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Sins of the Father

By: Brandi Patterson and Erin Denny

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Laurel Sandlin has the perfect life. She lives in Pleasant Hill in her dream house, complete with white picket fence and pool. A wife and mother, with loving family nearby, she couldn't be happier--but even perfect people are bound to have problems. Laurel's stay carefully hidden until her father's sudden illness. The trauma of his sickness forces the dark elements of his past to come to light and threaten the safety of everyone he knows. Laurel tries to keep his past a secret and protect her future, but it is impossible. Everything begins to crumble. Soon, her marriage begins to fail, and chaos overtakes her peaceful life. Laurel has no choice but to face up to the past. As she digs deeper into her father's past, she discovers a part of herself she had forgotten existed. Now Laurel must decide if exposing the truth is worth risking it all.

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1491723610

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9781491723616

Claiming Union Widowhood

Race, Respectability, and Poverty in the Post-Emancipation South

By: Brandi Clay Brimmer

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Claiming Union Widowhood

Race, Respectability, and Poverty in the Post-Emancipation South

By: Brandi Clay Brimmer

In Claiming Union Widowhood, Brandi Clay Brimmer analyzes the US pension system from the perspective of poor black women during and after the Civil War. Reconstructing the grassroots pension network in New Bern, North Carolina, through a broad range of historical sources, she outlines how the mothers, wives, and widows of black Union soldiers struggled to claim pensions in the face of evidentiary obstacles and personal scrutiny. Brimmer exposes and examines the numerous attempts by the federal government to exclude black women from receiving the federal pensions that they had been promised. Her analyses illustrate the complexities of social policy and law administration and the interconnectedness of race, gender, and class formation. Expanding on previous analyses of pension records, Brimmer offers an interpretive framework of emancipation and the freedom narrative that places black women at the forefront of demands for black citizenship.

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Duke University Press

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1478012838

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9781478012832

Teaching Social Justice

Critical Tools for the Intercultural Communication Classroom

By: Brandi Lawless,Yea-Wen Chen

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Teaching Social Justice

Critical Tools for the Intercultural Communication Classroom

By: Brandi Lawless,Yea-Wen Chen

The intercultural communication classroom can be an emotionally and intellectually heavy place for many students and teachers. Sensitive topics arise and students must face complex issues with intellectual curiosity and collegial respect. To navigate the precarious waters of intercultural communications, teachers need an intentional approach to foster meaningful discussion and learning. This pedagogical guide presents conceptual overviews, student activities, and problem-solving strategies for teaching intercultural communication. The authors navigate eight categories of potential conflict, including: communicating power and privilege, community engagement in social justice, and assessing intercultural pedagogies for social justice. In addition to empirical studies and the authors’ own classroom experiences, the book features the personal narratives of junior and senior intercultural communication teacher-scholars whose journeys will encourage and instruct readers towards more fulfilling teaching experiences.

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199

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538121360

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9781538121368

Improvement Science in Education

A Primer

By: Brandi Nicole Hinnant-Crawford

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Improvement Science in Education

A Primer

By: Brandi Nicole Hinnant-Crawford

Improvement Science in Education: A Primer provides a comprehensive overview of improvement science as a framework to guide continuous improvement and reconceptualizes improvement by centering equity and justice as the purpose of improvement. This Primer is designed to introduce improvement science, a methodology with origins in manufacturing, engineering and healthcare, to educational audiences. The book first explores the philosophical and methodological foundations of improvement science, juxtaposing it with traditional forms of research so that clear distinctions can be drawn. Chapters in the latter half of the book introduce the principles of improvement, give guidance and tools for operationalizing the principles in practice, and conclude with questions to ensure you are improving with equity in mind. Constantly reminding readers to think about who is involved and impacted, the Primer makes improvement science accessible to novices and adds critical dimensions for experienced practitioners to consider. Perfect for courses such as: Educational Research, School Improvement, and Program Evaluation

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Myers Education Press

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1975503570

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9781975503574

Sport Teams, Fans, and Twitter

The Influence of Social Media on Relationships and Branding

By: Brandi Watkins

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Sport Teams, Fans, and Twitter

The Influence of Social Media on Relationships and Branding

By: Brandi Watkins

A strong relationship between sport fans and teams is an essential component for the success of the sport brand. This book provides an in-depth examination of the use of Twitter as a tool to enhance and maintain the fan-team relationship. As social media platforms have expanded beyond purely personal use, brands have had to adjust their strategic communication and marketing efforts. Drawing on research and theory from advertising, marketing, mass communication, and public relations, this book uses a mixed methods approach to better understand how online fan engagement using Twitter can help strengthen the fan-team relationship. Findings from this research has implications for the continued scholarly work on online engagement and relationship building as well as practical applications for effective use of Twitter as a strategic communication tool.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1498540066

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9781498540063

Making Local Food Work

The Challenges and Opportunities of Today's Small Farmers

By: Brandi Janssen

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Making Local Food Work

The Challenges and Opportunities of Today's Small Farmers

By: Brandi Janssen

Making Local Food Work is an ideal introduction to what local food means today and what it might be tomorrow. By listening to and working alongside people trying to build a local food system in Iowa, Brandi Janssen uncovers the complex realities of making it work. She asks how Iowa's small farmers and CSA owners deal with farmers' market regulations, neighbors who spray pesticides on crops or lawns, and sanitary regulations on meat processing and milk production. How can they meet the needs of large buyers like school districts? Is local food production benefitting rural communities as much as advocates claim? In answering these questions, Janssen displays the pragmatism and level-headedness one would expect of the heartland, much like the farmers and processors profiled here. It's doable, she states, but we're going to have to do more than shop at our local farmers' market to make it happen.

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University of Iowa Press

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160938492X

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9781609384920

Ute Land Religion in the American West, 1879–2009

By: Brandi Denison

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Ute Land Religion in the American West, 1879–2009

By: Brandi Denison

Ute Land Religion in the American West, 1879–2009 is a narrative of American religion and how it intersected with land in the American West. Prior to 1881, Utes lived on the largest reservation in North America—twelve million acres of western Colorado. Brandi Denison takes a broad look at the Ute land dispossession and resistance to disenfranchisement by tracing the shifting cultural meaning of dirt, a physical thing, into land, an abstract idea. This shift was made possible through the development and deployment of an idealized American religion based on Enlightenment ideals of individualism, Victorian sensibilities about the female body, and an emerging respect for diversity and commitment to religious pluralism that was wholly dependent on a separation of economics from religion. As the narrative unfolds, Denison shows how Utes and their Anglo-American allies worked together to systematize a religion out of existing ceremonial practices, anthropological observations, and Euro-American ideals of nature. A variety of societies then used religious beliefs and practices to give meaning to the land, which in turn shaped inhabitants’ perception of an exclusive American religion. Ultimately, this movement from the tangible to the abstract demonstrates the development of a normative American religion, one that excludes minorities even as they are the source of the idealized expression.

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U of Nebraska Press

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1496201418

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9781496201416

Sins of the Father

Book One—Innocence Gone

By: Brandi Patterson,Erin Denny

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Sins of the Father

Book One—Innocence Gone

By: Brandi Patterson,Erin Denny

Laurel Sandlin has the perfect life. She lives in Pleasant Hill in her dream house, complete with white picket fence and pool. A wife and mother, with loving family nearby, she couldnt be happierbut even perfect people are bound to have problems. Laurels stay carefully hidden until her fathers sudden illness. The trauma of his sickness forces the dark elements of his past to come to light and threaten the safety of everyone he knows. Laurel tries to keep his past a secret and protect her future, but it is impossible. Everything begins to crumble. Soon, her marriage begins to fail, and chaos overtakes her peaceful life. Laurel has no choice but to face up to the past. As she digs deeper into her fathers past, she discovers a part of herself she had forgotten existed. Now Laurel must decide if exposing the truth is worth risking it all.

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1491723599

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Book's by Brandi Patterson

Sins of the Father

Sins of the Father

Claiming Union Widowhood

Claiming Union Widowhood

Teaching Social Justice

Teaching Social Justice

Improvement Science in Education

Improvement Science in Education

Sport Teams, Fans, and Twitter

Sport Teams, Fans, and Twitter

Making Local Food Work

Making Local Food Work

Ute Land Religion in the American West, 1879–2009

Ute Land Religion in the American West, 1879–2009

Sins of the Father

Sins of the Father

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