bell hooks' Writings
April 5 is bell hooks day at UT
Wednesday, April 5th is "bell hooks day" on the UT campus. bell hooks is the author of 31 books, including memoir, poetry, culture criticism, feminist essays, film criticism, and children's books. She will hold an informal discussion at the Black Cultural Center from 4-5 pm (seating is limited); and will give a talk at 7 p.m. at the UC auditorium. Reception and booksigning to follow in the UC Hermitage Room from 8-9 pm.
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Autobiographical
Bone Black : memories of girlhood / Bell Hooks.
Hodges Library E185.97.H77 A3 1996
Wounds of passion : a writing life / Bell Hooks.
Hodges Library E185.97.H77 A3 1999
Sequel to: Bone Black.
Feminism
Ain't I a woman: Black women and feminism / by Bell Hooks.
Hodges Library E185.86 .H68
Feminism is for everybody : passionate politics / Bell Hooks.
Hodges Library HQ1190 .H67 2000
Feminist theory from margin to center / Bell Hooks.
Hodges Library HQ1426 .H675 1984
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Posted by Donna Braquet at 07:37 PM in African American, Women
bell hooks to Visit UT
bell hooks Visits UT
Wednesday, April 5th is "bell hooks day" on the UT campus. bell hooks is the author of 31 books, including memoir, poetry, culture criticism, feminist essays, film criticism, and children's books. She will hold an informal discussion at the Black Cultural Center from 4-5 pm (seating is limited); and will give a talk at 7 p.m. at the UC auditorium. Reception and booksigning to follow in the UC Hermitage Room from 8-9 pm.
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Posted by Donna Braquet at 07:40 PM in African American, Women
Flattener #6, Offshoring
Either you get flat or you'll be flattened by China . . .
I don't know how many Chinese actually ever bought a copy of Mao's Little Red Book, but U.S. embassy officials in China told me that 2 million copies of the Chinese-language edition of the [World Trade Organization] rule book were sold in the weeks immediately after China signed on to the WTO.
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Posted by Martha Rudolph at 05:56 PM in The World Is Flat | Comments (1)
Flattener #5, Outsourcing - Y2K
For all these reasons I believe that Y2K should be a national holiday in India.
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Posted by Martha Rudolph at 05:52 PM in The World Is Flat
Flattener #4, Open-Sourcing -- The Free Software Movement
Some zealots even argue that the open-source approach represents a new, post-capitalist model of production.
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Posted by Martha Rudolph at 05:45 PM in The World Is Flat
Flattener #4, Open-Sourcing -- IBM and Apache
You have to stop here and imagine this. The world's biggest computer company decided that its engineers could not best the work of ad hoc open-source collection of geeks, so they threw out their own technology.
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Posted by Martha Rudolph at 05:40 PM in The World Is Flat
Flattener #3, Work Flow Software
Instead of everyone trying to control the fire hydrant nozzle, they made all the nozzles and hoses the same, creating a much bigger market that stretched across every neighborhood of the world. Then companies started to compete instead over the quality of the hose, the pump, and the fire truck. That is, they competed over who could make the most useful and nifty applications.
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Posted by Martha Rudolph at 07:49 PM in The World Is Flat | Comments (1)
Women's History Month
American Women Through Time
The site includes about 550 links, and offers two approaches for the study of
specific time periods in American women's history. Each section includes a timeline
that links specific events with highly relevant online sources, followed by a guide to
research sources (e.g., census, newspapers, secondary sources) that are
appropriate for the specified time period. This site was created by Librarian, Ken Middleton at Middle Tennessee State University.
You may also want to see Women's History: A Research Guide.
Posted by Donna Braquet at 07:42 PM in Women
Flattener #2, 8/9/95, When Netscape went public
The broad overinvestment in fiber cable is a gift that keeps on giving.
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Posted by Martha Rudolph at 05:18 PM in The World Is Flat
Flattener #1, 11/9/89, When the walls came down and the windows went up
The Berlin Wall was not only blocking our way; it was blocking our sight -- our ability to think about the world as a single market . . .
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