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Inner lives : voices of African American women in prison
The rate of women entering prison has increased nearly 400 percent since 1980, with African American women constituting the largest percentage of this population. However, despite their extremely disproportional representation in correctional institutions, little attention has been paid to their experiences within the criminal justice system.
Inner Lives provides readers the rare opportunity to intimately connect with African American women prisoners. By presenting the women's stories in their own voices, Paula C. Johnson captures the reality of those who are in the system, and those who are working to help them. Johnson offers a nuanced and compelling portrait of this fastest-growing prison population by blending legal history, ethnography, sociology, and criminology. These striking and vivid narratives are accompanied by equally compelling arguments by Johnson on how to reform our nation's laws and social policies, in order to eradicate existing inequalities. Her thorough and insightful analysis of the historical and legal background of contemporary criminal law doctrine, sentencing theories, and correctional policies sets the stage for understanding the current system.
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Hair Matters
p strongSubstantive, ethnographically informed research on the politics of Black hair/strong Drawing on interviews with over 50 women, from teens to seniors, strongHair Matters/strong is the first book on the politics of Black hair to be based on substantive, ethnographically informed research. Focusing on the everyday discussions that Black women have among themselves and about themselves, Ingrid Banks analyzes how talking about hair reveals Black women's ideas about race, gender, sexuality, beauty, and power. Ultimately, what emerges is a survey of Black women's consciousness within both their own communities and mainstream culture at large./p
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Narrative, Political Unconscious and Racial Violence in Wilmington, North Carolina
This work examines the counter-narratives of social actors that may be used as resources to promote and create social change, particularly racial change.A policy implication emanating from this research is to institute an educational component for the North Carolina public school curriculum that addresses the racial violence in Wilmington in 1898.
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The Black Panthers : portraits from an unfinished revolution
\"October 2016 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party. Photojournalist Bryan Shih, who has been interviewing and taking portraits of the surviving Panthers around the country for years, has partnered with Yohuru Williams, dean and history professor at Fairfield University, to deliver [this] celebration\"--Provided by publisher.
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Musical Landscapes in Color
Now available in paperback, William C. Banfield's acclaimed
collection of interviews delves into the lives and work of
forty-one Black composers. Each of the profiled artists offers a
candid self-portrait that explores areas from training and
compositional techniques to working in a exclusive canon that has
existed for a very long time. At the same time, Banfield draws on
sociology, Western concepts of art and taste, and vernacular
musical forms like blues and jazz to provide a frame for the
artists' achievements and help to illuminate the ongoing progress
and struggles against industry barriers. Expanded illustrations and
a new preface by the author provide invaluable added context,
making this new edition an essential companion for anyone
interested in Black composers or contemporary classical music.
Composers featured: Michael Abels, H. Leslie Adams, Lettie
Beckon Alston, Thomas J. Anderson, Dwight Andrews, Regina Harris
Baiocchi, David Baker, William C. Banfield, Ysaye Maria Barnwell,
Billy Childs, Noel DaCosta, Anthony Davis, George Duke, Leslie
Dunner, Donal Fox, Adolphus Hailstork, Jester Hairston, Herbie
Hancock, Jonathan Holland, Anthony Kelley, Wendell Logan, Bobby
McFerrin, Dorothy Rudd Moore, Jeffrey Mumford, Gary Powell Nash,
Stephen Newby, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, Michael Powell, Patrice
Rushen, George Russell, Kevin Scott, Evelyn Simpson-Curenton, Hale
Smith, Billy Taylor, Frederick C. Tillis, George Walker, James Kimo
Williams, Julius Williams, Tony Williams, Olly Wilson, and Michael
Woods
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