City Of Topeka

Author : Ben Lerner
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 : 0771049331
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Topeka School written by Ben Lerner and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES, TIME, GQ, Vulture, and WASHINGTON POST TOP 10 BOOK of the YEAR ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize Winner of the Hefner Heitz Kansas Book Award From the award-winning author of 10:04 and Leaving the Atocha Station, a tender and expansive family drama set in the American Midwest at the turn of the century, hailed by Maggie Nelson as Ben Lerner's "most discerning, ambitious, innovative, and timely novel to date." Adam Gordon is a senior at Topeka High School, class of '97. His mother, Jane, is a famous feminist author; his father, Jonathan, is an expert at getting "lost boys" to open up. They both work at a psychiatric clinic that has attracted staff and patients from around the world. Adam is a renowned debater, expected to win a national championship before he heads to college. He is one of the cool kids, ready to fight or, better, freestyle about fighting if it keeps his peers from thinking of him as weak. Adam is also one of the seniors who bring the loner Darren Eberheart--who is, unbeknownst to Adam, his father's patient--into the social scene, to disastrous effect. Deftly shifting perspectives and time periods, The Topeka School is the story of a family, its struggles and its strengths: Jane's reckoning with the legacy of an abusive father, Jonathan's marital transgressions, the challenge of raising a good son in a culture of toxic masculinity. It is also a riveting prehistory of the present: the collapse of public speech, the trolls and tyrants of the New Right, and the ongoing crisis of identity among white men.

Author : Topeka (Kan.).
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 718 pages
Book Rating : 4.QT/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Revised Ordinances of the City of Topeka, Kansas, Authenticated written by Topeka (Kan.). and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pocket Guide to City of Topeka, Giving Names and Locations of Streets and Avenues and where to Find Them, Also Street Railway Lines and where They Lead To, and Time Table, Fire Stations and Fire Alarms ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sherrita Camp
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439643881
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African American Topeka written by Sherrita Camp and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-08-28 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African Americans arrived in Topeka right before and after the Civil War and again in large numbers during the Exodus Movement of 1879 and Great Migration of 1910. They came in protest of the treatment they received in the South. The history of dissent lived on in Topeka, as it became the home to court cases protesting discrimination of all kinds. African Americans came to the city determined that education would provide them a better life. Black educators fostered a sense of duty toward schooling, and in 1954 Topeka became a landmark for African Americans across the country with the Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education case. Blacks from every walk of life found refuge in Kansas and, especially, Topeka. The images in African American Topeka have been selected to give the reader a glimpse into the heritage of black life in the community. The richness of the culture and values of this Midwestern city are a little-known secret just waiting to be exhibited.

Author : Topeka (Kan.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book City of Topeka written by Topeka (Kan.) and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Wm. H. Barnes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The City of Topeka, Kansas written by Wm. H. Barnes and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas C. Cox
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807124222
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blacks in Topeka Kansas, 1865–1915 written by Thomas C. Cox and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1999-03-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the development of a black community in the trans-Mississippi West, Blacks in Topeka, Kansas, 1865--1915 is a thorough, insightful examination of an area of black history that has received, at best, scant attention. Thomas C. Cox probes in this study the political, social, and economic standing of blacks and the growth of black institutions in the Topeka area from early settlement during the territorial period through the rise of an urban Topeka in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.Pivotal In the development of the black community was the Great Exodus of the 1870s -- the massive migration of southern blacks that brought the community new leaders, businessmen, and skilled laborers, and provided the impetus for establishment of institutions and elaborate social structures. Assessing the impact of the Exodus on social stratification and on the destruction of power, Cox closely examines the establishment of political and social clubs, the founding of churches, the rise of the black press -- including the influential Colored Citizen and Plaindealer -- and the emergence of such community leaders a John Wright, William Eagle son, and James Guy.The racial discrimination that permeated Topeka and intensified in the wake of the Great Exodus soon brought about organized protest by the black community to advance the causes of reform and social progress. As this movement grew in strength, it became a powerful bond that overcame divisions within black Topeka, and gave rise to a cohesive community grounded in strong local institutions through which blacks could challenge city, state, and national attitudes and events. In the case of Topeka, which in many ways was exceptional, discrimination helped to create a significant degree of self-determination.With relevance to American social history in general, Thomas Cox's Blacks in Topeka, Kansas, 1865--1915 fully utilizes the methods and materials of social history -- including census analysis and group biography -- to conclusively demonstrate the significance of Topeka in the history of race relations and the growth of black political and nonpolitical institutions.

Author : Topeka (Kan.). City Council
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Report of Officers of the City of Topeka, Kansas, for the Year Ending March 31, 1909 written by Topeka (Kan.). City Council and published by . This book was released on 1909* with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Topeka (Kan.).
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 46 pages
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Download or read book The Topeka Plan of City Government written by Topeka (Kan.). and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Waldo Martin
Publisher : Macmillan Higher Education
ISBN 13 : 1319104657
Total Pages : 272 pages
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Download or read book Brown v. Board of Education written by Waldo Martin and published by Macmillan Higher Education. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of Brown v. Board of Education addresses the origins, development, meanings, and consequences of the 1954 Supreme Court decision to end Jim Crow segregation. Using legal documents to frame the debates surrounding the case, Waldo Martin presents Brown v. Board of Education as an event, a symbol, and a key marker in the black liberation struggle. This new edition strikes a balance between political and social history, not only highlighting the constitutional aspects of the decision but also the social context and impact of the decision for African Americans. With an updated introductory essay and six new documents, several of them by African American authors, the second edition of the text brings this case into the larger context of African American history and civil rights and explores its long-term effects. New questions for consideration, as well as an updated chronology and bibliography, supplement the sources. Available in print and e-book formats.