Wayne State Univ. Press

Iron will; Cleveland-Cliffs and the mining of iron ore, 1847-2006.

This institutional history of Cliffs Natural Resources, America's sole remaining independent iron producer, documents the contributions of this mining corporation and its leaders to the nation's industrial past and future. Beginning with the company's founding in the 1850s, the work examines the firm's role in developing the mining potential of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, its struggles in the Great Depression, the boom years of the World War II era, and the consolidations and acquisitions that would allow the company to weather the de-industrialization of the late twentieth century and prosper. The volume includes numerous black and white photos and maps. Reynolds is a professor of history at Michigan Technological University and Dawson is an institutional history writer. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Keepin' it hushed; the barbershop and African American hush harbor rhetoric.

African American rhetoric in the public sphere is often "hushed" because many African Americans still see the public sphere as "hegemonically White, heteronormative, male, and dangerous," according to Nunley (English and rhetoric, U. of California at Riverside), and the hidden rhetorics of African American life, culture, and knowledge therefore remain relegated to the metaphorical (or sometimes not so metaphorical) "barbershop," a "hush harbor" where a different rhetoric reigns. Utilizing an interdisciplinary method utilizing critical theory, philosophy, cultural studies, and rhetoric, Nunley theorizes this African American hush harbor rhetoric and what it reveals about African American subjectivities and knowledge through the examination of literary, poetic, theatrical, filmic, animated, and public texts. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)