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Just Schools

The Idea of Racial Equality in American Education

By: David L. Kirp,James D Marver Professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy David L Kirp

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Just Schools

The Idea of Racial Equality in American Education

By: David L. Kirp,James D Marver Professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy David L Kirp

Examines the goals of equality in education, reviews the experiences of five communities, and recommends policy measures to improve educational opportunity in the United States

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Univ of California Press

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0520045750

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9780520045750

Coming Back Home

By: James Richmond

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Coming Back Home is one mans journey through twenty years of his life. A journey of leaving what he loved, doing what he loved, and returning with the ones he loved. The book is an answer to the question that James has heard hundreds of times: What did you do in the Air Force? James enlisted in the Air Force after graduating high school for two reasons: he did not cherish the thought of being a farmer and he wanted to serve his country. When he left, he felt alone. As he made new friends and visited and lived in new places, he became a man. He became an airman. As he progressed through the ranks in the Air Force, he met and married the love of his life, and they started their family. Coming Back Home is Jamess storyhis life of leaving and returning. It is the fulfillment of his dream.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1543418910

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9781543418910

Black Baseball, 1858-1900

A Comprehensive Record of the Teams, Players, Managers, Owners and Umpires

By: James E. Brunson III

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Black Baseball, 1858-1900

A Comprehensive Record of the Teams, Players, Managers, Owners and Umpires

By: James E. Brunson III

This is one of the most important baseball books to be published in a long time, taking a comprehensive look at black participation in the national pastime from 1858 through 1900. It provides team rosters and team histories, player biographies, a list of umpires and games they officiated and information on team managers and team secretaries. Well known organizations like the Washington's Mutuals, Philadelphia Pythians, Chicago Uniques, St. Louis Black Stockings, Cuban Giants and Chicago Unions are documented, as well as lesser known teams like the Wilmington Mutuals, Newton Black Stockings, San Francisco Enterprise, Dallas Black Stockings, Galveston Flyaways, Louisville Brotherhoods and Helena Pastimes. Player biographies trace their connections between teams across the country. Essays frame the biographies, discussing the social and cultural events that shaped black baseball. Waiters and barbers formed the earliest organized clubs and developed local, regional and national circuits. Some players belonged to both white and colored clubs, and some umpires officiated colored, white and interracial matches. High schools nurtured young players and transformed them into powerhouse teams, like Cincinnati's Vigilant Base Ball Club. A special essay covers visual representations of black baseball and the artists who created them, including colored artists of color who were also baseballists.

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1402

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McFarland

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1476616582

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9781476616582

Lies Across America

What American Historic Sites Get Wrong

By: James W. Loewen

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Lies Across America

What American Historic Sites Get Wrong

By: James W. Loewen

Examines more than one hundred sites that promote incorrect interpretations of history and raises questions about what Americans choose to commemorate.

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464

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Simon and Schuster

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074329629X

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9780743296298

Rebel Raider

The Life of General John Hunt Morgan

By: James A. Ramage

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Rebel Raider

The Life of General John Hunt Morgan

By: James A. Ramage

At the age of twelve, American William R. Dunn decided to become a fighter pilot. In 1939 he joined the Canadian Army and was soon transferred to the Royal Air Force. He was the first pilot in the famous Eagle Squadron of American volunteers to shoot down an enemy aircraft and later became the first American ace of the war. After joining the U.S. Army Air Corps in 1943, he saw action in the Normandy invasion and in Patton's sweep across France. Twenty years later he fought again in Vietnam. Dunn keenly conveys the fighter pilot's experience of war -- the tension of combat, the harsh grip of fear, the love of aircraft, the elation of victory, the boisterous comradeship and competition of the pilot brotherhood. Fighter Pilot is both a gripping story and a unique historical document.

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336

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University Press of Kentucky

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081314633X

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9780813146331

Public and Community Health Nursing Practice

A Population-Based Approach

By: Demetrius James Porche

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Public and Community Health Nursing Practice

A Population-Based Approach

By: Demetrius James Porche

Developed as an advanced text for students in public and community health nursing, this book presents a summary of the core functions of population-based practice, emphasizing evidence-based research. Porche (nursing, Nursing Research and Evaluation, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center

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528

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SAGE

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0761924833

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9780761924838

John Ruskin

A Life in Pictures

By: James S. Dearden

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John Ruskin

A Life in Pictures

By: James S. Dearden

Despite professing a dislike of having his portrait taken, John Ruskin's footsteps were dogged by portrait painters, sculptors, caricaturists and photographers from the cradle to the grave and beyond. A thoroughly accessible book it lists and describes some 331likenesses made between 1822 and 1998. The three introductory chapters to this book survey Ruskin portraiture and the portraits, his general physical appearance througout his life, his hands, his mouth, his various illnesses and their effect on his appearance, his clothes, style of dress, size, tailors, their bills, etc. These opening chapters include many descriptions and reminiscences by Ruskin's friends and acquaintances, and those who portrayed him. The principal part of the book deals with the individual portraits, their history, where and why they were made, what Ruskin was doing at that time of his life and what his connection was with the artists in question. He was portrayed so regularly that this section is also effectively a potted Ruskin biography, based on the portraits. A 'catalogue raisonne' of the Ruskin portraits follows where the physical details of the works are listed, together with details of reproductions, exhibitions and provenance.

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306

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A&C Black

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1841270466

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9781841270463

Acts of Criticism

Performance Matters in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries : Essays in Honor of James P. Lusardi

By: James P. Lusardi

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Acts of Criticism

Performance Matters in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries : Essays in Honor of James P. Lusardi

By: James P. Lusardi

This book assembles a cast of sixteen distinguished theater historians and performance critics, each of whom has contributed significantly to our understanding of issues associated with performing works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Their essays, all appearing in print for the first time, are presented in two groupings: a theater history and practice section, in which contributors examine matters related to performance in Shakespeare's time and our own, and a performance criticism section, in which contributors treat modern productions on stage and screen. In the theater history and practice section, Roslyn L. Knutson explores the 1599-1600 repertory of the Admiral's Men and the Chamberlain's Men, who performed in rival playhouses.

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Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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0838640591

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9780838640593

Five Miles Away, A World Apart

One City, Two Schools, and the Story of Educational Opportunity in Modern America

By: James E. Ryan

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Five Miles Away, A World Apart

One City, Two Schools, and the Story of Educational Opportunity in Modern America

By: James E. Ryan

How is it that, half a century after Brown v. Board of Education, educational opportunities remain so unequal for black and white students, not to mention poor and wealthy ones?In his important new book, Five Miles Away, A World Apart, James E. Ryan answers this question by tracing the fortunes of two schools in Richmond, Virginia--one in the city and the other in the suburbs. Ryan shows how court rulings in the 1970s, limiting the scope of desegregation, laid the groundwork for the sharp disparities between urban and suburban public schools that persist to this day. The Supreme Court, in accord with the wishes of the Nixon administration, allowed the suburbs to lock nonresidents out of their school systems. City schools, whose student bodies were becoming increasingly poor and black, simply received more funding, a measure that has proven largely ineffective, while the independence (and superiority) of suburban schools remained sacrosanct. Weaving together court opinions, social science research, and compelling interviews with students, teachers, and principals, Ryan explains why all the major education reforms since the 1970s--including school finance litigation, school choice, and the No Child Left Behind Act--have failed to bridge the gap between urban and suburban schools and have unintentionally entrenched segregation by race and class. As long as that segregation continues, Ryan forcefully argues, so too will educational inequality. Ryan closes by suggesting innovative ways to promote school integration, which would take advantage of unprecedented demographic shifts and an embrace of diversity among young adults.Exhaustively researched and elegantly written by one of the nation's leading education law scholars, Five Miles Away, A World Apart ties together, like no other book, a half-century's worth of education law and politics into a coherent, if disturbing, whole. It will be of interest to anyone who has ever wondered why our schools are so unequal and whether there is anything to be done about it.

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Oxford University Press

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0195327381

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9780195327380

Ploughshares Into Swords

Race, Rebellion, and Identity in Gabriel's Virginia, 1730-1810

By: James Sidbury

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Ploughshares Into Swords

Race, Rebellion, and Identity in Gabriel's Virginia, 1730-1810

By: James Sidbury

During the summer of 1800, slaves in and around Richmond conspired to overthrow their masters and abolish slavery. This book uses Gabriel's Conspiracy, and the evidence produced during the repression of the revolt, to expose the processes through which Virginians of African descent built an oppositional culture. Sidbury portrays the rich cultures of eighteenth-century black Virginians, and the multiple, and sometimes conflicting, senses of identity that emerged among enslaved and free people living in and around the rapidly growing state capital. The book also examines the conspirators' vision of themselves as God's chosen people, and the complicated African and European roots of their culture. In so doing, it offers an alternative interpretation of the meaning of the Virginia that was home to so many of the Founding Fathers. This narrative focuses on the history and perspectives of black and enslaved people, in order to develop 'Gabriel's Virginia' as a counterpoint to more common discussions of 'Jeffersonian Virginia'.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521598605

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9780521598606

Book's by James Richmond

Just Schools

Just Schools

Coming Back Home

Coming Back Home

Black Baseball, 1858-1900

Black Baseball, 1858-1900

Lies Across America

Lies Across America

Rebel Raider

Rebel Raider

Public and Community Health Nursing Practice

Public and Community Health Nursing Practice

John Ruskin

John Ruskin

Acts of Criticism

Acts of Criticism

Five Miles Away, A World Apart

Five Miles Away, A World Apart

Ploughshares Into Swords

Ploughshares Into Swords

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