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  • History of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway

    Cyrus K. Holliday envisioned a railroad that would run from Kansas to the Pacific, increasing the commerce and prosperity of the nation. With farsighted investors and shrewd management, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway grew from Holliday’s idea into a model of the modern, rapid, and efficient railroad. There were many growing pains early on, including rustlers, thieves, and desperadoes as ... Read more

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  • After Promontory

    One Hundred and Fifty Years of Transcontinental Railroading

    "Some of the most accomplished scholars of railroad history…tell the story of these enterprises which totally re-shaped the western landscape."— The Michigan RailfanAfter Promontory profiles the history and heritage behind the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in the United States. Starting with the original Union Pacific—Central Pacific lines that met at Promontory Summit, Utah, ... Read more

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  • Culture in the American Southwest

    The Earth, the Sky, the People

    Series Book 12 - Tarleton State University Southwestern Studies in the Humanities
    If the Southwest is known for its distinctive regional culture, it is not only the indigenous influences that make it so. As Anglo Americans moved into the territories of the greater Southwest, they brought with them a desire to reestablish the highest culture of their former homes: opera, painting, sculpture, architecture, and literature. But their inherited culture was altered, challenged, and ... Read more

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  • Performance Theories in Education

    Power, Pedagogy, and the Politics of Identity

    Performance Theories in Education: Power, Pedagogy, and the Politics of Identity breaks new ground by presenting a range of approaches to understanding the role, function, impact, and presence of performance in education. It is a definitive contribution to a beginning dialogue on how performance, as a theoretical and pragmatic lens, can be used to view the processes, procedures, and politics of ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Communication

    Series series Routledge Handbooks of Gender and Sexuality
    This volume provides an extensive overview of current research on the complex relationships between gender and communication. Featuring a broad variety of chapters written by leading and upcoming scholars, this edited collection uses diverse theoretical frameworks to provide insight into recent concerns regarding changing gender roles, representations, and resources in communication studies. ... Read more

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  • Alfalfa Bill Murray

    William H. (Alfalfa Bill) Murray is the most important figure in the political history of Oklahoma. No other individual contributed so greatly to the formation of its political institutions—and there was never a more colorful or controversial character on the state’s political scene. Flamboyant, unpredictable, and stubborn, Alfalfa Bill became a legend.President of the Oklahoma Constitutional ... Read more

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  • Black Poetic Inquiry

    A Daily Writing Project on Race, Culture, and Life

    Series series International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (ICQI) Foundations and Futures in Qualitative Inquiry
    The poems in this project were written within a 24‑hour period of each other and are presented in order of their appearance for the month of January 2024.Written as a call and response to each other, the poems are at times direct responses in content and form, or a mediation on what the offering triggered in the other. Using poetry writing as a methodological engagement with the reflective and ... Read more

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  • Epistolary Autoethnographies on Loss, Memory, and Resolution

    Reflections on Black Motherhood

    Series series International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (ICQI) Foundations and Futures in Qualitative Inquiry
    This book uses letter writing as a form of engaging autoethnography to address relational histories and dynamics such as race, gender, loss, memory and resolution.It is structured around textual performances, poems, and dialogues in the form of letters. Set within the context of adult Black children and their Black mothers, each author uses their letters to reflect on life with and without mama, ... Read more

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  • Managing Workers' Compensation

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    Series series Occupational Safety & Health Guide Series
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  • Performative Intergenerational Dialogues of a Black Quartet

    Qualitative Inquiries on Race, Gender, Sexualities, and Culture

    Series series International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (ICQI) Foundations and Futures in Qualitative Inquiry
    Performative Intergenerational Dialogues of a Black Quartet promotes the importance of intergenerational Black dialogue as a collaborative spirit-making across race, genders, sexualities, and cultures to bridge time and space.The authors enter this dialogue in a crisis moment: a crisis moment at the confluence of a pandemic, the national political transition of leadership in the United States, the ... Read more

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  • Collaborative Spirit-Writing and Performance in Everyday Black Lives

    Series series Qualitative Inquiry and Social Justice
    Collaborative Spirit-Writing and Performance in Everyday Black Lives is about the interconnectedness between collaboration, spirit, and writing. It is also about a dialogic engagement that draws upon shared lived experiences, hopes, and fears of two Black persons: male/female, straight/gay.This book is structured around a series of textual performances, poems, plays, dialogues, calls and responses ... Read more

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  • Performing Black Masculinity

    Race, Culture, and Queer Identity

    Series series Crossroads in Qualitative Inquiry
    This is a remarkable set of linked essays on the African American male experience. Alexander picks a number of settings that highlight Black male interaction, sexuality, and identity_the student-teacher interaction, the black barbershop, drag queen performances, the funeral eulogy. From these he builds a theory of Black masculine identity using auto-ethnography and ideas of performance as his base ... Read more

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