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In Being Apart, LaRose Parris draws on traditional and radical Western theory to emphasize how nineteenth- and twentieth-century Africana thinkers explored the two principal existential themes of being and freedom prior to existentialism's rise to prominence in postwar European thought. Emphasizing diasporic connections among the works of authors from the United States, the Caribbean, and the African continent, Parris argues that writers such as David Walker, Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. Du Bois, C. L. R. James, Frantz Fanon, and Kamau Brathwaite refute what she has termed the tripartite crux of Western canonical discourse: the erasure of ancient Africa from the narrative of Western civilization, the dehumanization of the African and the creation of the Negro slave, and the denial of chattel slavery's role in the growth of Western capitalism and empire. These writers' ontological and phenomenological ruminations not only challenge the assigned historical and epistemological marginality of Africana people but also defy current canonical demarcations. Charting the rise of Eurocentrism through a genealogy of eighteenth-century Enlightenment racial science while foregrounding the lived Africana experience of racism in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Parris shows that racist ideology is intrinsic to modern Western thought rather than being an ideological aberration.

African literature (English) --- Caribbean literature (English) --- American literature --- African diaspora in literature --- Pan-Africanism in literature --- Passive resistance in literature --- Existentialism in literature --- Black authors --- History and criticism --- History and criticism. --- African American authors --- African influences

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En diciembre de 1977, cuatro mujeres mineras se declararon en huelga de hambre exigiendo al gobierno del general Banzer la amnistía general para los perseguidos políticos. Tres semanas después, alrededor de 1200 huelguistas se habían sumado al movimiento y crecían las huelgas mineras y fabriles, las manifestaciones de apoyo, la participación de la Iglesia. Finalmente, el gobierno tuvo que decretar la amnistía exigida: los exiliados podían retornar al país, los prisioneros políticos fueron liberados, los mineros injustamente despedidos podían volver a sus fuentes de trabajo. La dictadura minada intenta explicar el surgimiento, desarrollo y excepcional desenlace de la resistencia impulsada por las cuatro mujeres mineras. Fue excepcional por la respuesta nacional que motivó y por los resultados que obtuvo: logró minar la férrea dictadura instalada en el país desde 1971. Este libro no sólo es un aporte a la historiografía boliviana sobre ese acontecimiento, sino también contribuye a comprender el papel de las resistencias civiles en los procesos de retorno a la democracia en América Latina.

Hunger strikes --- Miners' spouses --- Government, Resistance to --- History --- Political activity --- Civil resistance --- Non-resistance to government --- Resistance to government --- Political science --- Political violence --- Insurgency --- Nonviolence --- Revolutions --- Miners' wives --- Spouses --- Strikes, Hunger --- Fasting --- Passive resistance --- Bolivie --- mine --- expédition scientifique --- travail --- femmes --- syndicalisme --- grève --- violence --- situation politique --- Political resistance