Southern Politics

In Chocolate Islands: Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa, Catherine Higgs traces the early-twentieth-century journey of the Englishman Joseph Burtt to the Portuguese colony of São Tomé and Príncipe - the chocolate islands - through Angola and Mozambique, and finally to British Southern Africa. Burtt had been hired by the chocolate firm Cadbury Brothers Limited to determine if the cocoa it was buying from the islands had been harvested by slave laborers forcibly recruited from Angola, an allegation that became one of the grand scandals of the early colonial era.

Writer, director, and starring actor in Sundance Grand Jury Prize nominee Somebodies, Hadjii remembers the trials and tribulations of youth in Don't Let My Mama Read This. From the havoc that a boy's crusty underwear can wreak on a family's reputation to the first time getting caught coming home drunk, Hadjii covers all the aspects of a "blessedly normal" childhood.

Uma fazenda cercada de mato com conexões com o Comando da 10ª Região Militar foi o endereço de interrogatórios e torturas nos arredores de Fortaleza.

In the late 1960s, Patsy Channing, a stunningly beautiful young woman, was suspended from the venerable Mississippi State College for Women for breach of conduct. The resulting scandal reached all the way to the Columbus courthouse, and the press ate it up. But Patsy's story starts long before that, living with a preoccupied and troubled mother in Memphis, Tennessee. Music becomes her ticket out and a vehicle for the one thing she covets most—a chance to be crowned Miss America. In Confessions of a Southern Beauty Queen, Julie Hines Mabus provides a peek into that world.

Wade into the tragic history of the Cagots, a group of Europeans who lived in Northern Spain and Western France who faced untold persecution. The horrors they faced seemed to be based in no real reasoning whatsoever, and Elizabeth Gaskell works to untangle the whys and hows of their hardships.

In this pioneering study, Sergio A. Lussana offers the first in-depth investigation of the social dynamics between enslaved men and examines how individuals living under the conditions of bondage negotiated masculine identities. He demonstrates that African American men worked to create their own culture through a range of recreational pursuits similar to those enjoyed by their white counterparts, such as drinking, gambling, fighting, and hunting. Lussana also addresses male resistance to slavery by shifting attention from the visible, organized world of slave rebellion to the private realms of enslaved men's lives. He reveals how these men developed an oppositional community in defiance of the regulations of the slaveholder and shows that their efforts were intrinsically linked to forms of resistance on a larger scale. The trust inherent in these private relationships was essential in driving conversations about revolution.

Al igual que Imelda, todos los demás protagonistas de este libro –sobrevivientes del exterminio de la Unión Patriótica y familiares y amigos de las víctimas– cuentan sus historias con emoción y franqueza, con dolor y rabia, pero también con guardada esperanza de que los ausentes vivan en la memoria de muchos y los hechos no se olviden. Confían en que se aprenda del sufrimiento, en que se esclarezca la verdad y se haga justicia y, sobre todo, en que lo que ellos han tenido que vivir no se repita jamás.

An absorbing investigation into a little-known historical tragedy—an insurrection at the turn of the twentieth century which upended post-Reconstruction gains made by Black residents in a small North Carolina town.

In this pioneering study of the long and arduous struggle for civil rights in South Carolina, longtime journalist Claudia Smith Brinson details the lynchings, beatings, bombings, cross burnings, death threats, arson, and venomous hatred that black South Carolinians endured—as well as those who risked their lives for equality. Through extensive research and interviews with more than 150 civil rights activists, Brinson chronicles twenty pivotal years of petitioning, preaching, picketing, boycotting, marching, and holding sit-ins.

What made me write a book on this subject? South Indian Hindu marriage is a mix of cultural traditions and belief system. There are strong emotions attached to the past karma, good and bad times, and auspicious times (Muhurta, in Sanskrit). For example, there is an auspicious time set for consummating the marriage. Sometimes, couples have to wait few days after the marriage for that event. It’s interesting to watch these traditions, at a time when marriage and divorce can be obtained within a day at Vegas!

조 바이든이 제 46대 미국 대통령 당선 수락 연설을 하러 카멀라 해리스의 소개를 받고 무대 전면으로 겅중겅중 뛰어나오는 모습을 보셨나요? 어떤 미국 뉴스 프로그램에서는 중계자가 그 장면을 보며 "지금 이 순간만큼은 나이 티를 내지 않겠다고 결심한 것 같군요"라고 코멘트를 했습니다. 그렇습니다. 조 바이든, 풀 네임 조셉 로비네트 "조" 바이든 주니어는, 집무를 시작하는 2021년에는 78살인 미국 역사상 최고령 대통령 당선자 입니다. 그의 이야기 궁금하시죠?

제 46대 미국 대통령이 조 바이든으로 결정되면서, 조 바이든의 부통령이 될 사람, 카멀라 해리스가 오히려 더 큰 관심을 끌고 있습니다. 미국이라는 전세계 자유민주주의의 상징 같은 나라에서도 역사상 처음으로 나오는 여성 부통령이라는 점이 크게 작용하지만, 그게 전부는 아니겠죠?

Jack Aubrey is a naval officer, a post-captain of experience and capacity. When The Letter of Marque opens he has been struck off the Navy List for a crime he has not committed. With Aubrey is his friend and ship's surgeon Stephen Maturin, who is also an unofficial British intelligence agent.

Al acercarnos al estudio del imaginario popular sudamericano hallaremos la riqueza simbólica propia de la voz popular mestiza y heterogénea transmitida de generación en generación, voz edificadora de saberes que, bajo la estructura narrativa de mitos y leyendas, busca dar alguna explicación a lo insondable del universo. Este volumen reúne una colección de relatos representativa de construcciones colectivas, comunes dentro de la región.

En route to England and his next command, Captain Jack Aubrey, and his friend, ship’s surgeon and secret agent Stephen Maturin, find themselves swept up in the War of 1812. As Aubrey convalesces from his wounds in a Boston hospital, awaiting the next prisoner exchange, Maturin’s past activities as a spy return to haunt him and precipitate both men into new and unexpected dangers.

John Rodriguez er den nyansatte leder af det nedslidte forskningscenter, Southern Reach, der har til opgave at bevogte det mystiske vildnis kaldet Område X. John modtager ordrer fra sin ukendte chef, Stemmen, der lige fra første dag på jobbet sætter John til at håndtere eftervirkningerne af den fejlslåede tolvte ekspedition til Område X. Efter at have gennemgået en række forhør, en samling af skjulte noter og timevis af dybt foruroligende videooptagelser, begynder John at gennemskue nogle af Område Xs mange hemmeligheder. Hver opdagelse han gør sig, tvinger ham dog til at se skræmmende sandheder i øjnene om sig selv og om den virksomhed, han har svoret sit troskab til. Autoritet er andet bind i "South Reach-serien" og fortsættelsen til "Udslettelse".

James Cook gilt als bedeutendster Entdecker nach Kolumbus. Freilich: Ohne Tupaia, Maheine und Mai wären seine Reisen unmöglich gewesen. Sie führten Cook in die Welt der Südsee ein, bewahrten seine Schiffe vor gefährlichen Korallenriffen und ersparten es ihm, in Neuseeland von den Maori als Eindringling massakriert zu werden.

El Rapto del Sol de Baldomero Lillo es un cuento que profundiza en la vida de los mineros en Chile durante finales del siglo XIX. Retrata las duras condiciones laborales, la explotación y las luchas que enfrentan los mineros y sus familias. La narrativa sigue a un grupo de mineros mientras navegan por las peligrosas minas, luchando por la supervivencia y la dignidad en medio de circunstancias opresivas. A través de descripciones vívidas y narraciones conmovedoras, Lillo arroja luz sobre las injusticias sociales y las disparidades económicas que prevalecían en las comunidades mineras de la época.

Brown Girl Like Me is an inspiring memoir and empowering manifesto that equips women with the confidence and tools they need to navigate the difficulties that come with an intersectional identity. Jaspreet Kaur unpacks key issues such as the media, the workplace, the home, education, mental health, culture, confidence and the body, to help South Asian women understand and tackle the issues that affect them and help them be in the driving seat of their own lives.

For millions of kids, high school is a tumultuous time, with social highs and lows, academic pressure, and extracurricular wins and losses, but for the Little Rock Nine, the first African American students to attend a previously segregated high school in Little Rock, Arkansas, those years were nightmarish.