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• Overview of Puberty Rites for Girls-- Puberty Rites for Girls Among the Vatsonga-- Meanings, Taboos & Responses Related to a Girls First Menses-- The Vukhomba Initiation Process-- The Final Vukhomba Rituals-- The Vukhomba Rite in Relation to Sexuality Education-- Index.
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This book is based on a study entitled Puberty Rites for Girls (Vukhomba) in the Northern Province of South Africa: Implications for Womens Health and Health Promotion, which was conducted in the Limpopo Province of South Africa. It was a qualitative study conducted among the Vatsonga in the rural villages of the Limpopo Province to provide a comprehensive and holistic view of the vukhomba rite of passage. Ethnography was used as a strategy to discover the nature, attributes, characteristics, and meaning of the vukhomba. In total, the author spent one year and six months in the participating villages collecting data. Data collection was conducted through participant observation, focus group interviews, key informant interviews, individual interviews, pictures and audio-visual materials. The author spent a total of four weeks in each village, observing puberty rites at different times and conducting different interviews. This enabled her to closely observe the participants, their roles in the initiation and the activities within the rite. After completing the vukhomba rite, semi-structured interviews with the newly initiated girl made it possible to examine the initiates views about the rite. Focus group discussions were held with initiated women, initiated girls and vukhomba elders, in which they shared their views and beliefs about the vukhomba rite and related issues. Key informant interviews conducted with traditional leaders, the vukhomba supervisors, life orientation teachers and religious leaders added another dimension to the understanding of the vukhomba rite. Lastly, feedback workshops were conducted in each village to afford the vukhomba rite participants an opportunity to verify and make inputs on the analysis, interpretation and findings about the rite. The corrections and additional information gained through the workshops were incorporated. This book presents a critical analysis of the rite in relation to puberty rites in other cultures and nations.
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• Dear Old Morris Brown / Robert E. James
• Proud past, Challenging Present, Uncertain future / Andrew Feiler
• Photographs
• A matter of relevance: History, memory, and the future of historically black colleges and universities / Pellom McDaniels III
• Discursive narrative: Deserted Spaces, dubious Times / Amalia K. Amaki
• Afterword / Loretta Parham.

This gathering of sixty images, along with the essays that frame them, gives us a new way to think about the too often troubled status of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). The bell in the clock tower at Atlanta's Morris Brown College bears an inscription about the ideal of educational access, that it be "without regard to sex, race, or color." Yet most of the Morris Brown campus has lain silent for more than a decade. Established in 1881, it was all but shut down in 2002 after years of fiscal hardship were capped by a mismanagement scandal. Pride stillruns high among its alumni, however, and its current leadership vows to revive the school. Meanwhile, as Andrew Feiler's stirring photos show, Morris Brown is literally falling apart. In the spirit of those photographers who have documented the physical decline of our valued institutions-from small family farms to entire cities-Feiler points his lens at one embattled place and dares us to look away. Aiming to "open minds, trigger emotion, stimulate discussion, and, perhaps, prompt action, " his images project a new layer of meaning onto the Morris Brown story. We see classrooms, dorms, gym facilities, and other spaces no longer alive with students, faculty, and staff but rather mired in a state of uncertainty where hopes of normality's return mutely battle a host of unwelcome alternate futures. We see how time passes without regard for academic years, regular maintenance cycles, or the other comings and goings that would ordinarily call attention to the leaks, invading animals, acts of vandalism, and other forces working to peel the paint from Morris Brown's walls, buckle its floors, and molder its furnishings. We see garbage piling up alongside sports trophies, scientific equipment, and other vestiges of the prouder past we would rather remember.
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• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. Fighting for Rights in the 1910s and 1920s
• 2. Strides Forward in Times of Crisis in the 1930s and 1940s
• 3. Pushing Through the Doors of Resistance in the 1950s
• 4. Feminism, Civil Rights, and Liberalism in the 1960s
• 5. On the Shirley Chisholm Trail in the 1960s and 1970s
• Conclusion
• Appendix
• Notes
• Index

Julie A. Gallagher documents six decades of politically active black women in New York City who waged struggles for justice, rights, and equality not through grassroots activism but through formal politics. In tracing the paths of black women activists from women's clubs and civic organizations to national politics--including appointments to presidential commissions, congressional offices, and even a presidential candidacy--Gallagher also articulates the vision of politics the women developed and its influence on the Democratic party and its policies. Deftly examining how race, gender, and the structure of the state itself shape outcomes, she exposes the layers of power and discrimination at work in all sectors of U.S. society.
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