The Ebony Tower

Author : John Fowles
Publisher : Random House
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781409059851

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The Ebony Tower by John Fowles Pdf

An extraordinary work of fiction, from one of the world's most exceptional writers. A journalist visits an elderly painter and becomes intrigued by his young female companions. Four years' worth of book research is set on fire in front of a writer. A successful MP disappears without a trace. Written with stylistic innovation, this sequence of novellas exploring the nature of art echoes the themes and preoccupations of Fowles' earlier work and cements his position as a master storyteller. 'Pick up any of these stories and you won't, as they say, be able to put it down' Financial Times

Author : Manning Marable
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2001-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0231507941

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Dispatches from the Ebony Tower by Manning Marable Pdf

What constitutes black studies and where does this discipline stand at the end of the twentieth century? In this wide-ranging and original volume, Manning Marable—one of the leading scholars of African American history—gathers key materials from contemporary thinkers who interrogate the richly diverse content and multiple meanings of the collective experiences of black folk. Here are numerous voices expressing very different political, cultural, and historical views, from black conservatives, to black separatists, to blacks who advocate radical democratic transformation. Here are topics ranging from race and revolution in Cuba, to the crack epidemic in Harlem, to Afrocentrism and its critics. All of these voices, however, are engaged in some aspect of what Marable sees as the essential triad of the black intellectual tradition: describing the reality of black life and experiences, critiquing racism and stereotypes, or proposing positive steps for the empowerment of black people. Highlights from Dispatches from the Ebony Tower: Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Manning Marable debate the role of activism in black studies. John Hope Franklin reflects on his role as chair of the President's race initiative. Cornel West discusses topics that range from the future of the NAACP through the controversies surrounding Louis Farrakhan and black nationalism to the very question of what "race" means. Amiri Baraka lays out strategies for a radical new curriculum in our schools and universities. Marable's introduction provides a thorough overview of the history and current state of black studies in America.

Author : Joy Ann Williamson,Joy Ann Williamson-Lott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-12
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015073883863

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Radicalizing the Ebony Tower by Joy Ann Williamson,Joy Ann Williamson-Lott Pdf

This is a profoundly moving story of Black colleges in Mississippi during a watershed moment in their history. It is also the story of young Americans trying to balance their pursuit of higher education with the parallel struggle for civil rights. Radicalizing the Ebony Tower examines colleges against the backdrop of the black freedom struggle of the middle twentieth century, a highly contentious conflict between state agents determined to protect the racial hierarchy and activists equally determined to cripple white supremacy. Activists demanded that colleges play a central role in the Civil Rights Movement (a distinct challenge to the notion of the ivory tower) while state agents demanded that colleges distance themselves from the black freedom struggle and promised to mete out harsh penalties if they did not. Through the words and deeds of actual participants, this path-breaking study documents how activists ultimately transformed non-political institutions into libratory agents.

Author : John Fowles
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316255660

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The Ebony Tower by John Fowles Pdf

The Ebony Tower, comprising a novella, three stories, and a translation of a medieval French tale, echoes themes from John Fowles's internationally celebrated novels as it probes the fitful relations between love and hate, pleasure and pain, fantasy and reality.

Author : Craig Steven Wilder
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781608193837

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Ebony and Ivy by Craig Steven Wilder Pdf

A groundbreaking exploration of the intertwined histories of slavery, racism, and higher education in America, from a leading African American historian. A 2006 report commissioned by Brown University revealed that institution's complex and contested involvement in slavery--setting off a controversy that leapt from the ivory tower to make headlines across the country. But Brown's troubling past was far from unique. In Ebony and Ivy, Craig Steven Wilder, a rising star in the profession of history, lays bare uncomfortable truths about race, slavery, and the American academy. Many of America's revered colleges and universities--from Harvard, Yale, and Princeton to Rutgers, Williams College, and UNC--were soaked in the sweat, the tears, and sometimes the blood of people of color. Slavery funded colleges, built campuses, and paid the wages of professors. Enslaved Americans waited on faculty and students; academic leaders aggressively courted the support of slave owners and slave traders. Significantly, as Wilder shows, our leading universities, dependent on human bondage, became breeding grounds for the racist ideas that sustained them. Ebony and Ivy is a powerful and propulsive study and the first of its kind, revealing a history of oppression behind the institutions usually considered the cradle of liberal politics.

Author : Ronyelle Bertrand Ricard,M. Christopher Brown II
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000978865

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Ebony Towers in Higher Education by Ronyelle Bertrand Ricard,M. Christopher Brown II Pdf

What is the purpose of black colleges? Why do black colleges continue to exist? Are black colleges necessary?Historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are at the same time the least studied and the least understood institutions of higher education and the most maligned and the most endangered.This unique study examines the mission of four-year HBCUs from the perspective of the campus president, as a foundation for understanding the relevance and role of these institutions. This is the first research to focus on the role of presidents of black colleges; is based on extensive interviews with fifteen presidents; and takes into particular account the type of campus environments in which they operate.Unlike community colleges, women’s colleges, men’s colleges, and Hispanic-serving colleges, Black colleges are racially identifiable institutions. They also vary significantly in, among other characteristics: size, control (public or private), religious affiliation, gender composition, and available resources. Although united in the historic mission of educating African Americans, each black college or university has its own identity and set of educational objectives. The book examines how presidents define and implement mission in the context of their campuses, view the challenges they face, and confront the factors that promote or hinder implementation of their missions.

Author : Kerry Rockquemore,Tracey A. Laszloffy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : African American college teachers
ISBN : 1588265889

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The Black Academic's Guide to Winning Tenure--without Losing Your Soul by Kerry Rockquemore,Tracey A. Laszloffy Pdf

For an African American scholar, who may be the lone minority in a department, navigating the tenure minefield can be a particularly harrowing process. Kerry Ann Rockquemore and Tracey Laszloffy go beyond standard professional resources to serve up practical advice for black faculty intent on playing?and winning?the tenure game.Addressing head-on how power and the thorny politics of race converge in the academy, The Black Academic?s Guide is full of invaluable tips and hard-earned wisdom. It is an essential handbook that will help black faculty survive and thrive in academia without losing their voices, or their integrity.

Author : Davarian L Baldwin
Publisher : Bold Type Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781568588919

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In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower by Davarian L Baldwin Pdf

Across America, universities have become big businesses—and our cities their company towns. But there is a cost to those who live in their shadow. Urban universities play an outsized role in America’s cities. They bring diverse ideas and people together and they generate new innovations. But they also gentrify neighborhoods and exacerbate housing inequality in an effort to enrich their campuses and attract students. They maintain private police forces that target the Black and Latinx neighborhoods nearby. They become the primary employers, dictating labor practices and suppressing wages. In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower takes readers from Hartford to Chicago and from Phoenix to Manhattan, revealing the increasingly parasitic relationship between universities and our cities. Through eye-opening conversations with city leaders, low-wage workers tending to students’ needs, and local activists fighting encroachment, scholar Davarian L. Baldwin makes clear who benefits from unchecked university power—and who is made vulnerable. In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower is a wake-up call to the reality that higher education is no longer the ubiquitous public good it was once thought to be. But as Baldwin shows, there is an alternative vision for urban life, one that necessitates a more equitable relationship between our cities and our universities.

Author : John Fowles
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316231091

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Daniel Martin by John Fowles Pdf

A new trade paperback edition of "a masterpiece of symbolically charged realism....Fowles is the only writer in English who has the power, range, knowledge, and wisdom of a Tolstoy or James" (John Gardner, Saturday Review). The eponymous hero of John Fowles's largest and richest novel is an English playwright turned Hollywood screenwriter who has begun to question his own values. Summoned home to England to visit an ailing friend, Daniel Martin finds himself back in the company of people who once knew him well, forced to confront his buried past, and propelled toward a journey of self-discovery through which he ultimately creates for himself a more satisfying existence. A brilliantly imagined novel infused with a profound understanding of human nature, Daniel Martin is John Fowles at the height of his literary powers.

Author : John Fowles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:313446754

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The Ebony Tower by John Fowles Pdf

Author : Oluwaseun Tella,Shireen Motala
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Africa
ISBN : 1431429554

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From Ivory Towers to Ebony Towers by Oluwaseun Tella,Shireen Motala Pdf

Author : Pamela Cooper
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780776602998

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The Fictions of John Fowles by Pamela Cooper Pdf

This incisive and skillfully articulated study explores the complex power relationships in John Fowles's fictions, particularly his handling of the pivotal subjects of art and sex. Chapters on The Collector, The Magus, The French Lieutenant's Woman, and The Ebony Tower are included, and a final chapter discusses Daniel Martin, Mantissa, and A Maggot.

Author : John Fowles,Barry Brukoff
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : 0671437585

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The Enigma of Stonehenge by John Fowles,Barry Brukoff Pdf

The history and meaning of Stonehenge with photographs of the ancient monument as it is today.

Author : Simon Loveday
Publisher : Springer
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1985-06-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781349178711

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The Romances of John Fowles by Simon Loveday Pdf

Author : John Fowles
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316255639

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Mantissa by John Fowles Pdf

In Mantissa (1982), a novelist awakes in the hospital with amnesia -- and comes to believe that a beautiful female doctor is, in fact, his muse.