![]() ![]() Smith and Hattery explore the outcome of building prisons in rural, economically depressed communities, staffing them with white people who live in and around these communities, filling them with Black and brown bodies from urban areas and then designing the structure of solitary confinement units such that the most private, intimate daily bodily functions take place in very public ways. Hattery and Earl Smith present "Way Down in the Hole: Race, Intimacy and the Reproduction of Racial Ideologies in Solitary Confinement"īased on hundreds of hours of observation in solitary confinement units and interviews with both those who are incarcerated and those who work in solitary confinement, Way Down in the Hole: Race, Intimacy and the Reproduction of Racial Ideologies in Solitary Confinement, uncovers the ways in which specific structures of solitary confinement, including the close and intimate contact between the incarcerated and the correctional officer, serve as a petri dish that fuels the production and reproduction of white racial resentment. ![]()
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![]() The triumph of Figaro, valet to a nobleman, signifies the victory of ability over birthright. It is a play in which the aristocracy face their impending decline. ![]() However, the play also holds an important place in the development of French theatre. The Marriage of Figaro deserves praise for its important social messages, its subtle wit, comic mastery, and vivacious dialogue many scholars believe that this play is Beaumarchais’s masterpiece. ![]() ![]() The aristocracy who made up the play’s appreciative audience understood its subversive nature, yet continued to attend showings in record numbers. In its questioning of France’s longstanding social class system, which stood as the very basis of France’s governing body, it was also revolutionary. The comedy was scandalous in its depiction of a pleasure-seeking, incompetent nobleman who is upstaged by his crafty, quick-witted servant in their quest for the same woman. The official French censors, as well as King Louis XVI, opposed the play. Beaumarchais faced many obstacles in producing his comedy. ![]() Completed in 1780, the play would not be acted on the French stage until 1784. Like its author, Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, The Marriage of Figaro had a long, illustrious history. ![]() ![]() ![]() The second trench (23 x 3m) was cut from the centre of the homestead and ran E across the enclosure bank. The first trench (8x3m), within the enclosure, revealed considerable tree root disturbance, although a cobbled surface was recorded. The site consists of a circular banked enclosure, c 20m in diameter two trenches were opened in order to discover the nature of the enclosure wall and assess tree root damage. A community archaeology project in May and June 2005, carried out as part of Perthshire Archaoelogy Week, involved two evaluation trenches through a later Iron Age homestead ( NN95NE 3) in Black Spout Wood, to the E of Pitlochry. It is probable that the original diameter of the homestead was c.27.0m when complete. ![]() The remainder of the wall and much of the interior has been destroyed by quarrying. Only the S half survives, as a stone wall c.2.7m thick with an outer face four courses high in the SW. The "circular building" erroneously called a fort by Dixon, is in fact the remains of a homestead (c/f NN44SE 7). Some of the stones on the side nearest the burn have been removed but the circle is quite apparent. The path passes through, and has partly destroyed, the NW side. ![]() (Area: NN 953 577) This fort is about 150 yards below the Black Spout waterfall and on the top of a steep bank over-looking the burn. It is supposed to date from Edward I's reign. At Edradour, on the top of a steep den, are the remains of a circular building, 60' in diameter internally with walls about 8' thick, called the Black Castle. ![]() ![]() The novel is narrated by a spirit of a woman 200 years old, who watches over her elderly Black friend, Victoria. Brown Glass Windows is a beautifully structured book employing techniques of magical realism-a grittily realistic narrative framed by the spirit world. and other urban centers throughout the country, where people have lost their once closely-knit neighborhoods either through urban decay or gentrification, or both. ![]() As Ranger says, they've redeveloped the neighborhood "into a little doorway to hell," a comment that will resonate deeply with readers not only in San Francisco, but in Hartford, L.A. The novel is also a kind of elegy to the old Filmore District. Ranger's death causes the family, with its suppressed recriminations and accumulated resentments, to pass through the crisis and come out on the other side of grief stronger and more united. Ironically, when he finally conquers his drug habit, he is killed meaninglessly in a drive-by shooting. Brown Glass Windows is the story of the Evermans, an African-American family in the Filmore District of San Francisco and the tragic history of their son, Ranger, who returns scarred from his experiences in Vietnam and struggles with drug addiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “On college campuses and in the non-profit world, people frequently interact with people with disabilities but with little awareness of disability as an issue of cultural competency and social justice. 14, he will lead an intimate workshop, “Moving Beyond Pity and Inspiration: Disability as a Social Justice Issue,” from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Through stories, media analysis and intersectional politics,” Clare’s lecture “will explore this common argument, insisting that attention be paid to the impact on people with disabilities.” “Many activist campaigns, whether they are about protecting water and trees or protesting coal and pesticides, use disability as an argument against environmental injustice. in the Vandervort Room in the Scandling Campus Center. 13, Clare will present a public lecture, “Cautionary Tales: Environmental Injustice, Disability, and Chronic Illness,” from 7:30 to 9 p.m. In November, writer, activist and educator Eli Clare will explore the intersections of social justice, environmental injustice, disability and chronic illness in a two-day visit to the HWS campus. Eli Clare on Disability, Illness and Environmental and Social Justice ![]() ![]() ![]() Fairly early on, the church began to meet in graveyards and to venerate martyrs. Ancient Greeks and Romans were pagans and celebrated seasons to please different gods. ![]() While Christianity is a monotheistic religion, paganism is polytheistic, worshipping nature and many gods. ![]() ![]() Some of these are truly disturbing departures from biblical practice. Most of these symbols have pagan roots and were borrowed by Christians, who later altered them to fit the new faith. Coauthors Frank Viola and George Barna support their thesis with compelling historical evidence in the first-ever book to document the full story of modern Christian church practices. The authors of Pagan Christianity point to a number of practices adopted by the Christian church from pagan practices in the fourth and fifth centuries and in some cases even earlier. Photo by Nyri0/Wikipedia/Creative Commons. Have you ever wondered why we Christians do what we do for church every Sunday morning? Why do we "dress up" for church? Why does the pastor preach a sermon each week? Why do we have pews, steeples, choirs, and seminaries? This volume reveals the startling truth: most of what Christians do in present-day churches is not rooted in the New Testament, but in pagan culture and rituals developed long after the death of the apostles. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The bowing and scraping before the ‘upper classes,’ which produces such an unpleasant impression in Europe, is completely unknown.” Class consciousness in America, he contended, foundered “on the shoals of roast beef and apple pie.” Sombart was among the first scholars to ask the question, “Why is there no socialism in the United States?” His answer, now solidified into conventional wisdom about American exceptionalism, was simple: “America is a freer and more egalitarian society than Europe.” In the United States, he argued, “there is not the stigma of being the class apart that almost all European workers have about them. . . No line about class in the United States is more famous than the one written by the German sociologist Werner Sombart in 1906. WHITE TRASH The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America By Nancy Isenberg Illustrated. ![]() ![]() ![]() The novel was adapted for television by Christopher Hampton starring Vanessa Redgrave, Olivia Colman, and Sophie Turner. The Thirteenth Tale is a love letter to reading, a book for the feral reader in all of us, a return to that rich vein of storytelling that our parents loved and that we loved as children. When Vita hires Margaret, she makes it clear that she will retain full control of the project. Vida is a successful novelist who has repeatedly invented outlandish stories about her background, adding significant mystique to the successful writer’s career. One day, Margaret is contacted by the prolific writer Vida Winter, who asks her to write her biography. The framing device revolves around Margaret, a bibliophile and occasional biographer who works in a bookstore. ![]() The Thirteenth Tale is a mystery told in a story-within-a-story format. When the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified in 1865, former slaves expected freedom for the rest of their lives, as it ruled slavery of any kind unlawful. First published in 2006, The Thirteenth Tale was the author's first published book and became a New York Times No.1 best-seller and it was published in 38 countries worldwide and has sold more than three million copies. Diane Setterfield won the 2007 Quill Award for this novel. Setterfield taught at numerous schools as well as privately before leaving academia in the late 1990s. ![]() Before writing, Setterfield studied French Literature at The University of Bristol, earning a bachelor of arts in 1986 and a PhD in 1993. ![]() ![]() ![]() First Blood was as complicated and prescient as it was violent, but in the wake of its monster box office something weird happened Hollywood saw dollar signs not in the message but in the image of an extremely shirtless Stallone wielding a machine gun. ![]() Running afoul of some biased local lawmen who don't like his hippie look and vagrant vibe, Rambo uses his training and a heaping dose of PTSD to fight back, culminating in a heartbreaking breakdown by Stallone as Rambo remembers returning home from war to face scorn and protester spit. First Blood, directed by Ted Kotcheff and adapted from the novel by David Morrell, stars Stallone as a traumatized loner just looking for a place to rest seven years after Vietnam. As far as franchises go, the five-film run featuring Sylvester Stallone's stoic killing machine John Rambo is one of the strangest. ![]() ![]() ![]() Above all, though, she decides that she must continue the family tradition of going to Nantucket, and at the same time fulfill a promise that Arch made before he died. When Arch Newton, a prominent New York attorney, dies in a plane crash on his way home from a business trip, his beautiful widow, Beth, can barely keep things together. ![]() But this summer will not be like any other. Book Synopsis Things get more twisted at every turn, with enough lies and betrayals to fuel a whole season of soap operas.readers will be hooked.-Publishers Weekly on Elin Hilderbrands Summer People Every summer the Newton family retreats to their beloved home on Nantucket for three months of sunshine, cookouts, and bonfires on the beach. Always a place of peace before, Nantucket bes the scene of roiling emotions and turbulent passions. About the Book When a prominent New York attorney dies in a plane crash on his way home from a business trip, his beautiful widow can barely keep things together. ![]() |
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