Friday, November 6, 2009

Indian Artifact Magazine: "just great"


"Twenty-five years in the making, this final result is just great. It will be, already is, the finest work ever done on this topic and I don't know how anyone could ever do better. Get this classic for your library while it is still available. It will be a good investment, and you will learn from, and enjoy, the photos and information presented."
--Indian Artifact Magazine, November 2009

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Thursday, November 5, 2009

Indiana Magazine of History: "an exceptional volume"


"Without question, With All Deliberate Speed adds much to our understanding of the history and legacy of the Brown decision and also raises significant questions about the broader civil rights movement. This carefully researched and lucidly written volume is a must-read for those interested in this crucial period in American and African American history. All parties involved in this venture should be highly commended for their pathbreaking and much-needed collection."
Indian Magazine of History,
September 2009

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Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Choice Review of Jim Crow America: "Essential"


"Historian C. Lewis and educator J. R. Lewis have compiled this eminently useful collection of primary source documents that will most certainly be invaluable to any history student trying to understand the complexities of Jim Crow segregation. Divided thematically into five chapters, this volume features documents that demonstrate the manner in which the US's apartheid system was invented, built, lived, resisted, and finally dismantled--none of which was an easy task. Clearly designed for classroom use, the volume includes a time line, a list of Web resources, an annotated bibliography, and even discussion questions--all of which are a bonus to the extremely functional collection of documents. Although many of the documents have been published previously, such as the Emancipation Proclamation, many have not; never have all these documents been published together. Most histories of Jim Crow segregation have focused either on one region or on a specific topic such as gender or law. This volume endeavors to sample all and does so admirably. The editors provide newspaper articles, letters, essays, political cartoons, legal documents, and photographs from both sides of the divide and from all around the nation; they flesh out Jim Crow's strange career in a manner that will help students understand the craft of history. A few typos are evident but do not distract overall from the outstanding content. Summing Up: Essential. Upper-level undergraduates through
researchers/faculty."
-- D. W. Bilal, University of Illinois at Springfield

Monday, November 2, 2009

"Rewarding"


Weapons Grade reviewed by Fogged Clarity: "Svoboda’s poems are rewarding. She is brave–but the road she travels is not easy or for the faint of heart."

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Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Arkansas and Its Image


The Morning News of Northwest Arkansas ran this story on Arkansas / Arkansaw.

Brooks Blevins will be reading and signing his book at the Old Statehouse Museum in Little on October 26!

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Thursday, October 8, 2009

"should be considered by anyone serious about contemporary poetry"


From October's Library Journal:

"Whether she's writing about slave children ('necessity a little bracelet
of sound'), Jeanne Baret's voyage on a late 1700s expedition disguised
as a man ('I recall how these islands roast and eat white women/ if
there's a question of whose'), or the absolute ghastliness of war
('There are soldiers in mother's hair/ and soldiers peeling the
screen'), Svoboda takes a fiercely uncompromising stance. These are
often angry political poems, but they never descend into agit-prop;
other writers could learn something from her brilliant management of
language and emotion. As in previous sharp-minded work, whether poetry,
fiction, or nonfiction (e.g., Black Glasses Like Clark Kent), Svoboda
does not tell things straight but delivers cracked, impressionistic
fragments bound and delivered by an incredible drive. She's particularly
good when condemning U.S. military engagement ('Resistance fighters
resist,/ not insurgents/ who just want to live/ where they live'), which
she takes back to a shocking poem on black GIs in occupied Japan. In
fact, power mongers everywhere get her goat; after Henry VIII proclaims
'I'm what matters,' a baby picks his royal spittle off dog fur and
mutters, 'Ah-blue-gabe.' Verdict: Not for casual readers or right
wingers, this collection should be considered by anyone serious about
contemporary poetry."
-Barbara Hoffert, Library Journal

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Tuesday, September 22, 2009

"an interesting account of a remarkable woman of color"


Janice Sumler-Edmond has written an interesting account of a remarkable woman of color who, along with her offspring, managed to carve out self-supporting businesses in Georgia from the antebellum era through Reconstruction.... [Sumler-Edmond] has offered readers a well-structured and thoroughly argued presentation of a part of history still overlooked and long forgotten."
H-Net, June 2009

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