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Madre Patria (Mother Country): Latino Identity And Rejections Of Blackness, Marta I. Cruz-Janzen
Madre Patria (Mother Country): Latino Identity And Rejections Of Blackness, Marta I. Cruz-Janzen
Trotter Review
When I was in third grade, in Puerto Rico, I wanted to be the Virgin Mary for the community Christmas celebration. A teacher promptly informed me that the mother of Christ could not be black. A girl with blonde hair and blue eyes was selected for the role, and I was given the role of a shepherd. In middle school, also in Puerto Rico, I played a house servant for a school play. Only children of black heritage played the slaves and servants. A white student with a painted face portrayed the only significant black character. All the other characters …
Large Visions And Complete Communities, Prexy Nesbitt
Large Visions And Complete Communities, Prexy Nesbitt
Rozell 'Prexy' Nesbitt Writings and Speeches
Prexy Nesbitt, a Chicago-based anti-apartheid activist and educator, delivered this commencement address to the College of Education, University of Illinois at Chicago. 4 pages.
Talk To Antioch College Course On The Black American Contribution To World Revolutionary Processes, Prexy Nesbitt
Talk To Antioch College Course On The Black American Contribution To World Revolutionary Processes, Prexy Nesbitt
Rozell 'Prexy' Nesbitt Writings and Speeches
Prexy Nesbitt, a Chicago-based anti-apartheid activist and educator, delivered this speech to the Antioch College course on the Black American Contribution to World Revoluntionary Processess in the spring semester. 15 pages.
Crime In The Usa, Oklahoma State University - Main Campus
Crime In The Usa, Oklahoma State University - Main Campus
Crime/Violence
Photograph of a display of government documents from Oklahoma State University.
Combating Terrorism, San Antonio Public Library
Combating Terrorism, San Antonio Public Library
Crime/Violence
Bibliography and photograph of a display of government documents from the San Antonio Public Library, Texas.
Dangerous Games: Drugs In America, Minnesota State University, Mankato
Dangerous Games: Drugs In America, Minnesota State University, Mankato
Crime/Violence
Bibliography and photographs of a display of government documents from Minnesota State University, Mankato.
Where Did All These Books Come From? The Publishing Industry And American Intellectual Life, Maro N. Asadoorian
Where Did All These Books Come From? The Publishing Industry And American Intellectual Life, Maro N. Asadoorian
Honors Theses
The American book publishing industry shapes the character of American intellectual life. While the newspaper and television industries have been accused of and investigated for bias and lowering America’s intellectual standards, book publishing has gone largely unexamined by scholars. The existing studies of the publishing industry have focused on finance, procedure and history. “There are few ‘theories’ of publishing – efforts to understand the ‘whys’ as well as the ‘hows.’ Few scholarly scientists have devoted significant scholarly attention to publishing” (Altbach and Hoshino, xiii). There are many possible reasons for this lacuna. First, there is a perception that books have …