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Author | : Marcia Synnott |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 359 |
Release | : 2017-07-12 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1351481592 |
By the turn of the twentieth century, academic nativism had taken root in elite American colleges—specifically, Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. White, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant hegemony was endangered by new kinds of student, many of them Catholic and Jewish immigrants. The newcomers threatened to displace native-born Americans by raising academic standards and winning a disproportionate share of the scholarships. The Half-Opened Door analyzes the role of these institutions, casting light on their place in class structure and values in the United States. It details the origins, history, and demise of discriminatory admissions processes and depicts how the entrenched position of the upper class was successfully challenged. The educational, and hence economic, mobility of Catholics and Jews has shown other groups—for example, African Americans, Asian Americans, and Spanish-speaking Americans—not only the difficulties that these earlier aspirants had in overcoming class and ethnic barriers, but the fact that it can be done. One of the ironies of the history of higher education in the United States is the use of quotas by admissions committees. Restrictive measures were imposed on Jews because they were so successful, whereas benign quotas are currently used to encourage underrepresented minorities to enter colleges and professional schools. The competing claims of both the older and the newer minorities continue to be the subject of controversy, editorial comments, and court cases—and will be for years to come.
Author | : Britt Haarløv |
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Release | : 1973 |
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Author | : Gil Loescher |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 1998-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0684863839 |
"Powerful . . . well-documented, well-written, and most informative, ("Calculated Kindness") is . . . for all Americans who wish to better understand the often competing policies and principles that have regulated immigrations practices in the United States".--(Rev.) Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., President, University of Notre Dame.
Author | : Tomas Transtromer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 153 |
Release | : 2017-05-09 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1555977839 |
The contemporary Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer has a prestigious worldwide reputation-- many expect that he will someday win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Robert Bly, a longtime friend and confidant of Tranströmer’s, as well as one of his first translators, has carefully chosen and translated the finest of Tranströmer’s poems to create this collection.
Author | : Berkeley Gray |
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Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1953 |
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Author | : Kevin Hogan |
Publisher | : Pelican Publishing |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2012-06-07 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9781455613052 |
"This should be a high-priority purchase."-Library JournalIn a radical departure from other self-hypnosis and self-improvement books, internationally known hypnotherapists Kevin Hogan and Mary Lee LaBay contend that you can make lasting changes in your life by following simple, step-by-step blueprints for achievement, personal mastery, and emotional control. The authors share expertise gathered from a lifetime of research and successful therapeutic work to teach you how to improve IQ and memory, raise self-esteem, eliminate fear, control pain, and build lasting self-confidence.
Author | : Patty Kelly |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2008-04-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520255364 |
“This exceptional book makes several key contributions to the field and shows how freedom and anxiety, and the market and morality, tensely coexist in the business of sex. . . . Kelly's analysis is conveyed through vivid portraits of the lives of sex workers, showing that the women involved are neither victims nor heroines but something else: actors caught between agency and constraint.”—Roger N. Lancaster, author of The Trouble with Nature “In this tour de force of feminist anthropology, Patty Kelly gives her heart to the remarkable women who toil in the bawdy sweatshops of the Zona Galactica, a 'reformed' red-light district in the Chiapas capital of Tuxtla Gutiérrez. In fact, as Kelly shows, it is just the ultimate low-wage industrial district.”—Mike Davis, author of Planet of Slums and In Praise of Barbarians “The clarity of Kelly's perspective is neither apologetic, nor presumptive (as is usually the case); her focus is always on the political context of these women's lives. Patty Kelly writes like a poet and novelist, so much so that this work begs to be a movie.”—Carol Leigh, a.k.a. “Scarlot Harlot,” author of Unrepentant Whore
Author | : Effie Adelaide Rowlands |
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Release | : 1934 |
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Author | : Cristina Cubas |
Publisher | : Peter Owen Publishers |
Total Pages | : 141 |
Release | : 2017-09-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0720619548 |
Winner:Premio Nacional de Narrativa (2016)Premio de la Critica Española (2016)Premio Dulce Chacón (2016) Book of the Year 2015:La Vanguardia, El Cultural, Babelia and ABC An award-winning collection of Gothic and uncanny stories from one of Europe's most celebrated contemporary writers of short fiction. In Nona's Room the everyday fantasies of women slowly turn into nightmare, delusion and paranoia. A young girl who is envious of the attention given to her sister has a brutal awakening. A young woman, facing eviction, misplaces her trust in an old lady who invites her into her home. A mature woman spends the night in a hotel in Madrid and falls into a time warp... Cubas's stories are suffused with the chilling tones of Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber and the psychological intensity of Paula Hawkins's The Girl on the Train.
Author | : Helena Sorensen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020-05-10 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781951872038 |
"They believed they had come to the last turning of the wheel." When the Bloodmoon rose, death came rushing into the world. Now the water is bitter, blight consumes everything, and the Crone haunts the hills. While the Druid of Blackthorn searches desperately for hope, the Ovate returns from the underworld bringing omens of despair. But Idris, the young bard, Keeper of the Sacred Word, will walk through fire and iron to uncover a question no one has ever dared to ask--a question that carries a world of answers on its back, a question that can change everything. But his time is short. The land is dying. And the Bloodmoon is rising again.