Society and culture: general

The 1960s, including the black social movements of the period, are an obstacle to understanding the current conditions of African Americans, argues Clarence Lang.

Some know Oklahomas Black towns as historic communities that thrived during the Jim Crow erathis is only part of the story.

This volume examines the public/private sector mix in a variety of national healthcare systems and their interface with the goals of health equity and quality of healthcare.

This volume examines the public/private sector mix in a variety of national healthcare systems and their interface with the goals of health equity and quality of healthcare.

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The Tigerbelles tells the epic story of the 1960 Tennessee State University all-Black womens track team, which found Olympic glory at the 1960 games in Rome.

While music lovers and music historians alike understand that folk music played an increasingly pivotal role in American labor and politics during the economic and social tumult of the Great Depression, how did this relationship come to be?

In this new interpretation of antebellum slavery, Anthony Kaye offers a vivid portrait of slaves transforming adjoining plantations into slave neighborhoods.

For black women in antebellum Charleston, freedom was not a static legal category but a fragile and contingent experience.

Exploring the history of Civil War commemorations from both sides of the color line, William Blair places the development of memorial holidays, Emancipation Day celebrations, and other remembrances in the context of Reconstruction politics and race relations in the South.

Introducing readers to women whose Civil War experiences have long been ignored, Judith Giesberg examines the lives of working-class women in the North, for whom the home front was a battlefield of its own.

From the days of steamship travel to Palestine to todays evangelical Christian tours of Jesuss birthplace, the relationship between the United States and the Holy Land has become one of the worlds most consequential international alliances.

Italians were the largest group of immigrants to the United States at the turn of the twentieth century, and hundreds of thousands led and participated in some of the periods most volatile labor strikes.

In this book, Elissa Zellinger analyzes both political philosophy and poetic theory in order to chronicle the consolidation of the modern lyric and the liberal subject across the long nineteenth century.

This book exploresthe close relationships betweenthreeof the most famous twentieth-century African Americans, W.

Luther Adams demonstrates that in the wake of World War II, when roughly half the black population left the South seeking greater opportunity and freedom in the North and West, the same desire often anchored African Americans to the South.

Kevin C.

In many countries, abortion is a contentious public opinion issue.

The exploration of space raises new problems in the expression of human freedoms.

Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2018 in the subject Gender Studies, grade: 100, , course: Governance and Public Policy, language: English, abstract: This research essay examined the experiences of women as regards environmental insecurity, as well as the gendered ideas of virtue and vulnerability, on climate change.

What can local histories of interracial conflict and collaboration teach us about the potential for urban equity and social justice in the future?

In this book, Amy K.

During the 1840s and 1850s, a dangerous ferment afflicted the North-South border region, pitting the slave states of Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, and Missouri against the free states of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois.

In this study of devotional hagiographical texts and contemporary ritual performances of the Shi'a of Hyderabad, India, Karen Ruffle demonstrates how traditions of sainthood and localized cultural values shape gender roles.

Tracing the full history of traditionally white college fraternities in America from their days in antebellum all-male schools to the sprawling modern-day college campus, Nicholas Syrett reveals how fraternity brothers have defined masculinity over the course of their 180-year history.

In the antebellum United States, formerly enslaved men and women who told their stories and advocated for abolition helped establish a new genre with widely recognized tropes: the slave narrative.

The Measure of Manliness is among the first books to focus on representations of disability in Victorian literature, showing that far from being marginalized or pathologized, disability was central to the narrative form of the mid-century novel.

In 2007, while researching mountain culture in upstate South Carolina, anthropologist John M.

The Holocaust was the defining cataclysm of modernity.

We will all be patients sooner or later.

Examining three interconnected case studies, Tamar Carroll powerfully demonstrates the ability of grassroots community activism to bridge racial and cultural differences and effect social change.

In 1942 Pauli Murray, a young black woman from North Carolina studying law at Howard University, visited a constitutional law class taught by Caroline Ware, one of the nations leading historians.

After the Civil War, many Americans did not identify strongly with the concept of a united nation.

On November 28, 1729, Natchez warriors walked into Fort Rosalie, Louisiana, and opened fire on French colonists.

When the Great War began, the Russian Empire was home to more than five million Jews, the most densely settled Jewish population anywhere in the world.

Methods designed to guide the allocation of healthcare so as to maximize population health have been criticized as fundamentally unfair.

Recognizing the railroads importance as both symbol and experience in Victorian America, Amy G.

The Mysticism of Ordinary Life: Theology, Philosophy, and Feminism presents a new vision of Christian mystical theology.

Offering a provocative new look at the politics of secession in antebellum Virginia, William Link places African Americans at the center of events and argues that their acts of defiance and rebellion had powerful political repercussions throughout the turbulent period leading up to the Civil War.

Lydia Cabrera (19001991), an upper-class white Cuban intellectual, spent many years traveling through Cuba collecting oral histories, stories, and music from Cubans of African descent.

Literature and Justice in Mid Twentieth Century Britain: Crime and War Crimes examines how ideas about crime, criminality, and judicial procedure that had developed in a domestic context influenced the representation and understanding of war crimes trials, victims of war crimes, and war criminals in post-Second World War Britain.

The Holocaust was the defining cataclysm of modernity.

This thoughtfully edited volume explores the operation of equality and discrimination law in times of crisis.

This thoughtfully edited volume explores the operation of equality and discrimination law in times of crisis.

Literature and Justice in Mid Twentieth Century Britain: Crime and War Crimes examines how ideas about crime, criminality, and judicial procedure that had developed in a domestic context influenced the representation and understanding of war crimes trials, victims of war crimes, and war criminals in post-Second World War Britain.

Governments, international organizations, and international laws and courts increasingly pay attention to conflict-related sexual violence.

Governments, international organizations, and international laws and courts increasingly pay attention to conflict-related sexual violence.

Methods designed to guide the allocation of healthcare so as to maximize population health have been criticized as fundamentally unfair.

Seminar paper from the year 2021 in the subject Gender Studies, grade: 1, Private Padagogische Hochschule der Diozese Linz (PHDL), language: English, abstract: This paper aims to examine in how far the portrayal of stereotypical gender roles in video games has changed.

From the end of the Revolution until 1851, the Virginia legislature granted most divorces in the state.