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Violent Utopia

Dispossession and Black Restoration in Tulsa

By: Jovan Scott Lewis

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Violent Utopia

Dispossession and Black Restoration in Tulsa

By: Jovan Scott Lewis

In Violent Utopia Jovan Scott Lewis retells the history and afterlife of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, from the post-Reconstruction migration of Black people to Oklahoma Indian Territory to contemporary efforts to rebuild Black prosperity. He focuses on how the massacre in Tulsa’s Greenwood neighborhood—colloquially known as Black Wall Street—curtailed the freedom built there. Rather than framing the massacre as a one-off event, Lewis places it in a larger historical and social context of widespread patterns of anti-Black racism, segregation, and dispossession in Tulsa and beyond. He shows how the processes that led to the massacre, subsequent urban renewal, and intergenerational poverty shored up by nonprofits constitute a form of continuous slow violence. Now, in their attempts to redevelop resources for self-determination, Black Tulsans must reconcile a double inheritance: the massacre’s violence and the historical freedom and prosperity that Greenwood represented. Their future is tied to their geography, which is the foundation from which they will repair and fulfill Greenwood’s promise.

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Duke University Press

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1478023260

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Abolishing Poverty

Toward Pluriverse Futures and Politics

By: Victoria Lawson,Sarah Elwood,Michelle Daigle,Ana Gutiérrez Garza,Juan Herrera,Ellen Kohl,Jovan Lewis,Aaron Mallory,Priscilla McCutcheon,Yolanda González Mendoza,Margaret Marietta Ramírez,Chandan Reddy

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Abolishing Poverty

Toward Pluriverse Futures and Politics

Abolishing Poverty argues for a project of relationality that refuses the whiteness of liberal poverty studies and instead centers critiques of the poverty relation and political futures disavowed under liberal governance. In disrupting poverty thinking, the author collective opens space for diverse frameworks for understanding impoverishment and articulating antiracist knowledges and political visions. The book explores new infrastructures of possibilities and political solidarities rooted in accountable relations to each other and from flights to the future that animate diverse communities. This book is boundary and genre crossing, with broad appeal to scholars of such disciplines as human geography, ethnic studies, decolonial theory, and feminist studies. As a volume, the work is unique in its primary field of human geography in the form of its making, its collective authorship, and its investigation of politics that abolish poverty thinking and engage in activism against the poverty relation produced through settler colonialism, heteropatriarchy, white supremacy, and capitalist exploitation.

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320

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University of Georgia Press

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082036438X

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9780820364384

Scammer's Yard

The Crime of Black Repair in Jamaica

By: Jovan Scott Lewis

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Scammer's Yard

The Crime of Black Repair in Jamaica

By: Jovan Scott Lewis

Tells the story of Jamaican “scammers” who use crime to gain autonomy, opportunity, and repair There is romance in stealing from the rich to give to the poor, but how does that change when those perceived rich are elderly white North Americans and the poor are young Black Jamaicans? In this innovative ethnography, Jovan Scott Lewis tells the story of Omar, Junior, and Dwayne. Young and poor, they strive to make a living in Montego Bay, where call centers and tourism are the two main industries in the struggling economy. Their experience of grinding poverty and drastically limited opportunity leads them to conclude that scamming is the best means of gaining wealth and advancement. Otherwise, they are doomed to live in “sufferation”—an inescapable poverty that breeds misery, frustration, and vexation. In the Jamaican lottery scam run by these men, targets are told they have qualified for a large loan or award if they pay taxes or transfer fees. When the fees are paid, the award never arrives, netting the scammers tens of thousands of U.S. dollars. Through interviews, historical sources, song lyrics, and court testimonies, Lewis examines how these scammers justify their deceit, discovering an ethical narrative that reformulates ideas of crime and transgression and their relationship to race, justice, and debt. Scammer’s Yard describes how these young men, seeking to overcome inequality and achieve autonomy, come to view crime as a form of liberation. Their logic raises unsettling questions about a world economy that relegates postcolonial populations to deprivation even while expecting them to follow the rules of capitalism that exacerbate their dispossession. In this groundbreaking account, Lewis asks whether true reparation for the legacy of colonialism is to be found only through radical—even criminal—means.

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U of Minnesota Press

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Scammer's Yard

The Crime of Black Repair in Jamaica

By: Jovan Scott Lewis

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The Crime of Black Repair in Jamaica

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Violent Utopia

Dispossession and Black Restoration in Tulsa

By: Jovan Scott Lewis

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Duke University Press

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Non-Aligned Movement Summits

A History

By: Jovan Cavoški

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Non-Aligned Movement Summits

A History

By: Jovan Cavoški

Using newly declassified documents from Serbian, British, Indian, Chinese, Myanmar, U.S., and Soviet archives, Non-Aligned Movement Summits shows how the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) gradually evolved into the third force of Cold War politics, enveloping most of the post-colonial and non-bloc world. Jovan Cavoški follows the evolution of the NAM through its summits and other gatherings, during which major political decisions pertaining to the destiny of the Third World were made. These events were scrutinized by all major powers and had a corresponding effect on their policies. From the Belgrade Conference in 1961 until 1989, all major Third World and non-bloc nations met to demonstrate to the Eastern and Western Blocs that they were independent, active and respected participants in world affairs. Cavoški shows how these summits were also closely related to events occurring in the relationship between the two blocs, providing opportunities for non-bloc actors to influence the global balance of power. By moving the focus of 20th-century international history away from the bloc nations, and instead giving developing nations in Africa and Asia due attention, this book provides a fresh perspective on Cold War history and fills a significant gap in the literature. It is an important study for all students and scholars of the Cold War and international history.

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312

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350032115

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Ben Nicholson and Winifred Nicholson

Art and Life

By: Jovan Nicholson,Julian Stair,Sebastiano Barassi

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Ben Nicholson and Winifred Nicholson

Art and Life

By: Jovan Nicholson,Julian Stair,Sebastiano Barassi

This book examines the artistic partnership of Ben Nicholson and Winifred Nicholson in the 1920s and their friendship and collaboration with Christopher Wood, Alfred Wallis, and the potter William Staite Murray. Inspired by each other, the Nicholsons experimented furiously and often painted the same subject, one as a colorist the other more interested in form. Winifred wrote of her time with Ben, 'All artists are unique and can only unite as complementaries not as similarities'. New research based on previously unpublished letters, photographs and other material draws out their fascinating connections. All the works, many of which are previously unpublished, are illustrated in full color, each with comments relating to the work by the artists and their critics.

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Philip Wilson Publishers

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1781300178

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Abolishing Poverty

Toward Pluriverse Futures and Politics

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Toward Pluriverse Futures and Politics

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University of Georgia Press

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Book's by Jovan Lewis

Violent Utopia

Violent Utopia

Abolishing Poverty

Abolishing Poverty

Scammer's Yard

Scammer's Yard

Scammer's Yard

Scammer's Yard

Violent Utopia

Violent Utopia

Non-Aligned Movement Summits

Non-Aligned Movement Summits

Ben Nicholson and Winifred Nicholson

Ben Nicholson and Winifred Nicholson

Abolishing Poverty

Abolishing Poverty

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