1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996395494703316

Autore

Cary John <d. 1720?>

Titolo

A proposal to raise 150000l. per annum; and to give employment to the poor [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[London?, : s.n., 1710?]

Descrizione fisica

1 sheet ([1] p.)

Soggetti

Debts, public - England

Poor - Employment

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Signed: John Cary.

Reproduction of original in the British Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0018



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910967372103321

Autore

Baker Houston A., Jr., <1943->

Titolo

Betrayal : How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Era / / Houston Baker Jr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Columbia University Press, , [2008]

©2008

ISBN

9786612872051

9781282872059

1282872052

9780231511445

0231511442

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (266 p.)

Disciplina

323.1196073

Soggetti

African American intellectuals -- Political activity

Civil rights movements -- United States

African American intellectuals - Political activity - United States

African Americans - Civil rights

Civil rights movements

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Little Africa -- Jail: Southern Detention to Global Liberation -- Friends Like These: Race and Neoconservatism -- After Civil Rights: The Rise of Black Public Intellectuals -- Have Mask, Will Travel: Centrists from the Ivy League -- A Capital Fellow from Hoover: Shelby Steele -- Reflections of a First Amendment Trickster: Stephen Carter -- Man Without Connection: John McWhorter -- American Myth: Illusions of Liberty and Justice for All -- Prison: Colored Bodies, Private Profit -- Conclusion: What Then Must We Do? -- Notes -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Houston A. Baker Jr. condemns those black intellectuals who, he believes, have turned their backs on the tradition of racial activism in America. These individuals choose personal gain over the interests of the black majority, whether they are espousing neoconservative



positions that distort the contours of contemporary social and political dynamics or abandoning race as an important issue in the study of American literature and culture. Most important, they do a disservice to the legacy of W. E. B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King Jr., and others who have fought for black rights.In the literature, speeches, and academic and public behavior of some black intellectuals in the past quarter century, Baker identifies a "hungry generation" eager for power, respect, and money. Baker critiques his own impoverished childhood in the "Little Africa" section of Louisville, Kentucky, to understand the shaping of this new public figure. He also revisits classical sites of African American literary and historical criticism and critique. Baker devotes chapters to the writing and thought of such black academic superstars as Cornel West, Michael Eric Dyson, and Henry Louis Gates Jr.; Hoover Institution senior fellow Shelby Steele; Yale law professor Stephen Carter; and Manhattan Institute fellow John McWhorter. His provocative investigation into their disingenuous posturing exposes what Baker deems a tragic betrayal of King's legacy.Baker concludes with a discussion of American myth and the role of the U.S. prison-industrial complex in the "disappearing" of blacks. Baker claims King would have criticized these black intellectuals for not persistently raising their voices against a private prison system that incarcerates so many men and women of color. To remedy this situation, Baker urges black intellectuals to forge both sacred and secular connections with local communities and rededicate themselves to social responsibility. As he sees it, the mission of the black intellectual today is not to do great things but to do specific, racially based work that is in the interest of the black majority.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910954136803321

Titolo

Sephardic Jewry and Mizrahi Jews / / edited by Peter Y Medding

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Published for the Institute by Oxford University Press, 2007

ISBN

0-19-045087-8

1-281-52933-8

9786611529338

0-19-971250-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (364 p.)

Collana

Studies in contemporary Jewry, , 0740-8625 ; ; 22

Altri autori (Persone)

MeddingPeter

Disciplina

305.892/4

Soggetti

Sephardim

Sephardim - Israel

Sephardim - Israel - Political activity

Jewish women in literature

Women immigrants in literature

Sephardim - Religious life

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"The Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, the Herbrew University of Jerusalem."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Symposium; Review Essays; Book Reviews; Biography, History, and the Social Sciences; Language, Literature, and the Arts; Religion, Thought, and Education; Zionism, Israel, and the Middle East

Sommario/riassunto

Symposium: Sephardic Jewry and Mizrahi Jews. ""Sephardic and Oriental"" Jews in Israel and Western Countries, Sergio Della Pergola (Hebrew University). Jews of Muslim Lands in the Modern Period, Michel Abitbol (Hebrew University). The Brief Career of Prosper Cohen, Yaron Tsur (Tel Aviv University). From Arab Diaspora to Eretz Israel, Doli Benhabib (Open University of Israel). The Sephardic Halakhic Tradition in the 20th Century, Zvi Zohar (Bar-Ilan University). ""Zikui Harabim"", Nissim Leon (Bar-Ilan University). Studying Haredi Mizrahim in Israel, Kimmy Caplan (Bar-llan University). Breaking