L.A. city limits : African American Los Angeles from the Great Depression to the present / / Josh Sides

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911106911603321
• Autore: Sides Josh <1972->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2003
• ISBN: 9780520939868; 0520939867; 9781597346962; 1597346969
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (304 p.)
• Disciplina: 979.4/9400496073
• Soggetti: African Americans - California - Los Angeles - Social conditions - 20th century; African Americans - California - Los Angeles - Economic conditions - 20th century; Los Angeles (Calif.) Race relations; Los Angeles (Calif.) Social conditions 20th century; Los Angeles (Calif.) Economic conditions 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 and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. African Americans in Prewar Los Angeles -- 2. The Great Migration and the Changing Face of Los Angeles -- 3. The Window of Opportunity: Black Work in Industrial Los Angeles, 1941-1964 -- 4. Race and Housing in Postwar Los Angeles -- 5. Building the Civil Rights Movement in Los Angeles -- 6. Black Community Transformation in the 1960's and 1970's -- Epilogue -- Maps -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In 1964 an Urban League survey ranked Los Angeles as the most desirable city for African Americans to live in. In 1965 the city burst into flames during one of the worst race riots in the nation's history. How the city came to such a pass-embodying both the best and worst of what urban America offered black migrants from the South-is the story told for the first time in this history of modern black Los Angeles. ; A clear-eyed and compelling look at black struggles for equality in L.A.'s neighborhoods, schools, and workplaces from the Great Depression to our day, L.A. City Limits critically refocuses the ongoing debate about the origins of America's racial and urban crisis. Challenging previous analysts' near-exclusive focus on northern "rust-belt" cities devastated by de-industrialization, Josh Sides asserts that the cities to which black southerners migrated profoundly affected how they fared. He shows how L.A.'s diverse racial composition, dispersive geography, and dynamic postwar economy often created opportunities-and limits-quite different from those encountered by blacks in the urban North.

Meditatio : refashioning the self : theory and practice in late medieval and early modern intellectual culture / / edited by Karl Enenkel and Walter Melion

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911106923903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2011
• ISBN: 1-283-12043-7; 9786613120434; 90-04-21056-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (460 p.)
• Collana: Intersections ; ; v. 17
• Altri autori (Persone): EnenkelK. A. E; MelionWalter S
• Disciplina: 248.3/40940902
• Soggetti: Meditation - Christianity - History; Meditation - History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Rev. proceedings of a colloquium held in Apr. 2009 at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: pt. 1. Meditatio and refashioning the self in literature, 1300-1600 -- pt. 2. Religious meditation in the late medieval and early modern theology -- pt. 3. Exercitia spiriutalia : meditation and the Jesuits -- pt. 4. Religious meditation in the visual arts, 13th-17th century.
• Sommario/riassunto: The late medieval and early modern period is a particularly interesting chapter in the development of meditation and self-reflection. Meditation may best be described as a self-imposed disciplinary regime, consisting of mental and physical exercises that allowed the practitioner to engender and evaluate his self-image, and thence to emend and refashion it. The volume aims at examining the forms and functions, ways and means of meditation from c. 1300 to c. 1600. It tries to analyze the internal exercises that mobilized the sensitive faculties of motion, emotion, and sense (both external and internal) and the intellective faculties of reason, memory, and will, with a view to reforming the soul, and the techniques of visualization that were frequently utilized to engage the soul’s mediating function as vinculum mundi , its pivotal position in the great chain of being between heaven and earth, temporal and spiritual experience. Contributors include Barbara Baert, Wietse de Boer, Feike Dietz, Jan Frans van Dijkhuizen, Karl Enenkel, Jan de Jong, Walter Melion, Wolfgang Neuber, Hilmar Pabel, Jan Papy, Paul Smith, Diana Stanciu, Nikolaus Staubach, Jacob Vance, and Geert Warnar.