Incarceration Nation

Incarceration Nation

Author: Peter K. Enns

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-03-22

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 1107132886

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Incarceration Nation demonstrates that the US public played a critical role in the rise of mass incarceration in this country.


Kerry James Marshall

Kerry James Marshall

Author: Ian Alteveer

Publisher: Rizzoli Publications

Published: 2016-05-03

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0847848337

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The definitive monograph on contemporary African American painter Kerry James Marshall, accompanying a major traveling retrospective. This long-awaited volume celebrates the work of Kerry James Marshall, one of America’s greatest living painters. Born before the passage of the Civil Rights Act, in Birmingham, Alabama, and witness to the Watts riots in 1965, Marshall has long been an inspired and imaginative chronicler of the African American experience. Best known for large-scale interiors, landscapes, and portraits featuring powerful black figures, Marshall explores narratives of African American history from slave ships to the present and draws upon his deep knowledge of art history from the Renaissance to twentieth-century abstraction, as well as other sources such as the comic book and the muralist tradition. With luscious color and brushstrokes and highly detailed patterning, his direct and intimate scenes of black middle-class life conjure a wide range of emotions, resulting in powerful paintings that confront the position of African Americans throughout American history. Richly illustrated, this monumental book features essays by noted curators as well as the artist, and more than 100 paintings from throughout the artist’s career arranged thematically by subject: history painting; beauty, as expressed through the nude, portraiture, and self-portraiture; landscape; religion; and the politics of black nationalism.


The First Reconstruction

The First Reconstruction

Author: Van Gosse

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2021-01-05

Total Pages: 759

ISBN-13: 1469660113

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It may be difficult to imagine that a consequential black electoral politics evolved in the United States before the Civil War, for as of 1860, the overwhelming majority of African Americans remained in bondage. Yet free black men, many of them escaped slaves, steadily increased their influence in electoral politics over the course of the early American republic. Despite efforts to disfranchise them, black men voted across much of the North, sometimes in numbers sufficient to swing elections. In this meticulously-researched book, Van Gosse offers a sweeping reappraisal of the formative era of American democracy from the Constitution's ratification through Abraham Lincoln's election, chronicling the rise of an organized, visible black politics focused on the quest for citizenship, the vote, and power within the free states. Full of untold stories and thorough examinations of political battles, this book traces a First Reconstruction of black political activism following emancipation in the North. From Portland, Maine and New Bedford, Massachusetts to Brooklyn and Cleveland, black men operated as voting blocs, denouncing the notion that skin color could define citizenship.


Good Neighborhood

Good Neighborhood

Author: Morris Milgram

Publisher: W. W. Norton

Published: 1977

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 9780393087666

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Judith Stoner, unbalanced by her husband's continuing unfaithfulness, records the life of her fellow patients in a private psychiatric hospital, her love affair with one of them, her cultivation of her own creative abilities, and her recovery


Willard and Spackman's Occupational Therapy

Willard and Spackman's Occupational Therapy

Author: Barbara Schell

Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Published: 2018-09-04

Total Pages: 2632

ISBN-13: 1975125649

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Celebrating 100 years of the Occupational Therapy profession, this Centennial Edition of Willard & Spackman’s Occupational Therapy continues to live up to its well-earned reputation as the foundational book that welcomes students into their newly chosen profession. Now fully updated to reflect current practice, the 13th Edition remains the must-have resource that students that will use throughout their entire OT program, from class to fieldwork and throughout their careers. One of the top texts informing the NBCOT certification exam, it is a must have for new practitioners.


Art of Engagement

Art of Engagement

Author: Peter Selz

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2006-01-09

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 0520240529

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'Art of Engagement' focuses on the key role of California's art and artists in politics and culture since 1945. The book showcases many types of media, including photographs, found objects, drawings and prints, murals, painting, sculpture, ceramics, installations, performance art, and collage.


Staging Indigeneity

Staging Indigeneity

Author: Katrina Phillips

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2021-01-29

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 1469662329

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As tourists increasingly moved across the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a surprising number of communities looked to capitalize on the histories of Native American people to create tourist attractions. From the Happy Canyon Indian Pageant and Wild West Show in Pendleton, Oregon, to outdoor dramas like Tecumseh! in Chillicothe, Ohio, and Unto These Hills in Cherokee, North Carolina, locals staged performances that claimed to honor an Indigenous past while depicting that past on white settlers' terms. Linking the origins of these performances to their present-day incarnations, this incisive book reveals how they constituted what Katrina Phillips calls "salvage tourism"—a set of practices paralleling so-called salvage ethnography, which documented the histories, languages, and cultures of Indigenous people while reinforcing a belief that Native American societies were inevitably disappearing. Across time, Phillips argues, tourism, nostalgia, and authenticity converge in the creation of salvage tourism, which blends tourism and history, contestations over citizenship, identity, belonging, and the continued use of Indians and Indianness as a means of escape, entertainment, and economic development.


The Good Soldiers

The Good Soldiers

Author: David Finkel

Publisher: Sarah Crichton Books

Published: 2009-09-15

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 1429952717

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The Prequel to the Bestselling Thank You for Your Service, Now a Major Motion Picture With The Good Soldiers, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter David Finkel has produced an eternal story — not just of the Iraq War, but of all wars, for all time. It was the last-chance moment of the war. In January 2007, President George W. Bush announced a new strategy for Iraq. It became known as "the surge." Among those called to carry it out were the young, optimistic army infantry soldiers of the 2-16, the battalion nicknamed the Rangers. About to head to a vicious area of Baghdad, they decided the difference would be them. Fifteen months later, the soldiers returned home — forever changed. The chronicle of their tour is gripping, devastating, and deeply illuminating for anyone with an interest in human conflict.