1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910455247303321

Autore

Brooks Roy L (Roy Lavon), <1950->

Titolo

Racial justice in the age of Obama [[electronic resource] /] / Roy L. Brooks

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c2009

ISBN

1-282-25926-1

9786612259265

1-4008-3104-0

Edizione

[Course Book]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (261 p.)

Disciplina

305.800973

Soggetti

African Americans - Civil rights

African Americans - Social conditions - 1975-

Social justice - United States

Electronic books.

United States Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface. The Age of Obama -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER 1. Introduction -- CHAPTER 2. Traditionalism -- CHAPTER 3. Reformism -- CHAPTER 4. Limited Separation -- CHAPTER 5. Critical Race Theory -- EPILOGUE. Toward the "Best" Post-Civil Rights Theory -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

With the election of Barack Obama as the first black president of the United States, the issue of racial justice in America occupies center stage. Have black Americans finally achieved racial justice? Is government intervention no longer required? Racial Justice in the Age of Obama considers contemporary civil rights questions and theories, and offers fresh insights and effective remedies for race issues in America today. While there are now unprecedented opportunities for talented African Americans, Roy Brooks shows that lingering deficiencies remain within the black community. Exploring solutions to these social ills, Brooks identifies competing civil rights theories and perspectives, organizing them into four distinct categories--



traditionalism, reformism, limited separation, and critical race theory. After examining each approach, Brooks constructs the best civil rights theory for the Obama phase of the post-civil rights era. Brooks supports his theoretical model with strong statistics that break down the major racial groups along such demographics as income and education. He factors in the cultural and structural explanations for the nation's racial divisions, and he addresses affirmative action, the failures of integration, the negative aspects of black urban culture, and the black community's limited access to resources. The book focuses on African Americans, but its lessons are relevant for other groups, including Latinos, Asians, women, and gays and lesbians. Racial Justice in the Age of Obama maps out today's civil rights questions so that all groups can achieve equality at a time of unprecedented historical change.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910511318703321

Autore

Flemming Barbara

Titolo

Essays on Turkish literature and history / / by Barbara Flemming

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2018

ISBN

90-04-35576-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 502 pages)

Disciplina

894/.3509

Soggetti

Turkish literature - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Turkey Civilization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- 1 Faḫrī’s Ḫusrev u Şīrīn from the year 1367: A Turkish mesnevī from the Emirate period -- 2 Turkish Manuscripts in the Staatsbibliothek -- 3 Şerīf, Sultan Ġavrī and the “Persians” -- 4 Some Remarks on Turkish Prose before the Tanẓīmāt Period -- 5 A Ġazel by Ḥasan oġlï (Unknown Poems in the Dīvān of Sultan Ġavrī) -- 6 The Pre-Wahhābī Fitna in Ottoman Cairo: 1711 -- 7 From the Evening Talks of Sultan Ġavrī -- 8 Ḥālet Efendi’s Second Audience with



Napoleon -- 9 Literary Activities in Mamluk Halls and Barracks -- 10 Languages of Turkish Poets -- 11 Karl Süssheim 1877-1947: On his Hundredth Birthday, June 21st 1878/1978 -- 12 Three Turkish Chroniclers in Ottoman Cairo -- 13 Literature in the Days of the Alphabet Change -- 14 The Cāmiʿ ül-meknūnāt: A Source of ʿĀlī from the Time of Sultan Süleymān -- 15 Two Turkish Bible Manuscripts in Leiden as Middle-Ottoman Linguistic Monuments -- 16 Romantic Emigrants in the Empire of Abdülhamid -- 17 Ṣāḥib-qırān and Mahdī: Turkish Expectations of the End of Time in the First Decade of the Rule of Süleymān -- 18 Political Genealogies in the Sixteenth Century -- 19 A Sixteenth-Century Turkish Apology for Islam: The Gurbetname-i Sultan Cem  -- 20 Glimpses of Turkish Saints: Another Look at Lamiʿi and Ottoman Biogra­phers -- 21 Public Opinion under Sultan Süleymân -- 22 Notes on ʿAruż in Turkish collections -- 23 The Sultan’s Prayer before Battle -- 24 Re-reading the Story of the Religious “Fitna” of 1711 -- 25 The Poem in the Chronicle: The Use of Poetry in Early Ottoman Historiography -- 26 ʿĀşıḳpaşazāde’s View of Women -- 27 Female Participation in Earlier Islamic Mysticism (9th to 16th Century) -- 28 Goethe and Diez in the year 1790 -- 29 On the Çırçıp: Yesterday and Today -- Publications -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

In Essays on Turkish Literature and History Barbara Flemming makes available essays partly previously published in German. They offer insights gained through decades of scholarship. Although the Ottoman period is central, a wide range is covered, including an early Turkish principality, Mamluk and Ottoman Egypt, and contemporary southeastern Turkey. The essays look into historical and political factors involved in the preoccupation with the world’s ending, into Muslim-Christian dialogue, the sultan’s prayer before battle, and the bilingualism of poets. Of particular interest are the sections on female participation in mysticism, on an anti-Sufi movement in Cairo, on the Ottoman capital’s appeal to collectors and emigrants (Diez, Süssheim, Böhlau), and on the far-reaching effects of alphabet change.



3.

Record Nr.

UNISA996390014503316

Autore

Bury Richard de <1287-1345.>

Titolo

Philobiblon Richardi Dunelmensis sive De amore librorum, et institutione bibliothecæ, tractatus pulcherrimus [[electronic resource] ] : Ex collatione cum varijs manuscriptis editio jam secunda; cui accessit appendix de manuscriptis Oxoniensibus. Omnia hæc, opera & studio T.I. Novi Coll. in alma Academia Oxoniensi socij

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxoniæ, : Excudebat Iosephus Barnesius, 1599

Descrizione fisica

[8], 62, [10] p

Altri autori (Persone)

JamesThomas <1573?-1629.>

Soggetti

Book collecting

Lingua di pubblicazione

Latino

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

T.I. = Thomas James.

Printer's ornament on t.p., headpieces, tailpieces, initials, printed marginalia.

Signatures: A-H⁴.

Page of ms. notes follows text.

Imperfect: lacks appendix ; pages have print show-through.

Reproduction of original in: Bodleian Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0113