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 Eric Sandweiss, "The Day in Its Color: Charles Cushman's Photographic Journey Through a Vanishing America" English | 2012 | ISBN: 0199772339 | 240 pages | PDF | 27.7 MB Charles Cushman (1896-1972) photographed a disappearing world in living color. Cushman's midcentury America-a place normally seen only through a scrim of gray-reveals itself as a place as vivid and real as the view through our window.
 The Color of the Law: Race, Violence, and Justice in the Post-World War II South (The John Hope Franklin in African American History and Culture) by Gail Williams O'Brien English | May 31, 1999 | ISBN: 0807848026, 0807824755 | EPUB | 352 pages | 2.6 MB On February 25, 1946, African Americans in Columbia, Tennessee, averted the lynching of James Stephenson, a nineteen-year-old, black Navy veteran accused of attacking a white radio repairman at a local department store. That night, after Stephenson was safely out of town, four of Columbia's police officers were shot and wounded when they tried to enter the town's black business district. The next morning, the Tennessee Highway Patrol invaded the district, wrecking establishments and beating men as they arrested them. By day's end, more than one hundred African Americans had been jailed. Two days later, highway patrolmen killed two of the arrestees while they were awaiting release from jail.  The Calendar of Loss: Race, Sexuality, and Mourning in the Early Era of AIDS By Dagmawi Woubshet 2015 | 189 Pages | ISBN: 1421416557 | PDF | 4 MB His world view colored by growing up in 1980s Ethiopia, where death governed time and temperament, Dagmawi Woubshet offers a startlingly fresh interpretation of melancholy and mourning during the early years of the AIDS epidemic in The Calendar of Loss.When society denies a patient's disease and then forbids survivors mourning rites, how does a child bear witness to a parent's death or a lover grieve for his beloved? Looking at a range of high and popular works of grief-including elegies, eulogies, epistles to the dead, funerals, and obituaries-Woubshet identifies a unique expression of mourning that emerged in the 1980s and early 1990s in direct response to the AIDS catastrophe. What Woubshet dubs a "poetics of compounding loss" expresses what it was like for queer mourners to grapple with the death of lovers and friends in rapid succession while also coming to terms with the fact of their own imminent mortality. The time, consolation, and closure that allow the bereaved to get through loss were for the mourners in this book painfully thwarted, since with each passing friend, and with mounting numbers of the dead, they were provided with yet more evidence of the certain fatality of the virus inside them.Ultimately, the book argues, these disprized mourners turned to their sorrow as a necessary vehicle of survival, placing open grief at the center of art and protest, insisting that lives could be saved through the very speech acts precipitated by death. An innovative and moving study, The Calendar of Loss illuminates how AIDS mourning confounds and traverses how we have come to think about loss and grief, insisting that the bereaved can confront death in the face of shame and stigma in eloquent ways that also imply a fierce political sensibility and a longing for justice.
 The Cajuns: The History of the French-Speaking Ethnic Group in Canada and Louisiana by Charles River Editors English | February 28, 2019 | ISBN: 1798401088 | 65 pages | EPUB | 1.53 Mb *Includes pictures  Karma R. Chávez, "The Borders of AIDS: Race, Quarantine, and Resistance " English | ISBN: 0295748974 | 2021 | 264 pages | PDF | 2 MB As soon as US media and politicians became aware of AIDS in the early 1980s, fingers were pointed not only at the gay community but also at other countries and migrant communities, particularly Haitians, as responsible for spreading the virus. Evangelical leaders, public health officials, and the Reagan administration quickly capitalized on widespread fear of the new disease to call for quarantines, immigration bans, and deportations, scapegoating and blaming HIV-positive migrants―even as the rest of the world regarded the US as the primary exporter of the virus.  Susan Gerulskis-Estes, "The Book of Tarot" English | 1981 | ISBN: 0871001721 | 95 pages | PDF | 12.5 MB The Book of Tarot. Illustrated with the Morgan-Greer Tarot. Lots of pictures.  Stephen Miller, "The Book of Angels" English | ISBN: 1527534340 | 2019 | 184 pages | PDF | 40 MB Both collectively and individually, we have a deep and abiding fascination with angels. This book explores depictions of angels in the visual arts and in scripture and associated apocryphal and mystical writings, specifically in the Hebrew and Christian Bibles and Islamic, Zoroastrian and other ancient and latter-day accounts. It examines the visual clues, artistic conventions and attributes that have been set down to help us to recognise them in their particular roles and functions. Certain writings have had a particularly influential bearing on our understanding of angels. This text focuses on the hierarchies and orders proposed by the likes of Pseudo-Dionysius, St. Thomas Aquinas and others. In a new age of fascination with the metaphysical and supernatural (in film, television, popular mythology and literature), are we cementing or losing our connection with the authentic meaning and purpose that such vibrant and energised beings bring to our table? This book contains more than 30 illustrations in a central colour plates section. It also includes a useful glossary of terms and will prove a rich and enduring reference resource for libraries as well as a stimulating go-to source for those interested in the world of angels and how human sensibilities and imaginative reasoning have enriched the subject, as a starting point for interreligious dialogue.  The Battle of Fisher's Hill: Breaking the Shenandoah Valley's Gibraltar (Civil War Series) by Jonathan A. Noyalas English | June 18, 2013 | ISBN: 1540206505, 1609494431 | EPUB | 146 pages | 2.4 MB A fascinating documentation of the Battle of Fisher's Hill, explaining this pivotal Civil War battle and its implications for nearby civilians.  The Art of Tablescaping: Deck Out Your Table with the Queen of Theme by Bugsy Drake English | May 4th, 2021 | ISBN: 1734880228 | 224 pages | True EPUB | 154.42 MB You can set your table-or you can 'scape it.  The Art of Mindful Gardening: Sowing the Seeds of Meditation (Mindfulness) by Ark Redwood English | March 1, 2018 | ISBN: 1782405836 | EPUB | pages | 2 MB [center] |
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