Popular Cultures, Everyday Lives – serie
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Interzones
Black/White Sex Districts in Chicago and New York in the Early Twentieth Century
Inbunden, 1997
2135 kr
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Interzones is an innovative account of how the color line was drawn--and how it was crossed--in twentieth-century American cities. Kevin Mumford chronicles the role of vice districts in New York and Chicago as crucibles for the shaping of racial categories and racial inequalities. Focusing on …
Interzones
Black/White Sex Districts in Chicago and New York in the Early Twentieth Century
Häftad, 1997
567 kr
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Interzones is an innovative account of how the color line was drawn--and how it was crossed--in twentieth-century American cities. Kevin Mumford chronicles the role of vice districts in New York and Chicago as crucibles for the shaping of racial categories and racial inequalities. Focusing on …
Shaky Ground
The Sixties and Its Aftershocks
Av Alice Echols
Inbunden, 2002
2227 kr
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Alice Echols has never shied away from controversy. Long before it was fashionable, she wrote searing critiques of antiporn feminism. Her subsequent books about the 1960s are trenchant and provocative, and written with unflinching honesty. Now she maps an alternative history of contemporary …
Shaky Ground
The Sixties and Its Aftershocks
Av Alice Echols
Häftad, 2002
617 kr
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Alice Echols has never shied away from controversy. Long before it was fashionable, she wrote searing critiques of antiporn feminism. Her subsequent books about the 1960s are trenchant and provocative, and written with unflinching honesty. Now she maps an alternative history of contemporary …
Selling Suffrage
Consumer Culture and Votes for Women
Häftad, 1999
632 kr
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Margaret Finnegan's pathbreaking study of woman suffrage from the 1850s to the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 reveals how activists came to identify with consumer culture and employ its methods of publicity to win popular support through carefully crafted images of enfranchised women as "personable, …
City Reading
Written Words and Public Spaces in Antebellum New York
Av David Henkin
Inbunden, 1998
1245 kr
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Cultural historian David Henkin explores the influential but little-noticed role played by reading in New York City's public life between 1825 and 1865. From the opening of the Erie Canal to the end of the Civil War, New York became a metropolis, and demographic, economic, and physical changes …
City Reading
Written Words and Public Spaces in Antebellum New York
Av David Henkin
Häftad, 1998
308 kr
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Cultural historian David Henkin explores the influential but little-noticed role played by reading in New York City's public life between 1825 and 1865. From the opening of the Erie Canal to the end of the Civil War, New York became a metropolis, and demographic, economic, and physical changes …
Telling Bodies Performing Birth
Everyday Narratives of Childbirth
Inbunden, 1999
1295 kr
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Birth stories, Della Pollock tells us, "are everywhere and nowhere," permeating and haunting our everyday lives. In this remarkable volume Pollock explores the myriad ways in which men and women recount the ritual performance of giving birth. Many of these stories, Pollock observes, rise out of the …
Telling Bodies Performing Birth
Everyday Narratives of Childbirth
Häftad, 1999
325 kr
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Birth stories, Della Pollock tells us, "are everywhere and nowhere," permeating and haunting our everyday lives. In this remarkable volume Pollock explores the myriad ways in which men and women recount the ritual performance of giving birth. Many of these stories, Pollock observes, rise out of the …
Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure
Working Women, Popular Culture, and Labor Politics at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Av Nan Enstad
Inbunden, 1999
2293 kr
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At the beginning of the twentieth century, labor leaders in women's unions routinely chastised their members for their ceaseless pursuit of fashion, avid reading of dime novels, and "affected" ways, including aristocratic airs and accents. Indeed, working women in America were eagerly participating …
Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure
Working Women, Popular Culture, and Labor Politics at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Av Nan Enstad
Häftad, 1999
635 kr
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At the beginning of the twentieth century, labor leaders in women's unions routinely chastised their members for their ceaseless pursuit of fashion, avid reading of dime novels, and "affected" ways, including aristocratic airs and accents. Indeed, working women in America were eagerly participating …
Taking the Train
How Graffiti Art Became an Urban Crisis in New York City
Av Joe Austin
Inbunden, 2002
2609 kr
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In the 1960s and early 1970s, young people in New York City radically altered the tradition of writing their initials on neighborhood walls. Influenced by the widespread use of famous names on billboards, in neon, in magazines, newspapers, and typographies from advertising and comics, city youth …
Taking the Train
How Graffiti Art Became an Urban Crisis in New York City
Av Joe Austin
Häftad, 2002
361 kr
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In the 1960s and early 1970s, young people in New York City radically altered the tradition of writing their initials on neighborhood walls. Influenced by the widespread use of famous names on billboards, in neon, in magazines, newspapers, and typographies from advertising and comics, city youth …
Creating Masculinity in Los Angeles's Little Manila
Working-Class Filipinos and Popular Culture, 1920s-1950s
Inbunden, 2006
2293 kr
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In this new work, Linda Espana-Maram analyzes the politics of popular culture in the lives of Filipino laborers in Los Angeles's Little Manila, from the 1920s to the 1940s. The Filipinos' participation in leisure activities, including the thrills of Chinatown's gambling dens, boxing matches, and …
Creating Masculinity in Los Angeles's Little Manila
Working-Class Filipinos and Popular Culture, 1920s-1950s
Häftad, 2006
620 kr
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In this new work, Linda Espana-Maram analyzes the politics of popular culture in the lives of Filipino laborers in Los Angeles's Little Manila, from the 1920s to the 1940s. The Filipinos' participation in leisure activities, including the thrills of Chinatown's gambling dens, boxing matches, and …
Visions of Belonging
Family Stories, Popular Culture, and Postwar Democracy, 1940-1960
Av Judith Smith
Inbunden, 2004
2435 kr
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Visions of Belonging explores how beloved and still-remembered family stories-A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, I Remember Mama, Gentleman's Agreement, Death of a Salesman, Marty, and A Raisin in the Sun-entered the popular imagination and shaped collective dreams in the postwar years and into the 1950s. …
Visions of Belonging
Family Stories, Popular Culture, and Postwar Democracy, 1940-1960
Av Judith Smith
Häftad, 2006
350 kr
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Visions of Belonging explores how beloved and still-remembered family stories-A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, I Remember Mama, Gentleman's Agreement, Death of a Salesman, Marty, and A Raisin in the Sun-entered the popular imagination and shaped collective dreams in the postwar years and into the 1950s. …
Nuthin' but a "G" Thang
The Culture and Commerce of Gangsta Rap
Av Eithne Quinn
Inbunden, 2004
2135 kr
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In the late 1980s, gangsta rap music emerged in urban America, giving voice to-and making money for-a social group widely considered to be in crisis: young, poor, black men. From its local origins, gangsta rap went on to flood the mainstream, generating enormous popularity and profits. Yet the …
Nuthin' but a "G" Thang
The Culture and Commerce of Gangsta Rap
Av Eithne Quinn
Häftad, 2004
290 kr
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In the late 1980s, gangsta rap music emerged in urban America, giving voice to-and making money for-a social group widely considered to be in crisis: young, poor, black men. From its local origins, gangsta rap went on to flood the mainstream, generating enormous popularity and profits. Yet the …
Selling Suffrage
Consumer Culture and Votes for Women
Inbunden, 1999
982 kr
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Margaret Finnegan's pathbreaking study of woman suffrage from the 1850s to the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 reveals how activists came to identify with consumer culture and employ its methods of publicity to win popular support through carefully crafted images of enfranchised women as "personable, …
From Bomba to Hip-Hop
Puerto Rican Culture and Latino Identity
Av Juan Flores
Häftad, 2000
265 kr
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Neither immigrants nor ethnics, neither foreign nor "hyphenated Americans" in the usual sense of that term, Puerto Ricans in New York have created a distinct identity both on the island of Puerto Rico and in the cultural landscape of the United States. Juan Flores considers the uniqueness of Puerto …
Raising Consumers
Children and the American Mass Market in the Early Twentieth Century
Inbunden, 2004
849 kr
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In the present electronic torrent of MTV and teen flicks, Nintendo and Air Jordan advertisements, consumer culture is an unmistakably important-and controversial-dimension of modern childhood. Historians and social commentators have typically assumed that the child consumer became significant …
Raising Consumers
Children and the American Mass Market in the Early Twentieth Century
Häftad, 2005
290 kr
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In the present electronic torrent of MTV and teen flicks, Nintendo and Air Jordan advertisements, consumer culture is an unmistakably important-and controversial-dimension of modern childhood. Historians and social commentators have typically assumed that the child consumer became significant …
Token of My Affection
Greeting Cards and American Business Culture
Av Barry Shank
Inbunden, 2004
898 kr
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Each year in the United States, millions of mass-produced greeting cards proclaim their occasional messages: "For My Loving Daughter," "On the Occasion of Your Marriage," and "It's a Boy!" For more than 150 years, greeting cards have tapped into and organized a shared language of love, affection, …
Token of My Affection
Greeting Cards and American Business Culture
Av Barry Shank
Häftad, 2006
299 kr
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Each year in the United States, millions of mass-produced greeting cards proclaim their occasional messages: "For My Loving Daughter," "On the Occasion of Your Marriage," and "It's a Boy!" For more than 150 years, greeting cards have tapped into and organized a shared language of love, affection, …
