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January 25, 2025

Peekskill’s African American History A Hudson Valley Community’s Untold Story

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Free Download John J. Curran, "Peekskill’s African American History: A Hudson Valley Community’s Untold Story "
English | ISBN: 1596294841 | 2008 | 160 pages | EPUB | 16 MB
The first African Americans of Peekskill had no choice in making the Hudson Valley their home. What they did choose was what kind of home to make of it-choices that were to shape both their community and the course of American history. Meet the African American sharpshooter who helped swing the balance of the American Revolution, revisit a stop on the underground railroad and catch a glimpse of Paul Robeson through the tumult of the 1949 concert riots. Then follow John J. Curran beyond the headlines and behind the scenes as he seeks out the people whose quiet, consistent contributions were no less dynamic in bringing about social change.

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January 14, 2025

Mine Mine Mine (African Poetry Book)

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Free Download Mine Mine Mine (African Poetry Book) By Uhuru Portia Phalafala
2023 | 100 Pages | ISBN: 1496235150 | EPUB | 1 MB
Mine Mine Mine is a personal narration of Uhuru Portia Phalafala’s family’s experience of the migrant labor system brought on by the gold mining industry in Johannesburg, South Africa. Using geopoetics to map geopolitics, Phalafala follows the death of her grandfather during a historic juncture in 2018, when a silicosis class action lawsuit against the mining industry in South Africa was settled in favor of the miners. Phalafala ties the catastrophic effects of gold mining on the miners and the environment in Johannesburg to the destruction of Black lives, the institution of the Black family, and Black sociality. Her epic poem addresses racial capitalism, bringing together histories of the transatlantic and trans-Indian slave trades, of plantation economies, and of mining and prison-industrial complexes. As inheritor of the migrant labor lineage, she uses her experience to explore how Black women carry intergenerational trauma of racial capitalism in their bodies and intersects the personal and national, continental and diasporic narration of this history within a critical race framework.

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January 14, 2025

Loving the Dying (African Poetry Book)

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Free Download Loving the Dying (African Poetry Book) By Len Verwey
2023 | 60 Pages | ISBN: 1496234685 | PDF | 1 MB
Loving the Dying is a collection of poems on life’s different stages. Set against the backdrop of a conflicted society, Len Verwey looks at a person’s life from youth and growing up to aging and dying, considering what the ineluctable reality of death might imply about how we should think about our lives. These are poems of uncertainty rather than certainty. The more overtly biographical ones end with as many questions as they start with, and there is often sympathy for the outsider or the marginalized voice. Varying in tone and complexity, Verwey’s poems focus on the tension between escapism and reality, truth and delusion (for individuals and societies), and the need to face death if we are to care for the aged and learn to understand the process of dying. As in his first poetry collection, In a Language That You Know, Verwey continues his effort to understand the successes and failures of the South African post-apartheid journey, with both humor and some despair.

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January 10, 2025

Directing Health Messages Toward African Americans Attitudes Toward Health Care and the Mass Media

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Free Download Judith L. Sychev, "Directing Health Messages Toward African Americans: Attitudes Toward Health Care and the Mass Media"
English | 2021 | ISBN: 0815330510 | EPUB | pages: 304 | 0.6 mb
First Published in 1998. Since the research for this book was completed in 1995, the Clinton Health Security Act of 1993 has vanished. The proposed comprehensive benefits that were to be guaranteed to every American never materialized. Pres. Clinton was never able to present an acceptable way to pay for the system, and Hillary Rodham Clinton, who spearheaded health care reform was relegated back to nearly invisible First Lady status. When Congress takes up health care issues today, the debate is more likely to be about late-term abortion, Medicare reform, or tobacco and smoking regulations. Minority health care-especially preventive health care-has not become part of the national debate and likely will not do so during the 20th Century. Political correctness and research on black health care issues have clashed in a way that the research in this book perhaps could have predicted.

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December 27, 2024

Critical Perspectives on African Politics Liberal interventions, state-building and civil society

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Free Download Clive Gabay, Carl Death, "Critical Perspectives on African Politics: Liberal interventions, state-building and civil society"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 0415818249, 1138214906 | EPUB | pages: 196 | 0.8 mb
Strong states and strong civil societies are now increasingly hailed as the twin drivers of a ‘rising Africa’. Current attempts to support growth and democracy are part of a longer history of promoting projects of disciplinary, regulatory and liberal rule and values beyond ‘the West’. Yet this is not simply Western domination of a passive continent. Such an interpretation misses out on the complexities and nuances of the politics of state-building and civil society promotion, and the central role of African agency.

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