Search Results - "Ain"

Women and poverty in 21st century America by Dail, Paula W.

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction-hustling backwards : 21st century poverty as it affects American women -- How hard hard gets : the struggles of daily life on the bottom rung of the economic ladder -- A man is not the answer : women and crime -- The poor get sicker-and the sick get poor -- Arithmetic or ovaries : poverty and women's educational achievement -- Last stop on the bus line : the working life of poor women -- She ain't heavy : she's my sister : political will, greed and moral obligation in a free society -- Appendix I: Methodology and interview notes -- Selected bibliography -- Index.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

New Atlantis musicians battle for the survival of New Orleans / by Swenson, John

Table of Contents: “…Voice of the wetlands -- African Americans and Indians -- The Constantinople of the New World -- Sad night in Jackson Square -- Return of the spirits -- Let it go -- Don't let them wash us away -- Reality check -- Don't take my picture -- Musicians strike back at violence -- I am New Orleans -- Shorty on the block -- The Armstrong legacy -- Cold in the trailer -- If I can help somebody -- Baghdad on the Mississippi -- Brown baby dead in the water -- On the fringes -- City that care forgot -- Wild and free -- Saving at the bank of soul -- It ain't just the suit -- Bourbon Street blues -- Snooks flies away -- Ghosts of traditional jazz -- New blood -- Jazz fest turns 40 -- New Atlantis -- Mcdermott's duets -- Cyril's nightmare -- The wizard of Piety Street -- Blues come down like rain -- Cyril comes full circle -- Marching in.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Stolen childhood slave youth in nineteenth-century America / by King, Wilma, 1942-

Table of Contents: “…In the beginning : the transatlantic trade in children of African descent -- "You know I am one man that do love my children" : slave children and youth in the family and community -- "Us ain't never idle" : the work of enslaved children and youth -- "When day is done" : the play and leisure activities of enslaved children and youth -- "Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave" : temporal and spiritual education -- "What has ever become of my presus little girl" : the traumas and tragedies of slave children and youth -- "Free at last" : the quest for freedom -- "There's a better day a-coming" : the transition from slavery to freedom.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Women and poverty in 21st century America by Dail, Paula W.

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction-hustling backwards : 21st century poverty as it affects American women -- How hard hard gets : the struggles of daily life on the bottom rung of the economic ladder -- A man is not the answer : women and crime -- The poor get sicker-and the sick get poor -- Arithmetic or ovaries : poverty and women's educational achievement -- Last stop on the bus line : the working life of poor women -- She ain't heavy : she's my sister : political will, greed and moral obligation in a free society -- Appendix I: Methodology and interview notes -- Selected bibliography -- Index.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Neo-confederacy a critical introduction /

Table of Contents: “…Leib -- Neo-confederacy and education / Euan Hague -- Literature and neo-confederacy / Kevin Hicks -- You ain't just whistlin' Dixie : neo-confederacy in music / Jon Bohland and Brian Tongier -- The struggle for the Sons of Confederate Veterans : a return to white supremacy in the early twenty-first century? …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Neo-confederacy a critical introduction /

Table of Contents: “…Leib -- Neo-confederacy and education / Euan Hague -- Literature and neo-confederacy / Kevin Hicks -- You ain't just whistlin' Dixie : neo-confederacy in music / Jon Bohland and Brian Tongier -- The struggle for the Sons of Confederate Veterans : a return to white supremacy in the early twenty-first century? …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

The Birth of the Talkies : From Edison to Joison / by Geduld, Harry M.

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- 1: Invention of the phonograph -- 2: Application of the phonograph -- 3: Sound-on-film : Fritts to De Forest -- 4: Voice of Vitaphone -- 5: You ain't heard nothin' yet! -- 6: Lights of New York and sounds of Hollywood -- 7: End of the beginning -- Appendix A : Spectrum of opinion, 1928-29 -- Appendix B : Hollywood sound feature films produced in 1929 -- Appendix C : Sound-on-disk patents, 1897-1927 -- Appendix D : Patents for major sound-on-film developments through 1927 -- Appendix E : Patent appeal docket : Lee De Forest v Tri-Ergon -- Notes -- Index.…”
Full text available:

The Birth of the Talkies : From Edison to Joison / by Geduld, Harry M.

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- 1: Invention of the phonograph -- 2: Application of the phonograph -- 3: Sound-on-film : Fritts to De Forest -- 4: Voice of Vitaphone -- 5: You ain't heard nothin' yet! -- 6: Lights of New York and sounds of Hollywood -- 7: End of the beginning -- Appendix A : Spectrum of opinion, 1928-29 -- Appendix B : Hollywood sound feature films produced in 1929 -- Appendix C : Sound-on-disk patents, 1897-1927 -- Appendix D : Patents for major sound-on-film developments through 1927 -- Appendix E : Patent appeal docket : Lee De Forest v Tri-Ergon -- Notes -- Index.…”
Full text available:

State of change Colorado politics in the twenty-first century /

Table of Contents: “…Straayer -- The Colorado general assembly : it ain't what it used to be / John A. Straayer -- How GAVEL changed party politics in Colorado's general assembly / Mike Binder, Vladimir Kogan, and Thad Kousser -- Disparate impact : term limits, female representatives and the Colorado state legislature / Courtenay W. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

State of change Colorado politics in the twenty-first century /

Table of Contents: “…Straayer -- The Colorado general assembly : it ain't what it used to be / John A. Straayer -- How GAVEL changed party politics in Colorado's general assembly / Mike Binder, Vladimir Kogan, and Thad Kousser -- Disparate impact : term limits, female representatives and the Colorado state legislature / Courtenay W. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Opera and video technology and spectatorship /

Table of Contents: “…The fairy tale of bel canto : Walt Disney, Theodor Adorno, Kurt Weill play the gramophone / Gabriela Cruz -- Opera on Italian television : the first thirty years, 1954-1984 / Emanuele Senici -- Temps spatialisé : opera relays and the sense of temporality / Delphine Vincent -- Overtures on screen / Gaia Varon -- Playback problems when filming opera for the screen : two case studies / Jaume Radigal -- The opera director's voice : DVD extras and the question of authority / Áine Sheil -- A conversation with Pietro d'Agostino, video director at the Gran Teatre del Liceu -- Composing in new synaesthetic and interdisciplinary spaces : Libro de las estancias (Book of abodes) as a musical, architectural, and visual installation proposal.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Opera and video technology and spectatorship /

Table of Contents: “…The fairy tale of bel canto : Walt Disney, Theodor Adorno, Kurt Weill play the gramophone / Gabriela Cruz -- Opera on Italian television : the first thirty years, 1954-1984 / Emanuele Senici -- Temps spatialisé : opera relays and the sense of temporality / Delphine Vincent -- Overtures on screen / Gaia Varon -- Playback problems when filming opera for the screen : two case studies / Jaume Radigal -- The opera director's voice : DVD extras and the question of authority / Áine Sheil -- A conversation with Pietro d'Agostino, video director at the Gran Teatre del Liceu -- Composing in new synaesthetic and interdisciplinary spaces : Libro de las estancias (Book of abodes) as a musical, architectural, and visual installation proposal.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Transcultural bodies female genital cutting in global context /

Table of Contents: “…: on conceptions and experiences related to female genital cutting (FGC) among Somalis in Norway / R. Elise B. Johansen -- "Ain't I a woman too?" : challenging myths of sexual dysfunction in circumcised women / Fuambai Ahmadu -- The failure of pluralism? …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Bloody Lowndes civil rights and Black power in Alabama's Black Belt / by Jeffries, Hasan Kwame, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Conditions unfavorable to the rise of the Negro : the pursuit of freedom rights before the civil rights era -- I didn't come here to knock : the making of a grassroots social movement -- We ain't going to shed a tear for Jon : school desegregation, White resistance, and the African American response -- I'm going to try to take some of the freedom here back home : the federal government and the fight for freedom rights -- We gonna show Alabama just how bad we are : the birth of the original Black Panther Party and the development of freedom politics -- Tax the rich to feed the poor : Black power and the election of 1966 -- Now is the time for work to begin : Black politics in the post-civil rights era -- Epilogue: That black dirt gets in your soul : the fight for freedom rights in the days ahead.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Bloody Lowndes civil rights and Black power in Alabama's Black Belt / by Jeffries, Hasan Kwame, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Conditions unfavorable to the rise of the Negro : the pursuit of freedom rights before the civil rights era -- I didn't come here to knock : the making of a grassroots social movement -- We ain't going to shed a tear for Jon : school desegregation, White resistance, and the African American response -- I'm going to try to take some of the freedom here back home : the federal government and the fight for freedom rights -- We gonna show Alabama just how bad we are : the birth of the original Black Panther Party and the development of freedom politics -- Tax the rich to feed the poor : Black power and the election of 1966 -- Now is the time for work to begin : Black politics in the post-civil rights era -- Epilogue: That black dirt gets in your soul : the fight for freedom rights in the days ahead.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Transcultural bodies female genital cutting in global context /

Table of Contents: “…: on conceptions and experiences related to female genital cutting (FGC) among Somalis in Norway / R. Elise B. Johansen -- "Ain't I a woman too?" : challenging myths of sexual dysfunction in circumcised women / Fuambai Ahmadu -- The failure of pluralism? …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Latter-day Screens : Gender, Sexuality, and Mediated Mormonism / by Weber, Brenda R., 1964-

Table of Contents: “…"Well, we are a curiosity, ain't we?": mediated Mormonism -- Mormonism as meme and analytic: spiritual neoliberalism, image management, and transmediated salvation -- The Mormon glow: the raced and gendered implications of spectacular visibility -- The epistemology of the (televised, polygamous) closet: the cultural politics of mediated Mormonism and the promises of the American Dream -- Polygamy USA: visibility, charismatic evil, and gender progressivism -- Gender trouble in happy valley: choice, happy affect, and the Mormon feminist housewives -- "Pray (and obey) the gay away": conscience and the queer politics of desire -- Conclusion: afterthoughts and latter days -- Epilogue. …”
Full text available:

Latter-day Screens : Gender, Sexuality, and Mediated Mormonism / by Weber, Brenda R., 1964-

Table of Contents: “…"Well, we are a curiosity, ain't we?": mediated Mormonism -- Mormonism as meme and analytic: spiritual neoliberalism, image management, and transmediated salvation -- The Mormon glow: the raced and gendered implications of spectacular visibility -- The epistemology of the (televised, polygamous) closet: the cultural politics of mediated Mormonism and the promises of the American Dream -- Polygamy USA: visibility, charismatic evil, and gender progressivism -- Gender trouble in happy valley: choice, happy affect, and the Mormon feminist housewives -- "Pray (and obey) the gay away": conscience and the queer politics of desire -- Conclusion: afterthoughts and latter days -- Epilogue. …”
Full text available:

Wendell Berry life and work /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction/ Jason Peters -- Ain't they the berries! / Ed McClanahan -- Wendell Berry on war and peace ; or, Port William versus the empire / Bill Kauffman -- Words addressed to our condition exactly / Scott Russell Sanders -- The best noise in the world / Donald Hall -- Wendell Berry's political vision / Kimberly K. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Wendell Berry life and work /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction/ Jason Peters -- Ain't they the berries! / Ed McClanahan -- Wendell Berry on war and peace ; or, Port William versus the empire / Bill Kauffman -- Words addressed to our condition exactly / Scott Russell Sanders -- The best noise in the world / Donald Hall -- Wendell Berry's political vision / Kimberly K. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view