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The leisure culture of German immigrants of Chicago in the late XIXearly XX-th centuries
The author makes an attempt to give a historically correct account of leisure activities of German immigrants in Chicago at the turn of the twentieth century.
Tatyana Viktorovna Pantyukhina
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Patterns in Illinois Educational School Data [PDF]
We examine Illinois educational data from standardized exams and analyze primary factors affecting the achievement of public school students. We focus on the simplest possible models: representation of data through visualizations and regressions on ...
Marder, Michael P. +2 more
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American Indians and Christian Missions: Studies in Cultural Conflict [PDF]
Reviewed Book: Bowden, Henry Warner. American Indians and Christian Missions: Studies in Cultural Conflict. [S.l.]: Univ of Chicago Press, 1981.
Temme, Jon M.
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Gwendolyn Brooks and the Legacies of Architectural Modernity
This essay reads the work of poet, Gwendolyn Brooks, in terms of its critical engagement with the architectural modernity of her home city, Chicago. Taking her poetry from A Street in Bronzeville (1945) through to the 1968 collection, In the Mecca, as a ...
Jo Gill
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How Chicago's Public Housing Transformation Can Inform Federal Policy [PDF]
Chicago has long dominated the national discourse about urban poverty in general and public housing in particular, and the policy changes that affect Chicago tend to have repercussions for national policy.
Susan J. Popkin
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Chicago Exploration Days [PDF]
Extended abstract of a paper presented at Microscopy and Microanalysis 2011 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, August 7–August 11, 2011.
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The Quality of Ethnicity Review of: John L. Comaroff, Jean Comaroff, Etniczność sp. z o.o., trans. Wojciech Usakiewicz, Kraków: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego 2011. (Original work: John L. Comaroff, Jean Comaroff, Ethnicity, Inc., Chicago and
Katarzyna Lenkiewicz
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Following the movements of Black queer women on queer dance floors in Chicago, Kemi Adeyemi shows how race, feeling, and the geography of the neoliberal city are spatially entangled.
Naz Oktay
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Social factors conditioning the tourist activity and destinations of Chicago Polonia
Staying in social groups is inseparably connected with the process of socialization and upbringing. Educational environments play a significant role in shaping human attitudes, including those towards tourist activity. Family and school are part of those
Kamila Ziółkowska-Weiss
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Christine Przybyła-Long, “And she helped four thousand people become citizens of the United States”
Christine Przybyła-Long is one of the 9 milion Americans of Polish origins living in the United States. Her descendatns came to Chicago during the mass migration from the turn of 20th century and she was born there in 1931.
Joanna Wojdon
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