"This book investigates the relationship between the "New Negro" moment of the early twentieth-century America and the Old World of Europe, as represented in James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912), Jessie Fauset's There Is Confusion (1924), and Nella Larsen's Quicksand (1928). The episodes set in Europe form a lens through which the role of the African American in Western civilization can be studied. The African-American artist/protagonists are seen as cultural intermediaries, who bridge Euro-American and African-American culture, national and folk culture, high and low culture. This study suggests that in the novels of Johnson, Fauset, and Larsen, the trope of performance (based on double consciousness) is used to critique the notions of race and culture, whereby conceptions of racial essentialism and cultural authenticity are questioned. The novels themselves are also considered as performative acts that helped form the concept of a "New Negro" in the 1920s."--BOOK JACKET.

From the magazines and newspapers of the mid-1800s to movies and apps of the twenty-first century, popular culture and media in the United States provide prolific representations of higher education. This report positions artifacts of popular culture as pedagogic texts able to (mis)educate viewers and consumers regarding the purpose, values, and people of higher education. It: Discusses scholarly literature across disciplines Examines a diverse array of cross-media artifacts Reveals pedagogical messages embedded in popular culture texts to prompt thinking about the multiple ways higher education isrepresented to society through the media. Informative and engaging, higher education professionals can use the findings to intentionally challenge the (mis)educating messages about higher education through programs, policies, and perspectives. This is the 4th issue of the 40th volume of the Jossey-Bass series ASHE Higher Education Report. Each monograph is the definitive analysis of a tough higher education issue, based on thorough research of pertinent literature and institutional experiences. Topics are identified by a national survey. Noted practitioners and scholars are then commissioned to write the reports, with experts providing critical reviews of each manuscript before publication.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XL END OF THE PKEPARATION.--BEGINNING OF THE CAREER. "Large interests keep the soul free; like the great oceancurrents which interchange the climates of the globe, they balance the nature and modify all excess."--Anon. When the second semester began, Will elected her studies without consulting any one except Nell. She secretly hoped that Randolf would not be in the same classes, for then she would rarely see him, and that, she thought, would be a great relief. She decided to take history and analytical chemistry, and she kept on with Greek and Latin. When she went into Professor Roemer's room to get the list of historical questions, the first one she saw was Pandolf, who had come for the same purpose. "Why, of course," she thought, "I might have known he would take history! And maybe, after all, it is a little cowardly for me to be unwilling to meet him in recitations." Nell took chemistry also, and they made themselves large aprons, and engaged tables at the laboratory side by side. The first morning, when they were arranging the bottles on the shelves and washing test-tubes, Will glanced across to the next row, and on a card above one of the tables she saw Randolf's name, which meant that he had engaged it for work. It was rather a coincidence that Randolf should have chosen practical chemistry too, and she was more amused than annoyed at the fact that their tables were so situated that she would see the back of his head whenever she looked up. Randolf had chosen a course in toxicology as a probable help in his future work, so that Will's motives and his were the same in electing work in the laboratory; for she had returned to her original intention of studying medicine, and for this a course in chemistry was the first...

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The story of the American university in the past half century is about the rise of women in participation as students, faculty members, college athletes, and in subsequently changing the overall university culture for the better. Now almost sixty percent of the overall college student population in America is female, and still growing. By the year 2000, women surpassed men worldwide in attendance at higher education institutions. At the same time, after years of a disproportionate dominant male professoriate, female faculty members are now becoming the majority of university professors. While top university presidents are still largely male, women have achieved real gains in the overall administrative ranks and trustee positions. In all areas of the university disparities still exist in terms of compensation and balance in key areas of the academy, but the overall positive trend is clear. Few to this date have recognized and chronicled this extraordinary change in college education—one of society’s fundamental and influential institutions. For universities the test for the future is to make the changes needed in broad areas within higher education from financial aid to curriculum, student activities, and overall campus culture in order to better foster a newly empowered majority of women students.