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An African American serviceman is gunned down on a rural Georgia
road in July 1964. This shocking murder ensnares a wide range of
characters including the journalists who cover it, the lawmen who
must solve it, the civil rights leaders who capitalize upon it, the
politicians who exploit it, and the Atlanta magnate who fears its
impact on the New South image he desperately wants to protect. TV
news cameraman Gil Matthews and AP reporter Mindy Williams team up
to follow the twists and turns of the murder investigation as
rural, state, and federal lawmen clash, a civil rights leader fends
off a black power challenger, and voters take sides in a governor's
race pitting virulent racist Roscoe Pike against moderate underdog
Harrison Parker. Focusing on the challenges faced by journalists as
they covered a societal revolution and brought the dramatic and
sometimes violent scenes to television screens around the world
night after night, Tell it True takes us to a time when the future
of the South hung in the balance. Readers will no doubt recognize
that many of those same troubles are still with us today. Veteran
journalist John Pruitt bases the story on his experiences over
fifty years as a television news reporter and anchor in Atlanta,
Georgia. ""There were many momentous stories I covered during my
career,"" says Pruitt, ""but none equaled the magnitude of the
struggles for racial equality in the South.
The Essential Persona Lifecycle: Your Guide to Building and Using
Personas offers a practical guide to the creation and use of
personas, which can help product designers, their team, and their
organization become more user focused. This book is for people who
just need to know what to do and what order to do it in. It is
completely focused on practical tools and methods, without much
explanation on why the particular tool or method is the right one.
The book discusses the five phases of persona lifecycle: Family
planning - Basic ideas and a few tools that will help one get
organized Conception and gestation - Step-by-step instructions to
move from assumptions to completed personas Birth and maturation -
Strategic techniques to get the right information about ones
personas out to ones your teammates at the right time Adulthood -
Specific tools that will ensure that ones personas are used by the
right people at the right times and in the right ways during the
product development cycle Lifetime achievement and retirement -
Basic ideas and a few tools to you measure the success of the
persona effort and prepare for the next one
In 1995, George Haggerty and Bonnie Zimmerman's landmark volume
Professions of Desire: Lesbian and Gay Studies in
Literature-followed by William Spurlin's Lesbian and Gay Studies
and the Teaching of English (2000)-began addressing the esoteric
discussions complicating the intersections among gender, sexuality,
and other identity constructs within the English classroom. Given
the perpetuation of heteronormativity in the educational system,
Haggerty encourages instructors to help LGBT students "learn about
the politics of oppression in their own lives as well as in the
cultural context that, after all, determines what they mean when
they call themselves lesbian or gay." Approaches to Teaching LGBT
Literature is designed to help teachers address what it means to
teach LGBT literature. How can pre-service teacher educators
prepare their students to teach LGBT literature? How should
teachers introduce different bodies of students to these texts?
Those interested in starting LGBT-themed courses and/or thinking
about how LGBT literatures might fit into the broader undergraduate
curriculum will benefit from this scholarship addressing the
history and evolution of LGBT literature courses in different
contexts and providing a diverse set of example courses, projects,
and activities that would help an array of faculty to implement
such courses on their campuses.
Where others have explored the teaching of LGBTQ literature
courses, Curricular Innovations: LGBTQ Literatures and the New
English Studies explores the impact that queer writers and their
works are having across the broader undergraduate curriculum of
English departments, as well as beyond those department spaces.
While courses that focus on queer texts provide more space for
students to think about the complexities of queer lives, this book
breaks out of the specialized LGBTQ classroom to consider how we
might also restructure and reframe a diverse set of undergraduate
courses by paying attention to the contributions that LGBTQ writers
make. Beyond simply including a text or two to represent
"difference," contributors to this volume take a more structural
approach in order to demonstrate ways of theming or designing
courses around language, desire, and sexuality. They also
demonstrate what happens when queer texts are given freedom to
shape other classroom spaces, discussions, and reading/writing
practices. This collection offers a practical intervention into
conversations about the purposes and places of LGBTQ literatures by
making good on the challenges that queer theories have posed to
higher education over the last forty years.
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