Franklin Chang Diaz In Space (Houghton Mifflin Vocabulary Readers)

Children's Books

Patricia West

Literature & Fiction

Houghton/Mifflin

Where is Blackbeard's Ship? (Houghton Mifflin Vocabulary Readers, Level 4, Theme 1.3)

Holt/McDougal

The Aquarian Book Of Change

Red Dragon Press, Wilmot, Wi

Kimathi Mohammed, a Michigan based activist who was a native of Savannah, Georgia deserves to be recognized as among the most original political theorists of the Black Power movement in the United States. "Organization & Spontaneity," originally published in 1974, was a response to key contradictions of the late 1960s and early 1970s Black freedom movement, manifested in the Black Panther Party and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers. In contrast to many political thinkers of the Civil Rights and Black Power era, Mohammed's work emphasized the self-organization of ordinary African Americans and their liberating, self-directed activism. Mohammed placed forward his critique of would-be Black vanguards at a time when most prominent Black Power activists--even the socialist advocates among them--were beginning to embrace electoral politics and systems of patronage which would ultimately suppress any independent Black political power. "Organization & Spontaneity" anticipated new obsta

Organization and Spontaneity: The Theory of the Vanguard Party and its Application to the Black Movement in the US Today

Politics & Social Sciences

Matthew Quest

Kimathi Mohammed

Modibo Kadalie

Social Sciences

On Our Own Authority! Publishing

Domesticating History: The Political Origins of America's House Museums

History

Americas

Smithsonian Institution Press

<p>Celebrating the lives of famous men and women, historic house museums showcase restored rooms and period furnishings, and portray in detail their former occupants' daily lives. But behind the gilded molding and curtain brocade lie the largely unknown, politically charged stories of how the homes were first established as museums. Focusing on George Washington’s Mount Vernon, Louisa May Alcott’s Orchard House, Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, and the Booker T. Washington National Monument, Patricia West shows how historic houses reflect less the lives and times of their famous inhabitants than the political pressures of the eras during which they were transformed into museums.</p>

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Smithsonian Books

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