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The Agitator's Daughter: A Memoir of Four Generations of One Extraordinary African-American Family
During Reconstruction, Herschel V. Cashin was a radical republican legislator who championed black political enfranchisement throughout the South. His grandson, Dr. John L. Cashin, Jr., inherited that passion for social justice and formed an independent Democratic party to counter George Wallace's Dixiecrats, electing more blacks to office than in any Southern state. His "uppity" ways attracted many enemies. Twice the private plane Cashin owned and piloted was sabotaged. His dental office and boyhood home were taken by eminent domain. The IRS pursued him, as did the FBI. Ultimately his passions would lead to ruin and leave his daughter, Sheryll, wondering why he would risk so much. In following generations of Cashins through the eras of slavery, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, civil rights, and post-civil rights political struggles, Sheryll Cashin conveys how she came to embrace being an agitator's daughter with humor, honesty, and love. .
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Agitator: The Cinema of Takashi Miike
Fully-revised and updated edition of the best-selling guide to Japan’s most prolific and successful film director This second edition of Agitator features * a new and expanded 16-page color section * completely updated DVD information * several brand-new reviews of Takashi Miike films including Audition, Dead or Alive, Ichi the Killer, and Visitor Q * Takashi Miike’s own diary on the making of his controversial film Ichi the Killer, published in English for the first time ever * a career-spanning interview * ground-breaking, exhaustive and fully endorsed by Takashi Miike himself These films have amazed, stunned, delighted and shocked audiences the world over, garnering critical acclaim for their director. This is the definitive word on the most talked-about filmmaker of the decade. An essential purchase for anyone wanting to know where cinema is heading in the 21st century. -- Pete Tombs, Mondo Macabro. An impeccably-researched and exhaustive look at one of the most vital forces in international cinema right now. -- Ain’t It Cool News. An extensively researched, cinematically literate, highly welcome addition to the slim shelf of books on contemporary Japanese films. -- Cinemaya.
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Inside Agitators: White Southerners in the Civil Rights Movement
"With keen insight, Chappell argues that not only were white southerners far from solid in their commitment to segregation during the civil rights era, but that the movement actively exploited and widened their divisions to achieve both local victories and federal intervention." -- Mark Newman, Journal of American Studies "One of the many virtues of David Chappell's fascinating study is that he does not romanticize white southerners who were sympathetic toward the civil rights movement. Rather than depicting them simply as courageous dissenters, he shows that their motives for supporting civil rights reform were varied and complex -- a mixture of altruism, pragmatism, paternalism, guilt, and numerous other idiosyncratic sentiments." -- Clayborne Carson, Editor of the Papers of Martin Luther King Jr. "Chappell is to be commended for struggling with hard questions about historical causation." -- Robert J. Norrell, Journal of American History .
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Outside Agitator: Jon Daniels and the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama
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Vincalis the Agitator
The Hars Ticlarim is a miraculous place of wondrous beauty based on a science of sorcery called Dragon Magic. But this magic draws its power from the agony of slaves who are killed for sorcerous fuel. And for three thousand years, no one has dared question this inhuman crueltyuntil now. Wraith, a boy with uncanny power, tries to start a revolution. Solander, his friend, believes he had discovered a totally new form of magic. And then theres Luercas, a sadistic noble who will commit any crime that furthers his ambition. All three are clever, resolute and driven. For they challenge the rulers of globe-spanning power that has endured for milleniarulers who will do anything to stay in power forever.
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