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The Other Blacklist

The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s

By: Mary Washington

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The Other Blacklist

The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s

By: Mary Washington

Revealing the formative influence of 1950s leftist radicalism on African American literature and culture.

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Columbia University Press

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0231152701

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I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive

A Zora Neale Hurston Reader

By: Zora Neale Hurston,Mary Helen Washington

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I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive

A Zora Neale Hurston Reader

By: Zora Neale Hurston,Mary Helen Washington

Anthology of essays, folklore and fiction by a leading figure in the Harlem Renaissance.

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Feminist Press at CUNY

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0912670665

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By the Breath of Their Mouths

Narratives of Resistance in Italian America

By: Mary Jo Bona

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By the Breath of Their Mouths

Narratives of Resistance in Italian America

By: Mary Jo Bona

In By the Breath of Their Mouths, Mary Jo Bona examines the oral uses of language and the liberating power of speech in Italian American writing, as well as its influences on generations of assimilated Italian American writers. Probing and wide-ranging, Bona's analysis reveals the lasting importance of storytelling and folk narrative, their impact on ethnic, working-class, and women's literatures, and their importance in shaping multiethnic literature. Drawing on a wide range of material from several genres, including oral biographies, fiction, film, poetry, and memoir, and grounded in recent theories of narrative and autobiography, postcolonial theory, and critical multiculturalism, By the Breath of Their Mouths is must reading for students in Italian American studies in particular and ethnic studies and multiethnic literature more generally.

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State University of New York Press

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1438429975

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The Other Blacklist

The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s

By: Mary Helen Washington

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The Other Blacklist

The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s

By: Mary Helen Washington

Mary Helen Washington recovers the vital role of 1950s leftist politics in the works and lives of modern African American writers and artists. While most histories of McCarthyism focus on the devastation of the blacklist and the intersection of leftist politics and American culture, few include the activities of radical writers and artists from the Black Popular Front. Washington's work incorporates these black intellectuals back into our understanding of mid-twentieth-century African American literature and art and expands our understanding of the creative ferment energizing all of America during this period. Mary Helen Washington reads four representative writers—Lloyd Brown, Frank London Brown, Alice Childress, and Gwendolyn Brooks—and surveys the work of the visual artist Charles White. She traces resonances of leftist ideas and activism in their artistic achievements and follows their balanced critique of the mainstream liberal and conservative political and literary spheres. Her study recounts the targeting of African American as well as white writers during the McCarthy era, reconstructs the events of the 1959 Black Writers' Conference in New York, and argues for the ongoing influence of the Black Popular Front decades after it folded. Defining the contours of a distinctly black modernism and its far-ranging radicalization of American politics and culture, Washington fundamentally reorients scholarship on African American and Cold War literature and life.

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Columbia University Press

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0231526474

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Eradicating this Evil

Women in the American Anti-Lynching Movement, 1892-1940

By: Mary Jane Brown

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Eradicating this Evil

Women in the American Anti-Lynching Movement, 1892-1940

By: Mary Jane Brown

First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Routledge

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1136712534

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9781136712531

Places of Redemption

Theology for a Worldly Church

By: Mary McClintock Fulkerson

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Places of Redemption

Theology for a Worldly Church

By: Mary McClintock Fulkerson

The primary aim of this book is to explore the contradiction between widely shared beliefs in the USA about racial inclusiveness and equal opportunity for all and the fact that most churches are racially homogeneous and do not include people with disabilities. To address the problem Mary McClintock Fulkerson explores the practices of an interracial church (United Methodist) that includes people with disabilities. The analysis focuses on those activities which create opportunities for people to experience those who are `different' as equal in ways that diminish both obliviousness to the other and fear of the other. In contrast with theology's typical focus on the beliefs of Christians, this project offers a theory of practices and place that foregrounds the instinctual reactions and communications that shape all groups. The effect is to broaden the academic field of theology through the benefits of ethnographic research and postmodern place theory.

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OUP Oxford

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0191615498

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Incremental Realism

Postwar American Fiction, Happiness, and Welfare-State Liberalism

By: Mary Esteve

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Incremental Realism

Postwar American Fiction, Happiness, and Welfare-State Liberalism

By: Mary Esteve

The postwar US political imagination coalesced around a quintessential midcentury American trope: happiness. In Incremental Realism, Mary Esteve offers a bold, revisionist literary and cultural history of efforts undertaken by literary realists, public intellectuals, and policy activists to advance the value of public institutions and the claims of socioeconomic justice. Esteve specifically focuses on era-defining authors of realist fiction, including Philip Roth, Gwendolyn Brooks, Patricia Highsmith, Paula Fox, Peter Taylor, and Mary McCarthy, who mobilized the trope of happiness to reinforce the crucial value of public institutions, such as the public library, and the importance of pursuing socioeconomic justice, as envisioned by the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights and welfare-state liberals. In addition to embracing specific symbols of happiness, these writers also developed narrative modes—what Esteve calls "incremental realism"—that made justifiable the claims of disadvantaged Americans on the nation-state and promoted a small-canvas aesthetics of moderation. With this powerful demonstration of the way postwar literary fiction linked the era's familiar trope of happiness to political arguments about socioeconomic fairness and individual flourishing, Esteve enlarges our sense of the postwar liberal imagination and its attentiveness to better, possible worlds.

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Stanford University Press

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1503614387

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9781503614383

Voices from the Quarters

The Fiction of Ernest J. Gaines

By: Mary Ellen Doyle

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Voices from the Quarters

The Fiction of Ernest J. Gaines

By: Mary Ellen Doyle

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title “Who will write about the way my people talk, the way my people sing?” Mary Ellen Doyle gathers and makes audible the voices arising from all of Ernest J. Gaines’s fiction to date—the indelible characters who inhabit the author’s lifelong inspirational territory: the bayous, cane fields, and plantation homes of Louisiana’s Pointe Coupee Parish. Beginning with the author’s upbringing and influences on River Lake plantation—amid the pecan trees and live oaks, the big house and the tenant quarters — this penetrating study offers close readings of Gaines’s uncollected short fiction, the early collection Bloodline, and all of his novels, including The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and the acclaimed A Lesson Before Dying. Highlighting Gaines’s skill at translating oral tales into meaningful fictional forms, Doyle advances an original theory of first-person narration (“camcorder”) and traces its use throughout his work. Gaines’s unwavering focus on the utterances of “his people” continually strengthens his artistic development—the voices of the early stories fusing with those of the later novels—until Gaines earns a unique magisterial “voice,” an implied author who is black but speaks to universals. Using critical methods as eclectic as the book’s intended audience, and drawing from on-site research and interviews with Gaines’s relatives and friends, Doyle offers a variety of perspectives on Gaines’s fiction and its world that resonates so powerfully. Those who recognize Gaines as one of the finest southern writers of the last forty years will find here an accessible instrument to hear his voices more clearly than ever.

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LSU Press

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0807129100

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9780807129104

Sorrow's Kitchen

The Life and Folklore of Zora Neale Hurston

By: Mary E. Lyons

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Sorrow's Kitchen

The Life and Folklore of Zora Neale Hurston

By: Mary E. Lyons

Describes the life and work of the prolific black author who wrote stories, plays, essays, and articles, recorded black folklore, and was involved in the Harlem Renaissance.

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Simon and Schuster

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0020444451

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9780020444459

Pioneer Spirit

Catherine Spalding, Sister of Charity of Nazareth

By: Mary Ellen Doyle

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Pioneer Spirit

Catherine Spalding, Sister of Charity of Nazareth

By: Mary Ellen Doyle

Mother Catherine Spalding (1793–1858) was the cofounder and first leader of one of the most significant American religious communities for women—the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth near Bardstown, Kentucky. Elected at age nineteen to lead the order, Spalding also founded several educational institutions, Louisville's first private hospital, and the first social service agency for children in Kentucky. Pioneer Spirit is the first biography of Catherine Spalding, a woman who made it her life's work to serve the citizens of the Kentucky frontier. Catherine, who lost her mother at a young age and was raised in many different homes before she was ten years old, eventually came to be raised in a colony of Catholic families. These formative years taught her independence, the value of hard work and an enduring spirit, and the importance of education, all of which would figure prominently in her later career. Spalding became increasingly interested in health care, services for orphans, and education, and her business skills and strong sense of purpose allowed her to achieve her goals with little interference from outsiders. She showed a natural gift for administration, and the scope and services of the Sisters of Charity expanded under her leadership. In the midst of this ministerial work, however, Spalding always maintained the connection of her ministry to spiritual and communal life, ascribing great importance to all three facets of her calling. Author Mary Ellen Doyle notes that in Spalding's correspondence with the Sisters, she repeatedly emphasized the heart of charity: "genuine interest in each other and sisterly affection free of personal ambition or jealousy." By the time of Catherine Spalding's death, the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth extended beyond Nazareth to more than one hundred sisters in sixteen convents. Spalding's legacy of service continues today with more than six hundred members worldwide, and her story of progressive and compassionate leadership offers unique insights into the growth of a religious order and the struggles of developing America's frontier communities.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813188946

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9780813188942

Inventing the New Negro

Narrative, Culture, and Ethnography

By: Daphne Mary Lamothe

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Inventing the New Negro

Narrative, Culture, and Ethnography

By: Daphne Mary Lamothe

It is no coincidence, Daphne Lamothe writes, that so many black writers and intellectuals of the first half of the twentieth century either trained formally as ethnographers or worked as amateur collectors of folklore and folk culture. In Inventing the New Negro Lamothe explores the process by which key figures such as Zora Neale Hurston, Katherine Dunham, W. E. B. Du Bois, James Weldon Johnson, and Sterling Brown adapted ethnography and folklore in their narratives to create a cohesive, collective, and modern black identity. Lamothe explores how these figures assumed the roles of self-reflective translators and explicators of African American and African diasporic cultures to Western, largely white audiences. Lamothe argues that New Negro writers ultimately shifted the presuppositions of both literary modernism and modernist anthropology by making their narratives as much about ways of understanding as they were about any quest for objective knowledge. In critiquing the ethnographic framework within which they worked, they confronted the classist, racist, and cultural biases of the dominant society and challenged their readers to imagine a different set of relations between the powerful and the oppressed. Inventing the New Negro combines an intellectual history of one of the most important eras of African American letters with nuanced and original readings of seminal works of literature. It will be of interest not only to Harlem Renaissance scholars but to anyone who is interested in the intersections of culture, literature, folklore, and ethnography.

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241

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812240936

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9780812240931

Reconstructing Political Theory

Feminist Perspectives

By: Mary Lyndon Shanley,Uma Narayan

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Reconstructing Political Theory

Feminist Perspectives

By: Mary Lyndon Shanley,Uma Narayan

In this volume, a companion to Feminist Interpretations and Political Theory (Penn State, 1991) edited by Mary Lyndon Shanley and Carole Pateman, leading feminist theorists rethink the traditional concepts of political theory and expand the range of problems and concerns regarded as central to the analysis of political life. Written by well-known scholars in philosophy, political science, sociology, and law, the book provides a rich interdisciplinary account of key issues in political thought. While some of the chapters discuss traditional concepts such as rights, power, freedom, and citizenship, others argue that topics less frequently discussed in political theory--such as the family, childhood, dependency, compassion and suffering--are just as significant for an understanding of political life. The Introduction shows how such diverse topics can be linked together and how feminist political theory can be elaborated systematically if it takes notions of independence and dependency, public and private, and power and empowerment as central to its agenda.

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252

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Penn State Press

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0271017252

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9780271017259

Helen Hayes

By: Mary Kittredge

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Helen Hayes

By: Mary Kittredge

An illustrated biography of the celebrated actress.

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Chelsea House Publications

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1555466567

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9781555466565

Writing in the Disciplines

A Reader for Writers

By: Mary Lynch Kennedy,William John Kennedy,Hadley M. Smith

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Writing in the Disciplines

A Reader for Writers

By: Mary Lynch Kennedy,William John Kennedy,Hadley M. Smith

This reader provides a firm grounding in academic writing, showing students how to read academic texts and use them as sources for college papers. Offering a broad and comprehensive selection of readings to help students develop their abilities to think critically and reason cogently, it shows them how to work individually and collaboratively as they move through the entire process of writing from sources from reading the original source to planning, drafting and revising essays.

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0130210277

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9780130210272

Claiming a Tradition

Italian American Women Writers

By: Mary Jo Bona

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Claiming a Tradition

Italian American Women Writers

By: Mary Jo Bona

Mary Jo Bona reconstructs the literary history and examines the narrative techniques of eight Italian American women's novels from 1940 to the present. Largely neglected until recently, these women's family narratives compel a reconsideration of what it means to be a woman and an ethnic in America. Bona discusses the novels in pairs according to their focus on Italian American life. She first examines the traditions of italianitá (a flavor of things Italian) that inform and enhance works of fiction. The novelists in that tradition were Mari Tomasi (Like Lesser Gods, 1949) and Marion Benasutti (No Steady Job for Papa, 1966). Bona then turns to later novels that highlight the Italian American belief in the family's honor and reputation. Conflicts between generations, specifically between autocratic fathers and their children, are central to Octavia Waldo's 1961 A Cup of the Sun and Josephine Gattuso Hendin's 1988 The Right Thing to Do. Even when writers choose to steer away from the familial focus, Bona notes, their developmental narratives trace the reintegration of characters suffering from a crisis of cultural identity. Relating the characters' struggles to their relationship to the family, Bona examines Diana Cavallo's 1961 A Bridge of Leaves and Dorothy Bryant's 1978 Miss Giardino. Bona then discusses two innovative novels—Helen Barolini's 1979 Umbertina and Tina De Rosa's 1980 Paper Fish—both of which feature a granddaughter who invokes her grandmother, a godparent figure. Through Barolini's feminist and De Rosa's modernist perspectives, both novels present a young girl developing artistically. Closing with a discussion of the contemporary terrain Italian American women traverse, Bona examines such topics as sexual identity when it meets cultural identity and the inclusion of italianitá when Italian American identity is not central to the story. Italian American women writers, she concludes, continue in the 1980s and 1990s to focus on the interplay between cultural identity and women's development.

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SIU Press

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0809322587

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Civil Disobedience

An Encyclopedic History of Dissidence in the United States

By: Mary Ellen Snodgrass

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Civil Disobedience

An Encyclopedic History of Dissidence in the United States

By: Mary Ellen Snodgrass

Throughout American history, people with strong beliefs that ran counter to society's rules and laws have used civil disobedience to advance their causes. From the Boston Tea Party in 1773, to the Pullman Strike in 1894, to the draft card burnings and sit-ins of more recent times, civil disobedience has been a powerful force for effecting change in American society.This comprehensive A-Z encyclopedia provides a wealth of information on people, places, actions, and events that defied the law to focus attention on an issue or cause. It covers the causes and actions of activists across the political spectrum from colonial times to the present, and includes political, social economic, environmental, and a myriad of other issues."Civil Disobedience" ties into all aspects of the American history curriculum, and is a rich source of material for essays and debates on critical issues and events that continue to influence our nation's laws and values. It explores the philosophies, themes, concepts, and practices of activist groups and individuals, as well as the legislation they influenced. It includes a detailed chronology of civil disobedience, listings of acts of conscience and civil disobedience by act and by location, a bibliography of primary and secondary sources, and a comprehensive index complete the set.

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Routledge

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1317474406

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The Other Blacklist

The Other Blacklist

I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive

I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive

By the Breath of Their Mouths

By the Breath of Their Mouths

The Other Blacklist

The Other Blacklist

Eradicating this Evil

Eradicating this Evil

Places of Redemption

Places of Redemption

Incremental Realism

Incremental Realism

Voices from the Quarters

Voices from the Quarters

Sorrow's Kitchen

Sorrow's Kitchen

Pioneer Spirit

Pioneer Spirit

Inventing the New Negro

Inventing the New Negro

Reconstructing Political Theory

Reconstructing Political Theory

Helen Hayes

Helen Hayes

Writing in the Disciplines

Writing in the Disciplines

Claiming a Tradition

Claiming a Tradition

Civil Disobedience

Civil Disobedience

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