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[Letter from L. D. Morrison to John J. Herrera - November 17, 1950]
No full textLetter from L. D. Morrison, Chief of Police of Houston, Texas, to John J. Herrera, dated November 17, 1950. Morrison egrets that Rufus L. Ramirez does not meet the qualifications to enter Police Training School
[Letter from L. D. Morrison to John J. Herrera - October 19, 1950]
No full textLetter from L. D. Morrison, Chief of Police of Houston, Texas, to John J. Herrera, LULAC, dated October 19, 1950. This is an acknowledgment of Herrera's congratulatory letter
No.294, Cohn Morrison
No full textTranscript (24 pages) of interview by Lorille Miller and Stan Larson with Cohn Morrison on July 27, 1989. This interview is no. 294 in the Everett L. Cooley Oral History Project.Morrison talks about his family and personal history before explaining his ideas on Unitarianism. Interviewers: Lorille Miller, Stan Larso
H. C. Morrison and J. L. Piercy at Asbury College
No full textA011--H. C. Morrison (left) and J. L. Piercy (right) at Asbury Collegehttps://place.asburyseminary.edu/atshistory/2182/thumbnail.jp
H. C. Morrison and J. L. Piercy at Asbury College
No full textA011--H. C. Morrison (left) and J. L. Piercy (right) at Asbury Collegehttps://place.asburyseminary.edu/atshistory/2181/thumbnail.jp
[Letter from John J. Herrera to L. D. Morrison - November 16, 1950]
No full textOnionskin paper carbon copy of letter from John J. Herrera to L. D. Morrison, Chief of Police, Houston, Texas, dated November 16, 1950. Recommendation letter for Rufus L. Ramirez who is applying to the Houston Police Department
[Letter from John J. Herrera to L. D. Morrison - October 14, 1950]
No full textOnionskin paper carbon copy of letter from John J. Herrera to L. D. Morrison, Chief of Police, Houston, Texas, dated October 14, 1950. This is a reference letter for Texas Foster who is applying for the position of Police Patrolman
Transforming America : Toni Morrison and classical tradition
Full text linkThis thesis examines a significant but little-studied feature of Toni Morrison's
work: her ambivalent engagement with classical tradition. Analysing all eight
novels. it argues that her allusiveness to the cultural practices of Ancient Greece
and Rome is fundamental to her political project. Illuminating hegemonic
America's consistent recourse to the classical world in the construction of its
identity, I expand on prior scholarship by reading Morrison's own revisionary
classicism as a subversion of dominant US culture. My three-part study
examines the way her deployment of Graeco-Roman tradition destabilizes
mythologies of the American Dream, prevailing narratives of America's
history, and national ideologies of purity. Part I shows that Morrison enlists
tragic conventions to problematize the Dream's central tenets of upward
mobility, progress and freedom. It argues that while her engagement with Greek
choric models effects her refutation of individualism, it is her later novels'
rejection of a wholly catastrophic vision that enables her to avoid reinscribing
the Dream. Part II demonstrates that it is through her classical allusiveness that
Morrison rewrites American history. Her multiply-resonant echoes of the epic,
pastoral and tragic traditions that have consistently informed the dominant
culture's justifications for and representations of its actions enable her
reconfiguration of colonization, of the foundation of the new nation, of slavery
and its aftermath and of the Civil Rights Movement. Part III illuminates how
the author uses the discourse of pollution or miasma to challenge
Enlightenment-derived valorizations of racial purity and to expose the practices
of scapegoating and revenge as flawed means to moral purity. Her interest in
the hegemonic fabrication of classical tradition as itself a pure and purifying
force is matched by her insistence on that tradition's African elements, and thus
on its potent impurity. Her own radical classicism, therefore, is central to the
transformation of America that her novels envision
[Letter from John J. Herrera to L. D. Morrison - February 5, 1952]
No full textOnionskin paper carbon copy of letter from John J. Herrera to Chief of Police L. D. Morrison on behalf of Frank G. Hernandez, requesting a waiver on the height requirement for Frank G. Hernandez upon his application to the police force
[Letter from John J. Herrera to L. D. Morrison - October 17, 1950]
No full textOnionskin paper carbon copy of letter from John J. Herrera, LULAC First National Vice-President, to L. D. Morrison, Chief of Police, Houston, Texas, dated October 17, 1950. This is a congratulatory letter on Morrison's appointment as Chief of Police of Houston, written on behalf of LULAC and the Latin American citizens of Houston
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