Utah offers a paradox in women's historya state founded by polygamists who offered women early suffrage and encouraged career education in the nineteenth century.
Triple Award Winner, including Silver Nautilus Book Award and Independent Publisher Bronze Medal for Memoir, and Next Generation Book Award Finalist for SpiritualityTo the chagrin of her parents, Polish Jews who survived the Holocaust, the author became a Buddhist at 19, nearly tearing her family apart.
Utah offers a paradox in women's historya state founded by polygamists who offered women early suffrage and encouraged career education in the nineteenth century.
For nearly thirty-five years Julian Masons The Poems of Phillis Wheatley (1966) has been the standard edition of the poems and letters of this young black poet of eighteenth-century Boston.
'A significant piece of work' Diane Abbott'A rigorous and fearless development and dissection of the Black Middle Class in Britain' Derek OwusuA landmark portrait of modern Britain, The Good, the Black and the Boujee is a critical reckoning with the pursuit of 'black excellence'.
The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter is the absorbing, painstakingly researched story of Ida Lewis and the fearless rescues she made at Lime Rock Lighthouse in Newport, Rhode Island.
The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter is the absorbing, painstakingly researched story of Ida Lewis and the fearless rescues she made at Lime Rock Lighthouse in Newport, Rhode Island.
The Ozark region, located in northern Arkansas and southern Missouri, has long been the domain of the folklorist and the travel writer a circumstance that has helped shroud its history in stereotype and misunderstanding.
Beyond simplistic binaries of the dark continent or Africa Rising, Africans at home and abroad articulate their identities through their quotidian practices and cultural politics.
Decades before Miami became Havana USA, a wave of leftist, radical, working-class women and men from prerevolutionary Cuba crossed the Florida Straits, made Ybor City the global capital of the Cuban cigar industry, and established the foundation of latinidad in the Sunshine State.
Beyond simplistic binaries of the dark continent or Africa Rising, Africans at home and abroad articulate their identities through their quotidian practices and cultural politics.
Decades before Miami became Havana USA, a wave of leftist, radical, working-class women and men from prerevolutionary Cuba crossed the Florida Straits, made Ybor City the global capital of the Cuban cigar industry, and established the foundation of latinidad in the Sunshine State.
When Mahnaz Afkhami picked up the phone in a New York hotel room early one morning in November 1978, she learned she could never go home again: she had been declared an apostate and enemy of the Iranian Revolution and was now on its death list.
By delvinginto the complex, cross-generational exchanges that characterize anypolitical project as rampant as empire, thisthought-provoking study focusesonchildrenand their ambivalent, intimate relationships with mapsandpracticesof mappingat the dawn of the American Century.
By delvinginto the complex, cross-generational exchanges that characterize anypolitical project as rampant as empire, thisthought-provoking study focusesonchildrenand their ambivalent, intimate relationships with mapsandpracticesof mappingat the dawn of the American Century.
When Mahnaz Afkhami picked up the phone in a New York hotel room early one morning in November 1978, she learned she could never go home again: she had been declared an apostate and enemy of the Iranian Revolution and was now on its death list.
After working alongside iconic figures like Diana Ross, Prince, and Maya Angelou and as VIBEs founding fashion director, Michaela angela Davis provides both a celebration of Black medias vibrant history and a critical examination of its challenges and identity politics.
Living in the hood gives you an advantage because you see, hear, and experience things that you could not otherwise perceive or observe anywhere else within the city limits.
At the turn of the twentieth century, as African Americans struggled against white social and political oppression, Black women devised novel approaches to the fight for full citizenship.
Democracy in Tanzania examines one of Africa's most important contemporary governance challenges: the struggle between institutional power and democratic accountability.
The Missing Half explores one of history's most overlooked questions: What would civilization look like if women had always been equal participants in science, technology, law, governance, and innovation?
Die Jahre 2013–2019 waren für die Ukraine beinahe ebenso bedeutsam wie die Erlangung der Unabhängigkeit 1991, denn eben diese drohte sie nach dem Sieg des "Majdan" wieder zu verlieren.
Die Jahre 2013–2019 waren für die Ukraine beinahe ebenso bedeutsam wie die Erlangung der Unabhängigkeit 1991, denn eben diese drohte sie nach dem Sieg des "Majdan" wieder zu verlieren.
Die Jahre 2013–2019 waren für die Ukraine beinahe ebenso bedeutsam wie die Erlangung der Unabhängigkeit 1991, denn eben diese drohte sie nach dem Sieg des "Majdan" wieder zu verlieren.
Spätestens mit der globalen Ausbreitung des Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 ist die längst vergessene Debatte um die jederzeitige Aufrechterhaltung einer angemessenen Gesundheitsversorgung der Bevölkerung wieder mehr ins Bewusstsein getreten.
Aufarbeitung der Heimerziehung der 40er bis 90er Jahre bedeutet nicht nur, ehemalige Heimkinder finanziell zu entschädigen (was durch die Fonds Heimerziehung bereits erfolgt), sondern auch die Spätfolgen zu lindern.
