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They “... Fought Bravely, but Were Unfortunate:”
Rhode Island’s “Black Regiment” of the American Revolutionary War is fairly well-known to students of American History. Most published histories of the small colored battalion from Rhode Island are clearly biased in favor of the “regiment” and tend to interpret it as an elite military unit. However, a detailed study and analysis of Rhode Island’s segregated Continental Line by the author reveals a “military experiment” that was beset with difficulties from its start and ultimately failed as a segregated unit in 1780. In this work, many of the popular stories of Rhode Island’s “Black Regiment” are proven to be myths. Follow the accurate historical stories of the colored and white soldiers of Rhode Island’s Continental Line whose courage and sacrifices helped create an independent nation.
Doing Cross-Cultural Research
Conducting cross-cultural research is rife with methodological, ethical and moral challenges. Researchers are challenged with many issues in carrying out their research with people in cross-cultural arenas. In this book, I attempt to bring together salient issues for the conduct of culturally appropriate research. The task of undertaking cross-cultural research can present researchers with unique opportunities, and yet dilemmas. The book will provide some thought-provoking points so that our research may proceed relatively well and yet ethical in our approach. The subject of the book is on the ethical, methodological, political understanding and practical procedures in undertaking cross-cult...
Inside Interviewing
Inside Interviewing highlights the fluctuating and diverse moral worlds put into place during interview research when gender, race, culture and other subject positions are brought narratively to the foreground. It explores the 'facts', thoughts, feelings and perspectives of respondents and how this impacts on the research process.
Eliza Lucas Pinckney
The enthralling story of Eliza Lucas Pinckney, an innovative, highly regarded, and successful woman plantation owner during the Revolutionary era Eliza Lucas Pinckney (1722-1793) reshaped the colonial South Carolina economy with her innovations in indigo production and became one of the wealthiest and most respected women in a world dominated by men. Born on the Caribbean island of Antigua, she spent her youth in England before settling in the American South and enriching herself through the successful management of plantations dependent on enslaved laborers. Tracing her extraordinary journey and drawing on the vast written records she left behind--including family and business letters, spiritual musings, elaborate recipes, macabre medical treatments, and astute observations about her world and herself--this engaging biography offers a rare woman's first-person perspective into the tumultuous years leading up to and through the Revolutionary War and unsettles many common assumptions regarding the place and power of women in the eighteenth century.
Handbook of Interview Research
Aimed at professionals in market research and journalism as well as researchers, academics and students, this handbook is both an encyclopedia providing discussions of methodological issues and a story of a particular tale of interviewing.
The School to Prison Pipeline
This edited volume focuses on the role that school climate and disciplinary practices have on the educational and social experiences of students of color.
Antigua and Barbuda
The islands of Antigua and Barbuda—along with a host of smaller islands—make up their own country in the waters between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. Readers take an exciting tour of this island nation with the help of detailed main text and fact-filled sidebars that cover the country’s past and present, including the 2017 hurricane that devastated the island of Barbuda. The resiliency and beauty of the people of Antigua and Barbuda are reflected in the islands’ culture, which readers explore through engaging text, vivid photographs, and recipes.
The Qualitative Inquiry Reader
The Qualitative Inquiry Reader offers a selection of landmark articles from the SAGE journal Qualitative Inquiry. These works introduce framework that will allow scholars and students to interpret cutting edge work in the field of qualitative inquiry.
