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Black Autonomy

Race, Gender, and Afro-Nicaraguan Activism

By: Jennifer Goett

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Black Autonomy

Race, Gender, and Afro-Nicaraguan Activism

By: Jennifer Goett

Decades after the first multicultural reforms were introduced in Latin America, Afrodescendant people from the region are still disproportionately impoverished, underserved, policed, and incarcerated. In Nicaragua, Afrodescendants have mobilized to confront this state of siege through the politics of black autonomy. For women and men grappling with postwar violence, black autonomy has its own cultural meanings as a political aspiration and a way of crafting selfhood and solidarity. Jennifer Goett's ethnography examines the race and gender politics of activism for autonomous rights in an Afrodescendant. Creole community in Nicaragua. Weaving together fifteen years of research, Black Autonomy follows this community-based movement from its inception in the late 1990s to its realization as an autonomous territory in 2009 and beyond. Goett argues that despite significant gains in multicultural recognition, Afro-Nicaraguan Creoles continue to grapple with the day-to-day violence of capitalist intensification, racialized policing, and drug war militarization in their territories. Activists have responded by adopting a politics of autonomy based on race pride, territoriality, self-determination, and self-defense. Black Autonomy shows how this political radicalism is rooted in African diasporic identification and gendered cultural practices that women and men use to assert control over their bodies, labor, and spaces in an atmosphere of violence.

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Black Autonomy

Race, Gender, and Afro-Nicaraguan Activism

By: Jennifer Goett

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Race, Gender, and Afro-Nicaraguan Activism

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Through Astronaut Eyes

Photographing Early Human Spaceflight

By: Jennifer K. Levasseur

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Through Astronaut Eyes

Photographing Early Human Spaceflight

By: Jennifer K. Levasseur

Featuring over seventy images from the heroic age of space exploration, Through Astronaut Eyes presents the story of how human daring along with technological ingenuity allowed people to see the Earth and stars as they never had before. Photographs from the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs tell powerful and compelling stories that continue to have cultural resonance to this day, not just for what they revealed about the spaceflight experience, but also as products of a larger visual rhetoric of exploration. The photographs tell us as much about space and the astronauts who took them as their reception within an American culture undergoing radical change throughout the turbulent 1960s. This book explores the origins and impact of astronaut still photography from 1962 to 1972, the period when human spaceflight first captured the imagination of people around the world. Photographs taken during those three historic programs are much admired and reprinted, but rarely seriously studied. This book suggests astronaut photography is particularly relevant to American culture based on how easily the images were shared through reproduction and circulation in a very visually oriented society. Space photography’s impact at the crossroads of cultural studies, the history of exploration and technology, and public memory illuminates its continuing importance to American identity.

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329

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Purdue University Press

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1557539332

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Racial Integration in Corporate America, 1940–1990

By: Jennifer Delton

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Racial Integration in Corporate America, 1940–1990

By: Jennifer Delton

In the space of about thirty years – from 1964 to 1994 – American corporations abandoned racially exclusionary employment policies and embraced some form of affirmative action to diversify their workforces. It was an extraordinary transformation, which most historians attribute to civil rights activists, federal legislation, and labor unions. This is the first book to examine the role of corporations in that transformation. Whereas others emphasize corporate obstruction, this book argues that there were corporate executives and managers who promoted fair employment and equal employment opportunity long before the federal government required it, and who thereby helped prepare the corporate world for racial integration. The book examines the pioneering corporations that experimented with integration in the 1940s and 1950s, as well as corporate responses to the civil rights movement and urban crisis in the 1960s and 1970s and the widespread adoption of affirmative action in the 1980s and 1990s.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139479717

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Our Lives

Collaboration, Native Voice, and the Making of the National Museum of the American Indian

By: Jennifer A. Shannon

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Our Lives

Collaboration, Native Voice, and the Making of the National Museum of the American Indian

By: Jennifer A. Shannon

In 2004 the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) opened to the general public. This book, in the broadest sense, is about how that museum became what it is today. For many Native individuals, the NMAI, a prominent and permanent symbol of Native presence in America, in the shadow of the Capitol and at the center of federal power, is a triumph. At the grand opening, the museum's main message was "We are still here." This message was most directly displayed in Our Lives: Contemporary Life and Identities, one of the NMAI's inaugural exhibitions and the main focus of this book. Ultimately, this is a record of the sincere efforts--and conflicts and achievements--experienced by those who planned, developed, and constructed the NMAI's inaugural exhibitions. It is a narrowly focused account of a particular kind of curatorial practice called "community curating." It is also an account of many different people struggling to do their best under the weight of a monumental task: to represent all Native peoples of the Americas in the first institution of its kind, a national museum dedicated to the first peoples of the hemisphere.

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180

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School for Advanced Research Press

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1938645278

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9781938645273

Jennifer Lawrence

By: Gillian Houghton Gosman

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Jennifer Lawrence

By: Gillian Houghton Gosman

Jennifer Lawrence is one of the youngest Oscar nominees for Best Leading Actress in Academy history. This engaging volume examines Lawrences career from its beginnings on "The Bill Engvall Show to her landing the starring role in the much-anticipated The Hunger Games trilogy. Accessible text explores the drive that fuels this talented young actress to rise to new challenges.

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The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

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1448865395

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Woman to Woman

By: Jennifer Dalton

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Woman to Woman

By: Jennifer Dalton

Imagine devoting all your time and energy to counciling your friends' conflicts, but never making time for yourself. Eventually their problems will become those of your own. Lori walks you through the dramatic trials in her life, while trying to be a good friend to all those that surround her. Unfortunately, compassionate Lori doesn't realize that she can't be everyone's hero until after it's far too late. She also learns that factors like race, gender, wealth and religion don't exempt people from encountering bad things that life sometimes has to offer.

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174

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Publishamerica Incorporated

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1413745350

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Go Goddess!

From Depleted to Divine

By: Barb Thomas,Barb Thomas Rhn,Jennifer Rochford

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Go Goddess!

From Depleted to Divine

By: Barb Thomas,Barb Thomas Rhn,Jennifer Rochford

Go Goddess! exhausted: adjective dead-tired, dog-tired, bone-tired, ready to drop, worn out, wiped out, burned out, tapped out, bagged, whipped. Dear, Tired Goddess, We see you there, holding this book, double espresso in your hand, eyelids half open. We know you have just a few minutes to yourself right now, so we plan to make this worth it for you. We want you to stop feeling overwhelmed. But you need simple information-you need gentle changes and practical action that you can incorporate now into your crazy-busy, do-everything-for-everyone-else kind of life. So how 'bout you start here? With "Go Goddess!," Book One in the Goddess Revolution Series, you'll join the simplest, most astonishing revolution around. This book is an indispensable encyclopedia of how-tos: How to nourish yourself with holistic nutrition and whole foods How to gain back the energy you've lost How to do things for yourself, guilt-free How to balance career, motherhood, weight, and a sense of self Preserve your precious energy and become the goddess you were meant to be. We've even included whole foods recipes and tips and tricks from our own lives as mothers and business women that have made us feel as goddess-y, as vibrant, and as ready to take on the world as can be. This is your fresh start. This is your life preserver. And we are tossing it to you, Dear Goddess. Grab on and begin your own revolution. Once you "Go Goddess," you never go back. With Love, Barb and Jenn

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Black Autonomy

Black Autonomy

Black Autonomy

Black Autonomy

Through Astronaut Eyes

Through Astronaut Eyes

Racial Integration in Corporate America, 1940–1990

Racial Integration in Corporate America, 1940–1990

Our Lives

Our Lives

Jennifer Lawrence

Jennifer Lawrence

Woman to Woman

Woman to Woman

Go Goddess!

Go Goddess!

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