That Middle World

That Middle World
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Publisher : UNC Press Books
Total Pages : 243
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ISBN-10 : 9781469659589
ISBN-13 : 1469659581
Rating : 4/5 (89 Downloads)

Book Synopsis That Middle World by : Julia S. Charles

Download or read book That Middle World written by Julia S. Charles and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study of racial passing literature, Julia S. Charles highlights how mixed-race subjects invent cultural spaces for themselves—a place she terms that middle world—and how they, through various performance strategies, make meaning in the interstices between the Black and white worlds. Focusing on the construction and performance of racial identity in works by writers from the antebellum period through Reconstruction, Charles creates a new discourse around racial passing to analyze mixed-race characters' social objectives when crossing into other racialized spaces. To illustrate how this middle world and its attendant performativity still resonates in the present day, Charles connects contemporary figures, television, and film—including Rachel Dolezal and her Black-passing controversy, the FX show Atlanta, and the musical Show Boat—to a range of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literary texts. Charles's work offers a nuanced approach to African American passing literature and examines how mixed-race performers articulated their sense of selfhood and communal belonging.

Middleworld

Middleworld
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Publisher : Darby Creek
Total Pages : 444
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ISBN-10 : 9781606840719
ISBN-13 : 1606840711
Rating : 4/5 (19 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Middleworld by : Jon Voelkel

Download or read book Middleworld written by Jon Voelkel and published by Darby Creek. This book was released on 2010-04-27 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When his archaeologist parents go missing in Central America, fourteen-year-old Max embarks on a wild adventure through the Mayan underworld in search of the legendary Jaguar Stones, which enabled ancient Mayan kings to wield the powers of living gods. Includes cast of characters, glossary, facts about the Maya cosmos and calendar, and a recipe for chicken tamales.

Notes from the Middle World

Notes from the Middle World
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Publisher : Haymarket Books
Total Pages : 233
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ISBN-10 : 9781608460144
ISBN-13 : 1608460142
Rating : 4/5 (44 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Notes from the Middle World by : Breyten Breytenbach

Download or read book Notes from the Middle World written by Breyten Breytenbach and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An acclaimed South African writer, freedom fighter, and artist illuminates the labyrinth of our political present.

Middle World

Middle World
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 203
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ISBN-10 : 9780230552319
ISBN-13 : 0230552315
Rating : 4/5 (19 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Middle World by : M. Haw

Download or read book Middle World written by M. Haw and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-10-03 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the microscopic world of quarks and atoms, and the macroscopic (observable) one of pebbles and planets, there is another world, strangely neglected by science. It is inhabited by things like pollen, DNA and viruses. Physicist Mark Haw tells the story of how scientists finally saw the restless middle world, having ignored it for so long.

Envoy to the Middle World

Envoy to the Middle World
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Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Total Pages : 498
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ISBN-10 : UCAL:B4432521
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (21 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Envoy to the Middle World by : George Crews McGhee

Download or read book Envoy to the Middle World written by George Crews McGhee and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1983 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Defiant Middle

The Defiant Middle
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Publisher : Broadleaf Books
Total Pages : 191
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ISBN-10 : 9781506467696
ISBN-13 : 1506467695
Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Defiant Middle by : Kaya Oakes

Download or read book The Defiant Middle written by Kaya Oakes and published by Broadleaf Books . This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For every woman, from the young to those in midlife and beyond, who has ever been told, "You can't" and thought, "Oh, I definitely will!"--this book is for you. Women are expected to be many things. They should be young enough, but not too young; old enough, but not too old; creative, but not crazy; passionate, but not angry. They should be fertile and feminine and self-reliant, not barren or butch or solitary. Women, in other words, are caught between social expectations and a much more complicated reality. Women who don't fit in, whether during life transitions or because of changes in their body, mind, or gender identity, are carving out new ways of being in and remaking the world. But this is nothing new: they have been doing so for thousands of years, often at the margins of the same religious traditions and cultures that created these limited ways of being for women in the first place. In The Defiant Middle, Kaya Oakes draws on the wisdom of women mystics and explores how transitional eras or living in marginalized female identities can be both spiritually challenging and wonderfully freeing, ultimately resulting in a reinvented way of seeing the world and changing it. "Change, after all," Oakes writes, "always comes from the margins."

The World Book Encyclopedia

The World Book Encyclopedia
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 554
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015051610437
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (37 Downloads)

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Download or read book The World Book Encyclopedia written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An encyclopedia designed especially to meet the needs of elementary, junior high, and senior high school students.