Author: Omar Valerio-Jimenez File Type: pdf From 2000 to 2010, the Latino population increased by more than 73 percent across eight midwestern states. These interdisciplinary essays explore issues of history, education, literature, art, and politics defining todays Latinao Midwest. Some contributors delve into the Latinao revitalization of rural areas, where communities have launched bold experiments in dual-language immersion education while seeing integrated neighborhoods, churches, and sports teams become the norm. Others reveal metro areas as laboratories for emerging Latino subjectivities, places where for some, the term Latinao itself corresponds to a new type of lived identity as different Latinao groups interact in shared neighborhoods, schools, and workplaces. Eye-opening and provocative, The Latinao Midwest Reader rewrites the conventional wisdom on todays Latinao community and how it faces challengesand thrivesin the heartland. Contributors Aide Acosta, Frances R. Aparicio, Jay Arduser, Jane Blocker, Carolyn Colvin, Maria Eugenia Cotera, Theresa Delgadillo, Lilia Fernandez, Claire F. Fox, Felipe Hinojosa, Michael D. Innis-Jimenez, Jose E. Limon, Marta Maria Maldonado, Louis G. Mendoza, Amelia Maria de la Luz Montes, Kim Potowski, Ramon H. Rivera-Servera, Rebecca M. Schreiber, Omar Valerio-Jimenez, Santiago Vaquera-Vasquez, Darrel Wanzer-Serrano, Janet Weaver, and Elizabeth Willmore **

Author: Jeremy Barris File Type: pdf In The Cranes Walk, Jeremy Barris seeks to show that we can conceive and live with a pluralism of standpoints with conflicting standards for truth--with the truth of each being entirely unaffected by the truth of the others. He argues that Platos work expresses this kind of pluralism, and that this pluralism is important in its own right, whether or not we agree about what Platos standpoint is. The longest tradition of Plato scholarship identifies crucial faults in Platos theory of Ideas. Barris argues that Plato deliberately displayed those faults, because he wanted to demonstrate that basic kinds of error or illogic have dimensions that are crucial to the establishing of truth. These dimensions legitimate a paradoxical coordination of logically incompatible conceptions of truth. Connecting this idea with emerging currents of Plato scholarship, he emphasizes, in addition to the dialogues arguments, the importance of their nonargumentative features, including drama, myths, fictions, anecdotes, and humor. These unanalyzed nonargumentative features function rigorously, as a lever with which to examine the enterprise of rational argument itself, without presupposing its standards or illegitimately assimilating any position to the standards of another. Today, communities are torn apart by conflicts within and between a host of different pluralist and absolutist commitments. The possibility developed in this book-a coordination of absolute and relative truth that allows an understanding of some relativist and some absolutist positions as being fully legitimate and as capable of existing in a relation to their opposites-may contribute to perspectives for resolving these conflicts. **Review Barris seeks to prove that a certain contradiction pertains to the nature of truth and that this is perfectly in order that one can conceive and live in the context of a plurality of standpoints, each with different standards for truth, while the truth of each is also entirely unaffected by the truth of others...Recommended. Argues that Plato deliberately displayed faults in his theory of ideas. An absolutely astonishing and original book.-Daniel Boyarin About the Author JEREMY BARRIS is Professor of Philosophy at Marshall University and author of Paradox and the Possibility of Knowledge The Example ofPsychoanalysis.

Author: Philip Larkin File Type: epub Philip Larkins second collection, The Less Deceived was published by The Marvell Press in 1955, and now appears for the first time in Faber covers.The eye can hardly pick them out From the cold shade they shelter in, Till wind distresses tail and mane Then one crops grass, and moves about - The other seeming to look on - And stands anonymous again.from At Grass**About the Author Philip Larkin was born in Coventry in 1922 and was educated at King Henry VIII School, Coventry, and St Johns College, Oxford. As well as his volumes of poems, which include The Whitsun Weddings and High Windows, he wrote two novels, Jill and A Girl in Winter, and two books of collected journalism All What Jazz A Record Library, and Required Writing Miscellaneous Prose. He worked as a librarian at the University of Hull from 1955 until his death in 1985. He was the best-loved poet of his generation, and the recipient of innumerable honours, including the Queens Gold Medal for Poetry, and the WHSmith Award.

Author: Jennifer Heath File Type: pdf The first comprehensive look at youth living in a country attempting to rebuild itself after three decades of civil conflict, Children of Afghanistan relies on the research and fieldwork of twenty-one experts to cover an incredible range of topics. Focusing on the full scope of childhood, from birth through young adulthood, this edited volume examines a myriad of issues early childhood socialization in war and peace education, literacy, vocational training, and apprenticeship refugee life mental and physical health, including disabilities and nutrition childrens songs, folktales, and art sports and play orphans life on the streets child labor and children as family breadwinners child soldiers and militarization sexual exploitation growing up in prison marriage family violence and other issues vital to understanding, empowerment, and transformation. Children of Afghanistan is the first volume that not only attempts to analyze the range of challenges facing Afghan children across class, gender, and region but also offers solutions to the problems they face. With nearly half of the population under the age of fifteen, the future of the country no doubt lies with its children. Those who seek peace for the region must find solutions to the host of crises that have led the United Nations to call Afghanistan the worst place on earth to be born. The authors of Children of Afghanistan provide child-centered solutions to rebuilding the countrys cultural, social, and economic institutions. **