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Brave girl : Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers' Strike of 1909 / by Markel, Michelle.(CARDINAL)344154; Sweet, Melissa,1956-(CARDINAL)269990; Sweet, Melissa,1956-illustrator.(CARDINAL)269990;
Includes bibliographical references.An illustrated account of immigrant Clara Lemlich's pivotal role in the influential 1909 women laborer's strike describes how she worked grueling hours to acquire an education and support her family before organizing a massive walkout to protest the unfair working conditions in New York's garment district.Ages 4-9.AD760LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Lemlich, Clara, 1886-1982; Shirtwaist Makers' Strike, New York, N.Y., 1909; Strikes and lockouts; Women clothing workers; Women in the labor movement;
Available copies: 38 / Total copies: 41
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Craft : an American history / by Adamson, Glenn,author.(CARDINAL)264604;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 318-367) and index.The artisan republic -- A self-made nation -- Learn trades or die -- A more perfect union -- Americana -- Making war -- Declarations of independence -- Cut and paste -- Can craft save America?At the center of the United States' economic and social development, according to conventional wisdom, are industry and technology-while craftspeople and handmade objects are relegated to a bygone past. Renowned historian Glenn Adamson turns that narrative on its head in this innovative account, revealing makers' central role in shaping America's identity. Examine any phase of the nation's struggle to define itself, and artisans are there-from the silversmith Paul Revere and the revolutionary carpenters and blacksmiths who hurled tea into Boston Harbor, to today's "maker movement." From Mother Jones to Rosie the Riveter. From Betsy Ross to Rosa Parks. From suffrage banners to the AIDS Quilt. Adamson shows that craft has long been implicated in debates around equality, education, and class. Artisanship has often been a site of resistance for oppressed people, such as enslaved African-Americans whose skilled labor might confer hard-won agency under bondage, or the Native American makers who adapted traditional arts into statements of modernity. Theirs are among the array of memorable portraits of Americans both celebrated and unfamiliar in this richly peopled book. As Adamson argues, these artisans' stories speak to our collective striving toward a more perfect union. From the beginning, America had to be-and still remains to be-crafted.
Subjects: Industrial arts; Handicraft industries; Handicraft;
Available copies: 10 / Total copies: 10
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Creative projects using everyday materials : 33 innovative ideas for your home, yard, or back 40 / by Instructables (Firm)(CARDINAL)561157;
Furnish. Bottle cap table with resin-poured surface -- Wine barrel beer table -- Recycled tire coffee table -- Concrete lamp -- Road sign coffee table -- Reclaimed bowling lane table -- Decorate. Concrete light bulb wall hook -- Wooden candle holder -- Simple branching coat rack -- Desktop 3D string art -- Backyard. Rocket grill! -- Sand fire garden -- Concrete cylinders from cardboard tubes -- Bentwood birdhouse -- Disappearing water fountain -- DIY concrete stepping stone fossil -- Accessories. Paracord bracelet with a side release buckle -- Handyman's Valentine's gift--screw-nut ring pair -- Wood ring -- Entertain. Build a programmable mechanical music box -- Birch bark flask -- Build an inexpensive cigar box guitar at home -- Wooden beer bottle crate -- Wooden beer mug -- Kitchen. Scroll-sawed wooden bowls -- Universal knife block -- Test tube spice rack -- Shape-shifting wood trivet -- Metal. How to make a miniature plane from a coin -- How to make a steel vase -- Make your own rifle cartridge pen blanks -- Entwined aluminum-cast hearts -- How to make a metal rose."Creative Projects Using Everyday Materials features more than thirty projects designed by the users of instructables.com. These users have repurposed and reused everyday items they've found around their homes, in their backyards, or even in local junkyards to create unique furnishings and decorations for their homes and meaningful gifts for others. Equipped with the vision to not only see the latent potential and beauty in common items, but also the skills necessary to transform those objects into creative and new applications, these projects are at the core of the maker movement and can inspire us all"--
Subjects: Instructional and educational works.; Upcycling (Waste, etc.); Handicraft.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Crossing the tracks : how "untracking" can save America's schools / by Wheelock, Anne.(CARDINAL)202603;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-306).Pt. 1-Introduction -- Pt. 2-Conditions for untracking -- Pt. 3-Strategies and tools for reform -- Involving parents and the community -- Expecting the best -- Organizing and grouping for diversity -- High-level curriculum for heterogeneous groups -- Instruction and assessment for heterogenous classrooms -- What about math? -- Student apirations and untrackingOne of the most crucial controversies in educational circles today involves the practice of "tracking," or grouping students by ability from the early grades onward. Because the tests that are used to measure "ability" turn out to be a better measure of privilege or deprivation than of innate intelligence, underprivileged children are consistently relegated to the "slow track." Forced into a self-fulfilling and racist prophecy, they must contend with inferior instruction, inequitable resources, and lowered expectations - which all but guarantee their future failure. Crossing the Tracks is a groundbreaking survey of schools throughout the country that have successfully "crossed the tracks" by reintegrating their classrooms. With all the excitement attendant on any effort at monumental reform, schools from Hawaii to Maine, Minnesota to Louisiana, are changing not only the makeup of their classes but their fundamental approach to education. Wheelock documents the actual experiences of schools as they reduce or eliminate ability grouping and strive to offer superior learning environments to all students. With chapters on parental involvement, teacher training, curriculum reform, student aspirations, and examples of programs and practices that have been implemented across the nation, Crossing the Tracks is the first book to outline a specific course of action for parents, teachers, administrators, and others ready to join the "untracking" movement. With its clear writing and many practical features, including a list of successfully-untracked schools and key contact people at each school, Wheelock's text is strongly endorsed by both educators and policy makers. Crossing the Tracks should have a significant impact on our thinking about approaches to elementary and middle-school education and should play a major role in the movement to enrich the learning process for all of our students.
Subjects: Educational equalization; Educational change; Ability grouping in education.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Holding together : the hijacking of rights in America and how to reclaim them for everyone / by Shattuck, John H. F.,author.(CARDINAL)736926; Raman, Sushma,author.; Risse, Mathias,1970-author.(CARDINAL)432514;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-418) and index.Voting rights battleground -- The corrupting influence of money in politics -- Civic education : "a republic, if you can keep it" -- Bending the arc toward racial justice -- The ongoing struggle for women's rights -- From stonewall to transgender : movement for LGBTQ rights / Timothy Patrick McCarthy -- Rights of individuals with disabilities -- Economic inequality and the freedom from want -- Giving justice its due -- Building bridges, not walls : refugees and asylum-seekers -- Gun rights and public safety -- Speech, lies, and insurrection -- Religious freedom and civil rights -- Crimes of hate -- Privacy, personal data, and surveillance."A bold new assessment of the multipronged attack on American rights, and how to push back, from experts at the Fletcher School at Tufts and the Carr Center at Harvard. In fifteen accessible chapters dealing with voting rights, freedom of speech, criminal justice, gun rights, LGBTQ+ rights, disability rights, religious freedom, privacy, immigration, and more, three renowned thought-leaders, including a former assistant secretary of state, John Shattuck, Sushma Raman, and Mathias Risse present a comprehensive account of the current state of rights in America-along with concrete recommendations to policy makers and citizens for reimagining them"--
Subjects: Informational works.; Human rights; Human rights.;
Available copies: 9 / Total copies: 9
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Say yes to no debt : 12 steps to financial freedom / by Soaries, DeForest B.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-214).In 'Say Yes to No Debt,' the founder of the dfree(tm) movement gives readers 12 attainable steps to achieving financial freedom for life. Drawing on his personal experience and years of as a pastor, public policy maker, and community leader, DeForest 'Buster' Soaries, Jr. shares the twelve steps to debt-free living in this groundbreaking book-'Say Yes to No Debt.' This is not another financial literacy program assuming that all people need is information. Soaries believes living in debt is an emotional, spiritual, and psychological problem as much as it is an educational and informational problem. Here, Soaries outlines the dfree(r) lifestyle that has helped thousands of families in churches throughout the country achieve financial freedom starting with getting out of debt. By replacing the 'get more money' mentality with a 'get out of debt' approach to financial freedom, not only were thousands of people able to become debt free, churchs that have used the dfree(r) strategy have experienced increased giving by their members.
Subjects: Finance, Personal;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Let's move the needle : an activism handbook for artists, crafters, creatives, and makers / by Downey, Shannon,author.;
My "why" -- Introduction: let's get this party started -- What's old is new again : a dive into the history of craftivism -- I put the fun in uncomfortable : want to change the world? deal with your shit -- 'Cause we don't know it all : research -- Getting to the roots : identify and define the problems -- Where are my people? : creating an intentional team -- Working with what you've got : brainstorming and resource mapping -- Wait, what are we doing? : setting goals -- Ok, cool, now what? : messaging + tactics -- Well, that was fun : milestones, timelines, and assessments -- To sum it up : the activist lifestyle -- Planning templates : time to move the needle."In Let's Move the Needle, Shannon Downey, an outspoken voice in the craftivist movement for over a decade, meets burgeoning art activists where they are and provides a roadmap and accessible toolkit for every leg of their activist journey. Filled with self-reflective activities, exercises, and prompts, along with practical stories about the work of other art activists across mediums and throughout history, Let's Move the Needle educates and empowers creatives to center their art around collective action in service of political, social or community issues"--
Subjects: Handbooks and manuals.; Instructional and educational works.; Informational works.; Craftivism.; Handicraft; Political activists.;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 7
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Democracy in chains : the deep history of the radical right's stealth plan for America / by MacLean, Nancy,author.(CARDINAL)187418;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-321) and index."What is really happening to American politics? Behind the headlines of billionaires taking over our government is the surprising story of a secretive cause with deep and troubling roots. Democracy in Chains uncovers the history of the well-heeled radical right's vast network and explains why this movement doesn't want simply to change who rules, but to fundamentally alter the rules of democratic governance as we have known it in the United States. But while billionaires now drive the effort, they did not start it; a white intellectual in the embattled Jim Crow South did. Nancy MacLean names the true author of this cause's playbook--the Nobel Prize-winning economist James McGill Buchanan--and documents for the first time the strategy he and his collaborators developed over six decades to disempower the majority. In an engrossing narrative, MacLean shows how Buchanan first forged his ideas in Virginia, in a last-gasp attempt to preserve the power of the white elite in the wake of Brown v. Board of Education. Right-wing corporate donors and their foundations were only too eager to support his work in teaching others how to divide the citizenry into "makers" and "takers." When, on his messianic mission to rewrite the social contract of the modern world, multibillionaire Charles Koch discovered the utility of Buchanan's thought, he deployed a vast, many-armed apparatus to carry out a strategy steered by it. By showing when and how Buchanan figured out a way to prevent those without great property or power from using their majority votes to better their lives, MacLean fills in the missing piece of the increasingly sinister story of dark money and radical right politics. She decodes the language and strategic moves Buchanan taught the movement to employ in order to hide its true intentions even from its own base of support. Using the insiders' own words, she exposes what is in store for the country if this movement, already gaining strength, actually succeeds. There can be no denying now the logic and the endgame of the capitalist right's relentless push to remodel our public life. Without Buchanan's ideas and Koch's money, the libertarian cause would not have succeeded in its stealth takeover of the Republican Party as a delivery mechanism. Mike Pence's rise puts a longtime loyalist in the White House, backed by a phalanx of fighters in the House, the Senate, a majority of state governments, and many courts across the country. Their agenda includes measures calculated to kill off unions, keep millions of citizens from voting, privatize everything from schools to highways to Medicare and Social Security, stop any action on climate change--and transform the legal system and amend the Constitution to lock all of this in place permanently. Democracy in Chains tells a chilling story of right-wing academics and big money run amok. This tour de force of historical research and synthesis traces the lineage of current events and makes their ultimate import unmistakable. Strikingly original, it is also a call to arms to protect the achievements of twentieth-century American self-government, and democracy itself"--Dust jacket flaps.
Subjects: Buchanan, James M.; Economics; Radicalism; Right-wing extremists;
Available copies: 34 / Total copies: 37
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Latino stats : American Hispanics by the numbers / by Malavé, Idelisse,author.(CARDINAL)377832; Giordani, Esti,author.(CARDINAL)409668;
Includes bibliographical references and index."At a time when politics is seemingly ruled by ideology and emotion and when immigration is one of the most contentious topics, it is more important than ever to cut through the rhetoric and highlight, in numbers, the reality of the broad spectrum of Latino life in the United States. Latinos are both the largest and fastest-growing racial/ethnic group in the country, even while many continue to fight for their status as Americans. Respected movement builder and former leader of the Tides Foundation Idelisse Malave; and her daughter, Celeste Giordani--a communications strategist for the Social Transformation Project--distills the profusion of data, identifying the most telling and engaging facts to assemble a portrait of contemporary Latino life with glimpses of the past and future. From politics and the economy to popular culture, the arts, and ideas about race, gender, and family, Latino Stats both catalogs the inequities that plague Latino communities and documents Latinos' growing power and influence on American life. An essential tool for advocates, educators, and policy makers, Latino Stats will be a go-to guidebook for anyone wanting to raise their awareness and increase their understanding of the complex state of our nation"--
Subjects: Statistics.; Hispanic Americans;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Gullah spirituals : the sound of freedom and protest in the South Carolina Sea Islands / by Crawford, Eric Sean,author.(CARDINAL)856072; Crawford, Bessie Foster,author.(CARDINAL)856071;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-230) and index.The West African song tradition -- The Penn School -- The Penn School community outreach efforts -- Saint Helena's spirituals during the World Wars and Prohibition -- Saint Helena's spirituals during the civil rights movement -- An examination of two Saint Helena song leaders -- Conclusion -- Final observations -- Appendix. The Gullah songbook."Eric Sean Crawford, associate professor of music and director of the Joyner Institute for Gullah and African Diaspora Studies at Coastal Carolina University, examines the history and diffusion of Gullah spirituals, an important and at times overlooked aspect of Gullah culture in the Lowcountry and Sea Islands of South Carolina and Georgia. Crawford's work focuses primarily on the South Carolina sea island of St. Helena in Beaufort County. While much has been done to study, preserve, and interpret Gullah culture, Crawford writes, "the shouting and rowing songs, containing the strongest West African retentions, are mostly lost and forgotten. This book illuminates the remarkable history, survival, and influence of this island's music since the earliest recordings in the 1860s." While Crawford's focus may be the St. Helena spirituals, his study is not limited only to that one place. Instead he examines the diffusion and impact of the music and culture that emanated from this one small island community. He follows the Gullah spirituals through to the musical arrangements of the famed Hampton Singers and later shows how the songs served as a rallying point and cultural bridge, helping to build support for America's involvement in World War I and as a way of easing racial tensions both at home and abroad. He shows how patriotic texts and themes were added to the spirituals and helped to make them popular wartime songs. Hampton University folklorist Natalie Curtis, for example, used the melody from the St. Helena spiritual "Ride On, Jesus" in her wartime anthem "Hymn of Freedom," which was sung not only in churches of the time, but also to gatherings of American soldiers mobilizing for war. Part of the goal of the US Army in choosing the song was to build African American support for the war, and also ease racial tensions within the (still segregated) ranks. Later, civil rights activists in the 1950s and 60s would find their own spiritual and political uses for the songs, as many were rediscovered and disseminated throughout the country as protest songs. The songs were not reimagined as protest songs, but rather had always been, and Crawford traces this long trajectory "from their beginnings in West Africa and later oppression by white missionaries to their height as songs for social change and black identity in the twentieth century." Crawford--an ethnomusicologist by training--relies not only upon archival records, but also conducted his own fieldwork, personal recordings, and oral interviews to develop his understanding of St. Helena and its music. His work, however, diverges from these earlier studies in its attempt to tell the stories not only of the music, but also of the music makers. This includes song leaders Minnie Gracie Gadson and Deacon James Garfield Smalls, who Crawford discusses in Chapter 7 and who both shared their own knowledge and memory of the St. Helena spirituals with Crawford during his time conducting field recordings on the island. Finally, Crawford includes an appendix with more than fifty transcriptions of St. Helena spirituals, many no longer performed and more than half derived from his own transcriptions completed during his fieldwork. The "Gullah Songbook," as he calls it, includes notations on Gullah terminology and phrasing that is provided by educator/author/television personality Ron Daise, who was the receipient for the 2019 South Carolina Governor's Award for his work preserving and disseminating Gullah culture"--
Subjects: Spirituals (Songs); Songbooks.; Notated music.; Gullahs; Spirituals (Songs); Spirituals (Songs); African Americans;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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