Elijah Anderson's Books

A Place on the Corner, Second Edition

By: Elijah Anderson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

A Place on the Corner, Second Edition

By: Elijah Anderson

This paperback edition of A Place on the Corner marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of Elijah Anderson's sociological classic, a study of street corner life at a local barroom/liquor store located in the ghetto on Chicago's South Side. Anderson returned night after night, month after month, to gain a deeper understanding of the people he met, vividly depicting how they created—and recreated—their local stratification system. In addition, Anderson introduces key sociological concepts, including "the extended primary group" and "being down." The new preface and appendix in this edition expand on Anderson's original work, telling the intriguing story of how he went about his field work among the men who frequented Jelly's corner.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

288

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

022677502X

ISBN 13

9780226775029

A Place on the Corner

By: Elijah Anderson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

A Place on the Corner

By: Elijah Anderson

Anderson's mix of the language of sociology and the more colorful street idiom makes a complex social phenomenon accessible to a broad audience. . . . An important work."—Gerald Lee Dillingham, Contemporary Sociology

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

248

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0226019535

ISBN 13

9780226019536

Plunder for Profit

A Socio-environmental History of Tobacco Farming in Southern Rhodesia and Zimbabwe

By: Elijah Doro

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Plunder for Profit

A Socio-environmental History of Tobacco Farming in Southern Rhodesia and Zimbabwe

By: Elijah Doro

Exploring over a century of Zimbabwe's colonial and post-colonial history, Elijah Doro investigates the murky and noxious history of that powerful crop: tobacco. In a compelling narrative that debunks previous histories glorifying tobacco farming, Doro reveals the indelible marks that tobacco left on landscapes, communities, and people. Demonstrating that the history of tobacco farming is inseparable from that of colonial encounter, Doro outlines how tobacco became an institutionalised culture of production, which was linked to state power and natural ecosystems, and driven by a pernicious heritage of unbridled plunder. With the destruction of landscapes, the negative impacts of the export trade and the growing tobacco epidemic in Zimbabwe, tobacco farming has a long and varied legacy in southern African and across the world. Connecting the local to the global, and the environmental to the social, this book illuminates our understandings of environmental history, colonialism and sustainability.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

333

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1009115367

ISBN 13

9781009115360

The Rise of the Global South

The Decline of Western Christendom and the Rise of Majority World Christianity

By: Elijah Jong Fil Kim

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Rise of the Global South

The Decline of Western Christendom and the Rise of Majority World Christianity

By: Elijah Jong Fil Kim

Global Christianity has been experiencing an unprecedented historical transition from the West to the non-Western world. The leadership of global Christianity has taken on a new face since the twentieth century. Christendom in Europe and America has experienced a great decline while there has been a rise in Majority World Christianity. Churches in the Global South have given their voices to global Christianity through their leadership, world mission movements, and theology. The phenomenal church growth has risen from the Pentecostal and Charismatic movement. Pentecostalism has become the dominant force in global Christianity today. The Rise of the Global South examines the significance this shift has had on global Christianity by going through the history of Christianity in the West and the causes of the shift.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

525

Publisher

Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published Date

ISBN 10

1610979702

ISBN 13

9781610979702

The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race and Civility in Everyday Life

By: Elijah Anderson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race and Civility in Everyday Life

By: Elijah Anderson

A Yale sociology professor discusses how everyday people meet the demands of urban living through islands of civility he calls "cosmopolitan canopies" and describes how activities carried out under this canopy can ease racial tensions and promote harmony.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

336

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

Published Date

ISBN 10

0393340511

ISBN 13

9780393340518

Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City

By: Elijah Anderson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City

By: Elijah Anderson

Unsparing and important. . . . An informative, clearheaded and sobering book.—Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post (1999 Critic's Choice) Inner-city black America is often stereotyped as a place of random violence, but in fact, violence in the inner city is regulated through an informal but well-known code of the street. This unwritten set of rules—based largely on an individual's ability to command respect—is a powerful and pervasive form of etiquette, governing the way in which people learn to negotiate public spaces. Elijah Anderson's incisive book delineates the code and examines it as a response to the lack of jobs that pay a living wage, to the stigma of race, to rampant drug use, to alienation and lack of hope.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

362

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

Published Date

ISBN 10

0393070387

ISBN 13

9780393070385

Born to Rebel

An Autobiography

By: Benjamin Elijah Mays

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Born to Rebel

An Autobiography

By: Benjamin Elijah Mays

Born the son of a sharecropper in 1894 near Ninety Six, South Carolina, Benjamin E. Mays went on to serve as president of Morehouse College for twenty-seven years and as the first president of the Atlanta School Board. His earliest memory, of a lynching party storming through his county, taunting but not killing his father, became for Mays an enduring image of black-white relations in the South. Born to Rebel is the moving chronicle of his life, a story that interlaces achievement with the rebuke he continually confronted.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

468

Publisher

University of Georgia Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0820325236

ISBN 13

9780820325231

Black in White Space

The Enduring Impact of Color in Everyday Life

By: Elijah Anderson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Black in White Space

The Enduring Impact of Color in Everyday Life

By: Elijah Anderson

From the vital voice of Elijah Anderson, Black in White Space sheds fresh light on the dire persistence of racial discrimination in our country. A birder strolling in Central Park. A college student lounging on a university quad. Two men sitting in a coffee shop. Perfectly ordinary actions in ordinary settings—and yet, they sparked jarring and inflammatory responses that involved the police and attracted national media coverage. Why? In essence, Elijah Anderson would argue, because these were Black people existing in white spaces. In Black in White Space, Anderson brings his immense knowledge and ethnography to bear in this timely study of the racial barriers that are still firmly entrenched in our society at every class level. He focuses in on symbolic racism, a new form of racism in America caused by the stubbornly powerful stereotype of the ghetto embedded in the white imagination, which subconsciously connects all Black people with crime and poverty regardless of their social or economic position. White people typically avoid Black space, but Black people are required to navigate the “white space” as a condition of their existence. From Philadelphia street-corner conversations to Anderson’s own morning jogs through a Cape Cod vacation town, he probes a wealth of experiences to shed new light on how symbolic racism makes all Black people uniquely vulnerable to implicit bias in police stops and racial discrimination in our country. An unwavering truthteller in our national conversation on race, Anderson has shared intimate and sharp insights into Black life for decades. Vital and eye-opening, Black in White Space will be a must-read for anyone hoping to understand the lived realities of Black people and the structural underpinnings of racism in America.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

299

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0226826414

ISBN 13

9780226826417

Gruesome Looking Objects

By: Elijah Gaddis

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Gruesome Looking Objects

By: Elijah Gaddis

This original and provocative study uses objects-made, collected, and imagined-to examine lynching and racial terror.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

257

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1316514021

ISBN 13

9781316514023

Identity Crises and Indigenous Religious Traditions

Exploring Nigerian-African Christian Societies

By: Elijah Obinna

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Identity Crises and Indigenous Religious Traditions

Exploring Nigerian-African Christian Societies

By: Elijah Obinna

This book highlights the complex identity crises among many Christians as they negotiate their new identities, religious ideas and convictions as both Christians and members of Nigerian-African societies of indigenous religious traditions and identities. Through an interdisciplinary interpretation of religious practices and educational issues in teaching and ritual training, the author provides tools to help analyse empirical cases. These include the negotiation processes among Christians, with focus on the Presbyterian Church of Nigeria (PCN) and members of the Ogo society within the Amasiri, Afikpo North Local Government Area, Ebonyi state, in South-eastern Nigeria. Identifying the power dynamic, identity, role and influence of indigenous religions on Christians and the Ogo society, this book reveals the limited interactions between many Christians and members of the Ogo society. Questions explored include: what makes the Ogo society an integral part of the socio-religious life of Amasiri and what powers and identity does it confer on the initiates; how is the PCN within Amasiri responding to the Ogo society through its religious practices such as baptism, confirmation, local auxiliary ministries and organisational structure; and how does the understanding and application of conversion within the PCN impact on its members’ response to the Ogo society? Demonstrating how complex religious identities and practices of Nigerian-African Christians can balance mission-influenced Christianity with indigenous religious traditions and identities, this book recognises the importance of appropriating the powers of indigenous cultures, ingenuity and creativity in the construction and preservation of community identities. As such, it will be of keen interest to scholars of Christian theology, indigenous religious practice and African lived religion.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

257

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

131711907X

ISBN 13

9781317119074

Why Didn't Nietzsche Get His Act Together?

By: Elijah Millgram

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Why Didn't Nietzsche Get His Act Together?

By: Elijah Millgram

Nietzsche did his philosophizing while he was coming apart at the seams. His writing is hard for readers to find their way around because he was all over the place when he produced it. But it's philosophy of coming apart at the seams and being all over the place, and also philosophy as a way of coping with that predicament-which makes it both fascinating and important. Why Didn't Nietzsche Get His Act Together? has three main tasks on its agenda. Nietzsche is hard to make sense of; this is a guide, a book that shows you how to read him for yourself. Second, Nietzsche coped with his disintegrating self by philosophizing, and so this is a work that takes up disunified agency through Nietzsche's own engagement with the topic. Third and finally, Nietzsche managed his fragmenting personality by inventing one after another meaning of life for himself; examining those inventions and the job they did for him is an occasion to ask what a meaning of life is for"--

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

381

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0197669301

ISBN 13

9780197669303

Josh White

Society Blues

By: Elijah Wald

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Josh White

Society Blues

By: Elijah Wald

Born in South Carolina, White spent his childhood as a lead boy for traveling blind bluesmen. In the early '30s he moved to New York and became a popular blues star, then introduced folk-blues to a mass white audience in the 1940s. He was famed both for his strong Civil Rights songs, which made him a favorite of the Roosevelts, and for his sexy stage persona. The king of Café Society-also home to Billie Holiday--he was the one bluesman to consistently pack the New York nightspots, and the first black singer-guitarist to act in Hollywood films and star on Broadway. In the 1950s, White's bitter compromise with the blacklisters left him with few friends on either end of the political spectrum. He spent much of the decade in Europe, then came back strong in the 1960s folk revival. By 1963, he was voted one of America's top three male folk stars, but his health was failing and he did not survive the decade. Written in an engaging style, Society Blues portrays the difficult balancing act that all black performers must face in a predominantly white culture. Through the twists and turns of White's life, it traces the evolution of the blues and folk revival, and is a must read for anyone interested in the history of American popular culture, as well as a fascinating life story. Visit the author's website to see the Josh White photo gallery and learn more about Elijah Wald.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

374

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

113672365X

ISBN 13

9781136723650

Hard Truths

By: Elijah Millgram

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Hard Truths

By: Elijah Millgram

Hard Truths is a groundbreaking new work in whichnoted philosopher Elijah Millgram advances a new approach to truthand its role in our day-to-day reasoning. Takes up the hard truths of real reasoning and draws out theirimplications for logic and metaphysics Introduces and takes issue with prevailing views of thepurpose of truth and the way we reason, including deflationismabout truth, possible worlds treatments of modality, andantipsychologism in philosophy of logic Develops philosophically ambitious ideas in a style accessibleto non-specialists Will make us rethink the place of metaphysics in our dailylives

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

312

Publisher

John Wiley & Sons

Published Date

ISBN 10

1444310755

ISBN 13

9781444310757

Cognitive Phenomenology

By: Elijah Chudnoff

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Cognitive Phenomenology

By: Elijah Chudnoff

Phenomenology is about subjective aspects of the mind, such as the conscious states associated with vision and touch, and the conscious states associated with emotions and moods, such as feelings of elation or sadness. These states have a distinctive first-person ‘feel’ to them, called their phenomenal character. In this respect they are often taken to be radically different from mental states and processes associated with thought. This is the first book to fully question this orthodoxy and explore the prospects of cognitive phenomenology, applying phenomenology to the study of thought and cognition. Does cognition have its own phenomenal character? Can introspection tell us either way? If consciousness flows in an unbroken ‘stream’ as William James argued, how might a punctuated sequence of thoughts fit into it? Elijah Chudnoff begins with a clarification of the nature of the debate about cognitive phenomenology and the network of concepts and theses that are involved in it. He then examines the following topics: introspection and knowledge of our own thoughts phenomenal contrast arguments the value of consciousness the temporal structure of experience the holistic character of experience and the interdependence of sensory and cognitive states the relationship between phenomenal character and mental representation. Including chapter summaries, annotated further reading, and a glossary, this book is essential reading for anyone seeking a clear and informative introduction to and assessment of cognitive phenomenology, whether philosophy student or advanced researcher. It will also be valuable reading for those in related subjects such as philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology and epistemology.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

259

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

131767684X

ISBN 13

9781317676843

Dr. Benjamin E. Mays Speaks

Representative Speeches of a Great American Orator

By: Benjamin Elijah Mays

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Dr. Benjamin E. Mays Speaks

Representative Speeches of a Great American Orator

By: Benjamin Elijah Mays

Benjamin Mays was an African-American educator and a vocal opponent of segregation and discrimination who influenced the thinking of Martin Luther King, Jr. Political scientist Colston presents a collection of the speeches, commencement addresses, sermons, and eulogies of Mays, in which he comments on race relations and the state of education in the United States. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

316

Publisher

University Press of America

Published Date

ISBN 10

0761823433

ISBN 13

9780761823438

A Bachelor's Life in Antebellum Mississippi

The Diary of Dr. Elijah Millington Walker, 1849-1852

By: Elijah Millington Walker

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

A Bachelor's Life in Antebellum Mississippi

The Diary of Dr. Elijah Millington Walker, 1849-1852

By: Elijah Millington Walker

A Bachelor's Life in Antebellum Mississippi brings to the public one of the few diaries of a very intelligent yet "ordinary" man, a non-elite member of a society dominated by a planter aristocracy. The author's frankness and flair for writing reflect a way of life not often seen; this volume will thus prove a valuable addition to the body of primary documents from the early republic."--Jacket.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

398

Publisher

Univ. of Tennessee Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1572332832

ISBN 13

9781572332836

Book's by Elijah Anderson

A Place on the Corner, Second Edition

A Place on the Corner, Second Edition

A Place on the Corner

A Place on the Corner

Plunder for Profit

Plunder for Profit

The Rise of the Global South

The Rise of the Global South

The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race and Civility in Everyday Life

The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race and Civility in Everyday Life

Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City

Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City

Born to Rebel

Born to Rebel

Black in White Space

Black in White Space

Gruesome Looking Objects

Gruesome Looking Objects

Identity Crises and Indigenous Religious Traditions

Identity Crises and Indigenous Religious Traditions

Why Didn't Nietzsche Get His Act Together?

Why Didn't Nietzsche Get His Act Together?

Josh White

Josh White

Hard Truths

Hard Truths

Cognitive Phenomenology

Cognitive Phenomenology

Dr. Benjamin E. Mays Speaks

Dr. Benjamin E. Mays Speaks

A Bachelor's Life in Antebellum Mississippi

A Bachelor's Life in Antebellum Mississippi

Username

Password

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email