Hutchins Library has a book and media display in front of the Reference Desk honoring National Hispanic Heritage Month. The display will run through October 15. Books on the display are available to be checked out.

You can learn more about Hispanic Heritage Month by visiting this website: http://hispanicheritagemonth.gov/

The CFS 207 Class (Family Relations) will host a table the Clothesline Project at the library for students and community to decorate shirts as part of raising awareness about violence against women. The shirts will be then hung in a clothesline at the library through the end of September.

"The Clothesline Project (CLP) is a program started on Cape Cod, MA, in 1990 to address the issue of violence against women. It is a vehicle for women affected by violence to express their emotions by decorating a shirt. They then hang the shirt on a clothesline to be viewed by others as testimony to the problem of violence against women. With the support of many, it has since spread world-wide."

To learn more, you can visit the project's website http://www.clotheslineproject.org/.

See below students creating some of the  t-shirts which  are on display at the library this week through end of September. You can also view other shirts throughout campus.

Check out our convocation display at Hutchins Library!

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Fast Forward by Melanne Verveer; Kim K. Azzarelli; Hillary Rodham Clinton (Foreword by)

Call Number: 650.108 V489f 2015

Publication Date: 2015-10-06

Learn how some of the world''s most inspiring women are using their growing economic power to create success and meaning in their lives while building a better world. . . and how you can too. Important conversations about leaning in, work/life balance and empowering women and girls around the world have energized a generation of women. Fast Forward, by two women leaders whose experience spans corporate America, public service, and global diplomacy, takes the next step. Through interviews with a network of more than seventy trailblazing women, Fast Forward shows women how to accelerate their growing economic power and combine it with purpose to find both success and meaning in their lives. 

Black Women's Christian Activism by Betty Livingston Adams

Call Number: 277.493 A211b 2016

Publication Date: 2016-02-16

When a domestic servant named Violet Johnson moved to the affluent white suburb of Summit, New Jersey in 1897, she became one of just barely a hundred black residents in the town of six thousand. In this avowedly liberal Protestant community, the very definition of “the suburbs” depended on observance of unmarked and fluctuating race and class barriers. But Johnson did not intend to accept the status quo. Establishing a Baptist church a year later, a seemingly moderate act that would have implications far beyond weekly worship, Johnson challenged assumptions of gender and race, advocating for a politics of civic righteousness that would grant African Americans an equal place in a Christian nation. Johnson’s story is powerful, but she was just one among the many working-class activists integral to the budding days of the civil rights movement.  

Women and Elective Office by Sue Thomas (Editor); Clyde Wilcox (Editor)

Call Number: 320.082 W8715

Publication Date: 1998-02-05

This text intends to pick up where other books on women candidates or officeholders leave off. It explores the history of women candidates and officeholders in the USA, synthesizing previous research on these subjects, and offers data and analysis on the current situation of women in the political elite. The book offers students a comprehensive look at where women stand and what has brought them to this point.

 

Women's Studies in Transition by Kate Conway-Turner (Editor); Suzanne Cherrin (Editor); Jessica Schiffman (Editor); Kathleen Doherty Turkel (Editor)

Call Number: 305.407 W8716

Publication Date: 1998-09-01

The central theme of this book focuses on the interdisciplinary linkages within contemporary women's studies scholarship. Authors delineate the shifts in theory and methodology that have occurred as women's studies scholars have worked across disciplines. Scholars grapple with the reality of addressing issues within the areas of medicine, science/math, and family and public policy.

To honor Banned Books Week, Hutchins Library will be hosting a Banned Books Readout on Wednesday, September 28, 2016. The event will take place at 7:30pm in the library's flex space area. Faculty, staff, students, and community members are invited to attend. If you would like to read, choose a short passage from your favorite banned book and be ready to read for five minutes and say briefly why this book matters to you. Professor Beth Feagan is organizing the list of readers. You can e-mail her at feaganb@berea.edu to be added to the list of readers.

Do  you need ideas for a book to read? Well, here are the top ten books challenged  in  2015 and in previous years according to the American Library Association.

Banned Books Week typically takes place during the last week of September. The event was launched in 1982, after a surge "of challenges to books in schools, bookstores and libraries. More than 11,300 books have been challenged since 1982 according to the American Library Association."

In addition, while you are visiting the library, feel free to stop by and check out our book display for Banned Books Week. The books on the display table are available for check out. Simply pick up the book you want and take it to the circulation desk to check it out. The display will be up from now through the end of the month.

Jim Wallis

September 22, 2016, 3:00pm
Phelps-Stokes Auditorium

Sponsored by the Willis D. Weatherford, Jr. Campus Christian Center (CCC)

Jim Wallis is a New York Times bestselling author, public theologian, speaker, and international commentator on ethics and public life. He served on the White House Advisory Council on Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships and was former vice chair of and currently serves on the Global Agenda Council on Values of the World Economic Forum. He is president and founder of Sojourners, where he is also editor-in-chief of Sojourners magazine, which has a combined print and electronic media readership of more than a quarter million people. 

Jim's most recent book's:

• America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America, was released in January 2016. 
• On God’s Side: What Religion Forgets and Politics Hasn’t Learned About Serving the Common Good
• Rediscovering Values: A Guide for Economic and Moral Recovery 
• The Great Awakening:Reviving Faith & Politics in a Post-Religious Right America
• God’s Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It.

Check out some of our amazing books by Jim Wallis at the convocation display in Hutchins Library!

Faith Works by Jim Wallis

Call Number: 261.832 W214f 2000

Publication Date: 2000-03-28

Today more than ever, many people are hungry for spirituality and community. But the most powerful and meaningful spirituality shows itself through action. Jim Wallis is the charismatic preacher, activist, and leader of Call to Renewal, a dynamic new movement that is uniting politics and spirituality to ignite social change and overcome poverty. In his timely, exciting new book, he shows us how we can enrich our own lives by serving our communities. Wallis believes that the making of the modern Christian, Muslim, or Jew is through action. 

God's Politics by Jim Wallis

Call Number: 261.709 W214g 2005

Publication Date: 2005-01-11

Conservative evangelicals have hugged their Bibles, worn their flag pins, and self-righteously attempted to co-opt any discussion of religion and politics. Liberals are embarrassed to discuss their religious beliefs in public and attempt to avoid the subject altogether. Is there an appropriate way Christians and other morally concerned people can express their faith and values in the public debate while still supporting the constitutional separation of church and state? We've become great at pursuing our individual spiritualities, but in the process may have lost sight of the power of religious belief for motivating social reform. 

Who Speaks for God? by Jim Wallis

Call Number: 261.709 W214w

Publication Date: 1996-09-01

A prominent evangelical pastor offers a provocative political and socialmanifesto for all Americans who yearn for more spirit-centered politics but arefed up with the Christian Coalition.Most people across the political and religious spectrum agree that our countryis facing a moral and spiritual crisis, and that restoring values to ourpublic policies and discourse has become a critical issue. But while theReligious Right have taken it upon themselves to represent Christian values, their ideas are actually counter both to the teachings of the scriptures andthe historical tradition of evangelical activism, according to Jim Wallis. 

 

 

For more information about Jim Wallis please visit https://sojo.net/biography/jim-wallis. 

Mariachi tesoro De Rebecca Gonzales

September 12, 2016

8:00 P.M.

Phelps-Stokes Auditorium 

Stephenson memorial concert

Based in Los Angeles, Mariachi Tesoro is a multicultural, mixed gender group of professional musicians. They delight their audiences with a wide variety of genres from traditional Mariachi to Tex-Mex, Latin and Jazz.

Come check out the convocation display and some of these terrific books!

Oye Como Va! by Deborah Pacini Hernandez

Call Number: 781.6408 P118o 2010

Publication Date: 2009-12-28

Pacini Hernandez presents an analysis of the hybridity of Latino musical practices, carefuly documenting the transnational musical interactions between Latinos in the United States & in their countries of origin.

 

 

 

Rhythms of Race by Christina D. Abreu

Call Number: E-Book

Publication Date: 2015-05-01

Among the nearly 90,000 Cubans who settled in New York City and Miami in the 1940s and 1950s were numerous musicians and entertainers, black and white, who did more than fill dance halls with the rhythms of the rumba, mambo, and cha cha cha. In her history of music and race in midcentury America, Christina D. Abreu argues that these musicians, through their work in music festivals, nightclubs, social clubs, and television and film productions, played central roles in the development of Cuban, Afro-Cuban, Latino, and Afro-Latino identities and communities. Abreu draws from previously untapped oral histories, cultural materials, and Spanish-language media to uncover the lives and broader social and cultural significance of these vibrant performers. Keeping in view the wider context of the domestic and international entertainment industries, Abreu underscores how the racially diverse musicians in her study were also migrants and laborers. Her focus on the Cuban presence in New York City and Miami before the Cuban Revolution of 1959 offers a much needed critique of the post-1959 bias in Cuban American studies as well as insights into important connections between Cuban migration and other twentieth-century Latino migrations.

 

Latinos in the New South by Heather A. Smith; Owen J. Furuseth

Call Number: 975.004 L357 2006

Publication Date: 2006-10-28

Latinos have emerged as one of the fastest-growing ethnic populations in the American South. A 'New South' is taking shape in a region where culture and class relations have traditionally been constructed along black-white divides and experience absorbing culturally or linguistically foreign immigrants has been limited. This book presents a multidisciplinary examination of the impacts and responses across the Southeastern United States to contemporary Latino immigration. The rapid and large-scale movement of Latinos into the region has challenged old precepts and forced Southerners to confront the impacts of globalization and transnationalism in their daily lives. Drawing on theoretical perspectives as well as empirical research, the work provides insights into the Latino experience in both urban and rural locales. Each chapter is centred on the nexus between the immigrants' experiences in settling and adapting to new lives in the American South and the construction of transformed social, economic, political and cultural spaces.

Dr. Andrew Mills

September 8, 2016

3:00 PM

Phelps-Stokes Auditorium

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In the charged political environment of the U.S., it is easy to forget that the term “liberal” in “liberal arts” refers not to a political position, but to “liberty” or  “freedom.” Dr. Mills, a Philosophy professor at Otterbein University, will argue that appreciating the value of a liberal arts education rests on recognizing the many ways freedom lies at the heart of what happens in college.

Come check out these books at the Hutchins Library convocation display!

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Titles featuring the writings of Andrew Mills:
 

The Ultimate Harry Potter and Philosophy by William Irwin (Editor); Gregory Bassham (Editor)

Call # 823.914 U472 2010 (Location: Convo Display)

Publication Date: 2010

Chapter 7 -"Patriotism, House Loyalty, and the Obligations of Belonging"  - is by by Andrew Mills

 

 

 

Philosophy Through Teaching by Emily Esch (Editor); Kevin Hermberg (Editor); Rory E. Kraft (Editor)
call # 370.12 E744p 2014 (Location: Convo Display)
Publication Date: 2014
"Concepcion's Approach to Reading Philosophy: A LEsson on How, and Why, to Teach Essential Philosophical Skills" - commentary by Andrew Mills.
 

 

Also about the value of the Liberal Arts:

 

In Defense of a Liberal Education by Fareed Zakaria

Call Number: 370.112 Z216i 2015

Publication Date: 2015

The liberal arts are under attack. The governors of Florida, Texas, and North Carolina have all pledged that they will not spend taxpayer money subsidizing the liberal arts, and they seem to have an unlikely ally in President Obama. While at a General Electric plant in early 2014, Obama remarked, "I promise you, folks can make a lot more, potentially, with skilled manufacturing or the trades than they might with an art history degree." These messages are hitting home: majors like English and history, once very popular and highly respected, are in steep decline. "I get it," writes Fareed Zakaria, recalling the atmosphere in India where he grew up, which was even more obsessed with getting a skills-based education. However, the CNN host and best-selling author explains why this widely held view is mistaken and shortsighted. Zakaria eloquently expounds on the virtues of a liberal arts education--how to write clearly, how to express yourself convincingly, and how to think analytically.

 

Additional titles about Philosophy and Pop Culture:

 

The Simpsons and Philosophy by William Irwin (Editor); Mark T. Conard (Editor); Aeon J. Skoble (Editor)

Call Number: 100 S613

Publication Date: 2001

This unconventional and lighthearted introduction to the ideas of the major Western philosophers examines The Simpsons -- TV’s favorite animated family. The authors look beyond the jokes, the crudeness, the attacks on society -- and see a clever display of irony, social criticism, and philosophical thought. The writers begin with an examination of the characters. Does Homer actually display Aristotle’s virtues of character? In what way does Bart exemplify American pragmatism? The book also examines the ethics and themes of the show, and concludes with discussions of how the series reflects the work of Aristotle, Marx, Camus, Sartre, and other thinkers.

 

Steven Spielberg and Philosophy by Dean A. Kowalski (Editor)

Call Number: 791.4302 S755 2008

Publication Date: 2008

Has any film director had a greater impact on popular culture than Steven Spielberg? Whether filming Holocaust heroes and villains, soldiers, dinosaurs, extraterrestrials, or explorers in search of the Holy Grail, Spielberg has given filmgoers some of the most memorable characters and wrenching moments in the history of cinema. Whatever his subject -- war, cloning, slavery, terrorism, or adventure -- all of Spielberg's films have one aspect in common: a unique view of the moral fabric of humanity. Dean A. Kowalski's Steven Spielberg and Philosophy is like a remarkable conversation after a night at the movie theater, offering new insights and unexpected observations about the director's most admired films. Some of the nation's most respected philosophers investigate Spielberg's art, asking fundamental questions about the nature of humanity, cinema, and Spielberg's expression of his chosen themes. Applying various philosophical principles to the movies, the book explores such topics as the moral demands of parenthood in War of the Worlds; the ultimate unknowability of the "other" in Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Schindler's List; the relationship between nature and morality in Jurassic Park; the notion of consciousness in A.I.: Artificial Intelligence; issues of war theory and ethics in Munich; and the foundation of human rights in Amistad. 

You only have three days left to check out the book display, "In response to Hillbilly Elegy", that is currently installed near the cafe area on the library's main floor.
 

The idea for the display grew from an email written by our Sound Archivist, Harry Rice, who had this to say about the controversial title:
 

J.D. Vance’s recent Hillbilly Elegy has received much negative and positive treatment by the popular press / media (liberal and conservative) and the Appalachian studies community. There is much interest in both what he says and doesn’t say about people in Appalachia. Might a book, media, image, archival collection display ... that portrays contrasting points of view be a good way for the Library to start off the semester?

We couldn't have agreed more, and so currently on display is an array of titles reflecting many different definitions of what it means to be Appalachian, including Hillbilly Elegy itself.

A Reading List in Response to Hillbilly Elegy

Studying Appalachian Studies by Chad Berry (Editor); Philip J. Obermiller (Editor); Shaunna L. Scott (Editor)

Call Number: 974 S933 2015 c. 2

Publication Date: 2015

In this collection, contributors reflect on scholarly, artistic, activist, educational, and practical endeavor known as Appalachian Studies. Following an introduction to the field, the writers discuss how Appalachian Studies illustrates the ways interdisciplinary studies emerge, organize, and institutionalize themselves, and how they engage with intellectual, political, and economic forces both locally and around the world.   Essayists argue for Appalachian Studies' integration with kindred fields like African American studies, women's studies, and Southern studies, and they urge those involved in the field to globalize the perspective of Appalachian Studies; to commit to continued applied, participatory action, and community-based research; to embrace more fully the field's capacity for bringing about social justice; to advocate for a more accurate understanding of Appalachia and its peop≤ and to understand and overcome the obstacles interdisciplinary studies face in the social and institutional construction of knowledge.   

 

Hillbilly by Anthony Harkins

Call Number: 975.009 H282h Copy 2

Publication Date: 2005

In this pioneering work of cultural history, historian Anthony Harkins argues that the hillbilly-in his various guises of "briar hopper," "brush ape," "ridge runner," and "white trash"-has been viewed by mainstream Americans simultaneously as a violent degenerate who threatens the modern order and as a keeper of traditional values of family, home, and physical production, and thus symbolic of a nostalgic past free of the problems of contemporary life. "Hillbilly" signifies both rugged individualism and stubborn backwardness, strong family and kin networks but also inbreeding and bloody feuds. Spanning film, literature, and the entire expanse of American popular culture, from D. W. Griffith to hillbilly music to the Internet, Harkins illustrates how the image of the hillbilly has consistently served as both a marker of social derision and regional pride. He traces the corresponding changes in representations of the hillbilly from late-nineteenth century America, through the great Depression, the mass migrations of Southern Appalachians in the 1940s and 1950s, the War on Poverty in the mid 1960s, and to the present day. Harkins also argues that images of hillbillies have played a critical role in the construction of whiteness and modernity in twentieth century America.

 

Feud by Altina L. Waller

Call Number: 975.4404 W198f Copy 3

Publication Date: 1988

The Hatfield-McCoy feud, the entertaining subject of comic strips, popular songs, movies, and television, has long been a part of American folklore and legend. Ironically, the extraordinary endurance of the myth that has grown up around the Hatfields and McCoys has obscured the consideration of the feud as a serious historical event. In this study, Altina Waller tells the real story of the Hatfields and McCoys and the Tug Valley of West Virginia and Kentucky, placing the feud in the context of community and regional change in the era of industrialization. Waller argues that the legendary feud was not an outgrowth of an inherently violent mountain culture but rather one manifestation of a contest for social and economic control between local people and outside industrial capitalists -- the Hatfields were defending community autonomy while the McCoys were allied with the forces of industrial capitalism. 

 

Southern Migrants, Northern Exiles by Chad Berry
Call Number:  304.809 B534so Copy 1 
Publication Date: 2000
One of the largest internal migrations in U.S. history, the great white migration left its mark on virtually every family in every southern upland and flatland town. In this extraordinary record of ordinary lives, dozens of white southern migrants describe their experiences in the northern "wilderness" and their irradicable attachments to family and community in the South. Southern out-migration drew millions of southern workers to the steel mills, automobile factories, and even agricultural fields and orchards of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, and Illinois. Through vivid oral histories, Chad Berry explores the conflict between migrants' economic success and their "spiritual exile" in the North. He documents the tension between factory owners who welcomed cheap, naive southern laborers and local "native" workers who greeted migrants with suspicion and hostility. He examines the phenomenon of "shuttle migration," in which migrants came north to work during the winter and returned home to plant spring crops on their southern farms. He also explores the impact of southern traditions--especially the southern evangelical church and "hillbilly" music--brought north by migrants.Berry argues that in spite of being scorned by midwesterners for violence, fecundity, intoxication, laziness, and squalor, the vast majority of southern whites who moved to the Midwest found the economic prosperity they were seeking. By allowing southern migrants to assess their own experiences and tell their own stories, Southern Migrants, Northern Exiles refutes persistent stereotypes about migrants' clannishness, life-style, work ethic, and success in the North.

A History of Appalachia by Richard B. Drake

Call Number: 975 D762h Copy 3

Publication Date: 2000

For more than 20 years historians have expressed the critical need for a single-volume history of Appalachia in Virginia. Responding to this demand, the author of this text has woven together the various strands of the Appalachian experience into a sweeping whole.

 

 

Appalachia in the Making by Mary Beth Pudup (Editor); Dwight B. Billings (Editor); Altina L. Waller (Editor)

Call Number: 975 A64545 Copy 3

Publication Date: 1995

Appalachia first entered the American consciousness as a distinct region in the decades following the Civil War. The place and its people have long been seen as backwards and 'other' because of their perceived geographical, social, and economic isolation. These essays, by fourteen eminent historians and social scientists, illuminate important dimensions of early social life in diverse sections of the Appalachian mountains. The contributors seek to place the study of Appalachia within the context of comparative regional studies of the United States, maintaining that processes and patterns thought to make the region exceptional were not necessarily unique to the mountain South. 

 

Mountain Families in Transition by Harry K. Schwarzweller; J. J. Mangalam; James Brown

Call Number: 301.32 S411m

Publication Date: 1991

A result of almost three decades of research, this is a highly readable account of the people and families of an isolated mountain locality in eastern Kentucky as they struggled to adapt to the increasingly dismal economic and social conditions of Appalachia. Focusing with rare insight and compassion upon the families which finally moved from their subsistence-farming localities, this study details how they made the move and how they fared in the large industrial centers to the north. Mountain Families in Transition is a model study of the many ramifications, the intricacies, and the problems involved in the urban relocation of a mountain people long isolated from the mainstream of American society. In many ways this classic in the literature of sociology parallels accounts of the immigrant groups in America at the turn of the century.

 

Power and Powerlessness by John Gaventa

Call Number: 320.975 G282p Copy 4

Publication Date: 1980

 

 

 

 

 

Appalachia on Our Mind by Henry D. Shapiro

Call Number: 301.2975 S529a

Publication Date: 1978

Appalachia on Our Mind is not a history of Appalachia. It is rather a history of the American idea of Appalachia. The author argues that the emergence of this idea has little to do with the realities of mountain life but was the result of a need to reconcile the "otherness" of Appalachia, as described by local-color writers, tourists, and home missionaries, with assumptions about the nature of America and American civilization. Between 1870 and 1900, it became clear that the existence of the "strange land and peculiar people" of the southern mountains challenged dominant notions about the basic homogeneity of the American people and the progress of the United States toward achieving a uniform national civilization. In his skillful examination of the "invention" of the idea of Appalachia and its impact on American thought and action during the early twentieth century, Mr. Shapiro analyzes the following: the "discovery" of Appalachia as a field for fiction by the local-color writers and as a field for benevolent work by the home missionaries of the northern Protestant churches; the emergence of the "problem" of Appalachia and attempts to solve it through explanation and social action; the articulation of a regionalist definition of Appalachia and the establishment of institutions that reinforced that definition; the impact of that rationalistic definition of Appalachia on the conduct of systematic benevolence, especially in the context of the debate over child-labor restriction and the transformation of philanthropy into community work; and the attempt to discover the bases for an indigenous mountain culture in handicrafts, folk song, and folk dance.

 

Appalachian Images in Folk and Popular Culture by W. K. McNeil; 

Call Number: 975 A6457 1995 Copy 1 
Publication Date: 1989

A compilation of articles and essays from the past 130 years on the character and spirit of Appalachian culture, organized according to four major periods in the awareness of Appalachian culture. Essays covering Kentucky feuds, moonshining, handcrafts, dietary habits, and religion include introductions and editorial commentary.

 

 

 Appalachia by Phillip J. Obermiller; Mike E. Maloney
Call Number: 975 A6465 2007 
Publication Date: 2006

Useful for students, human service workers, educators, researchers, librarians, reporters, administrators, and policy makers, this book contains essays that offer a different perspective on Appalachia. It also contains sophisticated theoretical analyses of the region and of similar places worldwide that have emerged from that public discourse.
 

Hillbilly Elegy by J. D. Vance
Call Number: 305.562 V222h 2016 
Publication Date: 2016
From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America’s white working class Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—that of white working-class Americans. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over forty years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck. The Vance family story begins hopefully in postwar America. J. D.’s grandparents were “dirt poor and in love,” and moved north from Kentucky’s Appalachia region to Ohio in the hopes of escaping the dreadful poverty around them. They raised a middle-class family, and eventually their grandchild (the author) would graduate from Yale Law School, a conventional marker of their success in achieving generational upward mobility. But as the family saga of Hillbilly Elegy plays out, we learn that this is only the short, superficial version. Vance’s grandparents, aunt, uncle, sister, and, most of all, his mother, struggled profoundly with the demands of their new middle-class life, and were never able to fully escape the legacy of abuse, alcoholism, poverty, and trauma so characteristic of their part of America.