Martin & Malcolm & America - 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 Martin & Malcolm & America write by James H. Cone. This book was released on 1992. Martin & Malcolm & America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Reexamines the ideology of the two most prominent leaders of the civil rights movement of the 1960s
Underwater
Underwater - 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 Underwater write by Ryan Dezember. This book was released on 2020-07-14. Underwater available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Winner of the Bruss Real Estate Book Award His assignment was to write about a real-estate frenzy lighting up the Redneck Riviera. So Ryan Dezember settled in and bought a home nearby himself. Then the market crashed, and he became one of the millions of Americans who suddenly owed more on their homes than they were worth. A flood of foreclosures made it impossible to sell. It didn't help that his quaint neighborhood fell into disrepair and drug-induced despair. He had no choice but to become a reluctant and wildly unprofitable landlord to move on. Meanwhile, his reporting showed how the speculative mania that caused the crash opened the U.S. housing market to a much larger breed of investors. In this deeply personal story, Dezember shows how decisions on Wall Street and in Washington played out on his street in a corner of the Sunbelt that was convulsed by the foreclosure crisis. Readers will witness the housing market collapse from Dezember’s perch as a newspaper reporter. First he’s in the boom-to-bust South where a hot-air balloonist named Bob Shallow becomes one of the world’s top selling real-estate agents arranging condo flips, developers flop in spectacular fashion and the law catches up with a beach-town mayor on the take. Later he’s in New York, among financiers like Blackstone’s Stephen Schwarzman who are building rental empires out of foreclosures, staking claim to the bastion of middle-class wealth: the single-family home. Through it all, Dezember is an underwater homeowner caught up in the mess. A cautionary tale of Wall Street's push to turn homes into assets, Underwater is a powerful, incisive story that chronicles the crash and its aftermath from a fresh perspective—the forgotten, middle-class homeowner.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac - 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 Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac write by Oonagh McDonald. This book was released on 2013-07-18. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The book demonstrates how politicians and federal agencies dominated Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and took just thirteen years to wreck the American dream of home ownership.
Dreams and Nightmares
Dreams and Nightmares - 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 Dreams and Nightmares write by Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson. This book was released on 2012. Dreams and Nightmares available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Compares the lives and civil rights views of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X"--OCLC
Black Prophetic Fire
Black Prophetic Fire - 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 Black Prophetic Fire write by Cornel West. This book was released on 2015-09-01. Black Prophetic Fire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An unflinching look at nineteenth- and twentieth-century African American leaders and their visionary legacies. In an accessible, conversational format, Cornel West, with distinguished scholar Christa Buschendorf, provides a fresh perspective on six revolutionary African American leaders: Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King Jr., Ella Baker, Malcolm X, and Ida B. Wells. In dialogue with Buschendorf, West examines the impact of these men and women on their own eras and across the decades. He not only rediscovers the integrity and commitment within these passionate advocates but also their fault lines. West, in these illuminating conversations with the German scholar and thinker Christa Buschendorf, describes Douglass as a complex man who is both “the towering Black freedom fighter of the nineteenth century” and a product of his time who lost sight of the fight for civil rights after the emancipation. He calls Du Bois “undeniably the most important Black intellectual of the twentieth century” and explores the more radical aspects of his thinking in order to understand his uncompromising critique of the United States, which has been omitted from the American collective memory. West argues that our selective memory has sanitized and even “Santaclausified” Martin Luther King Jr., rendering him less radical, and has marginalized Ella Baker, who embodies the grassroots organizing of the civil rights movement. The controversial Malcolm X, who is often seen as a proponent of reverse racism, hatred, and violence, has been demonized in a false opposition with King, while the appeal of his rhetoric and sincerity to students has been sidelined. Ida B. Wells, West argues, shares Malcolm X’s radical spirit and fearless speech, but has “often become the victim of public amnesia.” By providing new insights that humanize all of these well-known figures, in the engrossing dialogue with Buschendorf, and in his insightful introduction and powerful closing essay, Cornel West takes an important step in rekindling the Black prophetic fire.
