"Though many aspects of June Jordan's unique and dynamic forms of work and activism have been well documented, "Life Studies," traces a through line of her creative interventions to form a fuller portrait of her complex and interrelated engagements. Through essays and policy reports from her days as a housing activist, speeches, her work with children, and texts from her time at City College of New York, this project adds new layers to Jordan's legacy, showing how she created "living room" to enact a broad array of "life studies" that had great effect on many people in very different institutional, communal, and public settings." -- Publisher's website."--Publisher's website (viewed 2018 June 19).
Alternative Title:
Lost and Found, The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative ; series 7, number 3 and Works. Selections. 2017
Description:
"Writer and educator, June Jordan was born in Harlem in 1936, grew up there and in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. She began her teaching career as a poet working with New York City public school students, following a few years of work as an organizer and researcher for a Harlem-based community action program. She would go on to teach at the City College of New York, Sarah Lawrence College, Yale University, and SUNY Stony Brook, initiating courses in Black Studies and Women's Studies and joining students in activist efforts. At the University of California at Berkeley, she founded the Poetry for the People program, which continues to this day. Throughout her life, she was a prolific writer, publishing essays in a wide variety of periodicals and authoring more than twenty books of essays, poetry, novels, and plays about issues of national and international significance. Jordan died of breast cancer in 2002."--Publisher's website (viewed 2018 June 19)., Includes bibliographical references., Introduction -- Excerpt from Brief History of the Lower East Side -- Excerpt from The Determining Slum -- The voice of the children, inc -- Excerpt from Children and The Hungering For -- Ocean Hill Brownsville I.S. 55 graduation speech -- Our eyes have grown -- The city and the city college: an off-campus, off-camera perspective -- Statement at CUNY Board of Higher Education tuition hearing -Acknowledgements -- Biographical notes -- Lost & Found., and Original wrappers.
Subject (Geographic):
New York (State)--New York
Subject (Name):
Alcalay, Ammiel, editor of series, City University of New York. Center for the Humanities, issuing body, City University of New York--History, Jordan, June, 1936-2002, Lawrence, Stephon, managing editor, Mangum, Megan, book designer, and Morgan, Kate Tarlow, consul
Subject (Topic):
African Americans--Education (Higher), African Americans--Education (Higher)--New York (State)--New York--20th century, College students--Political activity, College students--Political activity--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century, Discrimination in housing, Discrimination in housing--New York (State)--New York--20th century, Education, Education--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century, Poetry--Study and teaching (Elementary), and Poetry--Study and teaching (Elementary)--New York (State)--New York--20th century
"The biography and footnotes to the text were written by Peter Thomas. The illustrations were cut by Donna Thomas. The brown paper sample was made by Ray Tomasso. The book was letterpress printed on paper trimmed from the margins of an incomplete copy of Keble's Reports (which was printed in England in 1685)"--Colophon. and No. 180.
Publisher:
Peter & Donna Thomas,
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Peter & Donna Thomas (Firm), Thomas, Donna (Donna Sue), Thomas, Peter (Peter R.), and Tomasso, Ray, 1949-
Subject (Topic):
Miniature books--Specimens, Papermaking, and Papermaking--Great Britain--History
Resolutions supporting the federal government and opposing the threat of privateering. and Signed at end: J. Smith Homans, Secretary. New York, April 19, 1861.
All right, Olrait, אולריט, and אול-ריט : עתון סטירי מוקדש לפקידי ממשלת פלשתינה ולעצמאות הערבית הפלשתינאית לרגלי ימי הדמים של אוגוסט 1929 / בעריכת אב. ראובני.
Description:
Electronic reproduction. New Haven : Yale University, 2011. and Satiric newspaper. One-time only. Published after the riots of 1929 by Avraham Reuveini. Includes articles by Avraham Chaim Dovid, Achiezer Campanella. The title page features a chilling caricature of the slaughter: a pile of human heads from victims killed by axe and knives, with a black palm above them. English-Hebrew title, "all right," alludes that the British were just as guilty as the Arabs in this massacre.-- Description from vendor's catalog.
Publisher:
Defus E. ṿe-S. Shoshani and דפוס א. וס. שושני
Subject (Name):
Re'uveni, Av and ראובני, אב
Subject (Topic):
Hebrew wit and humor, Jewish wit and humor, Middle East--Palestine, Palestine--History--1917-1948, Satire, Hebrew, and Satire, Hebrew--Palestine--Newspapers
Mir i voĭna (Moscow, Russia) ; vyp. 11-ĭ., Mir i voĭna ; vyp. 11-ĭ, Prokli︠a︡tyĭ vopros Rossii, Vostochnyĭ vopros, Восточный вопрос, Миръ и война ; вып. 11-й, Проклятый вопрос России, and Проклятый вопросъ Россіи : восточный вопросъ / Б. Глубовскій ; редакція В. Пичета.
Description:
Original wrappers.
Publisher:
Knigoizdatelʹstvo "Obshchee di︠e︡lo" and Книгоиздательство "Общее дѣло"
Subject (Geographic):
Balkan Peninsula, Balkan Peninsula--History--19th century, and Russia--History--1801-1917