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“…Wacek -- Some of my students are leprechauns (or why it is difficult for White college students to understand that racism is still a big deal) / Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo -- Exploring the development of immigrant fiction : the pedagogy of counter-narratives / Umme Al-wazedi -- The potential of a moment : race literacy and Black American literature / Philathia Bolton --Teaching Asian American literature in the urban multicultural classroom : reflexive practice, cultural politics, and the problem of identity within a transnational framework / Jungah Kim -- Conclusion: Back to the classroom / Philathia Bolton, Cassander L. …”
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“…Sometimes You Are What You WearInterviews Don't Have to Be Tricky; Qualifications Are Almost Everything; How to Keep 'Em Once You Hire 'Em; Youth Can Be a Risky Bet; Older People Can Be Young Too; 8: Risk; Clinging to Safety Is More Irrational Than Taking Risk; Asking the Key Questions; Risk Can Be Contagious-Don't Catch the Deadly Kind; Never Bet the Farm-Or Even Half the Farm; 9: How to Get Results; Make Sound Promises and Offer Something in Return; Perfect Your Pitch, and Make It Big; 10: Leverage; Some Straight Talk About the Mother of All Loans-Your Mortgage…”
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“…Under One Big Tent: Race, Resistance, and Community Building in Two Nineteenth-Century Circus Towns""; ""Miami County, Indiana, and the Wallace Circus Quarters""…”
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“…Intro -- Contents -- Prologue: Planet West Virginia -- Book One: Famous Old Daddy -- The Girl With No Face -- Town Boy -- Scientific Boy -- Shadow Boy -- Outlaw Boy -- The Real Beginning of My Famous Life -- The Highest Traditions of the American Soldier -- Belt of Orion -- Book Two: Famous Little Sister -- The Sweet Safety of the Rest of Our Lives -- That Place Luck Goes When It Is Finished with Us -- Blind Dog -- Ugly Baby -- Body Parts -- Pulling Up Aces -- Crippled Flasher -- A Multitude of Bills -- Delivering the Body of the Dead Star -- Stalking the Story -- My Bad Side -- Beerjoint Ballerinas -- Bogeymen in Love -- Book Three: Famous Feudists -- Sweet Suicide -- Hillbilly History -- Goddamned Rhododendron -- That Sweet Anarchy We Call Youth -- Mountain Law -- Blind Tourist -- A Dead-End Town Named Romance -- Big Iron -- Book Four: Famous Ancient Indians & Mothmen & Momma -- Land of the Sky People -- Ghost of the Indian Under the Tree -- Pictures of the Dead -- The Story of My Mother's Life in Her Own Words -- Girl on the Red Bike -- Mystery Midgets and Other Bizarre Beings -- Body in the Woods -- Girl by the Road in the Rain -- Book Five: Famous Dancing Outlaw -- Shot Through the Heart -- The Preacher's Porch -- Elvis in the Land of Shadow Men -- The Secret Lives of Elvis -- Stranger Stew -- Tell Me About It -- The King is Back -- That Bright New Skin We Call Fame -- Book Six: Famous Family Life -- Ghost Rock -- Road-Kill Cafe -- Carrot Boy -- Total Wreck -- The Right to Stand with Men -- Hotel Angel -- King of Pork -- Bear in the Woods -- Book Seven: Famous Lost Love -- Lost World -- The Unknown Confederate Dead -- Sixteen Tons -- Breaking Up Is Hard to Do -- The Secret Inner Life of West Virginia -- Book Eight: Famous Mystery Tour -- Knocked Up -- Interiors Impossible to Speak Of -- Wishbone -- Point of Honor -- Missing Angels…”