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Black Citymakers

How The Philadelphia Negro Changed Urban America

By: Marcus Anthony Hunter

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Black Citymakers

How The Philadelphia Negro Changed Urban America

By: Marcus Anthony Hunter

W.E.B. DuBois immortalized Philadelphia's Black Seventh Ward neighborhood, one of America's oldest urban black communities, in his 1899 sociological study The Philadelphia Negro. In the century after DuBois's study, however, the district has been transformed into a largely white upper middle class neighborhood. Black Citymakers revisits the Black Seventh Ward, documenting a century of banking and tenement collapses, housing activism, black-led anti-urban renewal mobilization, and post-Civil Rights political change from the perspective of the Black Seventh Warders. Drawing on historical, political, and sociological research, Marcus Hunter argues that black Philadelphians were by no means mere casualties of the large scale social and political changes that altered urban dynamics across the nation after World War II. Instead, Hunter shows that black Americans framed their own understandings of urban social change, forging dynamic inter- and intra-racial alliances that allowed them to shape their own migration from the old Black Seventh Ward to emergent black urban enclaves throughout Philadelphia. These Philadelphians were not victims forced from their homes - they were citymakers and agents of urban change. Black Citymakers explores a century of socioeconomic, cultural, and political history in the Black Seventh Ward, creating a new understanding of the political agency of black residents, leaders and activists in twentieth century urban change.

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Oxford University Press

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0199339775

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Radical Reparations

Healing the Soul of a Nation

By: Marcus Anthony Hunter

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Radical Reparations

Healing the Soul of a Nation

By: Marcus Anthony Hunter

A timely groundbreaking book in the vein of Derrick Bell's Faces at the Bottom of the Well, one of the country's foremost voices on reparations, offers a radical and vital new framework going beyond the current debate over this controversial issue. For over a century, the idea of reparations for the descendants of enslaved Black Americans has divided the United States. However, while the iconic phrase "40 acres and a mule" encapsulates the general notion of reparations, history has proven that the damages of enslavement on the African American community far exceed what a plot of land or a check could repair. While reparations are being widely debated once again, current petitions to redress the lasting and collateral consequences of slavery have not moved past economic solutions, even though we know that monetary redress alone is not enough. Not only would many wounds be left unhealed, but relying solely on economics would continue a legacy of neglect for African Americans. In this thoughtful and sure-to-be controversial book, Marcus Anthony Hunter argues that a radical shift in our outlook is necessary; we need more comprehensive solutions such as those currently sought by today's educators, historians, activists, organizers, Afrofuturists, and socially conscious citizens. In Radical Reparations, this conversation shifter, social justice pioneer, change agent, and inventor of the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter, which redefined the global conversation on racism and social justice, offers a unifying and unconventional framework for achieving holistic and comprehensive healing of African American communities. Hunter reimagines reparations through a profound new lens as he defines seven types of compensation: political, intellectual, legal, economic, spatial, social, and spiritual, using analysis of historical documents, comparative international cases, and speculative parables. Profound and revolutionary, trenchant and timely, Radical Reparations provides a compellingly and provocatively reframing of reparations' past, present, and future, offering a unifying way forward for us all.

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HarperCollins

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0063004747

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9780063004740

Chocolate Cities

The Black Map of American Life

By: Marcus Anthony Hunter,Zandria Robinson

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Chocolate Cities

The Black Map of American Life

By: Marcus Anthony Hunter,Zandria Robinson

When you think of a map of the United States, what do you see? Now think of the Seattle that begot Jimi Hendrix. The Dallas that shaped Erykah Badu. The Holly Springs, Mississippi, that compelled Ida B. Wells to activism against lynching. The Birmingham where Martin Luther King, Jr., penned his most famous missive. Now how do you see the United States? Chocolate Cities offers a new cartography of the United States—a “Black Map” that more accurately reflects the lived experiences and the future of Black life in America. Drawing on cultural sources such as film, music, fiction, and plays, and on traditional resources like Census data, oral histories, ethnographies, and health and wealth data, the book offers a new perspective for analyzing, mapping, and understanding the ebbs and flows of the Black American experience—all in the cities, towns, neighborhoods, and communities that Black Americans have created and defended. Black maps are consequentially different from our current geographical understanding of race and place in America. And as the United States moves toward a majority minority society, Chocolate Cities provides a broad and necessary assessment of how racial and ethnic minorities make and change America’s social, economic, and political landscape.

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Univ of California Press

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0520292820

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9780520292826

Black Citymakers

How The Philadelphia Negro Changed Urban America

By: Marcus Anthony Hunter

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How The Philadelphia Negro Changed Urban America

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Oxford University Press

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The Messenger

By: Marcus Anthony Hunter

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The Messenger

By: Marcus Anthony Hunter

Charles Kelly, a former Vietnam veteran who works as a news reporter for a Los Angeles TV station, is piloting a news chopper to cover a story. While in flight, Kelly’s chopper suddenly goes out of control when it appears the chopper has hit an object in the sky. Forced to land the chopper in a desert clearing, Kelly staggers out of the helicopter and sees before him a figure of a man standing in front of him. The man introduces himself as ‘The Messenger’ and tells Kelly not to fear him because he’s been sent by Jesus Christ to address the people of the world about their fate, which they will endure for the next three days.

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Austin Macauley Publishers

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1645758958

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9781645758952

Cicero: De Oratore Book III

By: Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Cicero: De Oratore Book III

By: Marcus Tullius Cicero

Cicero's De Oratore is one of the masterpieces of Latin prose. A literary dialogue in the Greek tradition, it was written in 55 BCE in the midst of political turmoil at Rome, but reports a discussion 'concerning the (ideal) orator' that supposedly took place in 90 BCE, just before an earlier crisis. Cicero features eminent orators and statesmen of the past as participants in this discussion, presenting competing views on many topics. This edition of Book III is the first since 1893 to provide a Latin text and full introduction and commentary in English. It is intended to help advanced students and others interested in Roman literature to comprehend the grammar and appreciate the stylistic nuances of Cicero's Latin, to trace the historical, literary, and theoretical background of the topics addressed, and to interpret Book III in relation to the rest of De Oratore and to Cicero's other works.

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Cambridge University Press

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131615422X

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9781316154229

Cicero: De Oratore Book III

By: Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Cicero: De Oratore Book III

By: Marcus Tullius Cicero

The first English commentary on De Oratore in more than a century, examining Book III in depth. This important and influential text deals with the relationship between oratorical style and content, with Cicero expressing his views on the training and qualification of the ideal orator-statesman.

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0521593603

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9780521593601

Early Formative Pottery of the Valley of Oaxaca

By: Kent V. Flannery,Joyce Marcus

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Early Formative Pottery of the Valley of Oaxaca

By: Kent V. Flannery,Joyce Marcus

Using more than 300 illustrations, the authors present an encyclopedic analysis of the many types of pottery found in the Oaxaca Valley in the Early Formative period. From details of sherd profiles and tempers to discussions of the growth of various villages, this volume is an exhaustively thorough treatment of the topic and represents decades of archaeological fieldwork in the region.

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U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY

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0915703343

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9780915703340

Book's by Marcus Anthony Hunter

Black Citymakers

Black Citymakers

Radical Reparations

Radical Reparations

Chocolate Cities

Chocolate Cities

Black Citymakers

Black Citymakers

The Messenger

The Messenger

Cicero: De Oratore Book III

Cicero: De Oratore Book III

Cicero: De Oratore Book III

Cicero: De Oratore Book III

Early Formative Pottery of the Valley of Oaxaca

Early Formative Pottery of the Valley of Oaxaca

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