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Ramona Johnsons Cry
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Ramona Johnsons Cry
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Every Dog Needs a Boy
This tiny, abandoned pup didn't even have a name. He was, however, called unkind names, as he searched for someone to love and care for him. Until that time comes, we will simply refer to him as Puppy. Join us as we follow him on an exciting, but sometimes dangerous, journey. What happened to make Puppy so determined to find “a boy to call his own”? Will he finally be given a proper name? If so, what will it be and why?
ASIAN HIGHLANDS PERSPECTIVES 27
Tsering Bum (CK Stuart, Ramona Johnson, Solomon Rino, Gerald Roche, Timothy Thurston, and Gabriela Samcewicz, eds). 2013. A Northeastern Tibetan Childhood. Asian Highlands Perspectives 27. Tsering Bum (b. 1985) describes his early life in Amdo in terms of dreams, herding, punishment from a lama, schooling experiences, attending a Kalachakra teaching, a lhatzi gathering, irrigation, his grandfather, archery, and other important moments and influences. Another incredible production from Kevin Stuart's Tibetan English students! Tsering Bum gives us a series of intricately woven vignettes of his childhood and adolescence in a small Tibetan village in Qinghai Province. A Northeastern Tibetan Chil...
Oral History Interview
Bessie Johnson Day was a day-dodger from Portland who attended Reed for one year in 1934-1935 on partial scholarship. She worked during her student year and used public transportation to and from the college. She describes Canyon Day, the teas at Anna Mann, badminton, and fellow student J.C. Taylor. She married Jesse H. Day, 1942, and worked to put him through Reed. Later, she worked for the Navy in the civil service, for a scientific journal, and on several campus committees at Ohio University.
Our Young Family
Thomas Young was born in about 1747 in Baltimore County, Maryland. He married Naomi Hyatt, daughter of Seth Hyatt and Priscilla, in about 1768. They had four children. Thomas died in 1829 in North Carolina. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in North Carolina.
Postmodernism, Traditional Cultural Forms, and African American Narratives
Examines how six writers reconfigure African American subjectivity in ways that recall postmodernist theory. This book explores how African American social and political movements, African American studies, independent scholars, and traditional cultural forms revisit and challenge the representation of the African American as deviant other. After surveying African American history and cultural politics, W. Lawrence Hogue provides original and insightful readings of six experimental/postmodern African American texts: John Edgar Widemans Philadelphia Fire; Percival Everetts Erasure; Toni Morrisons Jazz; Bonnie Greers Hanging by Her Teeth; Clarence Majors Reflex and Bone Structure; an...
A Critical Rewriting of Global Political Economy
This book rewrites global political economy by bringing disparate features of globalization into relation, and providing an accessible narrative of 'how we got here, ' 'what's going on, ' and 'what it means' from a critical vantage poin
Asian Highlands Perspectives 37: Centering the Local
This collection of essays celebrates the life and work of Dr. Charles Kevin Stuart. For more than three decades, Kevin Stuart has quietly exerted considerable influence on scholarship on Tibet, China, and Mongolia, demonstrating a particular sensitivity to emic voices, facilitating collaborations between etic-emic viewpoints, but always striving to preserve and privilege the latter. It is possible when reading Kevin's writings, and the contributions gathered here, to 'center the local' by thinking within local horizons of meaning. Introduction by Benedict Copps An Introduction to Amdo Tibetan Love Songs, or La gzhas by Skal bzang nor bu A Bibliographic Note and Table on Mid-19th to Mid-20th ...
A Dictionary of Iowa Place-Names
Lourdes and Churchtown, Woden and Clio, Emerson and Sigourney, Tripoli and Waterloo, Prairie City and Prairieburg, Tama and Swedesburg, What Cheer and Coin. Iowa’s place-names reflect the religions, myths, cultures, families, heroes, whimsies, and misspellings of the Hawkeye State’s inhabitants. Tom Savage spent four years corresponding with librarians, city and county officials, and local historians, reading newspaper archives, and exploring local websites in an effort to find out why these communities received their particular names, when they were established, and when they were incorporated. Savage includes information on the place-names of all 1,188 incorporated and unincorporated c...
