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Book When Ivory Towers Were Black

Download or read book When Ivory Towers Were Black written by Sharon Egretta Sutton and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This personal history chronicles the triumph and loss of a 1960s initiative to recruit minority students to Columbia University’s School of Architecture. At the intersection of US educational, architectural, and urban history, When Ivory Towers Were Black tells the story of how an unparalleled cohort of ethnic minority students overcame institutional roadblocks to earn degrees in architecture from Columbia University. Its narrative begins with a protest movement to end Columbia’s authoritarian practices, and ends with an unsettling return to the status quo. Sharon Egretta Sutton, one of the students in question, follows two university units that led the movement toward emancipatory education: the Division of Planning and the Urban Center. She illustrates both units’ struggle to open the ivory tower to ethnic minority students and to involve those students in improving Harlem’s slum conditions. Along with Sutton’s personal perspective, the story is narrated through the oral histories of twenty-four fellow students who received an Ivy League education only to find the doors closing on their careers due to Nixon-era urban disinvestment policies.

Book Black Heart  Ivory Bones

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ellen Datlow
  • Publisher : Open Road Media
  • Release : 2014-09-30
  • ISBN : 1497668573
  • Pages : 352 pages

Download or read book Black Heart Ivory Bones written by Ellen Datlow and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 20 fairy tales hauntingly reimagined by some of today’s finest sci-fi and fantasy authors, including Joyce Carol Oates, Neil Gaiman, Tanith Lee, and more. Once upon a time, all our cherished dreams began with the words once upon a time. This is the phrase that opened our favorite tales of princes and spells and magical adventures. World Fantasy Award–winning editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling understand the power of beloved stories—and in Black Heart, Ivory Bones, their sixth anthology of reimagined fairy tales, they have gathered together stories and poetry from some of the most acclaimed writers of our time, including Neil Gaiman, Tanith Lee, Charles de Lint, and Joyce Carol Oates. But be forewarned: These fairy tales are not for children. A prideful Texas dancer is cursed by a pair of lustrous red boots . . . Goldilocks tells all about her brutal and wildly dysfunctional foster family, the Bears . . . An archaeologist in Victorian England is enchanted by a newly exhumed Sleeping Beauty . . . A prince of tabloid journalism is smitten by a trailer-park Rapunzel . . . A clockwork amusement park troll becomes sentient and sets out to foment an automaton revolution. These are but a few examples of the marvels that await within these pages—tales that range from the humorous to the sensuous to the haunting and horrifying, each one a treasure with a distinctly adult edge.

Book Upending the Ivory Tower

Download or read book Upending the Ivory Tower written by Stefan M. Bradley and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 2019 Anna Julia Cooper and C.L.R. James Award, given by the National Council for Black Studies Finalist, 2019 Pauli Murray Book Prize in Black Intellectual History, given by the African American Intellectual History Society Winner, 2019 Outstanding Book Award, given by the History of Education Society The inspiring story of the black students, faculty, and administrators who forever changed America’s leading educational institutions and paved the way for social justice and racial progress The eight elite institutions that comprise the Ivy League, sometimes known as the Ancient Eight—Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Penn, Columbia, Brown, Dartmouth, and Cornell—are American stalwarts that have profoundly influenced history and culture by producing the nation’s and the world’s leaders. The few black students who attended Ivy League schools in the decades following WWII not only went on to greatly influence black America and the nation in general, but unquestionably awakened these most traditional and selective of American spaces. In the twentieth century, black youth were in the vanguard of the black freedom movement and educational reform. Upending the Ivory Tower illuminates how the Black Power movement, which was borne out of an effort to edify the most disfranchised of the black masses, also took root in the hallowed halls of America’s most esteemed institutions of higher education. Between the close of WWII and 1975, the civil rights and Black Power movements transformed the demographics and operation of the Ivy League on and off campus. As desegregators and racial pioneers, black students, staff, and faculty used their status in the black intelligentsia to enhance their predominantly white institutions while advancing black freedom. Although they were often marginalized because of their race and class, the newcomers altered educational policies and inserted blackness into the curricula and culture of the unabashedly exclusive and starkly white schools. This book attempts to complete the narrative of higher education history, while adding a much needed nuance to the history of the Black Power movement. It tells the stories of those students, professors, staff, and administrators who pushed for change at the risk of losing what privilege they had. Putting their status, and sometimes even their lives, in jeopardy, black activists negotiated, protested, and demonstrated to create opportunities for the generations that followed. The enrichments these change agents made endure in the diversity initiatives and activism surrounding issues of race that exist in the modern Ivy League. Upending the Ivory Tower not only informs the civil rights and Black Power movements of the postwar era but also provides critical context for the Black Lives Matter movement that is growing in the streets and on campuses throughout the country today. As higher education continues to be a catalyst for change, there is no one better to inform today’s activists than those who transformed our country’s past and paved the way for its future.

Book Gum Printing

    Book Details:
  • Author : Christina Anderson
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2016-06-17
  • ISBN : 1317326423
  • Pages : 319 pages

Download or read book Gum Printing written by Christina Anderson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-17 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gum Printing: A Step-by-Step Manual Highlighting Artists and Their Creative Practice is a two-part book on gum bichromate written by the medium’s leading expert, Christina Z. Anderson. Section One provides a step-by-step description of the gum printing process. From setting up the "dimroom" (no darkroom required!) to evaluating finished prints, it walks the reader through everything that is needed to establish a firm gum practice with the simplest of setups at home. Section Two showcases contemporary artists’ works, illustrating the myriad ways gum is conceptualized and practiced today. The works in these pages range from monochrome to colorful and from subtle to bold, representing a variety of genres, including still lifes, portraits, nudes, landscapes, urbanscapes and more. Featuring over 80 artists and 400 full-color images, Gum Printing is the most complete overview of this dynamic and expressive medium that has yet appeared in print. Key topics covered include: The history of gum Simple digital negatives for gum, platinum, and cyanotype Preparing supplies Making monochrome, duotone, tricolor, and quadcolor gum prints Printing gum over cyanotype Printing gum over platinum Troubleshooting gum Advice on developing a creative practice

Book Black Women in the Ivory Tower  1850 1954

Download or read book Black Women in the Ivory Tower 1850 1954 written by Stephanie Y. Evans and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evans chronicles the stories of African American women who struggled for and won access to formal education, beginning in 1850, when Lucy Stanton, a student at Oberlin College, earned the first college diploma conferred on an African American woman. In the century between the Civil War and the civil rights movement, a critical increase in black women's educational attainment mirrored unprecedented national growth in American education. Evans reveals how black women demanded space as students and asserted their voices as educators--despite such barriers as violence, discrimination, and oppressive campus policies--contributing in significant ways to higher education in the United States. She argues that their experiences, ideas, and practices can inspire contemporary educators to create an intellectual democracy in which all people have a voice. Among those Evans profiles are Anna Julia Cooper, who was born enslaved yet ultimately earned a doctoral degree from the Sorbonne, and Mary McLeod Bethune, founder of Bethune-Cookman College. Exposing the hypocrisy in American assertions of democracy and discrediting European notions of intellectual superiority, Cooper argued that all human beings had a right to grow. Bethune believed that education is the right of all citizens in a democracy. Both women's philosophies raised questions of how human and civil rights are intertwined with educational access, scholarly research, pedagogy, and community service. This first complete educational and intellectual history of black women carefully traces quantitative research, explores black women's collegiate memories, and identifies significant geographic patterns in America's institutional development. Evans reveals historic perspectives, patterns, and philosophies in academia that will be an important reference for scholars of gender, race, and education.

Book Traditional Oil Painting

Download or read book Traditional Oil Painting written by Virgil Elliott and published by Watson-Guptill. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Traditional Oil Painting is that rare sourcebook that comprehensively covers the most advanced techniques and concepts of oil painting"--P. [2] of cover.

Book A Cyclopaedia of Practical Receipts

Download or read book A Cyclopaedia of Practical Receipts written by Arnold James Cooley and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Black Silk

    Book Details:
  • Author : Judith Ivory
  • Publisher : Harper Collins
  • Release : 2002-06-04
  • ISBN : 0060098538
  • Pages : 478 pages

Download or read book Black Silk written by Judith Ivory and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2002-06-04 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When her husband, a marquess, dies leaving her penniless, Submit Channing-Downes is left with one marital obligation to fulfill. She's required to deliver a small black box to Graham Wessit, the notorious Earl of Netham. But Graham wants nothing to do with a bequest from the man responsible for his ruin--or with the bewitching emissary who brings it. (June)

Book The Young Ladies  Assistant in Drawing and Painting

Download or read book The Young Ladies Assistant in Drawing and Painting written by Maria Turner and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Druggist s general receipt book

Download or read book The Druggist s general receipt book written by Henry Beasley and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Cyclop  dia of Several Thousand Practical Reciepts

Download or read book A Cyclop dia of Several Thousand Practical Reciepts written by Arnold James Cooley and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Enquire Within Upon Everything

Download or read book Enquire Within Upon Everything written by Robert Kemp Philp and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Brush Studies

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  • Author : Lida Clarkson
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1888
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 114 pages

Download or read book Brush Studies written by Lida Clarkson and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The New London Family Cook  Or  Town and Country Housekeepers  Guide  Comprehending Directions for Marketing  with Illustrative Plates     By Duncan Macdonald     and Assistants

Download or read book The New London Family Cook Or Town and Country Housekeepers Guide Comprehending Directions for Marketing with Illustrative Plates By Duncan Macdonald and Assistants written by Duncan Macdonald (head cook at the Bedford Tavern, Covent Garden.) and published by . This book was released on 1812 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Mechanic s  Machinist s  and Engineer s Practical Book of Reference

Download or read book The Mechanic s Machinist s and Engineer s Practical Book of Reference written by Charles Haslett and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-03-03 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1859. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Book The Mechanic s  Machinist s  and Engineer s Practical Book of Reference      Together with the Engineer s Field Book      Edited by C  W  Hackley

Download or read book The Mechanic s Machinist s and Engineer s Practical Book of Reference Together with the Engineer s Field Book Edited by C W Hackley written by Charles HASLETT and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: