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  • I Can Tie My Shoes

    by Paul Tomlin ...
    The book is a memoir of an event in the life of a young child named Paul. It all started with his baptism. The priest asked Paul if he would be a soldier for God. Paul had one problemhe could not tie the laces on his shoes. One sunny summer midmorning day, he had a vision. The only soldier he knew was a statue in the center of town, and at the same time, he pictured God's hands showing him how to ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Jesus and the Streets

    The Loci of Causality for the Intra-Racial Gender Academic Achievement Gap in Black Urban America and the United Kingdom

    by Paul C. Mocombe, Carol Tomlin, Victoria Showunmi ...
    Against John Ogbu’s oppositional culture theory and Claude Steele’s disidentification hypothesis, Jesus and the Streets offers a more appropriate structural Marxian hermeneutical framework for contextualizing, conceptualizing, and evaluating the locus of causality for the black male/female intra-racial gender academic achievement gap in the United States of America and the United Kingdom. Positing ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • The Oppositional Culture Theory

    by Paul C. Mocombe, Carol Tomlin ...
    Mocombe and Tomlin explore the black/white achievement gap in America and Great Britain, gaining understanding through black bourgeois living and the labeled pathologies of the black underclass. Within the class dualism of capitalist social relations, blacks throughout the Diaspora attempt to exist in the world. Furthermore, blacks must construct their identities and be in the world by choosing ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • The African-Americanization of the Black Diaspora in Globalization or the Contemporary Capitalist World-System

    by Paul C. Mocombe, Carol Tomlin, Christine Callender ...
    This work sets forth the argument that in the age of (neoliberal) globalization, black people around the world are ever-so slowly becoming “African-Americanized”. They are integrated and embourgeoised in the racial-class dialectic of black America by the material and ideological influences of the Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism as promulgated throughout the diaspora by two social ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

  • Language, Literacy, and Pedagogy in Postindustrial Societies

    The Case of Black Academic Underachievement

    by Paul C. Mocombe, Carol Tomlin ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Education
    In postindustrial economies such as the United States and Great Britain, the black/white achievement gap is perpetuated by an emphasis on language and language skills, with which black American and black British-Caribbean youths often struggle. This work analyzes the nature of educational pedagogy in the contemporary capitalist world-system under American hegemony. Mocombe and Tomlin interpret the ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Characterisation and Design of Tissue Scaffolds

    Edited by Paul Tomlins ...
    Series series Woodhead Publishing Series in Biomaterials
    Characterisation and Design of Tissue Scaffolds offers scientists a useful guide on the characterization of tissue scaffolds, detailing what needs to be measured and why, how such measurements can be made, and addressing industrially important issues. Part one provides readers with information on the fundamental considerations in the characterization of tissue scaffolds, while other sections ... Read more

    $233.99 USD

  • Race and Class Distinctions Within Black Communities

    A Racial-Caste-in-Class

    Edited by Paul Camy Mocombe, Carol Tomlin, Cecile Wright ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Race and Ethnicity
    This book offers both a philosophical and sociological model for understanding the constitution of identity in general, and black social identity in particular, without reverting to either a social or racial deterministic view of identity construction. Using a variant of structuration theory (phenomenological structuralism) this work, against contemporary postmodern and post-structural theories, ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

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    In the Matter of Nat Turner

    A Speculative History

    by Christopher Tomlins ...
    Narrated by Paul Boehmer ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 47 min

    In 1831 Virginia, Nat Turner led a band of Southampton County slaves in a rebellion that killed fifty-five whites, mostly women and children. After more than two months in hiding, Turner was captured, and quickly convicted and executed. In the Matter of Nat Turner penetrates the historical caricature of Turner as befuddled mystic and self-styled Baptist preacher to recover the haunting persona of ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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