"Though many aspects of June Jordan's unique and dynamic forms of work and activism have been well documented, "Life Studies," traces a through line of her creative interventions to form a fuller portrait of her complex and interrelated engagements. Through essays and policy reports from her days as a housing activist, speeches, her work with children, and texts from her time at City College of New York, this project adds new layers to Jordan's legacy, showing how she created "living room" to enact a broad array of "life studies" that had great effect on many people in very different institutional, communal, and public settings." -- Publisher's website."--Publisher's website (viewed 2018 June 19).
Alternative Title:
Lost and Found, The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative ; series 7, number 3 and Works. Selections. 2017
Description:
"Writer and educator, June Jordan was born in Harlem in 1936, grew up there and in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. She began her teaching career as a poet working with New York City public school students, following a few years of work as an organizer and researcher for a Harlem-based community action program. She would go on to teach at the City College of New York, Sarah Lawrence College, Yale University, and SUNY Stony Brook, initiating courses in Black Studies and Women's Studies and joining students in activist efforts. At the University of California at Berkeley, she founded the Poetry for the People program, which continues to this day. Throughout her life, she was a prolific writer, publishing essays in a wide variety of periodicals and authoring more than twenty books of essays, poetry, novels, and plays about issues of national and international significance. Jordan died of breast cancer in 2002."--Publisher's website (viewed 2018 June 19)., Includes bibliographical references., Introduction -- Excerpt from Brief History of the Lower East Side -- Excerpt from The Determining Slum -- The voice of the children, inc -- Excerpt from Children and The Hungering For -- Ocean Hill Brownsville I.S. 55 graduation speech -- Our eyes have grown -- The city and the city college: an off-campus, off-camera perspective -- Statement at CUNY Board of Higher Education tuition hearing -Acknowledgements -- Biographical notes -- Lost & Found., and Original wrappers.
Subject (Geographic):
New York (State)--New York
Subject (Name):
Alcalay, Ammiel, editor of series, City University of New York. Center for the Humanities, issuing body, City University of New York--History, Jordan, June, 1936-2002, Lawrence, Stephon, managing editor, Mangum, Megan, book designer, and Morgan, Kate Tarlow, consul
Subject (Topic):
African Americans--Education (Higher), African Americans--Education (Higher)--New York (State)--New York--20th century, College students--Political activity, College students--Political activity--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century, Discrimination in housing, Discrimination in housing--New York (State)--New York--20th century, Education, Education--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century, Poetry--Study and teaching (Elementary), and Poetry--Study and teaching (Elementary)--New York (State)--New York--20th century
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd 1st Jany. 1778.
Call Number:
Bunbury 778.01.01.03++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on Grand Tourists: scene outside an inn in France, with a sign reading "Poste Royale", where a young English gentleman, holding a copy of "[Lord] Chesterfield's Letters", arrives with his tutor. He is greeted by the smiling inkeeper wearing large wooden shoes stuffed with wool who holds out a menu; beside the innkeeper a positllion holding a whip climbs out of his large boots On the right, a fat servant carries two bottles of wine and four books; behind him another postillion drives the coach with two horses towards the right. In the background, a woman can be seen through the archway of the inn standing on a bench and reaching up to clip the wings of a cockerel; a door beside the arch, lettered, "Bon Chere icy chez La Grenouille / Traiteur", is open to reveal a ladder up which a cook has climbed in order to catch three cats running along a wall; he holds a knife in his hand. An image of a young Bacchus seated on a barrel has been chalked on the wall; a dog jumps up towards it. Beyond the wall is the roof of a cottage, a church tower and a cottage with a niche with a statue of a saint."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Probably an earlier state of a print in the British Museum with the imprint "Publish'd 11th March 1778." Cf. no. 4732 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Tutor -- Domestic service: Manservant -- Literature: Chesterfield's letters -- The Grand Tour., and Watermark, mostly trimmed.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
France.
Subject (Topic):
Grand tours (Education), Ethnic stereotypes, Education, Taverns (Inns), Clergy, Tutoring, Servants, Boots, Whips, Postillions, and French
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[27 February 1799]
Call Number:
Bunbury 799.02.27.05++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on Grand Tourists: scene outside an inn in France, with a sign reading "Poste Royale", where a young English gentleman, holding a copy of "[Lord] Chesterfield's Letters", arrives with his tutor. He is greeted by the smiling inkeeper wearing large wooden shoes stuffed with wool who holds out a menu; beside the innkeeper a positllion holding a whip climbs out of his large boots On the right, a fat servant carries two bottles of wine and four books; behind him another postillion drives the coach with two horses towards the right. In the background, a woman can be seen through the archway of the inn standing on a bench and reaching up to clip the wings of a cockerel; a door beside the arch, lettered, "Bon Chere icy chez La Grenouille / Traiteur", is open to reveal a ladder up which a cook has climbed in order to catch three cats running along a wall; he holds a knife in his hand. An image of a young Bacchus seated on a barrel has been chalked on the wall; a dog jumps up towards it. Beyond the wall is the roof of a cottage, a church tower and a cottage with a niche with a statue of a saint."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title from text below image., Reissue, with different imprint statement, of a print previously published 11 March 1778. Cf. No. 4732 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4, Temporary local subject terms: Tutor -- Domestic service: Manservant -- Literature: Chesterfield's letters -- The Grand Tour., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Publish'd Feby. 27th, 1799, by J. Harris, Sweetings Alley, Cornhill
Subject (Geographic):
France.
Subject (Topic):
Grand tours (Education), Ethnic stereotypes, Education, Taverns (Inns), Clergy, Tutoring, Servants, Boots, Whips, Postillions, and French
At a meeting of the committee for conducting the anniversary of the charity schools ... held at the Blue Coat Hospital ...
Description:
Caption title., First line of hymn: As anxious children long estrang'd from home ..., and For further information, consult library staff (object file: File 659 807 P544).
Present schools as Mr. Towle, teaches in for the year of 1783
Description:
Title from first line of text., The sheet is headed: "The present schools as Mr. Towle, teaches in for the year of 1783 ... ", and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed by B. Leverett, where every article of letter-press printing is reasonably performed
Caption title., First line of the first of three hymns to be "sung by the children": Lord, thou art good! all nature shews ..., and For further information, consult library staff (object file: File 659 807 P544).
"Errata" slip tipped in before t.p. of v. 1., v. 2 is author's presentation copy. and Each volume has added t.p.: Record of conversations on the Gospels, held in Mr. Alcott's school; unfolding the doctrine and discipline of human culture ... Boston, 1836.
Holograph diaries of a year in Clifton, and journeys to Hanover and Germany. The first volume, a diary dated at Clifton in 1807-1808, details the child author's daily social and educational activities. She studies French verbs and reads Roman history as well as practices her dance steps each day; elsewhere, she arranges her doll's clothes and buys accessories for it; goes out on walks with other young ladies; plays cards; and describes and often criticizes her meals. She also mentions the social activities of her mother, the names of visitors to the house, and the daily visits from a cake-seller. Inside the front cover is written, "Susan North. Clifton. Given me by my dearest grandpapa who beged me always to keep a journal.", The third volume is a travel diary dated 1821, in which the writer records her journey from England to Hanover with her son John. She describes the landscapes, the quality of the horses, the price of travel, and the state of the inns in which she stays, as well as her opinions of the attractiveness of the towns and inhabitants she sees. She says of Liege that it "is the oldest, ugliest, dirtiest, & poorest town I ever saw, & filled with beggars. The women less handsome than in any place I ever saw," while she praises Dusseldorf for its cleanliness, good houses, and large shops well-supplied with goods, and The second volume is an undated travel diary from Hanover to Gottingen, Cassell, and Marburg. Written in pencil, with a few corrections in ink, the writer primarily discusses landscapes and buildings; she says of the town of Munden that its situation was the most beautiful thing she ever saw and calls Leibenberg Castle "very curious--old painters, old furniture." The volume contains about 24 sketches in pen and pencil, primarily of landscapes and buildings, but also including profiles of several women. At the beginning of the volume are several pages of travel expenses
Description:
In English. and Binding: decorated paper covers.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Germany
Subject (Topic):
Children's writings, English, Education, Travelers' writings, English, Women authors, Description and travel, and Social life and customs
Fictitious imprint. Printed in Paris by or for Duchesne. -- cf. Dufour., Title-pages in red and black., and First ed. -- cf. Bulletin du bibliophile, 1926, p. 114-118, and 1953, p. 116-118.
Fictitious imprint. Printed in Paris by or for Duchesne. -- cf. Dufour., Title-pages in red and black., and First ed. -- cf. Bulletin du bibliophile, 1926, p. 114-118, and 1953, p. 116-118.
