We Borrowed Gentleness
We Borrowed Gentleness

Author: J. Estanislao Lopez

Publisher: Alice James Books

Published: 2022-10-09

Total Pages: 82

ISBN-13: 1948579375

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We Borrowed Gentleness interrogates the innateness of pain and forms of destruction—through natural disaster, through God, through family, and through the power structures and patriarchal violence that embeds itself in language and cultural memory. Poems critique and challenge the patriarchal narratives that dominate American history. The poems leave the question open of whether man, men, a father and son, are redeemable after the surge of rising white nationalism in America. And yet, there are poems that find, still, bits of joy and perhaps a shred of hope. By juxtaposing poems of louder narrative imagination with quieter poems that explore intimate failings within a family, often portrayed with a realist aesthetic, the book attempts to work through the essential fault in man, in men—in the structures that they design and maintain.

Play Dead
Play Dead

Author: Francine J. Harris

Publisher:

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781938584251

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Identity, gender, and race politics all collide ferociously in this unflinching collection that actively cuts through cultural and social constructs.

James J. Kilpatrick
James J. Kilpatrick

Author: William P. Hustwit

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2013-05-01

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1469602148

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James J. Kilpatrick was a nationally known television personality, journalist, and columnist whose conservative voice rang out loudly and widely through the twentieth century. As editor of the Richmond News Leader, writer for the National Review, debater in the "Point/Counterpoint" portion of CBS's 60 Minutes, and supporter of conservative political candidates like Barry Goldwater, Kilpatrick had many platforms for his race-based brand of southern conservatism. In James J. Kilpatrick: Salesman for Segregation, William P. Hustwit delivers a comprehensive study of Kilpatrick's importance to the civil rights era and explores how his protracted resistance to both desegregation and egalitarianism culminated in an enduring form of conservatism that revealed a nation's unease with racial change. Relying on archival sources, including Kilpatrick's personal papers, Hustwit provides an invaluable look at what Gunnar Myrdal called the race problem in the "white mind" at the intersection of the postwar conservative and civil rights movements. Growing out of a painful family history and strongly conservative political cultures, Kilpatrick's personal values and self-interested opportunism contributed to America's ongoing struggles with race and reform.

Dead Man's Hand
Dead Man's Hand

Author: James J. Butcher

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2023-09-05

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 059354708X

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In the tradition of his renowned father, James J. Butcher’s debut novel is a brilliant urban fantasy about a young man who must throw out the magical rule book to solve the murder of his former mentor. On the streets of Boston, the world is divided into the ordinary Usuals, and the paranormal Unorthodox. And in the Department of Unorthodox Affairs, the Auditors are the magical elite, government-sanctioned witches with spells at their command and all the power and prestige that comes with it. Grimshaw Griswald Grimsby is…not one of those witches. After flunking out of the Auditor training program and being dismissed as “not Department material,” Grimsby tried to resign himself to life as a mediocre witch. But he can’t help hoping he’ll somehow, someway, get another chance to prove his skill. That opportunity comes with a price when his former mentor, aka the most dangerous witch alive, is murdered down the street from where he works, and Grimsby is the Auditors’ number one suspect. Proving his innocence will require more than a little legwork, and after forming a strange alliance with the retired legend known as the Huntsman and a mysterious being from Elsewhere, Grimsby is abruptly thrown into a life of adventure, whether he wants it or not. Now all he has to do is find the real killer, avoid the Auditors on his trail, and most importantly, stay alive.

The Autobiography of Andrea J. James
The Autobiography of Andrea J. James

Author: Andrea J. James

Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.

Published: 2023-10-17

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13:

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These are the things you will get from this book: Because you have a wrecked past, you believe that God cannot save you. You believe that the trials of your life will stop you from accomplishing what you were created to do. If you are a gangster, you think you cannot do a 180-degree turnaround. If you are a drug dealer and believe that you have to sell drugs to support your family, one day, you will realize that in the end, it is not worth it. You will see that dangerous experiences in your life were there for a reason. This book is a true story of one who overcame many obstacles in her lifetime. She is still alive by the grace of God. Rev. Andrea James is a minister of the Word of God to all who come along her path. She obtained an evangelist and reverend certification while incarcerated since 2001 and 2003. Also, she encourages and comforts and helps other individuals with their sexual abuse.

Edmund J. James and the Making of the Modern University of Illinois, 1904-1920
Edmund J. James and the Making of the Modern University of Illinois, 1904-1920

Author: Winton U Solberg

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2024-11-12

Total Pages: 616

ISBN-13: 0252047362

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In 1904, Edmund J. James inherited the leadership of an educational institution in search of an identity. His sixteen-year tenure transformed the University of Illinois from an industrial college to a major state university that fulfilled his vision of a center for scientific investigation. Winton U. Solberg and J. David Hoeveler provide an account of a pivotal time in the university’s evolution. A gifted intellectual and dedicated academic reformer, James began his tenure facing budget battles and antagonists on the Board of Trustees. But as time passed, he successfully campaigned to address the problems faced by women students, expand graduate programs, solidify finances, create a university press, reshape the library and faculty, and unify the colleges of liberal arts and sciences. Combining narrative force with exhaustive research, the authors illuminate the political milieu and personalities around James to draw a vivid portrait of his life and times. The authoritative conclusion to a four-part history, Edmund J. James and the Making of the Modern University of Illinois, 1904–1920 tells the story of one man’s mission to create a university worthy of the state of Illinois.

James Orr, Poet and Irish Radical
James Orr, Poet and Irish Radical

Author: Carol Baraniuk

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-10-06

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 1317317467

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James Orr was the foremost of the Ulster Weaver poets and has been favourably compared to his near contemporary Robert Burns. Baraniuk looks at Orr's life and work, examining the changing social, political and theological context of his writing and reassessing his contribution to radical literature and culture during the Romantic era.