Ashraf H A Rushdy: 4 books
by Ashraf H. A. Rushdy
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
After observing the varying reactions to the 1998 death of James Byrd Jr. in Texas, called a lynching by some, denied by others, Ashraf Rushdy determined that to comprehend this event he needed to understand the long history of lynching in the United States. In this meticulously researched and accessibly...
Remembering Generations
Race and Family in Contemporary African American Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
Slavery is America's family secret, a partially hidden phantom that continues to haunt our national imagination. Remembering Generations explores how three contemporary African American writers artistically represent this notion in novels about the enduring effects of slavery on the descendants of...
Diasporas, Cultures of Mobilities, ‘Race' 1
Diasporas and Cultures of Migrations
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
This volume examines the evolution of the concept of diaspora since the advent of Diaspora Studies in the 90s, specifically vis-à-vis other concepts: transnationalism, cosmopolitanism, creolization. The essays depict the discontinuities of diasporic experience, but also its ongoing negotiations....
After Injury
A Historical Anatomy of Forgiveness, Resentment, and Apology
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
After Injury explores the practices of forgiveness, resentment, and apology in three key moments when they were undergoing a dramatic change. The three moments are early Christian history (for forgiveness), the shift from British eighteenth-century to Continental nineteenth-century philosophers (for...