Christian K. Messenger: Sport and the Spirit of Play in American Fiction: Hawthorne to Faulkner (New York and Guildford, Surrey: Columbia University Press, 1981, $31.20). Pp. xv, 369. - Robert J. Higgs: Laurel and Thorn: The Athlete in American Literature (Lexington, Ky.: The University Press of Kentucky, 1981, $15). Pp. xi, 196.

1982 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 504-505
Author(s):  
Bob Lawson-Peebles
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
American Literature ◽  
American Fiction ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
The University

scholarly journals The University, Neighborhood Revitalization, and Civic Engagement: Toward Civic Engagement 3.0

Societies ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Taylor, Jr. ◽  
D. Luter ◽  
Camden Miller
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Neighborhood Effects ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Neighborhood Revitalization ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Black Liberation ◽  
Anchor Institutions ◽  
The University

This essay analyzes and syntheses key theories and concepts on neighborhood change from the literature on anchor institutions, university engagement, gentrification, neighborhood effects, Cold War, Black liberation studies, urban political economy, and city building. To deepen understanding of the Columbia University experience, we complemented the literature analysis with an examination of the New York Times and Amsterdam newspapers from 1950 to 1970. The study argues that higher education’s approach to neighborhood revitalization during the urban renewal age, as well as in the post-1990 period, produced undesirable results and failed to spawn either social transformation or build the neighborly community espoused by Lee Benson and Ira Harkavy. The essay explains the reasons why and concludes with a section on a more robust strategy higher education can pursue in the quest to bring about desirable change in the university neighborhood.

Between Europe and America

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 255-285
Author(s):  
Arvind Rajagopal
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
African American Literature ◽  
The United States ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Amiri Baraka ◽  
Postwar Germany ◽  
University Of Berlin ◽  
Guggenheim Fellowship ◽  
The University ◽  
Intellectual Formation

Werner Sollors is one of the first scholars of American literature to focus on African American literature before it was thought to constitute a canon in the academy. Unlike many other scholars who shared his focus, he completed his education in postwar Germany. The title of his doctoral dissertation on LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka), completed at the Free University of Berlin in 1975, has a still-contemporary ring: “The Quest for a ‘Populist Modernism.’” He taught at Columbia University, received a Guggenheim fellowship, and spent the bulk of his career in the United States. In this interview he discusses his intellectual formation and offers reflections on the development of his field, the evolving institutional culture of the university, and 1970s-era multiculturalism.

“An Old Order Is Passing”: The Rise of Applied Learning in University-Based Teacher Education during the Great Depression

2015 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 319-345 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana D'Amico
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Public Schools ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
New York University ◽  
Teachers College ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
Old Order ◽  
The University

From the late nineteenth century through the first decades of the twentieth century, New York City housed two contrasting models of professional education for teachers. In 1870, the Normal College of the City of New York opened in rented quarters. Founded to prepare women to teach in the city's public schools, in just ten weeks the tuition-free, all-female college “filled to overflowing” with about 1,100 enrolled students. Based upon a four-year high school course approved by the city's Board of Education, the “chief purpose” of the college was to “encourage young women… to engage in the work of teaching in elementary and secondary schools.” Vocationally oriented and focused on practical skills, the Normal College stood in contrast to the School of Pedagogy at New York University and Teachers College, Columbia University founded in 1890 and 1898, respectively. The Normal College's neighbors situated their work within the academic traditions of the university. According to a School of Pedagogy Bulletin from 1912, faculty sought to,meet the needs of students of superior academic training and of teachers of experience who are prepared to study educational problems in their more scientific aspects and their broader relations.

ERIC FONER'S “RECONSTRUCTION” AT TWENTY-FIVE

2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-27
Author(s):  
Eric Foner
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
List Type ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
City College ◽  
Northwestern University ◽  
Duke University ◽  
The University ◽  
Oral Presentations

What follows is a written reproduction of a forum held at the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians in San Francisco in April 2013. The forum commemorated the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Eric Foner's Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877. Kate Masur (Northwestern University) organized and introduced the discussion, and the commentators in order of speaking were the following: •Heather Andrea Williams, The University of Pennsylvania•Gregory P. Downs, City College of New York and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York•Thavolia Glymph, Duke University•Steven Hahn, The University of Pennsylvania•Eric Foner, Columbia University The written version on the following pages largely preserves the feel and tone of the original oral presentations by the contributors. However, given the opportunity for reflection inherent in the published word, the authors and editors have made some small changes to enhance readability.

scholarly journals Disentangling the American Christian Right: An Interview with Dr. Christopher Douglas | Decifrando a direita cristã norte-americana: uma entrevista com o Prof. Dr. Christopher Douglas

Reflexão ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucas Da Silva Lopes
Keyword(s):  
South Carolina ◽  
American Literature ◽  
Christian Right ◽  
American Fiction ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Furman University ◽  
Conservative Christian ◽  
Contemporary American Fiction ◽  
The University

Christopher Douglas is one of the most prominent scholars who has studied the rise of the conservative Christian Right in the American political arena and the links of this complex movement to American culture. Prof. Douglas taught at the University of Toronto and, for five years, at Furman University, South Carolina before transferring to University of Victoria in 2004. He teaches American literature, particularly contemporary American fiction, religion and literature, multicultural American literature, postmodernism, and the Bible as Literature. In the interview below, Prof. Douglas talks about his research and the idea behind his book “If God Meant to Interfere”, published in 2016; the explanatory concepts of Christian Multiculturalism and Christian Postmodernism; the spread of fake news, conspiracy theories, and alternative facts among Christian fundamentalists; the American political context. Prof. Douglas also offers interesting comments on the current Brazilian situation. His critical insights provide interesting and new perspectives that give fresh vitality to the debates about Christian fundamentalism. Prof. Douglas is committed to “public-scholar engagement” that is, research-based critical writings for non-academic audiences.Links to his public academic activity are inserted throughout the interview.

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