... Giunta. New York: Palgrave. 2002. xix, 203 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $18.95. Learning from Experience: Minority Identities, Multicultural Struggles. By Paula M. L. Moya. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press. 2002. xii, 235...

... . By Amy M. E. Morris. Newark: Univ. of Delaware Press. 2005. 282 pp. $53.50. Learning to Read and Write in Colonial America . By E. Jennifer Monaghan. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press. 2005. xiii, 491 pp. $49.95. Book Reviews New World, Known World: Shaping Knowledge in Early Anglo...

... © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Women and Authorship in Revolutionary America . By Angela Vietto. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate. 2005. ix, 147 pp. $89.95. Learning to Stand and Speak: Women, Education, and Public Life in America's Republic . By Mary Kelley. Chapel Hill: Univ...

...Jeannine Marie DeLombard Learning to Live with Crime: American Crime Narrative in the Neoconservative Turn . By Wilson Christopher P. . Columbus : Ohio State Univ. Press . 2010 . ix, 202 pp. $44.95 . The Law Is a White Dog: How Legal Rituals Make and Unmake Persons...

...Evan Donahue Abstract Early in the history of the field of artificial intelligence (AI), a paradigm known as microworlds emerged in which researchers constructed computer simulations of aspects of the real world from which their nascent AI systems could learn. Although microworlds were ultimately...

...David Grant Nathaniel Parker Willis's novel Paul Fane (1856), which tells the story of a painter who journeys to Europe to learn the significance of a slight he has received in America from an Englishwoman, is the meeting place of two traditions that were already converging in the discourse...

...Michelle C. Neely Near the beginning of Walden , Henry David Thoreau tells his readers that his “experiment in living” is dedicated to learning “what are the gross necessaries of life... the grossest groceries,” a choice of metaphor that might remind us just how much of his personal and political...

... of program building followed the passage of the Higher Education Act of 1965 and the Vietnam Veterans’ Readjustment Benefits Act of 1966, which brought Vietnam vets into a changing workshop, where students still learned to write what they know but also, as pre–civil rights racial liberalism turned to post...

...Anna Stewart Stewart examines the narrative construction of Harriet Jacobs in 1865, when her former editor Lydia Maria Child included a revised selection from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) in The Freedmen's Book , a reader Child was developing to help newly freed slaves learn to read...

... the bildungsroman (including the work of Maxine Hong Kingston and Gloria Naylor), Cisneros’s text can help us do so, if we can learn to read it otherwise. Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 Sandra Cisneros Latina/o literature social mobility ethnic community protagonist A problem...

... and in relationship to the artistic and political communities she organized. While working in Greenwich Village, Hansberry crossed paths with and learned from an international cadre of intellectuals and performing artists, including South African singer Miriam Makeba, how to shift the body to shape reality. The essay...

...Jasmine An Abstract This article draws on the formal and aesthetic qualities of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictée as a critical model for theorizing the transnational legacies of colonialism and empire embedded in the acts of language learning and as an opening for Asian American literary studies...

.... This essay posits that debates over the methods of African American higher education shaped the function of literature within black modernity. It explores how Tuskegee Institute founder Booker T. Washington transformed literature and books into instruments of a practical approach to learning through...

...Sarah Ensor Abstract This article argues that pedagogy may help us respond to the precarity of higher education by reclaiming the forms of provisionality, accident, and exposure endemic to collaborative learning. Putting kinship theory into contact with studies of contagion, I suggest...

... the poetics of everyday life, and a related move away from hierarchical models of teaching and learning to a more collective, activist pedagogy, inspired by movements for women’s liberation, anti-imperialism, and black liberation and self-determination. The literary pedagogy that emerges from these classrooms...

... as practices, learning to read not as a gift but as theft, and education not inculcating social values but orienting students to resist social structures that would oppress them. Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 5 By beginning with an account of how education inculcates, Rosenblatt...

... and transferring learning from the course to action as a citizen. This pedagogy ultimately fosters a liberal education that explicitly links private study with public concerns and that encourages students to see themselves as potential agents of change in a neoliberal state that identifies them merely as consumers...

... Invisible Man grows from uncritically admiring traditional images of power to understanding complicated visual presentations of blackness, he learns to value the complexity of African American cultural existence. Like Ellison's investment in jazz and blues, his deployment of visual art infuses his writing...

... . “Learning to Execute.” By Wojciech Zaremba and Ilya Sutskever . arXiv preprint. 2014 . https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.4615 . Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 This review looks at two technical papers from the field of computer science that, at the time of writing, should...

...Tyler Shoemaker [email protected] The Cultural Life of Machine Learning: An Incursion into Critical AI Studies . Edited by Jonathan Roberge and Michael Castelle . Cham : Palgrave Macmillan . 2021 . xv, 289 pp. Cloth, $109.99 ; paper, $79.99 ; e-book, $75.99...