Author: David Carroll Cochran
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791441855
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Offers a fresh, distinctive, and compelling analysis of the United States's continuing dilemma of race.
The Color of Freedom
Author: David Carroll Cochran
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791441855
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Offers a fresh, distinctive, and compelling analysis of the United States's continuing dilemma of race.
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791441855
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Offers a fresh, distinctive, and compelling analysis of the United States's continuing dilemma of race.
The Color of Freedom
Author: Laura Coppo
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
A husband and wife team, Indian activists Jagannathan and Krishnammal, are the subject of this stirring oral biography. Spanning their role in Gandhi's struggle against the British in the 1940s, to their current struggle against the environmentally destructive prawn farming financed by the World Bank, this is the story of how two individuals have put their lives on the line repeatedly through nonviolent action, to obtain land for the landless, to abolish untouchability, and to defend their land against the devastation wrought by multinational corporations. The story of one who came from an untouchable impoverished family and joined the other from an upper caste family to successfully challenge the World Bank and the IMF can be a guiding star for such transformation.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
A husband and wife team, Indian activists Jagannathan and Krishnammal, are the subject of this stirring oral biography. Spanning their role in Gandhi's struggle against the British in the 1940s, to their current struggle against the environmentally destructive prawn farming financed by the World Bank, this is the story of how two individuals have put their lives on the line repeatedly through nonviolent action, to obtain land for the landless, to abolish untouchability, and to defend their land against the devastation wrought by multinational corporations. The story of one who came from an untouchable impoverished family and joined the other from an upper caste family to successfully challenge the World Bank and the IMF can be a guiding star for such transformation.
Always Color Outside the Lines
Author: Robert Taliaferro
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781721933631
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
The creation of art has been an ability that all of us possessed from the first moment that we picked up a crayon and fearlessly scribbled on a kitchen wall.Always Color Outside the Lines is a book that celebrates that fearlessness and reminds us that art is a universal aspect of life that is not relegated to a select few, but which belongs to everyone.The book is designed to showcase the beauty of artistic expression, regardless of the level of experience, and to be inspirational to both the professional and novice alike.Art is a subjective and personal form of expression that defines how a person views the world around them. Always Color Outside the Lines is a tribute to that individuality. The beauty of art is that no two people will ever see the same image or color in the same way; this book highlights that there are no universal constants when it comes to art, there is just beauty.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781721933631
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
The creation of art has been an ability that all of us possessed from the first moment that we picked up a crayon and fearlessly scribbled on a kitchen wall.Always Color Outside the Lines is a book that celebrates that fearlessness and reminds us that art is a universal aspect of life that is not relegated to a select few, but which belongs to everyone.The book is designed to showcase the beauty of artistic expression, regardless of the level of experience, and to be inspirational to both the professional and novice alike.Art is a subjective and personal form of expression that defines how a person views the world around them. Always Color Outside the Lines is a tribute to that individuality. The beauty of art is that no two people will ever see the same image or color in the same way; this book highlights that there are no universal constants when it comes to art, there is just beauty.
CoBrA, the Colour of Freedom
Author: Stedelijk Museum Schiedam
Publisher: Nai010 Publishers
ISBN: 9789056622947
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"This book offers a broad and colourful picture of the Schiedam CoBrA collection. Various articles cover the creation of the collection, the question of how a (relatively small) museum deals with such a prestigious collection and recent restoration issues connected with this art. A number of shorter texts focus on individual works and on the artists. With its numerous illustrations and comprehensive approach, this book reveals a unique and largely hitherto unknown picture of CoBrA in the Netherlands. For the more specialist reader the book offers a great deal of art-historical information on such subjects as conservation and art policy."--Jacket
Publisher: Nai010 Publishers
ISBN: 9789056622947
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"This book offers a broad and colourful picture of the Schiedam CoBrA collection. Various articles cover the creation of the collection, the question of how a (relatively small) museum deals with such a prestigious collection and recent restoration issues connected with this art. A number of shorter texts focus on individual works and on the artists. With its numerous illustrations and comprehensive approach, this book reveals a unique and largely hitherto unknown picture of CoBrA in the Netherlands. For the more specialist reader the book offers a great deal of art-historical information on such subjects as conservation and art policy."--Jacket
Alice Neel: Freedom
Author: Alice Neel
Publisher: David Zwirner Books
ISBN: 1941701981
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
One of the foremost American figurative painters of the twentieth century, it is not surprising that Alice Neel was a humanist—she was fascinated by people. Known for her daringly honest portraits, Neel loved to paint people in all their complexities—to penetrate and reveal their fears and anxieties, how they defiance and survival. She also loved to paint the unadorned human figure. Her nudes, in particular, explore the body with frankness while celebrating the individuality of each of her subjects, and they exemplify the freedom and courage with which she approached her work and her life. Through her paintings and works on paper, Neel was able to free herself from the expected inhibitions and crippling taboos that were placed on women and focus on the beauty and nuanced complexity of flesh and the human body. In their mastery of form, color, and implied social commentary, her nudes are as relevant today as when they were painted. Freedom documents the solo exhibition of the artist’s work at David Zwirner in New York in 2019. Including works that span the 1920s to the 1980s, this presentation focuses primarily on the nude figure—whether male or female, adult or child—and demonstrates how Neel rebelled against and challenged the traditional perceptions of sexuality, motherhood, and beauty in our society. The catalogue includes newly commissioned scholarship by Helen Molesworth and an introduction by Ginny Neel of The Estate of Alice Neel.
Publisher: David Zwirner Books
ISBN: 1941701981
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
One of the foremost American figurative painters of the twentieth century, it is not surprising that Alice Neel was a humanist—she was fascinated by people. Known for her daringly honest portraits, Neel loved to paint people in all their complexities—to penetrate and reveal their fears and anxieties, how they defiance and survival. She also loved to paint the unadorned human figure. Her nudes, in particular, explore the body with frankness while celebrating the individuality of each of her subjects, and they exemplify the freedom and courage with which she approached her work and her life. Through her paintings and works on paper, Neel was able to free herself from the expected inhibitions and crippling taboos that were placed on women and focus on the beauty and nuanced complexity of flesh and the human body. In their mastery of form, color, and implied social commentary, her nudes are as relevant today as when they were painted. Freedom documents the solo exhibition of the artist’s work at David Zwirner in New York in 2019. Including works that span the 1920s to the 1980s, this presentation focuses primarily on the nude figure—whether male or female, adult or child—and demonstrates how Neel rebelled against and challenged the traditional perceptions of sexuality, motherhood, and beauty in our society. The catalogue includes newly commissioned scholarship by Helen Molesworth and an introduction by Ginny Neel of The Estate of Alice Neel.
Shades of Freedom
Author: A. Leon Higginbotham Jr.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190284099
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Few individuals have had as great an impact on the law--both its practice and its history--as A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. A winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, he has distinguished himself over the decades both as a professor at Yale, the University of Pennsylvania, and Harvard, and as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals. But Judge Higginbotham is perhaps best known as an authority on racism in America: not the least important achievement of his long career has been In the Matter of Color, the first volume in a monumental history of race and the American legal process. Published in 1978, this brilliant book has been hailed as the definitive account of racism, slavery, and the law in colonial America. Now, after twenty years, comes the long-awaited sequel. In Shades of Freedom, Higginbotham provides a magisterial account of the interaction between the law and racial oppression in America from colonial times to the present, demonstrating how the one agent that should have guaranteed equal treatment before the law--the judicial system--instead played a dominant role in enforcing the inferior position of blacks. The issue of racial inferiority is central to this volume, as Higginbotham documents how early white perceptions of black inferiority slowly became codified into law. Perhaps the most powerful and insightful writing centers on a pair of famous Supreme Court cases, which Higginbotham uses to portray race relations at two vital moments in our history. The Dred Scott decision of 1857 declared that a slave who had escaped to free territory must be returned to his slave owner. Chief Justice Roger Taney, in his notorious opinion for the majority, stated that blacks were "so inferior that they had no right which the white man was bound to respect." For Higginbotham, Taney's decision reflects the extreme state that race relations had reached just before the Civil War. And after the War and Reconstruction, Higginbotham reveals, the Courts showed a pervasive reluctance (if not hostility) toward the goal of full and equal justice for African Americans, and this was particularly true of the Supreme Court. And in the Plessy v. Ferguson decision, which Higginbotham terms "one of the most catastrophic racial decisions ever rendered," the Court held that full equality--in schooling or housing, for instance--was unnecessary as long as there were "separate but equal" facilities. Higginbotham also documents the eloquent voices that opposed the openly racist workings of the judicial system, from Reconstruction Congressman John R. Lynch to Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan to W. E. B. Du Bois, and he shows that, ironically, it was the conservative Supreme Court of the 1930s that began the attack on school segregation, and overturned the convictions of African Americans in the famous Scottsboro case. But today racial bias still dominates the nation, Higginbotham concludes, as he shows how in six recent court cases the public perception of black inferiority continues to persist. In Shades of Freedom, a noted scholar and celebrated jurist offers a work of magnificent scope, insight, and passion. Ranging from the earliest colonial times to the present, it is a superb work of history--and a mirror to the American soul.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190284099
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Few individuals have had as great an impact on the law--both its practice and its history--as A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. A winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, he has distinguished himself over the decades both as a professor at Yale, the University of Pennsylvania, and Harvard, and as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals. But Judge Higginbotham is perhaps best known as an authority on racism in America: not the least important achievement of his long career has been In the Matter of Color, the first volume in a monumental history of race and the American legal process. Published in 1978, this brilliant book has been hailed as the definitive account of racism, slavery, and the law in colonial America. Now, after twenty years, comes the long-awaited sequel. In Shades of Freedom, Higginbotham provides a magisterial account of the interaction between the law and racial oppression in America from colonial times to the present, demonstrating how the one agent that should have guaranteed equal treatment before the law--the judicial system--instead played a dominant role in enforcing the inferior position of blacks. The issue of racial inferiority is central to this volume, as Higginbotham documents how early white perceptions of black inferiority slowly became codified into law. Perhaps the most powerful and insightful writing centers on a pair of famous Supreme Court cases, which Higginbotham uses to portray race relations at two vital moments in our history. The Dred Scott decision of 1857 declared that a slave who had escaped to free territory must be returned to his slave owner. Chief Justice Roger Taney, in his notorious opinion for the majority, stated that blacks were "so inferior that they had no right which the white man was bound to respect." For Higginbotham, Taney's decision reflects the extreme state that race relations had reached just before the Civil War. And after the War and Reconstruction, Higginbotham reveals, the Courts showed a pervasive reluctance (if not hostility) toward the goal of full and equal justice for African Americans, and this was particularly true of the Supreme Court. And in the Plessy v. Ferguson decision, which Higginbotham terms "one of the most catastrophic racial decisions ever rendered," the Court held that full equality--in schooling or housing, for instance--was unnecessary as long as there were "separate but equal" facilities. Higginbotham also documents the eloquent voices that opposed the openly racist workings of the judicial system, from Reconstruction Congressman John R. Lynch to Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan to W. E. B. Du Bois, and he shows that, ironically, it was the conservative Supreme Court of the 1930s that began the attack on school segregation, and overturned the convictions of African Americans in the famous Scottsboro case. But today racial bias still dominates the nation, Higginbotham concludes, as he shows how in six recent court cases the public perception of black inferiority continues to persist. In Shades of Freedom, a noted scholar and celebrated jurist offers a work of magnificent scope, insight, and passion. Ranging from the earliest colonial times to the present, it is a superb work of history--and a mirror to the American soul.
Conceiving Freedom
Author: Camillia Cowling
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469610876
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Conceiving Freedom: Women of Color, Gender, and the Abolition of Slavery in Havana and Rio de Janeiro
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469610876
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Conceiving Freedom: Women of Color, Gender, and the Abolition of Slavery in Havana and Rio de Janeiro
Freedom River
Author: Doreen Rappaport
Publisher: StarWalk Kids Media
ISBN: 1630831301
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Describes an incident in the life of John Parker, an ex-slave who became a successful businessman in Ripley, Ohio, and who repeatedly risked his life to help other slaves escape to freedom.
Publisher: StarWalk Kids Media
ISBN: 1630831301
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Describes an incident in the life of John Parker, an ex-slave who became a successful businessman in Ripley, Ohio, and who repeatedly risked his life to help other slaves escape to freedom.
The Campus Color Line
Author: Eddie R. Cole
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691206767
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
"Although it is commonly known that college students and other activists, as well as politicians, actively participated in the fight for and against civil rights in the middle decades of the twentieth century, historical accounts have not adequately focused on the roles that the nation's college presidents played in the debates concerning racism. Focusing on the period between 1948 and 1968, The Campus Color Line sheds light on the important place of college presidents in the struggle for racial parity. College presidents, during a time of violence and unrest, initiated and shaped racial policies and practices inside and outside of the educational sphere. The Campus Color Line illuminates how the legacy of academic leaders' actions continues to influence the unfinished struggle for Black freedom and racial equity in education and beyond."--
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691206767
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
"Although it is commonly known that college students and other activists, as well as politicians, actively participated in the fight for and against civil rights in the middle decades of the twentieth century, historical accounts have not adequately focused on the roles that the nation's college presidents played in the debates concerning racism. Focusing on the period between 1948 and 1968, The Campus Color Line sheds light on the important place of college presidents in the struggle for racial parity. College presidents, during a time of violence and unrest, initiated and shaped racial policies and practices inside and outside of the educational sphere. The Campus Color Line illuminates how the legacy of academic leaders' actions continues to influence the unfinished struggle for Black freedom and racial equity in education and beyond."--
She Stood for Freedom
Author: Loki Mulholland
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781629721774
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Biography of Joan Trumpauer Mulholland follows her from her childhood in 1950s Virginia through her high school and college years, when she joined the Civil Rights Movement, attending demonstrations and sit-ins. She also participated in the Freedom Rides of 1961 and was arrested and imprisoned. Her life has been spent standing up for human rights.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781629721774
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Biography of Joan Trumpauer Mulholland follows her from her childhood in 1950s Virginia through her high school and college years, when she joined the Civil Rights Movement, attending demonstrations and sit-ins. She also participated in the Freedom Rides of 1961 and was arrested and imprisoned. Her life has been spent standing up for human rights.