Background
Graff, Harvey J. was born on June 19, 1949 in Pittsburgh.
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Harvey Graff’s pioneering study presents a new and original interpretation of the place of literacy in nineteenth-century society and culture. Based upon an intensive comparative historical analysis, employing both qualitative and quantitative techniques, and on a wide range of sources, The Literacy Myth reevaluates the role typically assigned to literacy in historical scholarship, cultural understanding, economic development schemes, and social doctrines and ideologies.
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The ninth largest city in the United States, Dallas is exceptional among American cities for the claims of its elites and boosters that it is a "city with no limits" and a "city with no history." Home to the Dallas Cowboys, self-styled as "America's Team," setting for the television series that glamorized its values of self-invention and success, and site of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Dallas looms disproportionately large in the American imagination. Yet it lacks an identity of its own. In The Dallas Myth, Harvey J. Graff presents a novel interpretation of a city that has proudly declared its freedom from the past. He scrutinizes the city's origin myth and its governance ideology, known as the "Dallas Way," looking at how these elements have shaped Dallas and served to limit democratic participation and exacerbate inequality. Advancing beyond a traditional historical perspective, Graff proposes an original, integrative understanding of the city's urban fabric and offers an explicit critique of the reactionary political foundations of modern Dallas: its tolerance for right-wing political violence, the endemic racism and xenophobia, and a planning model that privileges growth and monumental architecture at the expense of the environment and social justice. Revealing the power of myths that have defined the city for so long, Graff presents a new interpretation of Dallas that both deepens our understanding of America's urban landscape and enables its residents to envision a more equitable, humane, and democratic future for all.
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"This book will be a monumental contribution to the topic and a staple of scholarship for decades." ―Michael B. Katz "A remarkable volume of critical synthesis and passionate revisionism." ―Journal of Economic History "... ambitious and stimulating... required reading not only for social historians but also for policy-makers and activists." ―Histoire Sociale "Clearly an important book... marks a significant point in the history of literacy studies." ―History of Education Quarterly "A stimulating challenge to traditional assumptions and scholarly commonplaces." ―Journal of Communication
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We grow up--so simple, it just seems to happen--and yet there are endless variations in the way we do it. What part does culture play in the process? How much do politics and economics have to do with it? As the nation has matured, have the ways people grow up changed too? This book traces the many paths to adulthood that Americans have pursued over time. Spanning more than two centuries of intense transformation in the lives of individuals and the life of a nation, Conflicting Paths is an innovative history of growing up in America. Harvey J. Graff, a distinguished social historian, mines more than five hundred personal narratives for what they can tell us about the passage from childhood to maturity. Drawing on diaries, memoirs, autobiographies, and letters, he builds a penetrating, complex, firsthand account of how childhood, adolescence, and youth have been experienced and understood--as functions of familial and social relations, as products of biology and physiology, and as cultural and political constructs. These first-person testimonies cross the lines of time and space, gender and class, ethnicity, age, and race. In these individual stories and the larger story they constitute, Graff exposes the way social change--including institutional developments and shifting attitudes, expectations, and policy--and personal experience intertwine in the process of growing up. Together, these narratives form a challenging, subtle guide to historical experiences and to the epochal remaking of growing up. The most socially inclusive and historically extensive of any such research, Graff's work constitutes an important chapter in the story of the family, the formation of modern society, and the complex interweaving of young people, tradition, and change.
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( In his latest writings on the history of literacy and i...)
In his latest writings on the history of literacy and its importance for present understanding and future rethinking, historian Harvey J. Graff continues his critical revisions of many commonly held ideas about literacy. The book speaks to central concerns about the place of literacy in modern and late-modern culture and society, and its complicated historical foundations. Drawing on other aspects of his research, Graff places the chapters that follow in the context of current thinking and major concerns about literacy, and the development of both historical and interdisciplinary studies. Special emphasis falls upon the usefulness of "the literacy myth" as an important subject for interdisciplinary study and understanding. Critical stock-taking of the field includes reflections on Graff's own research and writings of the last three decades, and the relationships that connect interdisciplinary rethinking and the literacy myth. The collection is noteworthy for its attention to Graff's reflections on his identification of "the literacy myth" and in developing LiteracyStudies@OSU (Ohio State University) as a model for university-wide interdisciplinary programs. It also deals with ordinary concerns about literacy, or illiteracy, that are shared by academics and concerned citizens. These nontechnical essays will speak to both academic and nonacademic audiences across disciplines and cultural orientations.
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A compelling collection by one of the pioneers of revisionist approaches to the history of literacy in North America and Europe, The Labyrinths of Literacy offers original and controversial views on the relation of literacy to society, leading the way for scholars and citizens who are willing to question the importance and function of literacy in the development of society today.
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history and humanities educator
Graff, Harvey J. was born on June 19, 1949 in Pittsburgh.
Bachelor in History with honors, Northwestern University, 1970; Master of Arts in History and History of Education, U. Toronto, 1971; Doctor of Philosophy in History and History of Education, U. Toronto, 1975; certified, Newberry Library. Institute.
His writings on the history of literacy have been published in eight countries and he is acknowledged internationally for his contributions to urban studies and urban history. Some of his more notable works include two books entitled and Before coming to his current residence at Ohio State University in 2004, Graff taught at the University of Texas at Dallas from 1975-1998 and the University of Texas at San Antonio from 1998 to 2004.
He was a strong proposnent of quantitative social science methods in history.
He was elected the president of the Social Science History Association (1999-2000). In his presidential address Graff argued that traditional historians had successfully counterattacked against quantification and the innovations of the "new social history": The case against the new mixed and confused a lengthy list of ingredients, including the following: history’s supposed loss of identity and humanity in the stain of social science, the fear of subordinating quality to quantity, conceptual and technical fallacies, violation of the literary character and biographical base of “good” history (rhetorical and aesthetic concern), loss of audiences, derogation of history rooted in “great men” and “great events,” trivialization in general, a hodge-podge of ideological objections from all directions, and a fear that new historians were reaping research funds that might otherwise come to their detractors.
To defenders of history as they knew it, the discipline was in crisis, and the pursuit of the new was a major cause.
( A compelling collection by one of the pioneers of revis...)
( The ninth largest city in the United States, Dallas is ...)
( Harvey Graff’s pioneering study presents a new and ori...)
( In his latest writings on the history of literacy and i...)
( We grow up--so simple, it just seems to happen--and yet...)
( We grow up--so simple, it just seems to happen--and ye...)
( "This book will be a monumental contribution to the top...)
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Member Canada Association American Studies (executive committee 1972-1975, program committee 1974), American Educational Research Association (program committee division F 1973), Canada Population Studies Group (steering and program committees 1974-1976), History of Education Society (nominating committee 1976, 79), Women in History Profession (coordinator Southwest coordinating committee 1977-1979), Social Science History Association (regional network coordination 1976-1984, founding chairman Allan Sharlin Memorial award committee 1984-1985, executive committee 1987-1989), American History Association, Organization American Historians, Social History Society, Phi Beta Kappa.