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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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Africa and the United States, Images and Realities
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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Images of Africa
Author: Daniel M. Mengara
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Images of Africa offers a rare insight into the historical and cultural processes through which the various negative perceptions and stereotypes of Africa were deliberately created, and which the continent has struggled to shake off.
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 442
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Images of Africa offers a rare insight into the historical and cultural processes through which the various negative perceptions and stereotypes of Africa were deliberately created, and which the continent has struggled to shake off.
Black Los Angeles
Author: Darnell M. Hunt
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814737358
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Naráyana’s best-seller gives its reader much more than “Friendly Advice.” In one handy collection—closely related to the world-famous Pañcatantra or Five Discourses on Worldly Wisdom —numerous animal fables are interwoven with human stories, all designed to instruct wayward princes. Tales of canny procuresses compete with those of cunning crows and tigers. An intrusive ass is simply thrashed by his master, but the meddlesome monkey ends up with his testicles crushed. One prince manages to enjoy himself with a merchant’s wife with her husband’s consent, while another is kicked out of paradise by a painted image. This volume also contains the compact version of King Víkrama’s Adventures, thirty-two popular tales about a generous emperor, told by thirty-two statuettes adorning his lion-throne. Co-published by New York University Press and the JJC Foundation For more on this title and other titles in the Clay Sanskrit series, please visit http://www.claysanskritlibrary.org
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814737358
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Naráyana’s best-seller gives its reader much more than “Friendly Advice.” In one handy collection—closely related to the world-famous Pañcatantra or Five Discourses on Worldly Wisdom —numerous animal fables are interwoven with human stories, all designed to instruct wayward princes. Tales of canny procuresses compete with those of cunning crows and tigers. An intrusive ass is simply thrashed by his master, but the meddlesome monkey ends up with his testicles crushed. One prince manages to enjoy himself with a merchant’s wife with her husband’s consent, while another is kicked out of paradise by a painted image. This volume also contains the compact version of King Víkrama’s Adventures, thirty-two popular tales about a generous emperor, told by thirty-two statuettes adorning his lion-throne. Co-published by New York University Press and the JJC Foundation For more on this title and other titles in the Clay Sanskrit series, please visit http://www.claysanskritlibrary.org
These Truths: A History of the United States
Author: Jill Lepore
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393635252
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 733
Book Description
“Nothing short of a masterpiece.” —NPR Books A New York Times Bestseller and a Washington Post Notable Book of the Year In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation. Widely hailed for its “sweeping, sobering account of the American past” (New York Times Book Review), Jill Lepore’s one-volume history of America places truth itself—a devotion to facts, proof, and evidence—at the center of the nation’s history. The American experiment rests on three ideas—“these truths,” Jefferson called them—political equality, natural rights, and the sovereignty of the people. But has the nation, and democracy itself, delivered on that promise? These Truths tells this uniquely American story, beginning in 1492, asking whether the course of events over more than five centuries has proven the nation’s truths, or belied them. To answer that question, Lepore wrestles with the state of American politics, the legacy of slavery, the persistence of inequality, and the nature of technological change. “A nation born in contradiction… will fight, forever, over the meaning of its history,” Lepore writes, but engaging in that struggle by studying the past is part of the work of citizenship. With These Truths, Lepore has produced a book that will shape our view of American history for decades to come.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393635252
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 733
Book Description
“Nothing short of a masterpiece.” —NPR Books A New York Times Bestseller and a Washington Post Notable Book of the Year In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation. Widely hailed for its “sweeping, sobering account of the American past” (New York Times Book Review), Jill Lepore’s one-volume history of America places truth itself—a devotion to facts, proof, and evidence—at the center of the nation’s history. The American experiment rests on three ideas—“these truths,” Jefferson called them—political equality, natural rights, and the sovereignty of the people. But has the nation, and democracy itself, delivered on that promise? These Truths tells this uniquely American story, beginning in 1492, asking whether the course of events over more than five centuries has proven the nation’s truths, or belied them. To answer that question, Lepore wrestles with the state of American politics, the legacy of slavery, the persistence of inequality, and the nature of technological change. “A nation born in contradiction… will fight, forever, over the meaning of its history,” Lepore writes, but engaging in that struggle by studying the past is part of the work of citizenship. With These Truths, Lepore has produced a book that will shape our view of American history for decades to come.
International Information and Cultural Series
Author: United States. Department of State
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Category : Cultural relations
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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Category : Cultural relations
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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African American Families Today
Author: Angela Hattery
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442213965
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
From teen pregnancy to athletics, myths about African American families abound. This provocative book debunks many common myths about black families in America, sharing stories and drawing on the latest research to show the realities. As the book shows, racial inequality persists--we're clearly not in a "postracial" society.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442213965
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
From teen pregnancy to athletics, myths about African American families abound. This provocative book debunks many common myths about black families in America, sharing stories and drawing on the latest research to show the realities. As the book shows, racial inequality persists--we're clearly not in a "postracial" society.
Atlas of African-American History
Author: James Ciment
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438125526
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
A comprehensive history of African Americans, including culture, slavery, and civil rights.
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438125526
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
A comprehensive history of African Americans, including culture, slavery, and civil rights.
Newsletter
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Category : International cooperation
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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Category : International cooperation
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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Relations Between Africans and African Americans: Misconceptions, Myths and Realities
Author: Godfrey Mwakikagile
Publisher: New Africa Press
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
The author looks at relations between Africans and African Americans and how they see each other. There are a lot of misconceptions which have an impact on how Africans and African Americans interact, with the media playing a major role in perpetuating myths about both.
Publisher: New Africa Press
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
The author looks at relations between Africans and African Americans and how they see each other. There are a lot of misconceptions which have an impact on how Africans and African Americans interact, with the media playing a major role in perpetuating myths about both.
African Series
Author: United States. Department of State
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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