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Re-visioning India's Religious Traditions: Essays in Honour ...

Re-visioning India's Religious Traditions: Essays in Honour ...

Eric J. Lott

Festschrift honoring Rev. Dr. Eric J. Lott, former professor of the United Theological College, Bangalore, 1977-1988
Black Mirror: The Cultural Contradictions of American Racism

Black Mirror: The Cultural Contradictions of American Racism

Eric Lott

From sports to literature, film, and music to investigative journalism, Eric Lott reveals the hidden dynamics of this self-and-other racial mirroring.
Love and Theft : Blackface Minstrelsy and the American ...

Love and Theft : Blackface Minstrelsy and the American ...

Department of English University of Virginia Eric Lott Associate Professor

Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class Department of English University of Virginia Eric Lott Associate Professor. Notes Introduction 1. Alexander Saxton, “Blackface Minstrelsy and Jacksonian Ideology” 27. 2. Since this work is ...
Straight Shooting: Firearms, Economics and Public Policy

Straight Shooting: Firearms, Economics and Public Policy

John R. Lott, Jr.

In his newest book, John Lott gives you the information you need to win the arguments with those who want to ban guns and destroy your individual freedom and liberty to pursue the American dream.Straight Shooting contains Professor Lott's ...
Love & Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working ...

Love & Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working ...

Eric Lott

This new edition celebrates the twentieth anniversary of this landmark volume.
The American Spectator

The American Spectator

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Over Jeremy Lott is assistant managing editor of The American Spectator. the next several days, they finished the outline ... MAY 2004 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR 63 BOOKS IN REVIEW Jeremy Lott JEREMY LOTT All Fall Down Tlie Fall of ...
Andrew K. Van Deventer, Complainant, Against Jurien Lott, ...

Andrew K. Van Deventer, Complainant, Against Jurien Lott, ...

United States. Circuit Court (2nd Circuit) New York. Eastern District

Solicitor for Complainant ... Frederic R. Kellogg ... of Counsel. Hubbard & Rushmore, Solicitors for Defendants John R. Lott and Sarah Lott ... George C. Case ... of Counsel. Henry M. Gescheidt ... Solicitor for Defendants Byron Whitcomb, at Al. .
The Disappearing Liberal Intellectual

The Disappearing Liberal Intellectual

Eric Lott

An award-winning scholar challenges the intellectuals of the baby boom generation to shake off a decade's worth of complacency and reclaim the mantle of social justice.
More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control ...

More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control ...

John R. Lott

For this third edition, Lott draws on an additional ten years of data—including provocative analysis of the effects of gun bans in Chicago and Washington, D.C—that brings the book fully up to date and further bolsters its central ...
More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control ...

More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control ...

John R. Lott

For this third edition, Lott draws on an additional ten years of data—including provocative analysis of the effects of gun bans in Chicago and Washington, D.C—that brings the book fully up to date and further bolsters its central ...
Race and the Subject of Masculinities

Race and the Subject of Masculinities

Harry Stecopoulos

ERIC LOTT I haven't figured out why Detroit has this attraction [to] Elvis. But this is a blue-collar town with down to earth people, the kind Elvis liked. — Danny Vann, Elvis impersonator something in their psyche insists on elvis — Lucille Clifton, ...
Love's Whipping Boy: Violence & Sentimentality in the ...

Love's Whipping Boy: Violence & Sentimentality in the ...

Elizabeth Barnes

Franny Nudelman similarly observes that recent scholarship — most notably Eric Lott's analysis of black minstrelsy and white middle—class culture's attraction to it —helps us understand “Brown's investment in biracial identity as an attribute of ...
Black Mirror: The Cultural Contradictions of American Racism

Black Mirror: The Cultural Contradictions of American Racism

Eric Lott

I have been blessed across many years with gifted students whose work has engaged me and enriched mine: Harry Stecopoulos, Bluford Adams, Doris Witt, Dorri Beam, Mike Bennett, Will Kazmier, David Scott, Anthony Rizzuto, Rebecca ...
Freedomnomics: Why the Free Market Works and Other ...

Freedomnomics: Why the Free Market Works and Other ...

John R. Lott Jr.

Why the Free Market Works and Other Half-baked Theories Don't John R. Lott Jr. Michigan's Jennifer Granholm all advocated prosecuting gas companies who profited from the price increases. The Bush administration got into the act by ...
The Trials of Academe

The Trials of Academe

Amy Gajda

28, 2005; Kevin A. Hassett & John R. Lott Jr., "Partisan Bias in Newspapers? A Study of Headlines Says Yes," Philadelphia Inquirer, Oct. 6, 2004; John R. Lott Jr. , '"Sentencing Fairness' Rules Backfired in Martha's Case," Investor's Business ...
Functional Python Programming

Functional Python Programming

Steven Lott

Author Steven Lott Reviewers Oleg Broytman Rui Carmo Ian Cordasco Julien Danjou Amoatey Harrison Shivin Kapur Gong Yi Commissioning Editor Ed Gordon Acquisition Editor Owen Roberts Content Development Editor Sumeet Sawant ...
At the Brink: Will Obama Push Us Over the Edge?

At the Brink: Will Obama Push Us Over the Edge?

John R. Lott Jr.

John R. Lott Jr. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. “22nd Annual National Survey Questions,” National Association of Chiefs of Police, 2010, http://www. nacoponline.org/22nd.pdf. “Shooting Straight,” Police magazine, March 1, 2007,  ...
Near Black: White-to-Black Passing in American Culture

Near Black: White-to-Black Passing in American Culture

Baz Dreisinger

5. Philip Brian Harper, Are We Not Men? Masculine Anxiety and the Problem of African-American Identity (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996), 126. 6. In various contexts, Eric Lott and Gayle Wald discuss the ways in which blackface ...
Lethal Logic: Exploding the Myths That Paralyze American Gun ...

Lethal Logic: Exploding the Myths That Paralyze American Gun ...

Dennis A. Henigan

Jon Wiener, “Gun Research 'Freak'-out,” LosAngeles Times, May 31, 2006. Lott's suit was dismissed. Lott v. Levitt, 2009 WL 322148 (7th Cir. 2009). See e.g.,John R. LottJr., “The Real Lesson of the School Shootings,” Wall Street Journal, ...
Shelburne: The Book of Samuel

Shelburne: The Book of Samuel

Richard W. Buck

Alena Betty Rummel b 10 Nov 1910 Lott, Falls Co., TX; m 21 May 1934 to Wade Cecil Vinson b 30 Nov 1914 Lott, Falls Co., TX on the Stalworth Farm, son of Thomas Clarion Vinson & Exer Ella Fincher (sister of Lessle Newton Fincher).
"Miscegenation": Making Race in America

"Miscegenation": Making Race in America

Elise Lemire

See Stewart Button, The Guitar in England, 1800–1924 (New York: Garland Publishing, 1989). 33. In his book, Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993), Eric Lott notes of ...
The War on Guns: Arming Yourself Against Gun Control Lies

The War on Guns: Arming Yourself Against Gun Control Lies

John R. Lott Jr.

In The War on Guns, economist and gun rights advocate John Lott turns a skeptical eye to well-funded anti-gun studies and stories that perpetuate false statistics to frighten Americans into giving up their guns.
Freedomnomics: Why the Free Market Works and Other ...

Freedomnomics: Why the Free Market Works and Other ...

John R. Lott Jr.

In Freedomnomics: Why the Free Market Works and Other Half-Baked Theories Don't, economist and bestselling author John R. Lott, Jr., answers these and other common economic questions, bravely confronting the profound distrust of the market ...
The Cambridge History of American Music

The Cambridge History of American Music

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1 850-1 856 (Chicago) Lott, R. Allen 1986 "The American Concert Tours of Leopold de Meyer, Henri Herz, and ... York) 1990 "Bernard Ullman: Nineteenth- Century American Impresario" in Richard Crawford, R. Allen Lott, and Carol ]. Oja (eds.) ...
Drawing the Line: The Father Reimagined in Faulkner, Wright, ...

Drawing the Line: The Father Reimagined in Faulkner, Wright, ...

Doreen Fowler

As Eric Lott repeatedlystresses, the“defin[ing]” element ofthe blackface minstrel show was “white men's investmentinthe black penis” (Love 121). This obsession with the black man's penis, Griffin finds, continues inhis day.When Griffin in ...
From Paris to Peoria: How European Piano Virtuosos Brought ...

From Paris to Peoria: How European Piano Virtuosos Brought ...

R. Allen Lott

How European Piano Virtuosos Brought Classical Music to the American Heartland R. Allen Lott. Fontana, W. A. King, George Loder, Hermann Saroni, William Scharfenberg, Henry C. Timm, and Hermann Wollenhaupt. 20. Performances of the ...
Quicklet on Eric Weiner's The Geography of Bliss

Quicklet on Eric Weiner's The Geography of Bliss

Lacey Kohlmoos

Sources and Additional Reading Sources Bolton Street Synagogue, NPR commentator Eric Weiner sponsored by breathbooks Eric Weiner Books, Bio Book Reporter, Biography: Eric Weiner The Globalist, Eric Weiner World Database of ...
Balancing the Federal Budget: Trimming the Herds or Eating ...

Balancing the Federal Budget: Trimming the Herds or Eating ...

Irene S. Rubin

Clay Chandler, “CPI Proposal Gets Mixed Reaction,” Washington Post, 26 February 1997, C13. Eric Pianin, “Lott Urged to Tone Down Call for Inflation Panel,” Washington Post, 7 March 1997, A11. David Espo, “Cost of Living Adjustment Eyed ...

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