Pragmatism contributes utilitarianism,
immediatism, adaptability, the objective of producing useful, applicable learning and of adjusting the individual to a reality that is extremely dynamic and mobile (12).
Within reach of the distrust of the merchants of death who fight each other for control over the favela, they need to be vigilant to resist the pressure of
immediatism, consumption, and the changing webs of involvement in crime.
Slave rebellions, Sinha sensibly insists, lay at the heart of the abolitionist movement and forced moderate whites to abandon gradualism for
immediatism. And far more than their white allies, black abolitionists denounced racism and theories of black inferiority, which were then prevalent around the Atlantic world.
She recasts the emergence of immediate abolitionism as an "interracial
immediatism" arising from black protest from David Walker to Freedom's Journal.
To give a recent example: The
immediatism of the media, as in the case of the recent terror bombings in Istanbul's Sultan Ahmet quarter, led to a decrease of tourist bookings by 40 per cent.
Guarneri, "Brook Farm and the Fourierist Phalanxes:
Immediatism, Gradualism, and American Utopian Socialism," in Pitzer, America's Communal Utopias, 160-68.
1816); David Brion Davis, The Emergence of
Immediatism in British and American Antislavery Thought, 49 MISS.
Speaker Tom Army, professor of history at UMass - Amherst, "From Gradualism to
Immediatism: The Black Abolitionist Movement in the Coming of the Civil War,'' 7 p.m.
Mott converted to "
immediatism" after reading Elizabeth Heyrick's influential pamphlet, Immediate, not Gradual Abolition or An Inquiry Into the Shortest, Safest, and Most Effectual Means of Getting Rid of West Indian Slavery, published in England in 1824.