Shelly Matthews
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195393323
- eISBN:
- 9780199866618
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195393323.003.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Church History
This chapter situates Acts within debates concerning the Jews in Acts, Acts’ view of empire, and the possibility that Acts, along with canonical Luke chapters 1 and 2, are written in response to ...
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This chapter situates Acts within debates concerning the Jews in Acts, Acts’ view of empire, and the possibility that Acts, along with canonical Luke chapters 1 and 2, are written in response to Marcion. It argues that the rhetorical method of Acts is to depict nonbelieving Jews as murderous and subversive and to underscore the compatibility of Christianity with the Roman Empire. It then refines arguments of Knox and Tyson concerning the role of Marcion in the final form of Acts, by offering an alternate model of heresy, thus making it possible to understand Luke-Acts as responding to “marcionite” ideas, without pinpointing them to the time of Marcion’s ministry in the East. Finally, by underscoring the martial imagery and rhetoric of vengeance that infuses Luke 1–2, it notes the perfect suitability of this Gospel preface in refuting marcionite associations of Gospel with mercy and peace.Less
This chapter situates Acts within debates concerning the Jews in Acts, Acts’ view of empire, and the possibility that Acts, along with canonical Luke chapters 1 and 2, are written in response to Marcion. It argues that the rhetorical method of Acts is to depict nonbelieving Jews as murderous and subversive and to underscore the compatibility of Christianity with the Roman Empire. It then refines arguments of Knox and Tyson concerning the role of Marcion in the final form of Acts, by offering an alternate model of heresy, thus making it possible to understand Luke-Acts as responding to “marcionite” ideas, without pinpointing them to the time of Marcion’s ministry in the East. Finally, by underscoring the martial imagery and rhetoric of vengeance that infuses Luke 1–2, it notes the perfect suitability of this Gospel preface in refuting marcionite associations of Gospel with mercy and peace.
Oliver Neighbour
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780197262788
- eISBN:
- 9780191754210
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197262788.003.0019
- Subject:
- History, Historiography
Alan Tyson was a musicologist who made an outstanding contribution to understanding issues of authenticity and chronology in the works of Mozart and Beethoven often based on detailed study of the ...
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Alan Tyson was a musicologist who made an outstanding contribution to understanding issues of authenticity and chronology in the works of Mozart and Beethoven often based on detailed study of the paper used in sketchbooks and manuscripts. Yet he had qualified as a psychoanalyst and clinical psychiatrist, and until 1969, when he obtained a visiting professorship at Columbia University, musicology was only a scholarly hobby. In 1971, Tyson was awarded a Senior Research Fellowship at All Souls College Oxford and thereafter pursued it as a full-time career. He was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 1978. Obituary by Oliver Neighbour FBA.Less
Alan Tyson was a musicologist who made an outstanding contribution to understanding issues of authenticity and chronology in the works of Mozart and Beethoven often based on detailed study of the paper used in sketchbooks and manuscripts. Yet he had qualified as a psychoanalyst and clinical psychiatrist, and until 1969, when he obtained a visiting professorship at Columbia University, musicology was only a scholarly hobby. In 1971, Tyson was awarded a Senior Research Fellowship at All Souls College Oxford and thereafter pursued it as a full-time career. He was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 1978. Obituary by Oliver Neighbour FBA.
David C. Ogden and Joel Nathan Rosen (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781604737516
- eISBN:
- 9781604737523
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781604737516.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Sport and Leisure
This book follows the paths of sports figures who were embraced by the general populace but who, through a variety of circumstances, real or imagined, found themselves falling out of favor. The ...
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This book follows the paths of sports figures who were embraced by the general populace but who, through a variety of circumstances, real or imagined, found themselves falling out of favor. The chapters focus on the roles played by athletes, the media, and fans in describing how once-esteemed popular figures find themselves scorned by the same public that at one time viewed them as heroic, laudable, or otherwise respectable. The book examines a wide range of sports and eras, and includes chapters on Barry Bonds, Kirby Puckett, Mike Tyson, Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa, Branch Rickey, Joe Louis and Max Schmeling, Michael Jordan, Wilt Chamberlain, and Jim Brown, as well as an afterword and introduction.Less
This book follows the paths of sports figures who were embraced by the general populace but who, through a variety of circumstances, real or imagined, found themselves falling out of favor. The chapters focus on the roles played by athletes, the media, and fans in describing how once-esteemed popular figures find themselves scorned by the same public that at one time viewed them as heroic, laudable, or otherwise respectable. The book examines a wide range of sports and eras, and includes chapters on Barry Bonds, Kirby Puckett, Mike Tyson, Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa, Branch Rickey, Joe Louis and Max Schmeling, Michael Jordan, Wilt Chamberlain, and Jim Brown, as well as an afterword and introduction.
John Weber
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781469625232
- eISBN:
- 9781469625256
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469625232.003.0009
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This chapter examines the continued importance of this form of labor relations in the years since the 1960s, as South Texas has continued to serve as a model for employers elsewhere eager to avail ...
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This chapter examines the continued importance of this form of labor relations in the years since the 1960s, as South Texas has continued to serve as a model for employers elsewhere eager to avail themselves of poorly-paid workers who lack the ability to claim the basic rights of citizenship. The lessons learned in the fields of South Texas, in other words, were not only borrowed by agricultural employers. Instead, employers have increasingly sought to use the model of farmworker treatment and apply it to workers far removed from the fields. Industrial and service employers continue to try and emulate the enforced powerlessness of agricultural workers, even if they no longer consciously point to South Texas as their explicit model. The Epilogue examines the continued resonance and importance of this model of labor relations as it has moved beyond the agricultural realm and into service and industrial employment.Less
This chapter examines the continued importance of this form of labor relations in the years since the 1960s, as South Texas has continued to serve as a model for employers elsewhere eager to avail themselves of poorly-paid workers who lack the ability to claim the basic rights of citizenship. The lessons learned in the fields of South Texas, in other words, were not only borrowed by agricultural employers. Instead, employers have increasingly sought to use the model of farmworker treatment and apply it to workers far removed from the fields. Industrial and service employers continue to try and emulate the enforced powerlessness of agricultural workers, even if they no longer consciously point to South Texas as their explicit model. The Epilogue examines the continued resonance and importance of this model of labor relations as it has moved beyond the agricultural realm and into service and industrial employment.
Steve Striffler
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813034034
- eISBN:
- 9780813038261
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813034034.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This chapter examines the impact that the migration of one company, specifically Tyson Foods, had on a community. It addresses the way the community of Wilkesboro, North Carolina, reacted to the ...
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This chapter examines the impact that the migration of one company, specifically Tyson Foods, had on a community. It addresses the way the community of Wilkesboro, North Carolina, reacted to the merger of Holly Foods with Tyson Foods. It shows that as Tyson moved in so did an international low-wage labor force that many residents blamed for the migration of native residents and the disappearance of their community as they knew it.Less
This chapter examines the impact that the migration of one company, specifically Tyson Foods, had on a community. It addresses the way the community of Wilkesboro, North Carolina, reacted to the merger of Holly Foods with Tyson Foods. It shows that as Tyson moved in so did an international low-wage labor force that many residents blamed for the migration of native residents and the disappearance of their community as they knew it.
Lynn S. Chancer
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- February 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226101125
- eISBN:
- 9780226101132
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226101132.003.0004
- Subject:
- Sociology, Law, Crime and Deviance
This chapter explores the strategies of legal actors and the perceptions of high profile cases in the U.S. and analyzes the consequences of legal cases becoming conflated with social causes in ...
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This chapter explores the strategies of legal actors and the perceptions of high profile cases in the U.S. and analyzes the consequences of legal cases becoming conflated with social causes in provoking assaults. It focuses on several cases including the Central Park jogger, the murder of Yusef Hawkins, and the trials of William Kennedy Smith and Mike Tyson. This chapter examines the role of the legal system in these cases and how the law reacts once high-profile crime cases have mushroomed into provoking assaults.Less
This chapter explores the strategies of legal actors and the perceptions of high profile cases in the U.S. and analyzes the consequences of legal cases becoming conflated with social causes in provoking assaults. It focuses on several cases including the Central Park jogger, the murder of Yusef Hawkins, and the trials of William Kennedy Smith and Mike Tyson. This chapter examines the role of the legal system in these cases and how the law reacts once high-profile crime cases have mushroomed into provoking assaults.
Lynn S. Chancer
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- February 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226101125
- eISBN:
- 9780226101132
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226101132.003.0005
- Subject:
- Sociology, Law, Crime and Deviance
This chapter examines the media coverage of several high profile cases in the U.S. including the cases of William Kennedy Smith, Mike Tyson, and O.J. Simpson. It suggests that while many journalists ...
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This chapter examines the media coverage of several high profile cases in the U.S. including the cases of William Kennedy Smith, Mike Tyson, and O.J. Simpson. It suggests that while many journalists faithfully adhered to dominant journalistic principles the news coverage of these cases became increasingly diversified indicating that journalists' ability to believe in their own independence may have been shaken. This chapter also recounts gaps observed between journalists' statements about, and their actual practices of, story presentation and story selection.Less
This chapter examines the media coverage of several high profile cases in the U.S. including the cases of William Kennedy Smith, Mike Tyson, and O.J. Simpson. It suggests that while many journalists faithfully adhered to dominant journalistic principles the news coverage of these cases became increasingly diversified indicating that journalists' ability to believe in their own independence may have been shaken. This chapter also recounts gaps observed between journalists' statements about, and their actual practices of, story presentation and story selection.
Karen Routledge
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780226580135
- eISBN:
- 9780226580272
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226580272.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, Imperialism and Colonialism
This chapter considers the experiences of American whalers in the Inuit homeland of Cumberland Sound. Voyages from 1850-1880 are discussed, but the focus is on the booming years of the commercial ...
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This chapter considers the experiences of American whalers in the Inuit homeland of Cumberland Sound. Voyages from 1850-1880 are discussed, but the focus is on the booming years of the commercial bowhead whaling industry in the 1860s, when shiploads of Qallunaat (non-Inuit, non-Indigenous people) arrived each year and froze their ships in for the winter. Despite living next to Inuit communities, most American whalers struggled to see Cumberland Sound as anything approximating a home. Many were miserable, fell ill, and perished here. I consider why these American whalers legitimately experienced Cumberland Sound as a hard place to live, how this related more to their background and circumstances than to an inherently harsh environment, and what this can tell us about how Qallunaat have related to the Arctic and to Inuit. I also consider a few American whalers who returned to Cumberland Sound over and over again, and their relationships with this place and its people. This chapter is structured around six Inuit seasons, and looks at distinct events that occurred as these Arctic seasons turned: desertions, shipwrecks, loneliness, the experience of overwintering, scurvy, and whaling itself.Less
This chapter considers the experiences of American whalers in the Inuit homeland of Cumberland Sound. Voyages from 1850-1880 are discussed, but the focus is on the booming years of the commercial bowhead whaling industry in the 1860s, when shiploads of Qallunaat (non-Inuit, non-Indigenous people) arrived each year and froze their ships in for the winter. Despite living next to Inuit communities, most American whalers struggled to see Cumberland Sound as anything approximating a home. Many were miserable, fell ill, and perished here. I consider why these American whalers legitimately experienced Cumberland Sound as a hard place to live, how this related more to their background and circumstances than to an inherently harsh environment, and what this can tell us about how Qallunaat have related to the Arctic and to Inuit. I also consider a few American whalers who returned to Cumberland Sound over and over again, and their relationships with this place and its people. This chapter is structured around six Inuit seasons, and looks at distinct events that occurred as these Arctic seasons turned: desertions, shipwrecks, loneliness, the experience of overwintering, scurvy, and whaling itself.
Ruth Feldstein
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- August 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780195314038
- eISBN:
- 9780199344819
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195314038.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
How It Feels to Be Free tells a story about black women entertainers and their relationships to the civil rights/black power movement. The book focuses on six performers: singer and film star Lena ...
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How It Feels to Be Free tells a story about black women entertainers and their relationships to the civil rights/black power movement. The book focuses on six performers: singer and film star Lena Horne; South African singer Miriam Makeba; pianist‐vocalist Nina Simone; jazz singer and actress Abbey Lincoln; and stage, film, and television actresses Diahann Carroll and Cicely Tyson. All six were more than “just” entertainers, all six took risks when they used their celebrity status to support civil rights, and all six insisted, in all sorts of ways, that the liberation they desired could not separate race from sex. By bringing them center stage, the book demonstrates the multiple ways that culture mattered to black activism in the 1960s; there was far more to culture and civil rights than “We Shall Overcome.” How It Feels to Be Free also explores the transnational circulation of black politics and culture; women celebrities who were popular around the globe helped to “export” ideas about black activism in the United States, but their experiences abroad also shaped their participation in U.S. activism. Finally, this book argues that gender was critical to the simultaneous development of black activism and feminism. These women did not call themselves feminists; but with their performances in music, film, and television, and their work in front of and away from cameras, they offered critiques and made demands that became central tenets of feminism generally and of black feminism specifically.Less
How It Feels to Be Free tells a story about black women entertainers and their relationships to the civil rights/black power movement. The book focuses on six performers: singer and film star Lena Horne; South African singer Miriam Makeba; pianist‐vocalist Nina Simone; jazz singer and actress Abbey Lincoln; and stage, film, and television actresses Diahann Carroll and Cicely Tyson. All six were more than “just” entertainers, all six took risks when they used their celebrity status to support civil rights, and all six insisted, in all sorts of ways, that the liberation they desired could not separate race from sex. By bringing them center stage, the book demonstrates the multiple ways that culture mattered to black activism in the 1960s; there was far more to culture and civil rights than “We Shall Overcome.” How It Feels to Be Free also explores the transnational circulation of black politics and culture; women celebrities who were popular around the globe helped to “export” ideas about black activism in the United States, but their experiences abroad also shaped their participation in U.S. activism. Finally, this book argues that gender was critical to the simultaneous development of black activism and feminism. These women did not call themselves feminists; but with their performances in music, film, and television, and their work in front of and away from cameras, they offered critiques and made demands that became central tenets of feminism generally and of black feminism specifically.
Robert Gottlieb and Simon Ng
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780262035910
- eISBN:
- 9780262338868
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262035910.003.0005
- Subject:
- Political Science, Public Policy
The Food Environment encompasses how food is produced and processed, how and to where it is transported, and where and how it is sold and consumed. The chapter evaluates the environmental issues ...
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The Food Environment encompasses how food is produced and processed, how and to where it is transported, and where and how it is sold and consumed. The chapter evaluates the environmental issues along each of these food system pathways. These include the shifting patterns of agriculture in Los Angeles (and California), Hong Kong, and Mainland China; the rise of food retail as a central force in the food system; and the changing patterns of consumption, including the rise of a fast food culture. It also explores the search for alternatives through such initiatives as farm to school and community supported agriculture and the cultural and ethnic traditions and food culture that have survived the rise of industrial food and fast food. It examines the problems of food safety and food insecurity and the increasingly global character of the food system, including the global food production and retail companies.Less
The Food Environment encompasses how food is produced and processed, how and to where it is transported, and where and how it is sold and consumed. The chapter evaluates the environmental issues along each of these food system pathways. These include the shifting patterns of agriculture in Los Angeles (and California), Hong Kong, and Mainland China; the rise of food retail as a central force in the food system; and the changing patterns of consumption, including the rise of a fast food culture. It also explores the search for alternatives through such initiatives as farm to school and community supported agriculture and the cultural and ethnic traditions and food culture that have survived the rise of industrial food and fast food. It examines the problems of food safety and food insecurity and the increasingly global character of the food system, including the global food production and retail companies.
Thabiti Lewis
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781604737516
- eISBN:
- 9781604737523
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781604737516.003.0004
- Subject:
- Sociology, Sport and Leisure
This chapter examines race as a factor in the performance of a sports celebrity, using Mike Tyson as a focus. It contends that black athletes were often represented as villains in sport, as shown in ...
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This chapter examines race as a factor in the performance of a sports celebrity, using Mike Tyson as a focus. It contends that black athletes were often represented as villains in sport, as shown in the case of Muhammad Ali, Jack Johnson, and Barry Bonds. It shows that Tyson’s reputation originated in the aftermath of black athletes’ struggles in the 1960s and 1970s.Less
This chapter examines race as a factor in the performance of a sports celebrity, using Mike Tyson as a focus. It contends that black athletes were often represented as villains in sport, as shown in the case of Muhammad Ali, Jack Johnson, and Barry Bonds. It shows that Tyson’s reputation originated in the aftermath of black athletes’ struggles in the 1960s and 1970s.
Mark Krasovic
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780226352794
- eISBN:
- 9780226352824
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226352824.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This chapter charts the Community Action Program’s arrival and first few years in Newark, which was among the first cities to submit an antipoverty grant proposal to the federal Office of Economic ...
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This chapter charts the Community Action Program’s arrival and first few years in Newark, which was among the first cities to submit an antipoverty grant proposal to the federal Office of Economic Opportunity. Leading the local effort was Newark’s independent community action agency, the United Community Corporation (UCC), which was established as independent of City Hall. When the UCC pioneered the use of neighborhood antipoverty boards, it helped foster political dissidence and protest within the city. Much of this chapter concerns the attacks leveled at the UCC by the city council and the administration of Mayor Hugh Addonizio.Less
This chapter charts the Community Action Program’s arrival and first few years in Newark, which was among the first cities to submit an antipoverty grant proposal to the federal Office of Economic Opportunity. Leading the local effort was Newark’s independent community action agency, the United Community Corporation (UCC), which was established as independent of City Hall. When the UCC pioneered the use of neighborhood antipoverty boards, it helped foster political dissidence and protest within the city. Much of this chapter concerns the attacks leveled at the UCC by the city council and the administration of Mayor Hugh Addonizio.
László J. Kulcsár and Albert Iaroi
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252037665
- eISBN:
- 9780252094927
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252037665.003.0010
- Subject:
- Sociology, Migration Studies (including Refugee Studies)
This chapter discusses the public discourse around the integration process of immigrant Latino workers in Emporia, Kansas. It employs aggregate statistical analysis, media-content analysis, and ...
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This chapter discusses the public discourse around the integration process of immigrant Latino workers in Emporia, Kansas. It employs aggregate statistical analysis, media-content analysis, and key-informant interviews to examine how the public discourse has changed over time. Particular attention is given to the arrival of the Somali refugee workers that subsequently altered the discourse on immigrant-worker integration. Findings show that the community perception of Latin Americans shifted significantly once a culturally and ethnically less similar group arrived in town. The discussion includes the role of local actors in immigrant integration with an emphasis on their main employer, Tyson Foods. Contrary to the general challenges of immigrant integration, revolving largely around unauthorized migrants, in this case the difficulty had to do with integrating legal immigrants who had racial and religious differences from not only the mainstream community but from the dominant minority as well.Less
This chapter discusses the public discourse around the integration process of immigrant Latino workers in Emporia, Kansas. It employs aggregate statistical analysis, media-content analysis, and key-informant interviews to examine how the public discourse has changed over time. Particular attention is given to the arrival of the Somali refugee workers that subsequently altered the discourse on immigrant-worker integration. Findings show that the community perception of Latin Americans shifted significantly once a culturally and ethnically less similar group arrived in town. The discussion includes the role of local actors in immigrant integration with an emphasis on their main employer, Tyson Foods. Contrary to the general challenges of immigrant integration, revolving largely around unauthorized migrants, in this case the difficulty had to do with integrating legal immigrants who had racial and religious differences from not only the mainstream community but from the dominant minority as well.
Ruth Feldstein
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- August 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780195314038
- eISBN:
- 9780199344819
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195314038.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
Cicely Tyson became a superstar in the 1970s, with award‐winning roles in the film Sounder (1972), the television special The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974), and the television miniseries ...
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Cicely Tyson became a superstar in the 1970s, with award‐winning roles in the film Sounder (1972), the television special The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974), and the television miniseries Roots (1976). All three were set in the past, suggesting that the right kind of resistance had yielded success. This chapter looks at the significance of Tyson to this process of history making in popular culture, in contrast to blaxploitation films and to Claudine (1974), starring Diahann Carroll as a single black mother living in Harlem. Tyson insisted on portraying black women as dignified and respectable. Her heroines affirmed female strength and challenged definitions of beauty associated with whiteness and images of black families as dysfunctional. However, productions in which she starred also reinforced traditional gender relations. They cordoned off black power politics beyond the American South; despite ongoing activism, they suggested that the civil rights movement was “over.”Less
Cicely Tyson became a superstar in the 1970s, with award‐winning roles in the film Sounder (1972), the television special The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974), and the television miniseries Roots (1976). All three were set in the past, suggesting that the right kind of resistance had yielded success. This chapter looks at the significance of Tyson to this process of history making in popular culture, in contrast to blaxploitation films and to Claudine (1974), starring Diahann Carroll as a single black mother living in Harlem. Tyson insisted on portraying black women as dignified and respectable. Her heroines affirmed female strength and challenged definitions of beauty associated with whiteness and images of black families as dysfunctional. However, productions in which she starred also reinforced traditional gender relations. They cordoned off black power politics beyond the American South; despite ongoing activism, they suggested that the civil rights movement was “over.”
Julia Rabig
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780226388311
- eISBN:
- 9780226388458
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226388458.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
Launched with the Economic Opportunity Act in 1964, the War on Poverty poured funds into job training and mandated maximum feasible participation of poor people in crafting the programs that affected ...
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Launched with the Economic Opportunity Act in 1964, the War on Poverty poured funds into job training and mandated maximum feasible participation of poor people in crafting the programs that affected them. Newark’s United Community Corporation supported preschool and youth job training programs initially touted as national models, while its “community action program” (CAPs) engaged unaffiliated people from the margins of the city’s political life. But clashes among municipal authorities, residents, and antipoverty administrators constrained the War on Poverty’s reach. Contradictions and ambiguities within the legislation fueled local disputes. Municipal officials opposed maximum feasible participation as a challenge to their authority. They feared the growth of unwieldy programs that would drain local budgets. As local, state, and federal officials launched investigations of the War on Poverty, United Community Corporation became fodder for the national backlash against community action that culminated with the restrictions of the Green Amendment. Even as activists fought to preserve the United Community Corporation, many agreed with its first administrator, Cyril De Grasse Tyson, who said the War on Poverty had “no multiplier effect” for building upon scattered individual gains. Fixers would respond to such criticism, applying lessons learned from the antipoverty experiments to future organizations.Less
Launched with the Economic Opportunity Act in 1964, the War on Poverty poured funds into job training and mandated maximum feasible participation of poor people in crafting the programs that affected them. Newark’s United Community Corporation supported preschool and youth job training programs initially touted as national models, while its “community action program” (CAPs) engaged unaffiliated people from the margins of the city’s political life. But clashes among municipal authorities, residents, and antipoverty administrators constrained the War on Poverty’s reach. Contradictions and ambiguities within the legislation fueled local disputes. Municipal officials opposed maximum feasible participation as a challenge to their authority. They feared the growth of unwieldy programs that would drain local budgets. As local, state, and federal officials launched investigations of the War on Poverty, United Community Corporation became fodder for the national backlash against community action that culminated with the restrictions of the Green Amendment. Even as activists fought to preserve the United Community Corporation, many agreed with its first administrator, Cyril De Grasse Tyson, who said the War on Poverty had “no multiplier effect” for building upon scattered individual gains. Fixers would respond to such criticism, applying lessons learned from the antipoverty experiments to future organizations.
Robert Cribb, Helen Gilbert, and Helen Tiffin
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824837143
- eISBN:
- 9780824869779
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824837143.003.0005
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
This chapter shows how, during the eighteenth century, the orangutan began to appear in plays and novels, and later in short stories. Most of the early authors had not seen an orangutan, even in ...
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This chapter shows how, during the eighteenth century, the orangutan began to appear in plays and novels, and later in short stories. Most of the early authors had not seen an orangutan, even in captivity, but the writings of travelers such as Daniel Beeckman and of scientists such as Edward Tyson were so widely circulated, the illustrations of Jacobus Bontius and Nicolaes Tulp so often redrawn, and public displays of orangutan-like creatures so common that a knowledge of the term “orangutan” and a sense of what it stood for was widespread within the literate elite of western Europe by the second half of the eighteenth century.Less
This chapter shows how, during the eighteenth century, the orangutan began to appear in plays and novels, and later in short stories. Most of the early authors had not seen an orangutan, even in captivity, but the writings of travelers such as Daniel Beeckman and of scientists such as Edward Tyson were so widely circulated, the illustrations of Jacobus Bontius and Nicolaes Tulp so often redrawn, and public displays of orangutan-like creatures so common that a knowledge of the term “orangutan” and a sense of what it stood for was widespread within the literate elite of western Europe by the second half of the eighteenth century.
Leger Grindon
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781474439947
- eISBN:
- 9781474460101
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474439947.003.0008
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
The chapter considers the cast of interview subjects in Fallen Champ: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson (1993) and analyses the interviews themselves, first asking what the function is of each in terms ...
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The chapter considers the cast of interview subjects in Fallen Champ: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson (1993) and analyses the interviews themselves, first asking what the function is of each in terms of the unfolding plot and/or the argument underlying the film as a whole. It then considers the interview from five poetic categories: the presence of the filmmaker, the perspective established through setting and camera position, the pictorial context established by the preceding and the following sequences, the performance of those interviewed, and the polyvalence of the overall effect the interview contributes to the film. The chapter argues that Barbara Kopple maintains a delicate balance between portraying Tyson as a victimized ghetto refugee and a brutal fighter through her approach to the interviews in the film.Less
The chapter considers the cast of interview subjects in Fallen Champ: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson (1993) and analyses the interviews themselves, first asking what the function is of each in terms of the unfolding plot and/or the argument underlying the film as a whole. It then considers the interview from five poetic categories: the presence of the filmmaker, the perspective established through setting and camera position, the pictorial context established by the preceding and the following sequences, the performance of those interviewed, and the polyvalence of the overall effect the interview contributes to the film. The chapter argues that Barbara Kopple maintains a delicate balance between portraying Tyson as a victimized ghetto refugee and a brutal fighter through her approach to the interviews in the film.
