Download or read book Groping toward Democracy written by Priscilla A. Dowden-White and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2011-03-23 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decades before the 1960s, social reformers began planting the seeds for the Modern Civil Rights era. During the period spanning World Wars I and II, St. Louis, Missouri, was home to a dynamic group of African American social welfare reformers. The city’s history and culture were shaped both by those who would construct it as a southern city and by the heirs of New England abolitionism. Allying with white liberals to promote the era’s new emphasis on “the common good,” black reformers confronted racial segregation and its consequences of inequality and, in doing so, helped to determine the gradual change in public policy that led to a more inclusive social order. In Groping toward Democracy: African American Social Welfare Reform in St. Louis, 1910–1949, historian Priscilla A. Dowden-White presents an on-the-ground view of local institution building and community organizing campaigns initiated by African American social welfare reformers. Through extensive research, the author places African American social welfare reform efforts within the vanguard of interwar community and neighborhood organization, reaching beyond the “racial uplift” and “behavior” models of the studies preceding hers. She explores one of the era’s chief organizing principles, the “community as a whole” idea, and deliberates on its relationship to segregation and the St. Louis black community’s methods of reform. Groping toward Democracy depicts the dilemmas organizers faced in this segregated time, explaining how they pursued the goal of full, uncontested black citizenship while still seeking to maximize the benefits available to African Americans in segregated institutions. The book’s nuanced mapping of the terrain of social welfare offers an unparalleled view of the progress brought forth by the early-twentieth-century crusade for democracy and equality. By delving into interrelated developments in health care, education, labor, and city planning, Dowden-White deftly examines St. Louis’s African American interwar history. Her in-depth archival research fills a void in the scholarship of St. Louis’s social development, and her compelling arguments will be of great interest to scholars and teachers of American urban studies and social welfare history.
Download or read book Catalogue of Copyright Entries written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries New Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1934 with total page 2380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Carrying written by Theodore Weesner and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gritty and realistic novel set at the heart of the first Iraqi war. With unapologetic candor, Weesner navigates the psychological minefield surrounding Boston native Jimmy Murphy, who carries deep wounds of shock, fear, and aggression. With his penetrative style, Weesner examines one soldier’s heart breaking journey in the midst of terror.
Download or read book The Vagina A Literary and Cultural History written by Emma L. E. Rees and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From South Park to Kathy Acker, and from Lars Von Trier to Sex and the City, women's sexual organs are demonized. Rees traces the fascinating evolution of this demonization, considering how calling the ‘c-word' obscene both legitimates and perpetuates the fractured identities of women globally. Rees demonstrates how writers, artists, and filmmakers contend with the dilemma of the vagina's puzzlingly ‘covert visibility'. In our postmodern, porn-obsessed culture, vaginas appear to be everywhere, literally or symbolically but, crucially, they are as silenced as they are objectified. The Vagina: A Literary and Cultural History examines the paradox of female genitalia through five fields of artistic expression: literature, film, TV, visual, and performance art. There is a peculiar paradox – unlike any other – regarding female genitalia. Rees focuses on this paradox of what is termed the ‘covert visibility' of the vagina and on its monstrous manifestations. That is, what happens when the female body refuses to be pathologized, eroticized, or rendered subordinate to the will or intention of another? Common, and often offensive, slang terms for the vagina can be seen as an attempt to divert attention away from the reality of women's lived sexual experiences such that we don't ‘look' at the vagina itself – slang offers a convenient distraction to something so taboo. The Vagina: A Literary and Cultural History is an important contribution to the ongoing debate in understanding the feminine identity
Download or read book Carry On Oh My Soul written by Amanda Vittitow and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2008-08-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Morgan Huntley had always considered herself plain – kind of a nerd, certainly conservative. Jeremiah Martin was gorgeous, popular, outgoing and passionate about baseball. How on Earth did the stars of these two polar opposites intertwine? No one can say, but it was a love like legends are made of. When Jeremiah’s dream of a professional baseball career rises, he risks throwing it all away for her, but Morgan sacrifices her own passionate love so he can pursue his dream. Morgan marries Will Tomlin whose charm and wit fade quickly to reveal a dark abusive past. Will’s demons haunt the relationship and Morgan finds herself the victim of emotional and physical abuse that culminates in a tragic and fatal showdown. Widowed and alone, Morgan must pick up the remnants of her life. When Jeremiah returns, Morgan wonders if she can ever truly love again. Amanda Vittitow presents a dramatic portrayal of the light and dark sides of love in Carry On, Oh My Soul.
Download or read book Luckham Plays written by Claire Luckham and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1996-12-23 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the plays Trafford Tanzi, The Dramatic Attitudes of Miss Fanny Kemble and The Seduction of Anne Boleyn Trafford Tanzi began as a pub show in Liverpool. It has since been performed all over the world and translated into a dozen languages. It plays out the story of a young woman’s life in the arena of the wrestling ring and its feminist themes are dealt with in the outrageously entertaining style of a wrestling match. In The Dramatic Attitudes of Miss Fanny Kemble, Claire Luckham looks at both slavery and the nineteenth-century acting profession through the life of a remarkable woman. The Seduction of Anne Boleyn, recently performed at the Nuffield Theatre in Southampton, is a haunting love story and a study of power in human relationships.
Download or read book The Good Work Begun and Carried on and the Final Victory Over Sin Devils and Death written by Daniel MATTHEWS and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Civvies written by Laura Ugolini and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-16 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the First World War continues to attract enormous interest. However, most attention remains concentrated on combatants, creating a misleading picture of wartime Britain: one might be forgiven for assuming that by 1918, the country had become virtually denuded of civilian men and particularly of middle-class men who – or so it seems – volunteered en masse in the early months of war. In fact, the majority of middle-class (and other) men did not enlist, but we still know little about their wartime experiences. Civvies thus takes a different approach to the history of the war and focuses on those middle-class English men who did not join up, not because of moral objections to war, but for other (much more common) reasons, notably age, family responsibilities or physical unfitness. In particular, Civvies questions whether, if serviceman were the apex of manliness, were middle-class civilian men inevitably condemned to second-class, ‘unmanly’ status?
Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library 1911 1971 written by New York Public Library. Research Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book English Fiction and Drama of the Great War 1918 39 written by John Onions and published by Springer. This book was released on 1990-03-26 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book All the Little Guns Went Bang Bang Bang written by Neil Mackay and published by Cargo Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pearse Furlong and May-Belle Mulholland are two normal eleven year-olds meeting one summer in small town Antrim, Northern Ireland, in the early 1980s. They have little in common except a shared experience of violent, abusive parents. They form an unlikely alliance and as their games and shared fantasies spin out of control their friendship becomes something much darker, with theft, arson, sickening brutality - and eventually murder - all lying ahead. Janice Forsyth, presenter of BBC Radio Scotland's The Culture Studio
Download or read book The Cumulative Book Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 2456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Register written by Edmund Burke and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Annual Register written by Edmund Burke and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continuation of the reference work that originated with Robert Dodsley, written and published each year, which records and analyzes the year’s major events, developments and trends in Great Britain and throughout the world. From the 1920s volumes of The Annual Register took the essential shape in which they have continued ever since, opening with the history of Britain, then a section on foreign history covering each country or region in turn. Following these are the chronicle of events, brief retrospectives on the year’s cultural and economic developments, a short selection of documents, and obituaries of eminent persons who died in the year.
