Rhonda Levine, "When Race Meets Class: African Americans Coming of Age in a Small City"
English | ISBN: 0367134896 | 2019 | 192 pages | EPUB | 374 KB
A rare, 15-year ethnography, this book follows the lives of individual, low-income African American youth from the beginning of high school into their early adult years. Levine shows how their interaction and experience with multiple institutions (family, school, community) and individuals (parents, friends, teachers, coaches, strangers) shape their hopes, fears, aspirations, and worldviews. The intersectionality of their social identities―how race, class, and gender come together to influence how they come to think about who they are―influences many behaviors that directly contradict their stated aspirations. Affected, too, by limited access to resources, these youths often take a path profoundly different from their stated values and life goals. Levine explores the volatility and constraints underlying their decision-making and behaviors. The book reveals the critical junctures and turning points shaping life trajectories, challenging many long-held assumptions about the persistence of racial inequality by offering new insights on the educational and occupational barriers facing young African Americans.

Badia Sahar Ahad, "Freud Upside Down: African American Literature and Psychoanalytic Culture"
English | 2010 | ISBN: 0252035666 | PDF | pages: 217 | 1.7 mb
This thought-provoking cultural history explores how psychoanalytic theories shaped the works of important African American literary figures. Badia Sahar Ahad details how Nella Larsen, Richard Wright, Jean Toomer, Ralph Ellison, Adrienne Kennedy, and Danzy Senna employed psychoanalytic terms and conceptual models to challenge notions of race and racism in twentieth-century America.

Ancient Africa - 2 Books in 1: African Mythology and Ancient African Kingdoms (Easy History) by Jim Barrow
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B08ZLNPNYR | 215 pages | EPUB | 0.72 Mb
The Lesser Known Side of Ancient Africa: Dive Deep Into Africa's Rich History and Thrilling Mythology & Explore How the World as We Know it Today Was Influenced By Ancient African Kingdoms and Civilizations

Food Security and Safety Volume 2
by Olubukola Oluranti Babalola, Ayansina Segun Ayangbenro, Omena Bernard Ojuederie
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031096134 | 499 pages | True PDF EPUB | 37.52 MB
Sustainable food production is a global challenge with respect to climate change and an ever-increasing world population. Conventional crop production using agrochemicals presents human health and environmental challenges. Rising concerns about environmental sustainability have increased attention toward improved, efficient, and sustainable means of crop production. Various strategies are employed in enhancing crop production to adapt and mitigate climate change and ensure food security. The future of food production relies on improving productivity without compromising long-term productivity and environmental sustainability. Feeding the ever-increasing world population would require concerted efforts by all stakeholders to combat the impact of climate change and numerous ecological challenges facing food production. Hence, innovative technologies and methods are indispensable in mitigating the effects on food security. The book looks at the current challenges and solutions, from an African perspective, regarding food safety and health management, food security and nutrition, climate change and sustainable food production, and forest resources and food security. The target audience is scientists, graduate students, researchers, academicians, and professionals in food production for sustainable development and ecosystem management. This book will also be helpful to policymakers and specialists in framing future feasible agro-ecosystem policies.

The South African Communist Party, 1963-1990 By Eddy Maloka
2002 | 81 Pages | ISBN: 0798301554 | PDF | 44 MB
There is little written material on the history of the South African Communist Party (SACP) during the period 1963-1990. Material that does exist oftens lacks independence since it was influenced by Cold War bias, or was written by the Party itself. This succint volume on the SACP reconstructs the period from a post Cold War, and post- apartheid perspective. It covers for example the Bram-Fischer era and the aftermath of the Riviona offensive; the Morogoro conference, and its impact on the SACP's relationship with the African National Congress. The study considers the party's underground periods, its role in exile, its armed factions, and the various transformations the party underwent in the 1970s and 1980s. The author also discusses the party's ideology, strategy and tactics, internal dynamics and its relations with other political organisations.

Published 11/2022
Created by Spencer Waddell
MP4 | Video: h264, 1280x720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Genre: eLearning | Language: English | Duration: 42 Lectures ( 44m ) | Size: 948 MB

The Americanization of Human Rights: Iranian, African, and Chinese Lives in American Autobiography By Sunčica Klaas
2018 | 269 Pages | ISBN: 3825368181 | PDF | 4 MB
At least since The 'New York Times Magazine' proclaimed the triumph of the confessional narrative in 1996, the U.S. American literary market has been flooded with autobiographies by survivors of human rights violations. But why are these narratives so appealing to American readers and literary markets? Who gets to testify to victimization and survival in an autobiographical genre? What subjects are recognized as human rights personae and victims worthy of humanitarian rescue and what testimonial scripts and socio-political trajectories influence such recognitions? How is the American national community invested in these processes, and how do such autobiographies relate to the national technologies of screening, incorporating and containing potential members? The present study answers these questions by reconstructing the genealogy of the present encounter between the autobiographical and the human rights discourse and by presenting an extensive archive of contemporary autobiographies by Iranian American women, the Lost Boys of Sudan, and Tiananmen dissidents, the study focuses on the epistemic injustices produced by unequal distribution of the rights to autobiography and humanitarian rescue.

Eric Nellis, "Shaping the New World: African Slavery in the Americas, 1500-1888"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 1442605553 | EPUB | pages: 192 | 1.8 mb
Between 1500 and the middle of the nineteenth century, some 12.5 million slaves were sent as bonded labour from Africa to the European settlements in the Americas. Shaping the New World introduces students to the origins, growth, and consolidation of African slavery in the Americas and race-based slavery's impact on the economic, social, and cultural development of the New World.

Ross Anthony, Uta Ruppert, "Reconfiguring Transregionalisation in the Global South: African-Asian Encounters"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 3030283100 | PDF | pages: 297 | 3.0 mb
This volume examines the Africa-Asia relationship from a transregional perspective, namely as a set of emergent social, political and economic practices spanning a number of analytical and spatial scales. Drawing on a host of countries from both regions, the contributions illustrate how encounters increasingly transcend fixed territorial categories at local, national and regional levels. While large-scale political and economic considerations tend to dominate in Asia-Africa related literature―for instance, in China-Africa, BRICS and South-South discourses―the current volume seeks to foster dialogue between these broader levels of analyses and more localized social practices and experiences, including the role of civil society, cultural production and migration. With an emphasis on the "trans" aspects of inter-regional exchange, the volume contributes to a better understanding of new forms of space-making between these two increasingly important regions.

On the African Waterfront: Urban Disorder and the Transformation of Work in Colonial Mombasa By Frederick Cooper
2015 | 308 Pages | ISBN: 1597409510 | PDF | 108 MB
A study of work in the European-African colonial relationship during the first half of the 20th century. Labor relations became increasingly tense during the 1940s due to a rising urban working class, and this book examines this phenomenon by focusing on African dockworkers.