Beyond Reading Riting Rithmetic

Beyond Reading, 'riting & 'rithmetic

Why does someone pursue a career in teaching? Many may believe that it is because of summer vacations, Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter Breaks, all the Monday holidays that make for short work weeks, the “easy” hours, and the “great” pay and benefits. Some may believe that it is easy to stand in front of a group of young people and motivate them to reach down and grab onto as much knowledge as they can to help them become the best that they can be. Some may just have a field of interest that they were inspired to learn and want to share that with young people, but there is more than the Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic that makes up a teacher, and the rewards don’t always come in money or benefits. This compilation of true stories takes education and the life of Educators way past the scope and realm of the 3 “R”s.

Beyond Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic

The Unintended

Reimagines photography through the long history of ideas of expression The end of the nineteenth century saw massive developments and innovations in photography at a time when the forces of Western modernity—industrialization, racialization, and capitalism—were quickly reshaping the world. The Unintended slows down the moment in which the technology of photography seemed to speed itself—and so the history of racial capitalism—up. It follows the substantial shifts in the markets, mediums, and forms of photography during a legally murky period at the end of the nineteenth century. Monica Huerta traces the subtle and paradoxical ways legal thinking through photographic lenses reinscribed a particular aesthetics of whiteness in the very conceptions of property ownership. The book pulls together an archive that encompasses the histories of performance and portraiture alongside the legal, pursuing the logics by which property rights involving photographs are affirmed (or denied) in precedent-setting court cases and legal texts. Emphasizing the making of “expression” into property to focus our attention on the failures of control that cameras do not invent, but rather put new emphasis on, this book argues that designations of control’s absence are central to the practice and idea of property-making. The Unintended proposes that tracking and analyzing the sensed horizons of intention, control, autonomy, will, and volition offers another way into understanding how white supremacy functions. Ultimately, its unique historical reading practice offers a historically-specific vantage on the everyday workings of racial capitalism and the inheritances of white supremacy that structure so much of our lives.