New press sep 2021 (29 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - THE PREMISE.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Claudia lives in a very small town in Southern Italy where the cobblestone streets are so narrow you can't have a car, not that there is any money for one. No money, no food and barely any education. All around her is poverty and nothing to do but marry a local boy and start a family of her own. But Claudia has a feeling that there's more for her out in the world. One fateful visit from a distant relative and suddenly she knows what she needs to do. Despite all the obstacles she knows she will face, Claudia sets out on a very difficult and unknown journey that challenges her every step of the way. A journey that will either be the best thing she's ever done or the biggest mistake of her life.Beyond the Cobblestones is a heartwarming tale based on true stories told to the author by her parents. It reminds us that it is important to stay true to oneself; to follow one's dreams. Readers will feel inspired by this story to take action in their own lives and follow their passions! ?'Luisa Livorno Ramondo has written a personal, deeply felt immigration story that has resonance in the moment. For those readers who would like a first hand account of how one girl turned a life of poverty, pain and betrayal into a life of aspiration and meaning, this is the story for you! Beyond the Cobblestones is a place where dreams come true in a new home called America.' -Adriana Trigiani, New York Times bestselling author of The Good Left Undone? 'In Beyond the Cobblestones, Luisa Livorno Ramondo beautifully captures the essence of poverty and the dreams of escape which it inspires. From the hardest of soil, a flower emerges in a compelling coming-of-age story told through a compelling prose style that reflects the beauty of the narrative. This heartfelt story is a must-read for anyone who is inspired by tales of perseverance and the spirit to pursue dreams.' - Andrew Cotto, award-winning author and regular contributor to The New York Times?'Beyond The Cobblestones is a portal into the mind, heart and soul of my immigrant Italian grandparents. The storylines and landscapes transported me into the struggles and triumphs of hearty people deeply committed to family and fiercely determined to make life better.' -Cara Bradley, author of On The Verge: Wake Up, Show Up and Shine. ?'This story really pulls you in and makes you want to follow her journey as she figures out how to get to America.' -Anne E. Hill, author of Lerner Books.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - With a new afterword from the authors, the critically praised indictment of widely embraced "alternatives to incarceration""But what does it meanreallyto celebrate reforms that convert your home into your prison " Michelle Alexander, from the forewordElectronic monitoring. Locked-down drug treatment centers. House arrest. Mandated psychiatric treatment. Data driven surveillance. Extended probation. These are some of the key alternatives held up as cost effective substitutes for jails and prisons. But in a searing, "cogent critique" (Library Journal), Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law reveal that many of these so-called reforms actually weave in new strands of punishment and control, bringing new populations who would not otherwise have been subject to imprisonment under physical control by the state.Whether readers are seasoned abolitionists or are newly interested in sensible alternatives to retrograde policing and criminal justice policies and approaches, this highly praised book offers "a wealth of critical insights" that will help readers "tread carefully through the dizzying terrain of a world turned upside down" and "make sense of what should take the place of mass incarceration" (The Brooklyn Rail).With a foreword by Michelle Alexander, Prison by Any Other Name exposes how a kinder narrative of reform is effectively obscuring an agenda of social control, challenging us to question the ways we replicate the status quo when pursuing change, and offering a bolder vision for truly alternative justice practices.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A beautiful and engaging guide to global warming's impacts around the worldOur planet is in peril. Seas are rising, oceans are acidifying, ice is melting, coasts are flooding, species are dying, and communities are faltering. Despite these dire circumstances, most of us don't have a clear sense of how the interconnected crises in our ocean are affecting the climate system, food webs, coastal cities, and biodiversity, and which solutions can help us co-create a better future.Through a rich combination of place-based storytelling, clear explanations of climate science and policy, and beautifully rendered maps that use a unique ink-on-dried-seaweed technique, The Atlas of Disappearing Places depicts twenty locations across the globe, from Shanghai and Antarctica to Houston and the Cook Islands. The authors describe four climate change impactschanging chemistry, warming waters, strengthening storms, and rising seasusing the metaphor of the ocean as a body to draw parallels between natural systems and human systems.Each chapter paints a portrait of an existential threat in a particular place, detailing what will be lost if we do not take bold action now. Weaving together contemporary stories and speculative "future histories" for each place, this work considers both the serious consequences if we continue to pursue business as usual, and what we can dofrom government policies to grassroots activismto write a different, more hopeful story.A beautiful work of art and an indispensable resource to learn more about the devastating consequences of the climate crisisas well as possibilities for individual and collective actionThe Atlas of Disappearing Places will engage and inspire readers on the most pressing issue of our time.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Seasons of the Birch is a story of perseverance, sacrifice, and resilience. Susan Puska brings realism and heart to a novel that showcases the untold stories of women, minorities, and marginalized men who served their country yet seldom get the recognition they deserve.Ruth Amundsen grew up poor in Michigan's rural Upper Peninsula during the 1920s and 1930s. As she ventured beyond the village of Big Bay, she left her real home - the shores of Lake Superior. After nursing training, she joined the U.S. Army Nurse Corps, serving during the last year of World War II in the war-torn Philippines.When she returns to post-war America, she finds her independence, sense of contribution, and hard-earned status as a war nurse of little value to a country seeking to get back to an outdated normal, whatever the cost. Her search for tranquility and family is tested as she returns to her beloved Northwoods. Can she adapt to the harsh realities she exchanged for returning north Will she break from its icy weight or find her resilience like the birch tree after a long winter.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Riveting and inspiring first-person stories of how "taking a knee" triggered an awakening in sports, from the celebrated sportswriter"The Kaepernick Effect reveals that Colin Kaepernick's story is bigger than one athlete. With profiles of courage that leap off the page, Zirin uncovers a whole national movement of citizen-athletes fighting for racial justice." Ibram X. Kendi, National Book Awardwinning author of Stamped from the Beginning and How to Be an Antiracist In 2016, amid an epidemic of police shootings of African Americans, the celebrated NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick began a series of quiet protests on the field, refusing to stand during the U.S. national anthem. By "taking a knee," Kaepernick bravely joined a long tradition of American athletes making powerful political statements. This time, however, Kaepernick's simple act spread like wildfire throughout American society, becoming the preeminent symbol of resistance to America's persistent racial inequality.Critically acclaimed sports journalist and author of A People's History of Sports in the United States, Dave Zirin chronicles "the Kaepernick effect" for the first time, through interviews with a broad cross-section of professional athletes across many different sports, college stars and high-powered athletic directors, and high school athletes and coaches. In each case, he uncovers the fascinating explanations and motivations behind a mass political movement in sports, through deeply personal and inspiring accounts of risk-taking, activism, and courage both on and off the field.A book about the politics of sport, and the impact of sports on politics, The Kaepernick Effect is for anyone seeking to understand an essential dimension of the new movement for racial justice in America. …

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Can humor inspire hope throughout the world Most of us would like to believe that's true, but author Zev Burton aims to prove it with his book, Two Fish in a Tank: How Jokes Can Give Hope To Our Fractured World. From the de-Nazification of West Germany in the 1960's to the meteoric rise of comedy news shows like The Daily Show and Last Week Tonight, Burton explores the social and political ramifications of how humor can keep the frayed edges of a world from unravelling beyond repair. Armed with endless hours of painstaking research, an empathetic eye for finding the context in historical and contemporary moments, and a deeply ironic wink in his eye, Burton finds the hope and humor across the worldwide spectrum of geopolitics. Two Fish in a Tank will move you, educate you, and give you some laughs along the way.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Seventeen-year-old Georgia Peach thinks she has everything figured out. Well, everything except why her parents named her Georgia Peach while living in the state of Georgia. It's got to be a prank, right With her best friend Lily by her side, the pair navigate high school and the many obstacles of growing up. Lily is also the only one thatGeorgia confides in about the 'incident' that changed her life. From high school bullies to parents that just don't understand, to boys and new relationships, something is bound to go awry. As the ups and downs of high school drama and everyday life become too much, Georgia struggles to stay afloat.Through self-advocacy and confiding in those she trusts, she decides to take her mental well-being into her own hands.Pfohl hopes Everything's Not Peachy inspires people of all ages who want to better themselves to take the first step.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A provocative, strategic plan for a humane immigration system from the nation's leading immigration scholars and activistsDuring the past decade, right-wing nativists have stoked popular hostility to the nation's foreign-born population, forcing the immigrant rights movement into a defensive posture. In the Trump years, preoccupied with crisis upon crisis, advocates had few opportunities to consider questions of long-term policy or future strategy. Now is the time for a reset.Immigration Matters offers a new, actionable vision for immigration policy. It brings together key movement leaders and academics to share cutting-edge approaches to the urgent issues facing the immigrant community, along with fresh solutions to vexing questions of so-called "future flows" that have bedeviled policy makers for decades. The book also explores the contributions of immigrants to the nation's identity, its economy, and progressive movements for social change. Immigration Matters delves into a variety of topics including new ways to frame immigration issues, fresh thinking on key aspects of policy, challenges of integration, workers' rights, family reunification, legalization, paths to citizenship, and humane enforcement.The perfect handbook for immigration activists, scholars, policy makers, and anyone who cares about one of the most contentious issues of our age, Immigration Matters makes accessible an immigration policy that both remediates the harm done to immigrant workers and communities under Trump and advances a bold new vision for the future.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The groundbreaking, bestselling history of slavery, with a new foreword by Pulitzer Prizewinning historian Annette Gordon-Reed"As vital and necessary a historical document as anyone has ever produced in this country." The Boston GlobeWith the publication of the 1619 Project and the national reckoning over racial inequality, the story of slavery has gripped America's imaginationand conscienceonce again.No group of people better understood the power of slavery's legacies than the last generation of American people who had lived as slaves. Little-known before the first publication of Remembering Slavery, their memories were recorded on paper, and in some cases on primitive recording devices, by WPA workers in the 1930s. A major publishing event, Remembering Slavery captured these extraordinary voices in a single volume for the first time, presenting them as an unprecedented, first-person history of slavery in America.Remembering Slavery received the kind of commercial attention seldom accorded projects of this naturenationwide reviews as well as extensive coverage on prime-time television, including Good Morning America, Nightline, CBS Sunday Morning, and CNN. Reviewers called the book "chilling . . . [and] riveting" (Publishers Weekly) and "something, truly, truly new" (The Village Voice).With a new foreword by Pulitzer Prizewinning scholar Annette Gordon-Reed, this new edition of Remembering Slavery is an essential text for anyone seeking to understand one of the most basic and essential chapters in our collective history.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - As of 2020, only 6.6% of Fortune 500 companies have a female CEO. This needs to change.From an Olympic Gold Medalist to a CEO to a Lieutenant Colonel, Marina Paul shares the journeys of highly successful women on their intensely raw, emotional paths to leadership.In Becoming a Superhero: Awaken Your Superpowers and Inspire the Magic in Others, Paul uncovers:What it means to be 100% human while lifting our own worlds and our unique selves out of sufferingHow representation and 'being the first' sets the groundwork for others to seek inspiration to lead their own teamsHow sisterhood is a lever of success for how readers can begin to lead their Superhero livesThrough the lens of Paul's own vulnerable life experiences, both in competitive soccer and personally, readers will explore what it means to be deeply human, to lead by example, and to love your people so that, ultimately, everyone is lifted up in a more equitable world.Now, get ready to let your cape fly and unleash your superpowers.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Do you believe that the future is bleak Are you disillusioned with your faith tradition or religion in general Are you strong in faith but in need of some encouragement You've come to the right place.Stronger Than Trust: Igniting the Faith Within Us explores the intersection of faith and the modern world. You will read stories of people who held on to faith to overcome seemingly insurmountable hardships or found faith in those around them despite unwelcome communities, such as:How a young boy with autism leveraged faith in himself to overcome obstacles throughout his life.How a Vietnamese refugee developed faith in humanity after coming to the U.S. and later used her faith to help others after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.How Bill Gates employed his faith in progress as a way to find meaning and purpose in his life.Despite contemporary misunderstandings that faith is exclusive and outdated, faith is still relevant. Stronger Than Trust explores how you can and should find it in your own life.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A timely paperback reissue of the stunning, prize-winning portrait of the Jim Crow South through unique first-person accountsPraised as "viscerally powerful" (Publishers Weekly), this remarkable work of oral history captures the searing experience of the Jim Crow years through first-person interviews carefully collected by researchers at Duke University's Behind the Veil project. Newly relevant today as Americans reckon with the legacies of slavery and strive for racial equality, Remembering Jim Crow provides vivid, compelling accounts by men and women from all walks of life, who tell how their day-to-day lives were subjected to profound and unrelenting racial oppression."A shivering dose of reality and inspiring stories of everyday resistance" (Library Journal), Remembering Jim Crow is a testament to how Black Southerners fought back against the system, raising children, building churches and schools, running businesses, and struggling for respect in a society that denied them the most basic rights. Collectively, these narratives illuminate individual and community survival and tell a powerful story of the American past that is crucial for us to remember as we grapple with Jim Crow's legacies in the present.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - On the borderlands of Appalachia, when the darkness surrounds him completely after a cave-in, Kord thinks he's completely and hopelessly alone. Little does he know that his two best friends: siblings Clarkson and Theresa, are navigating the treacherous world of local bureaucracy to try and rescue Kord from the cave. In a town harboring an ancient, forgotten secret, Theresa and Clarkson are in just as much danger as Kord, who will soon come to realize he's that much less alone in the cramped recesses of the cave than he'd previously thought.Author Kyle Garvin Curry sheds light on our hidden recesses and shows us exactly what scares us in this world and how that fear controls us. The Cave of Appalachia is a haunting exploration of fears both personal and universal; the internal fear of our own minds and the external reach of skeletal, grasping hands.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Passion With Purpose - The Fire Withindivulges what it means to build a life of fulfillment, destiny, and impact by uncovering the relationship between passion and purpose. It explores significant lessons from author Steven Mezzacappa's experiences and sheds light on a new way to look at passion and your relationship with God.Passion With Purpose shows us that we all have inherent worth, value, and a call to love others and make a profound difference in our communities and in the world. However, we must earnestly humble ourselves and continually be inspired by the Great Architect, encouraged by the Great Physician, and empowered by the Great Life Coach to fulfill our callings with a passion that is truly ignited, fueled, and sustained by God.This book addresses the age-old cliche 'Follow Your Passion' and replaces it with the mandate to instead 'Experience Passion.' If you want to grow deeper in your faith and uncover more ways to impact the lives of others, dive into Passion With Purpose and ignite The Fire Within.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Justice is about all of us.'New Boston was born out of a series of nuclear wars after the devastating results of climate change rendered the US eastern seaboard uninhabitable. The city kept peace through its self-governing tribunal system and was thriving. But what started off as an egalitarian society began to divide along economic lines. The rich moved into the upper levels of the city and the poor masses retreated below ground. Food became rationed and tensions erupted.The Tribunals follows Jaym, a teenager bursting with youthful energy who grew up in the dark alleys of the Furrows. When a job takes him to the upper levels of the city, he soon faces the most powerful family in New Boston, the Chief Justice and his children, Piers and Gwen. Gwen is intrigued by this Furrows boy, Piers feels threatened by the intrusion. As the city goes through political upheaval, Jaym finds himself fighting forces greater than himself to try and save his friends and, ultimately, the city from a corrupt system. Can New Boston be stopped from complete collapse.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - We know racism is entrenched in our systems and institutions, but what about our cities and public spaces In The Diaspora of Belonging, author Jay Sharma explores the history of systemic racism, structural oppression, and state-sanctioned discrimination and injustice as it relates to urban settings. Drawing on 12 unique cities across the country, Sharma demonstrates how calculated decisions regarding our cities are, and how those in power have weaponized the built environment for decades.Covering topics that range from residential segregation, zoning, suburbanization, and urban renewal to ghettoization, immigration, deindustrialization, the tech industry, and more, The Diaspora of Belonging makes it ardently clear that America has always neglected to make inclusive spaces. Perhaps more importantly, it dissects the collective disdain for gentrification, and highlights the pervasiveness of poverty in America. Explore the connections between justice and design, economics and identity, and segregation and community in The Diaspora of Belonging. Let it challenge and inspire you to make our cities and neighborhoods better places for us all.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Within the whole church, Baptists and Catholics might seem to be ecclesiological and liturgical polar opposites. The two traditions are arguably more dissimilar from one another than each is from almost any other Christian tradition. Yet as veteran Baptist ecumenist Steven R. Harmon demonstrates in this book, they share much in common that can enable them to travel together as fellow pilgrims on the journey toward a more visibly united church. Baptists, Catholics, and the Whole Church: Partners in the Pilgrimage to Unity challenges Baptists, Catholics, and other Christians to envision their own patterns of faith and practice as included in the convergences it presents and to dedicate themselves to deeper involvement in the quest for the unity Jesus prayed his followers would manifest.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Bridge Makers: Becoming a Citizen Futurist answers an echoing call for a beginner's guide to foresight. Drawing from her decades of experience in high-tech, April Reagan presents an array of historical information, tools and research to guide readers through an educational journey. Bridge Makers is designed as an easy read that aims to spark an interest in every citizen to find agency in their anticipation of the future. This is done by painting the past, present, and future with optimism, while still encouraging all to maintain a sense of urgency to act, in order to avoid dystopian futures. If you have ever asked yourself:How will science and technology change the way we live How can I influence the future of science and technology in society How do I reclaim agency in the future Bridge Makers: Becoming a Citizen Futurist should be added to your required reading list.'Our moral responsibility is not to stop the future, but to shape it. to channel our destiny in humane directions and to ease the trauma of transition.' - Alvin Toffler.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The 233-year story of how the American people have taken an imperfect constitutionthe product of compromises and an artifact of its timeand made it more democraticWho wrote the Constitution That's obvious, we think: fifty-five men in Philadelphia in 1787. But much of the Constitution was actually written later, in a series of twenty-seven amendments enacted over the course of two centuries. The real history of the Constitution is the astonishing story of how subsequent generations have reshaped our founding document amid some of the most colorful, contested, and controversial battles in American political life. It's a story of how We the People have improved our government's structure and expanded the scope of our democracy during eras of transformational social change.The People's Constitution is an elegant, sobering, and masterly account of the evolution of American democracy.From the addition of the Bill of Rights, a promise made to save the Constitution from near certain defeat, to the postCivil War battle over the Fourteenth Amendment, from the rise and fall of the "noble experiment" of Prohibition to the defeat and resurgence of an Equal Rights Amendment a century in the making, The People's Constitution is the first book of its kind: a vital guide to America's national charter, and an alternative history of the continuing struggle to realize the Framers' promise of a more perfect union.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - How children and children's literature helped build America's empire America's empire was not made by adults alone. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, young people became essential to its creation. Through children's literature, authors instilled the idea of America's power and the importance of its global prominence. As kids eagerly read dime novels, series fiction, pulp magazines, and comic books that dramatized the virtues of empire, they helped entrench a growing belief in America's indispensability to the international order. Empires more generally require stories to justify their existence. Children's literature seeded among young people a conviction that their country's command of a continent (and later the world) was essential to global stability. This genre allowed ardent imperialists to obscure their aggressive agendas with a veneer of harmlessness or fun. The supposedly nonthreatening nature of the child and children's literature thereby helped to disguise dominion's unsavory nature. The modern era has been called both the 'American Century' and the 'Century of the Child.' Brian Rouleau illustrates how those conceptualizations came together by depicting children in their influential role as the junior partners of US imperial enterprise.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - About 1.25 million years ago, a spectacular volcanic eruption created the 13-mile wide circular depression now known as the Valles Caldera, located in northern New Mexico. This revised & expanded edition marks the twentieth anniversary of the Valles Caldera Preservation Act, a visionary piece of legislation that transferred to the public domain a privately owned ranch (signed in 2000 by President Bill Clinton). The preserve was assigned to a board of citizens appointed by the president to manage it as a self-sustaining preserve. The experiment in semi-private land management ended in 2014 as the Valles Caldera was legislatively reassigned to the National Park Service.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - How social security disability law is out of touch with the contemporary American labor market Passing down nearly a million decisions each year, more judges handle disability cases for the Social Security Administration than federal civil and criminal cases combined. In Social Security Disability Law and the American Labor Market, Jon C. Dubin challenges the contemporary policies for determining disability benefits and work assessment. He posits the fundamental questions: where are the jobs for persons with significant medical and vocational challenges And how does the administration misfire in its standards and processes for answering that question Deploying his profound understanding of the Social Security Administration and Disability law and policy, he demystifies the system, showing us its complex inner mechanisms and flaws, its history and evolution, and how changes in the labor market have rendered some agency processes obsolete. Dubin lays out how those who advocate eviscerating program coverage and needed life support benefits in the guise of modernizing these procedures would reduce the capacity for the Social Security Administration to function properly and serve its intended beneficiaries, and argues that the disability system should instead be 'mended, not ended.' Dubin argues that while it may seem counterintuitive, the transformation from an industrial economy to a twenty-first-century service economy in the information age, with increased automation, and resulting diminished demand for arduous physical labor, has not meaningfully reduced the relevance of, or need for, the disability benefits programs. Indeed, they have created new and different obstacles to work adjustments based on the need for other skills and capacities in the new economy-especially for the significant portion of persons with cognitive, psychiatric, neuro-psychological, or other mental impairments. Therefore, while the disability program is in dire need of empirically supported updating and measures to remedy identified deficiencies, obsolescence, inconsistencies in application, and racial, economic and other inequities, the program's framework is sufficiently broad and enduring to remain relevant and faithful to the Act's congressional beneficent purposes and aspirations. …

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Unburied Lives Wilkie demonstrates how we can 'listen' to stories found in things neglected, ignored, or disparaged--documents not consulted, architecture not studied, material traces preserved in the dirt.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Examines the theoretical achievements and the political impact of the new materialisms Materialism, a rich philosophical tradition that goes back to antiquity, is currently undergoing a renaissance. In The Government of Things, Thomas Lemke provides a comprehensive overview and critical assessment of this 'new materialism'. In analyzing the work of Graham Harman, Jane Bennett, and Karen Barad, Lemke articulates what, exactly, new materialism is and how it has evolved. These insights open up new spaces for critical thought and political experimentation, overcoming the limits of anthropocentrism. Drawing on Michel Foucault's concept of a 'government of things', the book also goes beyond new materialist scholarship which tends to displace political questions by ethical and aesthetic concerns. It puts forward a relational and performative account of materialities that more closely attends to the interplay of epistemological, ontological, and political issues. Lemke provides definitive and much-needed clarity about the fascinating potential-and limitations-of new materialism as a whole. The Government of Things revisits Foucault's more-than-human understanding of government to capture a new constellation of power: 'environmentality'. As the book demonstrates, contemporary modes of government seek to control the social, ecological, and technological conditions of life rather than directly targeting individuals and populations. The book offers an essential and much needed tool to critically examine this political shift. 312 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - HONORABLE MENTION, HARRY SHAW AND KATRINA HAZZARD-DONALD AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING WORK IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE STUDIES, GIVEN BY THE POP CULTURE ASSOCIATION A view of transatlantic slavery's afterlife and modern Blackness through the lens of age Although more than fifty years apart, the murders of Emmett Till and Trayvon Martin share a commonality: Black children are not seen as children. Time and time again, excuses for police brutality and aggression-particularly against Black children- concern the victim 'appearing' as a threat. But why and how is the perceived 'appearance' of Black persons so completely separated from common perceptions of age and time Black Age: Oceanic Lifespans and the Time of Black Life posits age, life stages, and lifespans as a central lens through which to view Blackness, particularly with regard to the history of transatlantic slavery. Focusing on Black literary culture of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, Habiba Ibrahim examines how the history of transatlantic slavery and the constitution of modern Blackness has been reimagined through the embodiment of age. She argues that Black age-through nearly four centuries of subjugation- has become contingent, malleable, and suited for the needs of enslavement. As a result, rather than the number of years lived or a developmental life stage, Black age came to signify exchange value, historical under-development, timelessness, and other fantasies borne out of Black exclusion from the human. Ibrahim asks: What constitutes a normative timeline of maturation for Black girls when 'all the women'-all the canonically feminized adults-'are white' How does a 'slave' become a 'man' when adulthood is foreclosed to Black subjects of any gender Black Age tracks the struggle between the abuses of Black exclusion from Western humanism and the reclamation of non-normative Black life, arguing that, if some of us are brave, it is because we dare to live lives considered incomprehensible within a schema of 'human time.'.…

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