Claims to Memory

Claims to MemoryWhy do the people of the French Caribbean still continue to be haunted by the memory of their slave past more than one hundred and fifty years after the abolition of slavery? What process led to the divorce of their collective memory of slavery and emancipation from France's portrayal of these historical phenomena? How are Martinicans and Guadeloupeans today transforming the silences of the past into historical and cultural manifestations rooted in

and widely acclaimed hypertext fiction writer Michael Joyce weaves an evocative and provocative set of brief essays and short parable-like fictions into a compelling collection of meditations on how technology and new media affect our culture and everyday lives

The average life expectancy of a male born on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota today is somewhere in the mid-40s‚the lowest life expectancy of all peoples not only in the United States but the entire Western Hemisphere

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This book identifies the meaning of an authentically democratic constitution and the civility required of democratic citizens

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Sees Rousseau as the father of Counter-Enlightenment thought

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The Four Just Men (1905) is a political thriller by Edgar Wallace

providing detailed analyses and a synthetic overview of a seasonal encampment from this early period in the evolution of desert pastoral societies

Kathryn Troy offers a new layer of understanding to the prevalence of mystically styled Indians in American visual and popular culture

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Stanton sought to provide an updated commentary on the Bible that would highlight passages allowing for an interpretation of scripture harmonious with the cause of the women’s rights movement