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Ella Baker (1903-1986) was an influential African American civil rights and human rights activist. For five decades, she worked behind the scenes with people in vulnerable communities to catalyze social justice leadership. Her steadfast belief in the power of ordinary people to create change continues to inspire social justice activists around the world. This book describes a case study that translates Ella Baker's community engagement philosophy into a catalytic leadership praxis, which others can adapt for their work. Catalytic leadership is a concrete set of communication practices for social justice leadership produced in equitable partnership with, instead of on, communities. The case centers the voices of African American teenage girls who were living in a segregated neighborhood of an affluent college town and became part of a small collective of college students, parents, university faculty, and community activists learning leadership in the spirit of Ella Baker.

Community leadership --- African American women --- African American leadership --- Social justice --- Social conditions. --- Ella Baker Women's Center for Leadership and Community Activism.

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In Canada, a woman is killed by her intimate partner every six days. Alberta has one of the highest rates of domestic violence in the country. Starting in the 1970s, Alberta women's shelters have assisted women in crisis. Much more than a safe place to sleep, shelters work to prevent violence through education and training, connect people and communities, and support the complex needs of survivors through a multitude of services. We Need to Do This is the story of Alberta women's shelters. Based on dozens of in-depth interviews, it traces the evolution of a progressive social movement in a traditionally conservative province. These are the stories of women whose voices may otherwise never have been heard: entry-level workers at fledgling shelters battling the assumption that their facilities would create crime, small-town shelter directors forced to self-censor or lose communityand financialsupport, Indigenous women fighting to serve their sisters in Indigenous spaces. Beginning with the women who founded the first shelters, and continuing through the establishment of the Alberta Council of Women's Shelters to the present day, We Need to Do This is a story of hope and survival for the women's shelter movement and for the mothers, sisters, aunts, cousins, and daughters it continues to serve.

Women's shelters --- Abused women --- Feminists --- Women --- History. --- Services for --- Social conditions. --- alberta. --- canada. --- community activism. --- domestic disputes. --- domestic violence. --- feminism. --- gender based violence. --- history. --- intimate partner violence. --- violence intervention. --- violence prevention. --- violence response. --- women. --- women's safety. --- women's shelters.

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In her provocative new book Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music, Nadine Hubbs looks at how class and gender identity play out in one of America's most culturally and politically charged forms of popular music. Skillfully weaving historical inquiry with an examination of classed cultural repertoires and close listening to country songs, Hubbs confronts the shifting and deeply entangled workings of taste, sexuality, and class politics. In Hubbs's view, the popular phrase "I'll listen to anything but country" allows middle-class Americans to declare inclusive "omnivore" musical tastes with one crucial exclusion: country, a music linked to low-status whites. Throughout Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music, Hubbs dissects this gesture, examining how provincial white working people have emerged since the 1970's as the face of American bigotry, particularly homophobia, with country music their audible emblem. Bringing together the redneck and the queer, Hubbs challenges the conventional wisdom and historical amnesia that frame white working folk as a perpetual bigot class. With a powerful combination of music criticism, cultural critique, and sociological analysis of contemporary class formation, Nadine Hubbs zeroes in on flawed assumptions about how country music models and mirrors white working-class identities. She particularly shows how dismissive, politically loaded middle-class discourses devalue country's manifestations of working-class culture, politics, and values, and render working-class acceptance of queerness invisible. Lucid, important, and thought-provoking, this book is essential reading for students and scholars of American music, gender and sexuality, class, and pop culture.

Homosexuality and popular music --- Country music --- Popular music and homosexuality --- Popular music --- Country and western music --- Hillbilly music --- Western and country music --- Folk music --- Old-time music --- Social aspects --- History and criticism. --- Country music -- History and criticism.. --- Country music -- Social aspects -- United States.. --- Homosexuality and popular music -- United States. --- american bigotry. --- anthropologist. --- awareness. --- class and gender identity. --- class formation. --- community activism. --- country music and homosexuality. --- cultural anthropology. --- historical inquiry. --- homophobia. --- lgbt. --- lgbtqia rights leader. --- middle-class americans. --- musical criticism. --- politically charged music. --- popular music. --- sexual identity. --- social activist. --- sociological analysis. --- working class bigot.

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Black communities have been making major contributions to Europe's social and cultural life and landscapes for centuries. However, their achievements largely remain unrecognized by the dominant societies, as their perspectives are excluded from traditional modes of marking public memory. For the first time in European history, leading Black scholars and activists examine this issue - with first-hand knowledge of the eight European capitals in which they live. Highlighting existing monuments, memorials, and urban markers they discuss collective narratives, outline community action, and introduce people and places relevant to Black European history, which continues to be obscured today.

HISTORY / Europe / General. --- Afro-German. --- Afro-Italian. --- Black Amsterdam. --- Black Belgium. --- Black Berlin. --- Black British. --- Black Community. --- Black Europe. --- Black Germans. --- Black Italian. --- Black Knowledge. --- Black London. --- Black Paris. --- Black Rome. --- Black Warsaw. --- Blakc Copenhagen. --- Colonialism. --- Community Activism. --- Cultural History. --- European History. --- History of the 20th Century. --- History. --- Memorials. --- Memory Culture. --- Monuments. --- Plaques. --- Post-colonialism. --- Public Memory. --- Racism. --- Society. --- Statues. --- Urban History. --- Black people --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture. --- Black people. --- Europeans --- Race discrimination. --- Urban Black people. --- Monuments --- Social life and customs. --- Europe. --- Personnes noires --- Histoire