your soul when you meet her someday.
Public commemorations of various kinds are an important part of how groups large and small acknowledge and process injustices and tragic events. Performing Commemoration: Musical Reenactment and the Politics of Trauma looks at the roles music can play in public commemorations of traumatic events that range from the Armenian genocide and World War I to contemporary violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the #sayhername protests. Whose version of a traumatic historical event gets told is always a complicated question, and music adds further layers to this complexity, particularly music without words. The three sections of this collection look at different facets of musical commemorations and reenactments, focusing on how music can mediate, but also intensify responses to social injustice; how reenactments and their use of music are shifting (and not always toward greater social effectiveness); and how claims for musical authenticity are politicized in various ways. By engaging with critical theory around memory studies and performance studies, the contributors to this volume explore social justice, in, and through music.
Modern Jerusalem, a city central to Jewish, Muslim, and Christian religious imaginaries and the political epicenter of the Israeli-Palestinian crisis, is to put it mildly a highly contested space. More surprising, perhaps, is that its musical landscape not only reflects these rifts but also helped to define them as the ancient city transitioned to modernity during the twentieth century. In City of Song: Music and the Making of Modern Jerusalem, author Michael A. Figueroa argues that musical renderings of Jerusalem have been critical to the formation of Israeli political consciousness. The book demonstrates how Israeli songwriters helped to shape their public's territorial imagination-- creating images of a city at once heavenly and earthly, that dwells in longing, that must not be forgotten, that compels one to bereave the dead, that represents the fulfilment of prophecy, and that is the site of immense cultural diversity. The dynamic history of its representation in lyrics and music helps dispel any notion that the Israeli-Palestinian crisis is timeless, intractable, and based on static, essential identities; while there are continuities across historical divides, radical change constantly transpires. City of Song combines analyses of musical meaning, political discourse, and public performance over the long twentieth century (1880s-2010) to reveal how the Israeli-Palestinian crisis' territorial fixation on Jerusalem has been constructed, historically contingent, and subject to artistic intervention in modernity. Through a musical history of Jerusalem, Figueroa introduces a novel, humanities-centered approach to one of the world's most contested cities, and one of the defining cultural and political questions of our era.
Growth, Employment, Inequality, and the Environment deals with the fundamental economic problems of our time: employment, inequality, the environment, and quality of life.
Robin finds her life flipped upside down as she now embarks to unlock the secrets of her ancestry and ultimately seal a tear between the past, present and the future. It starts at a great roaring fire, where everything she once knew about her previous life is consumed in flames. This novelette is the first entry of the series "The Bloodline".
p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px 'Book Antiqua'} Hi, our names are Ed and Jena Figueroa, and we are with the Rivers of Living Water Ministry. I am retired from the Air Force, after 20 years and 10 days of service. I became a born-again Christian through a Christian by the name of Charles Wilcox April 13,1979. Then I met another Christian by the name of Tony Robinson. Both Charles and Tony were instrumental in helping me walk with God in my infant stages. Both of these men were stationed with me at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, home of Air Force One. Then I was trained with the Navigators from 1979 to 1985. I sat under Harv Olsin, who was the Military Director of the Navigators of all Europe. The Navigators are a group of men who are heavily into discipleship known throughout the world. In addition, there were men like Charlie Sparkman, Ron Magnus, Henry Scott Baldwing, Bob Kuecker who were my mentors; solid as a rock in their walks with God, and were also responsible for instilling character and integrity in my walk with God. Then there were four key men who were with me through thick and thin: their names were Steve Nabbinger, Larry Clairmont, Dale Follis and Jim Franklin, men that God put in my life to help me keep my focus on Jesus Christ. Finally, Andy Puleo, an awesome man of God that was the piece de resistance. Always challenging me to be the best in ministry. Then I met my beautiful wife, Jena; it was amazing how God brought us together in marriage. The epitome of what a faithful woman of God every women should be. She continues to be a blessing to me, always there for me, and always challenging me to never give up, especially writing this book.
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