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Book The Porch ProjectPorch Project of New Orleans

Download or read book The Porch ProjectPorch Project of New Orleans written by Danielle Shubert and published by . This book was released on 2017-12-13 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Porch Portraits is the culmination of a three year visual documentation series based on the importance of porch culture and Creole lifestyle in New Orleans, Louisiana. Here it is, compiled into a photography coffee table book for New Orleans lovers and porch lovers alike.

Book The Porch Project

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2017-11-15
  • ISBN : 9780578402277
  • Pages : 78 pages

Download or read book The Porch Project written by and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Porch Project is the culmination of a three year visual documentation series based on the importance of porch culture and Creole lifestyle in New Orleans, Louisiana. Compiled into a photography coffee table book for New Orleans lovers and porch lovers alike, it's a glimpse into the spirit of contemporary New Orleans community and lifestyle.

Book The Porch Project

    Book Details:
  • Author : Danielle Shubert
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2017-11-16
  • ISBN : 9781389352683
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book The Porch Project written by Danielle Shubert and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Porch Portraits is the culmination of a three year visual documentation series based on the importance of porch culture and Creole lifestyle in New Orleans, Louisiana. Here it is, compiled into a photography coffee table book for New Orleans lovers and porch lovers alike.

Book The Front Porch Project New Orleans

Download or read book The Front Porch Project New Orleans written by Victoria Zangara and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Porch ProjectPorch Project of New Orleans

Download or read book The Porch ProjectPorch Project of New Orleans written by Danielle Shubert and published by . This book was released on 2017-12-13 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Porch Portraits is the culmination of a three year visual documentation series based on the importance of porch culture and Creole lifestyle in New Orleans, Louisiana. Here it is, compiled into a photography coffee table book for New Orleans lovers and porch lovers alike.

Book Civic Engagement in the Wake of Katrina

Download or read book Civic Engagement in the Wake of Katrina written by Amy Koritz and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2009-09-02 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Civic engagement has been underrated and overlooked. Koritz and Sanchez illuminate the power of what community engagement through art and culture revitalization can do to give voice to the voiceless and a sense of being to those displaced." ---Sonia BasSheva Mañjon, Wesleyan University "This profound and eloquent collection describes and assesses the new coalitions bringing a city back to life. It's a powerful call to expand our notions of culture, social justice, and engaged scholarship. I'd put this on my 'must read' list." ---Nancy Cantor, Syracuse University "Civic Engagement in the Wake of Katrina is a rich and compelling text for thinking about universities and the arts amid social crisis. Americans need to hear the voices of colleagues who were caught in Katrina's wake and who responded with commitment, creativity, and skill." ---Peter Levine, CIRCLE (The Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning & Engagement) This collection of essays documents the ways in which educational institutions and the arts community responded to the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina. While firmly rooted in concrete projects, Civic Engagement in the Wake of Katrina also addresses the larger issues raised by committed public scholarship. How can higher education institutions engage with their surrounding communities? What are the pros and cons of "asset-based" and "outreach" models of civic engagement? Is it appropriate for the private sector to play a direct role in promoting civic engagement? How does public scholarship impact traditional standards of academic evaluation? Throughout the volume, this diverse collection of essays paints a remarkably consistent and persuasive account of arts-based initiatives' ability to foster social and civic renewal. Amy Koritz is Director of the Center for Civic Engagement and Professor of English at Drew University. George J. Sanchez is Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity and History at the University of Southern California. Front and rear cover designs, photographs, and satellite imagery processing by Richard Campanella. digitalculturebooks is an imprint of the University of Michigan Press and the Scholarly Publishing Office of the University of Michigan Library dedicated to publishing innovative and accessible work exploring new media and their impact on society, culture, and scholarly communication. Visit the website at www.digitalculture.org.

Book Mrs  Dubose s Last Wish

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  • Author : Thomas Fellows
  • Publisher : Yawn Publishing LLC
  • Release : 2021-04-21
  • ISBN : 9781954617100
  • Pages : 180 pages

Download or read book Mrs Dubose s Last Wish written by Thomas Fellows and published by Yawn Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2021-04-21 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main thesis of this book, I suppose, is that while 99% of the world tries to avoid suffering, the most successful people and people that will be remembered for generations to come, not only choose to suffer, but embrace it fully, often asking for more. Suffering is not for the faint of heart, but neither is anything that leads to something truly meaningful. Through my usual use of literature historical figures, scripture, popular music, and popular movies, and my own personal experiences, I try to not only encourage you, the reader, to choose to suffer as I have said in the paragraph below, but also to embrace it. Malcom Gladwell once said, "good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else's head." I hope I achieved this throughout the pages of Mrs. Dubose's Last Wish.

Book A Reader s Companion to the Short Story in English

Download or read book A Reader s Companion to the Short Story in English written by Erin Fallon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the short story has existed in various forms for centuries, it has particularly flourished during the last hundred years. Reader's Companion to the Short Story in English includes alphabetically-arranged entries for 50 English-language short story writers from around the world. Most of these writers have been active since 1960, and they reflect a wide range of experiences and perspectives in their works. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and includes biography, a review of existing criticism, a lengthier analysis of specific works, and a selected bibliography of primary and secondary sources. The volume begins with a detailed introduction to the short story genre and concludes with an annotated bibliography of major works on short story theory.

Book Postmodern Approaches to the Short Story

Download or read book Postmodern Approaches to the Short Story written by Farhat Iftekharrudin and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2003-03-30 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postmodernism, as a mode of the contemporary short story, has been clearly established and recognized by short story theorists. But postmodern theory, as pervasive as it has become among academics in the last half century, has scarcely been applied to the short story genre in particular. Many contemporary scholars, nonetheless, are currently making use of certain postmodern thematic approaches to help them determine meanings of particular short stories. T Short story theory began with Edgar Allan Poe's review of Twice-Told Tales, a collection of stories by his contemporary, Nathaniel Hawthorne. But theoretical discussions of the short story languished until modernism and the new criticism provided impetus for further development. Surprisingly, though, the next large critical movement, postmodernism, failed to address the short story as a genre. But while there is little postmodern theory concerning the short story, contemporary scholars have used certain postmodern critical approaches to help determine meaning. This book demonstrates the effect of postmodern theory on the study of the short story genre. The expert contributors to this volume examine such topics as genre and form, the role of the reader, cultural and ethnic diversity, and feminist perspectives on the short story. In doing so, they apply postmodern theoretical approaches to international short stories, be they in the traditional mode, the modern mode, or the postmodern mode. The volume looks at fiction by Edith Wharton, Henry James, Katherine Mansfield, and other authors, and at Iranian short fiction, the postcolonial short story, the fantastic in short fiction, and other subjects.

Book The Atlantic World

    Book Details:
  • Author : Toyin Falola
  • Publisher : Indiana University Press
  • Release : 2008-04-16
  • ISBN : 0253219434
  • Pages : 818 pages

Download or read book The Atlantic World written by Toyin Falola and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2008-04-16 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ambitious work provides an overview of the Atlantic world, since the 15th century, by exploring the major themes that define the study of this region. Contact with Europeans in Africa and the Americas, the slave trade, gender and race in the early Atlantic world, independence movements in Africa, Caribbean nationalism, and gender and identity in the 20th century are just a few subjects discussed. Moving beyond the micro-histories of the scholarly monograph to connect the fruits of those researches with broader events and processes, this book, in the editors' words, makes "a concerted effort to re-connect elites and non-elites, Old World and New, early modern and modern, and economics and culture." It will be a point of embarkation for a new generation of students of the Atlantic world.

Book Scenes of Subjection  Terror  Slavery  and Self Making in Nineteenth Century America

Download or read book Scenes of Subjection Terror Slavery and Self Making in Nineteenth Century America written by Saidiya Hartman and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2022-10-11 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The groundbreaking debut by the award-winning author of Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, revised and updated. Saidiya Hartman has been praised as “one of our most brilliant contemporary thinkers” (Claudia Rankine, New York Times Book Review) and “a lodestar for a generation of students and, increasingly, for politically engaged people outside the academy” (Alexis Okeowo, The New Yorker). In Scenes of Subjection—Hartman’s first book, now revised and expanded—her singular talents and analytical framework turn away from the “terrible spectacle” and toward the forms of routine terror and quotidian violence characteristic of slavery, illuminating the intertwining of injury, subjugation, and selfhood even in abolitionist depictions of enslavement. By attending to the withheld and overlooked at the margins of the historical archive, Hartman radically reshapes our understanding of history, in a work as resonant today as it was on first publication, now for a new generation of readers. This 25th anniversary edition features a new preface by the author, a foreword by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, an afterword by Marisa J. Fuentes and Sarah Haley, notations with Cameron Rowland, and compositions by Torkwase Dyson.

Book Lose Your Mother

Download or read book Lose Your Mother written by Saidiya Hartman and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-01-22 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original, thought-provoking meditation on the corrosive legacy of slavery from the 16th century to the present.--Elizabeth Schmidt, "The New York Times."

Book Racial Cleansing in Arkansas  1883   1924

Download or read book Racial Cleansing in Arkansas 1883 1924 written by Guy Lancaster and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2014-07-30 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even before the end of Reconstruction in Arkansas, the state already possessed a long-standing reputation for violence, including lynchings, duels, and feuds. However, the years following Reconstruction witnessed the creation of new forms of mob violence. All across the state, gangs of whites sought to drive African Americans from their homes, their jobs, and their positions of authority, creating communities shamelessly advertised as “100% white.” This happened not only in the highland regions, the Ozarks and the Ouachitas, where the expulsion of African Americans created so-called “sundown towns,” but it also occurred in the low-lying Delta lands of eastern Arkansas, where cotton was king and where masked mobs of landless “whitecappers” and “nightriders” regularly dealt terror and murder to black sharecroppers. Racial Cleansing in Arkansas, 1883–1924: Politics, Land, Labor, and Criminality by Guy Lancaster is the first book to examine the phenomenon of racial cleansing within the context of one particular state, illustrating how violence relates to geography and economic development. Lancaster analyzes the wholesale expulsion of African Americans and the emergence of “sundown towns” together with a survey of more limited deportations, including those with blatant political goals as well as vigilante violence. The book has broader implications not only for the study of Southern and American history but also for a deeper understanding of ethnic and racial conflict, local politics, and labor history

Book Global Dimensions of the African Diaspora

Download or read book Global Dimensions of the African Diaspora written by Joseph E. Harris and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global Dimensions of the African Diaspora collects selected essays from the First and Second African Diaspora Institutes and other essays. This revised second edition, with broader geographical scope than the first edition, places greater emphasis on historical and sociopolitical analysis. New essays that examine the African experience and slavery in the Mediterranean, the black experience in Brazil, African religious retentions in Latin American countries, and essays by women that focus on the experience and contributions of African women of the diaspora address significant areas omitted in the first volume.

Book How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America  Problems in Race  Political Economy and Society

Download or read book How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America Problems in Race Political Economy and Society written by Manning Marable and published by Pluto Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An updated edition of Manning Marable's classic--considered one of the best studies of race and class.

Book Buried in the Bitter Waters

Download or read book Buried in the Bitter Waters written by Elliot Jaspin and published by . This book was released on 2008-05-06 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist exposes the secret history of racial cleansing in America

Book Darkwater  Voices from Within the Veil

Download or read book Darkwater Voices from Within the Veil written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: