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  2. Gwendolyn Brooks - Wikipedia

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    Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks (June 7, 1917 – December 3, 2000) was an American poet, author, and teacher. Her work often dealt with the personal celebrations and struggles of ordinary people in her community.

  3. Maud Martha - Wikipedia

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    Maud Martha is a 1953 novel written by Pulitzer Prize winning African American poet Gwendolyn Brooks. Structured as a series of thirty-four vignettes, it follows the titular character Maud Martha a young Black girl growing up in late 1920's Chicago.

  4. Dudley Randall - Wikipedia

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    Randall in 1972. Dudley Randall (January 14, 1914 – August 5, 2000) was an African-American poet and poetry publisher from Detroit, Michigan. [1] He founded a pioneering publishing company called Broadside Press in 1965, which published many leading African-American writers, among them Melvin Tolson, Sonia Sanchez, [2] Audre Lorde, Gwendolyn Brooks, [2] Etheridge Knight, Margaret Walker, and ...

  5. List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1946 - Wikipedia

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    Analysis of the political writings of Jean Jacques Rousseau "from the standpoint of the debate about majority-rule in the modern state" [40] [3] [24] Franz Leopold Neumann: Bureau of Intelligence and Research; Columbia University: Possible principles of joint action by the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union in the disputed areas ...

  6. Jefferson Lecture - Wikipedia

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    The heads of the American Council of Learned Societies and the National Humanities Alliance expressed concerns about introducing political considerations into the selection, while William J. Bennett, a conservative Republican and former chairman of the NEH under President Ronald Reagan, charged that the proposal was an example of how Clinton ...

  7. Positive political theory - Wikipedia

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    Positive political theory (PPT), explanatory political theory, or formal theory is the study of politics using formal methods such as social choice theory, game theory, and statistical analysis. In particular, social choice theoretic methods are often used to describe and (axiomatically) analyze the performance of rules or institutions.

  8. Golden shovel - Wikipedia

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    A golden shovel is a poetic form in which the last word of each line forms a second, pre-existing poem (or section thereof), to which the poet is paying homage.. It was created by Terrance Hayes, whose poem "Golden Shovel" (from his 2010 collection Lighthead) [1] is based on Gwendolyn Brooks' "We Real Cool" (which begins with an epigraph that includes the phrase "Golden Shovel").

  9. The arts and politics - Wikipedia

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    A strong relationship between the arts and politics, particularly between various kinds of art and power, occurs across historical epochs and cultures.As they respond to contemporaneous events and politics, the arts take on political as well as social dimensions, becoming themselves a focus of controversy and even a force of political as well as social change.