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Class dismissed : when colleges ignore inequality and students pay the price / by Jack, Anthony Abraham,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."A book that examines how structural inequalities directly influence undergraduate life. Universities love to talk about diversity. They spend millions of dollars advertising just how diverse they are, offering diversity statistics that are personalized with pictures. But Anthony Jack argues that this is a superficial approach. He calls it a 'gift shop' approach that displays groups like trinkets and fails to truly serve students from underrepresented groups. Moreover, social class is almost entirely absent from the conversation. Never before have the platitudes of diversity left universities ill-prepared to support their students--especially those who are lower-income and/or first generation--than during the COVID-19 pandemic. This book sheds lights on how entrenched inequalities in students' homes and communities shape undergraduate life through the lens of how students coped with COVID-19, navigated social unrest, and experienced problems of race. Jack draws on 160 in-depth interviews with a representative sample of Asian, Black, Latino, Native and White undergraduates at Harvard and 20 interviews with students from other universities. He first examines students' home lives prior to college and campus closures and explores how the pandemic shaped their lives away from campus. He looks at those who have jobs and explores how the divergent work experiences that students have shape their broader college experience. He looks at students' strategies for navigating campus, including peer group formation and acclimation to college. The final empirical chapter explores how students understand and navigate racial unrest both on campus and in America and how their experiences vary by race. The conclusion will outline sensible and practical solutions to aid colleges in their quest to help all students"--
Subjects: Minorities; Minority college students; Universities and colleges; Educational equalization;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Mapping modernisms : art, indigeneity, colonialism / by Harney, Elizabeth,editor.(CARDINAL)286065; Phillips, Ruth B.(Ruth Bliss),1945-editor.(CARDINAL)182383;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-408) and index.Reinventing Zulu tradition: the modernism of Zizwezenyanga Qwabe's figurative relief panels / Sandra Klopper -- "Hooked forever on primitive peoples": James Houston and the transformation of "Eskimo handicrafts" to Inuit art / Heather Igloliorte -- Making pictures on baskets: modern Indian painting in an expanded field / Bill Anthes -- An intersection: Bill Reid, Henry Speck, and the mapping of modern Northwest Coast art / Karen Duffek -- Modernism on display: negotiating value in exhibitions of Māori art, 1958-1973 / Damian Skinner -- "Artist of PNG?" : Mathias Kauage and Melanesian modernism / Nicholas Thomas -- Modernism and the art of Albert Namatjira / Ian McLean -- Cape Dorset cosmopolitans: making "local" prints in global modernity / Norman Vorano -- Natural synthesis: art, theory, and the politics of decolonization in mid-twentieth-century Nigeria / Chika Okeke-Agulu -- Being modern, becoming native: George Morrison's surrealist journey home / W. Jackson Rushing III -- Falling into the world: the global art world of Aloï Pilioko and Nicolaï Michoutouchkine / Peter Brunt -- Constellations and coordinates: repositioning postwar Paris in stories of African modernisms / Elizabeth Harney -- Conditions of engagement: mobility, modernism, and modernity in the art of Jackson Hlungwani and Sydney Kumalo / Anitra Nettleton -- The modernist lens of Lutterodt Studios / Erin Haney.Mapping Modernisms' brings together scholars working around the world to address the modern arts produced by indigenous and colonized artists. Expanding the contours of modernity and its visual products, the contributors illustrate how these artists engaged with ideas of Primitivism through visual forms and philosophical ideas. Although often overlooked in the literature on global modernisms, artists, artworks, and art patrons moved within and across national and imperial borders, carrying, appropriating, or translating objects, images, and ideas. These itineraries made up the dense networks of modern life, contributing to the crafting of modern subjectivities and of local, transnationally-inflected modernisms. Addressing the silence on indigeneity in established narratives of modernism, the contributors decenter art history's traditional Western orientation and prompt a re-evaluation of canonical understandings of twentieth-century art history. 'Mapping Modernisms' is the first book in Modernist Exchanges, a multivolume project dedicated to rewriting the history of modernism and modernist art to include artists, theorists, art forms, and movements from around the world.
Subjects: Indigenous art.; Modernism (Art);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Letters to the Purple Satin Killer / by Chaplinsky, Joshua,author.; Perkins, Roddy,writer of foreword.;
"Jonas Williker is considered one of the most sadistic serial murderers of the modern era. This epistolary novel explores the aftermath of his arrest and the psychological trauma of those who lived through it. The Pennsylvania native brutalized his way into the zeitgeist during the early part of the new millennium, leaving a trail of corpses across five states before his eventual arrest. All told, Williker was responsible for the rape and murder of 23 women, and is suspected in the deaths of dozens more. His calling card—a torn piece of fabric found on or inside the bodies of his victims—helped popularize his now ubiquitous nickname. The Purple Satin Killer. In the years following his arrest, Jonas Williker received hundreds of letters in prison. Collected here, these letters offer a unique glimpse into a depraved mind through a human lens, including contributions from family, the bereaved, and self-professed "fans." They represent a chilling portrait of the American psyche, skewering a media obsessed culture where murderers are celebrities to revere. What you learn about the man from these letters will shock you, but not as much as what you learn about yourself." --
Subjects: Epistolary fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction); Novels.; Romans.; Serial murderers; Psychic trauma;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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On repentance and repair : making amends in an unapologetic world / by Ruttenberg, Danya,author.(CARDINAL)664822;
Includes bibliographical references and index.A repentance overview -- Harm in the public sphere -- Institutional obligations -- On national repentance -- Justice systems -- Forgiveness -- Atonement."American culture focuses on letting go of grudges and redemption narratives instead of the perpetrator's obligations or recompense for harmed parties. As survivor communities have pointed out, these emphases have too often only caused more harm. But Danya Ruttenberg knew there was a better model, rooted in the work of the medieval philosopher Maimonides. For Maimonides, upon whose work Ruttenberg elaborates, forgiveness is much less important than the repair work to which the person who caused harm is obligated. The word traditionally translated as repentance really means something more like return, and in this book, returning is a restoration, as much as is possible, to the victim, and, for the perpetrator of harm, a coming back, in humility and intentionality, to behaving as the person we might like to believe we are. Maimonides laid out 5 steps: naming and owning harm; starting to change/transformation; restitution and accepting consequences; apology; and making different choices. Applying this lens to both our personal relationships and some of the most significant and painful issues of our day, including systemic racism and the legacy of enslavement, sexual violence and harassment in the wake of #MeToo, and Native American land rights, On Repentance and Repair helps us envision a way forward. Rooted in traditional Jewish concepts while doggedly accessible and available to people from any, or no, religious background, On Repentance and Repair is a book for anyone who cares about creating a country and culture that is more whole than the one in which we live, and for anyone who has been hurt or who is struggling to take responsibility for their mistakes" --On repentance applies an ancient framework of repentance and repair to our personal lives today, to the contemporary public square, to institutions, and to national policy in ways that could transform our society and our culture" --
Subjects: Religious materials.; Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204; Repentance.; Reconciliation;
Available copies: 10 / Total copies: 11
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Collision of worlds : a deep history of the fall of Aztec Mexico and the forging of New Spain / by Carballo, David M.,author.(CARDINAL)835702;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Preface -- Guide to pronunciation and spelling -- Deep timeline -- Fifteenth - sixteenth - century timeline -- Mexico, Spain, and their deep histories of place -- Mesoamerica : A deep history -- Iberia : A deep history -- Mexico and Spain on the eve of encounter -- Invasion of the Mesoamerican coast -- Old foes, new allies -- The Spanish - Mexica War -- Forging a New Spain -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index."Mexico of five centuries ago was witness to one of the most momentous encounters between human societies, when a group of Spaniards led by Hernando Cortés joined forces with tens of thousands of Mesoamerican allies to topple the mighty Aztec empire. It served as a template for the forging of much of Latin America and began the globalized world we inhabit today. This violent encounter and the new colonial order it created, a New Spain, was millennia in the making, with independent cultural developments on both sides of the Atlantic and their fateful entanglement during the pivotal Aztec-Spanish war of 1519-1521. 'Collision of Worlds' examines the deep history of this encounter with an archaeological lens - one that considers depth in the richly layered cultures of Mexico and Spain, like the depths that archaeologists reveal through excavation to chart early layers of human history. It offers a unique perspective on the encounter through its temporal depth and focus on the physical world of places and things, their similarities and differences in trans-Atlantic perspective, and their interweaving in an encounter characterized by conquest and colonialism, but also active agency and resilience on the part of Native peoples."--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Aztecs; Indians of Mexico;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Black country music : listening for revolutions / by Royster, Francesca T.,author.(CARDINAL)860857;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-219) and index.Introduction. Where my people at? -- Uneasy listening : tuning into Tina Turner's queer frequencies in Tina turns the country on! and other albums -- "Love you, my brother" : Darius Rucker's bro-intimacy and acts of sonic freedom -- How to be an outlaw : Beyoncé's Daddy lessons -- Valerie June : ghost catcher -- Can the Black banjo speak? Notes on Songs of Our Native Daughters -- Thirteen ways of looking at Lil Nas X's Old town road -- Epilogue. Black country afrofuturisms : Mickey Guyton, Rissi Palmer, and DeLila Black.""What happens when we look at US country music through a black feminist and queer eye?" Francesca Royster suggests it reveals a group of mostly invisible fans and performers in a "white" musical genre, some of whom are intervening in that space in ways that are creative, risky and inherently "soulful." While loving country music can be an exercise in shaming and rejection for these fans, the music is also a space of creativity, resistance, and power. Royster contends that the pleasures country music offers some Black listeners can be connected to Eve Sedgwick's idea of queerness as "the open mesh of possibilities" within any group that "doesn't signify monolithically." That makes for a useful lens for exploring the ways that country music changes people as they listen, perform and consume, both as individuals and in community"--
Subjects: Country music; African Americans; African American country musicians.; Music and race; Musiciens country noirs américains.; Musique et race;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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The burning house : Jim Crow and the making of modern America / by Walker, Anders,author.(CARDINAL)304272;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-286) and index."In this dramatic reexamination of the Jim Crow South, Anders Walker demonstrates that racial segregation fostered not simply terror and violence, but also diversity, one of our most celebrated ideals. He investigates how prominent intellectuals like Robert Penn Warren, James Baldwin, Eudora Welty, Ralph Ellison, Flannery O'Connor, and Zora Neale Hurston found pluralism in Jim Crow, a legal system that created two worlds, each with its own institutions, traditions, even cultures. The intellectuals discussed in this book all agreed that black culture was resilient, creative, and profound, brutally honest in its assessment of American history. By contrast, James Baldwin likened White culture to a "burning house," a frightening place that endorsed racism and violence to maintain dominance. Why should Black Americans exchange their experience for that? Southern whites, meanwhile, saw themselves preserving a rich cultural landscape against the onslaught of mass culture and federal power, a project carried to the highest levels of American law by Supreme Court justice and Virginia native Lewis F. Powell, Jr. Anders Walker shows how a generation of scholars and judges has misinterpreted Powell's definition of diversity in the landmark case Regents v. Bakke, forgetting its Southern origins and weakening it in the process. By resituating the decision in the context of Southern intellectual history, Walker places diversity on a new footing, independent of affirmative action but also free from the constraints currently placed on it by the Supreme Court. With great clarity and insight, he offers a new lens through which to understand the history of civil rights in the United States"--Publisher's description
Subjects: African Americans; African Americans;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Killing Rasputin : the murder that ended the Russian Empire / by Nelipa, Margarita.(CARDINAL)788336;
"Written in three parts, KIlling Rasputin begins with a biography that describes how a simple unkempt "holy man" from the wilds of Siberia became a friend of Emperor Nicholas II and his empress, Alexandra, at the most crucial moment in Russian history. Part Two examines the infamous murder of Rasputin through the lens of a "cold case" homicide investigation. And lastly, the book considers the connection between a cold-blooded assassination and the revolution that followed; a revolution that led to civil war and the rise of the Soviet Union. Unique about this book on Rasputin, is that the author combines Russian heritage (her parents were forced out of Russia during World War II and arrived as refugees in Australia in 1948) with medical science and legal training. Nelipa relied on Russian-language sources that she translated rather than depend on the interpretations of others. Her primary sources include police documents and witness testimonies, an autopsy report, diaries, letters and memoirs written in their native language by the participants in these historic events. Secondary sources include Russian-languages newspapers and other publications from that era. The narrative is copiously referenced and augmented with photographs (including graphic forensic photographs) and other documents, some of them published here for the first time. Step into the imperial court of a 300-year-old dynasty in its final days with one of the most fascinating characters ever to grab our imaginations, judge whether Margarita Nelipa makes her case regarding his death, and if you agree that it was "the murder that ended the Russian empire""--Publisher.
Subjects: Biographies.; Rasputin, Grigoriĭ Efimovich, 1869-1916.; Rasputin, Grigoriĭ Efimovich, 1869-1916; Mystics; Healers; Courts and courtiers.; Death.; Healers.; Mystics.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Pocahontas and the English boys : caught between cultures in early Virginia / by Kupperman, Karen Ordahl,1939-author.(CARDINAL)143694;
"Pocahontas and the English Boys" explores the culture of Early Virginia."--Provided by publisher.Includes bibliographical references and index.Settling in -- New realities -- Knowledge sought and gained -- Pocahontas becomes Rebecca Rolfe -- English experiences -- Virginia's transformation -- Atlantic identities.In Pocahontas and the English Boys, the esteemed historian Karen Ordahl Kupperman shifts the lens on the well-known narrative of Virginia's founding to reveal the previously untold and utterly compelling story of the youths who, often unwillingly, entered into cross-cultural relationships--and became essential for the colony's survival. Their story gives us unprecedented access to all the players in early Virginia. Kupperman presents the real story of Pocahontas, who, from the age of ten, acted as emissary for her father, the great Powhatan, alongside the never-before-told intertwined stories of Thomas Savage, Henry Spelman, and Robert Poole, young English boys who were sent to live with powerful Native leaders and became important intermediaries. Pocahontas and the English Boys is a riveting seventeenth-century story of intrigue and danger, knowledge and power, and four youths who lived out their lives between cultures. As Pocahontas, Thomas, Henry, and Robert collaborated and conspired in carrying messages and trying to smooth out difficulties, they never knew when they might be caught up in developing hostilities. While their knowledge and role in controlling communication gave them status and a degree of power, their relationships with both sides meant that no one trusted them completely. Written by an expert in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Atlantic history, [this book] unearths gems from the archives--Henry Spelman's memoir, travel accounts, letters, and official reports and records of meetings of the governor and council in Virginia--and draws on recent archeology to share the stories of the young people who were key influencers of their day and whose stories are now set to transform our understanding of early Virginia.
Subjects: Biographies.; Pocahontas, -1617.; Savage, Thomas, -1635.; Spelman, Henry, 1595-1623.; Poole, Robert, active 17th century.; Powhatan Indians;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 7
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Braiding sweetgrass : indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the teachings of plants / by Kimmerer, Robin Wall,author.(CARDINAL)340499;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-388).Planting Sweetgrass -- Skywoman Falling -- The Council of Pecans -- The Gift of Strawberries -- An Offering -- Asters and Goldenrod -- Learning the Grammar of Animacy -- Tending Sweetgrass -- Maple Sugar Moon -- Witch Hazel -- A Mother's Work -- The Consolation of Water Lilies -- Allegiance to Gratitude -- Picking Sweetgrass -- Epiphany in the Beans -- The Three Sisters -- Wisgaak Gokpenagen: a Black Ash basket -- Mishkos Kenomagwen : The Teachings of Grass -- Maple Nation: A Citizenship Guide -- The Honorable Harvest -- Braiding Sweetgrass -- In the Footsteps of Nanabozho: Becoming Indigenous to Place -- The Sound of Silverbells -- Sitting in a Circle -- Burning Cascade Head -- Putting Down Roots -- Umbilicaria: The belly Button of the World -- Old-Growth Children -- Witness to the Rain -- Burning Sweetgrass -- Windigo Footprints -- The Sacred and the Superfund -- People of Corn, People of Light -- Collateral damage -- Shkitagen: People of the Seventh Fire -- Defeating Windigo -- Epilogue: Returning the Gift."An inspired weaving of indigenous knowledge, plant science, and personal narrative from a distinguished professor of science and a Native American whose previous book, Gathering Moss, was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing. As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders, family, and history that the Potawatomi, as well as a majority of other cultures indigenous to this land, consider plants and animals to be our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowing together to reveal what it means to see humans as "the younger brothers of creation." As she explores these themes she circles toward a central argument: the awakening of a wider ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgement and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the world. Once we begin to listen for the languages of other beings, we can begin to understand the innumerable life-giving gifts the world provides us and learn to offer our thanks, our care, and our own gifts in return"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Kimmerer, Robin Wall.; Indian philosophy.; Ethnoecology.; Philosophy of nature.; Human ecology; Nature; Human-plant relationships.; Botany; Potawatomi Indians; Potawatomi Indians;
Available copies: 20 / Total copies: 66
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