Author: Kent Blansett File Type: pdf The first book-length biography of Richard Oakes, a Red Power activist of the 1960s who was a leader in the Alcatraz takeover and the Red Power Indigenous rights movement A revealing portrait of Richard Oakes, the brilliant, charismatic Native American leader who was instrumental in the takeovers of Alcatraz, Fort Lawton, and Pit River and whose assassination in 1972 galvanized the Trail of Broken Treaties march on Washington, DC. The life of this pivotal Akwesasne Mohawk activist is explored in an important new biography based on extensive archival research and key interviews with activists and family members. Historian Kent Blansett offers a transformative and new perspective on the Red Power movement of the turbulent 1960s and the dynamic figure who helped to organize and champion it, telling the full story of Oakess life, his fight for Native American self-determination, and his tragic, untimely death. This invaluable history chronicles the mid-twentieth century rise of Intertribalism, Indian Cities, and a national political awakening that continues to shape Indigenous politics and activism to this day. **

Author: Scott Alan Kugle File Type: pdf 2015 Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award presented by the Stonewall Books Awards of the American Library AssociationMuhsin is one of the organizers of Al-Fitra Foundation, a South African support group for lesbian, transgender, and gay Muslims. Islam and homosexuality are seen by many as deeply incompatible. This, according to Muhsin, is why he had to act. I realized that Im not alonethese people are going through the very same things that Im going through. But Ive managed, because of my in-depth relationship with God, to reconcile the two. I was completely comfortable saying to the world that Im gay and Im Muslim. I wanted to help other people to get there. So thats how I became an activist.Living Out Islamdocuments the rarely-heard voices of Muslims who live in secular democratic countries and who are gay, lesbian, and transgender. It weaves original interviews with Muslim activists into a compelling composite picture which showcases the importance of the solidarity of support groups in the effort to change social relationships and achieve justice. This nascent movement is not about being out as opposed to being in the closet. Rather, as the voices of these activists demonstrate, it is about finding ways to live out Islam with dignity and integrity, reconciling their sexuality and gender with their faith and reclaiming Islam as their own.**

Author: Jeremy Prestholdt File Type: pdf The global icon is an omnipresent but poorly understood element of mass culture. This book asks why audiences around the world have embraced particular iconic figures, how perceptions of these figures have changed, and what this tells us about transnational relations since the Cold War era. Prestholdt addresses these questions by examining one type of icon the anti-establishment figure. As symbols that represent sentiments, ideals, or something else recognizable to a wide audience, icons of dissent have been integrated into diverse political and consumer cultures, and global audiences have reinterpreted them over time. To illustrate these points the book examines four of the most evocative and controversial figures of the past fifty years Che Guevara, Bob Marley, Tupac Shakur, and Osama bin Laden. Each has embodied a convergence of dissent, cultural politics, and consumerism, yet popular perceptions of each reveal the dissonance between shared, global references and locally contingent interpretations. By examining four very different figures, Icons of Dissent offers new insights into global symbolic idioms, the mutability of common references, and the commodification of political sentiment in the contemporary world.

Author: Joe Hughes File Type: pdf divemDeleuze and the Genesis of Representationem is a systematic study of three of Deleuzes central works emDifference and Repetitionem, emThe Logic of Senseem and, with Guattari, emAnti-Oedipusem. Hughes shows how each of these three works develops the Husserlian problem of genetic constitution. After an innovative reading of Husserls late work, Hughes turns to a detailed study of the conceptual structures of Deleuzes three books. He demonstrates that each book is surprisingly similar in its structure and that all three function as nearly identical accounts of the genesis of representation. brdivbrdivbrIn a highly original and crucial contribution to Deleuze Studies, this book offers a provocative perspective on many of the questions Deleuzes work has raised What is the status of representation? Of subjectivity? What is a body without organs? How is the virtual produced, and what exactly is its function within Deleuzes thought as a whole? By contextualizing Deleuzes thought within the radicalization of phenomenology, Hughes is able to suggest solutions to these questions that will be as compelling as they are controversial. divReviewDeleuze and the Genesis of 1?epresentation is a superb analysis of the concept of genesis as developed by Deleuze in his three central works - Difference and Repetition, Logic of Sense, and Anti-Oedipus. It also includes one of the best discussions of Deleuzes relation to Husserl in any language. Essential reading for anyone interested in one of the central tenets of Deleuzes philosophy. - Daniel W. Smith, Purdue University, USA ... a radical re-situation of Deleuzes philosophy... Among so many summaries of Deleuzes work, Deleuze and the Genesis of Representation is so much more than a summary in seeking to revise our sense of Deleuze, Hughes consistently pursues a phenomenological line of reasoning to its logical ends. - Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, April 2010 About the AuthorJoe Hughes received his PhD from the University of Edinburgh, UK and currently teaches at the University of Minnesota, USA. He is the co-translator of Deleuzes Pericles and Verdi (Columbia University Press, 2002).