Summing up that belief in the wake of Guillen’s impolitic comments, Politico’s Jonathan Allen declared that athletes should “just shut up” and play. Many criticize this transformation, insisting that athletes should play ball and keep quiet about anything else. Indeed, fans now expect their sports deities to embrace that new normal – and, as James shows, those deities are increasingly responding to the call. Such moves exemplify both personal courage and, as important, an America that has suddenly become politically engaged. Now, though, even carefully managed figures like James are weighing in on national controversies. James’ move best highlights the veering undercurrents.Īs the Bleacher Report’s Ryne Hodkowski noted, the NBA star for years mimicked Jordan and other 1990s-molded “corporate athletes who don’t say anything political in fear of losing a big-time contract.” Miami Marlins manager Ozzie Guillen (clumsily) highlighted the hypocrisy of an American government that at once embraces various dictators but shuns Cuba’s autocratic regime.Īnd, of course, LeBron James organized Miami Heat players into a hoodie-themed photo in solidarity with those demanding an investigation into the shooting of Trayvon Martin. The NFL players association has proudly supported public workers’ high profile fights. No matter the issue, sports are now involved.
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The story's manga-inspired art style grips readers, and its breakneck pace takes them on a ride that pays tribute to the great action movies and espionage thrillers of the past while also charting its own unique path through the modern comics landscape. In Zero Point, writer and artist Agustin Graham Nakamura combines the effortless slickness of Cowboy Bebop, the gritty action of Hard Boiled, and the pulpy joys of Steve McQueen into a singular, stylish vision of an assassin on the run. But when the job goes awry and his target is killed in front of his eyes, things get complicated, and the hunter finally learns what it's like to be the hunted. Zero Point is the first 3D 360 short film created exclusively for the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset. But when the job goes awry and his target is killed in front of his eyes, things get complicated, and the hunter finally learns what it's like to be the hunted Bird is a hitman doing one last job before getting out of the business entirely. Bird is a hitman doing one last job before getting out of the business entirely. Keep in mind this is written with only decolonial communists in mind: anyone not taking Marxism as their premise can simply ignore this, which is targeted at people who claim to uphold both Sakaist thought and Marxism-Leninism. The interpretations of decolonial thought are as numerous as they are vague, so for this post, I’ve decided to focus on a work specific enough to merit discussion. I believed this would be an opportune time to address J Sakai’s book Settlers, which has been extremely influential among communists in the US, to their detriment. This controversy has already been commented on by Comrade Rashid of the New Afrikan Black Panther Party. This post is written in English, in light of recent controversy regarding the US-based organization Black Hammer. Wench by Dolen Perkins-Valdez (Fiction)ġ0. Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America by Lori Tharps and Ayana Byrd (Nonfiction)ĩ. Ugly Ways by Tina McElroy Ansa (Fiction)Ĩ. One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia (Children’s Books)ħ. The Upper Room by Mary Monroe (Fiction)Ħ. Praisesong for the Widow by Paule Marshall (Fiction)ĥ. Sister Citizen by Melissa Harris Perry (Nonfiction)Ĥ. Krik! Krak! by Edwidge Danticat (Fiction)ģ. They are listed below in no particular order. She interviewed over 2,000 people to create a list of books by black women that everyone should read. So I was quite excited when I stumbled upon a list created by Clutch Magazine writer Tami Winfrey Harris. If it’s written by a black woman I’m even more excited to turn the pages. Being the nerdy black girl that I am, I’m always in search of a good book. But will she be able to stop Marie-Cécile and rescue her friend? With the help of historian and former World War II resistance fighter Audric Baillard, Alice learns the nature of the secret. Alice realizes that the labyrinth holds the key to a secret, and that a rich, powerful woman, Marie-Cécile de l'Oradore, is also after it. Then her best friend, who invited her to the archaeological dig, goes missing. When she recovers, a ring that she found, also with a labyrinth pattern on it, disappears. She falls into a trance-like state and has visions of a past life. In 2005 (the year the book was published), Alice Tanner, a volunteer at an archaeological dig in the south of France, stumbles into a cave and discovers two skeletons and some strange carvings in the pattern of a labyrinth on the wall. In Labyrinth, Kate Mosse tells the story of two courageous women, in two different times, and their efforts to guard a powerful secret against those who would use it for evil. "We shed light on the political climate and the history of the racist violence that the bomb attacks fell into." Twenty-two people were injured in the attack, four of them seriously. "In this way we shed light on the historical context in which the NSU was able to carry out its attacks and murders," explained the artist. He hopes it will be a "critical archive of migrant resistance." This is a very important element of this memorial," says Aminde. "Everyone is invited to produce films that can be seen by everyone: residents of the neighborhood where many people of foreign origin live, as well as schoolchildren and students. The artist has conceived his memorial as a project in which anyone can participate. "The films relate to the perspective of migrants," Aminde said. He planned to create a concrete floor slab mirroring the foundation of the building across the plaza where a bomb placed by right-wing extremist group National Socialist Underground (NSU) exploded on June 9, 2004, targeting the Turkish community.Īccording to the installation's design, anyone approaching the platform can see virtual walls grow out of it into the sky, on which they can watch short films which will play thanks to augmented reality via a smartphone app. It was to be the site of an ambitious memorial by Berlin-based artist Ulf Aminde. The former railway area in the Cologne neighborhood of Mülheim still stands empty. Simon Kurt Unsworth was born in Manchester in 1972 on a night when, despite extensive research, he can find no evidence of mysterious signs or portents. Books: Danse Macabre: Close Encounters with the Reaper (2012 - story) Expiration Date (2015 - story) Erin lives in Marblehead, Massachusetts with her husband. She has a degree in creative writing and literature from the Harvard University Extension School and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Southern Maine's Stonecoast MFA program. She is the co-editor of Futuredaze 2: Reprise with Nancy Holder and is also the co-editor of Geek Theater: 15 Plays by Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers. PREVIOUS CATALOG PAGE BOOK LIST NEXT CATALOG PAGEĮrin Underwood is a writer, columnist, and blogger. EDGE and Tesseract are imprints of Hades Publications, Inc. A row of palm trees silhouetted against the sun sent long strips of shadow along the ground. The long silvery strands covering her head itched where they lay along her back, so she bunched them in her hand and twisted to wring out the water.Ī tiny sound drew her gaze to the sandy place where liquid met solid. She flexed her webbed fingers and toes against the warm breeze. Pale birds gave shrill cries overhead as they circled, searching for their next meal or some shiny treasure to pluck for their collections. With a grunt, she heaved her spindly body onto a flat stone, worn smooth on top by the tide’s constant indecision of in and out. Soon, hundreds of square yellow eyes would blink to life beyond the trees. The glowing orb dropped toward the edge of the world and set the clouds aflame. As she swam to her favorite spot in the secluded bay, she took in the tangerine sky. Nixie burst through the surface of the water with a great splash and drew in a gulp of salted sea air. The brightness tilted, leaned and took aim for the next unmatched Mer in the family. The Pearl of Pau’maa let its love light shine, illuminating the ocean around Miki, Harmon and his brother. In less than six months, the book had been reprinted eight times and sold 74,000. The book was the first published novel by OGrady, with an initial print run of 6,000 hardback copies. Through scholarly articles, books, personal interviews and my own experiences, I will explore how these migrants transported a microcosm of their culture and cultural practices particular to their region to their new home in Mildura, in Victoria’s North‐West. Theyre a Weird Mob is a popular Australian comic novel written by John OGrady under the pseudonym 'Nino Culotta', the name of the main character of the book. However, this homeland was fabricated with crystallised memories and inhabited with behaviour patterns deriving from what theyīased on this premise, the aim of my arts practice‐based research is to investigate the experience of Calabrian migrants from the Aspromonte region of the province of Reggio Calabria (with a focus on the towns of Platì and Natile) who left Italy in the 1950s (in some cases earlier). Italian Australian scholar, Gerardo Papalia stated “immigrants themselves created their own little homeland within domestic walls. By clinging to their culture, it was a way of preserving it. Their new sites of settlement defined their sense of italianità1, as they maintained contact with other paesani, Calabrese and Italians. They placed importance on maintaining cultural attributes because of the belief that back in their place of origin, the same thing was happening. Like other recently arrived migrants following WWII, settlers from regional Calabria immersed themselves in the familiar and clung to the traditions and customs of their homeland. It may be said that families dispersed for social or political reasons to different parts of the globe were like satellites or capsules of culture, who then became the main custodians of a cultural preservation: where time more or less stood still. A number of variants of ATU 333 have been recorded in European oral traditions, and it has been suggested that the group may include tales from other regions, including Africa and East Asia. The study focuses on one of the most debated international types in the literature: ATU 333, ‘Little Red Riding Hood’. Here, these issues are addressed using phylogenetic methods that were originally developed to reconstruct evolutionary relationships among biological species, and which have been recently applied to a range of cultural phenomena. However, critics argue that folktale traditions are fundamentally fluid, and that most international types are artificial constructs. According to the ‘historic-geographic’ school, it is possible to classify similar tales into “international types” and trace them back to their original archetypes. Researchers have long been fascinated by the strong continuities evident in the oral traditions associated with different cultures. |