Dread History
Author | : Robert A. Hill |
Publisher | : Frontline Distribution International |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780948390784 |
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Author | : Robert A. Hill |
Publisher | : Frontline Distribution International |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780948390784 |
Author | : James T. PATTERSON |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 397 |
Release | : 2009-06-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0674041933 |
Relates the cultural history of cancer and examines society's reaction to the disease through a century of American life.
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Publisher | : Artisan Books |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 1999-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781579651503 |
Presents portraits of dread-heads from every walk of life and includes a brief history of this hairstyle
Author | : Neal Shusterman |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2006-08-03 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780142405994 |
Dread Locks is the first entry in the Dark Fusion series from master storyteller Neal Shusterman. He cleverly weaves together familiar parts of fairy tales and Greek mythology to tell the story of fourteen-year-old Parker Bear, rich and utterly bored with life—until a new girl arrives in town. Tara's eyes are always hidden behind designer sunglasses, and her hair, blond with glimmering spirals, seems almost alive. Parker watches, fascinated, as one by one Tara chooses high school students to befriend; he even helps her by making the necessary introductions. Over time, her “friends” develop strange quirks, such as drinking gallons of milk, eating dirt, and becoming lethargic. By the time Parker realizes what Tara is doing, he is too embroiled to stop her. In fact, she has endowed him with certain cravings of his own. . . .To say more would spoil the spooky fun of this wild thriller—let the twist speak for itself and leave you still as a statue.
Author | : Velma Pollard |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 2000-05-15 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 077356828X |
Dread Talk examines the effects of Rastafarian language on Creole in other parts of the Carribean, its influence in Jamaican poetry, and its effects on standard Jamaican English. This revised edition includes a new introduction that outlines the changes that have occurred since the book first appeared and a new chapter, "Dread Talk in the Diaspora," that discusses Rastafarian as used in the urban centers of North America and Europe. Pollard provides a wealth of examples of Rastafarian language-use and definitions, explaining how the evolution of these forms derives from the philosophical position of the Rasta speakers: "The socio-political image which the Rastaman has had of himself in a society where lightness of skin, economic status, and social privileges have traditionally gone together must be included in any consideration of Rastafarian words " for the man making the words is a man looking up from under, a man pressed down economically and socially by the establishment."
Author | : Bert Ashe |
Publisher | : Agate Publishing |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2015-06-09 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1572847492 |
In Twisted: My Dreadlock Chronicles, professor and author Bert Ashe delivers a witty, fascinating, and unprecedented account of black male identity as seen through our culture's perceptions of hair. It is a deeply personal story that weaves together the cultural and political history of dreadlocks with Ashe's own mid-life journey to lock his hair. Ashe is a fresh, new voice that addresses the importance of black hair in the 20th and 21st centuries through an accessible, humorous, and literary style sure to engage a wide variety of readers. After leading a far-too-conventional life for forty years, Ashe began a long, arduous, uncertain process of locking his own hair in an attempt to step out of American convention. Black hair, after all, matters. Few Americans are subject to snap judgements like those in the African-American community, and fewer communities face such loaded criticism about their appearances, in particular their hair. Twisted: My Dreadlock Chronicles makes the argument that the story of dreadlocks in America can’t be told except in front of the backdrop of black hair in America. Ask most Americans about dreadlocks and they immediately conjure a picture of Bob Marley: on stage, mid-song, dreads splayed. When most Americans see dreadlocks, a range of assumptions quickly follow: he's Jamaican, he's Rasta, he plays reggae; he stinks, he smokes, he deals; he's bohemian, he's creative, he's counter-cultural. Few styles in America have more symbolism and generate more conflicting views than dreadlocks. To "read" dreadlocks is to take the cultural pulse of America. To read Twisted: My Dreadlock Chronicles is to understand a larger story about the truths and biases present in how we perceive ourselves and others. Ashe's riveting and intimate work, a genuine first of its kind, will be a seminal work for years to come.
Author | : Kirsten Moana Thompson |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2012-02-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 079148033X |
In Apocalyptic Dread, Kirsten Moana Thompson examines how fears and anxieties about the future are reflected in recent American cinema. Through close readings of such films as Cape Fear, Candyman, Dolores Claiborne, Se7en, Signs, and War of the Worlds, Thompson argues that a longstanding American apocalyptic tradition permeates our popular culture, spreading from science-fiction and disaster films into horror, crime, and melodrama. Drawing upon Kierkegaard's notion of dread—that is, a fundamental anxiety and ambivalence about existential choice and the future—Thompson suggests that the apocalyptic dread revealed in these films, and its guiding tropes of violence, retribution, and renewal, also reveal deep-seated anxieties about historical fragmentation and change, anxieties that are in turn displaced onto each film's particular "monster," whether human, demonic, or eschatological.
Author | : Ayana Byrd |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2002-01-12 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 9780312283223 |
A history of the culture and politics behind the ever-changing state of black hair - from 15th century Africa to present-day US - this fascinating book is an entertaining look at the intersection of the personal, political and popular aspects of hair styles, tracing a unique aspect of black American history. An entertaining and concise survey... A book that successfully balances popular appeal with historical accuracy' - Publishers Weekly 'Impressive work of cultural history' - Book Page 'Comprehensive and colourful' - Essence'
Author | : Philip Alcabes |
Publisher | : Public Affairs |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2010-04-13 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 1586488090 |
Alcabes persuasively argues that people's anxieties about epidemics are created not so much by the germ or microbe in question--or the actual risks of contagion--but by the unknown, the undesirable, and the misunderstood. b&w illustration insert.
Author | : Brenna Moore |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Authors, French |
ISBN | : 9780268035297 |
In Sacred Dread, Brenna Moore examines the life and writings of Raïssa Maritain (1883-1960), one of the few women to contribute to this French Catholic revival movement.