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This volume explores the idea that photographs are objects as well as images of objects, and that this materiality is integral to their meaning and use.
Eleven African Americans, including a musician, were among the First Fleet of colonial settlers to Australia. In the 150-plus following years, African Americans visiting the region included jubilee singers, vaudevillians, sports stars and general entertainers. This book provides the only comprehensive history of more than 350 African American entertainers in Australia and New Zealand between European settlement in Australia in 1788 and the entry of the United States into World War II in 1941. Famous names covered include boxer Jack Johnson, film star Nina Mae McKinney and jazz singer Eva Taylor. Background stories provide a multidimensional view of the entertainers' time in a place very far from home.
Siskiyou County Library has vol. 1 only.
This book is about the daily lifestyle of a true Jamaican country child from earlier times and is still present in the rural parts of Jamaica today. It brings back real memories to most Caribbean nationalities who have migrated abroad from earlier years to present and might have forgotten or even often times reminisce on those days. It brings laughter and history all at once. It is also a tribute to the many peoples that I have come in contact with in this Sojourn including Harry Belafonte, Monty Alexander, Dr. Julius Garvey son of one of our Jamaican national hero. Pioneers such as Cleveland Samuel Reid, Alonzo Smith, and Narciso F. Airey. It is also a compilation of English poems which depicts our connection to our multi-cultural past Out Of Many One People. It is also a thank you to my family and friends to whom I am extremely grateful.
This book explores social movements by analyzing an escalating spiral of tension between the Patriot movement and the state centered on the mutual framing of conflict as 'warfare'. By examining the social construction of 'warfare' as a principal script or frame defining the movement-state dynamic, Stuart A. Wright explains how this highly charged confluence of a war narrative engendered a kind of symbiosis leading to the escalation of a mutual threat that culminated in the Oklahoma City bombing. Wright offers a unique perspective on the events leading up to the bombing because he served as a consultant to Timothy McVeigh's defense team for eighteen months and draws on primary data based on face-to-face interviews with McVeigh. The book contends that McVeigh was firmly entrenched in the Patriot movement and was part of a network of 'warrior cells' that planned and implemented the bombing.
An intimate foray into the invisible work that made it possible for pictures to circulate in print and online from the 1830s to the 2010s. Picture Research focuses on how pictures were saved, stored, and searched for in a time before scanners, servers, and search engines, and describes the dramatic difference it made when images became scannable, searchable, and distributable via the internet. While the camera, the darkroom, and the printed page are well-known sites of photographic production that have been replaced by cell phones, imaging software, and websites, the cultural intermediaries of mass-circulation photography—picture librarians and researchers, editors, and archivists—are le...
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