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It's Harvest Time; Get the House Ready

by Marcia Walker ...

Its Harvest Time (First of two visits)In the spring of 1990, I was living in Brooklyn, New York, when I was visited by An Holy One. I still dont know if I was asleep or awake. All I remember is being in the presence of a being of tremendously massive power. I felt that my brain was dissolving inside my skull and I was melting from my head downward. I would have ended as a puddle on the ground if ... Read more

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Its Harvest Time (First of two visits)In the spring of 1990, I was living in Brooklyn, New York, when I was visited by An Holy One. I still dont know if I was asleep or awake. All I remember is being in the presence of a being of tremendously massive power. I felt that my brain was dissolving inside my skull and I was melting from my head downward. I would have ended as a puddle on the ground if
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Africana Social Stratification

An Interdisciplinary Study of Economics, Policy, and Labor

by Drew Brown, LaTasha Chaffin, Devon Lee, Gregory Price, Maurice Mangum, Marcia Walker-McWilliams, James Stewart, Brittany Slatton, Anthony D. Greene, Jason E. Shelton, James L. Conyers Jr.1, Robert E. Weems Jr.2, Rita Kiki Edozie3 ...

This study seeks to critically examine the field and function of social stratification, with emphasis on Africana phenomena. Phrased another way, this edited volume attempts to study and focus on who gets what and why, with regard to resources and structural application of support. The John Henrik Clarke query is who made this arrangement of leadership in America. Moreover, serving as a reference, ... Read more

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This study seeks to critically examine the field and function of social stratification, with emphasis on Africana phenomena. Phrased another way, this edited volume attempts to study and focus on who gets what and why, with regard to resources and structural application of support. The John Henrik Clarke query is who made this arrangement of leadership in America. Moreover, serving as a reference,
... Read more
Public Catastrophes, Private Losses

by Naomi Klein, Marisa J. Fuentes, Christina Sharpe, Michelle Commander, Jennifer Flynn Walker, Bela August Walker, Marcia Gallo0, Carmen Vázquez1, Kathleen C. Riley2, Smruthi Bala Kannan3, Stacy S. Klein4, Ellen Malenas Ledoux5, Basuli Deb6, Leslye Amede Obiora7 ...

Series series The Feminist Bookshelf: Ideas for the 21st Century
From COVID to climate-change-induced wildfires and hurricanes, we live in an era when catastrophes have become the new normal. But even though these events affect us all, some members of society are more vulnerable to harm than others.This essay collection explores how the definition of catastrophe might be expanded to include many forms of large-scale structural violence on communities, species, ... Read more

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From COVID to climate-change-induced wildfires and hurricanes, we live in an era when catastrophes have become the new normal. But even though these events affect us all, some members of society are more vulnerable to harm than others.This essay collection explores how the definition of catastrophe might be expanded to include many forms of large-scale structural violence on communities, species,
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Oceanic Japan

The Archipelago in Pacific and Global History

by Stefan Huebner, Nadin Heé, David R. Armitage, Gregory Clancey, Bathsheba Demuth, Alexis Dudden, Martin Dusinberre0, Kjell Ericson1, Gerald Figal2, Toshihiro Higuchi3, David L. Howell4, Julia Markio Jacoby5, Jakobina Arch6, Ryan Tucker Jones7, Paul Kreitman8, Manako Ogawa9, Katherine Matsuura0, Jonas M. Rüegg1, Hannah Shepherd2, Satsuki Takahashi3, Takehiro Watanabe4, Kären Wigen5, Marcia Yonemoto6, Brett L. Walker7, Mary Carmel Finley8, Sayuri Guthrie-Shimizu9, Sujit Sivasundaram0 ...

Japan’s oceans demand our attention. Violent, prolific, and changeful, they define life and death on the archipelago: pushing the shore under the rush of tsunami, charging typhoon circulation, feeding millions, and seeding conflicts over territory and resources. And yet, Japan studies remains largely beholden to a terrestrial view of the world that is at odds with the importance of the sea. This ... Read more

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Japan’s oceans demand our attention. Violent, prolific, and changeful, they define life and death on the archipelago: pushing the shore under the rush of tsunami, charging typhoon circulation, feeding millions, and seeding conflicts over territory and resources. And yet, Japan studies remains largely beholden to a terrestrial view of the world that is at odds with the importance of the sea. This
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Understanding Organization Through Culture and Structure

Relational and Other Lessons From the African American Organization

by Anne Maydan Nicotera, Marcia J. Clinkscales, Felicia R. Walker ...

Series series Routledge Communication Series
Understanding Organization Through Culture and Structure: Relational and Other Lessons From the African American Organization presents an innovative view of organizations and the communication processes that constitute them. Arguing that human beings are communicatively embedded in their cultures, Anne Maydan Nicotera and Marcia J. Clinkscales, working with Felicia R. Walker, examine issues ... Read more

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Understanding Organization Through Culture and Structure: Relational and Other Lessons From the African American Organization presents an innovative view of organizations and the communication processes that constitute them. Arguing that human beings are communicatively embedded in their cultures, Anne Maydan Nicotera and Marcia J. Clinkscales, working with Felicia R. Walker, examine issues
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South Carolina Women

Their Lives and Times, Volume 3

by Marjorie Julian Spruill, Valinda W. Littlefield, Joan Marie Johnson, Jennifer Black, Carol Botsch, W. Lewis Burke, Fritz P. Hamer, Patricia Hill0, Cherisse Jones-Branch1, Georgette Mayo2, Page Miller3, Constance Myers4, Mary Ogden5, Bakari T. Sellers6, Marcia Synnott7, Melissa Walker Heidari8, John White9, Suzanne Wise0, Kate Porter Young1, Katherine Mellen Charron2 ...

Covering an era from the early twentieth century to the present, this volume features twenty-seven South Carolina women of varied backgrounds whose stories reflect the ever-widening array of activities and occupations in which women were engaged in a transformative era that included depression, world wars, and dramatic changes in the role of women. Some striking revelations emerge from these ... Read more

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Covering an era from the early twentieth century to the present, this volume features twenty-seven South Carolina women of varied backgrounds whose stories reflect the ever-widening array of activities and occupations in which women were engaged in a transformative era that included depression, world wars, and dramatic changes in the role of women. Some striking revelations emerge from these
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I Wish I Could Tell You

Pearls of Wisdom from Grannie

by Marcia H. Walker ...

About the BookI Wish I Could Tell You: Pearls of Wisdom from Grannie was written for the author’s granddaughter Avery, who is now seven years old. Its intent is to share lessons learned from Marcia’s journey through life's ups and downs as she tried to understand herself, others, people’s behaviors, and the circumstances she encountered. As she encountered rejection, prejudice, and various ... Read more

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About the BookI Wish I Could Tell You: Pearls of Wisdom from Grannie was written for the author’s granddaughter Avery, who is now seven years old. Its intent is to share lessons learned from Marcia’s journey through life's ups and downs as she tried to understand herself, others, people’s behaviors, and the circumstances she encountered. As she encountered rejection, prejudice, and various
... Read more
After Montaigne

Contemporary Essayists Cover the Essays

by Chris Arthur, Barrie Jean Borich, Steven Church, Brian Doyle, Lisa Ferreira, Vivian Gornick, Wayne Koestenbaum, Shannon Lakanen, Desirae Matherly, Maggie Nelson, Jose Orduna, Elena Passarello, Kristen Radtke, Amy Scott, Jerald Walker, Marcia Aldrich, Robert Atwan, Mary Cappello, Danielle Cadena Deulen, E. J. Levy, Phillip Lopate, Bret Lott, Lia Purpura, Nicole Walker, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Lina M. Ferreira, Robin Hemley ...

Writers of the modern essay can trace their chosen genre all the way back to Michel de Montaigne (1533–92). But save for the recent notable best seller How to Live: A Life of Montaigne by Sarah Bakewell, Montaigne is largely ignored. After Montaigne—a collection of twenty-four new personal essays intended as tribute—aims to correct this collective lapse of memory and introduce modern readers and ... Read more

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Writers of the modern essay can trace their chosen genre all the way back to Michel de Montaigne (1533–92). But save for the recent notable best seller How to Live: A Life of Montaigne by Sarah Bakewell, Montaigne is largely ignored. After Montaigne—a collection of twenty-four new personal essays intended as tribute—aims to correct this collective lapse of memory and introduce modern readers and
... Read more
The New Civil Rights Movement Reader

Resistance, Resilience, and Justice

Edited by Marcia Walker-McWilliams, Traci Parker ...

In the United States, the fight to secure full civil rights for African American people has endured for centuries. The movement has included many voices, among them, working people, charismatic activists, musicians and artists, the LGBTQIA community, veterans, suburbanites, and elected officials. Moving from the labor struggles of the 1930s to the sit-ins and boycotts of midcentury, and the Black ... Read more

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In the United States, the fight to secure full civil rights for African American people has endured for centuries. The movement has included many voices, among them, working people, charismatic activists, musicians and artists, the LGBTQIA community, veterans, suburbanites, and elected officials. Moving from the labor struggles of the 1930s to the sit-ins and boycotts of midcentury, and the Black
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Whistle Warriors

by Erik Roberts ...

Illustrated by Marcia Walker ...

The book is a fictional story about a group of kids who go off to summer camp and find buried native american artifacts that turns out to be whistles that communicate with animals. A group of bandits on the run from the police stumbled upon the camp site and rob the counselors and children of their belonging. The kids then use the whistles to stop the bandits. This book was inspired by my youngest ... Read more

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The book is a fictional story about a group of kids who go off to summer camp and find buried native american artifacts that turns out to be whistles that communicate with animals. A group of bandits on the run from the police stumbled upon the camp site and rob the counselors and children of their belonging. The kids then use the whistles to stop the bandits. This book was inspired by my youngest
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The 1619 Project

A New Origin Story

by Nikole Hannah-Jones, The New York Times Magazine ...

**#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER • A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past and present.“[A] groundbreaking compendium . . . bracing and urgent . . . This collection is an extraordinary update to an ongoing project of vital truth-telling.”—Esquire**NOW AN EMMY ... Read more

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**#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER • A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past and present.“[A] groundbreaking compendium . . . bracing and urgent . . . This collection is an extraordinary update to an ongoing project of vital truth-telling.”—Esquire**NOW AN EMMY
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Four Hundred Souls

A Community History of African America, 1619-2019

Edited by Ibram X. Kendi, Keisha N. Blain ...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A chorus of extraordinary voices tells the epic story of the four-hundred-year journey of African Americans from 1619 to the present—edited by Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist, and Keisha N. Blain, author of Set the World on Fire.FINALIST FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post, Town & Country, ... Read more

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A chorus of extraordinary voices tells the epic story of the four-hundred-year journey of African Americans from 1619 to the present—edited by Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist, and Keisha N. Blain, author of Set the World on Fire.FINALIST FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post, Town & Country,
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