Humanities and Public Life – serie
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Penelope Project
An Arts-Based Odyssey to Change Elder Care
Av Anne Basting, Maureen Towey m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
225 kr
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Of the 15,000 nursing homes in the United States, how many are places you’d want to visit, much less live in? Now that people are living longer and more of the population are elderly, this question is more important than ever, particularly for people with disabilities. We must transform long-term …
Contested City
Art and Public History as Mediation at New York's Seward Park Urban Renewal Area
Häftad, 2019
444 kr
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For forty years, as New York’s Lower East Side went from disinvested to gentrified, residents lived with a wound at the heart of the neighborhood, a wasteland of vacant lots known as the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area (SPURA). Most of the buildings on the fourteen-square-block area were condemned …
Engaging the Age of Jane Austen
Public Humanities in Practice
Av Danielle Spratt, Bridget Draxler
Häftad, 2019
544 kr
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Humanities scholars, in general, often have a difficult time explaining to others why their work matters, and eighteenth-century literary scholars are certainly no exception. To help remedy this problem, literary scholars Bridget Draxler and Danielle Spratt offer this collection of essays to defend …
Behind the Big House
Reconciling Slavery, Race, and Heritage in the U.S. South
Av Jodi Skipper
Häftad, 2022
247 kr
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When residents and tourists visit sites of slavery, whose stories are told? All too often the lives of slaveowners are centered, obscuring the lives of enslaved people. Behind the Big House gives readers a candid, behind-the-scenes look at what it really takes to interpret the difficult history of …
Baltimore's Black Arts Then & Now
Behind the Scenes of a Collaborative Public Humanities Project
Av Mary Rizzo
Häftad, 2026
349 kr
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Baltimore’s Black Arts Then & Now brings to life the Chicory Revitalization Project, a public humanities initiative that revives Baltimore’s historic Chicory magazine. From 1966 to 1983, Chicory served as a powerful voice for working-class Black communities, capturing their thoughts, struggles, and …
Dear Charles Dickens, Love, South LA
Literature, Place, and Belonging
Häftad, 2026
349 kr
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Dear Charles Dickens, Love, South LA tells the story of how students at Foshay Learning Center, a public school in South Los Angeles, studied Charles Dickens as part of their AP English curriculum, and how, in that journey, a fellow traveler emerged: the city itself.Jacqueline Jean Barrios …
City We Make Together
City Council Meeting's Primer for Participation
Av Mallory Catlett, Aaron Landsman
Häftad, 2022
313 kr
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In 2009, theatre artist Aaron Landsman was dragged by a friend to a city council meeting in Portland, Oregon. At first he was bored, but when a citizen dumped trash in front of the council in order to show how the city needed cleaning up, he was intrigued. He began attending local government …
