We’re excited to announce that we’ve signed the talented Todd Snyder, author of 12 ROUNDS IN LO’S GYM, to write a book about Drew “Bundini” Brown, Muhammad Ali’s hype man, and a singular figure in the history of boxing, the genesis of hip-hop, and the culture at large. We thank Drew Brown III for his participation in this project about his father. …
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Lo's Gym Book Tour: March 1, 2018 – 7:00 p.m. Book Release Event / Reading / Book Signing Fr. Benjamin Kuhn, O.F.M., House Siena College, Loudonville, NY March 10, 2018 - 3:00 p.m. Book Signing Bookhouse of Stuyvesant Plaza Albany, New York March 15, 2018 – 4:45 p.m. Conference Presentation Kansas City Marriot Downtown / Convention Center The Conference on …
Trailer Park Kid from Rural West Virginia. First-Generation College Student. College Professor. Reader. Writer. Husband. Daddy. Boxing Aficionado. Rappalachian. Coffee Junkie. Working-Class Scholar. Not in that particular order. I teach college courses that focus on rhetoric’s connection to identity construction. I write about this sort of stuff too. My first book, The Rhetoric of Appalachian …
The book that started it all. In this work the various ways that social, economic, and cultural factors influence the identities and educational aspirations of rural working-class Appalachian learners are explored. The objectives are to highlight the cultural obstacles that impact the intellectual development of such students and to address how these cultural roadblocks make transitioning into …
