A Chosen Exile - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Chosen Exile write by Allyson Hobbs. This book was released on 2014-10-13. A Chosen Exile available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Between the eighteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, countless African Americans passed as white, leaving behind families and friends, roots and community. It was, as Allyson Hobbs writes, a chosen exile, a separation from one racial identity and the leap into another. This revelatory history of passing explores the possibilities and challenges that racial indeterminacy presented to men and women living in a country obsessed with racial distinctions. It also tells a tale of loss. As racial relations in America have evolved so has the significance of passing. To pass as white in the antebellum South was to escape the shackles of slavery. After emancipation, many African Americans came to regard passing as a form of betrayal, a selling of one’s birthright. When the initially hopeful period of Reconstruction proved short-lived, passing became an opportunity to defy Jim Crow and strike out on one’s own. Although black Americans who adopted white identities reaped benefits of expanded opportunity and mobility, Hobbs helps us to recognize and understand the grief, loneliness, and isolation that accompanied—and often outweighed—these rewards. By the dawning of the civil rights era, more and more racially mixed Americans felt the loss of kin and community was too much to bear, that it was time to “pass out” and embrace a black identity. Although recent decades have witnessed an increasingly multiracial society and a growing acceptance of hybridity, the problem of race and identity remains at the center of public debate and emotionally fraught personal decisions.
An American Knight
An American Knight - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An American Knight write by Norman J. Fulkerson. This book was released on 2009. An American Knight available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Colonel John W. Ripley, USMC was president of Southern Seminary, Southern Virginia College.
Colonel Albert Pope and His American Dream Machines
Colonel Albert Pope and His American Dream Machines - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Colonel Albert Pope and His American Dream Machines write by Stephen B. Goddard. This book was released on 2015-11-06. Colonel Albert Pope and His American Dream Machines available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the 1890s Colonel Albert A. Pope was hailed as a leading American automaker. That his name is not a household word today is the very essence of his story. Pope's production methods as the world's largest manufacturer of bicycles led to the building of automobiles with lightweight metals, rubber tires, precision machining, interchangeable parts, and vertical integration. The founder of the Good Roads Movement, Pope entered automobile manufacturing while steam, electricity, and gasoline power were still vying for supremacy. The story of his failed dream of dominating U.S. automobile production is an engrossing view into America's industrial history.
The Coddling of the American Mind
The Coddling of the American Mind - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Coddling of the American Mind write by Greg Lukianoff. This book was released on 2018-09-04. The Coddling of the American Mind available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Something is going wrong on many college campuses in the last few years. Rates of anxiety, depression, and suicide are rising. Speakers are shouted down. Students and professors say they are walking on eggshells and afraid to speak honestly. How did this happen? First Amendment expert Greg Lukianoff and social psychologist Jonathan Haidt show how the new problems on campus have their origins in three terrible ideas that have become increasingly woven into American childhood and education: what doesn’t kill you makes you weaker; always trust your feelings; and life is a battle between good people and evil people. These three Great Untruths are incompatible with basic psychological principles, as well as ancient wisdom from many cultures. They interfere with healthy development. Anyone who embraces these untruths—and the resulting culture of safetyism—is less likely to become an autonomous adult able to navigate the bumpy road of life. Lukianoff and Haidt investigate the many social trends that have intersected to produce these untruths. They situate the conflicts on campus in the context of America’s rapidly rising political polarization, including a rise in hate crimes and off-campus provocation. They explore changes in childhood including the rise of fearful parenting, the decline of unsupervised play, and the new world of social media that has engulfed teenagers in the last decade. This is a book for anyone who is confused by what is happening on college campuses today, or has children, or is concerned about the growing inability of Americans to live, work, and cooperate across party lines.
The Pan-American Magazine
The Pan-American Magazine - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Pan-American Magazine write by . This book was released on 1914. The Pan-American Magazine available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
