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Texas takes wing : a century of flight in the Lone Star State / by Ganson, Barbara Anne, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Flying Takes Off in Texas -- The Stinson Flying Family of San Antonio and Texas Aviators in the Great War -- Between the World Wars : Barnstormers--Owners and Operators of Flying Services -- Record Setters and Air Racers -- Creating a More Connected World -- Flight Training -- Texas Air Power during the Second World War -- Aircraft Designers and Manufacturers -- Red, White, and Blue All Over : Texas Air Power in the Cold War and the Space Age -- Epilogue: Aeronautical Achievements, Education, and the Future of Air and Space Travel -- Appendices.…”
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Bulldaggers, Pansies, and Chocolate Babies : Performance, Race, and Sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance / by Wilson, James F.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: "It's getting dark on old Broadway" -- "Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer": parties, performances, and privacy in the "other" Harlem Renaissance(s) -- "Harlem on my mind": New York's black belt on the Great White Way -- "That's the kind of gal I am": drag balls, "sexual perversion," and David Belasco's Lulu Belle -- "Hottentot potentates": the potent and hot performances of Florence Mills and Ethel Waters -- "In my well of loneliness": Gladys Bentley's Bulldykin' blues -- Conclusion: "you've seen Harlem at its best".…”
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Imagining Minds : The Neuro-Aesthetics of Austen, Eliot, and Hardy / by Young, Kay, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the integrated mind -- Jane Austen and self-consciousness -- "A mind lively and at ease" : imagination and Emma -- "You pierce my soul" : feeling embodied and persuasion -- George Eliot and other-consciousness -- "A voice like music" : the problem of other minds and Middlemarch -- "Beloved ideas made flesh" : the embodied mind and Daniel Deronda -- Thomas Hardy and nonintrospective consciousness -- "Now I am melancholy mad" : mood and Jude the obscure -- "That blue narcotic haze" : dreams, dissociation, and Tess of the d'Urbervilles -- Coda : the neurology of narrative.…”
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Dvořák to Duke Ellington a conductor explores America's music and its African American roots / by Peress, Maurice

Table of Contents: “…Antonin Dvořák comes to America -- America and Negro music -- Dvořák's symphony "From the New World" -- The Chicago World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 -- The National Conservatory of Music of America -- Paul Laurence Dunbar, Clorilindy, and "The talented tenth" -- James Reese Europe -- George Gershwin and African American music -- Leonard Bernstein -- Gershwin's "Rhapsody in blue" -- The Clef Club concert -- Will Marion Cook -- George Antheil's "Ballet mécanique" -- Bernstein's Mass -- Duke Ellington -- Ellington's "Queenie pie" -- Ellington's "Black, brown and beige".…”
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Bulldaggers, Pansies, and Chocolate Babies : Performance, Race, and Sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance / by Wilson, James F.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: "It's getting dark on old Broadway" -- "Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer": parties, performances, and privacy in the "other" Harlem Renaissance(s) -- "Harlem on my mind": New York's black belt on the Great White Way -- "That's the kind of gal I am": drag balls, "sexual perversion," and David Belasco's Lulu Belle -- "Hottentot potentates": the potent and hot performances of Florence Mills and Ethel Waters -- "In my well of loneliness": Gladys Bentley's Bulldykin' blues -- Conclusion: "you've seen Harlem at its best".…”
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Imagining Minds : The Neuro-Aesthetics of Austen, Eliot, and Hardy / by Young, Kay, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the integrated mind -- Jane Austen and self-consciousness -- "A mind lively and at ease" : imagination and Emma -- "You pierce my soul" : feeling embodied and persuasion -- George Eliot and other-consciousness -- "A voice like music" : the problem of other minds and Middlemarch -- "Beloved ideas made flesh" : the embodied mind and Daniel Deronda -- Thomas Hardy and nonintrospective consciousness -- "Now I am melancholy mad" : mood and Jude the obscure -- "That blue narcotic haze" : dreams, dissociation, and Tess of the d'Urbervilles -- Coda : the neurology of narrative.…”
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Gender and the science of difference cultural politics of contemporary science and medicine /

Table of Contents: “…Horowitz -- Evaluating threat, solving mazes, and having the blues : gender differences in brain-imaging studies / Claudia Wassmann -- Telling the rat what to do : laboratory animals, science, and gender / Lynda Birke -- Why do voles fall in love? …”
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Perspectives on Percival Everett

Table of Contents: “…Vander -- "Knowledge2 + certainty2 = squat2": (re)thinking identity and meaning in Percival Everett's The water cure / Jonathan Dittman -- "This strange juggler's game": forclusion in Percival Everett's I am not Sidney Poitier / Sarah Mantilla Griffin -- Frenzy: framing text to set discourse in a cultural continuum / Ronald Dorris -- The preservationist impulse in Percival Everett's "True romance" / Frederic Dumas -- The mind-body split in American desert: synthesizing Everett's critique of race, religion, and science / Richard Schur -- A bird of a different feather: blues, jazz, and the difficult journey to the self in Percival Everett's Suder / Uzzie Cannon -- "Do you mind if we make Craig Suder white?"…”
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Gender and the science of difference cultural politics of contemporary science and medicine /

Table of Contents: “…Horowitz -- Evaluating threat, solving mazes, and having the blues : gender differences in brain-imaging studies / Claudia Wassmann -- Telling the rat what to do : laboratory animals, science, and gender / Lynda Birke -- Why do voles fall in love? …”
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Perspectives on Percival Everett

Table of Contents: “…Vander -- "Knowledge2 + certainty2 = squat2": (re)thinking identity and meaning in Percival Everett's The water cure / Jonathan Dittman -- "This strange juggler's game": forclusion in Percival Everett's I am not Sidney Poitier / Sarah Mantilla Griffin -- Frenzy: framing text to set discourse in a cultural continuum / Ronald Dorris -- The preservationist impulse in Percival Everett's "True romance" / Frederic Dumas -- The mind-body split in American desert: synthesizing Everett's critique of race, religion, and science / Richard Schur -- A bird of a different feather: blues, jazz, and the difficult journey to the self in Percival Everett's Suder / Uzzie Cannon -- "Do you mind if we make Craig Suder white?"…”
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The Queer Limit of Black Memory : Black Lesbian Literature and Irresolution by Richardson, Matt

Table of Contents: “…Intro; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION Listening to the Archives: Black Lesbian Literature and Queer Memory; CHAPTER 1 Desirous Mistresses and Unruly Slaves: Neo-Slave Narratives, Property, Power, and Desire; CHAPTER 2 Small Movements: Queer Blues Epistemologies in Cherry Muhanji's Her; CHAPTER 3 "Mens Womens Some that is Both Some That is Neither": Spiritual Epistemology and Queering the Black Rural South in the Work of Sharon Bridgforth…”
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The Queer Limit of Black Memory : Black Lesbian Literature and Irresolution by Richardson, Matt

Table of Contents: “…Intro; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION Listening to the Archives: Black Lesbian Literature and Queer Memory; CHAPTER 1 Desirous Mistresses and Unruly Slaves: Neo-Slave Narratives, Property, Power, and Desire; CHAPTER 2 Small Movements: Queer Blues Epistemologies in Cherry Muhanji's Her; CHAPTER 3 "Mens Womens Some that is Both Some That is Neither": Spiritual Epistemology and Queering the Black Rural South in the Work of Sharon Bridgforth…”
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No minor accomplishment the revival of New Jersey professional baseball / by Golon, Bob

Table of Contents: “…-- Newark and the Bears : combining the past and the present -- Discovering Camden with the Riversharks -- The Atlantic City Surf : searching for a niche -- Youth must be served : the Can-Am League in New Jersey -- Nine innings with the Lakewood BlueClaws -- Conclusion : the community of New Jersey baseball.…”
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Three knots to nowhere : a Cold War submariner on the undersea frontline / by Dubay, Ted E.

Table of Contents: “…Battle stations -- Troubled times -- Odyssey -- Admiral Rickover's nuclear power school -- Submarine school; The final preparation -- Reporting to the USS Henry clay -- Inside the Henry Clay -- The forbidden zone : the engineering spaces -- Test depth -- Transit to Hawaii -- The eve of my first patrol -- Getting underway -- Christmas on patrol -- Dolphins and patrol pins -- R&R in Hawaii -- The escape tower -- Change of command; The good, the bad and the ugly -- Surprise package from the Blue Crew -- Typhoon -- Farewell to the Henry Clay -- Flight back to Hawaii -- Ford Island -- The circle begins.…”
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Three knots to nowhere : a Cold War submariner on the undersea frontline / by Dubay, Ted E.

Table of Contents: “…Battle stations -- Troubled times -- Odyssey -- Admiral Rickover's nuclear power school -- Submarine school; The final preparation -- Reporting to the USS Henry clay -- Inside the Henry Clay -- The forbidden zone : the engineering spaces -- Test depth -- Transit to Hawaii -- The eve of my first patrol -- Getting underway -- Christmas on patrol -- Dolphins and patrol pins -- R&R in Hawaii -- The escape tower -- Change of command; The good, the bad and the ugly -- Surprise package from the Blue Crew -- Typhoon -- Farewell to the Henry Clay -- Flight back to Hawaii -- Ford Island -- The circle begins.…”
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Mutha' Is Half A Word : Intersection of Folklore, Vernacular, Myth, and Queerness in Black Female Culture / by Horton-Stallings, LaMonda

Table of Contents: “…The black woman and the trickster trope of unnaming -- The erotics of a healing subjectivity: sexual desire, the spirit, and the divine nature of trickster -- "Mutha' is half a word!": tar baby trope and blue material in black female comedy -- Badd-nasty: tricking the tropes of the Bad man/Nigga and Queen B -- The black and white of Queen B 's play -- Queen B s queering of neo-soul desire -- Representin' for the bitches: Queen B in hip-hop culture -- Trickster's gift: a language of sexual rights through polymorphous erotics and voluptuous black women's sexualities.…”
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Black Campus Life : The Worlds Black Students Make at a Historically White Institution / by Tichavakunda, Antar A.

Table of Contents: “…-- Martin's story -- Sociology and the blues of campus life.…”
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No minor accomplishment the revival of New Jersey professional baseball / by Golon, Bob

Table of Contents: “…-- Newark and the Bears : combining the past and the present -- Discovering Camden with the Riversharks -- The Atlantic City Surf : searching for a niche -- Youth must be served : the Can-Am League in New Jersey -- Nine innings with the Lakewood BlueClaws -- Conclusion : the community of New Jersey baseball.…”
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Black Campus Life : The Worlds Black Students Make at a Historically White Institution / by Tichavakunda, Antar A.

Table of Contents: “…-- Martin's story -- Sociology and the blues of campus life.…”
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Mutha' Is Half A Word : Intersection of Folklore, Vernacular, Myth, and Queerness in Black Female Culture / by Horton-Stallings, LaMonda

Table of Contents: “…The black woman and the trickster trope of unnaming -- The erotics of a healing subjectivity: sexual desire, the spirit, and the divine nature of trickster -- "Mutha' is half a word!": tar baby trope and blue material in black female comedy -- Badd-nasty: tricking the tropes of the Bad man/Nigga and Queen B -- The black and white of Queen B 's play -- Queen B s queering of neo-soul desire -- Representin' for the bitches: Queen B in hip-hop culture -- Trickster's gift: a language of sexual rights through polymorphous erotics and voluptuous black women's sexualities.…”
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