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JAm It!Scholars who turn to Ralph Ellison’s novel Invisible Man to address issues of race and black representation often employ the thinking of American pragmatists such as John Dewey.
Jeremy Dennis
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National Report of Teachers' Experiences With School Justifications for Book Censorship
Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 60, Issue 3, July/September 2025.ABSTRACT This study shares the findings from a large national survey of 4096 secondary English teachers to better understand their experiences with censors' justifications for book bannings. This study focuses on the 1793 teachers who said that their school, district, or library censored select books.
Ricki Ginsberg, Kyungae Chae
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From El to Hell: On Stage in the Urban Underworld
E-REA, 2010 Images of the New York subway and its precursors, the Elevated train and the horse-car, hold a special place in American culture. While the descent into the subway station and the ride along endless miles of subterranean tracks are almost inevitably ...
William Chapman SHARPE
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Making the Invisible Visible: Inviting Persons with Disabilities into the Life of the Church [PDF]
, 2018 Christianity espouses the dignity of all humanity and professes welcome for all to the communion of saints. Yet people with disabilities, especially those with more severe or profound physical or psychological disabilities, are largely invisible inside ...
Carlson, Mary E.
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Blindness And Sight In Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man
مجلة كلية التربية للبنات, 2019 The Civil Rights era has been an era of struggle for the African American in the Unites states. Thus, many writers devoted their writing to reflect the racism and discrimination that many have suffered from, among them is Ralph Ellison.
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Current Musicology, 2001 Author Phil Pastras opens his biographical study of legendary pianist Jelly Roll Morton with an epigram from poet Dylan Thomas-"Oh make me a mask"-and with that signal, Dead Man Blues: Jelly Roll Morton Way Out West takes us on the road with trickster ...
Kathy J. Ogren
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To vegetable: Seasons that require us
Crop Science, Volume 65, Issue 2, March/April 2025.Abstract Domestication of cereals tracks with the natural life cycle of plants in the Poaceae family, but vegetables represent a different modality and often possess a truncated life cycle. The evolution of vegetable biodiversity required curatorial work each growing season that differed in important ways from curation of grains or perennial crops ...
I. L. Goldman
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Beyond invisibility. Uses of comparison in Welsh cultural nationalism
Studies on National Movements, 2014 This article explores the uses made of comparison in transcending the alleged invisibility of minorities. Beginning with the suggestive fact that African-American Ralph Ellison began conceiving of his seminal novel Invisible Man while a merchant marine ...
Daniel Gwydion Williams
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“We're tired of this Weber guy!”—Force experts, police reforms, and the violence of standardization
American Anthropologist, Volume 127, Issue 1, Page 5-19, March 2025.Abstract Since the mid‐2000s, the use‐of‐force continuum—a global standard for providing law enforcement with guidelines on the proportionate use of force—has been central in Turkish police training and reporting practices. Liberal police accountability tools, like the use‐of‐force continuum, rely on standardization to prevent police violence.
Hayal Akarsu
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Harsh Poetry and Art's Address: Romare Bearden and Hans-Georg Gadamer in Conversation [PDF]
, 2016 In this essay, I analyze Romare Bearden’s art, methodology, and thinking about art, as well as his attempt to harmonize his personal aesthetic goals with his sociopolitical concerns.
Nielsen, Cynthia R.
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