From Kevin Gaines' essay on Pauline Hopkins, "Uplift Ideology as 'Civilizing Mission,'" in Pease and Kaplan, eds., Cultures of United States Imperialism, p 442:
"W.E.B. Dubois would revive the analogy in 1903 in challenging Washington's program of industrial education as the exclusive means of the 'uplifting and civilization of black men in America.' Du Bois denounced Washington's policy, indicative of a tendency 'born of slavery and quickened and renewed to life by the crazy imperialism of the day, to regard human beings as among the material resources of a land to be trained with an eye single to future dividends.'"
Note directs to The Souls of Black Folk, Signet edition, p 126.
Saturday, May 31, 2008
Darkness and Dawn trilogy
by George England, 1914. Descrip from Amazon:
"The Vacant World, the first novel, begins when a secretary, Beatrice Kendrick, and her boss, a young engineer named Allan Stern, awaken on an upper floor of a ruined Manhattan skyscraper, thousands of years in the future when civilization has been destroyed. The pair has been in a state of suspended animation for fifteen hundred years. Changes in the earth's features as well as monstrously mutated "humans" make it clear they have little hope of survival. The pair organize their resources to face the savage alternatives about them and the closeness created by their mutual interdependency inevitably kindles romance between Allan and Beatrice.
In Book Two, Beyond the Great Oblivion, Allan and Beatrice begin to discover the nature of the catastrophe that has split the Earth open. Rebuilding an airplane, they find a "bottomless" chasm near Pittsburgh where a huge portion of the Earth has been torn away to become a second moon. Alan and Beatrice earn the loyalty of the People of this Abyss and lead them from the chasm to New York.
In Book Three, The Afterglow, Allan and Beatrice, with the People of the Abyss, prepare to recolonize the Earth's surface. But first, they must defeat the devolved, cannibalistic survivors who populate Earth's cities.
Analog calls Darkness and Dawn "a classic trilogy," while historian/critic Sam Moskowitz terms it "a masterpiece."
"The Vacant World, the first novel, begins when a secretary, Beatrice Kendrick, and her boss, a young engineer named Allan Stern, awaken on an upper floor of a ruined Manhattan skyscraper, thousands of years in the future when civilization has been destroyed. The pair has been in a state of suspended animation for fifteen hundred years. Changes in the earth's features as well as monstrously mutated "humans" make it clear they have little hope of survival. The pair organize their resources to face the savage alternatives about them and the closeness created by their mutual interdependency inevitably kindles romance between Allan and Beatrice.
In Book Two, Beyond the Great Oblivion, Allan and Beatrice begin to discover the nature of the catastrophe that has split the Earth open. Rebuilding an airplane, they find a "bottomless" chasm near Pittsburgh where a huge portion of the Earth has been torn away to become a second moon. Alan and Beatrice earn the loyalty of the People of this Abyss and lead them from the chasm to New York.
In Book Three, The Afterglow, Allan and Beatrice, with the People of the Abyss, prepare to recolonize the Earth's surface. But first, they must defeat the devolved, cannibalistic survivors who populate Earth's cities.
Analog calls Darkness and Dawn "a classic trilogy," while historian/critic Sam Moskowitz terms it "a masterpiece."
Steam-Man of the Prairies
in Bill Brown's essay in Cultures of United States Imperialism, he describes a scifi book from 1868 in which a disabled child constructs a steam-powered man to do all of the things he can't do: Ellis, Steam-Man of the Prairies.
Friday, May 30, 2008
Bibliographic notes: Eugenics
Bannister, Robert C, Social Darwinism: Science and Myth in Anglo-American Social Thought (1984)
Chamberlin and Gilman, eds, Degeneration: The Dark Side of Progress (1985)
Haller, Eugenics: Hereditarian Attitudes in American Thought
Ludmerer, Genetics and American Society
Pickens, Eugenics and the Progressives
Selden, Steven. Inheriting Shame: The Story of Eugenics and Racism in America (1999).
Selden, Steven. All other cites.
Chamberlin and Gilman, eds, Degeneration: The Dark Side of Progress (1985)
Haller, Eugenics: Hereditarian Attitudes in American Thought
Ludmerer, Genetics and American Society
Pickens, Eugenics and the Progressives
Selden, Steven. Inheriting Shame: The Story of Eugenics and Racism in America (1999).
Selden, Steven. All other cites.
Utah Phillips quip
heard on obit which ran on NPR yesterday: "I always tell children, when you hear them calling you 'America's most precious natural resources,' you should run the other way - look what they done with the rest of their resources!"
Monday, May 19, 2008
Bibliographic notes: Religion, nature, and technology
Albanese, Nature Religion in America: From the Algonkian Indians to the New Age (1990)
Dunlap, Faith in Nature: Environmentalism as Religious Quest (2004)
Nye, America as Second Creation: Technology and Narratives of New Beginnings (2004)
Stoll, Protestantism, Capitalism, and Nature in America (1997)
Dunlap, Faith in Nature: Environmentalism as Religious Quest (2004)
Nye, America as Second Creation: Technology and Narratives of New Beginnings (2004)
Stoll, Protestantism, Capitalism, and Nature in America (1997)
Sunday, May 18, 2008
Non-white children, science, technology
Jaimes, ed, The State of Native America: Genocide, Colonization, and Resistance (1992) - Noriega essay on education
Lewis, Neither Wolf Nor Dog: American Indians, Environment, and Agrarian Change (1994)
Lewis, Neither Wolf Nor Dog: American Indians, Environment, and Agrarian Change (1994)
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