DECONSTRUCTING the Code is a story of love, lost meaning, treachery, distrust, creative expression, blatant forgery, murder, book-burnings and the chance discovery of priceless writings of antiquity. In his epic play, Jack Forbes uncovers long-hidden truths of the actual origins and meaning of Christianity.
Jack D. Forbes's monumental Africans and Native Americans has become a canonical text in the study of relations between the two groups. Forbes explores key issues relating to the evolution of racial terminology and European colonialists' perceptions of color, analyzing the development of color classification systems and the specific evolution of key terms such as black, mulatto, and mestizo--terms that no longer carry their original meanings. Forbes also presents strong evidence that Native American and African contacts began in Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean.
Celebrated American Indian thinker Jack D. Forbes’s Columbus and Other Cannibals was one of the founding texts of the anticivilization movement when it was first published in 1978. His history of terrorism, genocide, and ecocide told from a Native American point of view has inspired America’s most influential activists for decades. Frighteningly, his radical critique of the modern "civilized" lifestyle is more relevant now than ever before. Identifying the Western compulsion to consume the earth as a sickness, Forbes writes: "Brutality knows no boundaries. Greed knows no limits. Perversion knows no borders. . . . These characteristics all push towards an extreme, always moving forward once the initial infection sets in. . . . This is the disease of the consuming of other creatures’ lives and possessions. I call it cannibalism." This updated edition includes a new chapter by the author.
The American Discovery of Europe investigates the voyages of America's Native peoples to the European continent before Columbus's 1492 arrival in the "New World." The product of over twenty years of exhaustive research in libraries throughout Europe and the United States, the book paints a clear picture of the diverse and complex societies that constituted the Americas before 1492 and reveals the surprising Native American involvements in maritime trade and exploration. Starting with an encounter by Columbus himself with mysterious people who had apparently been carried across the Atlantic on favorable currents, Jack D. Forbes proceeds to explore the seagoing expertise of early Americans, theories of ancient migrations, the evidence for human origins in the Americas, and other early visitors coming from Europe to America, including the Norse. The provocative, extensively documented, and heartfelt conclusions of The American Discovery of Europe present an open challenge to received historical wisdom.
An informational guide for laymen to understand the obligations, rights and responsibilities of trustors, trustees and beneficiaries of California living trusts (so-called, "inter-vivos" trusts). The book is authored by an experienced California attorney in trust litigation.
Seventeen short stories on life as an Indian in today's America. In An Incident in a Tour Among the Natives, an Indian writer is coveted by a white woman seeking a sexual experience with a savage, while in A City Indian Goes to School, an Indian teenager succeeds in overcoming alcoholism.
Perhaps you're an actor wanting to jump into these scenes feet-first, or simply a detached observer itching for a tawdry conflict. In ACTING OUTSIDE THE LINES, Jack Forbes offers you front-row seats in an enticing array of myriad characters and compelling plot twists of Perilous Journeys in Pivotal Acting Scenes. Get ready for a bumpy ride!
Known for groundbreaking works such as Africans and Native Americans, Columbus and Other Cannibals, and The American Discovery of Europe--as well as his essential contribution to the institutional realization of Native American and Indigenous Studies--this project aims to present the work of Dr. Jack Forbes to new audiences. The extraordinary and little known autobiographical poems gathered in El-Lay Riots explore the intersection of race, ethnicity, class, and status in Los Angeles during its population boom in the 1930s and 40s. Yet, written in the early 1990s, the poetry also illuminates political and social uprisings in Los Angeles that would ripple outward nationally. Similarly, "What Is Time?" uses the poetic form to address themes that Forbes dwelt on throughout his life, as a poet, scholar, activist, educator, and thinker. Drawing on a range of representative materials from his enormous archive--poetry, position papers, institutional proposals (including his involvement in the creation of D-Q University, as well as in the development of Native American Studies at the University of California, Davis, a model that would be emulated elsewhere), "Yanga Ya" embraces the radical and transformative artistic and intellectual vision of Dr. Jack Forbes."--Publisher's website
Why allow yourself to be dominated linguistically by the lowest common denominator? If the 607 words in this book have fallen out of common use in the English language, it is neither from design nor function; it is from too many of us being reluctant to use a word which our listeners or readers might not understand. Jack's Handy List of Words, and its 607 often lighthearted illustrative sentences, is intended to reverse this trend, bring many of the interesting words back into more common use, and allow the reader to have fun learning or re-learning the intricacies of a higher vocabulary in English. It hits the mark from A to Z.
A history of the pottery industry in Alberta, which began around the turn of the century in Medicine Hat, where clay deposits and natural gas were abundant. This is a dramatic story of temperamental entrepreneurs who were fierce rivals and who had fires, world wars, a depression, high freight rates and cheap imports to contend with.
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