Books by Caroline Maun
The
Sleeping /
Virtual Identities: The Construction of Selves in Cyberspace
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Poems by
Caroline Maun
| The Red Rat Snake
All action is active
Including the shrinking
Which creates the void that hate
fills
A comfortable group
Scent of honeysuckle
Silver bullets kissed by open lips
Hiss and pop and sweat of beer
Conversation
Suddenly turns toward difference
Like the time
The red rat snake
Fell from the pine
The shrinking back
Gave it room to strike.
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Colors
There are colors that matter.
For instance:
The range of sapphire in this shallow sea,
The roiling grey of the sky,
The simple uncolored assertion of horizon,
The tans and pinks of flashing shells.
So many, that under other circumstances,
Enough to purchase a continent,
Or, worn artfully in young braids,
Enough to break the heart of a king.
There are so many and each one
Reaches back through its silent testimony.
A garland of sea grass twists around my ankle
And I add green and amber to the list.
A man and wife from Sierra Leone
Converse with a pair of local drunks
Whose threat waits behind the cages of their smiles.
“At least your skin doesn’t burn,” one says,
Touching the man’s ebony arm.
And the man from Africa smiles back,
Although the wife refuses her eyes.
“See you upstairs,” the other says,
Waving his pale finger at the sky. posted 14 November 2005 |
Dr. Caroline Maun
Assistant Professor / Interdisciplinary Studies /
Wayne State University / 5700 Cass Ave. / Detroit, MI 48202 / 313-577-6580
/ email:
caroline.maun@wayne.edu EDUCATION
· Ph. D. in English, 1998.
University of Tennessee, Knoxville. <http://www.utk.edu>
· M.A. in English, 1992. North Carolina State
University, Raleigh, North Carolina. <http://www.ncsu.edu>
· B.A. in English with high honors, 1990.Eckerd
College, St. Petersburg, Florida.
EDUCATIONAL CERTIFICATION
· PIER Certificate in African Studies, Yale
University, 2001.
TEACHING AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan
Assistant Professor of Literacy and Critical Thought,
8/04 to present. Teaching interdisciplinary courses in
writing and oral communication.
Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland
· Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Composition,
7/99 to 5/04. http://jewel.morgan.edu/~english/english.htm>
Teaching Freshman Composition sections face-to-face and
online. Co-Coordinator of the Freshman English Program.
Member of the Honors Program faculty (three-year
appointment from 2002-2005).
· Director, English Resource Writing Center,
11/98 to 5/04. http://jewel.morgan.edu/~english/english.htm>
Supervising student employees, managing grant monies,
faculty liaison with computer support services.
· HUD-EDI Special Projects Grant Co-Recipient,
with Dr. Wendell Jackson, 11/98 to 9/99 (period of
grant). Funds in excess of $79,000 earmarked to improve
the English Resource Writing Center at Morgan State
University: designing lab, training tutors,
instructional technologist, and curriculum design.
Internal Morgan State University grant of $50,000 was
also implemented for equipment.
· Lecturer, 8/98 to 5/99. Teaching Freshman
Studies English composition. posted 13 June 2006
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Greenback Planet: How the Dollar Conquered
the World and Threatened Civilization as We Know It
By H. W. Brands
In Greenback Planet, acclaimed historian H. W. Brands charts the dollar's astonishing rise to become the world's principal currency. Telling the story with the verve of a novelist, he recounts key episodes in U.S. monetary history, from the Civil War debate over fiat money (greenbacks) to the recent worldwide financial crisis. Brands explores the dollar's changing relations to gold and silver and to other currencies and cogently explains how America's economic might made the dollar the fundamental standard of value in world finance. He vividly describes the 1869 Black Friday attempt to corner the gold market, banker J. P. Morgan's bailout of the U.S. treasury, the creation of the Federal Reserve, and President Franklin Roosevelt's handling of the bank panic of 1933. Brands shows how lessons learned (and not learned) in the Great Depression have influenced subsequent U.S. monetary policy, and how the dollar's dominance helped transform economies in countries ranging from Germany and Japan after World War II to Russia and China today. He concludes with a sobering dissection of the 2008 world financial debacle, which exposed the power--and the enormous risks--of the dollar's worldwide reign. The Economy |
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Sex at the Margins
Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry
By Laura María Agustín
This book explodes several myths: that selling sex is completely different from any other kind of work, that migrants who sell sex are passive victims and that the multitude of people out to save them are without self-interest. Laura Agustín makes a passionate case against these stereotypes, arguing that the label 'trafficked' does not accurately describe migrants' lives and that the 'rescue industry' serves to disempower them. Based on extensive research amongst both migrants who sell sex and social helpers, Sex at the Margins provides a radically different analysis. Frequently, says Agustin, migrants make rational choices to travel and work in the sex industry, and although they are treated like a marginalised group they form part of the dynamic global economy. Both powerful and controversial, this book is essential reading for all those who want to understand the increasingly important relationship between sex markets, migration and the desire for social justice. "Sex at the Margins rips apart distinctions between migrants, service work and sexual labour and reveals the utter complexity of the contemporary sex industry. This book is set to be a trailblazer in the study of sexuality."—Lisa Adkins, University of London |
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The White Masters of the
World
From
The World and Africa, 1965
By W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois’
Arraignment and Indictment of White Civilization
(Fletcher)
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