As an Act of Protest and Emotional Catharsis About the Ugly Truth of Racism

2021 ◽  
pp. 002216782110086
Author(s):  
Dennis Leroy Kangalee ◽  
Eric Greene ◽  
Nisha Gupta
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
African American ◽  
Police Brutality ◽  
Racial Trauma ◽  
The World ◽  
The Cross

In this edited interview, psychologists Eric Greene and Nisha Gupta interview filmmaker Dennis Leroy Kangalee about his film As an Act of Protest (2002), which is about a young African American actor named Cairo Medina who goes through a station-of-the-cross journey to find the meaning of his life and eradicate the racism and police brutality that continue to plague the world. In this conversation, Dennis shares the genesis of the film as a response to the police brutality occurring in New York in the late 1990s, the psychological struggles he experienced while making this film and enduring backlash to it, and his desire to convey raw emotional truths about the ugliness of racism and racial trauma through a style of radically honest filmmaking that can foster catharsis, reflection, and transformation.

Her Standing in Poughkeepsie

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacqueline A. McLeod
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
African American ◽  
Coming Of Age ◽  
Law School ◽  
Special Relationship ◽  
Wellesley College ◽  
Vassar College ◽  
American Students ◽  
The World

This chapter traces the Bolins' lineage and legacy and Jane Bolin's place in it as a biracial child coming of age in early twentieth-century Poughkeepsie, New York. It examines her relationship with her siblings—Anna, Ivy, and Gaius Jr.—and with her father, who became the family's primary caregiver upon their mother's death. This very special relationship between father and youngest daughter was tested and strengthened as Jane Bolin ventured out into the world beyond Poughkeepsie for college and law school. Jane chose to attend Wellesley College in Massachusetts over Vassar College; she could not have attended Vassar either way since the school's unofficial policies barred the admission of African American students.

The Harlem Renaissance

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catrina Hill ◽  
Sophie Meridien ◽  
Keith Holt ◽  
Daniel Boyle ◽  
Paul Ardoin
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
African American ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Harlem Renaissance ◽  
African American Community ◽  
The World ◽  
Philosophical Questions ◽  
Breaking Work ◽  
The Harlem Renaissance

The Harlem Renaissance was a flourishing of artistic, intellectual, musical, and literary accomplishments by African Americans between the World Wars. The movement took its name from Harlem, a neighborhood on the northern section of Manhattan Island. Harlem became the de facto center of the African American community in New York City, and many of the most important figures of the Renaissance called it home. During the Renaissance, intellectuals published ground-breaking work that explored philosophical questions and political possibilities for African Americans that would be explored throughout the twentieth century.

From Local to Global: Reflections on Dance Dissemination and Migration within Polska and Lindy Hop Communities

2020 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-44
Author(s):  
Mats Nilsson
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
African American ◽  
York City ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Folk Dance ◽  
Lindy Hop ◽  
The World ◽  
And Migration

This article discusses dissemination of dances in and out of Sweden, and the dancing communities these processes create. The examples are the African-American Lindy Hop, which originated in New York City, and the polska, a couple dance considered to be the number one Swedish folk dance. Both dances were once used in local community dancing, while today they belong to dancing communities in many places around the world.

Filled with Spirit and Power: Protestant Clergy in Politics. By Laura R. Olson. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000. 174p. $57.50 cloth, $18.95 paper.

2001 ◽  
Vol 95 (4) ◽  
pp. 1005-1006
Author(s):  
Paul J. Weber
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
African American ◽  
Family Values ◽  
State University ◽  
Protestant Clergy ◽  
African American Pastors ◽  
The Family ◽  
Limited Scope

Laura Olson is one of a small but energetic and influential group of Christian political scientists determined to bring the debate politically legitimate called it either racist or sexist. Yet, somewhat surprisingly, African American pastors held the most consistently conservative views on family values, although they also saw the connections among crime, violence, and the deterioration of the family. Within the authorÕs intentionally limited scope, this is an excellent study, but one should be cautious about generalizing.

[review of:] Dace Prauliņš. 2012. Latvian. An Essential Grammar

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 240-243
Author(s):  
Nicole Nau
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
The World ◽  
Scholarly Contribution

Dace Prauliņš, Latvian. An Essential Grammar. London & New York: Routledge, 2012. ɪsʙɴ 978-0-415-57692-5. Descriptive grammars of Modern Latvian written in English are still something of a rarity, and any such book will be warmly welcomed bylinguists as well as by the growing number of people learning Latvian all over the world. It is for the latter group that Dace Prauliņš wrote this book, and it would be unfair to review it as a scholarly contribution to the analysis of Latvian grammar.

Book Reviews

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-106
Author(s):  
Janet Klein ◽  
David Romano ◽  
Michael M. Gunter ◽  
Joost Jongerden ◽  
Atakan İnce ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Eastern Anatolia ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
National Movement ◽  
The World ◽  
Modern Turkey ◽  
Oxford University Press

Uğur Ümit Üngör, The Making of Modern Turkey: Nation and State in Eastern Anatolia, 1913-1950, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, 352 pp. (ISBN: 9780199603602).Mohammed M. A. Ahmed, Iraqi Kurds and Nation-Building. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, 294 pp., (ISBN: 978-1-137-03407-6), (paper). Ofra Bengio, The Kurds of Iraq: Building a State within a State. Boulder, CO and London, UK: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2012, xiv + 346 pp., (ISBN 978-1-58826-836-5), (hardcover). Cengiz Gunes, The Kurdish National Movement in Turkey, from Protest to Resistance, London: Routledge, 2012, 256 pp., (ISBN: 978-0-415—68047-9). Aygen, Gülşat, Kurmanjî Kurdish. Languages of the World/Materials 468, München: Lincom Europa, 2007, 92 pp., (ISBN: 9783895860706), (paper).Barzoo Eliassi, Contesting Kurdish Identities in Sweden: Quest for Belonging among Middle Eastern Youth, Oxford: New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, 234 pp. (ISBN: 9781137282071).

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