Is This Kansas a Lens on Midwest Identity and College Life
An interview with EB discusses how Kansas and the Midwest shape identity, campus culture, and the student experience. He reflects on power dynamics in higher education, the value of a liberal arts education, grading debates, and influences from Joan Didion, James Baldwin, Adrienne Rich, and others. He also notes ongoing reading of The New Jim Crow and ideas for future work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence
Iowa City
Kansas
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Heartland
Iowa
Illinois
Midwest
New Orleans
Hampshire College
Massachusetts
Northwestern
Joan Didion
Bethlehem
Didion
New York
James Baldwin
Adrienne Rich
Charles Simic
Amy Leach
Michelle Alexander
No Man’s Land
Universities choose common books across campuses
Across the nation colleges select shared titles for campus read programs. Tennessee picks The Accidental Asian, Cornell with The Life Before Us, Duke with State of Wonder, Smith College with Dreaming in French, Florida with The Dressmaker of Khair Khana, Kentucky with The Unforgiving Minute, UNC with The Shallows, Wisconsin with Radioactive, Kansas State with The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Ball State with Where Am I Wearing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cornell University
Romain Gary
Duke University
Ann Patchett
Smith College
Paris
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy
Susan Sontag
Angela Davis
Alice Yeager Kaplan
University of Florida
Khair Khana
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
University of Kentucky
Craig Mullaney
University of North Carolina
Nicholas Carr
University of Wisconsin
Lauren Redniss
Kansas State University
Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot
Ball State University
Kelsey Timmerman
Lawrence City Road Work Planned This Week
City announces multiple construction projects including bridge demolition on 23rd Street near Haskell Avenue with a completion in November 2012 and river levee work for Bowersock Mills with detours at North Second and Locust streets. West 11th and Lincoln streets will see concrete rework. through traffic partly maintained. Completion dates vary through spring 2013.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence City
Lawks.us
23Rd Street
Haskell Avenue
Kansas River
Bowersock Mills and Power Co
North Second
Locust Streets
West 11Th Street
North Third Street
Elm
Lincoln Streets
Lincoln and
Perry Streets
North Second _ street
Wakarusa Drive
Harvard Road
Monterey Way
Inverness Drive
Westland Construction Inc
Wimbledon Drive
Inverness
Crossgate Drives
North 200
U.S. Highway 59
Also Mentioned on This Page
Dorothy
Kim Callahan
Mike Yoder
Journal-World Photo
Eula Biss
Kirsten Himle
Minnetonka
Minn
Jane Baer
Greenwood Village
Colo
Thomas Lyons
North Oaks
University of Tennessee
Eric Liu
Mississippi Street
Ninth
10Th Streets
Wimbledon
Baldwin City
Sixth Street
USS
Ames Street
Firetree Avenue
Intrust Bank
Treasury
Wakarusa
Columbia
Vermont
Unber
FDIC
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