E-Books → Near Black White–to–Black Passing in American Culture

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Free Download Near Black: White-to-Black Passing in American Culture By Baz Dreisinger
2008 | 184 Pages | ISBN: 1558496750 | PDF | 3 MB
In the United States, the notion of racial "passing" is usually associated with blacks and other minorities who seek to present themselves as part of the white majority. Yet as Baz Dreisinger demonstrates in this fascinating study, another form of this phenomenon also occurs, if less frequently, in American culture: cases in which legally white individuals are imagined, by themselves or by others, as passing for black.In Near Black, Dreisinger explores the oft-ignored history of what she calls "reverse racial passing" by looking at a broad spectrum of short stories, novels, films, autobiographies, and pop-culture discourse that depict whites passing for black. The protagonists of these narratives, she shows, span centuries and cross contexts, from slavery to civil rights, jazz to rock to hip-hop. Tracing their role from the 1830s to the present day, Dreisinger argues that central to the enterprise of reverse passing are ideas about proximity. Because "blackness," so to speak, is imagined as transmittable, proximity to blackness is invested with the power to turn whites black: those who are literally "near black" become metaphorically "near black."While this concept first arose during Reconstruction in the context of white anxieties about miscegenation, it was revised by later white passers for whom proximity to blackness became an authenticating badge. As Dreisinger shows, some white-to-black passers pass via self-identification. Jazz musician Mezz Mezzrow, for example, claimed that living among blacks and playing jazz had literally darkened his skin. Others are taken for black by a given community for a period of time. This was the experience of Jewish critic Waldo Frank during his travels with Jean Toomer, as well as that of disc jockey Hoss Allen, master of R&B slang at Nashville's famed WLAC radio. For journalists John Howard Griffin and Grace Halsell, passing was a deliberate and fleeting experiment, while for Mark Twain's fictional white slave in Pudd'nhead Wilson, it is a near-permanent and accidental occurrence.Whether understood as a function of proximity or behavior, skin color or cultural heritage, self-definition or the perception of others, what all these variants of "reverse passing" demonstrate, according to Dreisinger, is that the lines defining racial identity in American culture are not only blurred but subject to change.

E-Books → Mustangs Rebuilding & Flying the North American Aviation P–51 in the 1990's (Warbirds Today No.2)

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E-Books → Methland The Death and Life of an American Small Town

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E-Books → Latin American Indigenous Warfare and Ritual Violence

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Free Download Richard J. Chacon, "Latin American Indigenous Warfare and Ritual Violence"
English | ISBN: 0816540098 | 2019 | 304 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This groundbreaking multidisciplinary book presents significant essays on historical indigenous violence in Latin America from Tierra del Fuego to central Mexico. The collection explores those uniquely human motivations and environmental variables that have led to the native peoples of Latin America engaging in warfare and ritual violence since antiquity. Based on an American Anthropological Association symposium, this book collects twelve contributions from sixteen authors, all of whom are scholars at the forefront of their fields of study.

E-Books → Kill Anything That Moves The Real American War in Vietnam

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Free Download Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam By Nick Turse
2013 | 416 Pages | ISBN: 1250045061 | PDF | 2 MB
Based on classified documents and first-person interviews, a startling history of the American war on Vietnamese civiliansThe American Empire ProjectWinner of the Ridenhour Prize for Reportorial DistinctionAmericans have long been taught that events such as the notorious My Lai massacre were isolated incidents in the Vietnam War, carried out by just a few "bad apples." But as award-winning journalist and historian Nick Turse demonstrates in this groundbreaking investigation, violence against Vietnamese noncombatants was not at all exceptional during the conflict. Rather, it was pervasive and systematic, the predictable consequence of official orders to "kill anything that moves."Drawing on more than a decade of research into secret Pentagon archives and extensive interviews with American veterans and Vietnamese survivors, Turse reveals for the first time the workings of a military machine that resulted in millions of innocent civilians killed and wounded-what one soldier called "a My Lai a month." Devastating and definitive,Kill Anything That Movesfinally brings us face-to-face with the truth of a war that haunts America to this day.

E-Books → John F. Kennedy The American Presidents Series The 35th President, 1961–1963

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Free Download Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Sean Wilentz, "John F. Kennedy: The American Presidents Series: The 35th President, 1961-1963"
English | 2012 | pages: 224 | ISBN: 0805083499 | EPUB | 2,4 mb
The young president who brought vigor and glamour to the White House while he confronted cold war crises abroad and calls for social change at home

E-Books → Jewish Soldiers in Nazi Captivity American and British Prisoners of War during the Second World War

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Free Download Yorai Linenberg, "Jewish Soldiers in Nazi Captivity: American and British Prisoners of War during the Second World War"
English | ISBN: 0198892780 | 2024 | 288 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 2 MB
This book explores the extraordinary story of Jewish POWs in German captivity during the Second World War - extraordinary because of the contrast between Germany's genocidal policy towards Jews on one hand, and its relatively non-discriminatory treatment of Jewish POWs from western countries on the other. The radicalisation of Germany's anti-Semitic policies entered its last phase in June 1941 with the invasion of the Soviet Union; during the following four years, nearly six million Jews were murdered. In parallel, Germany's POW policies had gone through a radicalisation process of their own, resulting in the murder of millions of Soviet POWs, of Allied commando soldiers, and of POW escapees, with Adolf Hitler eventually transferring in July 1944 the responsibility for POWs from the Wehrmacht to Heinrich Himmler, in his role as head of the Replacement Army. And yet, despite all this, Jewish POWs from western countries were usually not discriminated against and were treated, in most cases, according to the 1929 Geneva Convention.