Scholars Behind Bars
By Categories: Books, Plays

Click Here to Read: Scholars Behind Bars: Review of:  College in Prison: Reading in an Age of Mass Incarceration by Daniel Karpowitz and Liberating Minds: The Case for College in Prison by Ellen Condliffe Lagemann,  Reviewed by Jonathan Zimmerman in The New York Review of Books on February 23, 2017 Issue.

Anna Deavere Smith in Notes from the Field, her play about American education and the criminal justice system, which she performed at the American Repertory Theater, Cambridge, Massachusetts, before the production came to New York

Philosophy Thursday: Friedrich Engels
By Categories: Philosophy Thursday

 

Click Here to Read: Friedrich Engels on Wikiepdia.

Click Here to Read: Frederick Engels by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin on the Marxist.ort website from First published in 1896 in the miscellany Rabotnik,[3] No. 1–2. Published according to the text in Rabotnik Source: Lenin Collected Works, Moscow, Volume 2, pages 15-28.

Click Here to Read: Engels and the Origin of Women’s Oppression by Sharon Smith in International Socialist Review Issue 2, Fall 1997

Click Here to Read: Fox Hunter, Party Animal, Leftist Warrior By Dwight Garner in The New York Times on August 18, 2009. Continue reading Philosophy Thursday: Friedrich Engels

Writer’s Wednesday: Jean Améry
By Categories: Writers Wednesday

Click Here to Read: Jean Améry on Wikipedia.

Click Here to Read: Jean Améry: A Biographical Introduction by D. G. Myers on the A Commonplace Blog. Originally published in Holocaust Literature: An Encyclopedia of Writers and Their Work, ed. S. Lillian Kremer,

Click Here to Read:  At the Mind’s Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor On Auschwitz and its Realities
by Jean Améry Translated by Sidney Rosenfeld and Stella P. Rosenfeld on the Ross Wolf Files website. Continue reading Writer’s Wednesday: Jean Améry

In Search of the Slave Who Defied George Washington
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Click Here to Read: In Search of the Slave Who Defied George Washington By Jennifer Sschuessler in The New York Times February 6, 2017.

Erica Armstrong Dunbar, the author of “Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge,” at George Washington’s estate in Mount Vernon, Va. Justin T. Gellerson for The New York Times 

Click Here to Purchase: On The Pleasures of Owning Persons: The Hidden Face of American Slavery by Volney Gay.