Author: Michael McMillan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 1

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Author: Michael McMillan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781848225930
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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The Front Room: Diaspora Migrant Aesthetics in the Home, originally published in 2009, has become a beloved and much-praised source, providing fascinating revelations into the post-war British experience of immigrants, the decoration of their living spaces and their position in society in relation to decolonisation. The 'front room' (emanating from the Victorian parlour) provides an outlet to respond to the feelings of displacement, exile and alienation and the rebuilding of a home in a strange land. Primarily concerned with Caribbean homes, The Front Room also looks at Moroccan, Surinamese, Antillean and Indonesian migrant groups in Holland--encompassing, through texts, archival documents and artistic photographs, the important cultural markers that are expressed through the domestic interiors of migrants. The author examines how this intimate space within the home raises issues of class, race, migration, aspiration, religion, family, gender, identity and alienation. He also looks at the transition from the colonial post-colonial modernity by placing the book in the context of his own family's migrant experience.

Author: Michael McMillan
Publisher: Black Dog Press
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 150

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'The Front Room' discusses issues of race, class, alienation, nationalities, identifications and aspirations with a social, historical and cultural view of the notion of the living room or 'front room'.

Author: James Anthony Froude
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 604

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Author: Aaron Kamugisha
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253036291
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 281

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Against the lethargy and despair of the contemporary Anglophone Caribbean experience, Aaron Kamugisha gives a powerful argument for advancing Caribbean radical thought as an answer to the conundrums of the present. Beyond Coloniality is an extended meditation on Caribbean thought and freedom at the beginning of the 21st century and a profound rejection of the postindependence social and political organization of the Anglophone Caribbean and its contentment with neocolonial arrangements of power. Kamugisha provides a dazzling reading of two towering figures of the Caribbean intellectual tradition, C. L. R. James and Sylvia Wynter, and their quest for human freedom beyond coloniality. Ultimately, he urges the Caribbean to recall and reconsider the radicalism of its most distinguished 20th-century thinkers in order to imagine a future beyond neocolonialism.

Author: Jim Grover (Photographer)
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781527227897
Category : Documentary photography
Languages : en
Pages : 245

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"A 245 page book accompanies the exhibition; this second edition contains all of the exhibited photographs, eleven life stories, and the accompanying texts in the exhibition. It thus represents the complete exhibition in a book." -- exhibition website, accessed 30/10/2018.

Author: Margaret Stevens
Publisher: Black Critique
ISBN: 9780745337265
Category : African American communists
Languages : en
Pages : 303

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*Selected as one of openDemocracy's Best Political Books of 2017*This is the history of the black radicals who organised as Communists between the two imperialist wars of the twentieth century. It explores the political roots of a dozen organisations and parties in New York City, Mexico and the Black Caribbean, including the Anti-Imperialist League, and the American Negro Labour Congress and the Haiti Patriotic League, and reveals a history of myriad connections and shared struggle across the continent.This book reclaims the centrality of class consciousness and political solidarity amongst these black radicals, who are too often represented as separate from the international Communist movement which emerged after the Russian Revolution in 1917. Instead, it describes the inner workings of the 'Red International' in relation to struggles against racial and colonial oppression. It introduces a cast of radical characters including Richard Moore, Otto Huiswoud, Navares Sager, Grace Campbell, Rose Pastor Stokes and Wilfred Domingo.Challenging the 'great men' narrative, Margaret Stevens emphasises the role of women in their capacity as laborers; the struggles of peasants of colour; and of black workers in and around Communist parties.

Author: Robert Beckford
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350081752
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 265

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Is contemporary Black British gospel music a coloniality? What theological message is really conveyed in these songs? In this book, Robert Beckford shows how the Black British contemporary gospel music tradition is in crisis because its songs continue to be informed by colonial Christian ideas about God. Beckford explores the failure of both African and African Caribbean heritage Churches to Decolonise their faith, especially the doctrine of God, biblical interpretation and Black ontology. This predicament has left song leaders, musicians and songwriters with a reservoir of ideas that aim to disavow engagement with the social-historical world, black Biblical interpretation and the necessity of loving blackness. This book is decolonisation through praxis. Reflecting on the conceptual social justice album 'The Jamaican Bible Remix' (2017) as a communicative resource, Beckford shows how to develop production tools to inscribe decolonial theological thought onto Black British music(s). The outcome of this process is the creation of a decolonial contemporary gospel music genre. The impact of the album is demonstrated through case studies in national and international contexts.

Author: Mary Prince
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486146936
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 82

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Prince — a slave in the British colonies — vividly recalls her life in the West Indies, her rebellion against physical and psychological degradation, and her eventual escape in 1828 in England.

Author: Erich Maria Remarque
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486853683
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162

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Erich Maria Remarque's vivid narrative captures the harsh reality of World War I through the eyes of young German soldier Paul Bäumer. Stripping away any glorification of war, Remarque reveals the intense fear, loss, and psychological strain faced by soldiers and presents a scathing critique of nationalism and the brutality of war.