Nothing Succeeds Like Failure: The Sad History of American Business Schools, By Steven Conn New York: Cornell University Press

This chapter examines Pauli Murray’s life during the Cold War era. Preferential treatment for returned servicemen and McCarthyism further disadvantaged Murray’s employment opportunities in the post-World War II period. Most notably, Cornell University denied her employment because of her “past associations.” Murray responded by writing Proud Shoes, a history of her maternal grandparents. Physical and mental health concerns continued to plague Murray, and as one of only a few independent black women lawyers in New York City, Murray struggled to make a living. In the late 1950s she became a corporate lawyer, wrote poetry, and then went to Ghana to teach law and explore her own racial identity.

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Erin Espelie

The Sublimity of Document ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190052126.003.0012 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 275-294

Author(s):

Scott MacDonald

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Digital Technologies ◽

Cornell University ◽

Avant Garde ◽

University Of Colorado ◽

Lanthanide Series ◽

The Arts ◽

Short Films ◽

History Of ◽

The University

Artist/scientist Erin Espelie was trained at Cornell University as a biologist, but turned down opportunities to study biology at the graduate level at Harvard and MIT in order to explore the New York City theater scene, before finding her way into independent, “avant-garde” filmmaking, first exploring her interests in biology and the history of science in a series of short films, then producing the remarkable essay-film The Lanthanide Series (2014), which explores the importance of the “rare earths” (the elements with atomic numbers 57–71) for modern communication and informational technologies. The imagery for The Lanthanide Series was recorded, almost entirely, off the reflective surface of an iPad. In her work as a moving-image artist, Espelie combines poetry, science, environmental politics, and modern digital technologies within videos that defy traditional knowledge categories. She is currently editor in chief for Natural History magazine and a director of the NEST (Nature, Environment, Science & Technology) Studio for the Arts at the University of Colorado-Boulder.

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History of Prussia under Frederic the Great, 1756–1757. By Herbert Tuttle, late Professor in Cornell University. With a Biographical Sketch of the Author by Herbert B. Adams. (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co. 1896. Pp. xlvi, 159.)

The American Historical Review ◽

10.1086/ahr/84.4.145 ◽

1896 ◽

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Biographical Sketch ◽

Late Professor ◽

Cornell University ◽

History Of

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A History of Modern Burma. By John F. Cady. New York, Cornell University Press, Ithaca. Bombay. Oxford University Press, 1958. pp. 682, $7.50, Rs. 37.50

India Quarterly A Journal of International Affairs ◽

10.1177/097492845901500414 ◽

1959 ◽

Vol 15 (4) ◽

pp. 405-407

Author(s):

W. S. Desai

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Cornell University ◽

Oxford University ◽

History Of ◽

Oxford University Press

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The American Business of Italian Food

10.5406/illinois/9780252037733.003.0004 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Simone Cinotto

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Food Industry ◽

Marketing Strategies ◽

American Identity ◽

American Business ◽

East Harlem ◽

Italian American ◽

History Of ◽

New Generation

This chapter examines the layered worlds of the Italian food business and consumer marketplace in East Harlem. In order to understand the central role of food in the making of Italian American identity, it is necessary to look at how Italian American food entrepreneurs in New York sought to link food with ethnic identity. This chapter first discusses the history of American-made Italian food and food consumption among Italian migrants between 1890 and 1920, along with the development of the U.S. food industry at the turn of the twentieth century. It then looks at the emergence of a new generation of consumers and food businesses during the period 1920–1940. It also considers the marketing strategies of Italian food producers and the response of Italian American consumers in the interwar years in relation to ethnicity and modernity. It shows that the centrality of food created an entrepreneurial ethnic middle class based in the food trade, which nurtured—and in turn supported by—the symbolic connection between the consumption of Italian food and the construction of diasporic Italian identities.

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