Dr. Mary Barr's work delves into the struggle for racial equality, focusing on the historical dimensions of the American Civil Rights Movement. Her research explores the intricate dynamics of race relations and educational disparities within 20th-century American society. Barr investigates how past battles shape contemporary understandings of race and ethnicity. Her expertise in sociology and African American studies allows her to offer profound insights into these crucial subjects.
Filly Tucker, a young witchlin, faces the challenge of mastering basic spells to earn her wand before turning ten. Living in a cozy cottage with her renowned witch grandmother and her feisty magic cat, Tabasco, she grapples with the difficulties of spellcasting, even with the simplest incantations. The story explores her journey of growth and determination in a whimsical setting.
Kippy Schofield has an idyllic life in Hawaii. He swims with turtles, plays truant from school and is close to his brother, Scotty. When Scotty is accepted at Oxford University, the family returns to their grey, narrow house in England. But tragedy strikes and Kippy's beloved father is killed in an accident. Suffering from grief and expulsion from school, Kippy now has a different problem: Nanny B. Meane, the nanny hired to home-school him. On arrival, she announces she's 'Meane by name and mean by nature.' And she is. But then Kippy remembers Scotty's tale of the magic rock and the fantastical cat that lives at the bottom of their garden. And that's where his adventures really begin! Another delicious children's novel from the imagination of Mary Barr, The Adventures of Kippy Schofield and the Fantastical Cat, introduces a modern family tale with echoes of the very best historical children's fiction. Be prepared for an amusing, high-energy tale featuring lessons in friendship and family.
In 1974, middle-schooler Mary Barr and a dozen of her friends boys and girls, black and white sat for a photograph on a porch in Evanston, Illinois. Barr s book, both history and ethnography, emerges from her thinking about this photograph and its deep background. Using government documents, newspaper articles, and census data, Barr provides a history of Evanston with a particular emphasis on its neighborhoods, its schools, and its families. Barr also tracked down all of the living people in her photograph and interviewed them about their experiences in Evanston and beyond. Ultimately, Barr comes to better understand the stories and the lies people tell about their communities, as well as the ways that inequality begets inequality, both in a historical sense and in the daily lives of her far-flung friends. "
Mary Barr thinks a lot about the old photograph hanging on her refrigerator door. In it, she and a dozen or so of her friends from the Chicago suburb of Evanston sit on a porch. It's 1974, the summer after they graduated from Nichols Middle School, and what strikes her immediately - aside from the Soul Train-era clothes - is the diversity of the group: boys and girls, black and white, in the variety of poses you'd expect from a bunch of friends on the verge of high school. But the photo also speaks to the history of Evanston, to integration, and to the ways that those in the picture experienced and remembered growing up in a place that many at that time considered to be a racial utopia. In this book, Barr goes back to her old neighbourhood and pieces together a history of Evanston with a particular emphasis on its neighbourhoods, its schools, and its work life
Simon Denny ist für seine forschungsnahen Kunstprojekte bekannt, die Themen wie die Überalterung von Technik, Unternehmenskultur, nationale Identität und Internetpolitik zum Thema haben. Als Vertreter Neuseelands bespielt er den Biennale Pavillion in Venedig 2015 und zeigt dort Secret Power. Ausgangspunkt dieser Arbeit ist der Gedanke, wie unsere Welt von den mächtigen Staaten entworfen und gestaltet wird und wie komplexe, nachrichtendienstliche Systeme sich zu erkennen geben - heute wie auch im Venedig der 16. Jahrhunderts.