Tropical Freedom
Title | Tropical Freedom PDF eBook |
Author | Ikuko Asaka |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 2017-10-19 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0822372754 |
In Tropical Freedom Ikuko Asaka engages in a hemispheric examination of the intersection of emancipation and settler colonialism in North America. Asaka shows how from the late eighteenth century through Reconstruction, emancipation efforts in the United States and present-day Canada were accompanied by attempts to relocate freed blacks to tropical regions, as black bodies were deemed to be more physiologically compatible with tropical climates. This logic conceived of freedom as a racially segregated condition based upon geography and climate. Regardless of whether freed people became tenant farmers in Sierra Leone or plantation laborers throughout the Caribbean, their relocation would provide whites with a monopoly over the benefits of settling indigenous land in temperate zones throughout North America. At the same time, black activists and intellectuals contested these geographic-based controls by developing alternative discourses on race and the environment. By tracing these negotiations of the transnational racialization of freedom, Asaka demonstrates the importance of considering settler colonialism and black freedom together while complicating the prevailing frames through which the intertwined histories of British and U.S. emancipation and colonialism have been understood.
Tropic of Chaos
Title | Tropic of Chaos PDF eBook |
Author | Christian Parenti |
Publisher | Bold Type Books |
Pages | 305 |
Release | 2011-06-28 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 1568586620 |
From Africa to Asia and Latin America, the era of climate wars has begun. Extreme weather is breeding banditry, humanitarian crisis, and state failure. In Tropic of Chaos, investigative journalist Christian Parenti travels along the front lines of this gathering catastrophe--the belt of economically and politically battered postcolonial nations and war zones girding the planet's midlatitudes. Here he finds failed states amid climatic disasters. But he also reveals the unsettling presence of Western military forces and explains how they see an opportunity in the crisis to prepare for open-ended global counterinsurgency. Parenti argues that this incipient "climate fascism" -- a political hardening of wealthy states-- is bound to fail. The struggling states of the developing world cannot be allowed to collapse, as they will take other nations down as well. Instead, we must work to meet the challenge of climate-driven violence with a very different set of sustainable economic and development policies.
Landscapes of Freedom
Title | Landscapes of Freedom PDF eBook |
Author | Claudia Leal |
Publisher | University of Arizona Press |
Pages | 353 |
Release | 2018-03-27 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0816536740 |
Looking at the interaction of race and terrain during a critical period in Latin American history--Provided by publisher.
Tropic of Cancer (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
Title | Tropic of Cancer (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Miller |
Publisher | HarperCollins UK |
Pages | 338 |
Release | 2012-01-30 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0007389469 |
Miller’s groundbreaking first novel, banned in Britain for almost thirty years.
Tropical Secrets
Title | Tropical Secrets PDF eBook |
Author | Margarita Engle |
Publisher | Henry Holt and Company (BYR) |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 2009-03-31 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 1429919817 |
Daniel has escaped Nazi Germany with nothing but a desperate dream that he might one day find his parents again. But that golden land called New York has turned away his ship full of refugees, and Daniel finds himself in Cuba. As the tropical island begins to work its magic on him, the young refugee befriends a local girl with some painful secrets of her own. Yet even in Cuba, the Nazi darkness is never far away . . .
Fleeing to Freedom on the Underground Railroad
Title | Fleeing to Freedom on the Underground Railroad PDF eBook |
Author | Elaine Landau |
Publisher | Twenty-First Century Books |
Pages | 100 |
Release | 2006-01-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780822534907 |
Uses letters, newspaper articles, biographies, and autobiographies to tell the Underground Railroad's stories of pain and courage.
Freedom Rising
Title | Freedom Rising PDF eBook |
Author | Christian Welzel |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 473 |
Release | 2013-12-23 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1107034701 |
This is the first study to demonstrate the role of cultural change in the global rise of freedoms. In multiple ways, the author illustrates how emerging "emancipative values" intertwine technological and institutional changes into a single trend toward human empowerment. The author interprets his broad and far-reaching findings from societies around the world in a new and coherent framework: the evolutionary theory of emancipation.