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Book Northsiders

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gerald C. Wood
  • Publisher : McFarland
  • Release : 2008-08-21
  • ISBN : 0786436239
  • Pages : 231 pages

Download or read book Northsiders written by Gerald C. Wood and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2008-08-21 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of 19 essays examine the role of baseball's Cubs in the history and politics of Chicago. They focus on topics such as the rise of a nationwide fan base through the long reach of superstation WGN; the local uses and views of icons Ernie Banks, Ron Santo, and Ryne Sandberg; historical divides along lines of race (on the field) and class (in the stands); Wrigley Field as a public space both sacred and cursed; the importance of local and nationwide media coverage; and the Cubs' impact on Chicago music and literature.

Book A Good Reputation

    Book Details:
  • Author : Elizabeth Korver-Glenn
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2024
  • ISBN : 0226833852
  • Pages : 209 pages

Download or read book A Good Reputation written by Elizabeth Korver-Glenn and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What kind of reputation does your neighborhood have, and how does this affect your daily life? Are you embarassed or proud when you share this information or when friends come over for dinner? Are you surrounded by businesses that cater to your needs and reflect your sense of self, or does your heart sink when you gaze down your block? As sociologists Elizabeth Korver-Glenn and Sarah Mayorga demonstrate in A Good Reputation, people's feelings about their neighborhood and its reputation have an outsized effect on either addressing or driving inequality. In this book, they take a close look at Houston, Texas's historic Northside barrio-a high-poverty urban neighborhood. Drawing on two years of ethnographic research and in-depth interviews with poor, working-class, and middle-class Latinx people and additional interviews with Black, White, and multiracial local stakeholders, they examine how and why neighborhood reputation shapes unequal urban processes. The authors center people's own perceptions of their neighborhood, leveraging these data to foreground how neighborhood heterogeneity, Whiteness, and placemaking intersect with and shape stakeholders' constructions of neighborhood reputation. Korver-Glenn and Mayorga ultimately demonstrate how constructing a neighborhood as "nice" or "ghetto" has profound implications for neighborhood inequality. In the process, they develop a theoretically rich, empirically detailed account of urban neighborhood inequality that brings to the fore understudied communities, processes of relation formation across class and racial lines, and ways these communities develop cultural logics about specific places"--

Book Autobiography of a Recovering Skinhead

Download or read book Autobiography of a Recovering Skinhead written by Frank Meeink and published by Hawthorne Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autobiography of a Recovering Skinhead is Frank Meeink's raw telling of his descent into America's Nazi underground and his ultimate triumph over drugs and hatred. Frank's violent childhood in South Philadelphia primed him to hate, while addiction made him easy prey for a small group of skinhead gang recruiters. By 16 he had become one of the most notorious skinhead gang leaders on the East Coast and by 18 he was doing hard time. Teamed up with African-American players in a prison football league, Frank learnedto question his hatred, and after being paroled he defected from the white supremacy movement and began speaking on behalf of the Anti-Defamation League. A story of fighting the demons of hatred and addiction, Frank's downfall and ultimate redemption has the power to open hearts and change lives.

Book Baseball Team Names

Download or read book Baseball Team Names written by Richard Worth and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-02-21 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professional baseball is full of arcane team names. The Los Angeles Dodgers, for instance, owe their nickname to the trolley tracks that honeycombed Brooklyn in the early 1880s. (Residents were "trolley dodgers.") From the Negro Leagues, there were the Pittsburgh Crawfords (sponsored early by the Crawford Bath House and Recreation Center); from the minors, the Tucson Waddies (slang for cowboy) and, later, the Montgomery Biscuits (for the would-be concessions staple); from overseas, the Adelaide, Australia, Bite (a shark reference but also a pun for bight) and the Bussum, Netherlands, Mr. Cocker HCAW (the sponsoring restaurant chain, followed by the acronym for the official team name, Honkbalclub Allan Weerbaar). This comprehensive reference book explains the nicknames of thousands of major and minor league franchises, Negro League and early independent black clubs, and international teams--from 1869 through 2011.

Book Communities in Action

Download or read book Communities in Action written by and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Body  Authenticity and Racism

Download or read book The Body Authenticity and Racism written by Lindsey Garratt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-22 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The modern world may believe that authenticity empowers us to be our true selves. However, is this really true for all people? Would authenticity be accepted by others if it does not fit within the conceptions of those who embody "nationally authorised" attributes? Drawing upon an in-depth study of young children in Dublin’s North inner city, The Body, Authenticity and Racism offers detailed insight into how racism is created and perpetuated within 7–9-year-old boys’ interactions with one another. Indeed, through unique empirical data, this enlightening title demonstrates the importance of discussing the body when examining racism – not only in how the body is judged and racialised by other people, but how it is an apparent medium through which racism operates and disappears into. Garratt also explores how masculinity, belonging to a local area and being accepted as ‘Irish’ is intricately interwoven within gendered and racist assumptions; which comes not only from wider discourses but are actively constructed and reconstructed by children themselves. Using a Bourdieusian method of analysis and phenomenological philosophy, this book ultimately highlights the role of authenticity in hiding racism amongst children. A timely volume, it will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as postdoctoral researchers interested in fields such as Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Irish Studies and Masculinities Studies.

Book People of the State of Illinois V  Hynes

Download or read book People of the State of Illinois V Hynes written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book North Side Story

Download or read book North Side Story written by Frank W. Pandozzi and published by Infinity Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They were called the Back Alley Boys and best define the North Side of Syracuse, New York during the '50s and '60s. Although not as legendary as the "Dead End Kids" portrayed in the movies of the 1930s, they had their own flare for drama. But North Side story is not just a story about growing up on the North Side in the '50s and '60s. It is also a story of a changing neighborhood. Names like Stretch, Axle, Scams, and Boogers are now gone. Today the North Side residents have names like Cuong, Danh, and Ai'. Just as the immigrant grandparents of the Back Alley Boys had once struggled to come to this country, so did the Vietnamese "boatpeople." North Side story is their story as well.

Book California  Court of Appeal  1st Appellate District   Records and Briefs

Download or read book California Court of Appeal 1st Appellate District Records and Briefs written by California (State). and published by . This book was released on with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consolidated Case(s): A032169_x000D_ A018694_x000D_ A019438

Book Caribbean Studies

Download or read book Caribbean Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Dublin Docker

    Book Details:
  • Author : Aileen O’Carroll
  • Publisher : Merrion Press
  • Release : 2017-08-09
  • ISBN : 1911024876
  • Pages : 285 pages

Download or read book The Dublin Docker written by Aileen O’Carroll and published by Merrion Press. This book was released on 2017-08-09 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a port city, Dublin owes much to the labourers who strove against the heavy-duty tide of imports and exports; a league of thousands who were hired on a day-to-day basis for generations, defining the bustle of Dublin city centre – a cornerstone of the urban industrial working class in Ireland. The Dublin Docker is a sumptuously illustrated history that determines the dockers’ and stevedores’ importance as an industrial subculture within the Dublin that they navigated. The authors excavated the archive of the Dublin Dockworkers Preservation Society to discover a wealth of photographs, spanning the mid-nineteenth century to the 1970s, that capture the dockers’ arduous labour and the energy of Dublin port. These evocative images bring this beautifully designed social history to life, complementing the inimitable voices revealed in interviews with the dockers themselves. How they negotiated working hours and pay, the changes that came with epochal events – the Dublin Lockout, the First World War, the Easter Rising and War of Independence – and the innumerable myths and ‘dark stories’ that shrouded their image: The Dublin Docker is a history of the dockers and their deep-woven connection to the city.

Book Sovereignty for Survival

    Book Details:
  • Author : James Robert Allison
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2015-01-01
  • ISBN : 0300206690
  • Pages : 257 pages

Download or read book Sovereignty for Survival written by James Robert Allison and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the influence of America's indigenous peoples on energy policy and development, documenting how certain federally supported and often environmentally damaging energy projects were seen as threats by native American and sparked a pan-tribal resistance movement leading to increased autonomy.

Book Dublin Wit

    Book Details:
  • Author : Des MacHale
  • Publisher : Mercier Press Ltd
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 1856357139
  • Pages : 96 pages

Download or read book Dublin Wit written by Des MacHale and published by Mercier Press Ltd. This book was released on 2011 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tribute to the unique wit of Dublin written by Ireland's most prolific joke book and humor writer.

Book The Messiah 8 with the 3rd Anti Christ

Download or read book The Messiah 8 with the 3rd Anti Christ written by Albert Velazquez and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-08-24 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the holy grail and God passing judgment on mankind and the father of this holy divine story being dragged to the gates of Hell and leaving his begotten son with the sword of destiny. This book also tells about angels and demons and saints and the movement of the reaper among the humans on Earth. At the end of this eternal dark world of destiny the divine son finds the redemption of his father with his sword of destiny at the end of the road.

Book Joyce  Feminism   Post   Colonialism

Download or read book Joyce Feminism Post Colonialism written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Joyce is located between, and constructed within, two worlds: the national and international, the political and cultural systems of colonialism and postcolonialism. Joyce's political project is to construct a postcolonial contra-modernity: to write the incommensurable differences of colonial, postcolonial, and gendered subjectivities, and, in doing so, to reorient the axis of power and knowledge. What Joyce dramatizes in his hybrid writing is the political and cultural remainder of imperial history or patriarchal canons: a remainder that resists assimilation into the totalizing narratives of modernity. Through this remainder - of both politics and the psyche - Joyce reveals how a minority culture can construct political and personal agency. Joyce: Feminism / Post / Colonialism, edited by Ellen Carol Jones, bears witness to the construction of that agency, tracing the inscription of the racial and sexual other in colonial, nationalist, and postnational representations, deciphering the history of the possible. Contributors are Gregory Castle, Gerald Doherty, Enda Duffy, James Fairhall, Peter Hitchcock, Ellen Carol Jones, Ranjana Khanna, Patrick McGee, Marilyn Reizbaum, Susan de Sola Rodstein, Carol Shloss, and David Spurr.

Book The Guys in the Gang

Download or read book The Guys in the Gang written by James T. Joyce and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Irish Catholic neighborhood of the 1960s on Chicago's Southside that nurtured camaraderie, religion and racial fury; the frequently illegal antics of teenaged boys; the broadening experiences of college and the Army; an assortment of jobs from brutally boring factory work, to business in foreign embassies, to fighting fires; people met and befriended from the super rich to inept Korean golfers who feared tigers; religion, and how confusing it can be.

Book Becoming the Second City

Download or read book Becoming the Second City written by Richard Junger and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Becoming the Second City examines the development of Chicago's press and analyzes coverage of key events in its history to call attention to the media's impact in shaping the city's cultural and historical landscape. In concise, extensively documented prose, Richard Junger illustrates how nineteenth century newspapers acted as accelerants that boosted Chicago's growth in its early history by continually making and remaking the city's image for the public. Junger argues that the press was directly involved in Chicago's race to become the nation's most populous city, a feat it briefly accomplished during the mid-1890s before the incorporation of Greater New York City irrevocably recast Chicago as the "Second City." The book is populated with a colorful cast of influential figures in the history of Chicago and in the development of journalism. Junger draws on newspapers, personal papers, and other primary sources to piece together a lively portrait of the evolving character of Chicago in the nineteenth century. Highlighting the newspaper industry's involvement in the business and social life of Chicago, Junger casts newspaper editors and reporters as critical intermediaries between the elite and the larger public and revisits key events and issues including the Haymarket Square bombing, the 1871 fire, the Pullman Strike, and the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893.