1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450865003321

Autore

Elliot Mark

Titolo

Color-blind justice [[electronic resource] ] : Albion Tourgee and the quest for racial equality from the Civil War to Plessy v. Ferguson / / Mark Elliot

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxford, : Oxford University Press, c2006

ISBN

0-19-970834-7

1-280-84544-9

1-280-87518-6

9786613716491

0-19-534617-3

1-4294-5922-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (401 p.)

Disciplina

813.4B

813/.4 B

973.5092

Soggetti

Abolitionists - United States

Novelists, American - 19th century

Lawyers - United States

Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)

African Americans - Civil rights - History - 19th century

Electronic books.

United States Race relations History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Note on Usage; Introduction: Albion Tourgée and Color-Blind Citizenship; Part I: The Color-Blind Crusade; 1. Judge Tourgée and the Radical Civil War; Part II: The Radical Advance; 2. The Making of a Radical Individualist in Ohio's Western Reserve; 3. Citizen-Soldier: Manhood and the Meaning of Liberty; 4. A Radical Yankee in the Reconstruction South; 5. The Unfinished Revolution; Part III: The Counterrevolution; 6. The Politics of Remembering Reconstruction; 7. Radical Individualism in the Gilded Age; 8. Beginning the Civil Rights



Movement

9. The Rejection of Color-Blind Citizenship10. The Fate of Color-Blind Citizenship; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

Civil War officer, Reconstruction ""carpetbagger,"" best-selling novelist, and relentless champion of equal rights, Albion Tourgee battled his entire life for racial justice. Now, in this engaging biography, Mark Elliott offers an insightful portrait of a fearless lawyer, jurist, and writer, who fought for equality long after most Americans had abandoned the ideals of Reconstruction. Elliott provides a fascinating account of Tourgee's life, from his childhood in the Western Reserve region of Ohio (then a hotbed of abolitionism), to his years as a North Carolina judge during Reconstruction, to

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996465412603316

Titolo

Human Computer Interaction [[electronic resource] ] : 6th Latin American Conference, CLIHC 2013, Carrillo, Costa Rica, December 2-6, 2013, Proceedings / / edited by Cesar Collazos, Andréia Liborio, Cristian Rusu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2013

ISBN

3-319-03068-X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2013.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XII, 157 p. 49 illus.)

Collana

Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI ; ; 8278

Disciplina

004.019

Soggetti

User interfaces (Computer systems)

Application software

Data mining

Information storage and retrieval

Computer communication systems

User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction

Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet)

Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery

Information Storage and Retrieval

Computer Communication Networks

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese



Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Session 1: Adaptive, Adaptable, Intelligence User -- Interfaces -- Consumption of Profile Information from Heterogeneous Sources to Leverage Human-Computer Interaction -- Developing Mixed Initiative Educational Web Interfaces for English Education: A Contextual Approach -- Design Choices and Museum Experience: A Design-Based Study of a Mobile Museum App -- Design and Deployment of Everyday UbiComp Solutions at the Hotel: An Empirical Study of Intrinsic Practice Transformation -- Session 2: HCI Design - Methods, Tools and Perspectives -- Bringing the Web Closer: Stereoscopic 3D Web Conversion -- User Experience Degree and Time Restrictions as Financial Constraints in Heuristic Evaluation -- Model-Driven Development of Vocal User Interfaces -- Personalized Interactive Learning Solutions Support – IGUAL -- Closing the Gap between the Motivation of Users and the Design Requirements for Social Sites -- Session 3: HCI Evaluation Methods, Tools and Perspectives -- Formative Evaluation for Complex Interactive Systems -- Setting Usability iTV Heuristics in Open-HEREDEUX -- A Study about the Usability Evaluation of Social Systems from Messages in Natural Language -- A Quality Model for Human-Computer Interaction Evaluation in Ubiquitous Systems -- Session 4: HCI Impacts on Society -- Tablet Use Patterns and Drivers of User Satisfaction: A Gender Approach -- Studying the Relationships between the Management of Personal Data Privacy and User Interface -- HCI with Chocolate: Introducing HCI Concepts to Brazilian Girls in Elementary School -- Borrowing a Virtual Rehabilitation Tool for the Physical Activation and Cognitive Stimulation of Elders -- Session 5: HCI Theories and Theoretical Approaches -- How Do You Understand Twitter?: Analyzing Mental Models, Understanding and Learning about Complex Interactive Systems -- Motivation to Self-report: Capturing User Experiences in Field Studies -- Crowd-Computer Interaction, A Topic in Need of a Model -- Effectiveness Measurement Framework for Field-Based Experiments Focused on Android Devices -- Session 6: Interaction, Visualization and Information, Processing -- Evaluation of a Driving Simulator with a Visual and Auditory Interface -- Using Map Representations to Visualize, Explore and Understand Large Collections of Dynamically Categorized Documents -- Augmenting Decision Tree Models Using Self-Organizing Maps.

Sommario/riassunto

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th bi-annual Latin American Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, CLIHC 2013, held in Guanacaste, Costa Rica, in December 2013. The 11 full papers and 14 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 32 submissions. The papers address all current topics in HCI such as: cultural issues, assistive technologies, usability, accessibility, multimodal inter-faces, design issues, HCI education, and visualization and evaluation techniques, among others.