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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “katrina m powell”
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  • Performing Autobiography

    Narrating a Life as Activism

    by Katrina M. Powell ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Performing Auto/biography*: Narrating a Life as Activism* analyzes the rhetorical strategies employed in five authors’ auto/biographical texts, examining their representations of identities and the public implications of writing individual identity. Exploring the ways race, class, culture, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality might affect the form(s) in which writers choose to write (e.g., memoir, ... Read more

    $102.99 CAD

  • Identity and Power in Narratives of Displacement

    by Katrina M. Powell ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication
    In this book, Powell examines the ways that identities are constructed in displacement narratives based on cases of eminent domain, natural disaster, and civil unrest, attending specifically to the rhetorical strategies employed as barriers and boundaries intersect with individual lives. She provides a unique method to understand how the displaced move within accepted and subversive discourses, ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Beginning Again

    Stories of Movement and Migration in Appalachia

    Edited by Katrina M. Powell ...
    Series series Voice of Witness
    Appalachia has been a place of movement and migration—for individuals, families, and entire communities—for centuries.Beginning Againbrings together twelve narratives of refugees, migrants, and generations-long residents that explore complex journeys of resettlement. In their stories, Appalachia—despite how it’s popularly portrayed—is not simply a region of poverty and strife populated only by ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • "Answer at Once"

    Letters of Mountain Families in Shenandoah National Park, 1934-1938

    Edited by Katrina M. Powell ...
    With the Commonwealth of Virginia's Public Park Condemnation Act of 1928, the state surveyed for and acquired three thousand tracts of land that would become Shenandoah National Park. The Commonwealth condemned the homes of five hundred families so that their land could be "donated" to the federal government and placed under the auspices of the National Park Service. Prompted by the condemnation ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Me Too, Feminist Theory, and Surviving Sexual Violence in the Academy

    by Laura A. Gray-Rosendale, Lee Skallerup Bessette, Hélène Bigras-Dutrisac, Lynn Z. Bloom, Ari Burford, Katherine Chelsea, Courtney Cox, Sally J. Kenney, Marissa Korbel, Melinda A. Mills0, Donna L. Potts1, Katrina M. Powell2, Tanya Serisier3, Lena Ziegler4 ...
    Powerfully written and theoretically grounded, Me Too, Feminist Theory, and Surviving Sexual Violence in the Academy collects a range of perspectives from sexual assault survivors with backgrounds in academia. The contributors in this collection connect their experiences of sexual violence to their research and work within the academy as well as their lives outside of it. Contributors analyze the ... Read more

    $44.99 CAD

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  • Reel to Real

    Race, Sex and Class at the Movies

    by bell hooks ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    Movies matter – that is the message of Reel to Real, bell hooks’ classic collection of essays on film. They matter on a personal level, providing us with unforgettable moments, even life-changing experiences and they can confront us, too, with the most profound social issues of race, sex and class. Here bell hooks – one of America’s most celebrated and thrilling cultural critics – talks back to ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Something Lost, Something Gained

    Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty

    by Hillary Rodham Clinton ...
    What would it be like to sit down for an impassioned, entertaining conversation with Hillary Clinton? In Something Lost, Something Gained, Hillary offers her candid views of love, politics, liberty, democracy, leadership, the threats we face, and the future within our reach. Now with a new afterword!In Something Lost, Something Gained, former First Lady Hillary Clinton describes the strength she ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • Stolen Childhood

    Slave Youth in Nineteenth-Century America

    by Wilma King ...
    Series series Blacks in the Diaspora
    An updated edition of the classic study that took "an enormous step toward filling some of the voids in the literature of slavery" ( The Washington Post Book World).One of the most important books published on slave society, Stolen Childhood focuses on the millions of children and youth enslaved in 19th-century America. This enlarged and revised edition reflects the abundance of new scholarship ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Michelle Obama

    A Life

    by Peter Slevin ...
    This is the inspiring story of a modern American icon, the first comprehensive account of the life and times of Michelle Obama.With disciplined reporting and a storyteller’s eye for revealing detail, Peter Slevin follows Michelle to the White House from her working-class childhood on Chicago’s largely segregated South Side. He illuminates her tribulations at Princeton University and Harvard Law ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Original Black Elite

    Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era

    by Elizabeth Dowling Taylor ...
    New York Times–Bestselling Author: "A compelling biography of Daniel Murray and the group the writer-scholar W.E.B. DuBois called 'The Talented Tenth.'" —Patricia Bell-Scott, National Book Award nominee and author of The Firebrand and the First LadyIn this outstanding cultural biography, the author of A Slave in the White House chronicles a critical yet overlooked chapter in American history: the ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Black Looks

    Race and Representation

    by bell hooks ...
    In the critical essays collected in Black Looks, bell hooks interrogates old narratives and argues for alternative ways to look at blackness, black subjectivity, and whiteness. Her focus is on spectatorship—in particular, the way blackness and black people are experienced in literature, music, television, and especially film—and her aim is to create a radical intervention into the way we talk ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD

  • Brown

    What Being Brown in the World Today Means (to Everyone)

    by Kamal Al-Solaylee ...
    Winner of the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political WritingFinalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Non-fiction and the Trillium Book AwardA Globe and Mail, National Post**, Toronto Life****, Walrus****, CBC Books, Chatelaine****, Hill Times****, 49th Shelf and Writers’ Trust Best Book of the Year**With the urgency and passion of Ta-Nehisi Coates (Between the World and Me), th... ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD