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Colonizing Trick
National Culture and Imperial Citizenship in Early America
Häftad, 2003
297 kr
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An illuminating look at the concepts of race, nation, and equality in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century AmericaThe idea that “all men are created equal” is as close to a universal tenet as exists in American history. In this hard-hitting book, David Kazanjian interrogates this tenet, exploring …
New American Exceptionalism
Häftad, 2009
284 kr
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For a half century following the end of World War II, the seemingly permanent cold war provided the United States with an organizing logic that governed nearly every aspect of American society and culture, giving rise to an unwavering belief in the nation's exceptionalism in global affairs and …
New American Studies
Häftad, 2002
297 kr
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A clarion call for a more theoretically and politically informed approach to American StudiesJohn Carlos Rowe, a leading American Studies scholar, has examined his field of study and declared it not ready for the twenty-first century. In The New American Studies, Rowe demands a reinvention of the …
Those Without a Country
The Political Culture of Italian American Syndicalists
Häftad, 2001
304 kr
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In the first book-length history of the Italian American syndicalist movement-the Italian Socialist Federation-Michael Miller Topp presents a new way of understanding the Progressive Era labor movement in relation to migration, transnationalism, gender, and class identity. Those without a Country …
Not the Triumph but the Struggle
The 1968 Olympics and the Making of the Black Athlete
Av Amy Bass
Häftad, 2004
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224 kr
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A sweeping look at black athletes through the lens of the black power protests at the Mexico City Olympics-now in paperback!Jesse Owens. Muhammad Ali. Michael Jordan. Tiger Woods. All are iconic black athletes, as are Tommie Smith and John Carlos, the African American track and field medalists who …
American Studies in a Moment of Danger
Häftad, 2001
302 kr
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A forthright look at the future of the discipline in the wake of immense social changes.What becomes of "national knowledge" in our age of globalization? If dramatic changes in technology, commerce, and social relations are undermining familiar connections between culture and place, what happens to …
Death of a Nation
American Culture and the End of Exceptionalism
Häftad, 2002
311 kr
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A trenchant examination of epic shifts in American thought by a major scholar in the field.In the 1940s, American thought experienced a cataclysmic paradigm shift. Before then, national ideology was shaped by American exceptionalism and bourgeois nationalism: elites saw themselves as the children …
Aberrations in Black
Toward a Queer of Color Critique
Häftad, 2003
249 kr
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A hard-hitting look at the regulation of sexual difference and its role in circumscribing African American cultureThe sociology of race relations in America typically describes an intersection of poverty, race, and economic discrimination. But what is missing from the picture-sexual difference-can …
Catching Hell in the City of Angels
Life and Meanings of Blackness in South Central Los Angeles
Häftad, 2006
227 kr
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Since the 1980s, Los Angeles has become the most racially and economically divided city in the United States. In the poorest parts of South Central Los Angeles, buildings in disrepair-the legacy of racial unrest. Moving beyond stereotypes of South Central's predominantly African American residents, …
Urban Triage
Race and the Fictions of Multiculturalism
Häftad, 2004
348 kr
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Assesses fictional representations of racial conflict, cooperation, and complicity amid the urban crisis of the 1980sIn the 1980s, America witnessed an explosion in the production, popularity, and influence of literary works by people of color and a decade long economic downturn that severely …
At Home in Diaspora
Black International Writing
Häftad, 2005
314 kr
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Although he never lived in Harlem, Chester Himes commented that he experienced "a sort of pure homesickness" while creating the Harlem-set detective novels from his self-imposed exile in Paris. Through writing, Himes constructed an imaginary home informed both by nostalgia for a community he never …
Mangos, Chiles, and Truckers
The Business of Transnationalism
Häftad, 2005
273 kr
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Mangos, Chiles, and Truckers illuminates how local groups and individuals engage the global world and capitalism in creative ways. Robert Alvarez analyzes how the produce and trucking industries in Mexico affect the organization of work, community, and social space for miles on either side of the …
Heartbeat of Struggle
The Revolutionary Life of Yuri Kochiyama
Häftad, 2005
294 kr
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On February 12, 1965, in the Audubon Ballroom, Yuri Kochiyama cradled Malcolm X in her arms as he died, but her role as a public servant and activist began much earlier than this pivotal public moment. Heartbeat of Struggle is the first biography of this courageous woman, the most prominent Asian …
Mestizaje
Critical Uses of Race in Chicano Culture
Häftad, 2006
248 kr
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Focusing on the often unrecognized role race plays in expressions of Chicano culture, Mestizaje is a provocative exploration of the volatility and mutability of racial identities. In this important moment in Chicano studies, Rafael Pérez-Torres reveals how the concepts and realities of race, …
Next to the Color Line
Gender, Sexuality, and W. E. B. Du Bois
Av Susan Gillman, Alys Weinbaum
Häftad, 2007
290 kr
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Although W. E. B. Du Bois did not often pursue the connections between the "Negro question" that defined so much of his intellectual life and the "woman question" that engaged writers and feminist activists around him, Next to the Color Line argues that within Du Bois's work is a politics of …
Cannibal Democracy
Race and Representation in the Literature of the Americas
Av Zita Nunes
Häftad, 2008
317 kr
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Zita Nunes argues that the prevailing narratives of identity formation throughout the Americas share a dependence on metaphors of incorporation and, often, of cannibalism. From the position of the incorporating body, the construction of a national and racial identity through a process of …
Chains of Babylon
The Rise of Asian America
Häftad, 2009
232 kr
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In Chains of Babylon, Daryl J. Maeda presents a cultural history of Asian American activism in the late 1960s and early 1970s, showing how the movement created the category of "Asian American" to join Asians of many ethnicities in racial solidarity. Drawing on the Black Power and antiwar movements, …
American Pietàs
Visions of Race, Death, and the Maternal
Häftad, 2011
284 kr
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In American PietÀs, Ruby C. Tapia reveals how visual representations of racialized motherhood shape and reflect national citizenship. By means of a sustained engagement with Roland Barthes’s suturing of race, death, and the maternal in Camera Lucida, Tapia contends that the contradictory essence of …
Ends of Empire
Asian American Critique and the Cold War
Av Jodi Kim
Häftad, 2010
311 kr
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Ends of Empire examines Asian American cultural production and its challenge to the dominant understanding of American imperialism, Cold War dynamics, and race and gender formation. Jodi Kim demonstrates the degree to which Asian American literature and film critique the record of U.S. imperial …
Mythohistorical Interventions
The Chicano Movement and Its Legacies
Av Lee Bebout
Häftad, 2011
313 kr
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Mythohistorical Interventions explores how myth and history impacted the social struggle of the Chicano movement and the postmovement years. Drawing on archival materials and political speeches as well as music and protest poetry, Lee Bebout scrutinizes the ideas that emerged from the effort to …
Triangulations
Narrative Strategies for Navigating Latino Identity
Häftad, 2011
351 kr
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Just as mariners use triangulation, mapping an imaginary triangle between two known positions and an unknown location, so, David J. VÁzquez contends, Latino authors in late twentieth-century America employ the coordinates of familiar ideas of self to find their way to new, complex identities. …
Samurai Among Panthers
Richard Aoki on Race, Resistance, and a Paradoxical Life
Häftad, 2012
290 kr
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An iconic figure of the Asian American movement, Richard Aoki (1938–2009) was also, as the most prominent non-Black member of the Black Panther Party, a key architect of Afro-Asian solidarity in the 1960s and ’70s. His life story exposes the personal side of political activism as it illuminates the …
Debating the End of History
The Marketplace, Utopia, and the Fragmentation of Intellectual Life
Häftad, 2012
313 kr
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Why do modern people assume that there will be perpetual economic growth? Because, David W. Noble tells us in this provocative study of cultural criticism, such a utopian conviction is the necessary foundation for bourgeois culture. One can imagine the existence of modern middle classes only as …
Reinventing Citizenship
Black Los Angeles, Korean Kawasaki, and Community Participation
Häftad, 2014
311 kr
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In the 1960s and 1970s, the United States and Japan went through massive welfare expansions that sparked debates about citizenship. At the heart of these disputes stood African Americans and Koreans. Reinventing Citizenship offers a comparative study of African American welfare activism in Los …
Distant Wars Visible
The Ambivalence of Witnessing
Av Wendy Kozol
Häftad, 2014
282 kr
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In our wired world, visual images of military conflict and political strife are ubiquitous. Far less obvious, far more elusive, is how we see such images, how witnessing military violence and suffering affects us. Distant Wars Visible brings a new perspective to such enduring questions about …
Peace Corps Fantasies
How Development Shaped the Global Sixties
Av Molly Geidel
Häftad, 2015
331 kr
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To tens of thousands of volunteers in its first decade, the Peace Corps was “the toughest job you’ll ever love.” In the United States’ popular imagination to this day, it is a symbol of selfless altruism and the most successful program of John F. Kennedy’s presidency. But in her provocative new …
Culture Concept
Writing and Difference in the Age of Realism
Häftad, 2002
332 kr
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Examines the prehistory of the American struggle to address cultural difference."Culture" is a term we commonly use to explain the differences in our ways of living. In this book Michael A. Elliott returns to the moment this usage was first articulated, tracing the concept of culture to the …
