Finding the gold within / Karina Films presents a film by Karina Epperlein ; written, directed and produced by Karina Epperlein ; produced in association with the Center for Independent Documentary.

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The sentences that create us : crafting a writer's life in prison / edited by Caits Meissner ; foreword by Reginald Dwayne Betts ; PEN America.

Emerson & Eros : the making of a cultural hero / Len Gougeon. by Gougeon, Len

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Signs of life in the U.S.A. : readings on popular culture for writers / [edited by] Sonia Maasik, Jack Solomon.

Table of Contents: “…Consuming passions : the culture of American consumption -- The more factor / Laurence Shames -- The art of being off-center : shopping center spaces and spectacles / Peter Gibian -- Oppositional dress / Elizabeth Wilson -- B-boys / Scott Poulson-Bryant -- Hard bodies / Stuart Ewen -- The semiotics of home decor / Joan Kron -- Vehicles for myth : the shifting image of the modern car / Andrew Wernick -- Toys / Roland Barthes -- 2. …”

The sentences that create us : crafting a writer's life in prison / edited by Caits Meissner ; foreword by Reginald Dwayne Betts ; PEN America.

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The Oxford encyclopedia of American business, labor, and economic history / edited by Melvyn Dubofsky.

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Encyclopedia of Black studies / editors, Molefi Kete Asante, Ama Mazama.

Table of Contents: “…Board of Education of Topeka -- Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands -- Capoeira -- Caribbean -- Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection -- Cheikh Anta Diop International Conference -- Christianity -- Class and Caste -- Class Struggle -- Code Noir -- Compromise of 1850 -- Congress of African Peoples -- Congress of Racial Equality -- Congressional Black Caucus -- Consciencism -- Consciousness -- Council of Independent Black Institutions -- Creole -- Creolization -- The Crisis -- The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual -- Cultural Genocide -- Curse of the Door of No Return -- Dark Ghetto -- The Destruction of Black Civilization -- Diaspora -- Diopian Historiography -- Dislocation -- Dream Team -- Ebonics -- Education and Black Studies -- Elder Scholars -- Emancipation Proclamation -- Enslavement Resistance -- Ethiopianism -- Ethnic Notions -- Eurocentrism -- European Slave Trade -- Exodusters -- Family -- Fanonian Concept of Violence -- Festivals -- Fisk Jubilee Singers -- Forty Acres and a Mule -- Freedom Songs -- Freedom Summer -- Gabriel Prosser's Revolt -- Ghana Empire -- Haitian Revolution -- Highlander Folk School -- Hip-Hop -- Imperialism -- Indigeniste Movement -- Institute of Positive Education -- Institute of the Black World -- Introduction to Black Studies -- Invisible Man -- Islam -- Jazz -- Jim Crow -- Johnson Publishing Company -- Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies -- Journal of African Civilizations -- Journal of Black Studies -- Journal of Negro History -- The Karamu House -- Kawaida -- Kemet, Afrocentricity and Knowledge -- Kiswahili Movement -- Ku Klux Klan -- Kush -- Kwanzaa -- Last Poets -- Letter from the Birmingham Jail -- "Lift Every Voice and Sing" -- Lucumi Tradition -- Lynching -- Maat -- Mali Empire -- March on Washington -- Laveau, Marie -- Maroon Societies -- Mdw Nt̲r -- Melanin Theory -- Messianism -- Middle Passage -- The Mis-Education of the Negro -- Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party -- Montgomery Bus Boycott -- Moorish Science Temple of America -- Moynihan Report -- Multicultural Education -- Narratives of the Enslaved -- Nat Turner's Rebellion -- Nation of Islam -- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People -- National Black Political Convention, Gary, Indiana -- National Black United Fund -- National Council for Black Studies -- National Negro Congress -- National Urban League -- Négritude -- Negro -- Negro Convention Movement -- Neocolonialism -- New Deal -- The New Negro -- Nguzo Saba -- Nommo -- North Star -- Nubia -- Obeah -- Odu Ifa -- Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life -- Oral Tradition -- Organization of Afro-American Unity -- Oyo Empire -- Patriarchy -- The Philadelphia Negro -- The Pittsburgh Courier -- Plessy v. …”
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The legacy of David Foster Wallace / edited by Samuel Cohen and Lee Konstantinou.

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Everybody's family romance : reading incest in neoliberal America / Gillian Harkins. by Harkins, Gillian

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Interrupted life : experiences of incarcerated women in the United States / edited by Rickie Solinger [and 4 others].

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Encyclopedia of ethics / Lawrence C. Becker and Charlotte B. Becker, editors.

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Otherness and the media : the ethnography of the imagined and the imaged / edited by Hamid Naficy and Teshome H. Gabriel.

World of our fathers : the Journey of the East European Jews to America and the Life They Found and Made. / Irving Howe. by Howe, Irving

Table of Contents: “…Early WeaknessesThe Girls and the Men; The Triangle Shirt Fire; The Jewish Working Class; The Socialist Upsurge; The Meaning of Jewish Socialism; 10 Breakup of the Left; Civil War in the Garment Center; Dual Unions-and the Furriers; A Network of Culture; Recovery, Growth, Adaptation; From Politics to Sentiment; 11 Getting into American Politics; Getting on with Tammany; The Jews and the Irish; Maneuvering Within the City; Low Roads, High Roads; 12 American Responses; The Native Reformers; Stage, Song, and Comic Strip; From Henry Adams to Henry James; Legal Rights, Social Rebuffs.…”
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Language And Image In The Reading?Writing Classroom : Teaching Vision.

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- LANGUAGE AND IMAGE IN THE READING8211;WRITING CLASSROOM: TEACHING VISION -- DEDICATIONS -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Teaching Vision: The Importance of Imagery in Reading and Writing -- OVERVIEW OF THE BOOK -- REFERENCES -- I PROVENANCE: AUTHORIZING THE IMAGE -- 1 Inviting Imagery Into Our Classrooms -- 2 Learning From the Past: Verbal and Visual Literacy in Early Modern Rhetoric and Writing Pedagogy -- II MENTAL VISION -- 3 Mental Imagery and Literature: Centers and Vectors in Students Visual and Verbal Responses -- 4 The Minds Eye View: Teaching Students How to Sensualize Language -- 5 Sight and Insight: Mental Imagery and Visual Thinking in the Composition Classroom -- 6 The World Through Different Eyes: Mental Imagery, Writing, and the Reconceptualization of the Self and Other -- III GRAPHIC VISION -- 7 Teaching the Language I/My Students See -- 8 Images Across Cultures: Exploring Advertising in the Diverse Classroom -- 9 Technologizing the Word: William Blake and the Composition of Hypertext -- 10 Technology, Symbol, and Discourse: Writing Within the Information Overload -- IV VERBAL VISION -- 11 Calling All RadioGirls: Talking to a New Image -- 12 Seeing Ourselves as Others See Us: The Maternalization of Teaching in Everyday Talk -- 13 Textual Vision: Moving Beyond 8220;Same8221;/8220;Other8221; in Reading African-American Literature -- 14 8220;Spots of Time8221;8211;Writerly and Readerly Imaging With William Wordsworth and Basho -- Conclusion: Afterimage: Resources for Imagery Study -- INFLUENTIAL TEXTS IN IMAGERY -- ADDITIONAL READINGS IN SPECIAL AREAS OF INTEREST -- JOURNALS AND ORGANIZATIONS OF INTEREST -- VIDEOS -- WEB SITES -- PERSONAL SOURCES -- List of Contributors -- Author Index -- Subject Index.…”
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Encyclopedia of ageism / Erdman Palmore, Laurence Branch, Diana Harris, editors.

Table of Contents: “…Public policyReducing ageism; Responses to ageism; Retirement communities; Role expectations; Scapegoating; Self-fulfilling prophecy; Semantic differential scale; Senior centers; Sexism; Sexuality; Slogans; Social psychology; Social Security; Societal ageism; Songs; Stage theory; Stereotypes; Subcultures; Successful aging; Suicide; Tax breaks; Television; Terms preferred by older people; Theories of aging; Transportation; Types of ageists; Typologies; Unconscious ageism; Voice quality; Index.…”
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Robert Louis Stevenson : writer of boundaries / edited by Richard Ambrosini and Richard Dury.

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Behavioral ethics in practice : why we sometimes make the wrong decisions / Cara Biasucci and Robert Prentice. by Biasucci, Cara, 1964-, Prentice, Robert, 1950-

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International Handbook of Research on Environmental Education. by Stevenson, Robert B.

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