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The Politics of Blackness

Racial Identity and Political Behavior in Contemporary Brazil

By: Gladys L. Mitchell

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The Politics of Blackness

Racial Identity and Political Behavior in Contemporary Brazil

By: Gladys L. Mitchell

This book examines Afro-Brazilian individual and group identity and political behavior, and develops a theory of racial spatiality of Afro-Brazilian underrepresentation.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107186102

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9781107186101

Female Action Heroes

A Guide to Women in Comics, Video Games, Film, and Television

By: Gladys L. Knight

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Female Action Heroes

A Guide to Women in Comics, Video Games, Film, and Television

By: Gladys L. Knight

This book offers 25 profiles of some of the most popular female action heroes throughout the history of film, television, comic books, and video games. Female action heroes, like other fictional characters, not only reveal a lot about society, but greatly influence individuals in society. It is no surprise that the gradual development and increase in the number of female action heroes coincides with societal changes and social movements, such as feminism. Nor is it a surprise that characteristics of female action heroes echo the progressive toughening of women and young girls in the media. Female Action Heroes: A Guide to Women in Comics, Video Games, Film, and Television brings to the forefront the historical representation of women and girls in film, television, comic books, and video games. The book includes profiles of 25 of the most popular female action heroes, arranged in alphabetical order for easy reference. Each chapter includes sections on the hero's origins, her power suit, weapons, abilities, and the villains with whom she grapples. Most significantly, each profile offers an analysis of the hero's story—and her impact on popular culture.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313376131

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9780313376139

Stories from the Heart

Missouri's African American Heritage

By: Gladys Caines Coggswell

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Stories from the Heart

Missouri's African American Heritage

By: Gladys Caines Coggswell

A collection of African American family stories and traditional tales, compiled and brought to print by a master storyteller as she visited Missouri communities and participated in storytelling events over the last two decades"--Provided by publisher.

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University of Missouri Press

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0826271839

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9780826271839

Navaho Religion

A Study of Symbolism

By: Gladys Amanda Reichard

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Navaho Religion

A Study of Symbolism

By: Gladys Amanda Reichard

In this in-depth exploration of the symbols found in Navaho legend and ritual, Gladys Reichard discusses the attitude of the tribe members toward their place in the universe, their obligation toward humankind and their gods, and their conception of the supernatural, as well as how the Navaho achieve a harmony within their world through symbolic ceremonial practice. Originally published in 1963. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Princeton University Press

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1400859093

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9781400859092

Faith against the Odds: A Memoir of My Journey from Mississippi to the Ivy League and Beyond

By: Gladys January Willis

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Faith against the Odds: A Memoir of My Journey from Mississippi to the Ivy League and Beyond

By: Gladys January Willis

This book presents the story of Gladys January Willis-from early childhood to retirement as a university professor and administrator. It chronicles her experiences as a Black girl born and reared in Jackson, Mississippi, as well as her educational sojourn in college and graduate schools, and a career in higher education and entrance into Christian ministry as an ordained chaplain. In Chapter IX of the book, Willis writes: It is no secret that in my racist and segregated community the majority-White system promoted its message loudly and clearly-on the public buses, in the segregated school system, in employment practices, in segregated eateries, in housing developments, in business transactions, and in the political arena. One of the most impacting experiences in my life, after the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, was that of exercising my right to vote. Because of the cherished right to vote as an American citizen, whenever there is an election, exercising my right to vote is a top priority. I am sure that my Black home environment played a vital role in the way I came to think about life in general and my own life in particular. She credits her maternal grandmother, Henrietta Young Hedrick, as her primary role model. Mama, as she was called, "was a proud Black woman who demanded that she be respected. Her boldness was undaunted and communicated her respect for herself and her demand for the same from others, regardless of who they were or their station in life.

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119

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WestBow Press

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1490822550

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9781490822556

Pop Culture Places [3 volumes]

An Encyclopedia of Places in American Popular Culture [3 volumes]

By: Gladys L. Knight

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An Encyclopedia of Places in American Popular Culture [3 volumes]

By: Gladys L. Knight

This three-volume reference set explores the history, relevance, and significance of pop culture locations in the United States—places that have captured the imagination of the American people and reflect the diversity of the nation. Pop Culture Places: An Encyclopedia of Places in American Popular Culture serves as a resource for high school and college students as well as adult readers that contains more than 350 entries on a broad assortment of popular places in America. Covering places from Ellis Island to Fisherman's Wharf, the entries reflect the tremendous variety of sites, historical and modern, emphasizing the immense diversity and historical development of our nation. Readers will gain an appreciation of the historical, social, and cultural impact of each location and better understand how America has come to be a nation and evolved culturally through the lens of popular places. Approximately 200 sidebars serve to highlight interesting facts while images throughout the book depict the places described in the text. Each entry supplies a brief bibliography that directs students to print and electronic sources of additional information.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313398836

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9780313398834

Indian Dances of North America

Their Importance to Indian Life

By: Reginald Laubin,Gladys Laubin

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Indian Dances of North America

Their Importance to Indian Life

By: Reginald Laubin,Gladys Laubin

Descriptions of the dances, costumes, body decorations, and musical accompaniment supplement information on the cultural background of Indian dancing

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806121726

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9780806121727

Odious Caribbean Women and the Palpable Aesthetics of Transgression

By: Gladys M. Francis

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Odious Caribbean Women and the Palpable Aesthetics of Transgression

By: Gladys M. Francis

Odious Caribbean Women and the Palpable Aesthetics of Transgression examines the methods through which the works of French Caribbean women resist hedonistic conceptions of pleasure, “art for art’s sake” aestheticism, and commodification through representations of “uglified” spaces, transgressive “deglamorified” women’s bodies in pain and explicit corporeal and sexual behaviors. Gladys M. Francis offers an original approach through her reading together of the literary, visual, and performing arts (as well as traditional Caribbean dance, music, and oral practices) to arrive at a transregional (trans-Caribbean and transatlantic), trans-genre (with regard to forms of text), and transdisciplinary conversation in Francophone studies, postcolonial studies, and cultural studies. This interweaving is illustrated through the artistic engagements of artists such as Ina Césaire, Maryse Condé, Sylvaine Dampierre, Fabienne Kanor, Lénablou, Béatrice Mélina, Gisèle Pineau, Simone Schwarz-Bart, and Miriam Warner-Vieyra. How can we investigate, theoretically or critically, the aesthetically unpleasing found in depictions of odious female protagonists or female performers? What is the aesthetic value of transgressional women’s bodies? This book presents novel tools to understand how these women artists mark and re-instate embodied trauma, survival, and resistance into history. It posits that cultural performances can disrupt a culture-as-text ethnocentrism, for, these works provide the means to expose the tangible aesthetics through which the body becomes an archive that bears the psychological, physical and structural suffering. This project also demonstrates the ways through which the corporeal realm offered by these transgressive works (through explicit female perspectives on sex, love, and gender) challenges our moral sensibilities, works to sabotage the voyeuristic gaze, and stimulates a new methodology for reading the women’s body. It focuses on the complex layers of identity formation and bodily representations with respect to issues of sex, consumerism, commodification, violence, gender and women studies, and ethics and moral issues.

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Lexington Books

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1498543510

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9781498543514

Beyond the Culture Tours

Studies in Teaching and Learning With Culturally Diverse Texts

By: Gladys Cruz,Sarah Jordan,Jos‚ Mel‚ndez,Steven Ostrowski

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Beyond the Culture Tours

Studies in Teaching and Learning With Culturally Diverse Texts

By: Gladys Cruz,Sarah Jordan,Jos‚ Mel‚ndez,Steven Ostrowski

In calling this book Beyond the Culture Tours, the authors bring the reader's attention to a set of issues in the teaching of literature and culture. The Culture Tour is an old concept in the West, dating back to the seventeenth century. The educated young man -- it was an exclusively male project at first -- was expected to round off his education with the Grand Tour. This meant a visit to the major sites on the European continent, particularly Greece and Rome, and occasionally to the Holy Land. The object was to have a first-hand view of these monuments, and looking at them alone brought people the name of being cultured or well-traveled. As the idea spread in the early part of the twentieth century, it allowed for the vicarious tour rather than the actual one. Students were asked to look at collections of art or reproductions of art work, listen to concerts or later recordings, and to read certain classical works drawn from what has come to be known as "the canon." The point of this form of education was that exposure to these works in itself formed a version of the Grand Tour. The basic idea behind the tour approach is that exposure to a culture in books is like travel to an ethnic theme park. This volume looks beyond the tour approach and reports on the results of a four-year project undertaken by a research team from the National Center for Research in the Learning and Teaching of Literature. Their intent was to study the teaching and impact of multicultural literature. The team examined how students approached texts that either came from their culture or from another, and how teachers perceived the students, the literature, and their role. This volume details various aspects of their findings.

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Routledge

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113545857X

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9781135458577

Morbid Cravings

By: Gladys Furphy,Jessica James

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Morbid Cravings

By: Gladys Furphy,Jessica James

Hilda Brooks is literally fading away from her anorexia/bulimia disorder-and losing whatever self-esteem she had. An attack by a werewolf in New York City not only changes Hilda into a fierce animal during nocturnal rampages, but impacts her "normal" life as well. Suddenly Hilda's eating disorder becomes a thing of the past. She evolves socially, no longer avoids people-rather she pursues them! Never again the "doormat", Hilda changes into a viable, assertive, twenty-first century woman. She is now a "Wolfbitch," empowered and emboldened. Hilda no longer fears food, she worships it-in the human form. Morbid Cravings is but one woman's journey into the often-troubled world of human relationships. It offers a pleasurable and frightening read, reaching beneath the surface of illusions to the tortured wellspring of prevalent and visible illnesses in today's world-illnesses suffered by so many women of all ages in all walks of life. This novel fosters a refreshingly new feminist outlook to the arena of werewolves and horror alike.

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iUniverse

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0595418376

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9780595418374

Honey for a Child's Heart

The Imaginative Use of Books in Family Life

By: Gladys Hunt

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Honey for a Child's Heart

The Imaginative Use of Books in Family Life

By: Gladys Hunt

A modern classic with over 250,000 copies sold, Honey for a Child's Heart is a compelling, essential guide for parents who want to find the best books for their children ages 0–12. A good book is a gateway into a wider world of wonder, beauty, delight, and adventure. But children don't stumble onto the best books by themselves. They need a parent's help. Author Gladys Hunt discusses everything from how to choose good books for your children to encouraging them to be avid readers. Completely revised and updated to keep pace with the ever-changing world of children's literature, this fourth edition of Honey for a Child's Heart reflects Hunt's broad tastes in books. Rooted in experience, her suggestions will enrich the cultural and spiritual life of your home. She shows you how to: Understand the importance of being a read-aloud family, enjoying books together by reading aloud Give your children a large view of the world, of truth, and of goodness Encourage each child's imagination and good use of language Find the best books for your children Illustrated with drawings from dozens of children's favorites, Honey for a Child's Heart includes book lists geared to your child's age and filled with nearly 1,000 long-time favorites, classics, and wonderful new books that will enrich your child's life. Thousands of parents have used it to furnish their children's inner spirit with the wonder and delight of good reading.

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Zondervan

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0310872642

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9780310872641

101 Dog Illustrations

A Pictorial Archive of Championship Breeds

By: Gladys Emerson Cook

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101 Dog Illustrations

A Pictorial Archive of Championship Breeds

By: Gladys Emerson Cook

A blue-ribbon collection of 116 breeds recognized by the American Kennel Club, these dramatically detailed lithographs include sporting and non-sporting dogs, hounds, working dogs, terriers, and toys. Captions.

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Courier Corporation

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0486154106

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9780486154107

Sandpaintings of the Navajo Shooting Chant

By: Franc Johnson Newcomb,Gladys Amanda Reichard

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Sandpaintings of the Navajo Shooting Chant

By: Franc Johnson Newcomb,Gladys Amanda Reichard

A classic of ethnology, reproducing in full color 35 sandpaintings from this important Navajo healing ceremony and analyzing their composition and artistic devices. The rites are described and explained and the symbolism and myth they express thoroughly explored.

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0486231410

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9780486231419

For Christ and the University

The Story of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship of the USA - 1940-1990

By: Keith Hunt,Gladys Hunt

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For Christ and the University

The Story of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship of the USA - 1940-1990

By: Keith Hunt,Gladys Hunt

Recipient of a Christianity Today 1993 Critics Choice Award! Over the last fifty years God has used InterVarsity Christian Fellowship to shape the lives of thousands of students. This fascinating chronicle begins with the early influences that shaped university witness since its founding. Eventually these influences coalesced to form InterVarsity Christian Fellowship in the United States fifty years ago. From those early beginnings with only a few staff covering the whole country and a world war breaking out, the work grew and flourished beyond human expectation. From the Urbana conventions to a new approach to Christian witness called friendship evangelism to in-depth inductive study of the Bible, InterVarsity was constantly innovating and growing. From work among nurses to promotion of missions to creative use of media, InterVarsity became a multifaceted ministry. The setbacks that are part of any human endeavor are found in this book too. But here is a story of what God did through a handful of people with a big idea.

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0830875255

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9780830875252

Spider Woman

A Story of Navajo Weavers and Chanters

By: Gladys Amanda Reichard

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Spider Woman

A Story of Navajo Weavers and Chanters

By: Gladys Amanda Reichard

This lively account of a pioneering anthropologist's experiences with a Navajo family grew out of the author's desire to learn to weave as a way of participating in Navajo culture rather than observing it from the outside. In 1930, when Gladys Reichard came to stay with the family of Red-Point, a well-known Navajo singer, it was unusual for an anthropologist to live with a family and become intimately connected with women's activities. First published in 1934 for a popular audience, Spider Woman is valued today not just for its information on Navajo culture but as an early example of the kind of personal, honest ethnography that presents actual experiences and conversations rather than generalizing the beliefs and behaviors of a whole culture. Readers interested in Navajo weaving will find it especially useful, but Spider Woman's picture of daily life goes far beyond rugs to describe trips to the trading post, tribal council meetings, curing ceremonies, and the deaths of family members.

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UNM Press

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0826317936

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9780826317933

Night Riders in Black Folk History

By: Gladys-Marie Fry

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Night Riders in Black Folk History

By: Gladys-Marie Fry

During and after the days of slavery in the United States, one way in which slaveowners, overseers, and other whites sought to control the black population was to encourage and exploit a fear of the supernatural. By planting rumors of evil spirits, haunte

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0807849634

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9780807849637

Book's by Gladys Black

The Politics of Blackness

The Politics of Blackness

Female Action Heroes

Female Action Heroes

Stories from the Heart

Stories from the Heart

Navaho Religion

Navaho Religion

Faith against the Odds: A Memoir of My Journey from Mississippi to the Ivy League and Beyond

Faith against the Odds: A Memoir of My Journey from Mississippi to the Ivy League and Beyond

Pop Culture Places [3 volumes]

Pop Culture Places [3 volumes]

Indian Dances of North America

Indian Dances of North America

Odious Caribbean Women and the Palpable Aesthetics of Transgression

Odious Caribbean Women and the Palpable Aesthetics of Transgression

Beyond the Culture Tours

Beyond the Culture Tours

Morbid Cravings

Morbid Cravings

Honey for a Child's Heart

Honey for a Child's Heart

101 Dog Illustrations

101 Dog Illustrations

Sandpaintings of the Navajo Shooting Chant

Sandpaintings of the Navajo Shooting Chant

For Christ and the University

For Christ and the University

Spider Woman

Spider Woman

Night Riders in Black Folk History

Night Riders in Black Folk History

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