Author: Jennifer Jensen Wallach File Type: pdf Jennifer Jensen Wallachs nuanced history of black foodways across the twentieth century challenges traditional narratives of soul food as a singular style of historical African American cuisine. Wallach investigates the experiences and diverse convictions of several generations of African American activists, ranging from Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois to Mary Church Terrell, Elijah Muhammad, and Dick Gregory. While differing widely in their approaches to diet and eating, they uniformly made the cultivation of proper food habits a significant dimension of their work and their conceptions of racial and national belonging. Tracing their quests for literal sustenance brings together the race, food, and intellectual histories of America. Directly linking black political activism to both material and philosophical practices around food, Wallach frames black identity as a bodily practice, something that conscientious eaters not only thought about but also did through rituals and performances of food preparation, consumption, and digestion. The process of choosing what and how to eat, Wallach argues, played a crucial role in the project of finding ones place as an individual, as an African American, and as a citizen. **Review A landmark book. Wallach examines how conscientious blacks ate and how the work of eating intersected with the political work of social reform, offering new ways of understanding the massive importance of Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois, among many others. Speaking to African American culinary heterogeneity, this book situates food studies as essential to understanding black political life and the drive for full citizenship.Psyche Williams-Forson, author of Building Houses out of Chicken Legs Every Nation Has Its Dish tells a nuanced history of twentieth-century black foodways that goes far beyond the often nostalgic story of soul food as classical African American fare. In a significant contribution to food studies as well as African American studies, Wallach uncovers the robust discourses and wide range of food practices within black communities and among black intellectuals debating what was appropriate food for black bodies to consume, and why it was so.Angela Jill Cooley, author of To Live and Dine in Dixie The Evolution of Urban Food Culture in the Jim Crow South About the Author Jennifer Jensen Wallach, associate professor of history at the University of North Texas, is the author or editor of several books, including Dethroning the Deceitful Pork Chop.

Author: Russell Banks File Type: epub The acclaimed author of The Sweet Hereafter and Rule of the Bone returns with a provocative new novel that illuminates the shadowed edges of contemporary American culture with startling and unforgettable resultsSuspended in a strangely modern-day version of limbo, the young man at the center of Russell Bankss uncompromising and morally complex new novel must create a life for himself in the wake of incarceration. Known in his new identity only as the Kid, and on probation after doing time for a liaison with an underage girl, he is shackled to a GPS monitoring device and forbidden to live within 2,500 feet of anywhere children might gather. With nowhere else to go, the Kid takes up residence under a south Florida causeway, in a makeshift encampment with other convicted sex offenders.Barely beyond childhood himself, the Kid, despite his crime, is in many ways an innocent, trapped by impulses and foolish choices he himself struggles to comprehend. Enter the...

Author: Nick Caistor File Type: pdf Fidel Castro had ruled the island of Cuba for fifty-two years when ill health forced him to step down in 2008. Over the course of that time, he changed Cuba from a republic to a communist state and became one of the most divisive leaders in the second half of the twentieth century. For some, he is a champion of humanitarianism, socialism, and environmentalism. For others, he is a monster and dictator who perpetuated human rights abuses at home and abroad. Providing a rare, evenhanded account of Castros life, journalist Nick Caistor brings together interviews with people who have known Castro with discussion of the ideas that drove him. Caistor follows Castros life from his birth as the illegitimate son of a wealthy farmer in 1926 to the developing of his leftist, anti-imperialist ideas at the University of Havana and his primary role in the Cuban Revolution in the 1950s. He explores Castros economic and military alliance with the Soviet Union and his hostile relationship with the United States while also looking at how he simultaneously introduced free health care and education while squelching freedom of the press and suppressing dissidents. As Caistor shows, Castros numerous writings on politics, capitalism, and other topics have influenced leaders from Nelson Mandela to Hugo Chavez, but allegations of corruption, human rights abuses, and dictatorship never ceased during his long career. Using stories and opinions to enliven the debate about Castros choices, strengths, and weaknesses, this concise biography gives readers the opportunity to judge for themselves how they feel about the former Cuban president. **

Author: Stephen E. Schmid File Type: pdf Climbing- Philosophy for Everyonepresents a collection of intellectually stimulating new essays that address the philosophical issues relating to risk, ethics, and other aspects of climbing that are of interest to everyone from novice climbers to seasoned mountaineers. ullRepresents the first collection of essays to exclusively address the many philosophical aspects of climbingllIncludes essays that challenge commonly accepted views of climbing and climbing ethicsllWritten accessibly, this book will appeal to everyone from novice climbers to seasoned mountaineersllIncludes a foreword written by Hans FlorinellShortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature, 2010lul** Climbing - Philosophy for Everyone presents a collection of intellectually stimulating new essays that address the philosophical issues relating to risk, ethics, and other aspects of climbing that are of interest to everyone from novice climbers to seasoned mountaineers. * Represents the first collection of essays to exclusively address the many philosophical aspects of climbing * Includes essays that challenge commonly accepted views of climbing and climbing ethics * Written accessibly, this book will appeal to everyone from novice climbers to seasoned mountaineers * Includes a foreword written by Hans Florine * Shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature, 2010**