Books written by Bruce Jackson
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Disorderly Conduct
McCarthy was one of the first House members to make the environment a campaign issue . He was good on civil rights and poverty issues . People liked Max McCarthy . He had defeated a Republican neanderthal in a district that had been ...
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In This Timeless Time: Living and Dying on Death Row in America
TDC t154244, received 1-13-60 from Harris Co. with life sentence for on 1-3-77. robbery by assault, paroled to Harris Co. '1 QIIHTII Convicted in the January 1978 shootinq death of Roy A. Deputter during a robbery.
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In This Timeless Time: Living and Dying on Death Row in America
In the first section, "Pictures," ninety-two photographs taken during their fieldwork for the book and documentary film Death Row illustrate life on cell block J in Ellis Unit of the Texas Department of Corrections.
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Sports for Life
Though crippled for life , Reeves provides each one of us with an example of what it means to be grateful just to be alive . Peggy , you were great today ! ... “ I'm so glad I came to watch you swim . It's so much fun to watch you glide ...
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The Story Is True: The Art and Meaning of Telling Stories
Making and experiencing stories, remembering and retelling them is something we all do. We tell stories over meals, at the water cooler, and to both friends and strangers. But how...
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Wake Up Dead Man: Hard Labor and Southern Blues
And he died there . One day while we were getting ready to go to work when he was sitting out there and he turned as white as the snow . Something wrong with him . I was on my way out to work and I was looking right at him .
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Wake Up Dead Man: Afro-American Worksongs from Texas Prisons
Making it in Hell is the subject of this revealing collection of Afro-American worksongs. The inmates sing about prison - the guards, length of sentence, sickness, death, guns - and...
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Pictures from a Drawer: Prison and the Art of Portraiture
For more than forty years Bruce Jackson has been documenting—in books, photographs, audio recording, and film—inmates’ lives in American prisons. In November, 1975, he acquired a collection of old ID...
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In This Timeless Time, Enhanced Ebook: Living and Dying on Death Row in America
Included in this enhanced ebook edition is Jackson and Christian's 1979 documentary film, Death Row.
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Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me: African American Narrative Poetry from Oral Tradition
Anthologizes over one hundred toasts, oral folk poems, with variants, collected from various sources, and examines their functions, themes, backgrounds, and methods of performance.
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Fieldwork
Fieldwork deals with the practical, mechanical, ethical, and theoretical aspects of collecting data.
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The Story Is True: The Art and Meaning of Telling Stories
And, more importantly, how do we change them-and how do they change us? In The Story Is True, author, filmmaker, and photographer Bruce Jackson explores the ways we use the stories that become a central part of our public and private lives.
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Voices from Death Row, Second Edition
This is what Brandon said: I'd like to just comment on the present-day situation in the world As far as what's happening in Asia, Iran to be exact. I believe that it's time that the real issue of religion via politics come into being it ...
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Death Row
I got a little cookbook coming out . It's going to be called the " Cooking Cowboy Cookbook , ” and it's got a cartoon with a recipe . Say the recipe is for chicken fried steak . The chicken is sitting there frying the steak and the ...
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Pictures from a Drawer: Prison and the Art of Portraiture
In November, 1975, he acquired a collection of old ID photos while he was visiting the Cummins Unit, a state prison farm in Arkansas. They are published together for the first time in this remarkable book.
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Never Far from Home: My Journey from Brooklyn to Hip Hop, Microsoft, and the Law
one of the attorneys said, as she shim- mied toward the dance floor, hand extended. I looked around, couldn't believe what I was seeing, or that I was part of it. “Uh-uh. I'm good,” I shouted over the music. She moved closer, took me by ...
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Law and Disorder: Criminal Justice in America
Examines crime statistics, trials, plea bargaining, sentencing, parole, recidivism, and the criminal justice bureaucracy
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Full Color Depression: First Kodachromes from America's Heartland
Full Color Depression: First Kodachromes from America's Heartland
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Never Far from Home: My Journey from Brooklyn to Hip Hop, Microsoft, and the Law
... brothers of the MALIK Fraternity , Inc. and all the brothers from the TAA Chapter . I thank my line brothers : Melvin Boone , Sabir Mateen , Tariq Kareem Shabazz , Erskine Isaac , and our pledge captain , the late David J. Nelson . You ...
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The Green Golfer: Sustainable Strategies for Both Courses and Players
Or perhaps, you're a golfer eager to turn your love for the sport into a force for environmental good? This guide is equally applicable to both individual players and course management.