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A Home Away from Home examines the significance of Caribbean American mutual aid societies and benevolent associations to the immigrant experience, particularly their implications for the formation of a Pan-Caribbean American identity and Black diasporic politics.At the turn of the twentieth century, New York City exploded with the establishment of mutual aid societies and benevolent associations. Caribbean immigrants, especially women, eager to find their place in a bustling new world, created these organizations, including the West Indian Benevolent Association of New York City, founded in 1884. They served as forums for discussions on Caribbean American affairs, hosted cultural activities, and provided newly arrived immigrants with various forms of support, including job and housing assistance, rotating lines of credit, help in the naturalization process, and its most popular function—sickness and burial assistance. In examining the number of these organizations, their membership, and the functions they served, Tyesha Maddox argues that mutual aid societies not only fostered a collective West Indian ethnic identity among immigrants from specific islands, but also strengthened kinship networks with those back home in the Caribbean. Especially important to these processes were Caribbean women such as Elizabeth Hendrickson, co-founder of the American West Indian Ladies' Aid Society in 1915 and the Harlem Tenants' League in 1928.Immigrant involvement in mutual aid societies also strengthened the belief that their own fate was closely intertwined with the social, economic, and political welfare of the Black international community. A Home Away from Home demonstrates how Caribbean American mutual aid societies and benevolent associations in many ways became proto-Pan-Africanist organizations

Kittens in Context -- "I've Heard People on TikTok Love This": Attention as Materiality and Looking Relation -- Beyond Doomscrolling in an Internet of Cute -- "You Can't Buy Happiness, But You Can Rescue It": Neoliberal Pets and Animals -- Feels Good, Man: Collisions, Collusions, and Cloaks in Pet and Animal Social Media -- Nature is Healing, We are the Virus: Beyond Signifiers.

In the optimistic years preceding Federation in 1901, the Melbourne-based Australian Church emerged as a progressive Christian movement to serve a brand-new nation. Bringing together leading scholars, this volume celebrates the church's radicalism, while taking account of debates and obstacles on the path to social reform.

Part I. Challenges and Opportunities. Challenges. Legal and political context for the future of procurement law -- European Commission Draft Withdrawal Agreement and procurement law -- Losing access to EU online tools, universal classification systems and other guidance -- Reduction of access to procurement markets -- Opportunities. Potential trading models and their impact on UK procurement -- Favouring national suppliers and the 'Buy British' campaign -- Potential revisions of the procurement regime -- The future of procurement law -- PART II: Key legislation and recommended reading -- Annex. Summary dashboard -- Key pieces of legislation.

The study o f African history as an academic discipline is a rather new field and one that still has its detractors both w ithin and outside academics. This collection o f articles highlights for students and scholars the modern era in African history. It brings together published research on the colonial era in Africa, an era relatively brief but one that sawdramatic change in African societies.

Intro -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Line -- 3. The Parkers' World -- 4. Border Justice -- 5. Elizabeth's Story -- 6. Baltimore -- 7. Legal Justice -- 8. Freedom -- 9. Afterward -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

"Saving Stalin's Imperial City is a story of preservation, restoration, and commemoration in Leningrad during and after World War II. It is a history of the successes and failures in historic preservation and of Leningraders' determination to preserve the memory of the terrible siege the city had survived. The book stresses the counterintuitive nature of Stalinist policies, which allocated scarce wartime resources to save historic monuments from the tsarist and imperial past when the very existence of the Soviet state was threatened, and again after the war, when housing, hospitals, and schools needed to be rebuilt. While not all monuments were safe from destruction, the state's ideological move toward promoting Soviet patriotism led to policies that promoted heritage preservation, especially after Germany systematically sought to destroy monuments as a means of erasing evidence of Russian history and culture. When the war ended, Leningrad was at the forefront of a concerted restoration effort, fueled by commemorations that glorified the city's wartime experience, encouraged civic pride, and mobilized residents to restore their hometown. For Leningrad, the restoration of monuments and commemorations of the siege were intimately intertwined, served similar purposes, and were mutually reinforcing"--Provided by publisher

In Australia's public schools, students are now routinely exposed to evangelism from very conservative Christian groups. Marion Maddox uncovers the surprising impact of these groups on once secular public schooling, and the ways in which governments have been persuaded to support their cause