Hispanics in the Public Service in the Late Twentieth Century

1993 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Sisneros
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Public Service ◽  
The Public ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

scholarly journals Listening to Advisors: A Conversation About Readers’ Advisory Services, Practice, and Practicing

2019 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 2
Author(s):  
Neal Wyatt
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Public Library ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Public ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Book Group ◽  
Reference Tools ◽  
Second Wave ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

As RA service has moved from its second-wave renaissance during the late twentieth century/early twenty-first century (with a steady stream of reference tools, conference programming, and think pieces) into an often underpromoted but bedrock mainstay of the public library, what do advisors continue to discuss among themselves and see as areas of need? If you could gather a handful of advisors together, over a cup of coffee one rainy morning before book group began, what would they talk about? What would they ask each other? What do they know to be foundational about the service? As important, what might they suggest we all re-think? This column invites you to eavesdrop on such a conversation. It was conducted over email between six advisors: two at the start of their careers, two helping to define the field, and two who have lead the way for librarians, for a combined eight decades. These advisors share research, hard-won and lived-in lessons, showcase the luminous nature of RA work as well as its difficulties, propose a change for RA education, and, of course, each suggests a book to read.

Afterword

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret Bendroth
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
American Culture ◽  
The Public ◽  
Billy Graham ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
American Society ◽  
Long Term Impact ◽  
American Evangelicalism ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

This chapter assesses Billy Graham’s long-term impact on American evangelicalism and American culture. At last estimates, he evangelized over two billion people during his sixty-year career. He remained culturally nimble enough to stay in the public eye through all the tumultuous years of the late twentieth century. Billy Graham did not just reflect his times—he also changed them. Exactly what that means is a matter of debate. Despite the evangelist’s durable popularity, his legacy is surprisingly difficult to measure. This chapter identifies that there are uncertainties about the future of the evangelical world Billy Graham shaped, and that the long-term prospects for religion in American society remain uncertain. It also discusses the possible successors to Graham and posits that a successor—if there will be one at all—is unlikely to be an American.

The Public Face of Southern Institutions for the "Feeble-Minded"

2005 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 25-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Noll
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Historic Building ◽  
The Public ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Late Twentieth Century ◽  
Southern Institutions

The article examines the history of Southern institutions and how these facilities are presently facing up to that past. Established both to care for and to control a population of individuals labeled as feeble-minded and deviant, these facilities provided little support and help for patients and quickly devolved into over-crowded, under-funded operations. With the de-institutionalization revolution of the late twentieth century, they ceased to be the center of their state's program to handle this population. Currently through websites, museums, archives, and historic building designations, they are beginning to examine their past treatment in a more public fashion.

How American Institutions Encourage and Sustain High Rates of Imprisonment

2020 ◽  
pp. 61-81
Author(s):  
Franklin E. Zimring
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
The United States ◽  
Federal System ◽  
Crime Policy ◽  
American Government ◽  
The Public ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

This chapter explores a series of long-standing features of American government that exaggerated the scale of the penal expansion that started in the 1970s. A large list of features of government and social structure in the United States magnified the level of penal expansion, including the federal system, the public wealth of the late twentieth century, and the politics of crime policy.

scholarly journals Аctionism in the theater practices of Western Ukraine of the end of the XX century

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadiia Babii
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Social Activity ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Political Crisis ◽  
The Public ◽  
National Movements ◽  
Western Ukraine ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

The purpose of the publication is to capture the facts of theatrical actionism in Western Ukraine against the background of the socio-political crisis of the late twentieth century, to identify different contexts of perception of practices, to explore the arsenal of artistic means inherent in the phenomenon. Research methods: a factor method is used that allowed to assess the place and role of theatrical actionism in Western Ukraine in the late twentieth century in historical reality and the method of causal analysis, which traced the genesis of this phenomenon. The field research method is used to collect sources. The issue of theatrical actionism in the consolidating practices of Western Ukraine at the end of the twentieth century is considered, the key changes in the movements towards the predominance of interaction, experimentation, performativity, social activity and politicization in general are identified. Conclusions. As proved, the bright manifestations of actionism in the theatrical practices of Western Ukraine in the late twentieth century were a bold attempt to construct a new society and consciousness by means of culture. The period of experiments coincided not only with national movements, but also with the time of destruction of hierarchies: ideological, economic, value, so in each case the directors focused on their own understanding of dialogue with society, aimed not only at expression but also its formation. Common features and differences of the approach in concrete actions to translation of contents, actual symbolics, contexts are revealed: both delegated, and reflected. Forms of interaction of directors, creative groups with the public in the context of political, sociocultural and aesthetic impact are clarified. The self-reflexivity of the phenomenon is proven ,in which theatrical actionists often identified themselves with the state in the symbolic field, acquiring the characteristics of creators of new meanings, mixing artistic and social, and finally, becoming representatives of public influence.The Galician Young Theater became a system of meanings, a personal example of sacrifice, a directed action that transformed the mass consciousness of the Sovietized towns, villages of Prykarpattia and Bukovyna. The Lesya Kurbas Theater in Lviv united intellectuals and aesthetes with its actions, created a refined society, and the festival "Dislocations" demonstrated a total, anarchic fascination with both attention and space.

Nine Centuries of Man

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Gender Expectations ◽  
Court Records ◽  
The Past ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Police Reports ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Scottish History ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

What did it mean to be a man in Scotland over the past nine centuries? Scotland, with its stereotypes of the kilted warrior and the industrial ‘hard man’, has long been characterised in masculine terms, but there has been little historical exploration of masculinity in a wider context. This interdisciplinary collection examines a diverse range of the multiple and changing forms of masculinities from the late eleventh to the late twentieth century, exploring the ways in which Scottish society through the ages defined expectations for men and their behaviour. How men reacted to those expectations is examined through sources such as documentary materials, medieval seals, romances, poetry, begging letters, police reports and court records, charity records, oral histories and personal correspondence. Focusing upon the wide range of activities and roles undertaken by men – work, fatherhood and play, violence and war, sex and commerce – the book also illustrates the range of masculinities that affected or were internalised by men. Together, the chapters illustrate some of the ways Scotland’s gender expectations have changed over the centuries and how, more generally, masculinities have informed the path of Scottish history

Trey Ellis's Platitudes: Redefining Black Voices

2009 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-76
Author(s):  
Quan Manh Ha
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
African American ◽  
American Literature ◽  
African American Literature ◽  
Black Experience ◽  
Racial Issues ◽  
Black Voices ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
One Year ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

Trey Ellis has emerged as a prominent African American writer of the late-twentieth century, despite the small number of his published works. “The New Black Aesthetic,” an essay that he first published in CaUaloo in 1989, one year after the publication of his first novel, Platitudes, stands as a manifesto that defines and articulates his perspective on the emerging black literary voices and culture of the time, and on “the future of African American artistic expression” in the postmodern era.1 According to Eric Lott, Ellis's novel parodies the literary and cultural conflict between such male experimental writers as lshmael Reed and such female realist writers as Alice Walker.2 Thus, Ellis's primary purpose in writing Platitudes is to redefine how African Americans should be represented in fiction, implying that neither of the dominant approaches can completely articulate late-twentieth-century black experience when practiced in isolation. In its final passages, Platitudes represents a synthesis of the two literary modes or styles, and it embodies quite fully the diversity of black cultural identities at the end of the twentieth century as it extends African American literature beyond racial issues. In this way, the novel exemplifies the literary agenda that Ellis suggests in his theoretical essay.

A New Denominational Historiography?

1995 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-263
Author(s):  
John F. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Recent Analysis ◽  
General Factor ◽  
Religious Organization ◽  
Religious Institution ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
The Status ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
American Society ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

Over the last decade, a noteworthy number of published studies have, in one fashion or another, been defined with reference to religious denominations. This is an arresting fact, for, coincidentally, the status of religious denominations in the society has been called into question. Some formerly powerful bodies have lost membership (at least relatively speaking) and now experience reduced influence, while newer forms of religious organization(s)—e.g., parachurch groups and loosely structured movements—have flourished. The most compelling recent analysis of religion in modern American society gives relatively little attention to them. Why, then, have publications in large numbers appeared, in scale almost seeming to be correlated inversely to this trend?No single answer to this question is adequate. Surely one general factor is that historians often “work out of phase” with contemporary social change. If denominations have been displaced as a form of religious institution in society in the late twentieth century, then their prominence in earlier eras is all the more intriguing.

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