“Let's Make a List”: James Schuyler's taxonomic autobiography

August 21, 1970 A few sound[s] are embedded in the fog – a gull mewing, different far off fog horns – like unset polished stones laid out in cotton wool. Tuesday, March 5, 1985 At six AM the heavy gray burns a heavier blue. Rain, water drops clinging to the balcony. There is an ethical consideration in James Schuyler's Diary. While we have spent the last fifty years grappling with the aesthetic problems of how to represent the unrepresentable, how to present the unpresentable, and how to signify the significant, little time has been spent considering the status of representations of the unremarkable. There is a whole history in American poetry and literature of validating the everyday, making it special, but Schuyler never really does that. Are things special just because we say so, or rather because we note them down? Do we name things into being, at least linguistic or literary being? The Diary asks these questions and in doing so it broaches the kind of postmodern ethical questions that one finds in the recent work of Lyotard, Derrida, and Nancy. These questions are significant not in the normal sense of the reasons for such interrogations or the answers expected, but rather because they represent a desire on the part of Schuyler to ask after otherness, to try to elicit a response from the other while respecting that such a response may not be comprehensible even if it is forthcoming. I would like here to posit a desire to ask after the other first before one asks after oneself, to enquire without any hope of a satisfactory answer as such as the postmodern ethical position, and to suggest that the autobiographical slant of Schuyler's work is, paradoxically considering the nature of autobiography, just such a positioning of his self in relation to the world

Akin House Curriculum Development and Living History Programming

This unit plan is comprised of a variety of inquiry-based lessons that explore the culture and way of life of the Native Americans who occupied New England. After studying the Akin house documents, materials, and narratives, I chose to focus my unit on the land and the people who came before the Akin family so that students will learn the long-view of our rich New England history

Methodologies for Housing Justice Resource Guide

This Resource Guide is the outcome of a Summer Institute on Methodologies for Housing Justice convened by the Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA Luskin as part of the Housing Justice in Unequal Cities Network, which is supported by the National Science Foundation (BCS 1758774). Held in Los Angeles in August 2019, the Summer Institute brought together participants from cities around the world. As is the case with the overall scope and purpose of the Housing Justice in Unequal Cities Network, it created a shared terrain of scholarship for movement-based and university-based scholars. Dissatisfied with the canonical methods that are in use in housing studies and guided by housing justice movements that are active research communities, the Summer Institute was premised on the assertion that methodology is political. Methodology is rooted in arguments about the world and involves relations of power and knowledge. The method itself – be it countermapping or people’s diaries – does not ensure an ethics of solidarity and a purpose of justice. Such goals require methodologies for liberation. Thus, as is evident in this Resource Guide, our endeavor foregrounds innovative methods that are being used by researchers across academia and activism and explicitly situates such methods in an orientation towards housing justice

Whitewashing African American History in Oklahoma City’s Deep Deuce District: Exploring Historical Preservation as a Problematic Tool for Tourism and Gentrification

Historic preservation of African American neighborhoods in Oklahoma City values restoration of buildings and objects but fails to authentically preserve or respect the original culture by actively excluding the Black community from Deep Deuce. Oklahoma City's rhetoric surrounding Deep Deuce refers to urban change as "revitalization," yet it continues to repeat history by neglecting the Black community of Oklahoma City. Theory from rhetoricians, Kenneth Burke and Michel Foucault, are used to create a rhetorical lens that centers power, influence, and discourse. For gentrification scholarship, several scholarly articles are used for the survey of scholarship. The books, Color of Law and Root Shock, are heavily referenced in the project and interviews completed with community members of Oklahoma City are used as primary sources. Oklahoma City states they have historically preserved Deep Deuce, a traditionally African American neighborhood; the rhetoric of their preservation methods, however, reveal that the city has weaponized the land in the past and present to dismantle the local Black community and whitewashes their history to attract tourists and residents to the gentrified neighborhood. These findings are significant in challenging the fact that the city officials state that they are historically preserving an area and challenging their profit-driven motives. It shows the disconnect between preserving the physical environment and preserving the community itself. By cutting off the Black community from the preservation process, failing to include them in the new community, and failing to take responsibility for large contributions to the past destruction of the original community, the city is not authentically and respectfully preserving the space. Suggestions for future research includes further exploring this topic through the lens of Rhetoric of Choice which challenges how those with power and influence, such as the local, state, and federal government shed responsibility for their racist actions, policies, and laws by using rhetoric that states that these things are the cause of individual citizens making choices that do not involve the government or those in power

Spartan Daily, September 19, 1997

Volume 109, Issue 15https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/9162/thumbnail.jp

Spartan Daily March 5, 2013

Volume 140, Issue 20https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/1387/thumbnail.jp

The Oregon Community Foundation Annual Report 2013

This annual report includes a message from the Board of Directors, a recap of 2013 foundation acitivities, a description of the regions they work in, a closer look at various grantmaking initiatives, a list of representative grants, a list of the OCF funds, a list of staff members, investment policy, and financial highlights

State of Utah v. Brian James Rudolph : Brief of Appellee

DEFENDANT APPEALS FROM HIS CONVICTION FOR AGGRAVATED ROBBERY, A FIRST DEGREE FELONY, IN VIOLATION OF UTAH CODE ANN. § 76-6-302 (1999), IN THE THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT IN AND FOR SALT LAKE COUNTY, STATE OF UTAH, THE HONORABLE WILLIAM B. BOHLING, JUDGE, PRESIDING