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This book examines the architectural design of housing projects in
Ireland from the mid-twentieth century. This period represented a
high point in the construction of the Welfare State project where
the idea that architecture could and should shape and define
community and social life was not yet considered problematic.
Exploring a period when Ireland embraced the free market and the
end of economic protectionism, the book is a series of case studies
supported by critical narratives. Little known but of high quality,
the schemes presented in this volume are by architects whose
designs helped determine future architectural thinking in Ireland
and elsewhere. Aimed at academics, students and researchers, the
book is accompanied by new drawings and over 100 full colour
images, with the example studies demonstrating rich architectural
responses to a shifting landscape.
Brian Ward is Lecturer in American History at the University of
Newcastle upon Tyne .; This book is intended for american studies,
American history postwar social and cultural history, political
history, Black history, Race and Ethnic studies and Cultural
studies together with the general trade music.
The Making of Martin Luther King and The Civil Rights Movement
incorporates the changing focus of civil rights movement studies to
focus on communities and leaders heretofore ignored or
under-represented, and thereby challenges many of the agendas
established by civil rights scholarship of the past twenty-five
years. We learn from essays on communities in Louisiana, Arkansas,
and Montgomery that key centers of black life, such as unions,
schools, teachers, businessmen, and masonic lodges played important
roles in the movement. We learn of the importance of influential
local leaders such as W. H. Flowers in Arkansas and Edgar Daniel
Nixon in Montgomery, who were tremendously effective at organizing
on the local level.The volume also confronts paradigms of history
such as the notion that the Civil Rights Movement can be traced
from the reformist integration of King, to the revolutionary black
nationalism of Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael, and the Black Panther
Party. Clayborne Carson argues in a pathbreaking essay that there
were radical undercurrents in mass black movements of the 1950s and
early 60s, and that these undercurrents contained the seeds of the
most significant mass movements of subsequent decades. In contrast,
black power militancy of the late 1960's, according to Carson, was
either readily suppressed or transformed into forms that did not
threaten the dominant political and economic elites.
This book examines the architectural design of housing projects in
Ireland from the mid-twentieth century. This period represented a
high point in the construction of the Welfare State project where
the idea that architecture could and should shape and define
community and social life was not yet considered problematic.
Exploring a period when Ireland embraced the free market and the
end of economic protectionism, the book is a series of case studies
supported by critical narratives. Little known but of high quality,
the schemes presented in this volume are by architects whose
designs helped determine future architectural thinking in Ireland
and elsewhere. Aimed at academics, students and researchers, the
book is accompanied by new drawings and over 100 full colour
images, with the example studies demonstrating rich architectural
responses to a shifting landscape.
In this third edition of the best selling How Linux Works, author
Brian Ward peels back the layers of this well-loved operating
system to make Linux internals accessible. Readers learn how Linux
boots, how the kernel manages devices and device drivers, and how
processes, networking, interfaces, firewalls, and servers work.
They also learn how Linux-based development tools work, how to use
shared libraries, and how to write effective shell scripts. This
edition has been thoroughly updated and expanded with added
coverage of Logical Volume Manager (LVM), virtualisation, and
containers.
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Trainworks (Paperback)
Brian Ward, Christopher R. Duda
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Leading scholars reassess the origins and trajectory of the
American civil rights movement. Essays highlight the importance of
black activism in the 1930s and 1940s and show how white liberals
misunderstood the movement. Comparisons with Britain and South
Africa reveal how movement leaders secured sympathetic responses at
home and abroad and how nonviolence characterised the movement. The
essays also challenge traditional concepts of 'race' and 'racial
equality', consider the impact of the struggle on participants and
trace black political thought since the 1960s.
In Race and Radio: Pioneering Black Broadcasters in New Orleans,
Bala James Baptiste traces the history of the integration of radio
broadcasting in New Orleans and tells the story of how African
American on-air personalities transformed the medium. Analyzing a
trove of primary data-including archived manuscripts, articles and
display advertisements in newspapers, oral narratives of historical
memories, and other accounts of African Americans and radio in New
Orleans between 1945 and 1965-Baptiste constructs a formidable
narrative of broadcast history, racism, and black experience in
this enormously influential radio market. The historiography
includes the rise and progression of black broadcasters who
reshaped the Crescent City. The first, O. C. W. Taylor, hosted an
unprecedented talk show, the Negro Forum, on WNOE beginning in
1946. Three years later in 1949, listeners heard Vernon ""Dr.
Daddy-O"" Winslow's smooth and creative voice as a disk jockey on
WWEZ. The book also tells of Larry McKinley who arrived in New
Orleans from Chicago in 1953 and played a critical role in
informing black listeners about the civil rights movement in the
city. The racial integration of radio presented opportunities for
African Americans to speak more clearly, in their own voices, and
with a technological tool that opened a broader horizon in which to
envision community. While limited by corporate pressures and
demands from advertisers ranging from local funeral homes to Jax
beer, these black broadcasters helped unify and organize the
communities to which they spoke. Race and Radio captures the first
overtures of this new voice and preserves a history of black
radio's awakening.
More than merely legal status, citizenship is also a form of
belonging, shaping individual and group rights, duties, and
identities. The pioneering essays in this volume are the first to
address the evolution and significance of citizenship in the
American South during the long nineteenth century. They explore the
politics and contested meanings of citizenry from a variety of
disciplinary perspectives in a tumultuous period when slavery,
Civil War, Reconstruction, and segregation redefined relationships
between different groups of southern men and women, both black and
white.
Unlike some operating systems, Linux doesn't try to hide the
important bits from you; it gives you full control of your
computer. You'll find that there are many ways to tweak the system
to your liking, but there are also a few pitfalls. To truly master
Linux and avoid obstacles, you need to understand Linux internals
like how the system boots, how networking works, and what the
kernel actually does.
In this completely revised second edition of the perennial
bestseller How Linux Works, author Brian Ward makes the concepts
behind Linux internals accessible to anyone who wants to understand
the inner workings of the operating system. Inside these
information-packed pages, you'll find the kind of knowledge that
normally comes from years of experience doing things the hard way,
including essential topics like: How Linux boots, with coverage of
boot loaders and init (systemd, Upstart, and System V)How the
kernel manages devices, device drivers, and processesHow
networking, interfaces, firewalls, and servers workHow development
tools and shared libraries workHow shell scripts workYou'll explore
the kernel, with coverage of system calls, input and output, and
file systems, and examine key systems tasks inside user space. With
its combination of background, theory, real-world examples, and
patient explanations, How Linux Works, 2nd Edition will teach you
what you need to know to understand and customize your system,
solve pesky problems, and take control of your operating
system.
"Kennedy's Blues: African American Blues and Gospel Songs on
JFK" collects in a single volume the blues and gospel songs written
by African Americans about the presidency of John F. Kennedy and
offers a close analysis of Kennedy's hold upon the African American
imagination. These blues and gospel songs have never been
transcribed and analyzed in a systematic way, so this volume
provides a hitherto untapped source on the perception of one of the
most intriguing American presidents.
After eight years of Republican rule the young Democratic
president received a warm welcome from African Americans. However,
with the Cold War military draft and the slow pace of civil rights
measures, inspiration temporarily gave way to impatience.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Medgar Evers, the March on
Washington, the groundbreaking civil rights bill--all found their
way into blues and gospel songs. The many blues numbers devoted to
the assassination and the president's legacy are evidence of JFK's
near-canonization by African Americans. Blues historian Guido van
Rijn shows that John F. Kennedy became a mythical hero to blues
songwriters despite what was left unaccomplished.
Guido van Rijn is teacher of English at Kennemer Lyceum in
Overveen, the Netherlands. His previous books include "The Truman
and Eisenhower Blues: African American Blues and Gospel Songs,
1945-1960."
"A dazzling array of essays that vastly expands our
understanding of the role of the media and popular culture in the
politics of race. From Andy Griffith to Amiri Baraka, from
Leadbelly's blues to "Sweet Sweetback's Baaadassss Song," this is a
brilliant and irreplaceable collection."--Timothy B. Tyson,
University of Wisconsin-Madison, author of "Radio Free Dixie:
Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power"
Stimulating and insightful, these essays on the relationship
among the media, popular culture, and the postwar African American
freedom struggle offer new perspectives on the nature of the Civil
Rights Movement and its legacies. At the same time, they suggest
how much the struggle itself shaped important trends in American
culture and mass media in the 1950s and 1960s. Bringing together a
range of voices seldom heard together, this book challenges readers
to reconsider the ways in which a simplistic "master narrative" of
the Movement has come to dominate popular, and even some scholarly,
understandings of the meaning of the freedom struggle.
CONTENTS
Introduction: Forgotten Wails and Master Narratives: Media,
Culture, and Memories of the Modern African American Freedom
Struggle, by Brian Ward
1. The Media and the Movement: Looking Back from the Southern
Front, by Julian Bond
2. A Media-Made Movement? Black Violence and Nonviolence in the
Historiography of the Civil Rights Movement, by Jenny Walker
3. Black-Oriented Radio and the Civil Rights Movement, by Stephen
Walsh
4. Reclaiming the South: Civil Rights Films and the New Red Menace,
by Allison Graham
5. Hip Like Me: Racial Cross-Dressing in Pop Music Before Elvis, by
David Chappell
6. "Climbing the Mountain Top" African American Blues and Gospel
Songs from the Civil Rights Years, by Guido van Rijn
7. Free Jazz: Musical Style and Liberationist Ethic, 1956-1965, by
Peter Townsend
8. Jazz and Soul, Race and Class, Cultural Nationalists and Black
Panthers: A Black Power Debate Revisited, by Brian Ward
9. Villains, Demons, and Social Bandits: White Fear of the Black
Cultural Revolution, by William L. Van Deburg
10. "Pimpin' Ain't Easy" Work, Play, and "Lifestylization" of the
Black Pimp Figure in Early 1970s America, by Eithne Quinn
11. Mau-Mauing the Filmmakers: Should Black Power Take the Rap for
Killing Nat Turner, the Movie? by Scot French
12. "The 1960s Echo On" Images of Martin Luther King Jr. as
Deployed by White Writers of Contemporary Fiction, by Sharon
Monteith
13. The Power of Martyrdom: The Incorporation of Martin Luther King
and His Philosophy into African American Literature, by Trudier
Harris
Brian Ward, associate professor of American history at the
University of Florida, is the author of "Just My Soul Responding:
Rhythm and Blues, Black Consciousness and Race Relations" and
coeditor of "The Making of Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights
Movement."
This book explores how an eclectic selection of narratives and
images of the American South have been created and consumed. The
thirteen essays move beyond both traditional accounts of southern
identity as either declining or enduring, and more recent
postmodernist accounts of the South as imagined or invented.
Instead, the contributors emphasize how narratives and images of
"the South" have real social, political, and economic
ramifications, and that they register at various local, regional,
national, and transnational scales. Featuring distinguished
scholars writing from a wide range of multi- and interdisciplinary
perspectives history, literary studies, performance studies,
popular music, and queer studies the volume both challenges and
expands on established understandings of how, when, where, and why
ideas of the South have been developed and disseminated.
In Race and Radio: Pioneering Black Broadcasters in New Orleans,
Bala James Baptiste traces the history of the integration of radio
broadcasting in New Orleans and tells the story of how African
American on-air personalities transformed the medium. Analyzing a
trove of primary data-including archived manuscripts, articles and
display advertisements in newspapers, oral narratives of historical
memories, and other accounts of African Americans and radio in New
Orleans between 1945 and 1965-Baptiste constructs a formidable
narrative of broadcast history, racism, and black experience in
this enormously influential radio market. The historiography
includes the rise and progression of black broadcasters who
reshaped the Crescent City. The first, O. C. W. Taylor, hosted an
unprecedented talk show, the Negro Forum, on WNOE beginning in
1946. Three years later in 1949, listeners heard Vernon ""Dr.
Daddy-O"" Winslow's smooth and creative voice as a disk jockey on
WWEZ. The book also tells of Larry McKinley who arrived in New
Orleans from Chicago in 1953 and played a critical role in
informing black listeners about the civil rights movement in the
city. The racial integration of radio presented opportunities for
African Americans to speak more clearly, in their own voices, and
with a technological tool that opened a broader horizon in which to
envision community. While limited by corporate pressures and
demands from advertisers ranging from local funeral homes to Jax
beer, these black broadcasters helped unify and organize the
communities to which they spoke. Race and Radio captures the first
overtures of this new voice and preserves a history of black
radio's awakening.
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