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![]() ![]() There was a tremendous amount of sacrifice and victory, and Victoria and I thought it was really important to explore that in the book.īelle's father was Richard Theodore Greener. ![]() Morgan's personal librarian and the ability to really wield a great deal of power. I'm wondering if either of you thinks that passing makes you more free or less free?īenedict: Great question! I mean, I think there are certainly benefits of passing, right? Belle had the ability to rise up and become J.P. This summer, Code Switch is focusing on books that touch on the idea of freedom. It's interesting because the central theme in your book, really, in my opinion, is passing. ![]() As I came to know more about her, I knew hers was a story that needed to be told. And, you know, I hadn't started writing at that time, but Belle had started to inhabit my imagination way back when. Did anyone mention Belle da Costa Greene at that point?īenedict: I was so fortunate that a docent who just happened to be in my vicinity mentioned her to me, somebody who had obviously, whether it was through their own research or just word of mouth, knew about the role that Belle had played. Marie, you spent a lot of time browsing through the Morgan when you came to New York in the '90s. ![]() ![]() ![]() It can also reveal the ideologies and viewpoints of producers, such as newspapers – especially when bias exists – which is more common in right wing products. This gaze criticizes the doubling effect of objectification by “turning away one way to protest, to reject negation”.īell hooks’ theory can be used when exploring representations of gender and ethnicity, especially black women. Instead of creating a system where the strongest survives through oppression and coercion, she suggests that both men and women look to transform societal structures into something that is mutually supportive. In this book, Hooks gives hope that feminists around the world can create a mass feminist movement. Bell Hooks’ feminist theory looks to end oppression be redefining how power is obtained and maintained. ![]() The oppositional gaze serves as “a gesture of resistance” to not only the male gaze (see Laura Mulvey) but also toward the oppression of minorities through cinema by the all-inclusive gendering of woman. Readers have found the theory provocative and relevant. Looking implores a sense of power that is removed from the black female body, to play the role of object in direct relation to white female existence. In “The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators”, hooks gives the rubric that black woman are not only underrepresented in film, but they are also not allowed to ‘look’ either. ![]() ![]() ![]() There, he met Gustave de Beaumont, a prosecutor substitute, who collaborated with him on various literary works. After obtaining a law degree, Alexis de Tocqueville was named auditor-magistrate at the court of Versailles. He retired from political life after Louis Napoléon Bonaparte's Decemcoup, and thereafter began work on The Old Regime and the Revolution, Volume I. An eminent representative of the classical liberal political tradition, Tocqueville was an active participant in French politics, first under the July Monarchy (1830–1848) and then during the Second Republic (1849–1851) which succeeded to the February 1848 Revolution. In both of these works, he explored the effects of the rising equality of social conditions on the individual and the state in western societies.ĭemocracy in America (1835), his major work, published after his travels in the United States, is today considered an early work of sociology and political science. Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de Tocqueville (J– April 16, 1859) was a French political thinker and historian best known for his Democracy in America (appearing in two volumes: 18) and The Old Regime and the Revolution (1856). ![]() ![]() Eventually, Ovid becomes a renowned love poet, writing his book about the art of love. It’s Max who takes Ovid to his first poetry slam, where he does not do well. There he meets Maxamillian, or Max (Sam Haft), another poet/lawyer, and Agripinna (Ashlee McLemore). He wants to be a poet but goes to school at his parents’ behest. It starts when Ovid (Corbin Bleu), a young poet, is summoned by the emperor to start a career in law. Ovid’s life is carried out through the student’s fantasy. ![]() ![]() While he is walking through the streets of Detroit, we see his imaginings start to take place on the same streets. The film starts when a Detroit middle school student is assigned to read about Ovid in class. Set on the backdrop of modern-day Detroit and the reign of Caeser Agustus in Ancient Rome, we learn the story of Roman poet Ovid and his contribution to the resurrection of democracy in Rome. ![]() Following in the footsteps of Julie Taymor, who set her adaptation of Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus, Titus, and others who have adapted works of antiquity set in the present day, Esme von Hoffman has brought us Ovid and the Art of Love. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The story is based upon real events in these prison camps during WWII and, as I said, it is written with confidence and clarity. ![]() ![]() In this way, she gets by, makes a friendship with her young teacher and tries to remember what life was like before. She only draws, communicating just through her paintings. She does not talk anymore because of her shock. Everyone else around Manami seems to just about cope with their new incarceration, but she does not. This is a tragic, horrible moment and, from this point, we are catapulted into Manami’s distraught emotions of leaving her dog behind and we experience the life of a prison camp through these emotions. They are taken to a desert prison-village with thousands of other Japanese-Americans (most of whom are US citizens and wrongly imprisoned), but Manami’s little dog, Yujinn, is not allowed to go. The story centres around little Manami, and her family, as they are forced by soldiers to leave their home on the American Bainbridge Island, just after Japan attacks Pearl Harbor. But, because Lois has been, it makes the story of Manami – a Japanese-American prisoner of war – all the more involving, easy to read and more powerful. Paper Wishes by Lois Sepahban is a beautiful little book is written with such brevity and precise wording that, on occasions, it’s hard to believe a writer could be so ruthless with their words. ![]() ![]() "Īlthough this passage shows only one side of the book it still embodies the theme of the book because it shows how much the sisters had to endure because of their different appearances. ![]() Before starting on Cole's hair, he handed me a Tootsie Pop out of the drawer at his side and winked at me, saying, "See how long you can suck it before you have a bite.". Then, looking back at the man, she said, "Yeah, that's Cole's little sister, even if she doesn't look like a sister." She giggled at her pun rather unhappily, with an anxious expression, and touched my hair as if to show she was just kidding around. The passage is "Carmen turned to me and frowned. There are many passages that illustrate the theme of the book but the one that stands out the most is on page ninety three. For Birdie, Cole is the mirror in which she can see her own blackness. ![]() The sisters are so close that they have created a private language, yet to the outside world they can't be sisters: Birdie appears to be white, while Cole is dark enough to fit in with the other kids at the afro centric school they attend. ![]() Caucasia by Danzy Senna is a book mainly about the story of Birdie and Cole, daughters of a black father and a white mother who are intellectuals and activists in the Civil Rights movement in 1970's Boston. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Coffee Arabica: leaves, flowers, and fruit ![]() I sing a song with a few Spanish phrases: mi amor, mi corazón. This is a happy time, when the year’s hard work of pruning, fertilizing, weeding, tending, and repairing roads and water channels comes down to ripe coffee. I hear other harvesters - whole families of them - chatting and singing in Spanish. In some cases where the soil lacks sufficient boron, I might have found only one bean, called a peaberry, considered by some to possess a slightly more concentrated taste. Spitting out the parchment, I finally get the two beans, which are covered by a diaphanous silver skin. Like peanuts, coffee beans usually grow in facing pairs. It takes a bit of tongue work to get down to the tough-skinned parchment protecting each bean. I pop the skin of a ripe coffee cherry open in my mouth and savor the sweet mucilage. ![]() In a recently released updated edition, Pendergrast paints a beautiful backdrop to the story at a Guatemalan coffee planation 4,500 feet above sea level: It may have taken a Founding Father to teach Americans how to make it, it wasn’t until Mark Pendergrast’s 1999 book Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World ( public library) that coffee’s rich legacy and anthropology came into full bloom. Coffee - from its artful preparation to its secret history - holds enormous cultural mesmerism as the world’s favorite psychoactive drug. ![]() ![]() And Busch was “the first brewer in the United States to pasteurize his product, which enabled him to bottle Budweiser and store it longer without fear of spoilage.” The railroads, which helped create a national market in goods for the first time, allowed small local businesses to build regional and national brands overnight. The decades after the Civil War brought the industrialization of food production, distribution, and marketing. Louis, got married, went to work for his father-in-law, Eberhard Anheuser, and started brewing beer. from Germany in 1857 as an 18 year old, found his way to St. In 2008, Anheuser-Busch, then led by August Busch IV (and I use the adjective ‘led’ advisedly) was sold to InBev, a Belgium-based firm run by Brazilian managers.Īdolphus Busch came to the U.S. The Busch family corporate dynasty ended, as so many dynasties do, with an unqualified heir ceding control to savvy, aggressive foreigners. ![]() ![]() In this engaging narrative, Knoedelseder, a veteran reporter and author, highlights the ups and downs of using DNA as the main criterion for the selection of CEOs. ![]() ![]() ![]() Publisher: Orion Publishing Co ISBN: 9781857988826 Number of pages: 336 Weight: 238 g Dimensions: 133 x 200 x 21 mm MEDIA REVIEWS ![]() But he soon finds himself being used as a pawn in a deadly political game. It is the life work of Shevek, a brilliant physicist from the arid anarchist world of Anarres.īut Shevek's work is being stifled by jealous colleagues, so he travels to Anarres's sister-planet Urras, hoping to find more liberty and tolerance there. The Principle of Simultaneity is a scientific breakthrough which will revolutionize interstellar civilization by making possible instantaneous communication. ![]() ' Le Guin is a writer of phenomenal power' OBSERVER It's so far away from my own imagination, I'd love to sit at my desk one day and discover that I could think and write like Ursula Le Guin' Roddy Doyle 'A well told tale signifying a good deal one to be read again and again' THE TIMES One of the very best must-read novels of all time - with a new introduction by Roddy Doyle ![]() |