Results for "Whitaker, Mark"

Mark Whitaker “writes with the eye of a journalist and ear of a poet” (The Boston Globe) to tell the story of the momentous year that redefined the civil rights movement as a new sense of Black identity, expressed in the slogan “Black Power,” challenged the nonviolent philosophy of Martin Luther Kin... Read More about Saying It Loud: 1966—The Year Black Power Challenged the Civil Rights Movement

Mark Whitaker “writes with the eye of a journalist and ear of a poet” (The Boston Globe) to tell the story of the momentous year that redefined the civil rights movement as a new sense of Black identity, expressed in the slogan “Black Power,” challenged the nonviolent philosophy of Martin Luther Kin... Read More about Saying It Loud: 1966—The Year Black Power Challenged the Civil Rights Movement

A brilliant, lively account of the Black Renaissance that burst forth in Pittsburgh from the 1920s through the 1950s—“Smoketown will appeal to anybody interested in black history and anybody who loves a good story…terrific, eminently readable…fascinating” (The Washington Post). Today black Pittsburg... Read More about Smoketown: The Untold Story of the Other Great Black Renaissance

This book presents an analysis of how the economic Korean Miracle spread into the cultural "Korean Wave" (Hallyu). First only in Asian countries and then around the world, the rising popularity of the Korean Wave continued within the pandemic--despite or even because of policies of digital lockdowns... Read More about The Korean Wave in a Post-Pandemic World: Bts, Cosmax and Squid Game

In a dramatic, moving work, Mark Whitaker, award-winning journalist, sets out to trace the story of what happened to his parents, a fascinating but star-crossed interracial couple, and arrives at a new understanding of the family dramas that shaped their lives—and his own.In a dramatic, moving work ... Read More about My Long Trip Home: A Family Memoir

Environmental sociologist Mark D. Whitaker is a comparative historical researcher on the politics of environmental degradation and sustainability. Toward A Bioregional State is his novel approach to development and to sustainability. He proposes that instead of sustainability being an issue of popul... Read More about Toward a Bioregional State: A Series of Letters About Political Theory and Formal Institutional Design in the Era of Sustainability