Progressive politics has long been in crisis in the United States. As the radical Left realizes the dire consequences of defining themselves solely by what they are against, this collection challenges leading engaged academics and activists to show how radical politics can lead to a more fruitful democracy. Dealing with pressing issues of the day such as health care, race, immigration, religion, foreign policy, unions, feminism, liberalism, education, and the media, this edited volume look...

Who is Jolita? She enters the life of a man twice her age greatly concerned about his loss of sight. As their communication intensifies between Atlanta, Georgia and Roseau, Dominica, the text declares a mutual liking - she discovers too that her boyfriend is seeing another. Exchanges between Roseau and Atlanta blip and go out as Jolita moves to calm troubled waters. Jolita is bold, intelligent, daring, racy, your ideal, thick Dominican black girl, basking in one of the island's global vill...

In response to the events following September 11, a number of leading cultural studies and interpretive qualitative researchers write from their own experiences and hearts. Their essays-by noted scholars Kellner, Fine, McLaren, Richardson, Denzin, Giroux and others-are collected in this volume, and were written in crisis within days and weeks of September 11. The immediacy of their writing is refreshing, and reflects the varied emotional and critical responses that bring meaning to this ca...

Erlebe die Welt von Fabula Ensis! Ergänzend zur Trilogie von Fabula Ensis findest du hier Hintergrundgeschichten zu den Charakteren, den Clans, der Kabaru und mehr von verschiedenen Autoren. 1. Tribut (Jingen) 2. Bündnis (Jin) 3. Verlust (Kiaji & Akira) 4. Abgründe (Artis & Felice) 5. Einäscherung (Yumi) 6. Blutdurst (Ein besonderer Shinigami) 7. Leere (Sia/Death Guard) 8. Makel (Armand/Death Guard) 9. Grausamkeit (Kuro)

Your Impossible Voice #25 opens with a story of love, loneliness, and DJs in Argentina, and closes with wayward Taco Bell bandits loose in the Buckeye state. In between, it delivers new short fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction exploring anaphylactic reactions to dust, languages that sound like bonfire flames, dollar-store groceries, golden molars and nectars, witchy weather apps, migraines, matricide, and so much more.Contributors include Cecilia Pavón and Jacob Steinberg, Ro...

One autumn morning I am led to Anthurium, a journal published by the University of Miamis Department of English, Coral Gables. Of the four essays I decide to listen to, one by M NourbeSe Philip titled A Travelogue of Sorts: Trafficking in Silence and Erasure catches my attention. As the author observes how museums in and around London marked the two hundredth anniversary of the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade, she comes upon a shrine from which she archaeologizes a familiar West Indi...

Steinberg Henry has composed for us this magical island adventure into song. It is made up of 14 segments and 119 chapters integrating leaps in consciousness, methods and disciplines with skill surprising. Calypso Drift passes by way of an island Parliament, Dread/Rastafari, memorable black-sand beaches, religious systems, the Kwyl language business, high-school learning remembrances, a touch of Kalinago sensibility and, American song selections on Caribbean radio in the 70s and 80s. The t...

While the Lincoln Administration and most Northerners were preoccupied with trying to capture Richmond in the summer of 1861, it would be the little-known Ulysses S. Grant who delivered the Union’s first major victories, over a thousand miles away from Washington. Grant’s new commission led to his command of the District of Southeast Missouri, headquartered at Cairo, after he was appointed by “The Pathfinder”, John C. Fremont, a national celebrity who had run for President in 1856. Fremont...

Willkommen in der Welt von Fabula Ensis! Erlebe Jin, Kiaji und Jingen mit all ihren Facetten und Erlebnissen, die sie zu denen gemacht haben, die sie sind. Eine episch vertonte Ergänzung zum Hauptroman "Fabula Ensis - Krieg der Tengu und Shinigami", der im Dezember 2021 erscheinen wird.