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The Black Panther Party (reconsidered)
This new collection of essays, contributed by scholars and former Panthers, is a ground-breaking work that offers thought-provoking and pertinent observations about the many facets of the Party. By placing the perspectives of participants and scholars side by side, Dr. Jones presents an insider view and initiates a vital dialogue that is absent from most historical studies.
The Stand-alone Chest
With dark humor and wit, Joan Bird's The Stand-alone Chest carries the reader through five short, twisted tales. A woman cursed by her estranged cousin, a haunted production of Hamlet, a journalist who witnesses the tragic death of a friend, a father's ghostly son, and a hellish courtroom trial-this riveting collection is simply compelling. Bird's narrators serve as wry, bold guides through deliciously eerie storyscapes in which you feel the dark shadow, the unexplainable, the chill at the nape most of us have written off as inconsequential figment. But Bird lets these sensations roam, gives vivid shape to the cool crossings over, and follows them all the way down to the wonderfully impossible. And the author's formidable knowledge of literature, history, and the sciences allows her to conjure up hilarious and morbid allusions. Intellectual and addictive, these stories will not leave you with an easy ending, but they will continue to haunt you long after you have read the final page.
Rhetoric, Public Memory, and Campus History
This essay collection explores the inextricable link between rhetoric, public memory, and campus history projects. Since the early twentieth century after Brown University appointed its Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice, higher education institutions around the globe have launched initiatives to research, document, and share their connections to slavery and its legacies. Many of these explorations have led to investigations about the rhetorical nature of campus history projects, including the names of buildings, the installation of monuments, the publication of books, the production of resolutions, and the hosting of public programs. The essays in this collection examine the rhetoric...
Feminists Who Changed America, 1963-1975
Documents the key feminists who ignited the second wave women's movement. This work tells the stories of more than two thousand individual women and a few notable men who together reignited the women's movement and made permanent changes to entrenched customs and laws.
