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15 produkter
Special Sorrows
The Diasporic Imagination of Irish, Polish, and Jewish Immigrants in the United States
Häftad, 2002
456 kr
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'A scholarly study of the real roots of what Jacobson calls 'America's largely assimilated but ultimately 'unmeltable' ethics'. It's a startling point of view for readers who are accustomed to the self-congratulatory myth of America as a beacon of liberty to which the 'huddled masses' of the world …
Dancing Down the Barricades
Sammy Davis Jr. and the Long Civil Rights Era
Inbunden, 2023
271 kr
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A deep dive into racial politics, Hollywood, and Black cultural struggles for liberation as reflected in the extraordinary life and times of Sammy Davis Jr. Through the lens of Sammy Davis Jr.'s six-decade career in show business—from vaudeville to Vegas to Broadway, Hollywood, and network …
Dancing Down the Barricades
Sammy Davis Jr. and the Long Civil Rights Era
E-bok, 2023
446 kr
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A deep dive into racial politics, Hollywood, and Black cultural struggles for liberation as reflected in the extraordinary life and times of Sammy Davis Jr. Through the lens of Sammy Davis Jr.'s six-decade career in show business—from vaudeville to Vegas to Broadway, Hollywood, and network TV— …
Dancing Down the Barricades
Sammy Davis Jr. and the Long Civil Rights Era
Häftad, 2024
271 kr
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A deep dive into racial politics, Hollywood, and Black cultural struggles for liberation as reflected in the extraordinary life and times of Sammy Davis Jr. Through the lens of Sammy Davis Jr.'s six-decade career in show business—from vaudeville to Vegas to Broadway, Hollywood, and network …
Roots Too
White Ethnic Revival in Post–Civil Rights America
Häftad, 2008
324 kr
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In the 1950s, America was seen as a vast melting pot in which white ethnic affiliations were on the wane and a common American identity was the norm. Yet by the 1970s, these white ethnics mobilized around a new version of the epic tale of plucky immigrants making their way in the New World through …
Special Sorrows
The Diasporic Imagination of Irish, Polish, and Jewish Immigrants in the United States
Inbunden, 1995
987 kr
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Conventional wisdom would have us believe that every immigrant to the United States “became American,” by choice and with deliberate speed. Yet, as Special Sorrows shows us, this is simply untrue. In this compelling revisionist study, Matthew Frye Jacobson reveals tenacious attachments to the Old …
Whiteness of a Different Color
European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race
Häftad, 1999
336 kr
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America’s racial odyssey is the subject of this remarkable work of historical imagination. Matthew Frye Jacobson argues that race resides not in nature but in the contingencies of politics and culture. In ever-changing racial categories we glimpse the competing theories of history and collective …
Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad, 1876-1917
Häftad, 2001
303 kr
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What Have They Built You to Do?
The Manchurian Candidate and Cold War America
Av Matthew Frye Jacobson, Gaspar Gonzalez
Häftad, 2006
225 kr
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Considered by many to be the best political thriller ever made, The Manchurian Candidate is as entertaining, troubling, and relevant today as it was in 1962. Starring Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, and Angela Lansbury, and directed with probing insight by John Frankenheimer, the film was widely …
Historian's Eye
Photography, History, and the American Present
E-bok, 2019
2229 kr
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Between 2009 and 2014, as the nation contemplated the historic election of Barack Obama and endured the effects of the Great Recession, Matthew Frye Jacobson set out with a camera to explore and document what was discernible to the “historian’s eye” during this tumultuous period. Having collected …
Historian's Eye
Photography, History, and the American Present
Häftad, 2022
371 kr
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Between 2009 and 2014, as the nation contemplated the historic election of Barack Obama and endured the effects of the Great Recession, Matthew Frye Jacobson set out with a camera to explore and document what was discernible to the "historian's eye" during this tumultuous period. Having collected …
Odetta’s One Grain of Sand
Häftad, 2019
151 kr
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When 20-year-old Odetta Holmes—classically trained as a vocalist and poised to become “the next Marian Anderson”—veered away from both opera and musical theater in favor of performing politically charged field hollers, prison songs, work songs, and folk tunes before mixed-race audiences in 1950s …
Odetta’s One Grain of Sand
E-bok, 2019
161 kr
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When 20-year-old Odetta Holmes-classically trained as a vocalist and poised to become “the next Marian Anderson”-veered away from both opera and musical theater in favor of performing politically charged field hollers, prison songs, work songs, and folk tunes before mixed-race audiences in 1950s …
Odetta’s One Grain of Sand
E-bok, 2019
161 kr
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When 20-year-old Odetta Holmes-classically trained as a vocalist and poised to become “the next Marian Anderson”-veered away from both opera and musical theater in favor of performing politically charged field hollers, prison songs, work songs, and folk tunes before mixed-race audiences in 1950s …
Historian's Eye
Photography, History, and the American Present
E-bok, 2019
286 kr
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Between 2009 and 2014, as the nation contemplated the historic election of Barack Obama and endured the effects of the Great Recession, Matthew Frye Jacobson set out with a camera to explore and document what was discernible to the “historian’s eye” during this tumultuous period. Having collected …
