Being Alive: Essays on Movement, Knowledge and Description
7 best books like Being Alive: Essays on Movement, Knowledge and Description (Tim Ingold): Poetic Diction: A Study in Meaning, No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity, District Comics: An Unconventional History of Washington, DC, The Reaper's Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery, The Politics of Nonviolent Action, Cumbe, Race, Class, and Politics in the Cappuccino City
Poetic Diction, first published in 1928, begins by asking why we call a given grouping of words "poetry" and why these arouse "aesthetic imagination" and produce pleasure in a receptive reader. Returning always to this personal experience of poetry, Owen Barfield at the same time seeks objective...
| Author | Sarah Haley |
| ISBN | 1469627590 |
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries imprisoned black women faced wrenching forms of gendered racial terror and heinous structures of economic exploitation. Subjugated as convict laborers and forced to serve additional time as domestic workers before they were allowed their freedom,...
| Author | Matt Dembicki |
| ISBN | 1555917518 |
District Comics is a graphic anthology featuring lesser-known stories about Washington, DC, from its earliest days as a rustic settlement along the swampy banks of the Potomac to the modern-day metropolis. Spanning 1794-2009, District Comics stops along the way for a duel, a drink in the Senate's...
| Author | Vincent Brown |
| ISBN | 0674024222 |
The politics of power and control negotiated through death, to me is the main theme of the book. For enslaved Africans death might have disrupted their social lives but it also provided the avenue through which new customs or even old customs could be adapted to suit the prevailing circumstances. Brown's...
| Author | Gene Sharp |
| ISBN | 0875580688 |
Sharp was born in Ohio, the son of an itinerant Protestant minister. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Social Sciences in 1949 from Ohio State University, where he also received his Master of Arts in Sociology in 1951. In 1953-54, Sharp was jailed for nine months after protesting the conscription of soldiers...
| Author | Marcelo d'Salete |
| ISBN | 9788563137 |
Cumbe é uma obra para ampliar possibilidades de leitura e visões sobre o passado. Suas histórias sobre resistência negra e africana contra a escravidão lançam uma outra perspectiva a respeito deste grupo. A resistência de muitos africanos escravizados contra o sistema de trabalho forçado...
Race, Class, and Politics in the Cappuccino City
For long-time residents of Washington, DC’s Shaw/U Street, the neighborhood has become almost unrecognizable in recent years. Where the city’s most infamous open-air drug market once stood, a farmers’ market now sells grass-fed beef and homemade duck egg ravioli. On the corner where AM.PM...
