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Finding Grand (Paperback)
Lisa Adlam; Illustrated by Glenn Jones; Tim Holsten
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R317
Discovery Miles 3 170
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Episodes of everyday life. A professor visits old haunts and old
friends. Story of hunting jack rabbits in the 1950s Texas drought.
Memories of a dangerous trip in a blue van from Austin to San
Francisco. Looking for the American Dream in Las Vegas thirty years
after "fear and loathing." A judge expresses his mad-dog opinions.
Conqueroo is a fictionalized diary about Lohn's perspective on a
dispute over the ownership of a painting symbolically important to
the Austin 1960s counterculture. After testifying in the civil
trial, Lohn leaves town with Joe and drives to the coast of Maine
where he helps paint an old house. Lohn returns to Texas and
continues to fret about his flawed friendships but comes to no
conclusion. This novel is an existential vision of a type of
sub-proletariat worldview.
Satrical epic story of four decades of a man's life in Austin,
Texas, from the 1960s into the 21st Century. He and his cohorts
engage in hyper-extravagant savage adventures in social, gender,
racial, political and cultural wars of these times, with fantasy
future-history, imaginative projections into a post-secession,
totalitarian-fundamentalist Texas. Subtle humor, authentic
landscape of Austin's early counter-culture. Observations,
insights, reflections over time. Hedonism, sex, orgies, drugs,
psychedelic rock-and-roll political revolution, civil hostilities,
with some violence. Austin landmarks, race relations, real and
imagined events. Revised Expanded 2nd Edition 2012.
Historically Black Colleges and Universities were established to
provide the opportunity for higher education to people of African
descent in the era of segregation. The visions, values, and
heritages these schools embodied enabled them to chart new
frontiers of learning, scholarship, and public engagement for and
beyond the United States. Historical Black Colleges and
Universities in a Globalizing World: The Past, the Present, and the
Future, edited by Alem Hailu, Mohamed S. Camara, and Sabella O.
Abidde examines the history and contribution of these institutions
in the broader national and global sociopolitical context of the
changes taking place in the nation and the world. Collectively, the
contributors offer reflections and visions by both looking back and
forward to find viable answers to the challenges and opportunities
HBCUs face in the new century and beyond. They argue that as the
world convulses by the new global dynamics of emerging pandemics,
economic dislocations, and resource constraints, HBCUs are uniquely
positioned to meet these challenges.
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