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New downtown now an anthology of new theater from downtown New York /

Table of Contents: “…Interim / Barbara Cassidy -- Tragedy : a tragedy / Will Eno -- Nine come / Elana Greenfield -- Sachiko / Madelyn Kent -- Enoshima island / Madelyn Kent -- The appeal / Young Jean Lee -- The vomit talk of ghosts / Kevin Oakes -- Ajax (por nobody) / Alice Tuan -- Apparition : an uneasy play of the underknown / Anne Washburn -- Demon baby / Erin Courtney.…”
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William Almon Wheeler : political star of the north country / by Hallas, Herbert C., 1937-

Table of Contents: “…Tragedy in Malone -- The making of a "cultivated" man -- Love and the new district attorney -- "Here lies an honest man" -- "Old hunkerism" is dead -- A "mere act of justice" -- "Grinding" it out in Albany -- A pen "dipped in gall" -- An early morning knock on the door -- Suddenly, a "junior partner" -- A sporting gentleman gets the itch -- "True to our trust, true to ourselves, and true to the truth" -- "Ho! …”
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Talk with you like a woman African American women, justice, and reform in New York, 1890-1935 / by Hicks, Cheryl D., 1971-

Table of Contents: “…To live a fuller and freer life : black women migrants' expectations and New York's urban realities, 1890-1927 -- The only one that would be interested in me : police brutality, black women's protection, and the New York Race Riot of 1900 -- I want to save these girls : single black women's protectors--the White Rose Home and the National League for the Protection of Colored Women, 1895-1911 -- Colored women of hard and vicious character : respectability, domesticity, and crime, 1893-1933 -- Tragedy of the colored girl in court : the National Urban League and New York's Women's Court, 1911-1931 -- In danger of becoming morally depraved : single black women, working-class black families, and New York State's Wayward Minor Laws, 1917-1928 -- A rather bright and good-looking colored girl : black women's sexuality, "harmful intimacy," and attempts to regulate desire, 1917-1928 -- I don't live on my sister, I living of myself : parole, gender, and black families, 1905-1935 -- She would be better off in the South : sending women on parole to their southern kin, 1920-1935 -- Conclusion: thank god I am independent one more time.…”
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