1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910465804503321

Autore

Doh Emmanuel Fru

Titolo

Obasinjom warrior : the life and works of Bate Besong / / Emmanuel Fru Doh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bamenda, Cameroon : , : Langaa Research & Publishing Common Initiative Group, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

9956-792-98-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (232 p.)

Disciplina

809.896

Soggetti

Authors, African

African literature (English)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-205) and index.

Sommario/riassunto

On March 8, 2007, one of Cameroonís foremost scholars died in a ghastly traffic accident barely hours after launching his most forthright and acerbic collection of poems: Disgrace: Autobiographical Narcissus. Dr. Bate Besong was a social activist, a critic, troubadour, and playwright; an avant-garde, steeped in the tradition of the absurd, who fought against the corrupt system of governance that transmuted Cameroonians into a comatose and apathetic citizenry neutered by fear engendered by the workings of an existing Gestapo. For the first time, Emmanuel Fru Doh has gone beyond an analysis of B.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910789766003321

Autore

Bales Kevin

Titolo

The slave next door : human trafficking and slavery in America today / / Kevin Bales, Ron Soodalter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2010]

©2010

ISBN

1-283-27741-7

9786613277411

0-520-94803-3

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (336 pages)

Disciplina

364.150973

Soggetti

Human trafficking - United States

Slavery - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

THE OLD SLAVERY AND THE NEW -- HOUSE SLAVES -- SLAVES IN THE PASTURES OF PLENTY -- SUPPLY AND DEMAND -- NEW BUSINESS MODELS -- EATING, WEARING, WALKING, AND TALKING SLAVERY -- SLAVES IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD -- STATES OF CONFUSION -- THE FEDS -- A FUTURE WITHOUT SLAVERY.

Sommario/riassunto

In this riveting book, authors and authorities on modern day slavery Kevin Bales and Ron Soodalter expose the disturbing phenomenon of human trafficking and slavery that exists now in the United States. In The Slave Next Door we find that slaves are all around us, hidden in plain sight: the dishwasher in the kitchen of the neighborhood restaurant, the kids on the corner selling cheap trinkets, the man sweeping the floor of the local department store. In these pages we also meet some unexpected slaveholders, such as a 27-year old middle-class Texas housewife who is currently serving a life sentence for offences including slavery. Weaving together a wealth of voices-from slaves, slaveholders, and traffickers as well as from experts, counselors, law enforcement officers, rescue and support groups, and others-this book is also a call to action, telling what we, as private citizens, can do to finally bring an end to this horrific crime.