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Streetwise

Race, Class, and Change in an Urban Community

By: Elijah Anderson

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Streetwise

Race, Class, and Change in an Urban Community

By: Elijah Anderson

In a powerful, revealing portrait of city life, Anderson explores the dilemma of both blacks and whites, the underclass and the middle class, caught up in the new struggle not only for common ground—prime real estate in a racially changing neighborhood—but for shared moral community. Blacks and whites from a variety of backgrounds speak candidly about their lives, their differences, and their battle for viable communities. "The sharpness of his observations and the simple clarity of his prose recommend his book far beyond an academic audience. Vivid, unflinching, finely observed, Streetwise is a powerful and intensely frightening picture of the inner city."—Tamar Jacoby, New York Times Book Review "The book is without peer in the urban sociology literature. . . . A first-rate piece of social science, and a very good read."—Glenn C. Loury, Washington Times

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University of Chicago Press

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022609894X

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9780226098944

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

By: Elijah Anderson

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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.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393070387

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9780393070385

Trans Kids and Teens: Pride, Joy, and Families in Transition

By: Elijah C. Nealy

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Trans Kids and Teens: Pride, Joy, and Families in Transition

By: Elijah C. Nealy

A comprehensive guide to the medical, emotional, and social issues of trans kids. These days, it is practically impossible not to hear about some aspect of transgender life. Whether it is the bathroom issue in North Carolina, trans people in the military, or on television, trans life has become front and center after years of marginalization. And kids are coming out as trans at younger and younger ages, which is a good thing for them. But what written resources are available to parents, teachers, and mental health professionals who need to support these children? Elijah C. Nealy, a therapist and former deputy executive director of New York City’s LGBT Community Center, and himself a trans man, has written the first-ever comprehensive guide to understanding, supporting, and welcoming trans kids. Covering everything from family life to school and mental health issues, as well as the physical, social, and emotional aspects of transition, this book is full of best practices to support trans kids.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393711404

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9780393711400

School for the Age of Upheaval

Classrooms That Get Personal, Get Political, and Get to Work

By: T. Elijah Hawkes

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School for the Age of Upheaval

Classrooms That Get Personal, Get Political, and Get to Work

By: T. Elijah Hawkes

Young people today know trouble from a host of sources: poverty, sexism and racism; the storms of a climate in turmoil; the loss of loved-ones to incarceration, addiction and suicide. This book is about the role that teachers can play in helping our young people transcend these troubles, honor the pain they feel, and channel their aggression in productive directions. But counseling and anti-bullying programs are not enough. The key is to open up the very content of the curriculum to the emotional life of the whole child.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1475851839

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9781475851830

How to Talk to a Movie

Movie-Watching as a Spiritual Exercise

By: Elijah Lynn Davidson

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How to Talk to a Movie

Movie-Watching as a Spiritual Exercise

By: Elijah Lynn Davidson

Watching a movie is more than an opportunity to be entertained. Watching a movie is an opportunity to meet with God. In a few brief chapters, How to Talk to a Movie will forever change the way you watch movies by opening your eyes and ears to what movies are saying, how they are saying it, and how God might be speaking to you through them.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1532613148

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9781532613142

Black in White Space

The Enduring Impact of Color in Everyday Life

By: Elijah Anderson

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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.

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299

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University of Chicago Press

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0226826414

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9780226826417

The Unseen Hand. Or James Renfew and His Boy Helpers

By: Elijah Kellogg

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The Unseen Hand. Or James Renfew and His Boy Helpers

By: Elijah Kellogg

Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385417104

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9783385417106

Born to Rebel

An Autobiography

By: Benjamin Elijah Mays

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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.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820325236

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9780820325231

Project America

Memoirs of Faith and Hope to Win the Future

By: Marshall Elijah Hatch

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Project America

Memoirs of Faith and Hope to Win the Future

By: Marshall Elijah Hatch

PROJECT AMERICA: Memoirs of Faith and Hope to Win the Future, is one of the most impactful and relevant literary works of our time. The author, Dr. Marshall E. Hatch, sheds light on the timeless maxim that "each generation must chart its own course." In looking back to Dr. King's global vision, he conscientiously looks forward to summon the probing question "Where do we go from here?" Project America offers a nostalgic yet visionary memoir that weaves together scenes from the author's personal journey with historical analysis and commentaries to address contemporary public policy issues. In his expansive, thoughtful, and powerful treatise, Dr. Hatch presents us with the challenge to move forward, beyond the sins of America's shameful history of slavery to a "symphony" for winning the future. In this literary treasure-trove, Hatch's four symphonic movements unfold as the pathway to fulfilling the American promise, including a massive investment in education, adapting to the changing complexion of world power, embracing environmental stewardship, and renewing our faith to reengage the social covenant with the American people. Through Project America, we reflect upon Chicago's and the nation's past. While learning from Hatch's insights, we are encouraged to draw from the wellsprings of our faiths and to act purposefully together to achieve "a brand new world." Project America is truly within our grasp; therefore, let us heed Dr. Hatch's clarion call to make a brighter future start happening now.

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Life To Legacy LLC

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0984797327

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9780984797325

How The Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll

An Alternative History of American Popular Music

By: Elijah Wald

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How The Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll

An Alternative History of American Popular Music

By: Elijah Wald

How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll is an alternative history of American music that, instead of recycling the familiar cliches of jazz and rock, looks at what people were playing, hearing and dancing to over the course of the 20th century, using a wealth of original research, curious quotations, and an irreverent fascination with the oft-despised commercial mainstream.

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OUP USA

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019975697X

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9780199756971

Dr. Benjamin E. Mays Speaks

Representative Speeches of a Great American Orator

By: Benjamin Elijah Mays

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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

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University Press of America

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0761823433

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9780761823438

What Makes Students Tick?

By: Udoh Elijah Udom

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What Makes Students Tick?

By: Udoh Elijah Udom

The educational system is society's best ally and should not be allowed to break down. Our objective in this study was to identify the causes of high dropout rates and low passion for learning among college students. The common view that students are lazy or lacking interest in education is unfounded. On the contrary, we found that, but for factors beyond their control, most students would work hard to achieve their educational objectives. To avoid the judgmental trap, students were asked to identify the factors that would unlock their passion for learning. The factors identified by the students are analyzed in this book. It is hoped that students, parents, teachers, and school authorities will find this book a light to their path. -- Udoh Elijah Udom "Students lose interest in education and drop out of school for a number of reasons. Dr. Udom rightly turned to us, the students, to find out the factors that would restore our confidence in the education system and make us enroll and remain in school till graduation. I strongly recommend this book to my fellow students." -- Joseph J. Brown, Student "Our school system has experienced dramatic developments in recent decades, including low motivation to learn among college students. Dr. Udom's book highlights the causes of students' lack of passion for learning and offers recommendations for a sustainable recruitment and retention of students. This book is one of the best that has been written on this topic and is strongly recommended as a reference material." -- Dr. William H. Kraus, associate professor, Argosy University, Nashville campus

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Archway Publishing

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145251724X

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9781452517247

The Bible, the Talmud, and the New Testament

Elijah Zvi Soloveitchik's Commentary to the Gospels

By: Elijah Zvi Soloveitchik

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The Bible, the Talmud, and the New Testament

Elijah Zvi Soloveitchik's Commentary to the Gospels

By: Elijah Zvi Soloveitchik

Born in Slutzk, Russia, in 1805, Elijah Zvi Soloveitchik is a largely forgotten member of the prestigious Soloveitchik rabbinic dynasty. Before Hayyim Soloveitchik developed the standard Brisker method of Talmudic study, or Joseph Dov Soloveitchik helped to found American Modern Orthodox Judaism, Elijah Soloveitchik wrote Qol Qore, a rabbinic commentary on the Gospels of Matthew and Mark. Qol Qore drew on classic rabbinic literature, and particularly on the works of Moses Maimonides, to argue for the compatibility of Christianity with Judaism. To this day, it remains the only rabbinic work to embrace the compatibility of Orthodox Judaism and the Christian Bible. In The Bible, the Talmud, and the New Testament, Shaul Magid presents the first-ever English translation of Qol Qore. In his contextualizing introduction, Magid explains that Qol Qore offers a window onto the turbulent historical context of nineteenth-century European Jewry. With violent anti-Semitic activity on the rise in Europe, Elijah Soloveitchik was unique in believing that the roots of anti-Semitism were theological, based on a misunderstanding of the New Testament by both Jews and Christians. His hope was that the Qol Qore, written in Hebrew and translated into French, German, and Polish, would reach Jewish and Christian audiences, urging each to consider the validity of the other's religious principles. In an era characterized by fractious debates between Jewish communities, Elijah Soloveitchik represents a voice that called for radical unity amongst Jews and Christians alike.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812296133

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9780812296136

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' Murder Ballads

By: Santi Elijah Holley

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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' Murder Ballads

By: Santi Elijah Holley

In a bar called The Bucket of Blood, a man shoots the bartender four times in the head. In the small town of Millhaven, a teenage girl secretly and gleefully murders her neighbors. A serial killer travels from home to home, quoting John Milton in his victims' blood. Murder Ballads, the ninth studio album from Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, is a gruesome, blood-splattered reimagining of English ballads, American folk and blues music, and classic literature. Most of the stories told on Murder Ballads have been interpreted many times, but never before had they been so graphic or profane. Though earning the band their first Parental Advisory warning label, Murder Ballads, released in 1996, brought Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds their biggest critical and commercial success, thanks in part to the award-winning single, “Where the Wild Roses Grow,” an unlikely duet with Australian pop singer, Kylie Minogue. Closely examining each of the ten songs on the album, Santi Elijah Holley investigates the stories behind the songs, and the numerous ways these ballads have been interpreted through the years. Murder Ballads is a tour through the evolution of folk music, and a journey into the dark secrets of American history.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1501355155

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9781501355158

Global Minstrels

Voices of World Music

By: Elijah Wald

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Global Minstrels

Voices of World Music

By: Elijah Wald

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Taylor & Francis

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0415979307

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9780415979306

A Bachelor's Life in Antebellum Mississippi

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

By: Elijah Millington Walker

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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.

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Univ. of Tennessee Press

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1572332832

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9781572332836

The Eagle that refused to dance with Chickens

By: Elijah Ngugi

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The Eagle that refused to dance with Chickens

By: Elijah Ngugi

The Eagle That Refused to Dance with Chickens is a metaphor that is traditionally narrated in two African languages,Kiswahili and Kikuyu. It is an Oral literature genre that communicates strength of self-determination in spite of gross failures. This story in particular, although has been modified to a great extent, is popular among the Kikuyu people who live in central part of Kenya where it is believed to have originated. The author has worked painstakingly to allow the same descriptive words and phrases in Kikuyu to be translated in English as verbatim as possible to fit in the story. Such endeavor is an attempt to bring the authentic texture of the story as much as possible to the Western world mind-set. Both the content and style of narration are aimed at addressing issues of late childhood and teen years, thus eight to fourteen years of age. It seems to fit such application because this is the time that children are intensely obsessed in searching self-independence and identity. Nevertheless, the story has been used as an allegory and adjusted to be applicable to all ages, depending on the purpose and circumstances. Quite often it is also presented as a drama or acted by children as one of the activities that would bring the meaning into the real life of the children.

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