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According to George Jackson, black men born in the US are
conditioned to accept the inevitability of being imprisoned....
Being born a slave in a captive society and never experiencing any
objective basis for expectation had the effect of preparing me for
the progressively traumatic misfortune that led so many black men
to the prison gate. I was prepared for prison. It required only
minor psychic adjustments. As Jackson writes from his prison cell,
his statement may seem to be only a product of his current status.
However, history proves his point. Indeed, some of the most
well-known and respected black men have served time in jail or
prison. Among them are Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Marcus
Garvey, and Frederick Douglass. This book is an examination of the
various forms that imprisonment, as asocial, historical, and
political experience of African Americans, has taken. Confinement
describes the status of individuals who are placed within
boundaries either seen or unseen but always felt. A word that
suggests extensive implications, confinement describes the status
of persons who are imprisoned and who are unjustly relegated to a
social status that is hostile, rendering them powerless and subject
to the rules of the authorities. Arguably, confinement
appropriately describes the status of African Americans who have
endured spaces of confinement, which include, but are not limited
to plantations, Jim Crow societies, and prisons. At specific times,
these spaces of confinement have been used to oppress African
Americans socially, politically, and spiritually. Contributors
examine the related experiences of Malcolm X, Bigger Thomas of
Native Son, and Angela Davis.
"A fascinating biography of a fascinating woman." - Booklist,
starred review "This definitive look at a remarkable figure
delivers the goods." - Publishers Weekly, starred review "A
brilliant analysis." - Jericho Brown, Pulitzer Prize winner
Featured in Ms. Magazine's "Most Anticipated Reads for the Rest of
Us 2022" (books by or about historically excluded groups) Born in
New Orleans in 1875 to a mother who was formerly enslaved and a
father of questionable identity, Alice Dunbar-Nelson was a
pioneering activist, writer, suffragist, and educator. Until now,
Dunbar-Nelson has largely been viewed only in relation to her
abusive ex-husband, the poet Paul Laurence Dunbar. This is the
first book-length look at this major figure in Black women's
history, covering her life from the post-reconstruction era through
the Harlem Renaissance. Tara T. Green builds on Black feminist,
sexuality, historical and cultural studies to create a literary
biography that examines Dunbar-Nelson's life and legacy as a
respectable activist - a woman who navigated complex challenges
associated with resisting racism and sexism, and who defined her
sexual identity and sexual agency within the confines of
respectability politics. It's a book about the past, but it's also
a book about the present that nods to the future.
A Kind of Prayer presents the first-ever survey dedicated to the
late Cree artist Kimowan Metchewais and his singular body of work
on Indigenous identity, community, and colonial memory. After his
untimely death at age forty-eight in 2011, Metchewais left behind a
wholly original and expansive body of photographic and mixed-media
work. At the center of his practice is an extensive Polaroid
archive, which addresses a range of themes-including the artist's
body, performative self-portraiture, language, landscapes, and
everyday subjects-and served as the source material for works in
other media, such as painting and collage. Metchewais's exquisitely
layered works offer a poetic meditation on his connection to home
and land, while challenging conventional narratives and
representations of Indigeneity. Metchewais was a contemporary
artist of stunning originality, and until now, his work has been
woefully understudied and underexposed. A Kind of Prayer is a
comprehensive overview that showcases this essential artist's
astonishing vision.
Several features make this book stand out as an effective teaching
and learning tool: Integration of Theory and Practice-The book
integrates public administration theory and practice through the
use of cases, historical examples and summary questions at the end
of each chapter. Internal Summaries-The book includes tables and
charts to summarize and distill the main features of each chapter.
Master Cases-Each section of the book includes a master case that
is integrated into the discussion of topics and principles covered
in each subsequent chapter. Historical Context-The book provides
students with a chronological development of four governing
legacies that have remained at the center of public administration
since the founding of the nation in 1787. Study Questions-Each
chapter includes study questions to help guide students through the
chapter, and to reflect upon the practical implications of topics
discussed in each chapter. Bibliography-The book includes a
comprehensive bibliography.
Several features make this book stand out as an effective teaching
and learning tool: Integration of Theory and Practice-The book
integrates public administration theory and practice through the
use of cases, historical examples and summary questions at the end
of each chapter. Internal Summaries-The book includes tables and
charts to summarize and distill the main features of each chapter.
Master Cases-Each section of the book includes a master case that
is integrated into the discussion of topics and principles covered
in each subsequent chapter. Historical Context-The book provides
students with a chronological development of four governing
legacies that have remained at the center of public administration
since the founding of the nation in 1787. Study Questions-Each
chapter includes study questions to help guide students through the
chapter, and to reflect upon the practical implications of topics
discussed in each chapter. Bibliography-The book includes a
comprehensive bibliography.
The essays in the book analyze cases of cooperation in a wide range
of ethnographic, archaeological and evolutionary settings.
Cooperation is examined in situations of market exchange, local and
long-distance reciprocity, hierarchical relations, common property
and commons access, and cooperatives. Not all of these analyses
show stable and long-term results of successful cooperation. The
increasing cooperation that is so highly characteristic of our
species over the long term obviously has replaced neither
competition in the short term nor hierarchical structures that
reduce competition in the mid term. Interactions based on
strategies of cooperation, competition, and hierarchy are all
found, simultaneously, in human social relations.
Alfred Wegener aimed to create a revolution in science which would
rank with those of Nicolaus Copernicus and Charles Darwin. After
completing his doctoral studies in astronomy at the University of
Berlin, Wegener found himself drawn not to observatory science but
to rugged fieldwork, which allowed him to cross into a variety of
disciplines. The author of the theory of continental drift-the
direct ancestor of the modern theory of plate tectonics and one of
the key scientific concepts of the past century-Wegener also made
major contributions to geology, geophysics, astronomy, geodesy,
atmospheric physics, meteorology, and glaciology. Remarkably, he
completed this pathbreaking work while grappling variously with
financial difficulty, war, economic depression, scientific
isolation, illness, and injury. He ultimately died of overexertion
on a journey to probe the Greenland icecap and calculate its rate
of drift. This landmark biography-the only complete account of the
scientist's fascinating life and work-is the culmination of more
than twenty years of intensive research. In Alfred Wegener, Mott T.
Greene places Wegener's upbringing and theoretical advances in
earth science in the context of his brilliantly eclectic career,
bringing Wegener to life by analyzing his published scientific
work, delving into all of his surviving letters and journals, and
tracing both his passionate commitment to science and his thrilling
experiences as a polar explorer, a military officer during World
War I, and a world-record-setting balloonist. In the course of
writing this book, Greene traveled to every place that Alfred
Wegener lived and worked-to Berlin, rural Brandenburg, Marburg,
Hamburg, and Heidelberg in Germany; to Innsbruck and Graz in
Austria; and onto the Greenland icecap. He also pored over archives
in Copenhagen, Munich, Marburg, Graz, and Bremerhaven, where the
majority of Wegener's surviving papers are found. Written with
great immediacy and descriptive power, Alfred Wegener is a powerful
portrait of the scientist who pioneered the modern concept of
unified Earth science. The book should be of interest not only to
earth scientists, students of polar travel and exploration, and
historians but to all readers who are fascinated by the great minds
of science.
Unbinding the Binding of Isaac is an anthology of three faiths'
interpretations of the Genesis 22:1-19 story. The various exegeses
of this story have been mined by the Jewish, Islamic, and Christian
faiths for a protracted period of time. The "Aqedah," as the
binding story is known universally, stimulates the interests and
imaginations of theologians, linguists, poets, historians, and
artists of various skills and stripes. The Aqedah continues to
stimulate inquiry and application to modern situations. Unbinding
the Binding of Isaac is at once ancient and modern in its scope,
purpose, and relevance to scholarly inquiry regarding this ongoing
debate.
The Blessed Hope of Living Again after Dying is a
non-denominational Christian book with an educational perspective
that explains the phenomena of life, death and mourning, focusing
on the meanings of human life, spiritual regeneration, and eternal
life. Dr. Lu Ethel T. Green uses an interdisciplinary approach,
incorporating knowledge from the Bible, and the biological,
physical, social and psychological sciences, to take an in-depth
exploration into the origins and ends of human existence on Earth.
This approach is used as a background for discussing the
relationship of human beings with God the Father, God the Son, and
God the Holy Spirit. Moreover, Dr. Green illuminates the basic and
fundamental truths about the Holy Trinity, life, death, and eternal
life, which are essential to the beliefs, faith and service of the
Christian. Specifically, she expounds on selected Biblical truths
about God, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit and discusses
scientific facts and scriptural texts that reveal the mysteries of
life, death, and eternal life. Special emphasis is focused on
salvation as the only means by which eternal life is received, the
excellence of everlasting life, and the inheritors of eternal life.
This work presents an approach to the study of comparative politics
that builds on the assumption that political actors and
institutions operate within constructed communities of meaning,
which in turn interface with other such communities.
This work presents an approach to the study of comparative politics
that builds on the assumption that political actors and
institutions operate within constructed communities of meaning,
which in turn interface with other such communities.
Presenting emphases on and approaches to issues such as government
spending, reporting, pricing and fiscal federalism, the Handbook of
Public Finance demonstrates the utility of integrating public
finance theory with actual public policy practices. It discusses
applications in major subfields of public finance, including public
education, environmental regulation, energy policy, social welfare
programs, and local and state politics. Other topics of discussion
include the theory and practice of tax incidence analysis; the
marginal costs of taxation and regulation, the economics of
expenditure incidence, discounting and the social discount rate;
passive use benefits, and public sector pricing.
A study of past and prospective business development around rail
transit stations in the Washington DC area. Washington has one of
the very few new and extensive rail transit systems in America,
although expectations of transit system-induced revitalization in
this area have not uniformly been met. This book develops an
econometric model of local development (LOCDEV) around major public
investments, applies it to the existing Washington transit system,
and uses it to forecast future development levels around new
stations. The book includes a user's guide to the LOCDEV model and
concludes with reflections on modelling and forecasting.
Pop culture icon and media mogul Oprah Winfrey has produced or
starred in ten films and telefilms. In this collection, the
contributors use film, music, masculinity, black feminist, and
cultural studies to examine the role Winfrey has played as actress,
and in some cases producer, of films that interpret works published
by African American writers between 1937 and 1996. Their essays
critically examine representations of African Americans and
sexuality, blues, class, inter-racial and intra-racial prejudices,
and their intersection with Winfrey's influence as interpreter and
mediator of African American literature and culture to diverse
audiences.
Blended Learning in Action supports teachers, teacher leaders, and
schools as they shift to a blended learning model. Blended learning
has several advantages over traditional instruction if technology
is used to effectively engage students in active learning both
inside the classroom and online. Blended learning allows for more
communication and collaboration both synchronously and
asynchronously, creates more opportunities for students to drive
their own learning, provides teachers with more time to work
one-on-one or in small groups to differentiate and personalize
learning while providing more timely feedback. This book includes
research, examples, anecdotes, and resources gathered from the
authors' work as well as interviews with teachers and school
leaders using different blended models.
Oprah Winfrey has long promoted black issues by being involved as a
producer or actor in the adaptation of works by African American
writers for film. This volume evaluates Winfrey's involvement in
the visual interpretation of African American literary texts using
film, music, black masculinity, black feminist, and cultural
theory.
Born in New Orleans in 1875 to a mother who was formerly enslaved
and a father of questionable identity, Alice Dunbar-Nelson was a
pioneering activist, writer, suffragist, and educator. Until now,
Dunbar-Nelson has largely been viewed only in relation to her
abusive ex-husband, the poet Paul Laurence Dunbar. This is the
first book-length look at this major figure in Black women's
history, covering her life from the post-reconstruction era through
the Harlem Renaissance. Tara T. Green builds on Black feminist,
sexuality, historical and cultural studies to create a literary
biography that examines Dunbar-Nelson's life and legacy as a
respectable activist - a woman who navigated complex challenges
associated with resisting racism and sexism, and who defined her
sexual identity and sexual agency within the confines of
respectability politics. It's a book about the past, but it's also
a book about the present that nods to the future.
In Active Duty: Public Administration as Democratic Statesmanship,
a distinguished group of contributors examines the role of the
American civil service under the Constitution. The common concern
that unites the otherwise diverse approaches of the authors is the
conception of public administration as a particular form of
political activity. The contributors relate administrative issues
to the broader questions of political life, such as political
judgment and responsibility, the Constitution and
constitutionalism, and the promotion of human liberty and the
common good. They aim to encourage the administrator to become a
democratic statesman. Present and prospective American civil
servants, as well as political scientists and political
philosophers, will find this book of interest.
Cranborne Chase, in central southern England, is the area where
British field archaeology developed in its modern form. The site of
General Pitt Rivers' pioneering excavations in the nineteenth
century, Cranborne Chase also provides a microcosm of virtually all
the major types of filed monument present in southern England as a
whole. Much of the archaeological material has fortuitously
survived, offering the fullest chronological cover of any part of
the prehistoric British landscape. Martin Green began working in
this region in 1968 and was joined by John Barrett and Richard
Bradley in 1977 for a fuller programme of survey and excavation
that lasted for nearly ten years. In this important study, they
apply some of the questions in prehistory to one of the first
regions of the country to be studied in such detail. The book is a
regional study of long-term change in British prehistory, and
contains a unique collection of data. A landmark in the
archaeological literature, it will be essential reading for
students and scholars of British prehistory and social and
historical geography, and also for all those involved with
archaeological methods.
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