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Subject to display : reframing race in contemporary installation art / by González, Jennifer A.(CARDINAL)275351;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-277) and index.Introduction : subject to display -- James Luna : artifacts and fictions -- Fred Wilson : material museology -- Amalia Mesa-Bains : divine allegories -- Pepón Osorio : no limits -- Renée Green : genealogies of contact.Over the past two decades, artists James Luna, Fred Wilson, Amalia Mesa-Bains, Pepon Osorio, and Renée Green have had a profound impact on the meaning and practice of installation art in the United States. In Subject to Display, Jennifer Gonzalez offers the first sustained analysis of their contribution, linking the history and legacy of race discourse to innovations in contemporary art. Race, writes Gonzalez, is a social discourse that has a visual history. The collection and display of bodies, images, and artifacts in museums and elsewhere is a primary means by which a nation tells the story of its past and locates the cultures of its citizens in the present. All of the five American installation artists Gonzalez considers have explored the practice of putting human subjects and their cultures on display by staging elaborate dioramas or site-specific interventions in galleries and museums; in doing so, they have created powerful social commentary of the politics of space or power of display in settings that mimic the very spaces that they critique. These artists' installations have not only contributed to the transformation of contemporary art and museum culture, they have also linked Latino, African American, and Native American subjects to the broader spectrum of historical colonialism, race dominance, and visual culture. From Luna's museum installation of his own body and belongings as "artifacts" and Wilson's provocative juxtapositions of museum objects to Mesa-Bains's allegorical home altars, Osorio's condensed spaces (bedrooms, living rooms; barbershops, prison cells) and Green's genealogies of cultural contact, the theoretical and critical endeavors of these artists demonstrate how race discourse is grounded in a visual technology of display.
Subjects: Installations (Art); Art, American; Art, American; Minority artists; Race in art.;
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After whiteness : an education in belonging / by Jennings, Willie James,1961-author.(CARDINAL)845975;
Includes bibliographical references.Prologue: secrets -- Fragments -- Designs -- Buildings -- Motions -- Eros -- For further thought: beyond the end.Theological education has always been about formation: first of people, then of communities, then of the world. If we continue to promote whiteness and its related ideas of masculinity and individualism in our educational work, it will remain diseased and thwart our efforts to heal the church and the world. But if theological education aims to form people who can gather others together through border-crossing pluralism and God-drenched communion, we can begin to cultivate the radical belonging that is at the heart of God's transformative work. In this inaugural volume of the Theological Education between the Times series, Willie James Jennings shares the insights gained from his extensive experience in theological education, most notably as the dean of a major university's divinity school--where he remains one of the only African Americans to have ever served in that role. He reflects on the distortions hidden in plain sight within the world of education but holds onto abundant hope for what theological education can be and how it can position itself at the front of a massive cultural shift away from white, Western cultural hegemony. This must happen through the formation of what Jennings calls erotic souls within ourselves--erotic in the sense that denotes the power and energy of authentic connection with God and our fellow human beings. After Whiteness is for anyone who has ever questioned why theological education still matters. It is a call for Christian intellectuals to exchange isolation for intimacy and embrace their place in the crowd--just like the crowd that followed Jesus and experienced his miracles. It is part memoir, part decolonial analysis, and part poetry--a multimodal discourse that deliberately transgresses boundaries, as Jennings hopes theological education will do, too.
Subjects: Theology;
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Feeding the other : Whiteness, privilege, and neoliberal stigma in food pantries / by De Souza, Rebecca,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: neoliberal stigma, food pantries, and an unjust food system -- Key conceptual themes -- Voices of hunger: making the invisible visible -- The "good white women" at the Chum Food Shelf -- Spiritual entrepreneurs at Ruby's Pantry -- Cultures of suspicion: making visible the invisible -- Health citizens: choosing good food amid scarcity -- Conclusion: imagining a future for food pantries."In Feeding the Other, Rebecca De Souza argues that food pantries stigmatize their clients through a discourse that emphasizes hard work, self-help, and economic productivity rather than food justice and equity. De Souza describes this "framing, blaming, and shaming" as "neoliberal stigma" that recasts the structural issue of hunger as a problem for the individual hungry person. De Souza shows how neoliberal stigma plays out in practice through a comparative case analysis of two food pantries in Duluth, Minnesota. Doing so, she documents the seldom acknowledged voices, experiences, and realities of people living with hunger."--
Subjects: Case studies.; Food banks; Paternalism.; Poor; Racism.; Social stratification.; Stigma (Social psychology); Racism.; Stigma.;
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Sylvia Plath's The bell jar / by Bloom, Haroldauthor of introduction, etc.editor.(DLC)n 79003258(CARDINAL)138025;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction -- Biographical sketch -- The story behind the story -- List of characters -- Summary and analysis -- Howard Moss on illness and disclosure in the novel -- Vance Bourjaily on pseudonyms and alternate identities -- Robert Scholes on Plath's use of realism -- Linda W. Wagner on the female coming-of-age novel -- E. Miller Budick on Plath's feminist discourse -- Diane S. Bonds on Esther's tentative rebirth -- Paula Bennett on models of womanhood -- Pat Macpherson on the portrayal of social and gender conventions -- Tim Kendall on Esther's search for identity -- Marilyn Boyer on language and disability -- Kate A. Baldwin on the novel's social and political contexts -- Janet Badia on pop culture appropriations of The Bell Jar -- Works by Sylvia Plath -- Annotated bibliography.
Subjects: Plath, Sylvia.;
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Insurrection : what the January 6 assault on the Capitol reveals about America and democracy / by Short, John R.,Author(DLC)n 79143409 ;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-244) and index.A profound analysis of the factors underlying the 2021 invasion of the US Capitol, arriving as the nation looks ahead to another tumultuous presidential election in 2024.   Insurrection offers a profound and incisive analysis of the underlying factors that culminated in the assault on Washington, DC's Capitol Building on that fateful day: January 6th, 2021. Going far beyond mere journalistic accounts, the book delves into structural trends within the United States, providing a broader and deeper context for comprehending the magnitude of the uprising. It explores the crisis of democracy, escalating violence, widening inequality, and the prominence of conspiratorial discourse within American politics. By examining both long-term issues as well as the tumultuous events of 2020, including the pandemic, policing challenges, and the fiercely contested presidential election, this book uncovers the catalysts behind conspiracy theories and the politics of outrage. This compelling narrative is essential reading for all those interested in the contemporary face of the United States.
Subjects: Trump, Donald, 1946-; United States. Capitol Police.; Capitol Riot, Washington, D.C., 2021.; Political violence; Domestic terrorism; Riots; Presidents;
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Catch-67 : the left, the right, and the legacy of the Six-Day War / by Goodman, Micah,author.; Levy, Eylon,translator.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-225) and index.Introduction: can the Israeli national conversation be healed? -- Part I. Political ideologies in crisis -- Right and left - a tale of two shifts -- The right's ideological shift -- The left's ideological shift -- Religious Zionism and the Messianic shift -- Part II. Political ideas in crisis -- Both sides are right -- A confusing paradox -- No security problem? -- No demographic problem? -- The moral dilemma -- The Jewish dilemma -- From confusion to understanding -- Part III. The sphere of pragmatic discourse -- The state and its dreams -- The partial-peace plan -- The divergence plan -- Political pragmatism as a bridge between the left and the right -- Afterword.Since the Six-Day War, Israelis have been entrenched in a national debate over whether to keep the land they conquered or to return some, if not all, of the territories to Palestinians. In a balanced and insightful analysis, Micah Goodman deftly sheds light on the ideas that have shaped Israelis' thinking on both sides of the debate, and among secular and religious Jews about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Contrary to opinions that dominate the discussion, he shows that the paradox of Israeli political discourse is that both sides are right in what they affirm--and wrong in what they deny. Although he concludes that the conflict cannot be solved, Goodman is far from a pessimist and explores how instead it can be reduced in scope and danger through limited, practical steps. Through philosophical critique and political analysis, Goodman builds a creative, compelling case for pragmatism in a dispute where a comprehensive solution seems impossible.
Subjects: Arab-Israeli conflict; Israel-Arab War, 1967; Religious Zionism; Right and left (Political science); Social conflict;
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The original atheists : first thoughts on nonbelief / by Joshi, S. T.,1958-editor of compilation.(CARDINAL)510517;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-275) and index.
Subjects: Atheism.; Atheists.;
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Margaret Atwood's The handmaid's tale / by Bloom, Harold.(CARDINAL)138025;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Biographical Sketch of Margaret Atwood -- The Story Behind the Story -- Summary/Analysis -- Descriptive List of Characters -- Critical Views -- Margaret Atwood on the Creation of The Handmaid's Tale -- Barbara Ehrenreich on Feminist Dystopia -- Catharine R. Stimpson on "Atwood Woman" -- Amin Malak on Atwood in the Dystopian Tradition -- Arnold E. Davidson on "Historical Notes" -- Marta Caminero-Santangelo on Resistent Postmodernism -- Glenn Deer on Sanctioned Narrative Authority -- Jamie Dopp on Limited Perspective -- Pamela Cooper on Voyerism and the Filming of The Handmaid's Tale -- Karen Stein on Frame and Discourse -- Lois Feuer on The Handmaid's Tale and 1984.
Subjects: Atwood, Margaret, 1939-; Fantasy fiction, Canadian;
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The rule of metaphor : the creation of meaning in language / by Ricœur, Paul,author.(CARDINAL)783841;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Paul Ricoeur is widely regarded as one of the most distinguished philosophers of our time. In The Rule of Metaphor this intellectual giant of our age seeks 'to show how language can extend itself to its very limits, forever discovering new resonances within itself.' Recognizing the fundamental power of language in constructing the world we perceive, Ricoeur reveals the processes by which linguistic imagination creates and recreates meaning through metaphor. Taking further his acclaimed analysis of the power of myth and symbol, Ricoeur invites us to explore the many layers of language in order to rediscover what that meaning might be. A fruitful and insightful study of how language affects our understanding of the world, this book is also an indispensable work for all those seeking some kind of meaning in uncertain times."--Jacket.
Subjects: Metaphor.; Rhetoric.; Language and languages; Metaphor in literature.;
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Racial thinking in the United States : uncompleted independence / by Spickard, Paul R.,1950-(CARDINAL)275288; Daniel, G. Reginald,1949-2022.(CARDINAL)275287;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Independence possible / Paul Spickard, G. Reginald Daniel -- PART 1. CREATING RACIAL HIERARCHY IN SLAVERY AND COLONIALISM -- Either black or white : race, modernity, and the law of the excluded middle / G. Reginald Daniel -- Mustefinos are white by law : whites and people of mixed racial origins in historical and comparative perspective / Stephen A. Small -- PART 2. ANOMALIES IN THE RACIAL BINARY -- Not color but character : Alice Dunbar-Nelson's uncompleted argument / Hanna Wallinger -- The power of blackness : mixed-race leaders and the monoracial ideal /Paul Spickard -- "The whites have created modern Honolulu" : ethnicity, racial stratification, and the discourse of aloha / Lori Pierce -- PART 3. MONORACIAL CHALLENGES TO RACIAL HIERARCHY -- Looking backward, moving adelante : a critical analysis of the African American and Chicana/o civil rights movements / Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval -- The Asian American movement : a quest for racial equality, social justice, and political empowerment / William Wei --Black essentialism and the Afrocentric idea : the demise of Eurocentrism or Eurocentrism in a new guise? / G. Reginald Daniel -- What's critical about white studies / Paul Spickard -- PART 4. MULTIRACIAL CHALLENGES TO THE RACIAL BINARY -- Black no more or more than black? : multiracial identity politics and the multiracial movement / G. Reginald Daniel --Race and multiraciality : multiracial challenges to monoracialism / Michael C. Thornton -- The language of mestizaje in a renewed rhetoric of black theology / Zipporah G. Glass.
Subjects: Race awareness; Racism; Ethnicity; Multiracial people; Social movements; Public opinion; Racism.; Social movements.;
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