Author: Tom Adam Davies File Type: pdf Mainstreaming Black Powerupends the narrative that the Black Power movement allowed for a catharsis of black rage but achieved little institutional transformation or black uplift. Retelling the story of the 1960s and 1970s across the United Statesand focusing on New York, Atlanta, and Los Angelesthis book reveals how the War on Poverty cultivated black self-determination politics and demonstrates that federal, state, and local policies during this periodbolsteredeconomic, social, and educational institutions for black control.Mainstreaming Black Powershows more convincingly than ever before that white power structures did engage with Black Power in specific ways that tended ultimately to reinforce rather than challenge existing racial, class, and gender hierarchies. This book emphasizes that Black Powers reach and legacies can be understood onlyin the context of an ideologically diverse black community. **

Author: Jelle Zeilinga de Boer File Type: pdf West Rock and East Rock are bold and beautiful features around New Haven, Connecticut. They resemble monumental gateways (or time-tried sentinels) and represent a moment in geologic time when the North American and African continents began to separate and volcanism affected much of Connecticut. The rocks attracted the attention of poets, painters, and naturalists when beliefs rose about the spiritual dimensions of nature in the early 19th century. More than two dozen artists, including Frederick Church, George Durrie, and John Weir, captured their magic and produced an assortment of classic American landscapes. In the same period, the science of geology evolved rapidly, triggered by the controversy between proponents and opponents of biblical explanations for the origin of rocks. Lavishly illustrated, featuring over sixty paintings and prints, this book is a perfect introduction to understanding the relationship of geology and art. It will delight those who appreciate landscape painting, and anyone who has seen the grandeur of East and West Rock.** The innovations in art and geology inspired by two classic Connecticut landmarks **Review Though geared to those interested in New Haven and to art aficionados, this book will also more than satisfy academic researchers. The well-written, beautifully illustrated volume provides descriptions and analyses of West Rock and East Rock, New Havens physical icons. Highly recommended (for) all academic, general, and professional audiences interested in Connecticut geology. L. Yacher, Choice Review A beautiful and sensitive evocation of the role that the dramatic landscape of New Haven played in shaping the culture and art of that city, and beyond that to the foundations of American painting and the nascent science of geology in the nineteenth century. In a fascinating selection of paintings and diagrams, a master earth scientist documents the stages whereby the inhabitants of the region reshaped not only their natural environment but also their fundamental understanding of the forces that had wrought the land in which they dwelled. (Leo J. Hickey, professor of geology, Yale University)