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Author: William Minter
Publisher: William Minter
Keywords: activists, over, century, american, liberation, victories, african, easy
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2008-02-18
ISBN-10: 1592215750
ISBN-13: 9781592215751
African news making headlines today is dominated by disaster: wars, famine, HIV. Those who respond - from stars to ordinary citizens - are learning that real solutions require more than charity. This book provides a comprehensive, panoramic view of US activism in Africa from 1950 to 2000, activism grounded in a common struggle for justice. It portrays organisations, activists and networks that contributed to African liberation and, in turn, shows how African struggles informed US activism, including the civil rights and black power movements.
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Author: Cristogianni Borsella
Publisher: Branden Books
Keywords: italian, american, experience, century, aspects, americans, identity, activism, persecution
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2006-04
ISBN-10: 0937832413
ISBN-13: 9780937832417
Cristogianni Borsella's book, On Persecution, Identity and Activism, is a definitive work on the many trials and tribulations that Italian-Americans have suffered over the past 120 years. While other books have focused on specific areas of anti-Italianism, Cristogianni's work encompasses the great bulk of persecution that existed in the United States, through the use of a historical timeline. The book also shows the reader how Italian-American identity has evolved through the years, and that there is still no consensus on its definition. Modern activism is addressed as well, especially the ong
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Author: Amrita Basu
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: activism, india, women, modes, protest, contrasting, faces
Number of Pages: 324
Published: 1994-12-28
ISBN-10: 0520089197
ISBN-13: 9780520089198
Drawing on case studies of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in West Bengal and Shramik Sangathana in Maharashtra, this ground-breaking new work examines Indian women's political activism. Investigating institutional change at the state level and protest at the village level, Amrita Basu traces the paths of two kinds of political activism among these women. With insights gleaned from extensive interviews with activists, government officials, and ordinary men and women, she finds that militancy has been fueled by pronounced sexual and class cleavages combined with potentially rancorous eth
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Author: Evan S. Medeiros
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: opportunism, diversification, activism, behavior, international, china
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2009
ISBN-10: 0833047094
ISBN-13: 9780833047090
China is now a global actor of significant and growing importance. It is active in regions and on issues that were once only peripheral to its interests, and it is effectively using tools previously unavailable. It is no longer appropriate to talk of integrating China into the international system; by and large, it is already there. Its international behavior is clearly altering the dynamics of the current international system, but it is not transforming its structure.China’s global activism is continually changing and has so many dimensions that it immediately raises questions about its
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Author: Charles Rasmussen
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
Keywords: philosophical, foundations, activism, social, loeb, science, jacques
Number of Pages: 190
Published: 1998
ISBN-10: 0871692295
ISBN-13: 9780871692290
Rman born, Jacques Loeb was both a biologist (nominated for the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1901) & political activist. Drawing on his correspondence, the authors highlight Loeb's organizational actions & political opinions during the years of 1906 to 1924, the year of his death. As a social activist & scientist, Loeb influenced, Rasmussen & Tilman say, "the scientific community, the politically sensitive public, & ultimately the underlying population against conservative & reactionary attitudes toward race, ethnicity, poverty, criminality, war & religion." In chapters on Loeb's research agenda
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