1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910963662803321

Autore

Hanson Joyce Ann

Titolo

Mary McLeod Bethune & Black women's political activism / / Joyce A. Hanson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbia, : University of Missouri Press, c2003

ISBN

9780826264046

0826264042

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (262 p.)

Disciplina

370/.92

B

Soggetti

African American women political activists

African American women educators

African American women social reformers

African American women - Political activity - History - 20th century

African Americans - Politics and government - 20th century

African Americans - Civil rights - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-237) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. The Making of a Race Woman -- 2. Daytona Normal and Industrial Institute for Negro Girls -- 3. Mutual Aid, Self-Improvement, and Social Justice -- 4. In the National Youth Administration -- 5. The National Council of Negro Women -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.

Sommario/riassunto

Mary McLeod Bethune was a significant figure in American political history. She devoted her life to advancing equal social, economic, and political rights for blacks. She distinguished herself by creating lasting institutions that trained black women for visible and expanding public leadership roles. Few have been as effective in the development of women's leadership for group advancement. Despite her accomplishments, the means, techniques, and actions Bethune employed in fighting for equality have been widely misinterpreted.   Mary McLeod Bethune and Black Women's Political Activism seeks to remedy the misconceptions surrounding this important political figure.



Joyce A. Hanson shows that the choices Bethune made often appear contradictory, unless one understands that she was a transitional figure with one foot in the nineteenth century and the other in the twentieth. Bethune, who lived from 1875 to 1955, struggled to reconcile her nineteenth-century notions of women's moral superiority with the changing political realities of the twentieth century. She used two conceptually distinct levels of activism-one nonconfrontational and designed to slowly undermine systemic racism, the other openly confrontational and designed to challenge the most overt discrimination-in her efforts to achieve equality.   Hanson uses a wide range of never- or little-used primary sources and adds a significant dimension to the historical discussion of black women's organizations by such scholars as Elsa Barkley Brown, Sharon Harley, and Rosalyn Terborg-Penn. The book extends the current debate about black women's political activism in recent work by Stephanie Shaw, Evelyn Brooks-Higginbotham, and Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore. Examining the historical evolution of African American women's activism in the critical period between 1920 and 1950, a time previously characterized as "doldrums" for both feminist and civil rights activity, Mary McLeod Bethune and Black Women's Political Activism is important for understanding the centrality of black women to the political fight for social, economic, and racial justice.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910966708903321

Autore

Khrennikov A. (Andrei? IUr'evich) <1958, >

Titolo

Beyond quantum / / Andrei Khrennikov

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton, FL : , : CRC Press : , : Pan Stanford Publishing, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

0-429-07366-6

981-4411-73-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (384 p.)

Disciplina

530.12

Soggetti

Quantum theory

Statistical physics

Probabilities

Quantum statistics

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.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Conventional Quantum Theory: Fundamentals; Chapter 3: Fundamentals of Prequantum Classical Statistical Field Theory; Chapter 4: Prequantum Dynamics from Hamiltonian Equations on the Infinite-Dimensional Phase Space; Chapter 5: Quantum Mechanics as Approximation of Statistical Mechanics of Classical Fields; Chapter 6: Supplementary Mathematical Considerations; Chapter 7: Mathematical Presentation for Composite Systems; Chapter 8: Phenomenological Detection Model; Chapter 9: Quantum Individual Events

References

Sommario/riassunto

The present wave of interest in quantum foundations is caused by the tremendous development of quantum information science and its applications to quantum computing and quantum communication. It has become clear that some of the difficulties encountered in realizations of quantum information processing have roots at the very fundamental level. To solve such problems, quantum theory has to be reconsidered. This book is devoted to the analysis of the probabilistic structure of quantum theory, probing the limits of classical



probabilistic representation of quantum phenomena.