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From a Bancroft Prize winner, a harrowing portrait of Black workers
and white hypocrisy in nineteenth-century Boston Impassioned
antislavery rhetoric made antebellum Boston famous as the nation's
hub of radical abolitionism. In fact, however, the city was far
from a beacon of equality. In No Right to an Honest Living,
historian Jacqueline Jones reveals how Boston was the United States
writ small: a place where the soaring rhetoric of egalitarianism
was easy, but justice in the workplace was elusive. Before, during,
and after the Civil War, white abolitionists and Republicans
refused to secure equal employment opportunity for Black
Bostonians, condemning most of them to poverty. Still, Jones finds,
some Black entrepreneurs ingeniously created their own jobs and
forged their own career paths. Highlighting the everyday struggles
of ordinary Black workers, this book shows how injustice in the
workplace prevented Boston-and the United States-from securing true
equality for all.
During six months in 1862, William Jefferson Whatley and his wife,
Nancy Falkaday Watkins Whatley, exchanged a series of letters that
vividly demonstrate the quickly changing roles of women whose
husbands left home to fight in the Civil War. When William Whatley
enlisted with the Confederate Army in 1862, he left his young wife
Nancy in charge of their cotton farm in East Texas, near the
village of Caledonia in Rusk County. In letters to her husband,
Nancy describes in elaborate detail how she dealt with and felt
about her new role, which thrust her into an array of unfamiliar
duties, including dealing with increasingly unruly slaves,
overseeing the harvest of the cotton crop, and negotiating business
transactions with unscrupulous neighbors. At the same time, she
carried on her traditional family duties and tended to their four
young children during frequent epidemics of measles and diphtheria.
Stationed hundreds of miles away, her husband could only offer her
advice, sympathy, and shared frustration. In An East Texas Family's
Civil War, the Whatleys' great-grandson, John T. Whatley,
transcribes and annotates these letters for the first time. Notable
for their descriptions of the unraveling of the local slave labor
system and accounts of rural southern life, Nancy's letters offer a
rare window on the hardships faced by women on the home front
taking on unprecedented responsibilities and filling unfamiliar
roles.
In Making the World a Better Place, Royster argues that African
American women must be taken seriously as historical actors who
were more consistently and more variously engaged in community -
and nation-building than they have been given credit for. Their
considerable rhetorical expertise becomes evident when looking
carefully at their work in terms of identity, agency, authority,
and expressiveness. Their writings constitute a substantial
artifactual record of their levels of engagement, their excellence
in sociopolitical work, and the legacies of leadership and action.
The writing of African American women during the nineteenth century
reflects their own perceptions of the ways and means of their
lives. They deserve to be recognized as consequential contributors
to the narratives of the nation, rather than marginalized as a
group. To that end, Jacqueline Jones Royster offers a deeper
understanding, often through their own words, of these women, their
practices, and their achievements.
Life is All About Choices shares one woman's ideas about
relationships and life experiences through an honest and
stimulating exploration of the doubts, fears, and uncertainties
that often accompany male/female relationships as well as broader
social issues.
Jacqueline Jones relies on her personal observations and
experiences to encourage, inspire, uplift, and empower others to
overcome life's challenges and barriers with a high degree of
self-confidence. Jacqueline provides information on how to identify
personal weaknesses, find help from a variety of sources, and
unleash the power to say "no" to emotionally and physically
destructive relationships. She provides refreshing opinions and
motivational quotes on topics relatable to many such as: Dating
Long distance romance Kissing and telling Flirting Commitment
Break-ups Jacqueline offers the inspiration, knowledge, and
techniques that will teach others to utilize their inner-strength
in order to make positive changes, pursue dreams, and defeat
obstacles-not just in relationships, but in everyday life.
The forces that shaped the institution of slavery in the American
South endured, albeit in altered form, long after slavery was
abolished. Toiling in sweltering Virginia tobacco factories or in
the kitchens of white families in Chicago, black women felt a
stultifying combination of racial discrimination and sexual
prejudice. And yet, in their efforts to sustain family ties, they
shared a common purpose with wives and mothers of all classes.
In "Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow," historian Jacqueline Jones
offers a powerful account of the changing role of black women,
lending a voice to an unsung struggle from the depths of slavery to
the ongoing fight for civil rights.
Life is All About Choices shares one woman's ideas about
relationships and life experiences through an honest and
stimulating exploration of the doubts, fears, and uncertainties
that often accompany male/female relationships as well as broader
social issues. Jacqueline Jones relies on her personal observations
and experiences to encourage, inspire, uplift, and empower others
to overcome life's challenges and barriers with a high degree of
self-confidence. Jacqueline provides information on how to identify
personal weaknesses, find help from a variety of sources, and
unleash the power to say no to emotionally and physically
destructive relationships. She provides refreshing opinions and
motivational quotes on topics relatable to many such as: Dating
Long distance romance Kissing and telling Flirting Commitment
Break-ups Jacqueline offers the inspiration, knowledge, and
techniques that will teach others to utilize their inner-strength
in order to make positive changes, pursue dreams, and defeat
obstacles-not just in relationships, but in everyday life.
"Soldiers of Light and Love" is an acclaimed study of the
reform-minded northerners who taught freed slaves in the war-torn
Reconstruction South. Jacqueline Jones's book, first published in
1980, focuses on the nearly three hundred women who served in
Georgia in the chaotic decade following the Civil War. Commissioned
by the American Missionary Association and other freedmen's aid
societies, these middle-class New Englanders saw themselves as the
postbellum, evangelical heirs of the abolitionist cause.
Specific in compass, but wide-ranging in significance, "Soldiers
of Light and Love" illuminates the complexity of class, race, and
gender issues in early Victorian America.
From a prize-winning historian, a new portrait of an extraordinary
activist and the turbulent age in which she lived Goddess of
Anarchy recounts the formidable life of the militant writer,
orator, and agitator Lucy Parsons. Born to an enslaved woman in
Virginia in 1851 and raised in Texas-where she met her husband, the
Haymarket "martyr" Albert Parsons-Lucy was a fearless advocate of
First Amendment rights, a champion of the working classes, and one
of the most prominent figures of African descent of her era. And
yet, her life was riddled with contradictions-she advocated
violence without apology, concocted a Hispanic-Indian identity for
herself, and ignored the plight of African Americans. Drawing on a
wealth of new sources, Jacqueline Jones presents not only the
exceptional life of the famous American-born anarchist but also an
authoritative account of her times-from slavery through the Great
Depression.
"A brilliant indictment. . . . As history that informs the present, this book carries great moral force."—William S. McFeely, author of Frederick Douglass
This is history at its best — the epic, often tragic story of success and failure on the uneven playing fields of American labor, rooted in painstaking research and passionately alive to its present-day implications for a just society. Jacqueline Jones shows unmistakably how nearly every significant social transformation in American history (from bound to free labor, from farm work to factory work, from a blue-collar to a white-collar economy) rolled back the hard-won advances of those African Americans who had managed to gain footholds in various jobs and industries. This is a story not of simple ideological "racism" but of politics and economics interacting to determine what kind of work was "suitable" for which groups.
Here is a "useful and sobering" (Kirkus Reviews) account of why the connection between success and the work ethic was severed long ago for a substantial number of Americans. American Work goes far beyond the easy sloganeering of the current debates on affirmative action and welfare versus workfare to inform those debates with rich historical context and compelling insight.
"American Work performs the inestimable service that all history should: It allows us to imaginatively reconstruct the vanished worlds that have conspired in the creation of our own."-Chris Lehmann, Newsday
"Readers of this well-written book will appreciate the way Jones is able to integrate race-based matters with broader issues of social inequality, state public policies, and national political economy."—William Julius Wilson, author of When Work Disappears
Medical Parenting is the essential guide for parents to take
control of their child's health, from choosing a pediatrician to
helping children transition into adulthood. As one of America's Top
Doctors (TM), a mother of two grown children, and a physician and
surgeon with over 25 years' experience, Dr. Jones understands that
there is no greater responsibility as a parent than ensuring your
child's optimum health. With so much information out there, it can
be hard to navigate the medical system. Medical Parenting walks
parents through a myriad of scenarios involving children's health,
from choosing that first pediatrician to chronic illness and
surgery to nutrition and binge drinking in teenagers, so parents
feel confident in their decisions and learn self-care along the
way. More than just a medical system how-to, Medical Parenting is
told from a physician and mother's perspective to include heartfelt
stories from Dr. Jones' own journey of self-discovery. Dr. Jones
helps parents connect with their children on a personal level as
they grow towards adulthood and find their way through the maze of
the medical system today.
Jacqueline Jones LaMon delivers a stunning third collection that
shows the elements of life that both unite us and create our
greatest distances. What Water Knows transports the reader from
drought to drowning, from the transatlantic Middle Passage to the
breaking of water, from water wielded as a weapon to used as a
reward. LaMon offers a labyrinth to understanding how we are all
connected-through vibrant, searing images depicting the core of
racism, betrayal, addiction, loss, climate change, and the
ever-changing world in which we live. LaMon's skillful embodiment
of character and her signature use of personae invite the reader to
experience the unfathomable. Prepare to go over Niagara Falls in a
barrel. Prepare to feel the force of a fire hose on your bare legs.
Prepare to experience what happens when greed gets in the way of
reason. What Water Knows is a canonical poetic achievement that
will remind us of what it means to be human in a world that often
forgets.
The Leading Edge of Early Childhood Education aims to support the
effort to simultaneously scale up and improve the quality of early
childhood education by bringing together relevant insights from
emerging research to provide guidance for this critical, fledgling
field. It reflects the growing recognition that early childhood
experiences have a powerful effect on children's later academic
achievement and long-term life outcomes. Editors Nonie K. Lesaux
and Stephanie M. Jones bring together an impressive array of
scholarly contributors. Topics include: creating learning
environments that support children's cognitive and emotional
development identifying and addressing early risk factors using
data to guide educators' practice; and capitalizing on the use of
technology. Recent years have seen a surge of local, state, and
national initiatives aimed at expanding and improving early
childhood initiatives, particularly regarding access to preK
programs. The Leading Edge of Early Childhood Education promises to
be a valuable resource for those charged with enacting the next
level of work in this critical area.
Occupying Our Space sheds new light on the contributions of Mexican
women journalists and writers during the late nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries, marked as the zenith of Mexican journalism.
Journalists played a significant role in transforming Mexican
social and political life before and after the Revolution
(1910-1920), and women were a part of this movement as publishers,
writers, public speakers, and political activists. However, their
contributions to the broad historical changes associated with the
Revolution, as well as the pre- and post-revolutionary eras, are
often excluded or overlooked. Occupying our Space: The Mestiza
Rhetorics of Mexican Women Journalists, 1875-1942, fills a gap in
feminine rhetorical history by providing an in-depth look at
several important journalists who claimed rhetorical puestos, or
public speaking spaces. This book closely examines the writings of
Laureana Wright de Kleinhans (1842-1896), Juana Belen Gutierrez de
Mendoza (1875--1942), the political group Las mujeres de Zitacuaro
(1900), Hermila Galindo (1896-1954), and others. Grounded in the
overarching theoretical lens of mestiza rhetoric, Occupying Our
Space considers the ways in which Mexican women journalists
negotiated shifting feminine identities and the emerging national
politics of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. With
full length Spanish primary documents along with their
translations, this scholarship reframes the conversation about the
rhetorical and intellectual role women played in the ever-changing
political and identity culture in Mexico.
This book builds on the authors' highly acclaimed first
collaboration, Understanding English Language Variation in US
Schools, and examines the need to integrate linguistically informed
teaching into the secondary English classroom. It includes specific
information about the language varieties students bring with them
to school so that educators can better assist students in
developing the literacy skills necessary for the Common Core State
Standards. This resource features concrete strategies, models, and
vignettes, as well as classroom materials developed by English
educators for English educators.
"Traces of a Stream" offers a unique scholarly perspective that
merges interests in rhetorical and literacy studies, United States
social and political theory, and African American women writers.
Focusing on elite nineteenth-century African American women who
formed a new class of women well positioned to use language with
consequence, Royster uses interdisciplinary perspectives
(literature, history, feminist studies, African American studies,
psychology, art, sociology, economics) to present a well-textured
rhetorical analysis of the literate practices of these women. With
a shift in educational opportunity after the Civil War, African
American women gained access to higher education and received
formal training in rhetoric and writing. By the end of the
nineteenth-century, significant numbers of African American women
operated actively in many public arenas.
In her study, Royster acknowledges the persistence of disempowering
forces in the lives of African American women and their equal
perseverance against these forces. Amid these conditions, Royster
views the acquisition of literacy as a dynamic moment for African
American women, not only in terms of their use of written language
to satisfy their general needs for agency and authority, but also
to fulfill socio-political purposes as well.
"Traces of a Stream "is a showcase for nineteenth-century African
American women, and particularly elite women, as a group of writers
who are currently underrepresented in rhetorical scholarship.
Royster has formulated both an analytical theory and an ideological
perspectivethat are useful in gaining a more generative
understanding of literate practices as a whole and the practices of
African American women in particular. Royster tells a tale of
rhetorical prowess, calling for alternative ways of seeing,
reading, and rendering scholarship as she seeks to establish a more
suitable place for the contributions and achievements of African
American women writers.
In recent decades, the concepts of race, gender, and culture have
come to function as "calling cards." the terms by which we announce
ourselves as professionals and negotiate acceptance and/or
rejection in the academic marketplace. In this volume, contributors
from composition, literature, rhetoric, literacy, and cultural
studies share their experiences and insights as researchers,
scholars, and teachers who centralize these concepts in their work.
Reflecting deliberately on their own research and classroom
practices, the contributors share theoretical frameworks,
processes, and methodologies; consider the quality of the knowledge
and the understanding that their theoretical approaches generate;
and address various challenges related to what it actually means to
perform this type of work both professionally this type of work
both professionally and personally, especially in light of the ways
in which we are all raced, gendered, and acculturated.
This exciting new 6-12 literature series provides bridges and
connections across ideas, strong skill instruction, and amazing
literature.
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