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The Color of Modernity: São Paulo and the Making of Race and Nation in Brazil
Barbara Weinstein · Duke University Press Books
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In The Color of Modernity, Barbara Weinstein focuses on race, gender, and regionalism in the formation of national identities in Brazil; this focus allows her to explore how uneven patterns of economic development are consolidated and understood. Organized around two principal episodes—the... |
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Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans
Gary Krist · Crown; 1St Edition edition
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From bestselling author Gary Krist, a vibrant and immersive account of New Orleans' other civil war, at a time when commercialized vice, jazz culture, and endemic crime defined the battlegrounds of the Crescent City Empire of Sin re-creates the remarkable story of New Orleans'... |
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Classic Horror Films and the Literature That Inspired Them
Ron Backer · McFarland |
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Classic horror films such as Dracula, Frankenstein and The Picture of Dorian Gray are based on famous novels. Less well known--even to avid horror fans--are the many other memorable films based on literary works. Beginning in the silent era and continuing to the present, numerous horror... |
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Brazil: The Fortunes of War
Neill Lochery · Basic Books; 1St Edition edition
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When World War II erupted in 1939, Brazil seemed a world away. Lush, remote, and underdeveloped, the country and its capital of Rio de Janeiro lured international travelers seeking a respite from the drums of the war. “Rio: at the end of civilization, as we know it,” claimed... |
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Writing on the Wall: Selected Prison Writings of Mumia Abu-Jamal
Mumia Abu Jamal · City Lights Publishers |
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Revolutionary love, revolutionary memory and revolutionary analysis are at work in every page written by Mumia Abu-Jamal ? His writings are a wake-up call. He is a voice from our prophetic tradition, speaking to us here, now, lovingly, urgently. Black man, old-school jazz man, freedom fighter,... |
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The Long Voyage: Selected Letters of Malcolm Cowley, 1915-1987
Malcolm Cowley · s.n.]
Pages: 800
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Critic, poet, editor, chronicler of the "lost generation," and elder statesman of the Republic of Letters, Malcolm Cowley (1898-1989) was an eloquent witness to much of twentieth-century American literary and political life. These letters, the vast majority previously unpublished,... |
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From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
Elizabeth Kai Hinton · Harvard University Press
Pages: 438
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In the United States today, one in every 31 adults is under some form of penal control, including one in eleven African American men. How did the "land of the free" become the home of the world's largest prison system? Challenging the belief that America's prison problem originated... |
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American Apocalypse: A History of Modern Evangelicalism
Matthew Avery Sutton · Belknap Press
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The first comprehensive history of modern American evangelicalism to appear in a generation, American Apocalypse shows how a group of radical Protestants, anticipating the end of the world, paradoxically transformed it. Matthew Avery Sutton draws on extensive archival research to document... |
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