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• Excerpt: The Strange History of the American Quadroon, by Emily Clark

  
  UNC Press Blog — Authority: 128
  Exotic, seductive, and doomed: the antebellum mixed-race free woman of color has long operated as a metaphor for New Orleans. Commonly known as a “quadroon,” she and the city she represents rest irretrievably condemned in the popul ar historical imagination by the linked sins of slavery and interracial sex. ...
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• Memorial Day: Commemorating and Remembering Our Veterans and Those Who Serve

  
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  May 27th is Memorial Day. Did you know that this U.S. federal holiday goes as far back as the American Civil War in the 1860s? Memorial Day, formerly known as Decoration Day, occurs ever year on the last Monday of the month of May and is the day of remembering the men and women who died while serving in the United ...
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• Pregnancy bias — in a women’s studies class

  
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  A pregnant college student asked if she could make up tests or assignments missed due to medical appointments or labor. Her women’s studies professor said no. A dean told her to drop the class. Stephanie Stewart sued City University of New York for  pregnancy discrimination , winning back her scholarship, repayment ...
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• Who Pays the Price for the College Party Scene?

  
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  After a five-year study of a flagship Midwestern public university, sociologists Elizabeth A. Armstrong and Laura T. Hamilton found that the social and academic infrastructure of the school seemed to prioritize a particular type of affluent, socially oriented student. A “party pathway”—built around an implicit ...
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• Book review: Anne Frank Unbound

  
  Indiana University Press blog — Authority: 141
  " Anne Frank Unbound ...  tell[s] us a great deal about the myriad uses to which one individual story has been and can be put. ... In addition to these ethical and political questions, the essays engage productively with the aesthetic choices made by writers, visual artists, filmmakers, performance artists, and ...
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• Womens Studies Not Worth the Cost

  
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  The Governor of North Carolina, Patrick McCrory, is an honest man. He said something very important on a national radio program a few weeks ago. He said he would push legislation to base funding for the states universities on whether college students get jobs after graduation rather than on enrollment. One of the ...
  3 weeks ago

• This Weeks New Books: Ellis Island Nation, Human Rights and the Negotiation of American Power, Dreams, Dreamers, and Visions, How Rivalries End, and More

  
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  Ellis Island Nation: Immigration Policy and American Identity in the Twentieth Century Robert L. Fleegler 280 pages | 6 x 9 | 5 illus. Cloth 2013 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4509-7 | $49.95 | £32.50 A volume in the Haney Foundation Series...
  4 weeks ago

• Bonnie Morris to give reading at Binghamton University

  
  Indiana University Press blog — Authority: 141
  Author Bonnie Morris will return to her alma mater Binghamton University to discuss  Revenge of the Womens Studies Professor . Morriss talk, "Radical Visions, Feminist Words: Recalling Binghamtons Womens History Program in the 1980s," will take place May 1 at 7 p.m. She will also sign copies of her book at the ...
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• Honoring Difference: Lessons in Embracing & Loving Yourself

  
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  When I was a freshman in high school, I was diagnosed with a disability that’s “traditionally” tied to middle-aged or elderly women: fibromyalgia. He thought for a few minutes. I imagine it was hard to put aside all his history with me – I’d been ill for much of my time as a child, suffering from other ...
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• An Employers Guide to Equal Pay

  
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  In addressing the Equal Pay Gap, the Womens Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor recently released two guides on Equal Pay, A guide to Womens Equal Pay Rights and An Employers Guide to Equal Pay. These guides are also published in four additional languages: Spanish , Chinese , Vietnamese and French , to meet ...
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