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Breaking the Chains African American Slave Resistance


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English | January 30, 2024 | ISBN: 164421265X | 256 pages | MOBI | 55 Mb
Centering Black voices and the narratives of enslaved people, this young adult history offers a thoroughly researched account with first-hand testimonies of how people in bondage were themselves a driving force behind their own emancipation.

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African Security An Introduction


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English | ISBN: 1788317416 | 2020 | 280 pages | PDF | 9 MB
The world’s fastest growing continent demographically, Africa displays nearly all the features of today’s global security challenges: armed conflict, terrorism, irregular migration, organized crime, great power competition, public discontent, and economic turbulence.

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African Landscapes Interdisciplinary Approache (2024)


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English | 2008 | pages: 519 | ISBN: 0387786813, 144192695X | PDF | 14,6 mb
Landscape studies provide a crucial perspective into the interaction between humans and their environment, shedding insight on social, cultural, and economic topics. The research explores both the way that natural processes have affected the development of culture and society, as well as the ways that natural landscapes themselves are the product of historical and cultural processes.

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African Americans and HIVAIDS Understanding and Addressing the Epidemic


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English | 2010 | pages: 336 | ISBN: 1489996729, 0387783202 | PDF | 3,9 mb
Among U. S. racial and ethnic minority populations, African American communities are the most disproportionately impacted and affected by HIV/AIDS (CDC, 2009; CDC, 2008). The chapters in this volume seek to explore factors that contribute to this disparity as well as methods for intervening and positively impacting the e- demic in the U. S. The book is divided into two sections. The first section includes chapters that explore specific contextual and structural factors related to HIV/AIDS transmission and prevention in African Americans. The second section is composed of chapters that address the latest in intervention strategies, including best-evidence and promising-evidence based behavioral interventions, program evaluation, cost effectiveness analyses and HIV testing and counseling. As background for the book, the Introduction provides a summary of the context and importance of other infectious disease rates, (i. e. , sexually transmitted diseases [STDs] and tubercu- sis), to HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment in African Americans and a brief introductory discussion on the major contextual factors related to the acquisition and transmission of STDs/HIV. Contextual Chapters Johnson & Dean author the first chapter in this section, which discusses the history and epidemiology of HIV/AIDS among African Americans. Specifically, this ch- ter provides a definition for and description of the US surveillance systems used to track HIV/AIDS and presents data on HIV or AIDS cases diagnosed between 2002 and 2006 and reported to CDC as of June 30, 2007.

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African American Novels in the Black Lives Matter Era Transgressive Performativity of Black Vulnerability as Praxis in


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English | ISBN: 1498596215 | 2019 | 268 pages | PDF | 2 MB
African American Novels in the Black Lives Matter Era: Transgressive Performativity of Black Vulnerability as Praxis in Everyday Life explores the undoing of whiteness by black people, who dissociate from scripts of black criminality through radical performative reiterations of black vulnerability. It studies five novels that challenge the embodied discursive practices of whiteness in interracial social encounters, showing how they use strategic performances of Blackness to enable subversive practices in everyday life, which is constructed and governed by white mechanisms of racialized control. The agency portrayed in these novels opens up alternative spaces of Blackness to impact the social world and effects transformative change as a forceful critique of everyday life. African American Novels in the Black Lives Matter Era shows how these novels reformulate the problem of black vulnerability as a constitutive source of the right to life in their refusal of subjection to vulnerability, enacted by white institutional and individual forms of violence. It positions a white-black-encounter-oriented reading of these "neo-resistance novels" of the Black Lives Matter era as a critique of everyday life in an effort to explore spaces of radical performativity of blackness to make happen social change and transformation.

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A Flawed Freedom Rethinking Southern African Liberation


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English | 2014 | pages: 209 | ISBN: 0745334806, 0745334792 | PDF | 4,8 mb
Twenty years on from the fall of apartheid in South Africa, veteran analyst and activist John S Saul reexamines the liberation struggle, placing it in a regional and global context and looking at how the initial optimism and hope has given way to a sense of crisis following soaring inequality levels and the massacre of workers at Marikana.

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African American History From the African Coast to the Civil War [TTC Audio]


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English | February 02, 2024 | ASIN: B0CSZD9GJQ | M4B@64 kbps | 12h 30m | 356 MB
Lecturer: Leslie Alexander
Owing to the legacy of slavery, African Americans have faced significant obstacles to obtaining the fundamental rights of freedom and citizenship. The consistent struggle among African Americans to gain their human rights live at the heart of the American experiment in democracy.

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TGC – African American History From the African Coast to the Civil War


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Released 2/2024
MP4 | Video: h264, 1280×720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Genre: eLearning | Language: English | Duration: 24 Lessons ( 12h 30m ) | Size: 10.4 GB
The history of the United States is inextricably linked to the terrible legacy of slavery. Even before the colonies revolted against England and were consolidated into a nation, enslaved Africans were a crucial part of the story. The legacies of slavery and abolition are still felt keenly today as African Americans have faced significant obstacles to obtaining the fundamental rights of freedom and citizenship. The consistent struggle among African Americans to gain their human rights lives at the heart of the American experiment in democracy.

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The Cambridge Handbook of African Linguistics


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2019 | 823 Pages | ISBN: 1108417981 | PDF | 7 MB
This book presents an in-depth and comprehensive state-of-the-art account of the study of ‘African languages’ and ‘language in Africa’ since its beginnings as a ‘colonial science’ at the turn of the 20th century in Europe. Compiled by 55 internationally renowned scholars, this groundbreaking account looks at past and current research on ‘African languages’ and ‘language in Africa’ under the impact of paradigmatic changes from ‘colonial’ to ‘postcolonial’ perspectives. It addresses current trends in the study of the role and functions of language, African and other, in pre- and postcolonial African societies. Highlighting the central role that the ‘language factor’ plays in postcolonial transformation processes of sociocultural modernization and economic development, it also addresses more recent, particularly urban, patterns of communication and outlines applied dimensions of digitalization and human language technology.

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African Perspectives on Religion and Climate Change


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English | 2022 | ISBN: 0367616076 | EPUB | pages: 242 | 2.1 mb
This book interrogates the contributions that religious traditions have made to climate change discussions within Africa, whether positive or negative. Drawing on a range of African contexts and religious traditions, the book provides concrete suggestions on how individuals and communities of faith must act in order to address the challenge of climate change.

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