Placing the Academy

Placing the Academy

Author: Jennifer Sinor

Publisher:

Published: 2007-03-31

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13:

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Twenty-one writers answer the call for literature that addresses who we are by understanding where we are--where, for each of them, being in some way part of academia. In personal essays, they imaginatively delineate and engage the diverse, occasionally unexpected play of place in shaping them, writers and teachers in varied environments, with unique experiences and distinctive world views, and reconfiguring for them conjunctions of identity and setting, here, there, everywhere, and in between. Contents I Introduction Writing Place, Jennifer Sinor II Here Six Kinds of Rain: Searching for a Place in the Academy, Kathleen Dean Moore and Erin E. Moore The Work the Landscape Calls Us To, Michael Sowder Valley Language, Diana Garcia What I Learned from the Campus Plumber, Charles Bergman M-I-Crooked Letter-Crooked Letter, Katherine Fischer On Frogs, Poems, and Teaching at a Rural Community College, Sean W. Henne III There Levittown Breeds Anarchists Film at 11:00, Kathryn T. Flannery Living in a Transformed Desert, Mitsuye Yamada A More Fortunate Destiny, Jayne Brim Box Imagined Vietnams, Charles Waugh IV Everywhere Teaching on Stolen Ground, Deborah A. Miranda The Blind Teaching the Blind: The Academic as Naturalist, or Not, Robert Michael Pyle Where Are You From? Lee Torda V In Between Going Away to Think, Scott Slovic Fronteriza Consciousness: The Site and Language of the Academy and of Life, Norma Elia Cantu Bones of Summer, Mary Clearman Blew Singing, Speaking, and Seeing a World, Janice M. Gould Making Places Work: Felt Sense, Identity, and Teaching, Jeffrey M. Buchanan VI Coda Running in Place: The Personal at Work, in Motion, on Campus, and in the Neighborhood, Rona Kaufman


Lincoln's Negro Policy

Lincoln's Negro Policy

Author: E. S. Cox

Publisher: Blurb

Published: 2017-07-07

Total Pages: 44

ISBN-13: 9781389866050

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A new edition of the famous work by foremost American racial thinker E.S. Cox which reveals that Abraham Lincoln--and many other famous American politicians and Founding Fathers--regarded the only solution to America's racial problems as the wholesale repatriation of all blacks back to Africa. This repatriation plan was also supported by millions of blacks. Their organizations and leadership--including the Paul Cuffe, Henry M. Turner, Marcus Garvey, and M. M. L. Gordon--are also reviewed.Abraham Lincoln repeatedly advocated repatriation of blacks to land of their own. Cox's research shows that, contrary to allegations from some sources that he changed his views regarding this matter, he was making plans to establish a colony in Africa for blacks only days before he was assassinated. Even Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation contained his intention in this regard: "I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States, do hereby proclaim and declare that it is my purpose upon the next meeting of Congress to again recommend . . . the immediate or gradual abolishment of Slavery . . . and that the effort to colonize persons of African descent, with their consent, upon the continent or elsewhere, with the previously obtained consent of the government existing there, will be continued..."This work shows--from Lincoln's speeches and actions--that he never considered the integration of blacks into American society as an option, and repeatedly told "free Negroes" that their true destiny lay outside of America, in a "colony" of their own, either in Africa or elsewhere in the Caribbean or South America.This book also studies the work of the American Colonization Society, set up to promote the repatriation policy, and whose members included numerous American presidents such as James Monroe, James Madison, and Abraham Lincoln.This edition has been completely reset and hand-edited. It contains 11 illustrations and is fully indexed.