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Book Synopsis Pittsburgh and the Urban League Movement by : Joe William TrotterJr.
Download or read book Pittsburgh and the Urban League Movement written by Joe William TrotterJr. and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2020-11-02 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Great Migration, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, became a mecca for African Americans seeking better job opportunities, wages, and living conditions. The city's thriving economy and vibrant social and cultural scenes inspired dreams of prosperity and a new start, but this urban haven was not free of discrimination and despair. In the face of injustice, activists formed the Urban League of Pittsburgh (ULP) in 1918 to combat prejudice and support the city's growing African American population. In this broad-ranging history, Joe William Trotter Jr. uses this noteworthy branch of the National Urban League to provide new insights into an organization that has often faced criticism for its social programs' deep class and gender limitations. Surveying issues including housing, healthcare, and occupational mobility, Trotter underscores how the ULP—often in concert with the Urban League's national headquarters—bridged social divisions to improve the lives of black citizens of every class. He also sheds new light on the branch's nonviolent direct-action campaigns and places these powerful grassroots operations within the context of the modern Black Freedom Movement. The impact of the National Urban League is a hotly debated topic in African American social and political history. Trotter's study provides valuable new insights that demonstrate how the organization has relieved massive suffering and racial inequality in US cities for more than a century.
Download or read book Horsepower written by Joy Priest and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Priest’s debut collection, Horsepower, is a cinematic escape narrative that radically envisions a daughter’s waywardness as aspirational. Across the book’s three sequences, we find the black-girl speaker in the midst of a self-imposed exile, going back in memory to explore her younger self—a mixed-race child being raised by her white supremacist grandfather in the shadow of Churchill Downs, Kentucky’s world-famous horseracing track—before arriving in a state of self-awareness to confront the personal and political landscape of a harshly segregated Louisville. Out of a space that is at once southern and urban, violent and beautiful, racially-charged and working-class, she attempts to transcend her social and economic circumstances. Across the collection, Priest writes a horse that acts as a metaphysical engine of flight, showing us how to throw off the harness and sustain wildness. Unlike the traditional Bildungsroman, Priest presents a non-linear narrative in which the speaker lacks the freedom to come of age naively in the urban South, and must instead, from the beginning, possess the wisdom of “the horses & their restless minds.”
Book Synopsis Selected Translations by : Ilan Stavans
Download or read book Selected Translations written by Ilan Stavans and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For twenty years, Ilan Stavans has been translating poetry from Spanish, Yiddish, Hebrew, French, Portuguese, Russian, German, Georgian, and other languages. His versions of Borges, Neruda, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Ferreira Gullar, Raúl Zurita, and dozens of others have become classics. This volume, which includes poems from more than forty poets from all over the world, is testimony to a life dedicated to the pursuit of beauty through poetry in different languages. “Lightning from the Stable” by Elizabeth Schön (Venezuela, 1921–2007) You don’t choose the abyss, the chaos, the nothingness They reach you in water running slowly for you not to be surprised by the absence of matter around you near the light of the soul calling the wing’s passing flap of the earth you live in.
Book Synopsis Itineraries of Expertise by : Andra B. Chastain
Download or read book Itineraries of Expertise written by Andra B. Chastain and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Itineraries of Expertise contends that experts and expertise played fundamental roles in the Latin American Cold War. While traditional Cold War histories of the region have examined diplomatic, intelligence, and military operations and more recent studies have probed the cultural dimensions of the conflict, the experts who constitute the focus of this volume escaped these categories. Although they often portrayed themselves as removed from politics, their work contributed to the key geopolitical agendas of the day. The paths traveled by the experts in this volume not only traversed Latin America and connected Latin America to the Global North, they also stretch traditional chronologies of the Latin American Cold War to show how local experts in the early twentieth century laid the foundation for post–World War II development projects, and how Cold War knowledge of science, technology, and the environment continues to impact our world today. These essays unite environmental history and the history of science and technology to argue for the importance of expertise in the Latin American Cold War.
Book Synopsis Motor City Green by : Joseph S. Cialdella
Download or read book Motor City Green written by Joseph S. Cialdella and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Motor City Green is a history of green spaces in metropolitan Detroit from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century. The book focuses primarily on the history of gardens and parks in the city of Detroit and its suburbs in southeast Michigan. Cialdella argues that Detroit residents used green space to address problems created by the city’s industrial rise and decline, and racial segregation and economic inequality. As the city’s social landscape became increasingly uncontrollable, Detroiters turned to parks, gardens, yards, and other outdoor spaces to relieve the negative social and environmental consequences of industrial capitalism. Motor City Green looks to the past to demonstrate how today’s urban gardens in Detroit evolved from, but are also distinct from, other urban gardens and green spaces in the city’s past.
Book Synopsis Imperial Liquor by : Amaud Jamaul Johnson
Download or read book Imperial Liquor written by Amaud Jamaul Johnson and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imperial Liquor is a chronicle of melancholy, a reaction to the monotony of racism. These poems concern loneliness, fear, fatigue, rage, and love; they hold fatherhood held against the vulnerability of the black male body, aging, and urban decay. Part remembrance, part swan song for the Compton, California of the 1980s, Johnson examines the limitations of romance to heal broken relationships or rebuild a broken city. Slow Jams, red-lit rooms, cheap liquor, like seduction and betrayal—what’s more American? This book tracks echoes, rides the residue of music “after the love is gone.” Smokey the most dangerous men in my neighborhood only listened to love songs to reach those notes a musicologist told me a man essentially cuts his own throat. some nights even now, i’ll hear a falsetto and think i should run
Book Synopsis Contra Costa County Wastewater Management by :
Download or read book Contra Costa County Wastewater Management written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis National Telephone Directory by : American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Download or read book National Telephone Directory written by American Telephone and Telegraph Company and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Earnest, Earnest? by : Eleanor Boudreau
Download or read book Earnest, Earnest? written by Eleanor Boudreau and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Earnest, Earnest?, the speaker, Eleanor, writes postcards to her on-again-off-again lover, Earnest. The fact that her lover’s name is Earnest and that their relationship is fraught, raises questions of sincerity and irony, and whether both can be present at the same time. While Earnest can be read literally as Eleanor’s lover, he is best understood as another side of the poet’s self. The ambiguity at play in Earnest, Earnest? is embodied in the form of the “Earnest Postcards” that structure the book—these postcards are experimental in their use of images and formal in their dialogue with the sonnet. Thus, Earnest, Earnest? is a question of tone, address, and form.
Book Synopsis Official Documents, Comprising the Department and Other Reports Made to the Governor, Senate and House of Representatives of Pennsylvania by :
Download or read book Official Documents, Comprising the Department and Other Reports Made to the Governor, Senate and House of Representatives of Pennsylvania written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 1400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis San Francisco Bay to Stockton (John F. Baldwin and Stockton Ship Channels), Avon to Stockton by :
Download or read book San Francisco Bay to Stockton (John F. Baldwin and Stockton Ship Channels), Avon to Stockton written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Official Documents, Comprising the Department and Other Reports Made to the Governor, Senate, and House of Representatives of Pennsylvania by : Pennsylvania
Download or read book Official Documents, Comprising the Department and Other Reports Made to the Governor, Senate, and House of Representatives of Pennsylvania written by Pennsylvania and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 1392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Biennial Report of the Auditor General of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for the Two Years Ending May 31 ... by : Pennsylvania. Office of the Auditor General
Download or read book Biennial Report of the Auditor General of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for the Two Years Ending May 31 ... written by Pennsylvania. Office of the Auditor General and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Pennsylvania by : George Patterson Donehoo
Download or read book Pennsylvania written by George Patterson Donehoo and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis San Francisco Bay to Stockton, California (John F. Baldwin & Stockton Ship Channels): Interim general design memorandum appendices by :
Download or read book San Francisco Bay to Stockton, California (John F. Baldwin & Stockton Ship Channels): Interim general design memorandum appendices written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention ... by : United Mine Workers of America
Download or read book Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention ... written by United Mine Workers of America and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 1514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
