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Author | : Laura Helton |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 586 |
Release | : 2024-04-16 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0231559542 |
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During the first half of the twentieth century, a group of collectors and creators dedicated themselves to documenting the history of African American life. At a time when dominant institutions cast doubt on the value or even the idea of Black history, these bibliophiles, scrapbookers, and librarians created an enduring set of African diasporic archives. In building these institutions and amassing abundant archival material, they also reshaped Black public culture, animating inquiry into the nature and meaning of Black history. Scattered and Fugitive Things tells the stories of these Black collectors, traveling from the parlors of the urban north to HBCU reading rooms and branch libraries in the Jim Crow south. Laura E. Helton chronicles the work of six key figures: bibliophile Arturo Schomburg, scrapbook maker Alexander Gumby, librarians Virginia Lee and Vivian Harsh, curator Dorothy Porter, and historian L. D. Reddick. Drawing on overlooked sources such as book lists and card catalogs, she reveals the risks collectors took to create Black archives. This book also explores the social life of collecting, highlighting the communities that used these collections from the South Side of Chicago to Roanoke, Virginia. In each case, Helton argues, archiving was alive in the present, a site of intellectual experiment, creative abundance, and political possibility. Offering new ways to understand Black intellectual and literary history, Scattered and Fugitive Things reveals Black collecting as a radical critical tradition that reimagines past, present, and future.
Author | : Rachel Sagner Buurma |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : 9780226735948 |
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The Teaching Archive shows us a series of major literary thinkers in a place we seldom remember them inhabiting: the classroom. In Rachel Sagner Buurma and Laura Heffernan's literary history, we watch T. S. Eliot and his working-class students revise their modern literature syllabus at the University of London's extension school during World War I. We read about how Caroline Spurgeon, one of the first female professors in the United Kingdom, invited her first-year women's college students to compile their own reading indexes in 1913. We see how J. Saunders Redding taught African American memoirs and letters to his American literature students at Hampton Institute in 1940. I. A. Richards, Cleanth Brooks, and Edmund Wilson figure prominently in Buurma and Heffernan's study, as do poet-critics Josephine Miles and Simon J. Ortiz. Throughout, the authors draw on what they call "the teaching archive"--the syllabi, course descriptions, lecture notes, and class assignments--to rewrite a history of literary study grounded in actual practice. With this innovative study, Buurma and Heffernan give us an urgent literary history for the present moment. As English departments look to an uncertain future, they also look to their past. In The Teaching Archive, they will find a revelatory history of the profession.
Author | : Zvonko Busic |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 2016-08-26 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781537276571 |
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Zvonko Busic chose many great philosophers as companions on his long journey of 11,639 days of imprisonment. He read and absorbed their thoughts; he was a faithful student of their tenets. He was on a quest for wisdom, and the wisdom he obtained is his legacy to us all. It declares that there is no burden that cannot be overcome and that there is no exhaustion so debilitating as to induce us to betray our ideals. The concept of freedom lies at the heart of Zvonko's philosophy and all the precepts thereof. He teaches us that freedom is a spiritual need and that the 'despair of the vanquished reverberates through history'. Freedom is a necessity, a right; freedom is the essence of human existence. Freedom transcends the physical realm. Only free souls create and make their mark, and only great souls embrace ideas. Zvonko's example confirms William James' maxim that ''the greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it''. For, after everything is said and done, if we do not inspire other people on our travels down the dusty paths of this world, we will have traveled in vain. If we do not make our fellow creatures pause for reflection, do good, correct their ignorance, then our lives mean nothing. Zvonko continues to inspire many people to do good deeds, to cherish and fight for freedom, to be selfless and loving, and to embrace those ideals that create history and teach us how to devote our lives to the benefit of all. Father Joe Grbes, Custos of the Croatian Franciscans of the United States and Canada, of the Croatian Franciscan Custody of the Holy Family
Author | : Jarvis R. Givens |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2021-04-13 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0674983688 |
Download Fugitive Pedagogy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A fresh portrayal of one of the architects of the African American intellectual tradition, whose faith in the subversive power of education will inspire teachers and learners today. Black education was a subversive act from its inception. African Americans pursued education through clandestine means, often in defiance of law and custom, even under threat of violence. They developed what Jarvis Givens calls a tradition of “fugitive pedagogy”—a theory and practice of Black education in America. The enslaved learned to read in spite of widespread prohibitions; newly emancipated people braved the dangers of integrating all-White schools and the hardships of building Black schools. Teachers developed covert instructional strategies, creative responses to the persistence of White opposition. From slavery through the Jim Crow era, Black people passed down this educational heritage. There is perhaps no better exemplar of this heritage than Carter G. Woodson—groundbreaking historian, founder of Black History Month, and legendary educator under Jim Crow. Givens shows that Woodson succeeded because of the world of Black teachers to which he belonged: Woodson’s first teachers were his formerly enslaved uncles; he himself taught for nearly thirty years; and he spent his life partnering with educators to transform the lives of Black students. Fugitive Pedagogy chronicles Woodson’s efforts to fight against the “mis-education of the Negro” by helping teachers and students to see themselves and their mission as set apart from an anti-Black world. Teachers, students, families, and communities worked together, using Woodson’s materials and methods as they fought for power in schools and continued the work of fugitive pedagogy. Forged in slavery, embodied by Woodson, this tradition of escape remains essential for teachers and students today.
Author | : Dave Johnson |
Publisher | : How to Do Everything |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 9780072194135 |
Download How to Do Everything with MP3 and Digital Music Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Explains how to create, download, upload, play, and remaster MP3 and digital music files; profiles services like Napster, Aimster, and Gnutella; and examines the latest MP3 players.
Author | : Byrd Baylor |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2014-07-08 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1481417193 |
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A band of men sat huddled in a cave Where coals of fire glowed warm and red. Boy lay curled on a bed of leaves But he sat up when an old man said: "This thought keeps spinning in my head. There must be caves just like our own Somewhere And other axes made of stone Somewhere And other men like me." Though only Boy shares his dream, the old man leaves the tribe to search for what the world may hold. Boy does the old man's work in his absence and watches hopefully for his return... For any good thing Can happen when The world is full of Tribes of men Who know that they have brothers. First published in 1965 and long out of print, Byrd Baylor's powerful story is newly illustrated with Ronald Himler's vigorous yet tender pictures.
Author | : Ellen Gruber Garvey |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 2012-11-29 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0199927693 |
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Featuring over 50 rare and hard-to-find illustrations, 'Writing with Scissors' presents a fascinating cultural history of scrapbooks in America.
Author | : Jeffrey Kahn |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 359 |
Release | : 2013-04-19 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0472118587 |
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An engaging exploration of the legal and policy questions surrounding U.S. national security and international travel
Author | : Kelly Oxford |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2017-04-18 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 0062322796 |
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“Kelly is part geek, part freak. When You Find Out The World Is Against You shows us ourselves: our sensitivities, our awkward moments, our strange desires. She takes us through summer camp, dating, rape culture, Trump, death . . . Kelly Oxford c’est moi.” — James Franco “Two things I’m grateful for: how imperfect Kelly Oxford is at life and decision-making, and how terrific she is at writing about what a goddamn mess she is.” — Patton Oswalt “Kelly Oxford’s writing is hilarious and fearless. She’s the badass Canadian sister I never had.” — Mindy Kaling “I have worshipped the mind of Kelly Oxford for eons. Kelly Oxford’s concise, whip-smart observations feel eerily universal. When You Find Out the World is Against You shows that there is something to be learned from even the most absurd or devastating moments of life.” — Jill Soloway “Kelly Oxford is a beautiful writer. She finds beauty in the mundane and humor in everyday eccentricities. She is our present-day, funny Joan Didion.” — Gia Coppola
Author | : Marcel Proust |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 764 |
Release | : 1927 |
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