Healing Cultures: Art and Religion as Curative Practices in the Caribbean and its Diaspora

Healing Cultures: Art and Religion as Curative Practices in the Caribbean and its DiasporaThe Spanish expression la cultura cura (culture heals) is an affirmation of the potential healing power of a variety of cultural practices that together constitute the ethos of a people. What happens, however, when cultures themselves are in jeopardy? What are the "antidotes" or healing modalities for an ailing culture? Healing Cultures addresses these questions from a variety of disciplines anthropology, holistic folk traditions, literature, film,

the power of women is the power of the survivor

Appendices tell the story of African-American-owned banking and insurance companies and their status today

From the author of The Sound of Stars and The Kindred comes a YA space opera about a reincarnated god and a grumpy pilot on a mission to save a beloved space DJ and stop an intergalactic war

Publisher : African Tree Press (November 20

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New York Times bestselling author of Just Mercy and executive director of the Equal Justice InitiativeWinfred Rembert grew up in a family of Georgia field laborers and joined the Civil Rights Movement as a teenager

digi-culture and racism

He shows how nationalism begins as an impulse emanating "upwards" from the bottom of the social and economic spectrum and discusses the implications of this phenomenon for understanding democracy and nationalism

The grownups are supposed to have all the answers

whether at home with her family or at the prestigious Dupree Academy among Los Angeles’ elite