While most English-language readers are familiar with Old French epic poetry, or chansons de geste, through the Song of Roland and its tale of gallant martyrdom, this volume provides a broader and richer view of the tradition by introducing songs devoted to the exploits of a different sort of hero-the brave and blustery William of Orange.
The Shadow of Selma evaluates the 1965 civil rights campaign in Selma, Alabama, the historical memory of the campaign's marches, and the continuing relevance of and challenges to the Voting Rights Act.
A must-read for anyone interested in the history of civil rights, the roles and varied motivations of southern Jews in the movement, the interaction of blacks and Jews, the role of hate-groups and the anti-communist hysteria in silencing or harassing the forces of positive change, and the specific place of Miami, Miami Beach, and Florida in the struggle.
"e;In pointing us toward how to be 'better than we are,' Gene Patterson--passionate, funny, sound of mind and full of heart--coincidentally reminds us just how fine journalism can be.
The story of an influential Black Panther member who has lived in exile in Africa for 55 yearsFlorida Book Awards, Silver Medal for General NonfictionIn the tumultuous year after Martin Luther King Jr.
The Southern Negro Youth Congress and the Council on African Affairs were two organizations created as part of the early civil rights efforts to address race and labor issues during the Great Depression.
';A truly excellent contribution that unearths new and largely unknown evidence about relationships between Puerto Ricans and African-Americans and white Americans in the continental United States and Puerto Rico.
This volume's contributors expand the chronology and geography of the black freedom struggle beyond the traditional emphasis on the Jim Crow South and the years between 1954 and 1968.
The first book devoted to the history of African Americans in south Florida and their pivotal role in the growth and development of Miami, Black Miami in the Twentieth Century traces their triumphs, drudgery, horrors, and courage during the first 100 years of the city's history.
The story of an influential Black Panther member who has lived in exile in Africa for 55 yearsFlorida Book Awards, Silver Medal for General NonfictionIn the tumultuous year after Martin Luther King Jr.
By examining the development of the Southern Negro Youth Congress and the Council on African Affairs-two early civil rights organizations that have been overlooked and marginalized by the historiography of the period-Lindsey Swindall reveals how the discourse on civil rights in the southern United States also employed an internationalist, anticolonial agenda during the mid-twentieth century.
In the wake of the fiftieth anniversary of the historic sit-in at Woolworth's lunch counter by four North Carolina A&T college students, From Sit-Ins to SNCC brings together the work of leading civil rights scholars to offer a new and groundbreaking perspective on student-oriented activism in the 1960s.
Black Power studies have been dominated by the North American story, but after decades of scholarly neglect, the growth of "e;New Black Power Studies"e; has revitalized the field.
During the four decades separating the death of Martin Luther King and the election of Barack Obama, the meaning of civil rights became increasingly complex.
A must-read for anyone interested in the history of civil rights, the roles and varied motivations of southern Jews in the movement, the interaction of blacks and Jews, the role of hate-groups and the anti-communist hysteria in silencing or harassing the forces of positive change, and the specific place of Miami, Miami Beach, and Florida in the struggle.
Fortified by the theories of Henri Lefebvre, David Harvey, and Jurgen Habermas, this is the first book to focus on the tumultuous emergence of the African American working class in Jacksonville between Reconstruction and the 1920s.
In this sweeping international perspective on reparations, Time for Reparations makes the case that past state injusticebe it slavery or colonization, forced sterilization or widespread atrocitieshas enduring consequences that generate ongoing harm, which needs to be addressed as a matter of justice and equity.
The Changing Terrain of Religious Freedom offers theoretical, historical, and legal perspectives on religious freedom, while examining its meaning as an experience, value, and right.
Although there are legal norms to secure the uniform treatment of asylum claims in the United States, anecdotal and empirical evidence suggest that strategic and economic interests also influence asylum outcomes.
Representation of the poor has never been the top priority for civil rights organizations, which exist to eradicate racially prejudiced and discriminatory practices and policy.
';Just as the Black Lives Matter movement and recent protests have shown the leadership of women of color in organizing against the prison state, this book will show the leadership of women, which is too often ignored, in the innocence movement.
We live in a time when the most appalling social injustices and unjust human sufferings no longer seem to generate the moral indignation and the political will needed both to combat them effectively and to create a more just and fair society.
This chronicle of observant Muslim women's daily challenges in secular settings is "e;a welcome contribution [that] can be useful in many disciplines"e; (Journal of Church and State).
This "e;carefully crafted ethnography"e; of a Palestinian refugee camp in Beirut reframes the relationship between home and homeland (Journal of Palestinian Studies).
A study of strategies implemented in local, regional, and international human rights campaigns elucidating how advocates were able to achieve their goals.
In this follow-up to The Kingdom and the Glory and The Highest Poverty, Agamben investigates the roots of our moral concept of duty in the theory and practice of Christian liturgy.
