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Deconstructing America

Author : Peter Mason
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040001521
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Deconstructing America written by Peter Mason and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-02-29 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1990, Deconstructing America breaks new ground by locating the European discovery of America within the study of representations of Otherness. Peter Mason acknowledges that America was part of the European imagination before its discovery, but challenges the claim that the European vision of America is merely a distorted view of some extra-European reality. He relates the way in which Europe tended to see the inhabitants of South America as monstrous figures to a longstanding European tradition on the ‘Plinian’ human races, and goes on to point out that the existence of similar representations among contemporary Amerindian peoples calls into question the extent to which ethnocentrism is an exclusively European idea. Drawing on anthropological, literary and philosophical studies, he shows how European representations of America constitute a cultural monologue which tells more about the Old World than the New. This book will be a stimulating reading for all those working in the fields of symbolic and cultural anthropology, semiotics, cultural studies, Latin America, structuralism and deconstruction.

Deconstruction Is/In America

Author : Anselm Haverkamp
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 081474477X
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Deconstruction Is/In America written by Anselm Haverkamp and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What impact has deconstruction had on the way we read American culture? And how is American culture itself peculiarly deconstructive? To address these questions, this volume brings together some of the most provocative thinkers associated with deconstruction, among them Jacques Derrida, Judith Butler, and Avital Ronnel. Ranging across a wide field, from the ethics of reading to the rhetoric of performance, the contributors offer provocative insights into a new sense of the political. The America of the volume's title turns out to be the place where the politics and poetics of responsibility meet. It is also the place where we confront the tension between difference and profound otherness.

Deconstructing America

Author : Peter Mason
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781032725321
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (253 download)

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Download or read book Deconstructing America written by Peter Mason and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1990, Deconstructing America breaks new ground by locating the European discovery of America within the study of representations of Otherness. Peter Mason acknowledges that America was part of the European imagination before its discovery, but challenges the claim that the European vision of America is merely a distorted view of some extra-European reality. He relates the way in which Europe tended to see the inhabitants of South America as monstrous figures to a longstanding European tradition on the 'Plinian' human races, and goes on to point out that the existence of similar representations among contemporary Amerindian peoples calls into question the extent to which ethnocentrism is an exclusively European idea. Drawing on anthropological, literary and philosophical studies, he shows how European representations of America constitute a cultural monologue which tells more about the Old World than the New. This book will be a stimulating reading for all those working in the fields of symbolic and cultural anthropology, semiotics, cultural studies, Latin America, structuralism and deconstruction.

Deconstructing the American Mosque

Author : Akel Ismail Kahera
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292779755
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Deconstructing the American Mosque written by Akel Ismail Kahera and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the avant-garde design of the Islamic Cultural Center in New York City to the simplicity of the Dar al-Islam Mosque in Abiquiu, New Mexico, the American mosque takes many forms of visual and architectural expression. The absence of a single, authoritative model and the plurality of design nuances reflect the heterogeneity of the American Muslim community itself, which embodies a whole spectrum of ethnic origins, traditions, and religious practices. In this book, Akel Ismail Kahera explores the history and theory of Muslim religious aesthetics in the United States since 1950. Using a notion of deconstruction based on the concepts of "jamal" (beauty), "subject," and "object" found in the writings of Ibn Arabi (d. 1240), he interprets the forms and meanings of several American mosques from across the country. His analysis contributes to three debates within the formulation of a Muslim aesthetics in North America—first, over the meaning, purpose, and function of visual religious expression; second, over the spatial and visual affinities between American and non-American mosques, including the Prophet's mosque at Madinah, Arabia; and third, over the relevance of culture, place, and identity to the making of contemporary religious expression in North America.

Deconstructing Obama

Author : Jack Cashill
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9781451611137
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (111 download)

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Download or read book Deconstructing Obama written by Jack Cashill and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-02-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did Obama write his own books and is the story they tell true? “I've written two books,” Barack Obama told a crowd of teachers in July of 2008. “I actually wrote them myself.” The teachers exploded in laughter. They got the joke: lesser politicians were not bright enough to do the same. During the 2008 presidential campaign, Obama supporters pointed to the first of those two books, the 1995 memoir, Dreams from My Father, as proof of Obama’s superior intellect. Time magazine called Dreams “the best-written memoir ever produced by an American politician.” The Obama campaign machine traded on the candidate’s literary reputation, encouraging volunteers to “get out the vote and keep talking to others about the genius of Barack Obama.” There was just one small flaw, as writer and literary detective Jack Cashill discovered months before the November 2008 election: nothing in Obama’s history suggested he was capable of writing either Dreams or his 2006 book, The Audacity of Hope. In fact, as Cashill continued his research, he came to the shocking conclusion that the real craftsman behind Dreams was terrorist emeritus Bill Ayers. “This was a charge,” David Remnick admits in his definitive Obama biography, The Bridge, “that if ever proved true, or believed to be true among enough voters, could have been the end of the candidacy.” Deconstructing Obama tells the story of what happens when a citizen journalist discovers a game-changing reality that the media refuse to acknowledge. Despite their rejection, Cashill expanded his research into Obama’s literary canon. As he came to see, if Dreams serves as sacred text, the poem “Pop” is the Rosetta stone, the key to deciphering Obama’s shrouded past, his fragile psyche, and his uniquely cryptic political life. In unlocking that past, Cashill discovered that the story that Obama has been telling all his life varies from the true story in ways big and small. In fact, much of Obama’s life story appears to be a wholly constructed fabrication, one that Jack Cashill “deconstructs” to show the world just who Barack Obama really is.

Deconstructing Tyrone

Author : Natalie Hopkinson
Publisher : Cleis Press
ISBN 13 : 1573442577
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (734 download)

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Download or read book Deconstructing Tyrone written by Natalie Hopkinson and published by Cleis Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A portrait of today's African-American male evaluates both archetypes and stereotypes, exploring black masculinity as it is represented by a range of personalities, from professionals and hip-hop figures to family men and criminals. Original.

Deconstructing Reagan: Conservative Mythology and America's Fortieth President

Author : Kyle Longley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317473248
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Deconstructing Reagan: Conservative Mythology and America's Fortieth President written by Kyle Longley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-01-28 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although he left office nearly 20 years ago, Ronald Reagan remains a potent symbol for the conservative movement. The Bush administration frequently invokes his legacy as it formulates and promotes its fiscal, domestic, and foreign policies. His name is watchword for campus conservatives who regard him in a way that borders on hero worship. Conservative media pundits often equate the term "Reagan-esque" with personal honor, fiscal rectitude, and unqualified success in dealing with foreign threats. But how much of the Reagan legacy is based on fact, how much on idealized myth? And what are the reasons - political and otherwise - behind the mythmaking? "Deconstructing Reagan" is a fascinating study of the interplay of politics and memory concerning our fortieth president. While giving credit where credit is due, the authors scrutinize key aspects of the Reagan legacy and the conservative mythology that surrounds it.

The Power To Control

Author : Tom Pane
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (965 download)

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Download or read book The Power To Control written by Tom Pane and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-06 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Power To Control, you will find out how the elite use their vast wealth and power to manipulate you and the general population into supporting their beliefs and interests. The modern human struggle is not about sex, religion, race, ideology, or any of the common themes elites and their media companies and institutions claim it is, as they rile up the populace to garner support for whatever actions and goals will benefit their own interests. The true battle is class warfare between the owners of society and everyone else, as the elites of all societies across the world conspire against the masses by directing the systems and institutions they own and control to create an imbalanced playing field that benefits themselves at the expense of all others.

Deconstruction Is/in America

Author : Anselm Haverkamp
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814735193
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Deconstruction Is/in America written by Anselm Haverkamp and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What impact has deconstruction had on the way we read American culture? And how is American culture itself peculiarly deconstructive? To address these questions, this volume brings together some of the most provocative thinkers associated with deconstruction, among them Jacques Derrida, Judith Butler, and Avital Ronnel. Ranging across a wide field, from the ethics of reading to the rhetoric of performance, the contributors offer provocative insights into a new sense of the political. The America of the volume's title turns out to be the place where the politics and poetics of responsibility meet. It is also the place where we confront the tension between difference and profound otherness.

Improbable Scholars

Author : David L. Kirp
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199391092
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Improbable Scholars written by David L. Kirp and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-13 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Improbable Scholars, David L. Kirp challenges the conventional wisdom about public schools and education reform in America through an in-depth look at Union City, New Jersey's high-performing urban school district. In this compelling study, Kirp reveals Union's city's revolutionary secret: running an exemplary school system doesn't demand heroics, just hard and steady work"--

Deconstructing the Republic

Author : Anthony Arthur Peacock
Publisher : A E I Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Deconstructing the Republic written by Anthony Arthur Peacock and published by A E I Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peacock contends that the VRA, as it is currently implemented, undermines the Founders' vision of government by emphasizing racial and ethnic group rights over individual rights.

Deconstructing Race

Author : Jabari Mahiri
Publisher : Teachers College Press
ISBN 13 : 0807774863
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Deconstructing Race written by Jabari Mahiri and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do socially constructed concepts of race dominate and limit understandings and practices of multicultural education? Since race is socially constructed, how do we deconstruct it? In this important book Mahiri argues that multicultural education needs to move beyond racial categories defined and sustained by the ideological, social, political, and economic forces of white supremacy. Exploring contemporary and historical scholarship on race, the emergence of multiculturalism, and the rise of the digital age, the author investigates micro-cultural practices and provides a compelling framework for understanding the diversity of individuals and groups. Descriptions and analysis from ethnographic interviews reveal how people’s continually evolving, highly distinctive, micro-cultural identities and affinities provide understandings of diversity not captured within assigned racial categories. Synthesizing the scholarship and interview findings, the final chapter connects the play of micro-cultures in people’s lives to a needed shift in how multicultural education uses race to frame and comprehend diversity and identity and provides pedagogical examples of how this shift can look in teaching practices. “Jabari Mahiri’s superb Deconstructing Race is the best modern book on multiculturalism in education. More than that, it can be the beginning of a vital transformation of the field and of our views about diversity.‘ —James Paul Gee, Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies, Regents’ Professor, Arizona State University "Deconstructing Race provides a framework for a new American narrative on race based on irrefutable research and inspirational evidence." —Yvette Jackson, chief executive officer of the National Urban Alliance for Effective Education

Day of Reckoning

Author : Patrick J. Buchanan
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312376963
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (769 download)

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Download or read book Day of Reckoning written by Patrick J. Buchanan and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-11-27 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WITH HIS INCISIVE MIND AND RAZOR-SHARP PEN, NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR PAT BUCHANAN TAKES ON THE GREATEST QUESTION FACING THE NATION: WILL THE AMERICA WE KNOW AND LOVE SURVIVE ?

Deconstructing the Enlightenment in Spanish America

Author : Adam Sharman
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9783030370213
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Deconstructing the Enlightenment in Spanish America written by Adam Sharman and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2021-02-28 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about Enlightenment culture in Spanish America before Independence—in short, there where, according to Hegel, one would least expect to find it. It explores the Enlightenment in texts from five cultural fields: science, history, the periodical press, law, and literature. Texts include the journals of the geodesic expedition to Quito, philosophical histories of the Americas, a year’s work from the Mercurio Peruano, the writings of Mariano Moreno, and Lizardi’s El periquillo sarniento. Each chapter takes one field, one body of writing, and one key question: Is modern science universal? Can one disavow the discourse of progress? What is a “Catholic” Enlightenment? Are Enlightenment reason and sovereignty monological? Must the individual be the normative subject of modernity? The book’s premise is that the above texts not only speak to the contradictions of a doubtless marginalised colonial American Ilustración but illuminate the constitutive aporias of the so-called modern project itself. Drawing on the work of Derrida, but also on both historical and philosophical accounts of the various Enlightenments, this incisive book will be of interest to students of Spanish America and scholars in the fields of postcolonialism and the Enlightenment.

Deconstructing Built America

Author : Mark Walston
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1105618706
Total Pages : 77 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book Deconstructing Built America written by Mark Walston and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-03-23 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First we shape our buildings, afterwords our buildings shape us.

Deconstructing Wikileaks

Author : Daniel Estulin
Publisher : Trine Day
ISBN 13 : 1937584127
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Deconstructing Wikileaks written by Daniel Estulin and published by Trine Day. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depending on the source, Julian Assange, the editor in chief of WikiLeaks, is regarded as either a genius or terrorist, and this exploration of the man and the organization seeks to find the truth. Delving into the heart of the business of keeping and leaking secrets, this work shows how the enterprise of WikiLeaks and Assange is shrouded in mystery, but nonetheless, seeks to expose Assange as an intelligence asset tasked with sustaining the global status quo. Through careful analysis, interviews, and scrutiny of the organization as a whole, this inquiry gets to the bottom of the intriguing and mesmerizing story behind WikiLeaks.

Deconstructing Reagan

Author : Kyle Longley
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
ISBN 13 : 9780765615916
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (159 download)

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Download or read book Deconstructing Reagan written by Kyle Longley and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 2007 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although he left office, Ronald Reagan remains a potent symbol for the conservative movement. This work presents the study of the interplay of politics and memory concerning our fortieth president. It scrutinizes key aspects of the Reagan legacy and the conservative mythology that surrounds it.