Dreaming the Present

Dreaming the Present
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Publisher : UNC Press Books
Total Pages : 281
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ISBN-10 : 9781469667942
ISBN-13 : 1469667940
Rating : 4/5 (42 Downloads)

Synopsis Dreaming the Present by : Irvin J. Hunt

This is a story of art and movement building at the limits of imagination. In their darkest hours, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ella Baker, George Schuyler, and Fannie Lou Hamer gathered hundreds across the United States and beyond to build vast, but forgotten, networks of mutual aid: farms, shops, schools, banks, daycares, homes, health clinics, and burial grounds. They called these spaces "cooperatives," local challenges to global capital, where people pooled all they had to meet their needs. By reading their activism as an artistic practice, Irvin Hunt argues that their primary need was to free their movement from the logic of progress. From a remarkably diverse archive, Hunt extrapolates three new ways to describe the time of a movement: a continual beginning, a deliberate falling apart, and a simultaneity, a kind of all-at-once-ness. These temporalities reflect how a people maneuvered the law, reappropriated property, built autonomous communities, and fundamentally reimagined what a movement can be. Their movement was not the dream of a brighter day; it was the making of today out of the stuff of dreams. Hunt offers both an original account of Black mutual aid and, in a world of diminishing futures, a moving meditation on the possibilities of the present.

1996 Writer's Market

1996 Writer's Market
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 1078
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ISBN-10 : 0898797012
ISBN-13 : 9780898797015
Rating : 4/5 (12 Downloads)

Synopsis 1996 Writer's Market by : Mark Garvey

The ideal resource for up-and-coming (and already arrived) writers, the Writer's Market features information vital to the success of an author's career. This edition contains the facts on 4,000 opportunities, including up-to-date listings of buyers of books, articles, and stories and listings of contests and awards, plus articles and interviews with top professionals.

Critical Race Theory in Education

Critical Race Theory in Education
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 304
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ISBN-10 : 9781317973041
ISBN-13 : 1317973046
Rating : 4/5 (41 Downloads)

Synopsis Critical Race Theory in Education by : Adrienne D. Dixson

Brings together several scholars from both law and education to provide some clarity on the status and future directions of Critical Race Theory, answering key questions regarding the ''what' and ''how'' of the application of CRT to education.

University of Illinois Directory

University of Illinois Directory
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 1436
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ISBN-10 : IND:30000114501830
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (30 Downloads)

Synopsis University of Illinois Directory by : University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus)

Going Stealth

Going Stealth
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Publisher : Duke University Press
Total Pages : 205
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ISBN-10 : 9781478002659
ISBN-13 : 1478002654
Rating : 4/5 (59 Downloads)

Synopsis Going Stealth by : Toby Beauchamp

In Going Stealth Toby Beauchamp demonstrates how the enforcement of gender conformity is linked to state surveillance practices that identify threats based on racial, gender, national, and ableist categories of difference. Positioning surveillance as central to our understanding of transgender politics, Beauchamp examines a range of issues, from bathroom bills and TSA screening practices to Chelsea Manning's trial, to show how security practices extend into the everyday aspects of our gendered lives. He brings the fields of disability, science and technology, and surveillance studies into conversation with transgender studies to show how the scrutinizing of gender nonconformity is motivated less by explicit transgender identities than by the perceived threat that gender nonconformity poses to the U.S. racial and security state. Beauchamp uses instances of gender surveillance to demonstrate how disciplinary power attempts to produce conformist citizens and regulate difference through discourses of security. At the same time, he contends that greater visibility and recognition for gender nonconformity, while sometimes beneficial, might actually enable the surveillance state to more effectively track, measure, and control trans bodies and identities.

Administrative Aide

Administrative Aide
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Publisher : National Learning Corporation
Total Pages : 238
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ISBN-10 : 1731800088
ISBN-13 : 9781731800084
Rating : 4/5 (88 Downloads)

Synopsis Administrative Aide by : National Learning Corporation

The Administrative Aide Passbook(R) prepares you for your test by allowing you to take practice exams in the subjects you need to study. It provides hundreds of questions and answers in the areas that will likely be covered on your upcoming exam, including but not limited to: evaluating conclusions in light of known facts; understanding and interpreting written and tabular material; report writing; record keeping; and more.

An Illini Place

An Illini Place
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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Total Pages : 725
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ISBN-10 : 9780252099816
ISBN-13 : 0252099818
Rating : 4/5 (16 Downloads)

Synopsis An Illini Place by : Lex Tate

Why does the University of Illinois campus at Urbana-Champaign look as it does today? Drawing on a wealth of research and featuring more than one hundred color photographs, An Illini Place provides an engrossing and beautiful answer to that question. Lex Tate and John Franch trace the story of the university's evolution through its buildings. Oral histories, official reports, dedication programs, and developmental plans both practical and quixotic inform the story. The authors also provide special chapters on campus icons and on the buildings, arenas and other spaces made possible by donors and friends of the university. Adding to the experience is a web companion that includes profiles of the planners, architects, and presidents instrumental in the campus's growth, plus an illustrated inventory of current and former campus plans and buildings.

An Iron Wind

An Iron Wind
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Publisher : Basic Books
Total Pages : 378
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ISBN-10 : 9780465096558
ISBN-13 : 0465096557
Rating : 4/5 (58 Downloads)

Synopsis An Iron Wind by : Peter Fritzsche

A vivid account of German-occupied Europe during World War II that reveals civilians' struggle to understand the terrifying chaos of war In An Iron Wind, prize-winning historian Peter Fritzsche draws diaries, letters, and other first-person accounts to show how civilians in occupied Europe tried to make sense of World War II. As the Third Reich targeted Europe's Jews for deportation and death, confusion and mistrust reigned. What were Hitler's aims? Did Germany's rapid early victories mark the start of an enduring new era? Was collaboration or resistance the wisest response to occupation? How far should solidarity and empathy extend? And where was God? People desperately tried to understand the horrors around them, but the stories they told themselves often justified a selfish indifference to their neighbors' fates. Piecing together the broken words of the war's witnesses and victims, Fritzsche offers a haunting picture of the most violent conflict in modern history.

Democracy Lives in Darkness

Democracy Lives in Darkness
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 289
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ISBN-10 : 9780197557013
ISBN-13 : 0197557015
Rating : 4/5 (13 Downloads)

Synopsis Democracy Lives in Darkness by : Emily Van Duyn

"Republicans and Democrats increasingly distrust, avoid, and wish harm upon those from the other party. To make matters worse, they also increasingly reside among like-minded others and are part of social groups that share their political beliefs. All of this can make expressing a dissenting political opinion hard. Yet digital and social media have given people new spaces for political discourse and community, and more control over who knows their political beliefs and who does not. With Democracy Lives in Darkness, Van Duyn looks at what these changes in the political and media landscape mean for democracy. She uncovers and follows a secret political organization in rural Texas over the entire Trump presidency. The group, which organized out of fear of their conservative community in 2016, has a confidentiality agreement, an email listserv and secret Facebook group, and meets in secret every month. By building relationships with members, she explores how and why they hide their beliefs and what this does for their own political behavior and for their community. Drawing on research from communication, political science, and sociology along with survey data on secret political expression, she finds that polarization has led even average partisans to hide their political beliefs from others. And although intensifying polarization will likely make political secrecy more common, she argues that this secrecy is not just evidence that democracy is hurting, but that it is still alive; that people persist in the face of opposition and that this matters if democracy is to survive"--

Labor's End

Labor's End
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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Total Pages : 185
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ISBN-10 : 9780252053214
ISBN-13 : 0252053214
Rating : 4/5 (14 Downloads)

Synopsis Labor's End by : Jason Resnikoff

Labor's End traces the discourse around automation from its origins in the factory to its wide-ranging implications in political and social life. As Jason Resnikoff shows, the term automation expressed the conviction that industrial progress meant the inevitable abolition of manual labor from industry. But the real substance of the term reflected industry's desire to hide an intensification of human work--and labor's loss of power and protection--behind magnificent machinery and a starry-eyed faith in technological revolution. The rhetorical power of the automation ideology revealed and perpetuated a belief that the idea of freedom was incompatible with the activity of work. From there, political actors ruled out the workplace as a site of politics while some of labor's staunchest allies dismissed sped-up tasks, expanded workloads, and incipient deindustrialization in the name of technological progress. A forceful intellectual history, Labor's End challenges entrenched assumptions about automation's transformation of the American workplace.