Black male collegians : increasing access, retention, and persistence in higher education / / Robert T. Palmer [and three others]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910464614603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Wiley Periodicals Inc., , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 1-118-94166-7; 1-118-94167-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (170 p.)
• Collana: ASHE Higher Education Report, , 1551-6970 ; ; Volume 40, Number 3
• Disciplina: 378.103
• Soggetti: Community and college; Education, Higher; African Americans - Education (Higher); Electronic books.
• 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: Black Male Collegians: Increasing Access, Retention, and Persistence in Higher Education; Contents; Executive Summary; Dedications; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Contextualizing the Experiences of Black Men in Society and Education: Setting the Foundation; Purpose of the Monograph: Reshaping the Puzzle; Methodological Approach: A Modified Literature Synthesis; Snapshot: Black Males in PreK-12 Education; Status: Black Men in Postsecondary Education; College and University Enrollment; Select Characteristics of Black Men in Postsecondary Education; Educational Outcomes; Overview of the Monograph; Getting to College: Factors Affecting Black Male Achievement in Schools and the Educational PipelineThe U.S. Black Educational Pipeline: Sociohistorical and Policy Perspectives; Black Males in U.S. Schools: A National Framework; Teacher Perceptions and Preparation; Background, Family, and Community Factors; Success Factors and Resistance to Structural Inequities; Boyhood, Masculinity, and Identity Factors; Conclusion; Factors Critical to the Access and Success of Black Men in Postsecondary Education; TRIO Programs: Facilitating Access to Higher Education for Black Students by Increasing College ReadinessAffirmative Action: A Critical Facilitator of Access to Higher Education for Black Students; College Readiness Programs: A Vital Linkage to Access and Success for Black Students; Black Men at Historically Black Colleges and Universities; Black Men at Predominantly White Institutions; Black Men at Community Colleges; Student Engagement and Academic Success; Student Organizations; Faculty-Student Interaction; Peer Interaction; Black Greek Letter Fraternities; Black Male Initiatives; Mentors; Factors Critical to the Success of Black Men in Postsecondary EducationFinancial Support; Spirituality; Family Support; Non-cognitive Factors; Racial Identity; Masculine Identity; Conclusion; Implications for Future Research, Policy, and Practice; Implications for Future Research; Implications for Practice; Implications for Policy; Concluding Remarks; Appendix; References; Name Index; Subject Index; About the Authors; About the ASHE Higher Education Report Series; Recent Titles; Order Form; EULA
• Sommario/riassunto: Improving college access and success among Black males has garnered tremendous attention. Many social scientists have noted that Black men account for only 4.3% of the total enrollment at 4-year postsecondary institutions in the United States, the same percentage now as in 1976. Furthermore, two thirds of Black men who start college never finish. The lack of progress among Black men in higher education has caused researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to become increasingly focused on ways to increase their access and success. Offering recommendations and strategies to help advance succe

Scare tactics [[electronic resource] ] : supernatural fiction by American women / / Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910780971203321
• Autore: Weinstock Jeffrey Andrew
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Fordham University Press, 2008
• ISBN: 0-8232-4104-1; 1-282-69893-1; 9786612698934; 0-8232-3820-2; 0-8232-2987-4
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (vii, 228 p. )
• Disciplina: 813/.087209
• Soggetti: American fiction - Women authors - History and criticism; Supernatural in literature; Gothic revival (Literature) - United States; Ghost stories, American - History and criticism; Horror tales, American - History and criticism; Occultism in literature
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-217) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: The unacknowledged tradition -- The ghost in the parlor : Harriet Prescott Spofford, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Anna M. Hoyt, and Edith Wharton -- Queer haunting spaces : Madeline Yale Wynne and Elia Wilkinson Peattie -- Ghosts of progress : Alice Cary, Mary Noailles Murfree, Mary Austin, and Edith Wharton -- Familial ghosts : Louise Stockton, Olivia Howard Dunbar, Edith Wharton, Josephine Daskam Bacon, Elia Wilkinson Peattie, Georgia Wood Pangborn, and Mary E. Wilkins Freeman -- Ghosts of desire : Rose Terry Cooke, Alice Brown, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, and Helen Hull -- Ghostly returns : Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Gertrude Atherton, and Josephine Daskam Bacon -- Coda: The decline of the American female Gothic.
• Sommario/riassunto: Scare Tactics identifies an important but overlooked tradition of supernatural writing by American women. Jeffrey Weinstock analyzes ; this tradition as an essentially feminist attempt to imagine alternatives to a world of limited possibilities. In the process, he recovers the lives and works of authors who were important during their lifetimes and in the development of the American literary tradition, but who are not recognized today for their contributions.Between the end of the Civil War and roughly 1930, hundreds of uncanny tales were published by women in the periodical press and in books. These include stories by familiar figures such as Edith Wharton, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, as well as by authors almost wholly unknown to twenty-first-century readers, such as Josephine Dodge Bacon, Alice Brown, Emma Frances Dawson, and Harriet Prescott Spofford. Focusing on this tradition of female writing offers a corrective to the prevailing belief within American literary scholarship that the uncanny tale, exemplified by the literary productions of Irving, Poe, and Hawthorne, was displaced after the Civil War by literary realism. Beyond the simple existence of an unacknowledged tradition of uncanny literature by women, Scare Tactics makes a strong case that this body of literature should be read as a specifically feminist literary tradition. Especially intriguing, Weinstock demonstrates, is that women authors repeatedly used Gothic conventions to express discontentment with circumscribed roles for women creating types of political intervention connected to the broader sphere of women's rights activism. Paying attention to these overlooked authors helps us better understand not only the literary marketplace of their time, but also more familiar American Gothicists from Edgar Allan Poe to Shirley Jackson to Stephen King.

European encounters : intellectual exchange and the rethinking of Europe 1914-1945 / edited by Carlos Reijnen and Marleen Rensen

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910823915003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam, Netherlands, : Rodopi, 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 94-012-1077-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (259 p.)
• Collana: European Studies ; ; 32
• Altri autori (Persone): ReijnenCarlos; RensenMarleen
• Disciplina: 940.5
• Soggetti: Intellectuals - Europe - History - 20th century; European federation - History - 20th century; Europe Intellectual life 20th century; Europe Relations; Europe Civilization 20th century
• 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.