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Reflections on the Pandemic: COVID and Social Crises in the Year
Everything Changed is a collection of essays, poems, and
artwork that captures the raw energy and emotion of 2020 from the
perspective of the Rutgers University community. The project
features work from a diverse group of Rutgers scholars, students,
staff, and alumni. Reflecting on 2020 from a number of perspectives
– mortality, justice, freedom, equality, democracy, family,
health, love, hate, economics, history, medicine, science, social
justice, the environment, art, food, sanity – the book features
contributions by Evie Shockley, Joyce Carol Oates, Naomi Jackson,
Ulla Berg, Grace Lynne Haynes, Jordan Casteel, and President
Jonathan Holloway, among others. This book, through its rich and
imaginative storytelling at the intersection of scholarly expertise
and personal narrative, brings readers into the hearts and minds of
not just the Rutgers community but the world.
Reflections on the Pandemic: COVID and Social Crises in the Year
Everything Changed is a collection of essays, poems, and
artwork that captures the raw energy and emotion of 2020 from the
perspective of the Rutgers University community. The project
features work from a diverse group of Rutgers scholars, students,
staff, and alumni. Reflecting on 2020 from a number of perspectives
– mortality, justice, freedom, equality, democracy, family,
health, love, hate, economics, history, medicine, science, social
justice, the environment, art, food, sanity – the book features
contributions by Evie Shockley, Joyce Carol Oates, Naomi Jackson,
Ulla Berg, Grace Lynne Haynes, Jordan Casteel, and President
Jonathan Holloway, among others. This book, through its rich and
imaginative storytelling at the intersection of scholarly expertise
and personal narrative, brings readers into the hearts and minds of
not just the Rutgers community but the world.
Based on original reporting by a Pulitzer Prize finalist and an
industry veteran, the first book for young adults about the Flint
water crisis In 2014, Flint, Michigan, was a cash-strapped city
that had been built up, then abandoned by General Motors. As part
of a plan to save money, government officials decided that Flint
would temporarily switch its water supply from Lake Huron to the
Flint River. Within months, many residents broke out in rashes.
Then it got worse: children stopped growing. Some people were
hospitalized with mysterious illnesses; others died. Citizens of
Flint protested that the water was dangerous. Despite what seemed
so apparent from the murky, foul-smelling liquid pouring from the
city's faucets, officials refused to listen. They treated the
people of Flint as the problem, not the water, which was actually
poisoning thousands. Through interviews with residents and
intensive research into legal records and news accounts, journalist
Candy J. Cooper, assisted by writer-editor Marc Aronson, reveals
the true story of Flint. Poisoned Water shows not just how the
crisis unfolded in 2014, but also the history of racism and
segregation that led up to it, the beliefs and attitudes that
fueled it, and how the people of Flint fought--and are still
fighting--for clean water and healthy lives.
When this award-winning husband-and-wife team discovered that
they each had sugar in their family history, they were inspired to
trace the globe-spanning story of the sweet substance and to seek
out the voices of those who led bitter sugar lives. The trail ran
like a bright band from religious ceremonies in India to Europe's
Middle Ages, then on to Columbus, who brought the first cane
cuttings to the Americas. Sugar was the substance that drove the
bloody slave trade and caused the loss of countless lives but it
also planted the seeds of revolution that led to freedom in the
American colonies, Haiti, and France. With songs, oral histories,
maps, and over 80 archival illustrations, here is the story of how
one product allows us to see the grand currents of world history in
new ways. Time line, source notes, bibliography, index.
For nearly a decade Marc Aronson ran an imprint dedicated to
international and multicultural literature for teens. He was known
in the industry for publishing "edgy" books, and for his commitment
to bringing the experiences of non-dominant authors and
illustrators to the world. Yet in the summer of 2001 he wrote an
essay that argued against awards, such as the Pure Belpre and
Coretta Scott King prizes, for which you must be a member of a
given ethnic group to win. Not surprisingly, his article was very
controversial; and the author and publisher Andrea Davis Pinkney
who had created an imprint specifically designed to be of, by, and
for African Americans, published a thoughtful reply. Here, in
Beyond the Pale, Aronson explains the passionate convictions that
led him to write his essay, and outlines objections made by others;
then reprints the original alongside Pinkney's response. As Aronson
prepared a formal response to his critics, the attacks of September
11th took place. This tragedy simultaneously made a squabble among
authors seem petty, and the issues around art, society, and
cultural diversity all the more important. Throughout 2001 and
2002, Aronson wrote essays in which he weighed out how art,
history, and books for younger readers could respond to the altered
world. As in his previous collection, Exploding the Myths, the
Truth About Teenagers and Reading, he exposes the mythologies and
false beliefs that distort our understanding of books and their
readers. Provocative and informative, this collection of essays
will challenge those who know children's literature well to think
in new ways, while linking the debates within that industry to the
wider intellectual currents of our time.
We are in the midst of the largest teenage population boom since
the nineteen sixties, and all of the media are scrambling to reach
this alert, savvy, wealthy, and self-conscious generation. But for
authors, editors, parents, teachers, and librarians this large
group of readers poses a series of special problems: what is too
old, or too young for teenage eyes? Should there even be a
literature for teenagers, or wouldn't they be better off skipping
ahead to adult books? Do boys read at all? Can books offer moral
instruction, role models, or guidance on the path to adulthood?
Where do books fit into the ever-growing set of multimedia options
that are this generation's birthright? Marc Aronson, Ph.D. has won
the LMP, the industry award for editing, and the Boston Globe Horn
Book award for writing books for teenagers. Here, in a series of
probing, innovative essays he marshals a decade of insights earned
in practice as well as his knowledge as a scholar of publishing
history, to pose and answer key questions about the true potential
of young adult literature. As he revels in the passion of its
readers he exposes the real problem with teenagers and reading:
adult myths, projections, and blind prejudices. Exploding the Myths
is a provocative book that will be necessary reading for everyone
who deals with this burgeoning generation of readers.
The decade's major political, social, and cultural shifts are
documented in two easy-to-use volumes. Photos. Index.
A monthly and daily chronology of the 1970s notes key events in the
areas of world affairs, science and technology, culture and life
styles, and U.S. politics, social issues, foreign policy, defence,
and economy.
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