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DEFINING WISDOM FOR ONLY $2 MILLION
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO- The Arete Initiative at The University of Chicago
is pleased to announce a $2 million research program on the nature and
benefits of Wisdom. Once regarded as a subject worthy of the most
rigorous inquiries in order to discern its nature and benefits, wisdom
is currently overlooked as a topic for serious scholarly and scientific
investigation in many fields. Yet it is difficult to imagine a subject
more central to the human enterprise and whose exploration holds greater
promise in shedding light and opening up creative possibilities for
human flourishing. In 2008, up to twenty (20), two-year research grants
will be awarded to scholars from institutions around the world who have
received their Ph.D. within the past ten years.
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BOOKSHELF
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DEFYING DIXIE
The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950
Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore
RAYMOND ARSENAULT, WASHINGTON POST - In telling this story, Gilmore
broadens the scope of Southern and civil rights history to include
individuals and organizations operating well beyond the Mason-Dixon
line. Nationalizing and internationalizing the saga, she reminds us that
"the South could remain the South only by chasing out some of its
brightest minds and most bountiful spirits, generation after generation.
Many of those who left did so, directly or indirectly, because they
opposed white supremacy. Counting them back into southern history
reveals an insurgent South and shows some Southerners to be a
revolutionary lot that fought longer and harder than anyone else to
defeat Dixie."
No brief review can do justice to the full range of historical
characters and events that dominate the pages of Defying Dixie. But one
example may give some sense of the exotic radicalism that prevailed
prior to the classic civil rights struggle of the 1950s and '60s.
Gilmore begins the book with the story of Lovett Fort-Whiteman, the
first African American to join the Communist Party. Born in Dallas,
Fort-Whiteman migrated to Tuskegee, Mexico and Canada before settling in
Harlem as an editor of the socialist magazine the Messenger in 1917. By
1919 his anarcho-syndicalism had morphed into an association with the
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and the Communist Labor Party.
After he gave a speech in St. Louis on "The Negro and the Social
Revolution," he was convicted of sedition. Following a brief prison
term, he moved to Chicago, where he became a Communist Party organizer
specializing in recent black migrants from the South.
In 1924, Fort-Whiteman traveled to Moscow for the Fifth World Congress
of the Third International, where he informed his fellow Communists that
"negroes are destined to be the most revolutionary class in America."
Enrolling in the KUTV Communist training school (a.k.a. Communist
University of Toilers of the East), he remained in the Soviet Union for
eight months before returning to Chicago to recruit black Americans for
the KUTV and to found the American Negro Labor Congress. Time magazine
labeled him the "Reddest of the Blacks." But later in the decade, after
a futile campaign to organize black workers in the South, he found
himself on the losing side of a factional and ideological struggle for
control of the American Communist Party. In 1930, after arguing
unsuccessfully for a policy of separatism and self-determination in the
Black Belt, he essentially gave up on America, fleeing to the Soviet
Union, where he married and worked as a science teacher. Three years
later, he changed his mind and tried to return to the United States, but
Soviet authorities refused his request. His controversial statements
about race and class eventually led to charges of counter-revolutionary
heresy and banishment to a Siberian gulag, where he died of starvation
in 1939.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/10/AR2008011003462.html
ORDER
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INDICATORS
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75% OF AMERICANS SAY COUNTRY IS OFF TRACK
CBS - 75% of Americans think the country is off on the wrong track -
matching the highest number ever recorded in the CBS News/New York Times
Poll - and approval of President Bush remains low. . . Only 19% say it
is headed in the right direction, matching the all-time low reached last
June.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/01/13/opinion/polls/main3706504.shtml
EARTH'S TOP 10 WARMEST YEARS
1 - 2005
2 - 1998
3 - 2002
4 - 2003
5 - 2007
6 - 2006
7 - 2004
8 - 2001
9 - 1997
10 -1999
[NASA, USA Today]
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DEFINING WISDOM FOR ONLY $2 MILLION
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO- The Arete Initiative at The University of Chicago
is pleased to announce a $2 million research program on the nature and
benefits of Wisdom. Once regarded as a subject worthy of the most
rigorous inquiries in order to discern its nature and benefits, wisdom
is currently overlooked as a topic for serious scholarly and scientific
investigation in many fields. Yet it is difficult to imagine a subject
more central to the human enterprise and whose exploration holds greater
promise in shedding light and opening up creative possibilities for
human flourishing. In 2008, up to twenty (20), two-year research grants
will be awarded to scholars from institutions around the world who have
received their Ph.D. within the past ten years.
http://improbable.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/definingwisdomb.jpg
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BOOKSHELF
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DEFYING DIXIE
The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950
Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore
RAYMOND ARSENAULT, WASHINGTON POST - In telling this story, Gilmore
broadens the scope of Southern and civil rights history to include
individuals and organizations operating well beyond the Mason-Dixon
line. Nationalizing and internationalizing the saga, she reminds us that
"the South could remain the South only by chasing out some of its
brightest minds and most bountiful spirits, generation after generation.
Many of those who left did so, directly or indirectly, because they
opposed white supremacy. Counting them back into southern history
reveals an insurgent South and shows some Southerners to be a
revolutionary lot that fought longer and harder than anyone else to
defeat Dixie."
No brief review can do justice to the full range of historical
characters and events that dominate the pages of Defying Dixie. But one
example may give some sense of the exotic radicalism that prevailed
prior to the classic civil rights struggle of the 1950s and '60s.
Gilmore begins the book with the story of Lovett Fort-Whiteman, the
first African American to join the Communist Party. Born in Dallas,
Fort-Whiteman migrated to Tuskegee, Mexico and Canada before settling in
Harlem as an editor of the socialist magazine the Messenger in 1917. By
1919 his anarcho-syndicalism had morphed into an association with the
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and the Communist Labor Party.
After he gave a speech in St. Louis on "The Negro and the Social
Revolution," he was convicted of sedition. Following a brief prison
term, he moved to Chicago, where he became a Communist Party organizer
specializing in recent black migrants from the South.
In 1924, Fort-Whiteman traveled to Moscow for the Fifth World Congress
of the Third International, where he informed his fellow Communists that
"negroes are destined to be the most revolutionary class in America."
Enrolling in the KUTV Communist training school (a.k.a. Communist
University of Toilers of the East), he remained in the Soviet Union for
eight months before returning to Chicago to recruit black Americans for
the KUTV and to found the American Negro Labor Congress. Time magazine
labeled him the "Reddest of the Blacks." But later in the decade, after
a futile campaign to organize black workers in the South, he found
himself on the losing side of a factional and ideological struggle for
control of the American Communist Party. In 1930, after arguing
unsuccessfully for a policy of separatism and self-determination in the
Black Belt, he essentially gave up on America, fleeing to the Soviet
Union, where he married and worked as a science teacher. Three years
later, he changed his mind and tried to return to the United States, but
Soviet authorities refused his request. His controversial statements
about race and class eventually led to charges of counter-revolutionary
heresy and banishment to a Siberian gulag, where he died of starvation
in 1939.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/10/AR2008011003462.html
ORDER
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0393062449/progressiverevieA/
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INDICATORS
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75% OF AMERICANS SAY COUNTRY IS OFF TRACK
CBS - 75% of Americans think the country is off on the wrong track -
matching the highest number ever recorded in the CBS News/New York Times
Poll - and approval of President Bush remains low. . . Only 19% say it
is headed in the right direction, matching the all-time low reached last
June.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/01/13/opinion/polls/main3706504.shtml
EARTH'S TOP 10 WARMEST YEARS
1 - 2005
2 - 1998
3 - 2002
4 - 2003
5 - 2007
6 - 2006
7 - 2004
8 - 2001
9 - 1997
10 -1999
[NASA, USA Today]
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