Buck Studies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Buck Studies write by Douglas Kearney. This book was released on 2016. Buck Studies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. These poems look at what life is like for a young black man today.
Open-Access, Multimodality, and Writing Center Studies
Open-Access, Multimodality, and Writing Center Studies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Open-Access, Multimodality, and Writing Center Studies write by Elisabeth H. Buck. This book was released on 2017-11-16. Open-Access, Multimodality, and Writing Center Studies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The disciplinary triad of open-access, multimodality, and writing center studies presents a timely, critical lens for discussing academic publishing in a moment of crucibilic change, where rapid technological advancements force scholars and institutions to question what is produced and “counts” as academic writing. Using historiographic, quantitative, and qualitative analysis, Open-Access, Multimodality, and Writing Center Studies sees writing center scholarship as a microcosm of many of the larger issues at play in the contemporary academic publishing landscape. This case study approach reveals the complex, imbricated ways that questions about publishing manifest both within the content of journals, and as related to academics’ perceptions as signifiers of disciplinary visibility, identity, and transformation. More than just reaffirming the conventional wisdom about these changes in publishing—that these shifts are happening and we do not always know how to pinpoint them—Open-Access, Multimodality, and Writing Center Studies suggests that scholars in all fields, compositionists, and writing center practitioners be conscious of the ways they are complicit in maintaining barriers to accessibility and innovation. Chapter 5 of this book is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com.
Buck
Buck - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Buck write by M.K. Asante. This book was released on 2014-05-13. Buck available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “A story of surviving and thriving with passion, compassion, wit, and style.”—Maya Angelou “In America, we have a tradition of black writers whose autobiographies and memoirs come to define an era. . . . Buck may be this generation’s story.”—NPR A coming-of-age story about navigating the wilds of urban America and the shrapnel of a self-destructing family, Buck shares the story of a generation through one original and riveting voice. MK Asante was born in Zimbabwe to American parents: his mother a dancer, his father a revered professor. But as a teenager, MK was alone on the streets of North Philadelphia, swept up in a world of drugs, sex, and violence. MK’s memoir is an unforgettable tale of how one precocious, confused kid educated himself through gangs, rap, mystic cults, ghetto philosophy, and, eventually, books. It is an inspiring tribute to the power of literature to heal and redeem us.
Acting White
Acting White - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Acting White write by Stuart Buck. This book was released on 2010-05-25. Acting White available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Commentators from Bill Cosby to Barack Obama have observed the phenomenon of black schoolchildren accusing studious classmates of "acting white." How did this contentious phrase, with roots in Jim Crow-era racial discord, become a part of the schoolyard lexicon, and what does it say about the state of racial identity in the American system of education?The answer, writes Stuart Buck in this frank and thoroughly researched book, lies in the complex history of desegregation. Although it arose from noble impulses and was to the overall benefit of the nation, racial desegegration was often implemented in a way that was devastating to black communities. It frequently destroyed black schools, reduced the numbers of black principals who could serve as role models, and made school a strange and uncomfortable environment for black children, a place many viewed as quintessentially "white."Drawing on research in education, history, and sociology as well as articles, interviews, and personal testimony, Buck reveals the unexpected result of desegregation and suggests practical solutions for making racial identification a positive force in the classroom.
Pearl S. Buck’s Novels of China and America
Pearl S. Buck’s Novels of China and America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pearl S. Buck’s Novels of China and America write by Rob Hardy. This book was released on 2021-08-30. Pearl S. Buck’s Novels of China and America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book, the first single-authored book-length study of Buck’s fiction for over twenty years, shows how Buck’s thought developed through the medium of her fiction - from her early turbulent years in China to her last lonely days in the United States, with chapters examining her loss of faith in Christianity, her reflections on Chinese life during and after the breakdown of Old China, her voluminous reading, her confrontation with the horrors of American racism and sexism after her return to the United States, and her final metaphorical search for home as she approached death. The book argues that Buck, the first American woman to win both the Pulitzer and Nobel prizes for literature, was a heroic forerunner of those who, while occupying a place in the world, never feel fully at home there; in Buck’s case because her Chinese identity throughout her life struggled with her American. For this reason Pearl S. Buck’s fiction deserves to be considered alongside that of writers such as Anchee Min, Maxine Hong Kingston and Amy Tan. The book’s central claim is that Buck is a major novelist, capable of speaking to the distress of our times, richly deserving the honor she has received in China, and deserving greater recognition in the United States.
