Shadows of Race and Class
Title | Shadows of Race and Class PDF eBook |
Author | Raymond S. Franklin |
Publisher | U of Minnesota Press |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Racism |
ISBN | 9781452900988 |
Shadows of Race and Class
Title | Shadows of Race and Class PDF eBook |
Author | Raymond S. Franklin |
Publisher | |
Pages | 189 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780816619566 |
Living in the Shadows
Title | Living in the Shadows PDF eBook |
Author | Pierre W. Orelus |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 121 |
Release | 2020-09-07 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9004440941 |
This book explores two diametrical poles of the author’s experiences growing up poor and being educated in a colonial school system in a developing country and currently working as a university professor in the United States.
Shadows of a Sunbelt City
Title | Shadows of a Sunbelt City PDF eBook |
Author | Eliot Tretter |
Publisher | University of Georgia Press |
Pages | 193 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0820344885 |
Austin, Texas, is often depicted as one of the past half century's great urban successstories--a place that has grown enormously through "creative class" strategies. In Shadows of a Sunbelt City, Eliot Tretter reinterprets this familiar story by exploring the racial and environmental underpinnings of the postindustrial knowledge economy.
Where We Stand
Title | Where We Stand PDF eBook |
Author | bell hooks |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 173 |
Release | 2012-10-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1135956642 |
Drawing on both her roots in Kentucky and her adventures with Manhattan Coop boards, Where We Stand is a successful black woman's reflection--personal, straight forward, and rigorously honest--on how our dilemmas of class and race are intertwined, and how we can find ways to think beyond them.
In the Shadow of Slavery
Title | In the Shadow of Slavery PDF eBook |
Author | Leslie M. Harris |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 396 |
Release | 2023-11-29 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0226824861 |
A new edition of a classic work revealing the little-known history of African Americans in New York City before Emancipation. The popular understanding of the history of slavery in America almost entirely ignores the institution’s extensive reach in the North. But the cities of the North were built by—and became the home of—tens of thousands of enslaved African Americans, many of whom would continue to live there as free people after Emancipation. In the Shadow of Slavery reveals the history of African Americans in the nation’s largest metropolis, New York City. Leslie M. Harris draws on travel accounts, autobiographies, newspapers, literature, and organizational records to extend prior studies of racial discrimination. She traces the undeniable impact of African Americans on class distinctions, politics, and community formation by offering vivid portraits of the lives and aspirations of countless black New Yorkers. This new edition includes an afterword by the author addressing subsequent research and the ongoing arguments over how slavery and its legacy should be taught, memorialized, and acknowledged by governments.
Street Shadows
Title | Street Shadows PDF eBook |
Author | Jerald Walker |
Publisher | Bantam |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 2010-01-26 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 055390633X |
Masterfully told, marked by irony and humor as well as outrage and a barely contained sadness, Jerald Walker’s Street Shadows is the story of a young man’s descent into the “thug life” and the wake-up call that led to his finding himself again. Walker was born in a Chicago housing project and raised, along with his six brothers and sisters, by blind parents of modest means but middle-class aspirations. A boy of great promise whose parents and teachers saw success in his future, he seemed destined to fulfill their hopes. But by age fourteen, like so many of his friends, he found himself drawn to the streets. By age seventeen he was a school dropout, a drug addict, and a gangbanger, his life spiraling toward the violent and premature end all too familiar to African American males. And then came the blast of gunfire that changed everything: His coke-dealing friend Greg was shot to death—less than an hour after Walker scored a gram from him. “Twenty-five years later, tossing the drug out the window is still the second most difficult thing I’ve ever done. The most difficult thing is still that I didn’t follow it.” So begins the story, told in alternating time frames, of the journey that Walker took to become the man he is today—a husband, father, teacher, and writer. But his struggle to escape the long shadows of the streets was not easy. There were racial stereotypes to overcome—his own as well as those of the very white world he found himself in—and a hard grappling with the meaning of race that came to an unexpected climax on a trip to Africa. An eloquent account of how the past shadows but need not determine the present, Street Shadows is the opposite of a victim narrative. Walker casts no blame (except upon himself), sheds no tears (except for those who have not shared his good fortune), and refuses the temptations of self-pity and self-exoneration. In the end, what Jerald Walker has written is a stirring portrait of two Americas—one hopeless, the other inspirational—embodied within one man.