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Sun
Ra (1914-1993)
During
his earthly sojourn, he created an intriguing repertoire of
music that has hallmarked the history of Jazz, linking
spirituality, politics, science fiction, music, family,
numerology, astrology, and business acumen into one gigantic
concept. The net result is a legacy of nearly 200 records
released, an ensemble of musicians that has played together for
over forty years, traveled four continents, and earning numerous
awards, with countless articles and several books written about
Sun Ra.
Marvin
X (1944-)
A
significant figure of Black Arts Movement (BAM) with his establishment
along with playwright Ed Bullins in 1967of The Black House and Black Arts / West,
a theatre in San Francisco's Fillmore district, to mirror the
efforts of Amiri Baraka's Black
Arts Repertory Theatre / School in Harlem.
Reverend
Dr. Vashti Murphy McKenzie (Born 1947)
Dr. Vashti McKenzie's election as
bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal Church reminds
us how far women have come in ministry and at the same
time the distance we have yet to go.
Chick
Webb (1909-1939)
The Chick Webb Orchestra earned its fame
after it became the house band of the legendary Savoy Ballroom
in Harlem, New York. At the Savoy jazz bands made reputations
for themselves by taking part in cuttin’ sessions usually
against Chick Webb’s Orchestra. Count Bassie, Fletcher
Henderson, Lloyd Scott and other, merely great, swing bands fell
before the awesome power of Chick Webb’s spectacular playing.
J. A. Rogers (1883-1966)
Historian and journalist, Rogers devoted fifty years of
his life to revisionary scholarship, in a pioneering attempt to recover
the black presence throughout history that had been excluded by white
historians. . . . Despite having no formal postsecondary education, he
learned French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish, and researched European
and African library and museum archives.
Walter
White (1893-1955)
Although White primarily focused on improving conditions for
African Americans he recognized the international implications
of the race issue and devoted time and effort to them. He was a
delegate to the Second Pan-African Congress in 1921 and a member
of the Advisory Council for the government of the Virgin Islands
in 1934 through 1935. He was also an advisor to the United
States delegation to the founding conference of the United
Nations in 1945 and to the 1948 General Assembly session in
Paris. Ted
Joans (1928-2003)
As a jazz afficionado, Joans considered himself a jazz
missionary. His work is
characterized by a black consciousness, a strong rhythm, and a musical
language and sensibility closely linked to the blues and to the best of
the avant-garde jazz. His style is thus associated with the oral
tradition of African-American writing which exemplifies oral and
jazz traditions. He explored many themes, including anti-militarism,
life of a black expatriate, and the black American in search of African
roots. Roi
Ottley (1906-1960)
Lewis Gannett described New World a-Coming as
"a shrewd, lively, and often surprising interpretation of the
present state of mind of Negro America," and Sam Harper of the New
York Post wrote, "The way to start in to learn about the
Negroes is to read Ottley's fine book." The book inspired a tone
poem of the same name by Duke Ellington, which was performed for the
first time at Ellington's Carnegie hall concert in December 1943. in its
various episodes it dwells on the contentment awaited by the Negro race
in the democratic post-war world.
John
Henrik Clarke
The popular and beloved John Henrik Clarke
was born January 1 in Union
Springs, Alabama and died July 16 in New York City. His mother, Willie
Ella Mays Clark, was a washerwoman who did laundry for $3 a week. His father was
a sharecropper. As a youngster Clark caddied for Dwight Eisenhower and Omar
Bradley.
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Greenback Planet: How the Dollar Conquered
the World and Threatened Civilization as We Know It
By H. W. Brands
In Greenback Planet, acclaimed historian H. W. Brands charts the dollar's astonishing rise to become the world's principal currency. Telling the story with the verve of a novelist, he recounts key episodes in U.S. monetary history, from the Civil War debate over fiat money (greenbacks) to the recent worldwide financial crisis. Brands explores the dollar's changing relations to gold and silver and to other currencies and cogently explains how America's economic might made the dollar the fundamental standard of value in world finance. He vividly describes the 1869 Black Friday attempt to corner the gold market, banker J. P. Morgan's bailout of the U.S. treasury, the creation of the Federal Reserve, and President Franklin Roosevelt's handling of the bank panic of 1933. Brands shows how lessons learned (and not learned) in the Great Depression have influenced subsequent U.S. monetary policy, and how the dollar's dominance helped transform economies in countries ranging from Germany and Japan after World War II to Russia and China today. He concludes with a sobering dissection of the 2008 world financial debacle, which exposed the power--and the enormous risks--of the dollar's worldwide reign. The Economy |
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Sex at the Margins
Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry
By Laura María Agustín
This book explodes several myths: that selling sex is completely different from any other kind of work, that migrants who sell sex are passive victims and that the multitude of people out to save them are without self-interest. Laura Agustín makes a passionate case against these stereotypes, arguing that the label 'trafficked' does not accurately describe migrants' lives and that the 'rescue industry' serves to disempower them. Based on extensive research amongst both migrants who sell sex and social helpers, Sex at the Margins provides a radically different analysis. Frequently, says Agustin, migrants make rational choices to travel and work in the sex industry, and although they are treated like a marginalised group they form part of the dynamic global economy. Both powerful and controversial, this book is essential reading for all those who want to understand the increasingly important relationship between sex markets, migration and the desire for social justice. "Sex at the Margins rips apart distinctions between migrants, service work and sexual labour and reveals the utter complexity of the contemporary sex industry. This book is set to be a trailblazer in the study of sexuality."—Lisa Adkins, University of London |
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The White Masters of the
World
From
The World and Africa, 1965
By W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois’
Arraignment and Indictment of White Civilization
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