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Black Acting Methods: Critical Approaches

Black Acting Methods: Critical Approaches

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38 Shana L. Redmond, Anthem: Social Movements and the Sound of Solidarity in the African Diaspora (New York: New York University Press, 2014), 2. 39 Redmond, Anthem, 2. 40 Interviews with former Living Stage ensemble members and ...
Anthem: Social Movements and the Sound of Solidarity in the ...

Anthem: Social Movements and the Sound of Solidarity in the ...

Shana L. Redmond

An interdisciplinary cultural history, Anthem reveals how this “sound franchise” contributed to the growth and mobilization of the modern, Black citizen.
Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership

Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership

Erica Renee Edwards

... Shana L. Redmond writes of the UNIA anthem, “'Ethiopia (Thou Land of Our Fathers),” the “repetitive and ceremonial aspect of the anthem's performance forced women to negotiate their roles within the category of 'persons' as well as their ...
Anthem: Social Movements and the Sound of Solidarity in the ...

Anthem: Social Movements and the Sound of Solidarity in the ...

Shana L. Redmond

847 (Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, January 1945), 2. Robert Rodgers Korstad, Civil Rights Unionism: Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth-Century South ( Chapel Hill: ...
Apartheid Israel: The Politics of an Analogy

Apartheid Israel: The Politics of an Analogy

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... Black Israelites: e Rise of American Black Israelite Religions (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), 113–34; Shana L. Redmond, Anthem: Social Movements and the Sound of Solidarity in the Aican Diaspora (New York: New ...
Bridges of Reform: Interracial Civil Rights Activism in ...

Bridges of Reform: Interracial Civil Rights Activism in ...

Shana Bernstein

In this book, Shana Bernstein uses World War II and Cold War Los Angeles as a locus of civilrights activity and explores its roots in multiracial organizing.
Who Should Sing Ol' Man River?: The Lives of an American Song

Who Should Sing Ol' Man River?: The Lives of an American Song

Todd R. Decker

NYT, 13 June 1949, “'Ol' Man River' Retained.” Decker, Show Boat, 147. Jordan Goodman, Paul Robeson: A Watched Man (London: Verso, 2013), 118, 172. Goodman, Paul Robeson, 25. Shana L. Redmond, Anthem: Social Movements and ...
Congo Journey

Congo Journey

Redmond O''Hanlon

Combining the acute observation of a nineteenth-century missionary, and the wit of a Monty Python player, Redmond O''Hanlon is famous for his adventurous travel.
Women's Movements: Networks and Debates in Post-communist ...

Women's Movements: Networks and Debates in Post-communist ...

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She refers to an article by Shana Penn on the role of women in "Solidarity".4 Shana Penn, an American scholar and journalist, came to Poland in 1990 and made interviews with women who were active in the dissident movement and in ...
Into the Heart of Borneo

Into the Heart of Borneo

Redmond O''Hanlon

‘We’ve left a lot of men in Borneo – know what I mean?’ With their SAS trainer’s warnings ringing in their ears, the naturalist, Redmond O’Hanlon, and the poet, James Fenton, set out to rediscover the lost rhinoceros of Borneo.
The Man I Should Have Married

The Man I Should Have Married

Pamela Redmond Satran

Pamela Redmond Satran. left me. Now I was going to go for the sex, the fun, and screw security. I would create my own security, depend only on myself. That's what I'd done when I'd turned down my mother's money, that's what I'd done when ...
Welcome to America, Mr. Sherlock Holmes: Victorian America ...

Welcome to America, Mr. Sherlock Holmes: Victorian America ...

Christopher Redmond

Christopher Redmond’s fascinating account of Doyle’s first trip to America has been reconstructed from newspaper accounts describing the places Doyle visited, from the Adirondacks to New York, Chicago, and Toronto.
The Wild Truth of Tea: Unraveling the Complex Tea Business, ...

The Wild Truth of Tea: Unraveling the Complex Tea Business, ...

Shana Zhang

Unraveling the Complex Tea Business, Keys to Health and Chinese Tea Culture Shana Zhang, J.T. Hunter ... To my business partner JT Hunter, who is also my best friend in the world, I am deeply appreciative of your faith in me and the ...
Babes in Captivity

Babes in Captivity

Pamela Redmond Satran

They've satisfied their biological clocks.
Skies of Fire: The Ether Chronicles

Skies of Fire: The Ether Chronicles

Zoe Archer

Captain Christopher Redmond has just one weakness: the alluring spy who loved and left him years before . . . when he was still just a man.
Sherlock Holmes and The Lufton Lady

Sherlock Holmes and The Lufton Lady

Christopher Redmond

The story is told mostly in excerpts from the journal of an aristocrat who finds himself caught up in a dramatic encounter in 1878.
George Clooney: The Illustrated Biography

George Clooney: The Illustrated Biography

Shana Cushman

The story of George Clooney, from baseball wannabe in Kentucky to one of Hollywood's highly rated leading men.
A Sherlock Holmes handbook

A Sherlock Holmes handbook

Christopher Redmond

Here, in one convenient volume, is everything needed for the enjoyment of Holmes's canon.
Leonardo Da Vinci

Leonardo Da Vinci

Shana Priwer

This volume reveals Da Vinci's phenomenal accomplishments, including mathematical discoveries, investigating the secrets of the human body, inventing a robot and even his plan to divert the entire Arno River.
Performative Democracy

Performative Democracy

Elzbieta Matynia

Among the writings on the subject is Shana Penn, Solidarity's Secret: The Women Who Defeated Communism in Poland (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005). See also Kondratowicz, Szminka na Sztandarze; and Graff, Swiat po ...
A Prince Among Killers: Oathbreaker

A Prince Among Killers: Oathbreaker

J. B. Redmond

Whether Nic can take his rightful place as the king of Eyrie, whether anyone can win Dari's heart, and whether Aron can control his own strengths for the good of all are just some of the mysteries that will be solved as this story comes to ...
Escaping the Dark, Gray City: Fear and Hope in ...

Escaping the Dark, Gray City: Fear and Hope in ...

Benjamin Heber Johnson

Shana Bernstein graciously read bumbling and early drafts of a few chapters, pushing me especially to think about the connections between environment and human health. Three anonymous reviewers for the press all did excellent jobs, ...
Down There: A Novel

Down There: A Novel

Pamela Redmond Satran

Deirdre, Juliette, Anne, and Lisa are best friends, each living 'the dream' in the suburbs outside of New York City: beautiful wedding, big house, picture perfect family.

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