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"This book examines how violence was used as a spectacle in Cuban
and Argentine theater in the late 1960s and early 1970s as a
reflection of and a dialogue with the violence occurring in the
public arena. Using the international affair of the Caso Padilla as
a way to appreciate how the notion of revolutionary spectacle
pertains to culture, Ford deftly examines the use of violence in
four plays from Cuba and Argentina to understand how simulated
violence was used as a tool to address the very real violence that
was taking place offstage."--BOOK JACKET.
The four stories which make up the "Mabinogi "along with three
additional tales from the same tradition form this collection and
comprise the core of the ancient Welsh mythological cycle. Included
are only those stories that have remained unadulterated by the
influence of the French Arthurian romances, providing a rare,
authentic selection of the finest works in medieval Celtic
literature. In this first thoroughly revised edition and
translation since Lady Charlotte Guest's famous "Mabinogion "in
1849, Patrick Ford has presented a scholarly document in readable,
modern English, a literary achievement of the highest order.
Historically, many Black women have viewed political participation
as a means to achieve full equality and improve their status in US
society. To this end, Black women have long engaged in politics
through activism, voting, mobilization, and seeking office. Since
2016 the number of women, particularly Black women, seeking office
has increased dramatically. Including interviews with Black women
holding political office at the national, state, and local levels,
as well as focus group data, The Radical Imagination of Black Women
challenges political science's current approach to political
ambition by exploring how Black women decide to seek political
office. Pearl K. Ford Dowe argues that ambition for Black women
cannot be measured only by political candidacies and ascents of the
political chain of power. Black women are uniquely positioned
within their communities to influence politics and public policy,
which stems from unique variables of socialization, gender and
racial identity, and marginalization that shape the political
attitudes of Black women. Thus, Dowe asserts that Black women's
political ambition often manifests outside formal politics, in
activism and community building, a process that is linked to a
wider radical vision for a full democracy. This is ambition that
occurs in a specific context of marginalization, and both
motivation and the conditions surrounding such motivation are
critical to understanding the full range of Black women's political
work. By focusing on Black women's experiences in elite politics,
The Radical Imagination of Black Women is a much-needed
intervention in the literature on electoral ambition, women in
politics, and candidates and elections.
The four stories that make up the Mabinogi, along with three
additional tales from the same tradition, form this collection and
compose the core of the ancient Welsh mythological cycle. Included
are only those stories that have remained unadulterated by the
influence of the French Arthurian romances, providing a rare,
authentic selection of the finest works in medieval Celtic
literature. This landmark edition translated by Patrick K. Ford is
a literary achievement of the highest order.
A major contribution to our understanding of slavery in the early
republic, Deliver Us from Evil illuminates the white South's
twisted and tortured efforts to justify slavery, focusing on the
period from the drafting of the federal constitution in 1787
through the age of Jackson.
Drawing heavily on primary sources, including newspapers,
government documents, legislative records, pamphlets, and speeches,
Lacy K. Ford recaptures the varied and sometimes contradictory
ideas and attitudes held by groups of white southerners as they
tried to square slavery with their democratic ideals. He excels at
conveying the political, intellectual, economic, and social thought
of leading white southerners, vividly recreating the mental world
of the varied actors and capturing the vigorous debates over
slavery. He also shows that there was not one antebellum South but
many, and not one southern white mindset but several, with the
debates over slavery in the upper South quite different in
substance from those in the deep South. In the upper South, where
tobacco had fallen into comparative decline by 1800, debate often
centered on how the area might reduce its dependence on slave labor
and "whiten" itself, whether through gradual emancipation and
colonization or the sale of slaves to the cotton South. During the
same years, the lower South swirled into the vortex of the "cotton
revolution," and that area's whites lost all interest in
emancipation, no matter how gradual or fully compensated.
An ambitious, thought-provoking, and highly insightful book,
Deliver Us from Evil makes an important contribution to the history
of slavery in the United States, shedding needed light on the white
South's early struggle to reconcile slavery with its Revolutionary
heritage.
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