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  Roots and Routes: Poetics at New College of California

  Patrick James Dunagan, Marina Lazzara, and Nicholas James Whittington

  'Roots and Routes' gathers essays, talks, interviews, statements, notes, and other prose writings by poets who studied and/or taught at the New College of California’s Masters in Poetics program over the course of its nearly 30-year existence. The collection evokes a much-needed anti-hierarchical, even anarchic, pedagogy in poetry, poetics, and the literary arts, and is part of a general reevaluation of standard higher education models on Creative Writing. As such it will appeal to a wide range of students and scholars interested in America’s recent literary history, as well as to poets outside the academy and the general reader interested in US poetry and poetics.

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  A People’s Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area

  Rachel Brahinsky and Alexander Tarr

  An alternative history and geography of the Bay Area that highlights sites of oppression, resistance, and transformation.
  
  A People’s Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area looks beyond the mythologized image of San Francisco to the places where collective struggle has built the region. Countering romanticized commercial narratives about the Bay Area, geographers Rachel Brahinsky and Alexander Tarr highlight the cultural and economic landscape of indigenous resistance to colonial rule, radical interracial and cross-class organizing against housing discrimination and police violence, young people demanding economically and ecologically sustainable futures, and the often-unrecognized labor of farmworkers and everyday people.

  The book asks who had—and who has—the power to shape the geography of one of the most watched regions in the world. As Silicon Valley's wealth dramatically transforms the look and feel of every corner of the region, like bankers' wealth did in the past, what do we need to remember about the people and places that have made the Bay Area, with its rich political legacies?
  
  With over 100 sites that you can visit and learn from, this book demonstrates critical ways of reading the landscape itself for clues to these histories. A useful companion for travelers, educators, or longtime residents, this guide links multicultural streets and lush hills to suburban cul-de-sacs and wetlands, stretching from the North Bay to the South Bay, from the East Bay to San Francisco. Original maps help guide readers, and thematic tours offer starting points for creating your own routes through the region.

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  A Way of Proceeding: Ethical Decision-Making for Management Students at Jesuit Colleges

  Kimberly Rae Connor PhD

  This "textbook" includes assignments (group and individual) suggested readings, and lectures for a 7 week course in Ethical Decision making. Although it was designed for an MBA program, the content has been adapted for other students and programs. Also included in the appendix is the full text for Management Exercises, a professional and spiritual development formation program based on the Spiritual Exercises that accompanies students and can be offered as a co-curricular or for credit. The content is designed to be built online on a Canvas platform.

  Kimberly Rae Conner is a Professor of Ethics in the School of Management at the University of San Francisco. She has a PhD in religion and literature and has published widely on African American religious life and cultural production, multicultural pedagogy, and Ignatian Spirituality.

  This work was made possible by the Open Education pilot grant at Gleeson Library | Geschke Center.

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  Patrice Lumumba: an anthology of writers on black liberation

  Michaela Mullin, Noelia Cerna, Aqueila M. Lewis-Ross, Tureeda Mikell, Elena Serrano, and Tongo Eisen-Martin

  The Patrice Lumumba anthology collects the liberatory words of 24 authors, many of whom call Oakland, California, home. Herein are explorations of contemporary colonization, the racial/physical/mental/physic abuses of power, locations of home, alternative modes of work, the health profession, and the healing powers of history. These poems are a call to action for collective change—now.

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  Disruptive Transport: Driverless Cars, Transport Innovation and the Sustainable City of Tomorrow

  William Riggs

  With the rise of shared and networked vehicles, autonomous vehicles, and other transportation technologies, technological change is outpacing urban planning and policy. Whether urban planners and policy makers like it or not, these transformations will in turn result in profound changes to streets, land use, and cities. But smarter transportation may not necessarily translate into greater sustainability or equity. There are clear opportunities to shape advances in transportation, and to harness them to reshape cities and improve the socio-economic health of cities and residents. There are opportunities to reduce collisions and improve access to healthcare for those who need it most—particularly high-cost, high-need individuals at the younger and older ends of the age spectrum. There is also potential to connect individuals to jobs and change the way cities organize space and optimize trips.

  To date, very little discussion has centered around the job and social implications of this technology. Further, policy dialogue on future transport has lagged—particularly in the arenas of sustainability and social justice. Little work has been done on decision-making in this high uncertainty environment–a deficiency that is concerning given that land use and transportation actions have long and lagging timelines.

  This is one of the first books to explore the impact that emerging transport technology is having on cities and their residents, and how policy is needed to shape the cities that we want to have in the future. The book contains a selection of contributions based on the most advanced empirical research, and case studies for how future transport can be harnessed to improve urban sustainability and justice.

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  Frida in America: The Creative Awakening of a Great Artist

  Celia Stahr

  Mexican artist Frida Kahlo adored adventure. In November, 1930, she was thrilled to realize her dream of traveling to the United States to live in San Francisco, Detroit, and New York. Still, leaving her family and her country for the first time was monumental.
  
  Only twenty-three and newly married to the already world-famous forty-three-year-old Diego Rivera, she was at a crossroads in her life and this new place, one filled with magnificent beauty, horrific poverty, racial tension, anti-Semitism, ethnic diversity, bland Midwestern food, and a thriving music scene, pushed Frida in unexpected directions. Shifts in her style of painting began to appear, cracks in her marriage widened, and tragedy struck, twice while she was living in Detroit.
  
  Frida in America is the first in-depth biography of these formative years spent in Gringolandia, a place Frida couldn’t always understand. But it’s precisely her feelings of being a stranger in a strange land that fueled her creative passions and an even stronger sense of Mexican identity. With vivid detail, Frida in America recreates the pivotal journey that made Senora Rivera the world famous Frida Kahlo.

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  Entre bestias y bellezas: raza, género e identidad en Colombia

  Michael Edward Stanfield and Mateo Cardona

  A lo largo de la historia, la belleza ha sido muy valorada, pues ha sido de suma importancia en los ámbitos sociales, económicos, culturales y políticos en distintas sociedades. En Colombia, la belleza de sus mujeres, conocida mundialmente, se ha convertido en una fachada para problemas profundamente arraigados en su realidad nacional. Aunque ha tenido pocas dictaduras y se ha destacado por sus gobiernos democráticos, sus abundantes recursos y su economía dinámica, en toda su historia este país nunca ha tenido un Gobierno incluyente y soberano. Además, muchos de sus ciudadanos han sido pobres y excluidos, debido a políticas elitistas que favorecen a ricos y poderosos. En este libro, Michael Edward Stanfield explora cómo ha evolucionado el concepto de belleza en la historia cultural del país, revelando las nuevas facetas de las construcciones tradicionales de género, las jerarquías raciales y sus señas de identidad. Para esto, estudia el desarrollo y la transformación del Concurso Nacional de Belleza y los más de tres mil concursos regionales que se hacen cada año en el país. Justamente porque en Colombia, una nación que se caracteriza tanto por sus altos niveles de violencia e inseguridad como por su cautivadora hermosura geográfica, cultural y femenina, la belleza no solo reina, sino que cura, distrae y, a menudo, mata.