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Languages : en
Pages : 26

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Author: Johnny Washington
Publisher: Praeger
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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Washington provides a detailed guide to the philosophy of Alain Locke, one of the most influential African American thinkers of our time. The work gives special attention to what Washington calls Destiny Studies, an approach which allows a people to concentrate on their past, present, and future possibilities, and to view the experience of a race as a coherent unity, rather than a set of fragmented historical happenings. In providing a broad vision of Locke's ideas, Washington considers the views of Booker T. Washington and his contemporaries, the theories of anthropologists concerning race and ethnicity, and many of the social issues current in our own age. By doing so, Washington affirms the importance of Locke as a philosopher and demonstrates the impact of Locke on the destiny of African Americans.

Author: Ajuma Oginga Odinga
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Category : Kenya
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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Author: Dana Cuff
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262532020
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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A look at urban transformation through the architecture and land development of large-scale residential projects.

Author: Leonard Monteath Thompson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780300236477
Category : Afrikaners
Languages : en
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Author: Roger Connah
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262265324
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 234

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Fables of content and undoing on the current state of architecture. In How Architecture Got Its Hump, Roger Connah explores the "interference" of other disciplines with and within contemporary architecture. He asks whether photography, film, drawing, philosophy, and language are merely fashionable props for architectural hallucinations or alibis for revisions of history. Or, are they a means for widening the site of architecture? Connah shows how these disciplines have not only contributed to new developments in architectural theory and practice, but have begun to insinuate new possibilities of space. Sometimes seamless, sometimes awkward like the hump acquired by the camel in one of Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories, these disciplines have had their own responsibilities and excesses grafted onto architecture, just as architecture has tried to shake off their limitations. Taking interference a step further, Connah also considers the implications of philosophical incongruity and architectural unrest. He asks how architecture loses its head, transcends the dead language it now entraps, and houses meanings it wants to contest. Hardly bleak questions, suggests Connah, for they point to ways for architecture to rescue itself.

Author: Dennis M. Warren
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 88

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Author: Reyner Banham
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780064303705
Category :
Languages : en
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A pioneering architectural study of the seventy-mile-square city and the historical process which has made it unique as a human settlement.

Author: Lawrence Weschler
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520256093
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 330

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"Robert Irwin, perhaps the most influential of the California artists, moved from his beginnings in abstract expressionism through successive shifts in style and sensibility, into a new aesthetic territory altogether, one where philosophical concepts of perception and the world interact. Weschler has charted the journey with exceptional clarity and cogency. He has also, in the process, provided what seems to me the best running history of postwar West Coast art that I have yet seen."—Calvin Tomkins

Author: Angel Dominguez
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ISBN: 9781643621142
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages :

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A collection of epistolary poems that exorcises and explores the material violence and generational trauma of colonization and systemic racism stored within queer Latinx memory. In DESGRACIADO, Angel Dominguez navigates a visceral constellation of language and memory, illuminating the ongoing impacts of misremembered and missing histories, and their lasting impacts. Dominguez unravels a critical and tender language of lived experience in letters addressed to their ancestral oppressor, Diego de Landa, (a Spanish friar who attempted to destroy the written Maya language in Mani Yucatán, on July 12th 1562), to articulate an old rage, dreaming of a futurity beyond the wreckage and ruin of the colonial imaginary. This collection doesn't seek to heal the incurable wound of colonization so much as attempt to re-articulate a language towards recuperation.