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Jeanne Curtis photograph, 1940
No full textThis is a headshot photograph of Jeanne Curtis from 1940. She is the sister of Constance Curtis Nichols. She was a graduate of Ohio State University, and a member of the Little Theatre Guild on Spring Street in Columbus, Ohio.
Constance Curtis Nichols was born Constance Jean Curtis in 1907 in Marietta, Ohio. Her father, who was a barber, pushed for all of his children to go to college. Constance originally wanted to go to Marietta College, to attend business school, but subsequently was turned away because they did not admit African Americans at the time. She ended up at the Ohio State University’s School of Business, graduating in 1931 as the only black woman in her class. While a student, Constance began her civil rights activism, becoming a member of the Inter-Racial Council, and organizing for the Democratic Party and the NAACP. After being turned away at a local movie theater, Constance and her companion Frank Shearer, formed the Vanguard League in 1940. Even after the league disbanded in 1950, Constance remained active in the Columbus chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality, ran for city offices, and wrote about racial inequality. While professionally she was a businessperson, Constance wrote plays and poems throughout her life, even wining first prize for one of her poems at the State Fair. Constance passed away in March 1989 in Columbus, Ohio.
Constance Curtis Nichols and Frank Shearer formed the Vanguard League in 1940. The group first met at Mrs. Nichols home to discuss possible solutions to problems that the community faced in regards to racial discrimination. The League would file legal lawsuits against businesses that would discriminate against African Americans. They would also regularly schedule “pickets” to petition local business and organizations that participated in racial discrimination. These lawsuits and petitions continued throughout the 1940s; however, by 1950 the League’s numbers had fallen, because many members left to join other organizations, as more formed during the height of the Civil Rights Movement. Though the spirit of the Vanguard League would remain in the city of Columbus, and throughout all of the organizations that the founding members went on to join
Poet and author Judith Kerman reads her selected works at the Michigan Writers Series
No full textPoet and author Judith Kerman reads selected poems, including the English translation of poems by Cuban poet Dulce Mar\ueda Loynaz, and answers questions from audience. Kerman is introduced by Michigan State University Librarian Jeanne Drewes. Part of the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writers Series. Held in the Main Library
Author Lecture: Jeanne Marie Laskas, Hidden America (2012)
No full textHidden America From Coal Miners to Cowboys, an Extraordinary Exploration of the Unseen People Who Make This Country Work
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Five hundred feet underground, Jeanne Marie Laskas asked a coal miner named Smitty, “Do you think it’s weird that people know so little about you?” He replied, “I don’t think people know too much about the way the whole damn country works.”
Hidden America intends to fix that. Like John McPhee and Susan Orlean, Laskas dives deep into her subjects and emerges with character-driven narratives that are gripping, funny, and revelatory. In Hidden America, the stories are about the people who make our lives run every day—and yet we barely think of them. Laskas spent weeks in an Ohio coal mine and on an Alaskan oil rig; in a Maine migrant labor camp, a Texas beef ranch, the air traffic control tower at New York’s LaGuardia Airport, a California landfill, an Arizona gun shop, the cab of a long-haul truck in Iowa, and the stadium of the Cincinnati Ben-Gals cheerleaders. Cheerleaders? Yes. They, too, are hidden America, and you will be amazed by what Laskas tells you about them: hidden no longer
Final Project Report: A Seat at the Table: Integrating the Needs and Challenges of Underrepresented and Socially Vulnerable Populations into Coastal Hazards Planning in New Jersey
No full textThe purpose of this report is to:
Summarize approach, outcomes and deliverables of this project;
Highlight current evidence regarding impacts of changing climate-related coastal hazards on socially vulnerable populations;
Identify opportunities to address needs of socially vulnerable populations as part of coastal community climate resilience planning;
Outline possible options for coastal management policy that may enhance efforts to address needs of socially vulnerable populations as part of coastal community resilience efforts.
This report is organized with a distinct chapter dedicated to each of the four purposes outlined above followed by a bibliography and appendices.Completed for: The New Jersey Coastal Zone Management Program; New Jersey Department of Environmental ProtectionMay 31, 202
Gender practices and relations at the Jamaat Al Muslimeen in Trinidad
No full textIn an effort to bring into view critically—as actors rather than as spectacle—Muslim men and especially Muslim women in non-Islamic countries and to examine their constitutive individual as well as collective religious and social identities—that is their contextual realities as opposed to just the ideal of Islam—this project seeks via ethnographic research to investigate gender practices and relations among Muslims at the Masjid al Muslimeen and Madressa located in Trinidad and Tobago. This small community’s mundane yet resilient existence amid national, global, historical, geographical, physical, and sociopolitical ambivalences and contradictions begs revisiting how we read, interpret, represent, and deploy extant categories, theories, and methodologies articulating gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, religion, and nation. Ph.D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Jeanne P. Baptist
[Jeanne Williams, 1968]
No full textPhotograph of Jeanne Williams. The accompanying press release tucked behind the photograph states "AUTHOR PICKS SOUTHWEST COLLECTION -- Southwestern novelist and historian Jeanne Williams, shown at her working desk, has named the Southwest Collection at Texas Tech repository for her papers. (Tech Photo)"
'Divine Thalie': the career of Jeanne Quinault
No full textBy convention, the likely end of the career of an eighteenth-century actress was marriage, the convent or the gutter. Jeanne Quinault used her talents to shape a most unconventional life. Despite her provincial origins, she was a favourite for over twenty years at the Comédie-Française and also carved an identity for herself in literary and salon life. Jeanne Quinault’s role as organizer of the société badine, called the Bout-du-Banc, is what has attracted the most interest, but historians have not generally recognized in her a salonnière as devoted to benevolence and mentorship as her wealthier and better-born contemporaries. From the time of her depiction in the pseudo-memoirs of Mme d'Épinay, the story has been distorted and errors have been handed down. This study offers a fresh assessment of her friendships with Caylus, Piron, Duclos, Maurepas and many other prominent individuals. In the theatrical sphere, Mlle Quinault promoted the development of sentimental comedy, sponsored both authors and actors, and participated in the creation of a number of works, including those of Françoise de Graffigny. Another client was Voltaire, whose letters shed light on the interplay between writers and performers. On a broader scale, the story of Jeanne Quinault is also that of the large acting family to which she belonged and of their aspiration to acceptance in polite society. Drawing on archival resources and unpublished collections of letters, this work offers readers the first detailed study of the actress and her circle. List of illustrations Acknowledgements List of abbreviations Introduction 1. The family established 2. The clan ascendant, 1718-1729 3. Private entertainments 4. Piron and Caylus 5. Voltaire and others, 1732-1741 6. Thalia in retirement: the Bout-du-Banc takes shape, 1741-1745 7. Loss and renewal, 1745-1746 8. Clients, friends and relations, 1747-1749 9. ‘Tant d’affaires’: from Cénie to a new Bout-du-Banc, 1749-1758 10. Old friends and new circles, 1758-1779 11. Passing into ‘history’ Conclusion Appendix: Jeanne Quinault’s reported theatrical roles List of works cited Inde
'Divine Thalie': the career of Jeanne Quinault
No full textBy convention, the likely end of the career of an eighteenth-century actress was marriage, the convent or the gutter. Jeanne Quinault used her talents to shape a most unconventional life. Despite her provincial origins, she was a favourite for over twenty years at the Comédie-Française and also carved an identity for herself in literary and salon life. Jeanne Quinault’s role as organizer of the société badine, called the Bout-du-Banc, is what has attracted the most interest, but historians have not generally recognized in her a salonnière as devoted to benevolence and mentorship as her wealthier and better-born contemporaries. From the time of her depiction in the pseudo-memoirs of Mme d'Épinay, the story has been distorted and errors have been handed down. This study offers a fresh assessment of her friendships with Caylus, Piron, Duclos, Maurepas and many other prominent individuals. In the theatrical sphere, Mlle Quinault promoted the development of sentimental comedy, sponsored both authors and actors, and participated in the creation of a number of works, including those of Françoise de Graffigny. Another client was Voltaire, whose letters shed light on the interplay between writers and performers. On a broader scale, the story of Jeanne Quinault is also that of the large acting family to which she belonged and of their aspiration to acceptance in polite society. Drawing on archival resources and unpublished collections of letters, this work offers readers the first detailed study of the actress and her circle. List of illustrations Acknowledgements List of abbreviations Introduction 1. The family established 2. The clan ascendant, 1718-1729 3. Private entertainments 4. Piron and Caylus 5. Voltaire and others, 1732-1741 6. Thalia in retirement: the Bout-du-Banc takes shape, 1741-1745 7. Loss and renewal, 1745-1746 8. Clients, friends and relations, 1747-1749 9. ‘Tant d’affaires’: from Cénie to a new Bout-du-Banc, 1749-1758 10. Old friends and new circles, 1758-1779 11. Passing into ‘history’ Conclusion Appendix: Jeanne Quinault’s reported theatrical roles List of works cited Inde
Jeanne de Marie-Hélène Lafon
No full textThe work of the contemporary novelist and short-story writer Marie-Hélène Lafon, in which the question of origins occupies a prominent place, can be seen as fertile ground for a psychoanalytical reading. In the short story ‘Jeanne’ (2002), of which the present study constitutes the first in-depth analysis, the place held by the title character in the familial structure reveals itself to be decisive. The relations which Jeanne has with others are all marked by the weakness of her paternal figure, and Jeanne’s story can be seen to be an unconscious appeal to the maker of the law, a quest that culminates in a perversion, specifically, fetishism. This failure of the ‘name-of-the-father’ establishes an unconscious structure in which the subject, unable to find a way out of the Oedipal triangle, identifies with her lack, consoling herself in a perverse ‘jouissance’ and consequently never managing to break free of her origins and come into her own as a desiring subject. This study of ‘Jeanne’ takes into account Freud’s, and especially Lacan’s, theories pertaining to fetishism. The latter, in conceiving of perversion as an appeal to the paternal function, puts the reader in a position to see in perversion not some kind of moral failing, but rather a psychological structure obeying an ‘other’ logic, that of the signifier
[Jeanne Williams, novelist and historian]
No full textNovelist and historian Jeanne Williams, shown at her working desk, has named the Southwest Collection as the repository for her papers.Accompanying press release states: "AUTHOR PICKS SOUTHWEST COLLECTION--Southwestern novelist and historian Jeanne Williams, shown at her working desk, has named the Southwest Collection at Texas Tech repository for her papers."
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