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Teaching Why We Fight to high schoolers My students love the book. One thing that jumps out is how clearly Blattman writes. For high school students who are encountering a big topic for the first time, clarity is incredibly important. The book really speaks to a wide audience. —Matt Cone, Carrboro High School, Carrboro, North […]
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Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of literature Boxes -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Chapter 1. In Partnership -- The Partnership's Cast of Characters -- The Book's Design -- Chapter 2. A City, a Community, a University, a Partnership -- Staying, Not Running -- A Partnership -- A Turn to Narrative -- Making Visible the Partnership and Its Practices -- Ordinary Words, Urban Worlds -- Coda-A Partnership -- Chapter 3. A Decade: A Chronology of Projects -- "We Need Help" -- The Civic, an Introduction -- Getting Started, a Project on Backyarders -- Out of the Classroom, into the City -- Land Occupation, a Shift in Research Agenda -- Who Has Moved into Agste Laan? -- Civic Work and Its Wide Parameters -- Minstrels as Community Development -- Making Ends Meet, Neighborhood Economies -- Incremental Rhythms -- Coda-A Process -- Chapter 4. Crisscrossing Contradictions, Compromises, and Complicities -- Navigating -- Ek Is Die Baas! -- Don't Worry Lady, I Have a Gun, I'll Shoot! -- Disquieting Differences in a Wilted, Waterless Garden -- A Partner, a Land Invader, a Ward Forum Member -- Fear, the Complicities of Xenophobia -- A Complaint -- Didn't You Wonder Why? Neighborhood Crime and Violence -- An Endpoint -- An Empty Fridge -- Coda-Contradiction -- Chapter 5. Teaching and Learning: Across the City, Back and Forth -- Onto the Bus -- A Gangster Snap, a Zoo -- Engage with Respect, a Guide -- Questioning What We Know -- In Homes, Not Shacks! Interrogating Readings -- A Toolbox for Writing -- Critique Leavened with Love -- Coda-Teaching -- Chapter 6. Research: A Web of Writing Practices and Publics -- Writing Practices -- Research Posters Taped to Walls -- "There We Are on the Map" -- Located in Journal Articles -- Yellow Pages in Every Household -- "That's My Book!".

Rarely is one allowed such an intimate glimpse into the ""high peaks"" of a life so extraordinary and exciting as that of C. V. Whitney.Scion of a distinguished family of great wealth, ""Sonny"" Whitney early displayed the zest for life and the adventurous spirit which have led him into a varied array of achievements remarkable even for the Whitney clan. A pilot in World War I and an AAF officer in World War II who was involved in such events as Iwo Jima and El Alamein, Whitney later, as assistant secretary of the air force, played a crucial role in ending the Berlin blockade. A sportsman with