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Articles 1 - 30 of 35
Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
Would Brown Make It To New York City? The First Phase Of The Battle For School Integration, 1954-1957, Kristopher B. Burrell
Would Brown Make It To New York City? The First Phase Of The Battle For School Integration, 1954-1957, Kristopher B. Burrell
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This conference paper looks at the struggle to desegregate New York's City's public schools in the immediate aftermath of the Brown v Board of Education decision in 1954. For the first three years following the Supreme Court decision, the New York City Board of Education make public overtures toward fulfilling the letter and spirit of Brown in New York, but in practice the Board of Education engaged in stalling and half-measures that succeeded in effectively stopping widespread school desegregation in the city.
Re-Inventing Sicily In Italian-American Writing And Film, Fred L. Gardaphé
Re-Inventing Sicily In Italian-American Writing And Film, Fred L. Gardaphé
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No abstract provided.
Europarl: The European Parliament On-Line, John A. Drobnicki
Europarl: The European Parliament On-Line, John A. Drobnicki
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Review of EUROPARL: The European Parliament On-Line.
Thoughts On Reading "The Personal": Toward A Discursive Ethics Of Professional Critical Literacy, Jane Hindman
Thoughts On Reading "The Personal": Toward A Discursive Ethics Of Professional Critical Literacy, Jane Hindman
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Notes this special issue of College English that author has edited focuses primarily on embodied personal writing. Identifies and argues for a powerful alternative to masculinist discourse by incorporating an "embodied rhetoric" into professional discursive practices. Considers how embodied rhetoric requires gestures to the material practices of the professional group and to the quotidian circumstances of the individual writer.
Writing Intensive Courses In Theatre, Alisa Roost
Writing Intensive Courses In Theatre, Alisa Roost
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Most professors believe writing matters. Through writing our students are better able to synthesize ideas, communicate those ideas, and make connections across fields. While it can take significant time to grade all the assignments, it can threaten coverage of material, and our students rarely appreciate it, writing assignments can be crafted to reduce grading, add depth to coverage, and spark interest. What follows is an overview of how I incorporate writing into my theatre courses and some ways of crafting engaging writing-intensive courses.
Oscar Esplá In Belgium (1936-1949) [Book Review], Antoni Pizà
Oscar Esplá In Belgium (1936-1949) [Book Review], Antoni Pizà
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In sum, one feels grateful that someone has taken up the task of debunking, one brick at a time, the vast amount of misinformation that exists about Esplá. De Kloe is a thorough, meticulous scholar whose work shows a masterly command of Spanish music history and its sources.
About Chinese Names, Sheau-Yueh J. Chao
About Chinese Names, Sheau-Yueh J. Chao
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In traditional Chinese society, the family (Chia) and the clan (tsu) play an indispensable role in establishing and sustaining the prevailing value system, in molding the life of individuals and in shaping a community's social relations into an orderly and stable pattern. This article includes the study of several important topics about the Chinese names. It details the significance of Chinese names and introduces the types of Chinese names and their meanings, followed by the historical development of surnames, clan names, and generation names. The article concludes with a statistical analysis of Chinese surname rankings and population in the United …
Review Of The Website City Directories Of The United States Of America, John A. Drobnicki
Review Of The Website City Directories Of The United States Of America, John A. Drobnicki
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Review of the website City Directories of the United States of America.
The Race For Globalization: Modernity, Resistance And The Unspeakable In Three African Francophone Texts, Francesca Sautman
The Race For Globalization: Modernity, Resistance And The Unspeakable In Three African Francophone Texts, Francesca Sautman
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The "global village" that media pundits and politicians evoke as general currency might well be visualized, in this onset of the twenty-first century, as a village beset by fires, riot, and rampage, where hunger reigns unopposed. The paradox of the term poorly conceals the untold violence that the violence of rhetoric seeks to erase. Yet, contemporary African Francophone texts have been tearing off this mask for decades, locating themselves less often in idyllic villages, and more frequently, on the cable lines of suffering between dying villages and indigent cities. In the literature of the 1980s, the focus of this essay, …
Constant Star (Review), Alisa Roost
The Face Of The Future: Engaging In Diversity At Laguardia Community College, Gail O. Mellow, Phyllis E. Vanslyck, Bret Eynon
The Face Of The Future: Engaging In Diversity At Laguardia Community College, Gail O. Mellow, Phyllis E. Vanslyck, Bret Eynon
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Non-traditional, first generation, college students are changing the face of higher education in the United States. More than one third of today's students are minorities, eighty percent of those are employed and attending school part-time and more than one quarter are single parents. Diversity at LaGuardia means many things besides culture, ethnicity or nationality.It also refers to age, social background, fluency in English, academic expectations, learning styles and academic preparation. We argue here that we need to rethink curriculum in relation to this new understanding of diversity.
Researching Your Asian Roots For Chinese Americans, Sheau-Yueh J. Chao
Researching Your Asian Roots For Chinese Americans, Sheau-Yueh J. Chao
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This article was revised from the author's invited lecture presented at the American Librarians Association Annual Conference of the Reference and User Services (RUSA) Meeting in the Local History Section in San Francisco, June 2001. It includes an introduction to the history of Chinese surnames, types and functions of Chinese genealogical records, problems in Chinese genealogical research, and how to conduct a typical Chinese-American genealogical research with examples for further research.
Sneaking Into The Boys Club: Gender And The Independent Record Shop, Lee Ann Fullington
Sneaking Into The Boys Club: Gender And The Independent Record Shop, Lee Ann Fullington
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No abstract provided.
Demos Agonistes Redux: Reflections On The Streit Of Political Agonism, Christa Davis Acampora
Demos Agonistes Redux: Reflections On The Streit Of Political Agonism, Christa Davis Acampora
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No abstract provided.
Bob Lewis’ Encounter With The ‘Great Death:’ Port Jervis’ Entrance Into The ‘United States Of Lyncherdom, Kristopher B. Burrell
Bob Lewis’ Encounter With The ‘Great Death:’ Port Jervis’ Entrance Into The ‘United States Of Lyncherdom, Kristopher B. Burrell
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This paper is a local study of a lynching in Port Jervis, New York in 1892. The victim was a black man, Bob Lewis. This study intends to situate Lewis’ lynching in both its historical and cultural contexts. Larger than that, this paper argues that even though southern and northern lynchings, particularly when the victims were African American, resembled one another in several important ways—including higher incidences of mutilation and torture; often becoming a form of white communal entertainment in which white participants often collected and/or sold relics in order to commemorate the event; and the bodies often being left …
No Woman Is An Object: Realizing The Feminist Collaborative Video, Alexandra Juhasz
No Woman Is An Object: Realizing The Feminist Collaborative Video, Alexandra Juhasz
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Feminist video does collectivity exceedingly well. Certainly other politicized cultural movements and individuals work through this method, and, of course, feminists also produce work in collaboration in film and other media (as Julia Lesage testifies above). However, I assert that there is a profound natural mechanics to women's work in video that makes the medium's method, theory, and theme the interactive and politicized subjectification of the female sex. Film and patriarchy share the project of women's objectification-they make victims. Video and feminism see women as complex, worthy selves-they produce subjects. In feminist collaboration: video, the medium (inexpensive, debased, nonprofessional), the …
(Abbott) Vaughn Meader, John A. Drobnicki
(Abbott) Vaughn Meader, John A. Drobnicki
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Vaughn Meader was a Grammy-award winning comedian known for his uncanny mimicry of President John F. Kennedy.
Old Maids And Faeries: The Image Problem, Polly Thistlethwaite
Old Maids And Faeries: The Image Problem, Polly Thistlethwaite
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Librarian stereotypes are akin to those of gays and lesbians. Librarians battling negative professional images are in common cause with gays and lesbians battling similarly slanderous representations. This article proposes relationships between these varieties of maligned people and professionals.
The Violence Of Merging: Unica Zürn 'S Writing (On) The Body, Caroline Rupprecht
The Violence Of Merging: Unica Zürn 'S Writing (On) The Body, Caroline Rupprecht
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This article is about the work of German Surrealist Unica Zürn (1916-1970), known for her autobiographical text about madness, Der Mann im Jasmin: Eindrücke einer Geisteskrankheit (1977). The problem with Zürn's text, as this article demonstrates, is that it becomes nearly impossible to be distinguished from the author's life. Unlike conventional autobiographies, this text raises doubt oyer the sanity of the author who was not only diagnosed with schizophrenia but also made madness the subject of her writing. Zürn's companion, the artist Hans Bellmer, accused her of indulging in madness for the sake of being able to write about it; …
Flamenco Guitar: History, Style, And Context, Peter L. Manuel
Flamenco Guitar: History, Style, And Context, Peter L. Manuel
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No abstract provided.
Augustus Van Wyck (1850-1922), Janet Butler Munch
Augustus Van Wyck (1850-1922), Janet Butler Munch
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Augustus Van Wyck (1850-1922) was a judge and NY gubernatorial candidate.
Abram Stevens Hewitt (1822-1903), Janet Butler Munch
Abram Stevens Hewitt (1822-1903), Janet Butler Munch
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Abram Stevens Hewitt (1822-1903) was an iron manufacturer, congressman, mayor, and philanthropist.
New York, Janet Butler Munch
New York, Janet Butler Munch
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New York, one of the thirteen original colonies, had a Dutch-English heritage. Characterized from its inception for religious and ethnic diversity, New York was captured from the Dutch by the English. After reverting back to the Dutch, the colony finally capitulated to the English under generous terms which maintained established commerce. The American Revolution ultimately led to the end of British colonialism for New York and the forming of our independent nation.
Dalí'S Musical Roundabouts, Antoni Pizà
Dalí'S Musical Roundabouts, Antoni Pizà
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Those familiar with Salvador Dalí's contradictory nature as well as his propensity to mask his own thoughts will not be surprised to learn that, publicly, he despised music, though obviously that was not the case at all. In fact, many witnesses say – Amanda Lear, for one – he was actually quite musical and, time and again, he could be caught off guard singing or humming Catalan folk songs, sardanas, zarzuelas, and cuplés – all folksy, kitschy, and, by most accounts, tacky popular songs. Dalí, however, went to a great length to conceal this spontaneous love for the simple, uncomplicated …
Sexual Slander And Working Women In "The Roaring Girl", Mario Digangi
Sexual Slander And Working Women In "The Roaring Girl", Mario Digangi
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Though scholarship of the early modern era focuses on the character of Moll Frith when considering the gender ideology contained in Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker's "The Roaring Girl," the play's other female characters are also of interest. The "citizen wives" of the play are women who, though married, work outside the home. Their special status in the emerging capitalist marketplace of the early modern era gave rise to unique anxieties about their economic power and sexual availability. These anxieties in turn made these women especially susceptible to slander against their sexual reputation and thus respectability in the community. An …
Henry Villard (1835-1900), Janet Butler Munch
Henry Villard (1835-1900), Janet Butler Munch
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Henry Villard (1835-1900) was a journalist, railroad promoter and publisher.
Everybody's Magazine, Janet Butler Munch
Everybody's Magazine, Janet Butler Munch
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This article gives an overview on Everybody's Magazine (1899-1928) which focused on American society, and helped shape public opinion through investigative reporting and muckraking thereby stimulating reforms of societal problems. The magazine also made fine literature available to the masses, attracting the best writers of the day.
Robert Anderson Van Wyck (1847-1918), Janet Butler Munch
Robert Anderson Van Wyck (1847-1918), Janet Butler Munch
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Robert Anderson Van Wyck (1847-1918). was a judge and NYC mayor.
John Leavitt Stevens (1820-1895), Janet Butler Munch
John Leavitt Stevens (1820-1895), Janet Butler Munch
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John Leavitt Stevens (1820-1895) was a journalist, author and diplomat.
William Henry Aspinwall (1807-1875), Janet Butler Munch
William Henry Aspinwall (1807-1875), Janet Butler Munch
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William Henry Aspinwall (1807-1875) was a 19th century New York City "merchant prince."