Kwaito Bodies

Kwaito Bodies
Author: Xavier Livermon
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2020-04-24
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1478007354

In Kwaito Bodies Xavier Livermon examines the cultural politics of the youthful black body in South Africa through the performance, representation, and consumption of kwaito, a style of electronic dance music that emerged following the end of apartheid. Drawing on fieldwork in Johannesburg's nightclubs and analyses of musical performances and recordings, Livermon applies a black queer and black feminist studies framework to kwaito. He shows how kwaito culture operates as an alternative politics that challenges the dominant constructions of gender and sexuality. Artists such as Lebo Mathosa and Mandoza rescripted notions of acceptable femininity and masculinity, while groups like Boom Shaka enunciated an Afrodiasporic politics. In these ways, kwaito culture recontextualizes practices and notions of freedom within the social constraints that the legacies of colonialism, apartheid, and economic inequality place on young South Africans. At the same time, kwaito speaks to the ways in which these legacies reverberate between cosmopolitan Johannesburg and the diaspora. In foregrounding this dynamic, Livermon demonstrates that kwaito culture operates as a site for understanding the triumphs, challenges, and politics of post-apartheid South Africa.

Affordable Course Materials

Affordable Course Materials
Author: Chris Diaz
Publisher: American Library Association
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2017-07-21
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0838915957

This valuable book demonstrates how librarians can use their collection, licensing, and faculty outreach know-how to help students and their instructors address skyrocketing textbook prices.

TouchThinkLearn: 123

TouchThinkLearn: 123
Author: Xavier Deneux
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018-10-09
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781452173900

High design, brilliant graphics, essential learning skills—these features distinguish the TouchThinkLearn titles, presenting knowledge in a new dimension. Xavier Deneux applies the same unique vision that informed TouchThink-Learn: ABC to this year's most innovative counting book. Die-cut numerals and shapes stimulate understanding of essential concepts, inviting youngest readers to engage in a meaningful and tangible hands-on experience of numbers by tracing figures and shapes to coordinate concepts and images.

TouchThinkLearn: Baby Animals

TouchThinkLearn: Baby Animals
Author: Xavier Deneux
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-03-08
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781452145198

Featuring spreads with raised, shaped objects that fit into scooped cutouts on their opposite page, these new TouchThinkLearn books offer the youngest learners an opportunity to explore in a hands-on, multisensory way. Seeing the image, tracing its shape, saying its name—these modes of perception combine to stimulate understanding of essential concepts. Discover a polar bear by tracing its raised outline on one side, and the concave shape of its cozy den on the other! Related words on each spread offer a springboard for further conversation to encourage the language skills crucial to later successful learning. In a format unlike any other, these groundbreaking books translate abstract thought into tangible knowledge.

Xavier Marx and the Missing Masterpieces

Xavier Marx and the Missing Masterpieces
Author: Sean Cronin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 90
Release: 2021-10-27
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781098397302

When shy Xavier goes on a field trip to an art museum, all he wants to see is Vincent van Gogh's "The Starry Night." But suddenly the museum's masterpieces go missing and Xavier must come out of his shell to figure out where the paintings went, who took them, and why. This fun mystery delights, as its whimsical rhymes and joyous pictures take the reader on a dazzling journey of discovery. Proudly featuring art from children around the world, this book is a treat for all ages. Children, parents, and teachers will love this adventurous story! Get ready to let your curiosity soar as you join Xavier to solve this mystery. The cherry on top is a real-life treasure hunt hidden within the book's pages. Who will be the first to discover the real-world location where a treasure awaits and claim the $10,000 prize? This treasure hunt benefits the International Child Art Foundation and proudly features art from child artists around the world.

Xavier's Legacies

Xavier's Legacies
Author: Kevin M. Doak
Publisher: UBC Press
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2011-03-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0774820241

Japan has had three Catholic prime ministers, and its current empress was raised and educated in the faith. How did a non-Christian nation come to foster more Catholic leaders than the United States, particularly when Protestantism is said to define Christianity in Japan and Catholicism is believed to be but a fleeting element of Japan’s so-called Christian century? Far from being a relic of the past – something brought to Japan by sixteenth-century missionaries such as Francis Xavier and then forgotten – Catholicism offered, and continues to provide, an authentic way for Japanese believers to shape their cultural identities. This volume documents the appeal of Catholicism, not only among farmers and fishers but also among scientists, diplomats, novelists, and members of the imperial household who have found in Catholicism an alternative way to keep “tradition” and negotiate modernity since the late nineteenth century.

My Big Touch-And-Feel Concepts Book

My Big Touch-And-Feel Concepts Book
Author:
Publisher: Twirl
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020-09
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9782408019686

"Discover interactive learning fun for little hands: Colors, shapes, numbers, and opposites are the building blocks that help children learn about the world around them. In this multi-sensory volume, filled with bright and appealing illustrations, children will learn to name and identify various concepts and the objects that represent them. It's the perfect baby shower gift! Contains 60 textures that will keep little minds and little fingers engaged through every page. Features many objects familiar in a young child's world. Xavier Deneux's chic, bold style and insightful grasp of what makes younger children think, connect, and smile has resulted in over 100 critically lauded books. This generously oversized volume of My Big Touch-and-Feel Concepts Book helps young readers build vocabulary and develop picture and word associations"--Amazon.com.

Xavier in the Meantime

Xavier in the Meantime
Author: Kate Gordon
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780645218091

Sometimes Xavier wakes up feeling hopeless. Every new doctor this will fix it. Removing him from school this will fix it. The therapy group this will fix it. And his dad moving out. Maybe, this will fix it. His daily affirmations seem to be helping, yet the black dog never really goes away. But Xavier has a plan. Enlisting the help of best friend Aster, he tries to convince his dad to turn the family hogget farm into a therapy retreat for the group session kids. But he is up against decades of tradition, his parents who are on a break, and the spectre of the black dog. Can Xavier learn to cherish the moments in between the struggles - the moments in the meantime?

TouchThinkLearn: Build!

TouchThinkLearn: Build!
Author: Xavier Deneux
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 14
Release: 2020-08-11
Genre:
ISBN: 9781452178714

Part of the bestselling TouchThinkLearn series! TouchThinkLearn: Build is a tactile board book with removable--and movable--characters and elements. The movable pieces invite and involve the reader in this story of building not only a home, but a family as well. * Made in the landmark TouchThinkLearn format--over 850,000 copies sold in the series! * Educationally rich with brilliant, multisensory aesthetics * Features the toddler-favorite production technique of glued on pieces dovetailing with die-cut openings TouchThinkLearn: Build perfectly realizes the interactivity of construction by giving readers a hands-on role with 12 toddler-safe play pieces. At the same time, this sturdy board book offers a gentle but powerful message that building a home--and building a family--are important components of life. * Ideal for children ages 2 to 4 years' old * Utilizes puzzle-like play pieces to create a complete on-and off-the-page immersive play experience * Resonates year-round as a go-to new baby gift for baby showers, birthdays, holidays, and more * Perfect for parents, grandparents, and caregivers of construction-loving kids * Add it to the shelf with books likeBuildablockby Christopher Franceschelli, Playtown: Construction: A-Lift-the-Flap-Book by Roger Priddy, andSnuggle the Baby by Sara Gillingham.

Touch and Explore: Safari

Touch and Explore: Safari
Author: Stephanie Babin
Publisher: Twirl
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017-04-04
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9782745981806

The newest in this series created to encourage hands-on play and learning, Touch and Explore™ Safari will keep young children busy learning through touch. They will enjoy the textures on every colorful spread, and lift the flaps to find out more about their favorite safari animals.